Heed The Warning Of Our Wise Assyrian Ancestors

From an Assyrian clay tablet written circa 2800 B.C.: Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching. Listen well O Live Journal and Facebook readers. Don't let my laconic ...

Original fiction: Outlands. Sons of the Path arc, part 2

...to question them. Most of Ryou's questions on the fundamentals of Assyrian economy eventually wound up with the answer 'because that is the way...to Jexen. They were riding to rejoin the main forces of the Assyrian army, who were going to rendezvous at some point in the next ... one who could command the guide of Paths as he would an Assyrian. To Ryou, that was just as expressive as the absence of any...

Book raid

... Life in Ancient Mesopotamia * Mesopotamia (I actually own this in paperback but wanted to have a Kindle edition too, for convenience) * Babylonian and Assyrian Literature * The Works of Jeffery Farnol: 12 Books in One Volume (Halcyon Classics) I wanted to get the novel "Assyrian" but alas - no Kindle edition :(

The Louvre, the gendered gaze, and artistic assumptions

... all interested in modern art. Instead, it focuses on Assyrian, Egyptian, "Classical" (I have issues with this term) ... of art. When it comes to Egyptian and Assyrian art, the simple truth is, we don't ...s entirely possible that each and every piece of Assyrian art at the Louvre was created by a man... is a woman. Meanwhile, when someone looks at Assyrian art and arbitrarily assigns all of it to male...

... Kurt Vonnegut story (2BR02B), Der Struwwelpeter (which was sadly not translated), Faust, Algernon Blackwood's "Four Weird Tales", Thea Von Harbou's "Metropolis", a bunch of myths and legends books (assyrian, babalonian, chinese and hawaiian, two Poe short story collections, and The Wizard of Oz. They are surprisingly easy to read on the iphone and since they are free I can't complain.  I can ...

Strategies for Revolutionaries: Multifarious Personas –

..., and the more resplendent fact that I awoke from a teen-age binge one day to find myself a consecrated bishop of the Primitive Restored Old Catholic Church of North America, anointed by the hands of the Assyrian Nestorian Monothelite Bishop of West 125th Street, that excellent raconteur and union leader, De Forest Justice, D.D.” – Robert Kelly, “Cities” Read the rest of this entry »

Reading 1577, Isa 31

..., children of Israel. Isaiah 31:7: For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you for a sin. Isaiah 31:8: The Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become subject to forced labor. Isaiah 31:9: His ...

Notes from Limmud 2009: Good and Bad Sects: The Samaritans

... in the first place! They don't use the Hebrew alphabet, which was originally Assyrian. They're still using a descendant of the original Palaeo-Hebrew alphabet . They also ... Samaritan text Rest of the Bible Masoretic text Absent Oral law Talmud None Script Assyrian [Development of] Palaeo-Hebrew Calendar Soli-lunar, calculated Soli-lunar, based on observations ...

Reading 1576, Isa 30

... down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones. Isaiah 30:31: For through the voice of Yahweh shall the Assyrian be dismayed; with his rod will he strike him . Isaiah 30:32: Every stroke of the appointed staff, which Yahweh shall lay on him, shall be with the sound of tambourines and harps; and in battles...

Античные бороды

... Persian foot-soldiers. Trankopfer des Königs Assurnasirpal; Schwarzer Obelist. Assyrian horsemen; Assyrian warriors in a chariot, from Nimroud. Armor of Pyrrhus. ... Aristides. Funeral image. Perses The registration of the prisoners and spoil. Assyrian table customs Men, Middle East, B.C. Cuadros de costumbres ...