Kingu
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Kingu, also spelled Qingu, meaning unskilled laborer, was a god in Babylonian mythology, and - after the murder of his father - the consort of the goddess Tiamat, his mother, who wanted to establish him as ruler and leader of all gods before she was slain by Marduk, whose counterpart in roman Mythology was later Mars. Tiamat gave Kingu the 3 Tablets of Destiny, which he wore as a breastplate and which gave him great power, and put him in charge of Tiamat's army. Eventually, he was killed by Anu, some sources name Marduk, to prevent his rise, and his blood was used to create mankind. Kingu's pivotal role in the Babylonian creation myth is described in Enûma Elish.
In Zachariah Sitchin's von Danikenite interpretation of Sumerian astrology he is interpreted as our Moon. Created after planet Nibiru crashed into Tiamat and thus parted it in two halves, of which one became an asteroid belt and the other shaped our planet Earth, with the gravitational attraction of Tiamat's Earth-half. This analysis is not accepted by mainstream archeologists, nor astonomers. Qingu is also the name of an angelic power in Aleister Crowley's occult system.
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The Enuma Elish
Zachariah Sitchin's website.
A response to Sitchin by a professor of ancient Middle Eastern history.
