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Chapter 429 The Goddess of the Earth in Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia - Mesopotamia.

The two mother rivers originating from the mountains of the Asia Minor peninsula watered fertile land in the Babylonian region in the middle and the Sumerian region in the lower reaches, and gave birth to the oldest human civilization.

Influenced by the Sumerian and Babylonian regions, as early as 3000 BC, the tribes worshiping the goddess of the earth in the upper reaches of the Mesopotamia had already entered into farming civilization.

At this time, the Venus goddess Inanna, the sun god Utu, and the moon god Nanna in the Sumerian region clearly belonged to the Sumerian star worship.

The goddess of the earth worshiped by the tribes in the upper Mesopotamia is fundamentally different from the goddess of Venus, Inanna.

Moreover, the upper reaches of Mesopotamia and the lower reaches of Sumer are separated by the middle reaches of Babylon.

If the goddess of Venus, Inanna, is to be connected with the goddess of the earth in the upper reaches of the Mesopotamia, it may be traced back to 5000 BC—or even 1 BC.

And even if the origin is traced back, it is not that the goddess of the earth originated from the goddess of Venus, Inanna, but the goddess of Venus, Inanna, originated from the goddess of the earth.

The goddess of the earth, who is regarded as the ancestor of the gods in both Greek mythology and Babylonian mythology, is called Gaia [Earth] in Greek mythology, and Tiamat [Mother of Life] by the ancient Aryans in Babylonian mythology. 】.

The ancient Aryans living in the Great Plains of Eastern Europe were divided into two groups.

Before 3000 BC, the ancient Aryans who worshiped the god of thunder and rain were driven out of the Great Plains by the ancient Aryans who worshiped the sun god.

An ancient Aryan group that worshiped the god of thunder and rain migrated to the upper reaches of the Mesopotamia and defeated the local group that worshiped the goddess of the earth.

Perhaps this is the prototype of the story of Marduk, the god of thunder and god of war, beheading the goddess Tiamat in Babylonian mythology.

The goddess of the earth [Tiamat] and the people who worshiped her were originally the masters of the upper reaches of the Mesopotamia.

After the arrival of the ancient Aryans who worshiped the god of thunder [Marduk Zeus], ​​they not only drove away the locals, but also degraded the local goddesses as evil goddesses who wanted to destroy the world and had to be eliminated.

In the mythology of the ancient Aryans, the god of thunder [Marduk Zeus] beheaded the goddess Tiamat and used her corpse to create heaven and earth.

This may imply that the ancient Aryans killed or drove away the group that worshiped the goddess of the earth, and obtained the space for the ancient Aryans to inhabit and live.

The ethnic group that worshiped the goddess of the earth was robbed of their living space by the ancient Aryans, so they could only migrate to the west.

Because the north is the mountainous area of ​​Asia Minor Peninsula, the east is the ancient Aryans, and the south is the arid desert area. Only by migrating to the west can we find a living space with fertile land suitable for farming.

One group of people who worshiped the goddess of the earth migrated to the Phoenician area.

They later became the Phoenicians. In the long historical evolution, the goddess of the earth met the needs of the Phoenicians and became the sky-attribute nautical protector and war goddess Aphrodite.

Most of the groups that worshiped the goddess of the earth migrated to the west of the Asia Minor peninsula.

There was a branch of the Knossos who migrated across the sea from the southwest corner of the Asia Minor Peninsula to the east of Crete and became the Knossos who created the city of Knossos. The goddess of the earth also met the needs of the Knossos and became the Knossos Europa. goddess.

The people in the west of Crete are obviously the local aborigines of Crete, so they do not worship the goddess of the earth Europa, but the goddess of Pandora, which is fundamentally different from the goddess of the earth.

Perhaps the worship of the moon goddess in Crete can be linked to the ancient moon worship in Jericho.

The Pilaski people who migrated to Greece are also an ethnic group that worships the goddess of the earth.

Because the complex mountainous terrain in Greece divided the Pilaski people into different regions, now the goddess of the earth has evolved into Mnemosyne, Metis, Amphitrite, Persephone, Artemis, etc. goddess.

Except for these ethnic groups that migrated to other regions, most of the ethnic groups that worshiped the goddess of the earth stayed in the Asia Minor peninsula.

For example, the sea goddess Hesione, who guards the city of Troy, is a goddess evolved from the goddess of the earth.

The ancestors of the Trojans were also a group that worshiped the goddess of the earth.

The Hittite Kingdom, the overlord of the Asia Minor peninsula, also had ancestors who worshiped the goddess of the earth.

So the queen of the gods in the Hittite kingdom is both the goddess of the sun and the goddess of the earth.

The queen of the gods of the Hittite Kingdom symbolizes that the Hittite Kingdom was formed by the fusion of two ethnic groups.

Before 2000 BC, a group of ancient Aryans who worshiped the sun god migrated to the peninsula of Asia Minor and integrated with the local ethnic groups who worshiped the goddess of the earth.

As a result of the integration of the ancient Aryans who worshiped the sun god and the local ethnic groups who worshiped the earth goddess, the queen of the gods in the Hittite kingdom was both the sun goddess and the earth goddess.

In addition to these groups that migrated westward, there is also an ethnic group that worships the goddess of the earth and remains in Syria.

They established the Kingdom of Ebla in the Ebla area of ​​northern Syria, and have been neighbors with the ancient Aryans for hundreds of years.

The first wave of ancient Aryans who migrated to the Mesopotamia did not establish a powerful city-state to dominate the Mesopotamia.

Because they have developed in the upper reaches of the Mesopotamia for hundreds of years, not only did they not become powerful, but they lost the strongest weapon for nomads to defeat farming peoples-war horses.

During the continuous migration of the branches of the ancient Aryans to the Mesopotamia, the Akkadians, a branch of the ancient Aryans, once conquered the Mesopotamia for 100 years, establishing a territory extending from the Persian Gulf in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. Kingdom of Akkad.

Then in just 30 years, the Akkadian Empire crumbled and disappeared.

After the decline of the Akkadians, the Amorites, a branch of the ancient Aryans, established the Babylonian kingdom that dominated the Mesopotamia before 760 [-] BC.

Then, 30 years later, the kingdom of Babylon existed in name only.

Up to now, the Kingdom of Babylon is just one of many city-states in the Mesopotamia.

Faced with the Hittite Kingdom occupying the nominal western territory of the Babylonian Kingdom, the Babylonian Kingdom has no strength to counter the Hittite Kingdom.

After Roy incorporated the Phoenician region into the territory of the Athens Empire, the southern part of Syria, where the Amorites lived, became a strategic buffer zone between the Athens Empire and the Hittite Kingdom.

As long as Loy enters the southern part of the Syrian region, the Athenian Empire will directly border the Hittite Kingdom.

Roy hesitated about whether to eat this buffer zone.

Because in the history of another world, the Hittite kingdom has now mastered iron technology.

The fact that the Hittite Kingdom was able to drive straight into the northern part of the Syrian region occupying the upper reaches of the Mesopotamia and the Babylonian region in the middle reaches, and destroy the city of Babylon was probably the result of using iron weapons to reduce the dimensionality of the Amorites.

Unexpectedly, before Roy made a choice, the Hittite Kingdom took the initiative to send an envoy to contact Roy.

Byblos City.

Originally belonged to the Phoenician king's palace.

After the Hittite envoy explained his purpose, Roy said in surprise.

"Your Hittite princess Hartpurna wants to invite me to attack the Kingdom of Babylon?"

(End of this chapter)