Chapter 429 The Earth Goddess of the Two Rivers

Mesopotamian Plain.

The two mother rivers originating from the mountainous areas of the Anatolian Peninsula irrigated fertile land in the Babylon region in the middle reaches and the Sumer region in the lower reaches, giving birth to the oldest civilization of mankind.

Influenced by the Sumerian and Babylonian regions, as early as 3,000 BC, the tribes in the upper reaches of the Mesopotamian Basin who worshipped the goddess of the earth had entered the agricultural civilization.

At this time, the Venus goddess Inanna, the sun god Utu, and the moon god Nanna in the Sumerian region clearly belonged to the star worship of the Sumerians.

The goddess of the earth worshipped by the tribes in the upper reaches of the Mesopotamian Basin is essentially different from the goddess of Venus Inanna.

Moreover, the upper reaches of the Mesopotamian Basin are separated from the lower reaches of the Sumerian Basin by the Babylonian region in the middle reaches.

If the Venus goddess Inanna is to be linked with the goddess of the earth in the upper reaches of the Mesopotamian Basin, it may be traced back to 5,000 BC - or even 10,000 BC.

And even if we trace the origin, it is not the Earth Goddess that originated from the Venus Goddess Inanna, but the Venus Goddess Inanna that originated from the Earth Goddess.

This Earth Goddess, who is regarded as the ancestor of gods in both Greek mythology and Babylonian mythology, is called Gaia [Earth] in Greek mythology and Tiamat [Mother of Life] by the ancient Aryans in Babylonian mythology.

The ancient Aryans living in the Great Plains of East Europe are divided into two major groups.

Three thousand years ago BC, the ancient Aryans who worshipped the thunder god were driven out of the Great Plains by the ancient Aryans who worshipped the sun god.

An ancient Aryan group who worshipped the thunder god migrated to the upper reaches of the Mesopotamian Basin and defeated the local group that worshipped the Earth Goddess.

Perhaps this is the prototype of the story of Marduk, the god of thunder and war, who killed the goddess Tiamat in Babylonian mythology.

The Earth Goddess [Tiamat] and the group that worshipped her were originally the masters of the upper reaches of the Mesopotamian Basin.

After the arrival of the ancient Aryans who worshipped the god of thunder [Marduk Zeus], ​​they not only drove away the locals, but also degraded the local goddesses into evil goddesses who wanted to destroy the world and must be eliminated.

In the mythology of the ancient Aryans, the god of thunder [Marduk Zeus] killed the goddess Tiamat and used her corpse to create heaven and earth.

This may be a hint that the ancient Aryans killed or drove away the tribes that worshipped the goddess of the earth, and obtained the space for the ancient Aryans to live.

The tribes that worshipped the goddess of the earth were robbed of their living space by the ancient Aryans and could only migrate to the west.

Because the north is the mountainous area of ​​the Anatolian Peninsula, the east is the ancient Aryans, and the south is the arid desert area, only by migrating to the west can they find a living space with fertile land suitable for farming.

One of the tribes that worshipped the goddess of the earth migrated to the Phoenician region.

They later became Phoenicians. In the long historical evolution, the Earth Goddess met the needs of the Phoenicians and became the sky-attributed seafaring patron and war goddess Aphrodite.

Most of the tribes that worshipped the Earth Goddess migrated to the western part of the Anatolian Peninsula.

A group of people crossed the sea from the southwest corner of the Anatolian Peninsula to the eastern part of Crete and became the Knossos who created the city of Knossos. The Earth Goddess also met the needs of the Knossos and became the Europa goddess of the Knossos.

The people in the western part of Crete were obviously the native inhabitants of Crete, so they did not worship the Earth Goddess Europa, but the goddess Pandora, who was essentially different from the Earth Goddess.

Perhaps the Cretan native Moon Goddess worship can be linked to the Moon worship in the ancient Jericho City.

The Pelasgians who migrated to the Greek region were also a tribe that worshipped the Earth Goddess.

Because the complex mountainous terrain in Greece divided the Pelasgians into different regions, the Earth Goddess has now evolved into goddesses such as Mnemosyne, Metis, Amphitrite, Persephone, and Artemis.

In addition to these ethnic groups that migrated to other regions, most of the ethnic groups that worshipped the Earth Goddess stayed in the Asia Minor Peninsula.

For example, Hesione, the goddess of the sea who guarded the city of Troy, evolved from the Earth Goddess.

The ancestors of the Trojans were also an ethnic group that worshipped the Earth Goddess.

The ancestors of the Hittite Kingdom, the overlord of the Asia Minor Peninsula, were also an ethnic group that worshipped the Earth Goddess.

Therefore, the Queen of the Gods of the Hittite Kingdom was both the Sun Goddess and the Earth Goddess.

The Queen of the Gods of the Hittite Kingdom symbolizes that the Hittite Kingdom was formed by the fusion of two ethnic groups.

Two thousand years BC, an ancient Aryan who worshipped the Sun God migrated to the Asia Minor Peninsula and merged with the local ethnic group that worshipped the Earth Goddess.

The result of the fusion of the ancient Aryans who worshipped the sun god and the local ethnic groups who worshipped the earth goddess was that the queen of the gods in the Hittite Kingdom was both the sun goddess and the earth goddess.

In addition to these ethnic groups that migrated westward, there was also an ethnic group that worshipped the earth goddess and stayed in the Syrian region.

They established the Kingdom of Ebla in the Ebla region in northern Syria and became neighbors with the ancient Aryans for hundreds of years.

The first wave of ancient Aryans who migrated to the Mesopotamian Basin did not establish a powerful city-state that dominated the Mesopotamian Basin.

Because they developed in the upper reaches of the Mesopotamian Basin for hundreds of years, not only did they not become powerful, but they lost the strongest weapon for nomadic peoples to defeat agricultural peoples - war horses.

During the process of the ancient Aryans' branches constantly migrating to the Mesopotamian Basin, the Akkadians, a branch of the ancient Aryans, once conquered the Mesopotamian Basin in a hundred years and established the Akkadian Kingdom with a territory extending from the Persian Gulf in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

Then in just thirty years, the Akkadian Empire collapsed and disappeared.

After the decline of the Akkadians, the Amorites, a branch of the ancient Aryans, established the Babylonian Kingdom that dominated the Mesopotamian Basin 1,760 BC.

Then, thirty years later, the Babylonian Kingdom existed in name only.

Now, the Babylonian Kingdom is just one of the many city-states in the Mesopotamian Basin.

Faced with the Hittite Kingdom occupying the nominal western territory of the Babylonian Kingdom, the Babylonian Kingdom no longer has the strength to fight back against the Hittite Kingdom.

After Roy incorporated the Phoenician region into the territory of the Athenian Empire, the southern part of Syria where the Amorites lived became a strategic buffer zone between the Athenian Empire and the Hittite Kingdom.

As long as Roy entered the southern part of Syria, the Athenian Empire and the Hittite Kingdom would be directly bordering each other.

Roy was a little hesitant about whether to eat up this buffer zone.

Because in the history of another world, the Hittite Kingdom has mastered iron technology.

The Hittite Kingdom was able to march straight into the northern part of Syria in the upper reaches of the Mesopotamian Basin and the Babylonian region in the middle reaches, and destroyed the city of Babylon. It is very likely that it was the result of using iron weapons to attack the Amorites.

Unexpectedly, before Roy made a choice, the Hittite Kingdom took the initiative to send an envoy to contact Roy.

Byblos City.

In the palace that originally belonged to the Phoenician king.

After the Hittite envoy explained his purpose, Roy said with surprise.

"Your Hittite Princess Hatepuna wants to invite me to attack the Babylonian Kingdom?"