Asˇnan

Vegetation goddess. Mesopotamian (Sumerian and Babylonian-Akkadian). Minor deity probably known to the Sumerians from circa 3500 BC or earlier. She is concerned with the abundance of grain in the fields, sent as its protectress by the gods ENLIL and ENKI. According to creation accounts, she and the cattle god LAHAR were first intended to serve the needs of the Annunaki, the celestial children of AN, but when the heavenly creatures were found unable to make use of their products, humankind was created to provide an outlet for their services.

THE COSMIC MAYA

By Aluna Joy Yaxk’in

(from The Mayan Suns, A Mayan Daily Journal)

 
This message hopefully will begin the process of breaking through the negative historical
barriers of collective thought: and projection, and ultimately redefine the history of the
original Cosmic Maya. Most of what we know of the Maya is based in Spanish accounts. The journals of the Spanish, twisted and fabricated, seem to justify the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in their uncontrollable, greed for glory and gold.

Latvian mythology

by Aldis Putelis

 
There is no mythological system in the Latvian tradition resembling that of Greeks or Romans. All the bulk of facts entitled this way is just a derivation from the Latvian folklore material, and mostly – song texts. This makes all the study on it just speculation. Not much clarity is added by the written documents of the ancient days. All of these accounts are analyzed in the book Letto-Preussische Goeterlehre by the outstanding mythologist Wilhelm Mannhardt (prepared 1870, published in Riga, 1936).