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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa)

@ninshubur.bsky.social

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Minister who speaks fair words, escort who speaks trustworthy words. I really like Mesopotamian mythology, Heian and medieval Japanese literature, Daijiro Morohoshi's works and Hecatia from Touhou 15.

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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · Oct 19

yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/6262452... Read my articles on the one site where I put in actual effort

My articles and reference posts

A master post of recommended sources for the study of my interests can be found here. If possible, consult it before sending any research-oriented questions. Ancient Mesopotamia and its neighbors: Who...

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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 1d

yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/7979463... some notes about the Inanna/Ninshubur piece I've recently commissioned

Minister of fair words

Some time ago, I commissioned a piece of Inanna/Ninshubur art from my favorite mythology artist, Yacmo Tsuji (they also have a tumblr account - @cubclin-2 - but they aren’t active on this platform...

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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 2d

would only be out next year for clarity, i have the rest of 2025 planned already

#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 2d

do you think there would be a point in writing an article basically just critically reviewing Ayali-Darshan's "The bride of the sea" article paragraph by paragraph

#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 5d

cliche chuuni anime girl but she speaks like stardust the super-wizard

#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 5d

in retrospect the fact it's called "cattle raid of Cooley" should have prepared me for how fixated much of the cast is on stealing cattle or at least intervening in cattle raids in some way

#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 6d

yes it is inanna/ninshubur art in the ur-namma stele nanna/ningal pose

#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 6d

skeb.jp/@anilesco/wo... !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 7d

tumblr is very clearly a dying platform, i don't even get stupid asks anymore and tags update very, very slowly but i have nowhere else to move to

#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 8d

waiting for something special that i after many considerations decided to get for my birthday two months in advance... might end up being a day late but i want to believe it's going to be possible to show it today

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Spider @spiderspyder.bsky.social · 14d

Day 7: Heavenly
#atlusfaithful #atlusartober

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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 11d

a lesbian yaoi angle would be doable if you were to rely on the select few descriptions of both selene and hecate as androgynous (or genderfluid?) in the magical papyri

#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 11d

i was honestly disappointed to learn there is endymion yaoi but not selene yuri ngl. might as well just rewrite the myth in every way possible to get the most mileage out of it

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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 11d

yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/7970356... First of the three short articles I wrote to make sure nothing cut from the Cybele deep dive goes to waste is now up on my blog. Find out why a god could be referred to as a tyrant, if Pythagoras was an alien, and what happens if the moon has cooties.

"Men the tyrant": a forgotten lunar god in Greco-Roman sources

Detail of a statue of Men (wikimedia commons) Supposedly the topic of Greco-Roman lunar deities is in the vogue right now. Clearly it’s the ideal opportunity to discuss Men - the odd man out among...

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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 13d

Yeah same, the long braids are very unique. Nanaya needs new deities to beef with even after moving east I think.......

#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 13d

it's a shame the alleged sogdian moon goddess (xšwm, "growing moon") is basically just this single mural and a bunch of theophoric names because i can't really tinker with how her sphere of activity would intersect with nanaya's without any indication of her character

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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 13d

telling the random guy from susa who botched casting this cheap votive from a mold that people are labeling his fuckup as half a dozen goddesses from completely unrelated time periods and locations

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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 14d

i'm still playing it, i'm just slow

#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 14d

is that random shark creature in VTMB a joke about jumping the shark

#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 16d

frazerian

#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 17d

yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/7965039... New "Megaten and mythology" article is up on my tumblr! Find out why Strange Journey is, in a way, a game about Cybele. Make sure to read the warning in the lead, though. #shinmegamitensei #smt #atlusfaithful

From Cybele to Mem Aleph: the secret origins of Strange Journey

From a certain point of view, Strange Journey is a game about Cybele. Sure, she’s not a part of the roster (not until Redux, at least), but without her there would be no Strange Journey and no Mem...

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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 19d

i'm aware this sounds insane without context but: I think bad Dumuzi scholarship might be the most "bad goddess scholarship" coded bad scholarship current focused on a male deity

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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 21d

zagar, a z list dream deity who wasn't even the most major dream deity arguably, had a wiki article before gula, arguably one of the preeminent deities through much of history of mesopotamia. with his name misspelled as "zaqar" and no reliable sources, but still

#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 21d

great sages congregate on mesopotamia-adjacent wikipedia talk pages

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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 21d

i cut around 2k words about Men from the Cybele article. fairly sure i can get somewhere with "MEN THE TYRANT: FORGOTTEN MOON GOD?"

#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 21d

forgive me, "did a scribe actively fear making shapash lesbian + eblaite sun deity thoughts" draft... i must farm clout with 3k words orphic hymn c-lister articles

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