From The Alpha and the Omega - Volume III
by Jim A. Cornwell, Copyright © July 20, 2002, all rights reserved
"Volume III - Index"
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To return to the Sumerian City of Kic (Kish) - First Dynasty.
More can be found at Corona Borealis constellation, or Corona Australis constellation and also at the Libra Introduction and Pisces Introduction.
Corona Australis constellation and Libra Introduction
- From www.lexiline.com, "The heavenly steer (GU4.AN.NA), the god of the (wooden)-tablet (GISH)Le, the Crown of Anu."
- Sumerian AGA dA-nim, (aga(3), crown + dA-nim, divine father + high, above),
thus "The Crown of Anu," or "The Crown of the Divine Father From Above."
- Sumerian aga(3): turban, crown.
- Sumerian ugula-àga-ús: overseer of vassals ('overseer' + 'crown' + 'to follow').
- Sumerian men(4): diadem, crown.
- Sumerian mu2,3: n., diadem; a city's irrigated, cultivated territory; face, appearance, aspect; v., to glisten, shine.
- Sumerian mu4: a biting insect.
- Sumerian dA-nim which is from (dA, divine father + nim, high, above), the Sumerian an: n., sky, heaven; the god An; grain ear/date cluster; v., to be high; adj., high.
- Sumerian a, e4: n., water; watercourse, canal; seminal fluid; offspring; father; tears; flood; interj., alas!; prep., locative suffix - where; in; when - denotes movement towards or in favor of a person; def. article, nominalizing suffix for a noun or noun clause, denoting 'the'.
- Sumerian á: (cf., áhi) or a5: (cf., aka).
- Sumerian nim: n., prince; flying insect; highland; east; morning; v., to be high; to multiply in arithmetic; adj., high; early; adv., above.
- Sumerian igi-nim: upper country ('to face' + 'east').
- Sumerian nim... gír: to lighten; to flash ('east' + 'lightning flash').
- Sumerian sila4-nim: early spring lamb ('lamb' + 'early').
- Akkadian symbol for `heaven'
, the Sumerian dingir
, or AN a logogram meaning the god Anum and amû, as "sky" or "heaven,"
but with a phonetic complement ú
AN-ú, has evolved from a pictographic representation of a star.
- Heaven is thus all that is `high' or `elevated', and associated with the celestial sphere.
- As to d-A-nim, it also is d Anum, "the god of Heaven," d A-num AN-e; d Anum amê, "O Anum of the heaven," Anum rabû abu ilï, "The great Anum, father (ancestor) of the god," Anum, god of Heaven (Sumerian an).
- Anum, after the Old Babylonian period the final -m falls off, and Anum is spelled A-nu, Anu (Akkadian supreme god Anu; Greek Zeus).
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Corona Borealis constellation - Atarah.
- Crown.
- Hebrew qodqod, kod-kode', from Heb. qadad, kaw-dad', the crown of the head.
- Hebrew nezer, neh'-zer, or nezer, nay'-zer, from Heb. nazar, naw-zar', to hold aloof, thus something set apart, dedication (of a priest or Nazirite), crown.
- Hebrew kether, keh'-ther, from Heb. kathar, kaw-thar', a prim. root, to enclose, to crown, thus properly a circlet, diadem, crown.
- Greek stephanos, stef'-an-os, from primary stepho, (to twine or wreathe), crown.
- Hebrew 'atarah, at-aw-raw', from Heb. 'atar, aw-tar', a primary root to encircle, thus a crown. The stars of Corona Borealis form a crescent. The following shows it as a kingly crown.
- Rolleston and in "The Witness of the Stars," by E.W. Bullinger, page 53 "The Hebrew name for the constellation is Atarah, a royal crown, and its stars are known to-day in the East by the plural, Ataroth."
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Pisces Introduction - Crown.
- As to Ataroth-Adar, which is seen above in the Bible, which may reference as an example of opposite constellations interfacing in some form of relevance.
- The stars of Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown in Libra form a crescent, and the following shows it as a kingly crown.
- Hebrew 'atarah, at-aw-raw', from Heb. 'atar, aw-tar', a primary root to encircle, thus a crown.
- Rolleston and in "The Witness of the Stars," by E.W. Bullinger, page 53 "The Hebrew name for the constellation (Corona Borealis) is Atarah, a royal crown, and its stars are known to-day in the East by the plural, Ataroth."
- ATAROTH (at'a-roth, crowns).
- Modern Khirbet-at-tarus, east of Jordan in the territory of Reuben, but fortified by Gad (Num. 32:3, 34).
- On the border between Ephraim and Benjamin, to the west (Josh 16:2), probably the same as Ataroth Addar (16:5; 18:13).
- On the eastern border of Ephraim (Josh 16:7).
- Near Bethlehem (1 Chron 2:54; Atroth Beth Joab in NIV). The location of the last three are uncertain.
This file was created on November 20, 2004.
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