As we move closer to Resurrection Sunday we will be seeing more memes about Ishtar, Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz in order to 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 a the primary and first fertility goddess of the southern Mesopotamia. Her origins are found in Sumer, dating back to 4000 B.C.. Inanna was the original Queen of heaven. She was NEVER called Semiramis. She was the prototype of future goddesses of nomadic people who wanted a Queen of heaven of their own.
Inanna had a boyfriend, his name was Dumuzid or Dumuzi in the Sumerian language. His beginnings are also found in Sumer, dating back to 4000 B.C.. as Inanna and Dumuzid were intimately linked together in a romantic relationship. Their popularity and love affair eventually made their way into the Akkadian and Babylonian territories where 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 Davkina, mistress of the vine. This is documented in the form of hymns found on Cuneiform Sumerian tablet called the Babylonian Tammuz Lamentations. This 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
Tammuz is further documented in other historical texts such as the Epic of Gilgamesh. This tale further establishes Tammuz as Ishtar's boyfriend. Apparently Ishtar was chasing Gilgamesh as well, but Gilgamesh wanted nothing to do with her. He had seen the fate of Tammuz and declined her flirtations. The goddess Ishtar was quite the sexually permissive fertility goddess, chasing after many lovers. Though she was a fertility goddess, she remained childless.
The little pagan child-god Tammuz was well loved among the pagan women and they depended upon him for fertility, crops and plant growth in the Spring. His romantic relationship with Ishtar was an item of much gossip among the young women.
Damuzid / Tammuz is also documented in the 'Decent of Inanna', a 1900 B.C. poem of love and betrayal.
After a fight with her sister Erishkigal, goddess of the underworld, Inanna / Ishtar was sentenced to live there as a corpse unless she could find another to take her place. Inanna chose Dumuzi to take her place. Dumuzi was unaware that he would be trapped in the underworld - forever. Being trapped there, he would not be able to seed the earth in the Spring. The story in the northern Mesopotamia version was told as Ishtar and Tammuz.
After learning the tragic fate of Tammuz / Dumuzi, pagan women would weep in the spring, their tears of grief would pull the little god to the surface so he could fertilize the earth. As the little god of pastures and plants he was also responsible for the fertility of livestock, promising many births in the Spring season. He became known as the youthful god who would rise from the underworld to fertilize plants and crops in the Spring.
This tale carried into Phoenicia and Canaan and from there, into Israel. The weeping ritual is briefly affirmed in the book of Ezekiel 8:14. This was called an abomination before God as the woman wept for a pagan god of Spring to arise from the underworld and replenish the earth with fertility. This process detailing the youthful god that rises in the Spring was enough for Alexander Hislop to transform Tammuz into the child of Semiramis as the reincarnation of Nimrod and place Nimrod (as Tammuz) in the church as the risen savor, Christ Jesus.
There were also Spring traditions of baking cakes for Asherah, the goddess of the Canaanites. She was also called the queen of heaven. She was not connected to Tammuz. These are two identifiable deities from two different cultures that rose in two different time periods, Tammuz outdates Asherah by at least a thousand years. See: Hislop and the Mother - Child Religion.
Asherah was the mother of the Canaanite god Ba'al, the storm god. He was NOT the sun god. This is another fiction created by Alexander Hislop that is now treated as fact. The Egyptian sun god was the god Ra; while Shamash and Utu were the Mesopotamian sun gods with Utu being the oldest form of the sun god. Sun worship was still 'a thing' during the time of Ezekiel. This is documented in Ezekiel 8:16
Ishtar is NOT the mother of Tammuz and she was NEVER called Semiramis in any authentic historical context. This was the ploy of Alexander Hislop to erase the history of Ishtar and replace her historical legacy for his made up story of Semiramis.
Without Semiramis his entire narrative falls apart.
Tammuz was the boyfriend or husband of Ishtar, not her son. The goddess Ishtar was childless, just as the pagan goddess Diana was childless. This is another diversion by Hislop which conflicts with authentic historical documentation. Do not be deceived!
Tammuz was never killed by a wild boar. This is yet another fable created by Hislop to prove that pagan traditions carried from Babel where placed into the church. The tale claims that Tammuz was killed by a wild boar and his wife / mother, Semiramis was devastated by this loss. Deeply grieved, she collected what was left of Tammuz (the reincarnation of Nimrod) and placed his body parts (the ones the boar didn't digest) into a basket. She prayed to her pagan gods for 40 days to bring her son back to life. And, after 40 days his life was restored, and his body mended together. Thus, began the tradition of Lent. In all historical documents this Never happened. This tale is from the story of Adonis and is based upon Greek mythology which came thousands of years after the tower of Babel. This story from Greek mythology was pushed back into time and transferred to Tammuz by the elaborate story telling of Alexander Hislop.
Ishtar's symbols were the lion, the eagle and the eight, ten or twelve pointed star as she was the goddess of love and war. The symbols of the egg or bunnies never belonged to Ishtar. These silly symbols would never be suitable for a goddess of her stature. Eggs and bunnies are based upon goddesses in Greek mythology and early Germanic (European) societies that were worshiped thousands of years later and the intertwined story telling of Alexander Hislop.
Below are a few of the meme's that flood the internet around Easter:
These memes and posts are complete fabrications of ancient gods and goddesses and the imagination of a Scottish minister named Alexander Hislop who sought to tie pagan customs and myths with the church. He is the one who created the legend of Semiramis and the pagan trinity that are not found in any historical text to date and that is still taught within the church - (mainly the online churches) even to this day.
I am not sure if these Bible teachers are unaware of actual documented history or have simply not taken the time to do the research. Are they caught up in the 'keeping up with the Jones' sensationalism? I wouldn't think something so unbiblical as mythology and fables would or taught in seminary school or Bible college. These tales have no place in Biblical history. The teachings of Alexander Hislop are deceiving parishioners of the church with pure fiction, fables and myth.
Just because the names sound similar, (a character flaw of Alexander Hislop) Easter does NOT come from Ishtar, it is Germanic in nature, a celebration of the goddess Eostre and the Spring solstice; representing the fresh beginning of new livestock, wild game, flowers and plants. There are NO rites or rituals tied to Ishtar to connect this. Many of these celebrations and cultural customs were simply moved back into the time of Nimrod and Babel by Alexander Hislop to create this fabrication.
Semiramis never existed, she is a complete fable born from an ancient Assyrian Queen that lived in the 8th century BC and the over zealous imagination of one confused and messed up minister. She is not in the Bible. She didn't hatch from an egg. Semiramis is not a biblical name. This is utter garbage.
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