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TIGRIS

TIGRIS. Our word Tigris comes from an Old Persian word that can be translated as "fast" or "arrow-like". The ancient Sumerians called the river Idigna , and in the Akkadian language that was spoken in Babylon and Assyria.

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TIGRIS

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  1. TIGRIS • Our word Tigris comes from an Old Persian word that can be translated as "fast" or "arrow-like". The ancient Sumerians called the river Idigna, and in the Akkadian language that was spoken in Babylon and Assyria.

  2. was a city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad. All that remains of the original ancient famed city of Babylon today is a mound, or tell, of broken mud-brick buildings and debris in the fertile Mesopotamian plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in Iraq. Although it has been reconstructed, historical resources inform us that Babylon was at first a small town, that had sprung up by the beginning of the third millennium BCE (the dawn of the dynasties). BABYLON

  3. was a city in ancient Sumer, located at the site of modern Tell el-Mukayyar in Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate.[3] Once a coastal city near the mouth of the then Euphrates river on the Persian Gulf, Ur is now well inland. Currently, Ur is south of the Euphrates on its right bank, 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) from Nasiriyah, Iraq and close to the site of ancient Eridu. The city's patron deity was Nanna, the Sumerian moon god, and the name of the city is in origin derived from the god's name, URIM2KI being the classical Sumerian spelling of LAK-32.UNUGKI, literally "the abode (UNUG) of Nanna (LAK-32)".4 The site is marked by the ruins of the Great Ziggurat of Ur, which contained the shrine of Nanna, excavated in the 1930s. The temple was built in the 21st century BC (short chronology), during the reign of Ur-Nammu and was reconstructed in the 6th century BC. UR

  4. Goddess of Babylon • ANCIENT SUMERIAN GODDESS PRAISED AS “QUEEN OF HEAVEN” FAMOUSLY DESCENDED INTO THE UNDERWORLDTO PENETRATE THE DARKNESS AND RE-ASCEND SYMBOLICALLY AS THE REBIRTH OF SPRING. THE SYMBOLIC RAISING OF KUNDALINI ENERGY OR THE FEMALE FOOL’S JOURNEY OF THE TAROT, INANNA’S DESCENT AND RESURRECTION IS A PSYCHOLOGICALLY RESONATING JOURNEY ALL MAN AND WOMAN EXPERIENCE IN SOME WAY AT SOME POINT IN THEIR LIVES. IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT THIS JOURNEY IS REFLECTED, MUCH TO THE SURPRISE OF MANY MUSIC FANS WHO TAKE THE AVERAGE MUSIC VIDEO AT FACE VALUE, IN POP SINGER RHIANNA AND HER RELATIONSHIP THROUGH MUSIC WITH RAPPER JAY-Z (STARTING WITH "UMBRELLA AND "DISTURBIA" VIDEOS)

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