Doug Holland@lemmy.world to Atheist Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoShamash is the one true god.lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square100fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down11
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minus-squarefukurthumz420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down2·11 months agofun fact: although shamash is a sun and light deity, he is also considered an underworld god, and serves the queen of the dead, erishkigal, as a judge in her court.
minus-squareBrutticus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoShemesh is also the hebrew word for sun.
minus-squarefukurthumz420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down2·11 months agoand shamhurish is the name for a mythical jinn king from pre islamic arabian folklore, who was also a judge.
minus-squares_s@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoMaybe Semitic languages are related?
minus-squarefukurthumz420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down2·11 months agoit goes all the way back to proto-indo-european.
fun fact: although shamash is a sun and light deity, he is also considered an underworld god, and serves the queen of the dead, erishkigal, as a judge in her court.
Shemesh is also the hebrew word for sun.
and shamhurish is the name for a mythical jinn king from pre islamic arabian folklore, who was also a judge.
Maybe Semitic languages are related?
it goes all the way back to proto-indo-european.