Episode 067 - The LOST High-God: An of Sumer, to Viracocha

Failed to add items

Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.

Add to basket failed.

Please try again later

Add to wishlist failed.

Please try again later

Remove from wishlist failed.

Please try again later

Adding to library failed

Please try again

Follow podcast failed

Unfollow podcast failed

Episode 067 - The LOST High-God: An of Sumer, to Viracocha

Listen for free

View show details

A forgotten Creator. A storm-god who takes power. A goddess who seizes the bridge between heaven and earth. Across cultures, is humanity remembering the same lost High God?

In this episode of Musings on Mysteries and the Mythical Matrix, we trace the fading memory of the primordial Creator. From An of Sumer, to El of Canaan, to the Popol Vuh, the Bible, and Viracocha of the Inca.

In this episode:

📜 The High God Pattern
• An, El Elyon, El the Bull, Elohim
• A remote Creator replaced by active gods

🏛️ Inanna and E-ana
• A fragmented Sumerian myth retold
• E-ana lowered from heaven
• Inanna seizes cosmic authority
• An’s loss reshapes the world

🌩️ From El to Baal
• Creator to storm-king
• Power follows politics

🌎 Popol Vuh Parallels
• One Creator, plural agents
• Echoes of Elohim and Genesis

🗿 Viracocha Question
• Late monolatry
• Why “missionary influence” doesn’t explain it

🔤 Language of the Divine
• dingir, il/ilu, elohim
• One Most High, many subordinates

📖 Biblical Thread
• Deuteronomy 32
• Romans 1
• Preservation, not borrowing?

🎙️ One question drives it all: shared influence, or shared memory?

M Quad Links

Support the show! https://buymeacoffee.com/m.quad.musings

Discord server invite: https://discord.gg/yzfH3KEjY9

Sources:

Black, J., & Green, A. (2011). Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia. University of Texas Press.

Dalley, S. (2000). Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. Oxford University Press.

Drews, R. (1993). The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. Princeton University Press.

Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL). Inana and the E-ana Myth.
https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.3.5#

Hayes, J. (2018). A Manual of Sumerian Grammar and Texts. Undena Publications.

Richardson, D. (1981). Eternity in Their Hearts. Baker Publishing Group.

Tedlock, D. (1996). Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings. Simon & Schuster.

No reviews yet