> the two stars that are behind him, shullat and hanish, shamas and adad (two stars in centaurus) > mul-gish-ganur constellation-wooden-harrow (crux) is seen on the dendera zodiac, bull man with implement the harrow itself may indicate the method to locate celestial south using the two pointer stars of centaurus shullat and hanish (alpha and beta centaurus) and crux, those two stars in mesopotamian tradition were connected to the causing of the flood, as they related to the waters of the deep, the mythology connected with the associated pointer stars, alpah and proximi centaurus being the closest to earth is much more intriguing as these were associated with bull/bison man as the guardian of the abzu, lahmuin sumerian tradition and ditanu in akkadian, the assyrians, ugaritic and neo-babylonians (who created the myth of marduk, their supreme god, based on ninurta) all claimed the ditanu/didanu (amurru), the auroch king of repham as the legendary ancestor. the constellation of sagittarius was known to the sumerians as en.te.na bar.chum ("wild boar"), whom ninurta appears fighting in several panels, this led mythographers to associate him with dumuzi-tammuz (adonis), son of ea/enki like marduk, who was described as a great hunter and associated with agricultural cycles like ninurta. to add more fuel to this fire (literally, my, how i love gifts): the fifth month (july-august), in which dumuzi/tammuz was killed by the boar, was called in sumerian ne.ne ar set fire and associated with sirius, which comes from the greek word seirios, which means "fiery" or "flaming". sounds familiar? > lahmu, meaning parent star or constellation, is the name of a protective and beneficent deity, the first-born son of abzu and tiamat. he is often associated with the kusarikku or "bull-man". lahmu guarded the gates of the abzu   /29/lahmu-the-hairy-one-is-not-apka llu/
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