| − | '''Semiramis''', wife of [[Nimrod]], successor thereof to the kingdom of the Assyrians. 'Founder'<ref>''"Belus founded it; but Semiramis repaired, enlarged and beautified it."'' footnote to Oxford Univerity's 1742 edition of Justin's World History</ref> of the City of Babylon.<ref>Diodorus Siculus, ''Biblotheca Historica'', 2.7.2</ref><ref>Justin, History of the World, 1.2</ref> Mother and source to the international pagan pantheons and worshipped as the "virgin of the world"<ref>Hall, Manley P., ''Isis, the Virgin of the World''</ref> 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<ref>http://inthenameofallah.org/Daughters%20of%20Allah.html</ref>; [[Venus]]; [[Nike]]; [[Victoria (godess)]]; [[Britannica]]; [[Germanica]]; [[Columbia]]; etc.<ref>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/</ref> | + | '''Semiramis''', wife of [[Nimrod]], successor thereof to the kingdom of the Assyrians. 'Founder'<ref>''"Belus founded it; but Semiramis repaired, enlarged and beautified it."'' footnote to Oxford Univerity's 1742 edition of Justin's World History</ref> of the City of Babylon.<ref>Diodorus Siculus, ''Biblotheca Historica'', 2.7.2</ref><ref>Justin, History of the World, 1.2</ref> Mother and source to the international pagan pantheons and worshipped as the "virgin of the world"<ref>Hall, Manley P., ''Isis, the Virgin of the World''</ref> 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<ref>http://inthenameofallah.org/Daughters%20of%20Allah.html</ref>; [[Venus]]; [[Nike]]; [[Victoria (goddess)]]; [[Britannica]]; [[Germanica]]; [[Columbia]]; etc.<ref>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/</ref> |
| | She came to the throne by pretending to be her son.<ref>Justin's ''History of the World'', 1.2</ref> 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).<ref>Justin's ''History of the World'', 1.2</ref> The style of dress according to [[Diodorus Siculus|Diodorus]] in Hellenistic times had remained as common place across the east in his day;<ref>Diodorus Siculus, ''Biblotheca Historica'', 2.6.6</ref> | | She came to the throne by pretending to be her son.<ref>Justin's ''History of the World'', 1.2</ref> 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).<ref>Justin's ''History of the World'', 1.2</ref> The style of dress according to [[Diodorus Siculus|Diodorus]] in Hellenistic times had remained as common place across the east in his day;<ref>Diodorus Siculus, ''Biblotheca Historica'', 2.6.6</ref> |