Posted by WW [WW] on April 05, 1999 at 18:12:00 {6.uz.4vynMOfSZqlzZ0Um1EPSMpKF.}:
In Reply to: *Apocalypse When? posted by Not so quick... on April 04, 1999 at 10:53:47:
Ishtar is actually a worship of Noah's (or Nut) wife. Amazingly, each of the old cultures in in the Fertile Crescent trace their origins to one or the other of Noah's sons.
I've been reading the book, The Ark of Noah by David Fasold and
it is filled with interesting quotes and info about how real the events of the flood were to the ancients.
There is even a huge wrecked, mud encased ship on Mt. Utartu in the Kurdish area of Turkey where Moslems have held that this is
the Ark of Noah. The fundies don't want to consider it because it is not on Mt. Ararat and it is sized by the Egyptiam cubit exactly but much larger than the Hebrew cubit, making our translations of the scriptures wrong on it's size and
shape. The skeptics scoff at those who have investigated it but there is some evidence in their favor. Up until the middle ages it was in fairly intact shape. Josephus and Bereosus both wrote of it's existence and of pilgrims visiting the
site in their day. It was only in 1947 that the western world was made aware of it and it was not explored at all until the 70's and 80's. It has always been dangerous country due to the nature of the local residents and is not accessible
at all now due to the war going on there.
Check the book out at a library, I can't do it justice here.
WW