{"id":105,"date":"2023-01-01T04:38:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T04:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanessasdomain.com\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2024-11-19T00:09:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T00:09:46","slug":"the-four-winds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vanessasdomain.com\/?page_id=105","title":{"rendered":"The Four Winds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The South Wind<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Cuneiform: \ud808\udd4e\ud808\udf47\ud808\uddfb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Name: im-u18-lu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meaning: Wind of Forgetting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deity: Ea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gender: Female<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Element: Water<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commentary: Primeval, Harmful to man, when it blows, dizzies people with dust<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortune: If someone\u2019s door opens to the south \u2013 his heart will be happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Enenuru)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The East Wind<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Cuneiform: \ud808\udd4e\ud808\uddb3\ud808\ude8f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Name: im-kur-ra<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meaning: Wind of the Shining Mountain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deity: Enlil, Anu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gender: Male<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Element: Wind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commentary: which has caused the rain above to rain down its lightning, makes a man\u2019s body waste awayNeumann<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortune: wherever he goes [\u2026]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Enenuru)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The North Wind<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Cuneiform: \ud808\udd4e\ud808\udedb\ud808\udc72<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Name: im-si-sa2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meaning: Wind of upright advice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deity: Adad, Ninurta, Ninlil, S\u00een<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gender: Female<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Element: Earth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commentary: when mightily blowing splits open the broad land<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortune: his income will be abundant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Enenuru)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The West Wind<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Cuneiform: \ud808\udd4e\ud808\ude25\ud808\udf05<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Name: im-mar-tu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meaning: Wind of the western desert<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deity: Ea, Anu,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gender: Male<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Element: Fire<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commentary: Girra, evil, tirelessly brings devastation to the arall\u00fb-plains<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortune: death will be determined for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Enenuru)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notes<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><em>u18-lu <\/em>to forget (\u2018ears, understanding\u2019 + \u2018great storm\u2019) (Halloran)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>mar-tu desert (\u2018earthworm\u2019? + \u2018interfere\u2019?) (Halloran)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sumerian concept of North, South, East and West is not the same as our modern one, as it was oriented based on the rivers, not based on the rotation of the earth. As such, each direction it is rotated 45\u00b0 counterclockwise from their respective compass direction. (Neumann)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources Cited<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cen2-e2-Nu-Ru Explanation.\u201d Enenuru, enenuru.net\/html\/cuneiform_magic\/explanation.htm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Halloran, John Alan. \u201cSumerian Lexicon: Version 3.0.\u201d Sumerian Lexicon, Sumerian.org, 28 Aug. 2018, www.sumerian.org\/sumerlex.htm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neumann, J. \u201cThe Winds in the World of the Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations.\u201d <em>Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society<\/em>, vol. 58, no. 10, 1977, pp. 1050\u20131055. <em>JSTOR<\/em>, www.jstor.org\/stable\/26218411. Accessed 9 Feb. 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Wind Cuneiform: \ud808\udd4e\ud808\udf47\ud808\uddfb Name: im-u18-lu Meaning: Wind of Forgetting Deity: Ea Gender: Female Element: Water Commentary: Primeval, Harmful to man, when it blows, dizzies people with dust Fortune: If someone\u2019s door opens to the south \u2013 his heart will be happy. 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