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In Mesopotamian cosmology, four rivers flowing out of the garden of creation, which is the center of the world, define the four corners of the world. [1] From the point of view of the Akkadians, the northern geographical horizon was marked by Subartu, the west by Mar.tu, the east by Elam and the south by Sumer; later rulers of all of Mesopotamia, such as Cyrus, claimed among their titles LUGAL ...
Chapter 6 to Chapter 8:5 record the opening of the Seven Seals. [4] This chapter contains the writer's vision of "the Four Angels of the Four Winds", the sealing of the 144,000 and the "Praise of the Great Multitude of the Redeemed". [5] The passage in this chapter is 'an intercalation in the numbered series of seven'. [6]
The same word is found in French and German Bible translations, all from Latin firmamentum (a firm object), used in the Vulgate (4th century). [4] This in turn is a calque of the Greek στερέωμᾰ ( steréōma ), also meaning a solid or firm structure (Greek στερεός = rigid), which appears in the Septuagint , the Greek translation ...
The meaning of the name Gog remains uncertain, and in any case, the author of the Ezekiel prophecy seems to attach no particular importance to it. [1] Efforts have been made to identify him with various individuals, notably Gyges , a king of Lydia in the early 7th century BC, but many scholars do not believe he is related to any historical person.
Two different models of the process of creation existed in ancient Israel. [15] In the "logos" (speech) model, God speaks and shapes unresisting dormant matter into effective existence and order (Psalm 33: "By the word of YHWH the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their hosts; he gathers up the waters like a mound, stores the Deep in vaults"); in the second, or "agon ...
Hammurabi (standing), a Babylonian king that claimed to be the king who made the four corners of the Earth obedient. This depiction is the top part of the Code of Hammurabi, today housed in the Louvre, Paris. Kings of the Four Corners in the Akkadian Empire: Naram-Sin (r. 2254–2218 BC) [5] Kings of the Four Corners of the Gutian dynasty of Sumer:
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Earth was first used as the name of the sphere of the Earth in the early fifteenth century. [4] The planet's name in Latin, used academically and scientifically in the West during the Renaissance , is the same as that of Terra Mater , the Roman goddess, which translates to English as Mother Earth .