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 muš_2,3: n., diadem; a city's irrigated, cultivated territory; face, appearance, aspect; v., to glisten, shine.
      • Sumerian muš₄: 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 Šamû, 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 šamê, "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).

• 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."

• 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.