Inanna and Ishtar and the Tale of Tammuz

As we move closer to Resurrection Sunday we will see memes about  Ishtar, Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz, that tie the Resurrection of Christ Jesus to pagan myths. 

These are absolute garbage. Let me explain: 

   The oldest goddess documented in history was Inanna. Inanna was the primary, and first fertility goddess of the southern Mesopotamia. Her origins are found in Sumer, dating back to 3000 B.C.. Inanna was the original Queen of heaven. She was NEVER called Semiramis. She was the prototype for nomadic people, who wanted a Queen of heaven of their own. 

   Inanna had a boyfriend, his name was Dumuzid or Dumuzi.  His beginnings are also found in Sumer, dating back to 3000 B.C.. as Inanna and Dumuzid were intimately linked in a romantic relationship. As their popularity grew, their deity status made its way into the Akkadian and Babylonian territories. Here, they were known as Ishtar and Tammuz. 

   Tammuz was the youthful god of pastures and plants. He was not connected to sun worship nor, was he ever a sun-god. His father was the primary god Ea or El, his mother was Dutter, goddess of ewes, in the Sumerian culture and, Davkina, mistress of the vine, in the Babylonian and Akkadian cultures. The tale of Inanna and Tammuz is documented in the form of hymns, found on Cuneiform Sumerian tablet called the Babylonian Tammuz Lamentations. The tablet is number 15 and is housed in the British museum. 

   The hymns were translated by Frederick A. Vanderburgh in 1906 and placed into a book published in 1908: Sumerian Hymns from Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum. Frederick Augustus Vanderburgh, Columbia University Press, 1908

Pharmakeia In the Last Days

Pharmakeia φαρμακεία is the Greek translation for pharmaceuticals or drugs used in sorcery, magic or magical enchantments. Generally translated as sorcery, enchantments or witchcraft, in the Bible, it is the mixing and use of psychotics in magic rituals, demon summoning and spell casting. 

  In the Bible, spiritual harlotry is not only defined by the worship of idols or other gods. Harlotry also involves the practice of occultic rituals or, seeking out practitioners of the dark arts: diviners, witches or those who call upon demons, familiar spirits or, spirits of the deceased. Many rituals for demon summoning involve the use of pharmaceuticals, psychedelics or hallucinogens, used by sorcerers.

   Pharmakeia, in the simplest definition is the intentional use of drugs, hallucinogens, psychedelics and poisons in combination with sorcery, witchcraft, enchantments and spells to alter the state of consciousness when communicating with demons. Pharmakeia is also used to inflict harm upon another with the use of toxins, which is considered as a poisoning or spellbinding ritual. 

   Remember the wicked witch of the West, from The Wizard of OZ? She poisoned Dorothy, the lion and Toto with sorcery: a combination of poison and a magic spell. She mixed pharmakeia, her poison potion in a golden goblet. She then spread this potion over her magic looking glass while chanting, 'Sleep, sleep" This was a combination of pharmakeia - a toxin, poison mixed with her magic spell; aka: witchcraft. This is a silly but effective example of the use of sorcery aka: pharmakeia in combination with a magic spell.