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Non-binary gods: Asushunamir

Asushunamir is a deity of Sumerian and Babylonian origin, who was created to be neither and both male and female, and rescued the goddess Ishtar from the underworld.

The pictures above are from a woman who illustrated one version of the story.  But I’m sharing this version instead, (though I edited the pronouns and other references to gender which were done badly):

Ishtar, Queen of Heaven and Earth, without whom the flowers would not grow, Without whom the ice would never melt, the skies would never brighten, and the world would forever lay in slumber, awoke in Her fullness to Her beauty.

From the great Above My Lady, Ishtar opened Her ear to the great Below. And the Goddess abandoned Heaven and Earth To descend into the Underworld, For there lived Her sister Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld. Past the seven gates the Goddess Ishtar would pass, demanding entry, And at each gate the Goddess was stripped of Her valuables.

And at each gate Ishtar asked, “What is this?” 

And my Lady was told: “The ways of the Underworld are perfect. They may not be questioned.”


Finally, naked and bowed low Ishtar entered the throne room. Ereshkigal rose from Her throne and struck Her. Ishtar was turned to a piece of rotting meat and hung from a hook on the wall. And Ereshkigal decreed, “No God, or Goddess, No man or woman may enter the Underworld to rescue Ishtar.”

So it was that the Great God Enki was informed And from His magnificent fingernail, made of light, He fashioned a being, Asushunamir. Asushunamir a being of light, that was neither male nor female and yet both he and she.
Renewing of light, Asushunamir. And he sent them to rescue Ishtar. They whose face is brilliant, so beautiful, Asushunamir. Clothed in stars, Asushunamir.

The spell of great Ereshkigal could not possess this luminous being. Yet She was moved by Asushunamir’s beauty, stirred by their voice, by their dance. Ereshkigal demanded a great feast be held in Their, the best wine brought to the table. She dreamed of taking this beautiful being to Her bed, of keeping Them with Her in the Land of the Dead.  But Asushunamir was careful to pour the wine upon the floor and to eat not food prepared by ghosts.

When Ereshkigal had fallen into drunkenness, Asushunamir asked if They might taste the Water of Life, which Ereshkigal kept locked in the cellar.


Ereshkigal called out to Her servant, “Bring the jug! I shall grant the wish of this fetching creature!” When Ereshkigal fell asleep, Asushunamir made Their way to the lampless cell Where Ishtar, held captive, lay.

They sprinkled the Goddess with the Water of Life. As the drops fell upon Her, She opened Her eyes. Radiant and flowing with the energy of life, Ishtar quickly made Her way back through the seven gates, ascending to earth and bidding the flowers to grow. Asushunamir was not as fortunate.
Ereshkigal awakened as They approached the 7th gate and nothing could extinguish Her fires of passion turned to hate.

“The food of the gutter shall be your food!” Great Ereshkigal cried. “The drink of the sewer shall be your drink. In the shadows shall you abide.” Having pronounced Her curse upon Them, She banished Asushunamir.

When Ishtar learned of the terrible curse placed upon the luminous being, She wept and spoke softly so that no one might hear, “The power of Ereshkigal is great. No one dares defy Her. But just as winter was softened and turned towards spring, I may so soften the curse upon you. For many ages you will suffer. Those who are like you, assinnu and kalum and kugarru and kalaturru, lovers of men, kin to my sacred women, shall be as strangers in their homes. Their families will keep them as secrets in the shadows and will leave them nothing. The drunken shall smite their faces, and the mighty shall imprison them.

“But if you will remember Me, how you were born from the light of the stars to save Me from death and rid the earth of winter, I shall harbor you and your kind. You shall be My special children, and I shall make you my priests. I shall grant you the gift of prophecy, the wisdom of the earth and moon. You shall banish illness from My children, as you have stolen Me from Ereshkigal and the Land of No Return.

“And when you adorn yourselves in My robes I shall dance in your feet and sing in your throats, and no one shall be able to resist your enchantments.

“When the earthen jug is brought forth from the 7 gates you shall be freed from the spell of Ereshkigal. Once more you shall be called Asushunamir. Being clothed in light. Your kind shall be called Those Whose Faces Are Brilliant. Those Who Have Come to Renew the Light, the blessed ones of Ishtar.”

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heliolisk

Yall i just got an email from tumblr saying I interacted with accounts made by the IRA …… is this even real????


The internet is wild

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heliolisk

Im literally imagining some government worker in russia logging onto tumblr.edu and thinking to themselves “better change my url to ‘black-galaxy-magic’ to stay young n hip and relevant with the youth of america”

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kisskissfuckshitup

sooooo let’s break it down then because the fact that tumblr sent this email is mega important

if yall haven’t been living under a rock for the last year and a half, you may have heard that trump won the election. and you may have also heard that trump was helped out by russia in a ton of ways. one of those ways was by the russian troll farm, the internet research agency (IRA). there were 84 accounts on tumblr spreading anti-hillary propaganda and general discontent, mainly targeting POC and “socially aware” youth. some of those accounts were HUGELY influential, “4mysquad” being one of the top ones with tons of followers and popular posts.

a lot of them started with relatively innocent, pro-POC posts to gain a following, before moving on to anti-police, anti-hillary, and general anti-establishment to create distrust in the only major-party candidate against trump. like I said, many of the accounts were hugely influential so their posts spread FAR. all that visibility led to increased voter apathy, meaning less voter turnout and fewer people voting against trump. and tumblr was silent on this after the official indictment of the IRA, until literally just yesterday. 

so to sum up, the email you and a ton of other people got is saying that you were following and sharing posts from russian pro-trump propaganda blogs. i’d ask that you PLEASE reblog this, because it’s super important that everyone who got this email knows why they got it, knows what it means, and hopefully knows what they might be able to do better in the future

laylainalaska

This isn’t the kind of thing I normally reblog, but I think it’s vitally important for Tumblr to know how propaganda works, and that it’s a whole lot more than Fox News posts being shared by old people on Facebook. Malicious people will play on the fears and prejudices of a community, any community, to subtly manipulate public opinion their way – whether the fears they’re playing on are fear of change, fear of the establishment, fear of immigrants, fear of the police, fear of old people, fear of young people … you get the idea.

bethofaus

I went through the list carefully and the only one I could find that rang a bell was one that posted about “Black Lives Matter”. I am very suspicious about just what checks were done. Did tumblr just send this to everyone? There’s no way known I’ve ever posted pro-Trump posts.

laylainalaska

But no, Beth, that’s the point! That’s what makes this so insidious. You didn’t post pro-Trump posts. Nobody did. (Well, some people might’ve, but not the vast majority.) That’s not the kind of propaganda that’s going to appeal to and undermine people on the left.

These blogs masquerade as perfectly innocuous left-leaning blogs. They post things of interest to Tumblr’s mostly-young, mostly-lefty crowd - memes and cute cat videos, relatively ordinary political stuff that a lot of people reblog like Black Lives Matter posts and Dakota Pipeline posts and so forth. And into this mix of relatively normal Tumblr posts, they seed the poison: posts spreading slander about the political candidate the left would normally vote for (Hilary Clinton in this case), posts undermining your faith in the voting process, posts making a case for throwing your vote to a third-party candidate, posts suggesting that there’s no need to turn out to vote because Trump obviously can’t win so you don’t have to bother, posts suggesting that the system is so broken that anarchy is the only option. Or just a steady diet of posts about how The System Is Awful (e.g. 24/7 BLM) so you end up feeling like there’s no point, it’s never going to change so why bother trying?

The point is to make the left dispirited and apathetic, or convinced that the outcome of the election is a foregone conclusion, so they won’t bother voting.

There’s no way to know if it made a difference. But they certainly think it did. So they WILL try this again, probably are already trying this again - not just with the U.S., but with any country where they want to influence the political process.

You can’t ever completely stop yourself from being influenced, but at least knowing how it works is one way of guarding against it.

Source: heliolisk