Category Archives: Mesopotamia

As the Hours and the Days and the Weeks and the Months and the Years Go By

Posted on December 29, 2021 by Nathan

With this year soon coming to an end, I was thinking about whether there’s any connection between the number of days in a year and degrees in a circle, and apparently there is. Of course, a modern year doesn’t have … Continue reading →

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I’m on Top of the World

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Nathan

I saw a link on Twitter to this article on Ancient Origins, a site that presumably isn’t always reliable. What it says here seems to have all been verified elsewhere, however, with nothing about aliens building the pyramids or anything. … Continue reading →

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Semiramis Kind of Life

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Nathan

Looking back at this Chick Tract dissection, I thought that Jack Chick’s obsession with Semiramis might be worth a post. So who’s Semiramis? And is she related to Harold Ramis, who played Egon in Ghostbusters? I don’t know about the … Continue reading →

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Nabu Puts It in Writing

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Nathan

It seems that most pantheons of gods have a member who serves as a scribe, although that’s often but one of the deity’s functions. The Greeks give that position to Hermes, also the messenger god, deity of commerce, and patron … Continue reading →

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