ANIMAL RELATED TO ANUNNAKI

According to Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell :

The Makers of Civilization in Race and History :

King Pisha's Rhinoceros Seal as Priest-king at Edin :

His seal with the Rhinoceros as its chief emblem is seen in No.8 in Plate XXI. Its inscription reads as follows :

(1. B. 303; Br. 6928 and WSAD. 80.

2. B. 531; Br. 11936 f., and cp. related Pig sign. B. 52, here figured as clearly a homed Rhinoceros.

3. This sign seems to be a conventionalized ship-sign ma which, as we have seen, means also "land," for Ma is the shortened form of Mad, "land.")

The Rhinoceros on this seal as the name for Edin is interesting. That animal is called in Sumerian Pish, which is homophonous with this priest-king's name of Pisha in both of his latter seals, but which is written by a different pictograph from that of the Rhinoceros. The latter pictograph was thus presumably used on this seal for word-play.

But the Rhinoceros name in Chaldean or Semitic also meant "Edin." The Sumerian word Pish for Rhinoceros with the pictogram shown in Fig. 139, is also defined as "Wild Pig," the Rhinoceros being of pig-like form; and this word Pish or "Pig," with its Sumerian variant S'ah, "a Sow," I have shown in my Sumer-Aryan Dictionary is obviously the Sumerian source of our English words "Pig" and "Sow."

In Chaldean or Semitic Akkadian and Assyrian the name for the Rhinoceros is Humsiru or Humsiri, which is defined as "a four-footed animal related to the Anunnaki, that is "The Lords of Deep Water"; and Hamu is "an animal living in or near the water" and the Rhinoceros frequents marshy swamps.

Now we have seen that the Semitic name for Edin was Shirihum or Sirihum (p. 2I8), in which Siri or Siru = Edin.

Thus by the transposing word-play of metathesis Siri-hum or EDIN, presumably became Hum-siri or "Rhinoceros" in this seal phraseology.

This fine naturalistic portrait of the great Indian Rhinoceros by the Gothic King Pisha's artist about 2365 B.C. is of much zoological interest, as showing the presence of that animal in the Indus Valley at that early period. This Rhinoceros is a denizen of the giant grass jungles, with a preference for swampy ground, in the mud of which it is fond of rolling. At the present day it is mostly restricted to Assam; but it was common in the Punjab and in the Upper Indus Valley in the period of the Mogul emperor Baber (1505-1530 A.D.), as far north as Peshawar.

Despite its huge bulk and strength it is, as a rule, a quiet and inoffensive animal.

Pisha is also St. Michael, Bakus, Bacchus, Daksh, Cain and the Priest-king Uru Nimirruid, defining Nimirruid as "The Lord of Plants".

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