Rod & Ring, An Initiation Into A Mesopotamian Mystery Tradition (Softcover) WHOLESALE-HIDE Author: Oscar Tusk

Author: Oscar Tusk

recipes and remedies for humans and animals as well as various non-magical ‘tips’ for matters or rural and domestic life

Focusing on extant forms in Britain and Europe

one that reaches all the way back to our own almost extinct ancestors

Rod & Ring, An Initiation Into A Mesopotamian Mystery Tradition (Softcover) WHOLESALE-HIDE Author: Oscar TuskAuthor: Samuel David In Mesopotamian art, the rod and ring, like the horned helm or crown, are indicators of the depicted beings divine status. The most famous depiction being that of Shamash, the solar god of justice holding both divine symbols of power before Hammurabi the king on the Code of Hammurabi stele. The depiction of a deity presenting these items of power to a human indicates the conferring of some divine measure, be it benediction or