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World-Mysteries.com presents Primary God Figures at Creationby Ed Ziomek I have read somewhere that the ancient
Cretan/Mycenaean culture contained two primary God figures at creation...
1. Primordial Ocean (Mother Ocean, so to speak) The Tiwanaku culture is somewhat similar, with Viracocha and Tlaloc. It seems like the ancient "Incan" and "Aztecan" cultures developed more deities based on this central theme, to include the various Trinities of: 1. Serpent, Sun Disk, Eagle Among the demons and sea serpents of this ancient history are some interesting names: Lamashtu, Tiamat, Ishtar, Thalassa, Medusa, Tlaloc, and ...Omorka
Lamashtu Akkadian demoness, daughter of Anu and equivalent to Sumerian Dimme. Lamashtu
is an evil demon who preys upon people especially unborn and newborn children.
Her list of evil deeds is lengthy: she caused miscarriages, killed children,
poisoned water with disease, killed plants, brought nightmares, and caused
tetanus.
She had seven names, and was called the seven witches in incantations. Tiamat: The Serene Dragon of Babylon: (author question: is this also Thalassa/Tlaloc?)
http://www.theserenedragon.net/Tales/babylon-tiamat.html
"In the beginning, there was nothing but two elements - Apsu, the male spirit of the fresh water and the abyss, and Tiamat, the female dragon spirit of salt water and chaos." Tiamat, Thalassa "Tiamat, the primordial sea-serpent of ancient Babylon, is only one of the
multitudes of sea goddesses and mermaids that are found in folklore and
mythology around the world. The ocean mother is also known as Mari or Mare, Meri,
Mere-Ama, Amphritite, Mama Cocha, Thalassa, Sedna, Toyota-Mahime, White Shell
Woman, Yemaya, Iamanja, and Stella Maris, Star of the Sea."
From research...."Bridging the Americas Reuniting the Eagle and the Condor" Amaruca - America, "Land of the Serpent" Peruvian prophecy states that all the Americas were once united by a common
spiritual tradition and leader, and that they will be again. We were anciently
united as Amaruca or Ameruca, meaning the "Land of the Serpent", during a time
when the serpent was the universal symbol of mystical wisdom and spiritual
power. One legend states that North and South America were named after a culture
bearer known historically as Aramu Muru or Amaru Meru, the "Serpent Meru." Aramu
Muru came from the ancient continent of Mu with many power objects, including
the powerful Solar Disc that had previously hung in an important temple in his
homeland.
Omorca, Omoroka (Chaldean version of Babylonian Tiamat) Omorca: The goddess who was sovereign of the universe when it was first
created. It was covered with water and darkness, but contained some few animals
of monster forms, representations of which may be seen in the Temple of Bel. (Berosius.) Tlaloc Tlaloc is the Aztec god of rain and fertility. He was greatly feared among the Aztecs, who drowned children to appease him. They believed that Tlaloc was responsible for both floods and droughts, and that he had been created by the other gods. He is commonly depicted as a goggle-eyed blue being with fangs. Although, people have had several ways of picturing this god, it was more often pictured as a man wearing a net of clouds, a crown of heron feathers, foam sandals and carrying rattles to make thunder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlaloc
I am proposing that the Tiamat-equivalent sea serpent, named "Tlaloc", whom I
have shown as the "google-eyed" serpent head among the pre-Aztecs, and his/her
powers were downgraded (though not eliminated), and may even have had a sex
change. The reptilian-looking, google-eyed Tlaloc may have been Female to the
Tiwanaku tribes, but was considered to be Male among the Aztecan era tribes.
Among the modernish Aztecs, Tlaloc was considered among the "old Gods", but was
still revered as the "rain God".
As a direct Greek/Tiwanaku comparison, though, I would position Viracocha as the equivalent of Poseidon, and Tlaloc the equivalent of Thalassa, or any of several "Theoi Halioi" (Gods of Hell?) - Greek water deities found on an exceptional website by Aaron Atsma's www.Theoi.com... http://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/sea-gods.html
Based on all my amateur research, from the most ancient of recorded
mythologies, the four common denominators, ...among the mythologies of Tiamat,
Thalassa, Omoroca, Tlaloc, (and many other similar names) are:
The graphic that I have added has the images of Lamashtu, Viracocha/Tlaloc?, Ishtar/Lillith, and a Cretan Snake Goddess not identified....
The snake in historical mythologies....Renewal, Rebirth, Regeneration "Serpents are connected with renewal or regeneration. This trait is connected with the practice of snakes of shedding their old skin and growing a new one."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_%28symbolism%29 Poison and medicine "Serpents are connected with poison and medicine. The snake's venom is
associated with the chemicals of plants and fungi....that have the power to
either heal, poison or provide expanded consciousness (and even the elixir of
life and immortality) through divine intoxication. Because of its herbal
knowledge and entheogenic association the snake was often considered one of the
wisest animals, being (close to the) divine. Its divine aspect combined with its
habitat in the earth between the roots of plants made it an animal with chthonic
properties connected to the afterlife and immortality." Authors note: I don't claim to understand all of this, only part of this, but
I absolutely do see the commonality of symbolism and theology between the
Tiwanaku, Inca, Aztec, Mycenaean, Greek, Egyptian, and many other contributing
cultures. There are so many overlapping cultures and belief systems and time-eras that are blended into this research material, it is hard to pin down, and may take 100 more years for more qualified persons than myself to articulate.
Babylon and Teotihuacan...same blueprint-floorplan?.... Let me recap my theories: The theology of Tiwanaku and Cuzco, and most definitely the original
Teotihuacan Mexico had many God-trinities over their lifetimes of 4-5000 years.
As restated a few times, one of the many "trinities" of Gods over those 5000
years was the Mother Ocean Viracocha, the Sea Serpent-google-eyed Tlaloc, and
the Eagle. Later versions may have been the Sea serpent, the Eagle, and the Aten
sun disk, in a three-step arrangement showing "lower earthly world", "Upper sky
world", and Inner world. I certainly do not understand all the distinctions. Possibly no one does. I am guessing that in the ancient transitions from the maternalistic Mother
Ocean, Mother Earth societies to the paternalistic societies such as Greek/Zeus,
the serpent in the equation was killed off. Much like the Apep snake mythology
of Egypt, this "killing off" may have been merely a reflection of the Sun
"dying" each night, only to be reborn the next day. However, in the Babylonian mythology, I believe that the serpent was actually
slain by Marduk, and this death was for perpetuity...never to be reborn. In the process of this research, imagine my surprise when I was studying the
"blueprint-floorplan" of ancient Babylon-Baghdad, containing the Gate of Ishtar,
and Temple of Marduk, when I compared it to the "blueprint-floorplan" of
Teotihuacan in Mexico. With some imagination, the two diagrams seem to overlay fairly exact from the
top of the Processional Way of the Gate of Ishtar, to the Temple of Marduk - in
Babylon, and from the Axis of the World below the Moon Temple at Teotihuacan,
down the Avenue of Death to the unknown temple complex to the South. As we all understand, it seems like Teotihuacan has gone through numerous upgrades, deviations, theology spins, God subtractions, and such, so that there may be five layers of theology-devotion in the Temple of Teotihuacan complex. The blue additions are from the Giza Plateau similarities on World-Mysteries.com.
http://www.world-mysteries.com/gizavsteotihuacan.htm While the Babylonian Tiamat/Thallassus Serpent was killed off by Marduk, the
Aztecan Tlaloc survived over time, possibly becoming the Atlas character. Let me present the blueprint-floorplans of both Babylon and Teotihuacan, and
let the academics argue their authenticity and accuracy and plausibility. I think they do match, and I certainly find it of major, major interest and significance.
E-mail: edward.ziomek@snet.net
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