Symbols of Hittite goddess of sexuality found on 4,000-year-old tablet discovered in central Turkey

Hurriyet ^ | August 13, 2015 | Dogan News Agency

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Amid excavations at four different ancient sites in the Central Anatolian province of Yozgat, a cuneiform tablet has been unearthed in the Uflakle Mound at the Büyük Tafllek village.

Thought to date back to around 2,000 B.C., the cuneiform tablet in the Sorgun district of Yozgat shows symbols of ishtar, known as the Hittite goddess of love, war, fertility and sexuality, more clearly than those on any other unearthed tablets.

"Considering the intensity of archaeological materials on the surface and diffusion area, the mound tends to bear traces of Hittite Civilization. it is thought that the mound was affiliated to another Hittite site 'Zippalanda,' which is thought to be a center for worshiping Typhoon, the Greek god of thunder, and is two to three days' walking distance from the Hittite capital Hattusa," states the excavation report...

The remaining field is being unearthed by a team from the Yozgat Museum in the Sarikaya district, which discovered the cuneiform tablet...

Meanwhile, excavations were recently completed in Çadirhöyük, near the village of Peyniryemez in the Sorgun district, where works were first launched in 1994 by a team led by Professor Gregory McMahon from New Hampshire University in the U.S. The findings included a large number of artefacts dating back to the Chalcolithic, Bronze, Hittite, Hellenistic and Byzantine eras.

A team is continuing work to excavate a "Roman Bath" dating back 2,000 years in Sarikaya, and as part of these works artifacts dating back to Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman terms have been unearthed.

However, works at the Tavium ancient site in the village of Büyüknefes, known as the metropolis of Galatian tribes, came to a halt in 2012 amid a lack of people interested in excavating at the site.

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“Thought to date back to around 2,000 B.C.,” I guess that makes it official.

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FYI, Ishtar was not renamed to Easter by Constantine.

The Latin for Easter is Pascha (as in Paschal / Passover Lamb)

In Italian it's Pasqua

Spanish: Pascua

French: Pâques

Dutch: Pasen

Danish: påske

Portuguese: Páscoa

Greek: Πάσχα (pascha)

Only in the German and English is the day for the Resurrection called anything resembling "Easter" (English: Easter

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and that is not Ishtar, that is Lilith.

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Jesus' death and resurrection occurred at the time they did, because of his identification as a type for the sacrificial lamb of the Jewish Passover, celebrating God's victory in freeing the Jews from slavery in Egypt. It has nothing to do with some Assyrian tw*t.

Let me guess, you have a religious studies major from an Ivy League school?

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A pretty girl is like a melody

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Hittable Hittite?

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The antidote for the four hour plus erection.

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If she was holding her nose any higher she would drown out in the rain