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Intelligences - PLANETS JUPITER Adad [or Hadad] and Šala
Identifier
022107
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Adad or Hadad (Ugaritic Haddu), Adad (Akkadian) or Iškur (Sumerian) was the 'storm and rain god' in the Northwest Semitic and ancient Mesopotamian religions. Hadad was equated with the Indo-European Nasite Hittite storm-god Teshub; the Egyptian god Set; the Rigvedic god Indra; the Greek god Zeus; and the Roman god Jupiter.
It was attested in Ebla as "Hadda" in c. 2500 BC. From the Levant, Hadad was introduced to Mesopotamia by the Amorites, where it became known as the Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) god Adad. [Adad and Iškur are usually written with the logogram dIM]. Hadad was also called "Pidar", "Rapiu", "Baal-Zephon", or often simply Baʿal (Lord), but this title was also used for other gods. The bull was the symbolic animal of Hadad. He appeared bearded, often holding a club and thunderbolt while wearing a bull-horned headdress.
Šala [pronounced Shala] was an ancient Sumerian goddess of grain and the emotion of compassion. The symbols of grain and compassion combine to reflect the importance of agriculture in the mythology of Sumer, and the belief that an abundant harvest was an act of compassion from the Gods. Traditions identify Shala as wife of the storm god Adad also called Ishkur.
A description of the experience
A comparison with the two statues below – one showing Jupiter and the other Hadad shows the similarity of iconography. Conquering a bull is equivalent to managing to conquer one’s animal instincts – if you are a man, thus being able to control sexual energy and especially to channel it productively in spiritual experience
Given the looting that has taken place and the destruction, the constant rebuilding and the sheer time – thousands of years – that has gone by, it is not possible to precisely state which Intelligences were the deities of which cities. Wikipedia has made many brave attempts, but they all contradict one another and this is not a criticism, it is a reflection of the fact that one cannot pin down the history of a mystic system when it is 6000 years old. Using their tables and a snapshot of the earliest allocations that could be found this is a possible allocation of deities to city states:
The Planets
The Babylonians coloured the seven planets as follows: the moon, silvern; the sun, golden; Mars, red; Saturn, black; Jupiter, orange; Venus, yellow; and Mercury, blue
- Uruk – Anu and then Ishtar/Inanna, VENUS
- Ur - Nanna (in Akkadian, Sin) the MOON
- Marad - Ninurta was the god of hunting and war MARS.
- Lagash – and Girsu, dedicated to Ningursu/Ninip SATURN
- Larsa – and/or Sippar. Shamash also known as Utu – the SUN
- Eridu – Enki [later called Nebo] MERCURY
- Babylon [old] - Adad or Hadad, JUPITER. Jupiter the planet was called ‘Merodach’ - Marduk, in Babylonia. In other words when Marduk was introduced by the Babylonians, they also associated him with a planet. Jupiter was associated with Marduk by the Hammurabi period
The source of the experience
Mesopotamian systemConcepts, symbols and science items
Symbols
ArrowAxe
Beard
Hammer
Hourglass
Hourglass and the spiritual path
JUPITER
Planets, the
Rain
Thunder and lightning
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Commonsteps
References
Jupiter for comparison
