Semiramis
The Gift of theSea
Also known as: Sammuramat (Assyrian); Shamiram (Armenian)
Semiramis, daughter of the mermaid goddess Atargatis, survived abandonment by her mother and thrived, eventually marryingKing Nimrod[follow the wives?] and ruling the city of Nineveh (present dayIraq) as a kind of living goddess. She is credited with founding the city ofBabylon. Some legends also give her credit for building the famous Hanging Gardens, one of the ancient world’s Seven Wonders. Although Semiramis lived as a human, she never died. Instead she left Earth in the form of a dove after assuring her devotees that she will listen and respond to their petitions.
Semiramis is invoked for prosperity, safety, and fertility.
Iconography: Semiramis is depicted with agolden doveon her head. A coin minted in Roman-eraAshkelon,now modern Israel, depicts Semiramis holding a lance and a dove (phallic and vulvic symbols, respectively) and standing on a mermaid: her mother, Atargatis.
Bird: Doves raised her and serve as her messengers.
Sacred site:Babylon
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The real and historical Shammuramat (the original Akkadian and Aramaic form of the name) was the Assyrian wife of Shamshi-Adad V (ruled 824 BC–811 BC), ruler of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and its regent for five years until her son Adad-nirari III came of age and took the reins of power.[12] She ruled at a time of political uncertainty, which is one of the possible explanations for why Assyrians may have accepted her rule (as normally a woman as ruler would have been unthinkable). It has been speculated that ruling successfully as a woman may have made the Assyrians regard her with particular reverence, and that the achievements of her reign (including stabilizing and strengthening the empire after a destructive civil war) were retold over the generations until she was turned into a mythical figure.[13]
The name of Semiramis came to be applied to various monuments in Western Asia and Anatolia, the origin of which was forgotten or unknown.[14] Various places in Upper Mesopotamia and throughout Mesopotamia as a whole, Media, Persia, the Levant, Anatolia, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Caucasus bore the name of Semiramis, but slightly changed, even in the Middle Ages, and an old name of the Armenian city of Van was Shamiramagerd (in Armenian it means created by Semiramis). Nearly every stupendous work of antiquity by the Euphrates or in Iran seems to have ultimately been ascribed to her, even the Behistun Inscription of Darius.[15][16] Herodotus ascribes to her the artificial banks that confined the Euphrates[17] and knows her name as borne by a gate of Babylon.[18] She conquered much of Middle East and the Levant.
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