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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 mostly but not exclusively post about Mesopotamian and Ugaritic mythology, Heian and medieval Japanese literature and Daijiro Morohoshi. Header by @anilesco, profile by @baraboneisago

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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
might swap around the Attar and divine ancestor articles, I feel it would make sense to start the year with a bang and the latter is obviously going to be more extensive and has more mass appeal...
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
a lot of wild guesses about Elamite religion have been made based on Pinikir's elevated position in the treaty of Naram-Sin, but given her obscurity in every better documented period has anyone suggested the Elamites just hastily picked a deity they thought resembled Naram-Sin's #1 to lead the list
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
devastated to discover that person who drew keine/okina (and also what i presume was their self insert with okina) art c. 2022-2024 has vanished from the net
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/8289007... A new article is up on my blog; discussing angel terminology in the Bible, early angel iconography, comparable ideas in other cultures and turning gods into angels and vice versa. Featuring cover art by @joakofreak.bsky.social
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Biblically inaccurate angels: the early history of divine messengers
The cover illustration was drawn for me by Joakofreak, based partially on an earlier piece by Anilesco and depictions of Ninshubur on Sargonic seals. A few years ago, the “Biblically accurate angels”....
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
wikimedia commons had ugarit in a lebanon category up until today lmao
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
erico-la-candela.tumblr.com/post/8288065... artistic patronage update (please look at the artist's comment in the notes, it made me really happy)
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Commission Work
Thanks for requesting client's God Baal:) 19th Sep, 2026 Paper: Waterford White F6 Skeb / pixiv / BOOTH / X
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戸川四餡 @togawa4an.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🐇🌾🌕🌾🐇
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肋骨沙(あばらぼねいさご) @baraboneisago.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
真昼最中
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肋骨沙(あばらぼねいさご) @baraboneisago.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
next week
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
once again, i call for the creation an analog to the term "wastebasket taxon" for religious studies
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the insistence to treat Ugaritic Attar and the similarly named South Arabian god as one and the same in some corners of ugartiology becomes even more awkward once you realize there's a growing trend to argue even different cultural zones on the Arabian peninsula can't be bundled together easily
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itemlabel.com @itemlabel.com · 19/09/2026
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
While obviously the texts form no coherent whole, it's fun the odd OB tradition making Nuska a son of one of the random generations of Enlil's ancestors goes reasonably well with his portrayal in Enlil and Sud;
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
i'm so happy about the new commission delivery... hope you're excited for the eventual article meant to go with it, discussing foxes (and to a smaller degree shanxiao and Zhong Kui) as a representation of otherness in historical Chinese literature. expect it in october or december
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肋骨沙(あばらぼねいさご) @baraboneisago.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thank you for the commission!
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戸川四餡 @togawa4an.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
黒巫鏡談3巻 韓国版 17日発売です! 特典に萌え萌えうさぎコスプレ秋夕カードなどが付いてきます #흑무경담
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
pure vibes school of scholarship pretty much based on the premise of "looks female enough"
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真昼最中 @mahirunosanaka.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thank you for the commission!
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
x.com/ruinavenue/s... rare non-mesopotamian instance of antonian artistic patronage
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
have to admit i'm a bit wary of the types of "history enthusiast" obsessed with haplogrous, many of them seem to basically try to reinvent phrenology
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joakofreak.bsky.social @joakofreak.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Elly 2025 (maybe I should draw her again) #persona2 #ペルソナ2
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
the shaushka article is getting moved from january to november
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
it's a bit awkward Smith's 1990s article remains the only one -exclusively- about Attar since it basically turns the name into the theological equivalent of a wastebasket taxon
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
interesting to note it seems the use of the term mischwesen in english is slowly spreading from assyriology to egyptology
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
we're probably one semi-accurate lahmu in a mainstream work away from a flood of "mesopotamians were aware of bigfoot" takes
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
need a paper asking the real EoG questions like "given Wer is hyped up like the next villain in a shonen in the OB version, does it mean a lost fragment dealt with him"
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joakofreak.bsky.social @joakofreak.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Devil summoner #devilsummoner #smt #soulhackers
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joakofreak.bsky.social @joakofreak.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Rei Reiho #devilsummoner #smt #soulhackers
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
came back to dark souls yesterday after a break prompted by work, life and the first pc upgrade since before the pandemic
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
fascinating multi level crossover - baal vs yam reference, mesopotamian disease demon... (Susanne Beck, Disease Demons in Mesopotamia and Egypt: Sāmānu as a Case Study, p. 26).
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らや🍲紅楼夢と-11b @uk-0128.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
ふと思い立って並べてみたら絵柄がめちゃくちゃ変わっててオモロい
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
In terms of cuneiform-adjacent topics Shaushka and Attar are set in stone for 2027, considering a medicine goddess quadruple feature and Nanshe as well. Also not sure if I should cover Ishtars of Nineveh, Assur and Arbela with Shaushka or in a separate sequel article...
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
ideally all major (5k+ words) articles going forwards will have commissioned cover art, not like I can write more than one of those per every month or two
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/8256887... From Ebla, with love: the real history of the most fake-sounding Mesopotamian goddess - my Ishara article - is now out! Read it to find out how was it possible for her to be simultaneously associated with love, the underworld, snakes, scorpions and more!
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From Ebla, with love: the real history of the most fake-sounding Mesopotamian goddess
Cover image by Isago Abarabone, based on my sketches and historical artwork. It's not necessarily intended as a realistic depiction of Ishara, though as you'll see everything has some basis in primary...
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
there's a lot of good Shaushka scholarship nowadays, but i still really wish someone tried to figure out why male Shaushka looks so different from male Pinikir, "regular" male deities, and depictions of male royalty (male Pinikir basically just looks like a Hittite king with wings)
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
i don't think the isin-larsa period is needed as something distinct from the old babylonian period, tbh
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itemlabel.com @itemlabel.com · 19/08/2026
📸: toa in the itemLabel official discord server
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joakofreak.bsky.social @joakofreak.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Elly x2 #persona1 #persona2
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
inventing a new type of guy who's doing the bigfoot routine with a novel slightly differently colored new guinean quoll which otherwise doesn't differ from known quolls
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ghostlarva @ghostlarva.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Dalgyal Gwishin
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渢晏シマ @shimafuan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
蛇の女神ちゃん🐍
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itemlabel.com @itemlabel.com · 12/08/2026
📸: Violet in the itemLabel Discord
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
you think there's an audience for "nabonidus' dedication to sin is exaggerated and while remarkable it has forerunners going back 1200 years" article exists
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
i'm not even going to attempt to figure out what is going on here
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
1. that's the random city near Tutub where Ishara already appears before the Ur III period... was it understood as -the- cult center of hers? 2. i don't think i've seen another example of the ishara+moon god oath formula from mesopotamia, and centuries before the syro-anatolian examples at that
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
as i understand, every single source asserting ishara was equated with ishtar goes back to the same 1969 mistranslation of Atrahasis (with the most recent example being from... 2023!?); no independent evidence has been provided beyond that
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
shaushka and attar articles coming in early 2027 i think
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
the amazon river otter looks like a bad taxidermy of another animal
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#1 Ninshubur fan (not counting Rim-Sin I of Larsa) @ninshubur.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
working on an Ishara article atm and it's interesting how early she shows up in the Diyala valley
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