#niniveh

[kararadaygum]

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[northemoonduringthenight]

 Let all cry out with fervor to God, and let them turn from their evil ways and their violent behavior. 

 Who knows? Perhaps God may change his mind and relent, and his fierce anger may abate, so that we will not perish.

Jonah 3:8-9

Artwork: John Martin, Repentance of Nineveh

[belobogindustries]

i love yanagi

[tonati143]

World keep redraw

Im super bored and art is slightly better now, here is my world keep portraits

Dragon Age Origins (Atzi Sabrae); romances Alistair

Dragon Age 2 (Niniveh Hawke); Romances Anders

Dragon Age Inquisition (Angelique Levellan); Romances Cullen

Dragon Age Veilguard (Tonatiuh Sabrae; at time of Veilguard name is Tonatiuh ‘Rook’ De Riva); Romances Lucanis

[ficretus]

Salem using a giant whale as her base always perked my attention. You'd think it's Pinocchio thing, especially considering how important Penny was during that arc, but no. It's neither really Salem thing (since she was most often associated with spiders) nor Rapunzel thing (her allusion).

So I thought for a moment, what if it's an Oscar thing? As in, what if Oscar is partially based on Jonah from Bible.

Obvious parallel here would be Jonah being devoured by giant fish (often translated as whale) and Oscar being held captive inside of Salem's whale base.

However there are some interesting parallels beyond that. Jonah is reluctant hero. God sent him on a mission to preach in Niniveh, city of sinners, so he ran away. Oscar is another reluctant hero, tasked with being Ozpin's new vessel. He doesn't want to be a hero.

"I'm... scared. I'm more scared than I've ever been in my life, than I ever thought was possible. I always knew that I wanted to be more than a farmhand, but this? Who would ask for this?"

Jonah tried to escape his fate and found himself on open sea in the middle of storm. Sailors casted lots and blamed Jonah for their predicament with Jonah admitting it was his fault due to him disobeying God. Jonah was eventually thrown overboard and swallowed by fish/whale.

I see this paralleled in two ways. When truth was revealed in Volume 6 Oscar was the one who was blamed the most, especially by Jaune for the mess they found themselves in. In a way it matches predicament heroes faced on the train. They got attacked by horde of Grimm attracted by Relic Oscar was carrying, while sailors found themselves in the middle of storm that was chasing Jonah. Other parallel is in Volume 7. Ironwood threw Oscar away, which led to him being captured by Hound and locked inside of whale shortly after that.

Jonah was eventually able to save city of Niniveh from God's wrath, but was displeased with God's decision. He sat under scorching sun and awaited his death. God first gave him plant as a shade, then took it away, causing Jonah to lament even more.

Oscar was able to somewhat accomplish his mission, they saved people of Atlas, but at what cost?

But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?”

“It is,” he said. “And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.”

Just like Jonah, Oscar lost his plant, his Rose.

There is another parallel and it has to do with all that Jesus' imagery Ruby received in V9. In Christianity Jonah was seen as precursor to Jesus' resurrection and Jesus even referenced Jonah when talking about it. One spent three days in belly of the fish, other spent three days in grave.

Ruby's Ascension was not too dissimilar to Ozpin's reincarnation.

Overall pretty tinfoilly, but it was an interesting thought experiment.

[city-of-ladies]

"Naqiʾa (c. 730– 668 BCE), wife of Sennacherib (705– 681), mother of the Neo- Assyrian king Esarhaddon (681– 669) and grandmother of Ashurbanipal (668– 627), is the best documented and in all probability most influential royal woman of the Neo- Assyrian period.

It was often suggested that Naqiʾa was the driving force behind Sennarcherib’s installment of Esarhaddon as crown prince. This was a truly exceptional case, as Esarhaddon was one of Sennacherib’s younger sons and most probably, even as a young man, suffered from an illness that would later kill him. Sickness was often interpreted as a sign of divine wrath in Mesopotamia; therefore, it was a severe obstacle for a claimant to the throne and any sickness of the king could be used to question his status as the darling of the gods. Maybe we will never know what the reasons for Esarhaddon’s promotion were, but we are sure about the results of Sennacherib’s decision.

Sennacherib was assassinated by his other sons and Esarhaddon had to fight his brothers in order to be enthroned. While the rebellion was going on, Naqiʾa explored the future of her son by asking for prophetic messages, something that was usually a privilege of the kings. The answer highlights the role of Ishtar, here called the Lady of Arbela, and the privileged position, of Naqiʾa:

I am the Lady of Arbela! To the king’s mother, since you implored me, saying: “The one on the right and the other on the left you have placed in your lap. My own offspring you expelled to roam the steppe!” No, king, fear not! Yours is the kingdom, yours is the power! By the mouth of Aḫat- abiša, a woman from Arbela.

Seemingly, the prophecy was right: it took Esarhaddon only two months to defeat his brothers and he was enthroned as Assyrian king. In this text Naqiʾa is already designated as queen mother; according to Melville this was “the highest rank a woman could achieve.”

In earlier research Naqiʾa was often seen as the strong woman behind a weak, sick, and superstitious king. Newer research has demonstrated that despite all of his problems, Esarhaddon was a capable ruler, who brought the Neo-Assyrian Empire to its maximal extension and pacified Babylonia, at least for a while. 

During his reign Naqiʾa became really powerful and commissioned her own building inscription. To undertake large building projects and praise them in inscriptions is typical for kings, but extraordinary for a royal woman. The inscription introduces Naqiʾa in a bombastic tone, which is quite typical for inscriptions commissioned by kings:

I, Naqiʾa … wife of Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, daughter- in- law of Sargon [II], king of the world, king of Assyria, mother of Esarhaddon, king of the world [and] king of Assyria; the gods Aššur, S.n, Šamaš, Nab., and Marduk, Ištar of Niniveh, [and] Ištar of Arbela … He [Essarhaddon] gave to me as my lordly share the inhabitants of conquered foes plundered by his bow. I made them carry hoe [and] basket and they made bricks. I … a cleared tract of land in the citadel of [the city of] Nineveh, behind the temple of the gods Sîn and Šamaš, for a royal residence of Esarhaddon, my beloved son …

We can clearly see that Naqiʾa held an extraordinarily powerful position during the reign of her son and this continued even after Esarhaddon’s death. She was eager to assure the enthronement of her grandson Assurbanipal. The loyalty treaty that was intended to secure his reign is called the treaty of Zakutu, another name of Naqiʾa. Its first lines read:

The treaty of Zakutu, the queen of Sannacherib, king of Assyria, mother of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, with Šamaš- šumu- ukin, his equal brother, with Šamaš- metu- uballiṭ and the rest of his brothers, with the royal seed, with the magnates and the governors, the bearded and the eunuchs, the royal entourage, with the exempts and all who enter the Palace, with Assyrians high and low: Anyone who (is included) in this treaty which Queen Zakutu has concluded with the whole nation concerning her favorite grandson Assurbanipal […]

That Naqiʾa was able to conclude a treaty with the most powerful persons throughout the empire and to establish her favorite grandson on the throne is clear evidence for her powerful position, even if she simply continued the plans she had made earlier with Esarhaddon. It seems that Naqiʾa died shortly after Assurbanipal was enthroned as king."

Fink Sebastian, “Invisible Mesopotamian royal women?”, in: The Routledge companion to women and monarchy in the ancient mediterranean world

[barbucomedie]

Relief of a Young Man from Mosul, Iraq dated between 745 - 727 BCE on display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria

It is thought this relief may be of a soldier or an archer from the entourage of King Tiglat-Pileser III of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Other reliefs from the king's palace at Niniveh (now modern day Mosul) were of military figures as a display of power. Tiglat-Pileser is often considered one of the founders of the Neo-Assyrian Empire due to a massive military expansion of Assyrian territory and the establishment of a standing army. He would also goon to conquer Babylonia and claim a dual title of King of Babylon as well.

Photographs taken by myself 2022

[sweetlyfez]

Don't ask me why but the latest whale weekly feels like it could be delivered a la Cher Horowitz or similar

"ugh, Sag-harbour thinks he's so smart, doubting the story of Jonah and the whale but like, he might not have been actually swallowed by the whale. Or it might not have been a literal whale.

And yeah, it would be difficult to get from the Mediterranean to Niniveh in few days but like it *is* supposed to be a miracle. Besides, they believe in it in Turkey and they're like, really smart."

[northemoonduringthenight]

"Arise, and go to Ninive the great city, and preach in it"

Jonas 1:1 Douay-Rheims Bible

"Arise, and go to Ninive the great city: and preach in it"

Jonas 3:2 Douay-Rheims Bible

Artwork: Pieter Lastman (Dutch, 1583-1633) Jonah and the Whale (1621).

[delectablywaywardbeard-blog]

Iraq, almeno 100 morti e 150 feriti in un incendio durante matrimonio

Tragedia durante un matrimonio in Iraq. Almeno 100 persone sono morte e altre 150 sono rimaste ferite a causa di un incendio scoppiato durante la celebrazione delle nozze. Le autorità sanitarie della provincia di Niniveh “hanno contato 100 morti e più di 150 feriti nell’incendio scoppiato in una sala matrimoniale ad Al-Hamdaniyah”, ha riferito l’agenzia di stampa ufficiale irachena INA, citando…

[svenson777]

A. H. Layard at Kuyunjik. Drawing by Solomon Caesar Malan, 1850

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Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB PC (/lɛərd/; 5 March 1817 – 5 July 1894) was an English traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat.

He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal.

[lwlrix]

THAT MAN, YUM.

I GIV GUD ADVICE. THAT GUD I AM THAT HE FUKS ME 4 FREE (AYAH RASOOLULAH)

GAY BEST FREN.

BOOK OF STUDY COMPLEX (ESOTERIC GAY (UR DESI GRANNY BLESSD U WIV IT (UR PROTECC FROM NAZAR APARTMENT COMPLEX: OF ROADMEN HITMEN GAY (THE DESIORDER (OSTRAPAKI)

THESE BROKEN STARS - AMIE KAUFMAN, MEAGAN SPOONER

EARTH: WOMAN

smwc: he likes u for the hair

sh: he luvs u (naturally)

sh8: he liked ur backstory

FIRE: FEELING

smwc: warm af.

sh: cosy to be around

sh8: human boy friend (in cute)

AIR: C*CK

smwc: best gay friend advice (like warm hot choc.)

sh: bodyguard (obvs)

sh8: you use him as bait (golden retriever bes friend)

WATER: BROADWAY

smwc: cutest around you (moments like internet raindance)

sh: makes you horny for nothing (cuz he the man u always needed)

sh8: loves to make you laugh out of nowhere (that. one voice is your mate for life (like....)

GNOSTIC: LIMITS

smwc: he cares for your hands only (cuz u love love: he stared at that before you were born (tru friend forever)

sh: he loves you (4evaeva)

sh8: he hates what you hate (like.. phobia.)

AGNOSTIC: LGBTQIA+

smwc: he knows best food spots

sh: he likes ur art (too much)

sh8: he luvs.. (cute boi) -cut pup-

THEIST: EMOTION

smwc: he loves how u keep up with everybody else (ur opinions out-wit God)

sh: he adores... (mainly ur culture)

sh8: he loves how ur there (main girl he wants to crush on in the future (he has a pathway u can block (he plays with you for that)

ATHEIST: PRESSURE

smwc: he blocks who u hate (big enemies. (if ykyk big brains)

sh: golden retriever boifren everybody think ur couple with (laugh with that)

sh8: he loves how ur always in ur own head (man an woman luv that about it (their world together)

GAY BF/HUSBAND

EARTH: WOMAN

smwc: he eats ur heart out by law (past that bes fren stage) by asking you out (that one epic moment)

sh: he will 'look' at you (he shows u p*rno of his architect by limits (he makes his lgbtqia+ his world in law in a manner of a husband (new boyfriend of the girl gone to hell (his world in her law (shes the wife)

sh8: he makes you 'look at him' (his life but he gets sincerely honest about his intentions to you all along (by footsteps)

FIRE: FEELING

smwc: he gets into it but your curiosity is always savoured by him (he insatiable by a loop index (true life) so he leads you on (natural musk of him to be with you around (his psyche is your aura (u a hoor.)

sh: he follows ur footsteps by passion (looks like a king)

sh8: he melts into ur passion (sincerely curious about ur hobbies intentionally (turns str8 for u)

sh8: he makes p*rnographic intentions that seems too true (that he knows how to conceal u. (like awra conceal ur titteaahs (niniveh) to the moon (u basically. a porn star (no asterisk)

AIR: C*CK

smwc: he gets p*rnographic fast and raw (like all of him is onto you and you get sciency experimental (u like searching for a reason why. like u get into slo. mo. much faster than him getting to you like a saddest gayest backstory he ever had putting u x-factor shots big tings (u cud win this (hack)

sh: he tells u by imagination that he had it bad an its tru (look around u (ur cl*t in studio light and he invented it (rapes u through light itself (if ur brainy enough to know why (u knw)

sh8: never stops getting wet date rapes to gifts that said a lot about u an him (facts: also jealousy hoop shot lebron michael J. to the paki lesbian paracetics mosqueito jedis for the worlds horniest man (gets ur granny wet by accident)

WATER: BROADWAY

smwc: he mates with u anywhere by default (fame to queendom (physical mentality (u got this here first)

sh: u and him. (that. and the gay man wants kids (washes that illusion guppy porn out of ur head instantly (weight isn't everything)

sh8: he fetishes ur life forever (ur culture is hell to him (eternal musk of a good muslim man)

GNOSTIC: LIMITS

smwc: he feels by tone, not sight.

sh: he allows heart in hell for a day to die (literally would kill for that)

sh8: he hates men forever. he is the the one

AGNOSTIC: LGBTQIA+

smwc: ur curiousity is his forever (by sight, not mind)

sh: he does not ever lie by mind nor sight (he is like a pornographic version of ur world ever came to u in one person (fills u in on the pieces of ur shadows like he seen about you (made you feel compassionate about emotion forgotten (true to you by touch but never sane)

sh8: he makes amends (housewife)

THEIST: EMOTION

smwc: he does not care. (you get turned on by that)

sh: he makes u feel sweeter about his voice (ur p8ssy eats that)

sh8: he c*ms in the form of his voice (u get wet by attraction (loophole bed)

ATHEIST: PRESSURE

smwc: u get turned on by your art become his (u own the world with him by chance (mated for you to be there by law (inescapable)

sh: he makes u wet by dream (his reason)

sh8: he finds ur gnostic attraction by fade away (ur piety to the universe as like him being you being there (u learn how to dissolve together (wet naked dream)

USE THE INFO EITHER WAY TO COOK SH*T OR FUCK IT (THE FUCK. U GON' GET MARRIE D ON MY BLOQ (FUKOFF U SINGL 4.EVA (HTYE UGLY ANWAY)

Jonathan Groff in Looking (2x04)

[columns61]

North Iraq summer 2015. I was in Baji, a strategic point to link Fallujah in Anbar province to Mosul. The fights were on in the refinery area. Islamic State used remote controlled car bomb to resist the siege of Iraqi security forces. In the pic a member of special detail of military governor of Niniveh province. The connection of the region to Baghdad was a thiny finger of highway 1, dotted with vehicle wreckages because mortar shells and marked by long anti-sniper walls. A long chain of checkpoints, the constant risk of an IS attack, military compound behind concrete several meters tall were the signs of a country still fighting to survive. But eventually Iraqis will retake Iraq - copyright pierrechiartano #Iraq #Niniveh #Baji #Baghdad #war #IS #middleeast #combatcamera #photo #photography #reporting #army #police #specialforce #swcc #chriskyle #likeme #like4likes #photoobserve https://www.instagram.com/p/CF2uaRMHT2G/?igshid=d83q9yi4527v

[6pillars]

This Week's Six Pillars - 'I Am Ashurbanipual, King of the World'

This Week’s Six Pillars – ‘I Am Ashurbanipual, King of the World’

This week’s Six Pillars radio show: an in depth tour of “I Am Ashurbanipal, King of the World” currently on show at The British Museum London. One of history’s most dominant Kings, this Assyrian has yet been forgotten. A fierce, entirely merciless warrior, a proud scholar (the first in his line), empire-builder, a self-proclaimed king-slayer, a frequent lion hunter (to show his prowess, as lion’s…

[artist-salvator-rosa]

Jonah Preaching to the People of Niniveh, Salvator Rosa, National Gallery of Denmark

https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020903/KMSsp57.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

[zerogate]

Many are avidly seeking but they alone find who remain in continual silence. Every man who delights in a multitude of words, even though he says admirable things, is empty within. If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence like the sunlight will illuminate you in God and will deliver you from the phantoms of ignorance. Silence will unite you to God himself.

-- Isaac of Niniveh, quoted in Merton's Contemplative Prayer