Assyria - Syria - Asuras

ASSYRIA SYRIA ASURAS

ASSYRIA SYRIA ASURAS



INTRODUCTION
Assyria was a major Mesopotamiam kingdom and empire, existing as an independent state for a period of approximately nineteen centuries from c. 2500 BC to 605 BC. Situated on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia (modern northern Iraq, north eastern Syria and south eastern Turkey) the Assyrians came to rule powerful empires.
At that time Assyria included Sumer, Akkad and much later Babylonia. At its peak, the Assyrian empire stretched from Cyprus to Persia (Iran), and from what is now Armenia to the Arabian Peninsula and Egypt.
Assyria is named for its original capital, the ancient city of Aššur ( Ashur) which dates to 2600 BC. Once it was known as Subartu and Azurhinum or Azuristan: the city state of Ashur.


Which roughly corresponds to this nowadays situation:


RELIGION
The first religion was Ashurism, Ashur being the most important Assyrian god.

Aššur was a deified form of the city of Assur. Ashur was regarded as the Assyrian equivalent of Enlil, which was the most important god of the southern pantheon from the early 3rd millennium BC until Hammurabi founded an empire based in Babylon in the mid-18th century BC, after which Marduk replaced Enlil as the chief god in the south. This process began around the 14th century BC and continued down to the 7th century.

Ashur was the god of war.
It was the Assyrians that destroyed the northern kingdom Israel and dragged Israel into captivity. After defeating the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 BC, the Assyrians carried away thousands of Israelites and resettled them in other parts of the Assyrian Empire. This was a blow from which the nation of Israel never recovered. The ten tribes that were taken to Assyria, became the ten lost tribes.
Assyrians were great warriors. Most nations at that time period were looters, building their state by robbing other nations. Assyria was the most ferocious of them all. Their very name became a byword for cruelty and atrocity. They skinned their prisoners alive and cut off various body parts to inspire terror in their enemies. There are records of Assyrian officials pulling out tongues and displaying mounds of human skulls, all to bring about stark horror and wealthy tribute from surrounding nations. Nowhere are the pages of history more bloody than in the records of their wars.

Assyrian scribes recording the number slain.

Assyrian king putting out the eyes of
an enemy king and leading the officials
into captivity with hooks in their lips

Assyria was a world empire for about 300 years under several warrior kings, some of which wielded Assyria into the best fighting machine of the ancient world. Finally the brutal empire fell in 607 B.C. giving way to the Babylonians.
This means that there are disconcerting similarities between the atrocities of Assyria and between the so called "caliphate" of Islamic State.
After one of his victories the Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal bragged: "I cut off their heads. I burned them with fire. A pile of living men and of heads at the city gate I set up. Men I impaled on stakes. The city I destroyed... I turned it into mounds and ruin heaps. The young men and maidens I burned."
Another Assyrian king boasted in 691 BC: "I cut their throats like sheep... The wheels of battle chariots were bespattered with blood and filth. I filled the plain with corpses of their warriors like herbage."









The companion of Ashur was Ishtar.


And this is the famous Ishtar gate:




Ashur is the lord of the universe, the supreme god. Military campaigns were initiated at the command of Ashur.
Ishtar is the goddess of the morning and evening storm, the queen of heaven (see: Astarte, Aphrodite, Venus).

In the mid of the 18th century BC Hammurabi founded an empire based in Babylon.
Marduk became the most important god. He was known as the god of thunderstorms.
Marduk rose from an obscure deity in the third millennium BC to become one of the most important gods and the head of the Mesopotamian pantheon in the first millennium. He was the patron god of the city of Babylon, where his temple tower, the ziggurat Etemenanki (temple) served as the model for the famous "tower of Babel."

Marduk was later known as Bel, a name derived from the Semitic word baal, or "lord." Bel had all the attributes of Marduk, and his status and cult were much the same. Bel/Baal, however, gradually came to be thought of as the god of order and destiny.
Baal became a king among the gods. He defeated Yam, also called Leviathan, who represented the destructive force of nature and was associated with the sea or with floods.


Baal was associated with fertility and rain. His cult spread to other people in the ancient Near East, including the Egyptians, Babylonians, and Assyrians. This statue of Baal dates from 1300 B.C.




The storm god, the god of destruction.
In Judeo-Christian thought, Babylon, like the Tower of Babel, became symbolic of man's decadence and God's judgment.
In the Old Testament Ashur and Baal (and also other deities of the ancient Near East, such as Leviathan) are often described as incarnations of satanic forces.

In general:
A large part of the ancient belief involved protection against the many demons who plagued people, from the spirits of the angry dead to the archfiend Lamashtu, the female demon who lived in the mountains.
There were city-specific deities, but also monsters, such as Tiamat, the primordial chaos demon of the ocean.

SYRIA AND ISLAMIC STATE (IS)
If we look to the history of Assyria, it becomes quite understandable what is going on in Syria, Iraq and Libya nowadays. We don't have to go back to the Koran to find the origins of the cruelty of Islamic State.
In the Koran ánd in the Bible ánd in the Thora we can find descriptions of wars and some rather cruel passages, but IS-militants seem to have almost no connection to the local Arab or Islamic culture. Even the word "Islamic" is not appropriate, as many Muslims assert.
Syria has a history of cruelty and atrocities. Islamic State is only copying its ancestors..
(People who go to Syria nowadays seem to be pushed to commit crimes, so that they can't return to their countries.)

Let's try to find out what might be the origin of what is going on in Syria.
It looks as if demonic forces are at work in Syria.
In the East (especially India) they call them asuras, from which the name "Assyria" is derived.
Asuras are also called rakshasas.

"(...), so all these rakshasas entered into the area in Afghanistan and then they came to Egypt and to Greece and tried to bring all the Gods and Goddesses to the ground, long time back. Must be at least ten thousand years back when Prahlada brought in the incarnation of Shri Vishnu. These rakshasas went into - they are called as Asuras. Assyrians they're called, but Asuras they were."

"With these rakshasas entered into these people, they developed a very aggressive nature - fighting nature, aggressive nature."
Shri Mataji: Vishnu puja,
Paris, 13.07.1994

"But the worst part about it is that in the modern times these rakshasas have entered into the brains of people."
Shri Mataji: Ekadesha Rudra
puja, Mödling, Austria,
08.06.1988
"Rakshasa(s) were most often depicted as ugly, fierce-looking and enormous creatures and with two fangs protruding down from the top of their mouth as well as sharp, claw-like fingernails. They are shown as being mean, growling like beasts and as insatiable cannibals, who could smell the scent of flesh. Some of the more ferocious ones were shown with flaming red eyes and hair, drinking blood with their palms or from a human skull."
From: Wikipedia



In the papers of 10.03.2015:
In a video – message of IS a child of about 10 years old executes a Palestine hostage with a pistol. Thereafter he points his pistol to the sky and yells: Allah Hu Akbar !