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A woman - who was she?
Who was she not?
The image of a temple-structure, a ziggurat, she carried on her head - in her hand she held a holy stylus, the tablet of the favorable star of heaven she bore, taking counsel with it Lady coloured like the stars of heaven, holding a lapis-lazuli tablet! Nisaba, great wild cow born by Urash, wild sheep nourished on good milk among holy alkaline plants, opening the mouth for seven reeds! Perfectly endowed with fifty great divine powers, my lady, most powerful in E-kur!
In order to make barley and flax grow in the furrows, so that excellent corn can be admired; to provide for the seven great throne-daises by making flax shoot forth and making barley shoot forth at the harvest, the great festival of Enlil
Good woman, chief scribe of An, record-keeper of Enlil, wise sage of the gods!
Nisaba was the patron deity of the city of Ereš the site of which is not yet known, and there is also association through that with the cult of Eres-kigal who was the Queen of the Underworld in Southern Mesopotamia, in the sense of return into the darkness of the Earth or soil, whereas Nisaba is the Earth cut into in the sense of the furrow and the potential for the emergence of life, but from this relationship later cults such as Demeter and Persephone developed, the cultic torch was the symbol of Kusu as Spica.
The Hurrians and Hittites related Allani to the Mesopotamian Goddess of the netherworld Eres-Kigal but also to the Sun Goddess of the Netherworld, it's likely the Goddess Allani related to the diffusion and distribution of the internal energies of the Earth, in this capacity she was very often twinned with the Goddess Ishara, both had the capacity of intermediaries between the Netherworld and the Earth's surface dwellers
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
I do however question what will happen to all the other peace loving people of the world that are not Christians, there are many as we know that follow the doctrine of peace and tolerance, why such an emphasis on Christians ?
Jesus is willing to give every sinner a 'Get out of Jail Free' card to those people who accept that He is the Son of God and was a Blood Atonement for our sins.
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
So what I take from that is someone can steal as an example all his life until the end, if said person embraces Jesus at the end he will be forgiven, so like a pedophile its kind of like as you say a "get out of jail free card" , one can be a sinner all his life and be forgiven by embracing Jesus.
To me that seems really screwed up, its like an excuse for people to be bad and hurt others and still get to heaven.