Help: I need information on specific mythological entities
phaze...@my-dejanews.com
about the following entities:
Entity Name Mythos
----------- ------
Ishtar Babylonian
Inanna Summerian
Benten Japanese
Aine Celtic (Irish)
Raoma Hindu
Nu-Kua Chinese
Any info or URL`s would be greatly appreciated!
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Larry Caldwell
writes:
> about the following entities:
> Entity Name Mythos
> ----------- ------
> Ishtar Babylonian
> Inanna Summerian
Christopher Siren posts Canaanite/Ugaritic and Sumerian/Babylonian FAQs
here every once in a while. A Deja News search should turn them up.
-- Larry
QueenDamoo
Carrie Faulk
Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:23:35 GMT
I am researching various aspects of love, and would
like to find out more about the following entities:
Entity Name Mythos
------------ ------------
Ishtar Babylonian
Inanna Summerian
Benten Japanese
Aine Celtic (Irish)
Raoma Hindu
Nu-Kua Chinese
Any info or URL`s would be greatly appreciated!
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phaze...@my-dejanews.com
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Benten, Benzai-tennyo, or Benzai-ten, the goddess of
love and more. She is associated with the sea, and she
rides a dragon and/or in a ship of treasures. She has
8 arms, and is one of the 7 Shinto gods and goddesses
of good luck, the Shichi Fujukin ("seven happiness
beings").
This is from the Encyclopedia Mythica--
http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/articles/b/benten.html
Attributes:
love, eloquence, wisdom, the arts, music, knowledge,
good fortune and water. She is the patroness of
geishas, dancers, and musicians.
she holds a sword, a jewel, a bow, an arrow, a wheel,
and a key. Her remaining two hands are joined in
prayer.
Benten is portrayed as a beautiful woman, riding a
dragon while playing on a stringed instrument.
It is often related that when a dragon devoured many
children, she descended to earth to stop his evil work.
-----
She is also an anime character--
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/2482/benten_pics.
html
--Carrie
Christopher B Siren
Larry Caldwell <lar...@teleport.com> wrote:
>In article <753hij$898$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, phaze...@my-dejanews.com
>writes:
>> about the following entities:
>
>> Entity Name Mythos
>> Ishtar Babylonian
>> Inanna Summerian
>
>Christopher Siren posts Canaanite/Ugaritic and Sumerian/Babylonian FAQs
>here every once in a while. A Deja News search should turn them up.
I've actually stopped posting them to the newsgroup - on the theory that
a: people have stopped responding to their postings within the newsgroup
and
b: everyone with net access now has web access and can get to the
hyperlinked copies fairly easily.
Dejanews will give you the most recently posted copies of all three FAQ's,
plus the Hittite/Hurrian REF, although I've updated the Gilgamesh and
related entries on the Sumerian FAQ since its last posting.
You can find them at:
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/sumer-faq.html
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/assyrbabyl-faq.html
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/canaanite-faq.html
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/hittite-ref.html
And these versions are all crosslinked, so you can pop from the
descriptions of Inanna to Ishtar to Astarte and so on.
I'd like to work up something similar for the Old Testament & the
Pseudepigrapha or for the Vedas & the Zend Avesta, but I have no idea when
I'll have the time, - not before my PhD quallifiers in January, that's
for sure, and I haven't found an unabridged Avesta that's affordable.
Then there's that Kalevala ref I'm about a tenth of the way through...
So many projects, so little time :-(
Chris Siren
cbs...@hopper.unh.edu http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren
Myths and Legends: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/myth.html
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UNH Observatory: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/observatory.html
Michael and Kimberly Burkard
> I am researching various aspects of love, and would like to find out more
> about the following entities:
>
> Entity Name Mythos
> ----------- ------
> Ishtar Babylonian
> Inanna Summerian
> Aine Celtic (Irish)
> Raoma Hindu
> Nu-Kua Chinese
If you are looking only for the basic information on each deity,
I would suggest a good mythological encyclopedia or dictionary. One
that I like quite a bit is Manfred Lurker's _Dictionary of Gods and
Goddesses, Devils and Demons_.
If you are looking for more detailed information on each deity, you should
track down sources particular to each culture. My mythological booklist
faq should aid in that search for sources. Its URL is:
http://www.servtech.com/~greenman/mythBooklist.html
Enjoy!
-kim
--
Kimberly Burkard | _ Everything I needed to know in life, I
gree...@servtech.com| _____C .._. learned from my ferret:
| ____/ \___/ Frolic and dance for joy often, have
|<____/\_---\_\ no fear or worries, and enjoy life.
Larry Caldwell
> I'd like to work up something similar for the Old Testament & the
> Pseudepigrapha or for the Vedas & the Zend Avesta, but I have no idea when
> I'll have the time, - not before my PhD quallifiers in January, that's
> for sure, and I haven't found an unabridged Avesta that's affordable.
> Then there's that Kalevala ref I'm about a tenth of the way through...
> So many projects, so little time :-(
Oh wow. I just saw a post that the Avesta was online in its entirety. I
think the post was very recent, and in soc.history.ancient. I remember
that Joe Bernstein responded to it. Let me run up my web browser ... ah,
here it is:
___________________Included article _______________
In article <365D55...@means.net>,J H Peterson <jpet...@means.net>
wrote:
> All of the Avesta (ancient Zoroastrian scriptures) and most of the
> Pahlavi texts are online at http://www.avesta.org .
An awesome site.
I think I'd been there a couple of years ago, and left without being
much interested. Now, though, it includes copious materials which
are extremely hard to find (I say this having recently spent several
weeks in Chicago trying to find them and in some cases failing). At
last, after all these years, I can read the <Karnamag i Ardashir i
Papakan>! - that's the Deeds of the founder of the Sasanid dynasty
for you heathens out there.
_______________End included article_________________
-- Larry
Bob Fisher
wrote:
The following link to the annotated hyperlinked
chapter on Zoroaster from Bulfinch's Mythology
may also be of interest:
http://www.showgate.com/medea/bulfinch/bull37.html
Bob Fisher
Christopher B Siren
>In article <7569nf$b...@mozz.unh.edu>, cbs...@unh.edu writes:
>
>> I'd like to work up something similar for the Old Testament & the
>> Pseudepigrapha or for the Vedas & the Zend Avesta, but I have no idea when
>> I'll have the time, - not before my PhD quallifiers in January, that's
>> for sure, and I haven't found an unabridged Avesta that's affordable.
>> Then there's that Kalevala ref I'm about a tenth of the way through...
>> So many projects, so little time :-(
>
>Oh wow. I just saw a post that the Avesta was online in its entirety. I
>think the post was very recent, and in soc.history.ancient. I remember
>that Joe Bernstein responded to it. Let me run up my web browser ... ah,
>here it is:
>
>___________________Included article _______________
>
>In article <365D55...@means.net>,J H Peterson <jpet...@means.net>
>wrote:
>
>> All of the Avesta (ancient Zoroastrian scriptures) and most of the
>> Pahlavi texts are online at http://www.avesta.org .
Oh, I've been there - I've had a link to it on Myths & Legends for a
couple of years. I just prefer to have the text on a printed page in a
book that I can flip through and put book marks into.
Much as I like reading stuff on the net, it's just not as appealing as
dealing with a book. And there's no way I'm going to download and print
the whole thing. I did get a paper copy of an abridged version of the
Vendidad section and of The Shahnameh about a year and a half ago though,
and I finally picked up an unabridged translation of the Rig Veda last
month.
Chris Siren
cbs...@hopper.unh.edu http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren
Myths and Legends: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/myth.html
UNH Observatory: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/observatory.html