Semiramis
Semiramis, wife of Nimrod, successor thereof to the kingdom of the Assyrians. 'Founder'[1] of the City of Babylon.[2][3] Mother and source to the international pagan pantheons and worshipped as the "virgin of the world"[4] under the many names such as Isis; Ishtar; Aphrodite; Freya; Ashteroth; Dianna; Athena; Minerva; Luna; the principal at pagan Mecca: the moon god Allah and his three interceding daughters Al-Uzza, Al-Lat and Al-Menat[5]; Venus; Nike; Victoria (goddess); Britannica; Germanica; Columbia; etc.[6]
She came to the throne by pretending to be her son.[7] She invented the turban thereby as a way to hide her long hair wrapped therein and forced it and other clothing items upon her citizens as a national costume to prevent people from thinking she was dressing oddly and thereby discovering that she was not her son Ninyas (aka Tamus).[8] The style of dress according to Diodorus in Hellenistic times had remained as common place across the east in his day;[9] Similarly did Justin in Roman times.[10]
Etymology
Diodorus claims the name is a reduplicate form of the then Syrian word for 'doves'; bolstered by a supernatural story of how she had a divine origin and was kept alive as an infant child by wild doves: not being dissimilar in nature to the stories told of the Romulus and Remus who were kept alive by a bitch of a she-wolf.
References
- ↑ "Belus founded it; but Semiramis repaired, enlarged and beautified it." footnote to Oxford Univerity's 1742 edition of Justin's World History
- ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Biblotheca Historica, 2.7.2
- ↑ Justin, History of the World, 1.2
- ↑ Hall, Manley P., Isis, the Virgin of the World
- ↑ http://inthenameofallah.org/Daughters%20of%20Allah.html
- ↑ Suvari, Aksel, The Masonic Philosophical Society, Columbia, An American Goddess, posted 3 July 2020; https://blog.philosophicalsociety.org/2020/07/03/columbia-an-american-goddess/
- ↑ Justin's History of the World, 1.2
- ↑ Justin's History of the World, 1.2
- ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Biblotheca Historica, 2.6.6
- ↑ Justin's History of the World, 1.2
