(Please read from the start)
It is a common practice at early stages of history when the survivors came out from the Flood to represent people standing on various animals, mostly felines. We also found this common use in pre-dynastic Egypt, where each city, each nome and each kingdom (either upper or lower Egypt) had their own symbolic animal (example Libyan palette page 117). The only difference is that in Anatolia and in Mesopotamia deities and people stand on the symbolic animal. I think the Neo-Assyrians copied this without even knowing what it really means, the deep meaning in this.
Do anons remember the winged Elamite statuette from page 807? That winged warrior had the same stance as Lamashtu does on this plaque. Do you remember what I said back then, about the statuette might have hand blasters? Why do you think its arms are depicted that way? As if it’s either on defensive stance or is about to block something? Does this stance remind you of how Iron Man shoots his blasters? Now compare it all to Lamashtu holding the lightning in her hands. Make up your own mind about this. Put all the pieces together yourself.
Right under Lamashtu’s left knee there is a scorpion depicted. It’s important to note that most of the elements in this scene are represented in relief while the scorpion and a couple of other items are engraved on the plaque. Also remember that the Scorpion has a meaning = symbol = indication of a warrior.
Lamashtu kneeling on the horse is in a circular boat. Anons may argue it’s not a circular boat, but I want to remind anons that we are looking at this scene from the side. We are not looking face to face at Lamashtu but looking at her de coté = from the side. So it’s the same with the boat. And yes anons, you guessed it right = this is a Kuphar she is standing on. Please go back to page 15 (starting) and take a look at the photographs of the Kuphar. Now let’s cut the Kuphar exactly in its diameter and look at it from the side, what will we see? And just like it’s the case with the Kuphar, there are no oars here, on the plaque, as well. The only difference is that Lamashtu’s Kuphar has decoration on it while modern day Kuphars are simple, plain.
The Kuphar Lamashtu is standing on is floating on a body of water which contains loads of fish. Well, we can assume this is the Euphrates but what is troubling me are the two “trees” we see in the background. Those are not date trees or palm trees like the type of trees we see in Mesopotamia. Those look like “forest trees” – I’m even suspecting these might be some type of fir tree; which also indicates Armenia if we combine it with the river. Anons shouldn’t forget that the Euphrates’s two main sources were in the Armenian Plateau. It’s the spikes on the trees that are making me think of Fir trees.
Above the Fir trees, different objects are depicted = 8 or 9 of them, with one looking like a archer’s bow and another like jug or an amphora at the top.Right behind Lamshtu, Pazuzu is depicted on a ground marked by a line in his traditional pose = as in lifting one arm and lowering the other. He is clearly standing on the banks of the Euphrates River. There might be an engraved tree between him and the boat but I’m not sure about it.
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