Senth
century BCE cylinder seal found in Israel depicting the battle of
Ninurta and Anzu. Nili Wazana, in a brilliant exposition on Anzu and Ziz
asks and tentatively answers the question: "Were the Israelites
acquainted with the Epic of Anzu?" She cites this rendering of a seventh
century BCE cylinder seal portraying the battle of Ninurta and Anzu,
discovered in Israel.http://www.jtsa.edu/ documents/pagedocs/janes/2009/ wazana_janes31.pdf
Zu or Anzu (from An 'heaven' and Zu 'to know' in Sumerian language), as a lion-headed eagle, ca. 2550–2500 BCE, Louvre. Votive
relief of Ur-Nanshe, king of Lagash, representing the bird-god Anzu (or
Im-dugud) as a lion-headed eagle. Alabaster, Early Dynastic III
(2550–2500 BCE). Found in Telloh, ancient city of Girsu. H. 21.6 cm (8 ½ in.), W. 15.1 cm (5 ¾ in.), D. 3.5 cm (1 ¼ in.)
Ancient Near east Anzu, falcon-shaped fire-altar Uttarakhand, turning aṁśú (Rigveda), ancu (Tocharian) in smithy.
The seventh century BCE cylinder seal found in Israel, is paralleled in an Akkadian cylinder seal.
“On the mountainside Anzu and Ninurta met … Clouds of death rained down, an arrow flashed lightning. Whizzed the battle force roared between them.“ Anzu Epic, tablet 2,in S. Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia (Oxford - New York, 1989), p. 21. One narration reads: Marduk, sun god of Babylon, with his thunderbolts pursues Anzu after Anzu stole the Tablets of Destiny. Note: The tablets of destiny may be a reference to Indus writing corpora which were veritable stone-, mineral-, metal-ware catalogs.
As a researcher on ancient Hindu civilization a contribution was made by me in Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies,
Vol. 1, Number 11 (2010) -- The Bronze Age Writing System of Sarasvati
Hieroglyphics as Evidenced by Two “Rosetta Stones” By S. Kalyanaraman.
The 'rosetta stones' were two pure tin ingots discovered in a shipwreck
in Haifa and with Indus writing. The Indus
writing on these tin ingots have been read rebus as denoting 'tin'
(mineral) which was in demand to be used to alloy with copper to create
bronze, thus replacing the naturally-occurring but rare arsenic-copper
minerals and heralding a true bronze age.
According to Louis Renou, the immense Rigvedic collection is present in nuce in the themes related toSoma. Rigveda mentions amśu as a synonym of soma.
The possibility of a link with Indus writing corpora which is
essentially a catalog of stone-, mineral-, metalware, cannot be ruled
out.
George Pinault has found a cognate word in Tocharian, ancu which means 'iron'. I have argued in my book, Indian alchemy, soma in the Veda, that Soma was an allegory, 'electrum' (gold-silver compound). See: http://bharatkalyan97. blogspot.in/2011/10/itihasa- and-eagle-narratives.html for Pinault's views on ancu, amśu concordance.
The link with the Tocharian word is intriguing because Soma was supposed to come from Mt. Mujavant. A cognate of Mujavant is Mustagh Ata of the Himalayan ranges in Kyrgystan.
Is it possible that the ancu of Tocharian from this mountain was indeed Soma?
The referemces to Anzu in ancient Mesopotamian tradition parallels the legends of śyena 'falcon' which is used in Vedic tradition of Soma yajña attested archaeologically in Uttarakhand with a śyenaciti, 'falcon-shaped' fire-altar.
http://bharatkalyan97. blogspot.in/2011/11/syena- orthography.html śyena, orthography, Sasanian iconography. Continued use of Indus Script hieroglyphs.
Comparing
the allegory of soma and the legend of Anzu, the bird which stole the
tablets of destiny, I posit a hypothesis that the tablets of destiny are
paralleled by the Indus writing corpora which constitute a veritable
catalog of stone-, mineral- and metal-ware in the bronze age evolving
from the chalcolithic phase of what constituted an 'industrial'
revolution of ancient times creating ingots of metal alloys and weapons
and tools using metal alloys which transformed the relation of
communities with nature and resulted in the life-activities of
lapidaries transforming into miners, smiths and traders of metal
artefacts.
I suggest that ayas of bronze age created a revolutionary transformation in the lives of people of these bronze age times.
How he does it???? --must see
the language is absolutely no barrier for the tricks he performs .......
iPad Magician !!! Simply Amazing!
Absolutely mind boggling!Try to fathom how the guy did all the tricks that you saw. Perhaps not even Steve Jobs can explain it.
Is Atma Presents in all 3 Avasthas (Jagrat Swapna Sushupti) ?
Om Sri Gurubhyonamaha,
A Magical Journey in a Helicopter
http://www.fropki.com/helicopter-journey-over-southern-new-zealand-vt54377.html
An astounding video of the Southern New Zealand landscape by self-taught filmmaker Mark Toia.
These are some of the Aerial rushes from a TVC we were shooting in Southern New Zealand.
Shooting
with the RED EPIC 5k camera inside a SHOTOVER stabilised camera system
with a 24-290 Angenieux Lens. We shot all of this aerial footage in less
than 3 hours. As most of our principle shooting was on the ground.
While in transit from Queenstown to different parts of the the south
island, we shot these images on our journey between locations. The
southern parts of NEW ZEALAND are amazing.
Tech Specs: RED EPIC
5k camera inside a SHOTOVER stabilised camera system with a 24-290
Angenieux Lens. All of this aerial footage was shot in less than 3
hours.