Gugalana, the Sumerian "Great Bull of Heaven", a reference to the constellation Taurus, (from Sumerian Gu=Bull, Gal=Great, Ana,An,Anu=Heaven, Sky). Chaldean mythology is the collective name given to Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian mythologies, although Chaldea did not comprehend the whole territory inhabited by those peoples. ... TAURUS is credit transfer agrrement system for SUNY Colleges ... The Sumerian language ( EME.GIR15 native tongue) of ancient Sumer was spoken in Southern Mesopotamia from at least the 4th millennium BCE. Sumerian was replaced by Akkadian as a spoken language around 1800 BCE, but continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Mesopotamia until...

Gugalana was the first husband of the Goddess of the Underworld, Ereshkigal (Eresh=Under, Ki=Earth, Gal=Great), who was dispatched by Inanna to punish Gilgamesh for his sins. He is slain and dismembered by Enkidu, and for this the hero must die. Inanna visits her sister to console her in her grief, and must be rescued from the underworld by Enki, God of Wisdom. Enkidu and Gilgamesh, cylinder seal from Ur III Enkidu appears in Sumerian mythology as a mythical wild-man raised by animals; his beast-like ways are finally tamed by a courtesan named Shamhat. ... Enki (DEN.KI(G)) was a deity in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Babylonian mythology, originally chief God of the city of Eridu. ...

In the time in which this myth was composed, the New Year Festival, or Akitu, at the Spring Equinox, due to the Precession of the Equinoxes did not occur in Aries, but in Taurus. At this time of the year, Taurus would have disappeared as it was obscured by the sun. In astronomy, the vernal equinox (spring equinox, March equinox, or northward equinox) is the equinox at the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere: the moment when the sun appears to cross the celestial equator, heading northward. ... Precession of the equinoxes refers to the precession of the Earths axis of rotation. ... Aries (IPA: , Latin: , symbol , ) is one of the constellations of the zodiac. ...

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