To return to the Decan of Jupiter.
As seen in Virgo Introduction - subject: dAMAR.UD (Marduk) Jupiter.
- Sumerian dAMAR.UD, Akkadian dMarduk, which is Jupiter. Lord Marad.
Thus the Sumerian amar, calf; young animal + ud, sun, storm (demon), would read "The Young (Bull) God of the Sun."
Note on the Sumerian amar-kud: separated, weaned young animal ('calf' + 'to cut away from').
- The following can be found in "The Alpha and the Omega," Volume II by Jim A. Cornwell -- Insert for Chapter Five page 10, and also be seen under Aries in the Cassiopeia constellation section in regard to Zedek, or Gad.
- The Babylonians worshipped her as Mylitta, i.e. generative.
- Our Monday, or Moon-day, indicates the former prevalence of the moon-worship (Isa. 65:11 "they that forsake the LORD, ... forget my holy mountain, ... prepare a table for that troop, ... furnish drink offering unto that number.").
- According to Gesenius and Kimchi, the word troop, rather Gad (a var. of the Heb. gad, gawd), is the Babylonian god of fortune, the planet of Jupiter, answers to Baal or Bel. The Arabs called it "the Greater Good Fortune," and the planet Venus answering to Meni, "the Lesser Good Fortune."
- Jerome claims that tables were laid out for their idols with all kinds of viands, and a cup containing a mixture of wine and honey, in Egypt especially, on the last day of the year.
- Meni (the moon) as goddess of fortune was thought to number the fates of men.
- Number.
- Hebrew Meniy, men-ee', from Heb. manah, maw-naw', to weigh out, allot, count set, tell, thus Apportioner, i.e. Fate, as an idol, number, and probably Ashtaroth or Astarte (1 Kings 11:33 "have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon."). Gad is probably the god of the sun.
- Baal-Gad (ba"-al-gad').
- Hebrew Ba'al Gad, bah'-al gawd, from:
- Hebrew Ba'al, bah'-al, a Phoenician deity, Baalim (plural), usually meaning lord.
- Also seen under the Taurus Constellation section:
- Canaanite Baal, Baalim.
- Hebrew Ba'al, bah'-al, the same as Heb. ba'al, bah'-al, from Heb. ba'al, baw-al', a primary root, to be master, hence to marry, a master, hence a husband, or (fig.) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense), + archer, + babbler, captain, chief man, thus Baal, a Phoenician deity, plural Baalim.
- Hebrew Ba'al Zebuwb, bah'-al zeb-oob', means Baal of (the) Fly, this fly was one of a stinging nature, Baal-Zebub, a special deity of the Ekronites.
- Hebrew Ba'al Peowr, bah'-al peh-ore', Baal of Peor, to yawn, gape, open, a gap, a Moabitish deity, Baal-Peor, a mountain East of Jordan where the deity was worshipped.
- Hebrew Ba'al Tsepown, bah'-al-tsef-one', Heb. tsaphown, tsaw-fone', or tsaphone, properly hidden, i.e. dark, used only of the north as a quarter (gloomy and unknown), north, thus in the sense of cold), an Egyptian form of Typhon, the destroyer, Baal of winter, Baal-Tse-phon, a place in Egypt, Baal-zephon.
- Hebrew gad, gawd, from Heb. guwd, goode, a primary root to crowd upon, (in the sense of disturbing), fortune, also troop, thus Baal of Fortune, a place in Syria, and also a Babylonian deity.
- Sumerian amar: calf; young animal (áma, 'wild cow mother', + re7, 'to accompany, plural').
- Sumerian áb-amar: mother cow ('cow' + 'calf').
- Sumerian amar-kud: separated, weaned young animal ('calf' + 'to cut away from').
- Sumerian sipad-amar-ru-ga: shepherd of brought back (?) ('shepherd' + 'young ones' + rúg, 'to restore' + genitive).
- Sumerian ud, u4: n., sun; light; day; time; weather; storm (demon). prep., when; since.
- Sumerian ud5: (cf., ùz).
- Sumerian u4: (cf., ud).
- Sumerian utu: (cf., ud).
As seen in Leo Star Names - subject: Weather, Jupiter, dAMAR.UD, EnGishGaLAnNa.
- Weather.
- Sumerian ud, u4: n., sun; light; day; time; weather; storm (demon). prep., when; since.
- Sumerian ud5: (cf., ùz).
- Sumerian u4: (cf., ud).
- Sumerian utu: (cf., ud).
- Sumerian imi, im, em: wind; direction; weather; storm; cloud; rain (cf., tumu).
- Hebrew zahab, zaw-hawb', from an unused root meaning to shimmer, gold, gold-colored, (i.e. yellow), as oil, a clear sky, fair weather.
- Greek eudia, yoo-dee'-ah, fem. from Gr. eu, yoo, good, well, and the alt. of Gr. Zeus, dzyooce, of uncertain affinity, in the oblique cases there is used instead of it a (prob. cognate) name Greek Dis, deece, which is otherwise obsolete, Zeus or Dis (among the Latin's Jupiter or Jove), the supreme deity of the Greeks, Jupiter (as the god of the weather), a clear sky, i.e. fine weather, fair weather.
- Jupiter.
- dAMAR.UD, Akkadian dMarduk, or Roman Jupiter, which some call "Lord Marad."
- Nimrod built the city of Babel (Babylon) and his name is connected to the Sumerian Nin-Maradda, "Lord Marad," a town southwest of the city of Kish.
- Gilgamesh's father was called Lugal-Marada - patron god of Marad.
- Also as seen in the Virgo Introduction - dAMAR.UD (Marduk) Jupiter
- Sumerian dAMAR.UD, Akkadian dMarduk, which is Jupiter. Lord Marad.
Thus the Sumerian amar, calf; young animal + ud, sun, storm (demon), would read "The Young (Bull) God of the Sun."
Note on the Sumerian amar-kud: separated, weaned young animal ('calf' + 'to cut away from').
- Sumerian amar: calf; young animal (áma, 'wild cow mother', + re7, 'to accompany, plural').
- Sumerian áb-amar: mother cow ('cow' + 'calf').
- Sumerian amar-kud: separated, weaned young animal ('calf' + 'to cut away from').
- Sumerian sipad-amar-ru-ga: shepherd of brought back (?) ('shepherd' + 'young ones' + rúg, 'to restore' + genitive).
- Sumerian ud, u4: n., sun; light; day; time; weather; storm (demon). prep., when; since.
- Sumerian ud5: (cf., ùz).
- Sumerian u4: (cf., ud).
- Sumerian utu: (cf., ud).
- Sumerian EN.GISHGAL.AN.NA, is also referred to as Jupiter,
which reads in the Sumerian (en, lord + gišgal, throne + an, heaven + na, nominative),
"Lord of the Throne of Heaven."
- Sumerian en: n., dignitary; lord; high priest; ancestor (statue); v., to rule; adj., noble.
- Sumerian en(2,3): n., time; background; prep., until.
- Sumerian gišgal: chair; throne; station (giš, 'wooden thing', + gal, 'big, great') also gišgal.
- Sumerian u18[GIŠGAL]-lu: southwind [with classifier IM]; storm ('huge' + 'numerous, abundant').
- Sumerian u18[GIŠGAL]-ru: mighty storm (?) ('huge' + 'to send'; cf., uru2,5,18).
- Sumerian giš, geš: tree; wood; wooden implement; scepter; tool; organ; plow; natural phenomenon.
- Sumerian gal, gal: n., a large cup; adj., big, large, great.
- Sumerian gál; gá: to be (somewhere); to be available; to place, put (with -ni- or bi-); to place into (with -ši-); to be with someone (with -da-); to have on one's person (with -da-); to be possible (with -da-); to take an oath; to dwell.
- Sumerian an: n., sky, heaven; the god An; grain ear/date cluster; v., to be high; adj., high.
- Sumerian ni; na: he, she; that one, representing a nominative ending.
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