THE HISTORY OF BABYLON, WITH CUSH, NIMROD, SEMIRAMIS AND TAMMUZ,.ABOUT FOLLOW IN TRUTH.”
Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz the truth.
Published by ljthriepland on April 4, 2018
The Myths behind the myth ( Short version part 1)
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Most people will be aware of the claims made regarding Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz. These 3 characters being the start of pagan sun god worship throughout the world. There are actually a few different stories about the “pagan trinity” as they are sometimes called. The most popular version is that Nimrod and Semiramis were king and queen of Babylon. They ruled the people and turned them against God. However Nimrod eventually died. Semiramis in a desperate attempt to hold onto her thrown derived a plan that would ultimately lead to not only retaining the throne but would elevate her to that of goddess.
Semiramis claimed that after Nimrod had died he ascended to the sun and became the sun god himself. She then told the people that her son was the reincarnation of the sun god and that she had been impregnated by the rays of the sun. ,He was conceived before Nimrod died or as some versions state, she conceiving through an extra marital source. She would later marry her son called Tammuz who was, in fact, Nimrod reincarnated. This is why some people incorrectly say that the story has Nimrod marrying his mother. In some versions Tammuz is killed by a wild boar in other versions he is cut up into pieces. This cutting up into pieces and spread over the word is more often asserted as to how Nimrod met his death. With Semiramis collecting his parts. She finds all the parts, apart from his male organ. This prompts her to build an obelisk which becomes a phallic symbol. Some versions have Semiramis commanding 40 days of mourning for Tammuz. Some even state that a wild pig should be killed and eaten after the 40 days as a remembrance to Tammuz. After all this, God came down and confused the languages at the tower of Babel due to the evilness of this religion who tried to build a tower so tall it would reach into heaven with Nimrod having said he was angry at God.
The religion went “underground” hidden. This religion has since remained and integrated itself into every major culture of the earth. Each religion’s central characters can be traced back to Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz. They became the gods of Egypt, Greece and Rome and now are worshipped by the Catholic Church in the form of the father, son and MARY the mother. Semiramis has been worship under the names Ishtar, Astarte, Rhea and Isis to name just a few while Nimrod has been Ninus, Osiris and Baal. Tammuz also known as Horus and Adonis . All 3 have had many more names accredited to them.
It’s quite a story isn’t it? Or rather stories.
But is it, are they, actually true?
The truth
This story of Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz in any form regardless of the details or variation is found nowhere in the Bible. So it cannot be stated that the story is a biblical one. Semiramis is not stated as being Nimrods wife, they are are not described as the King and Queen of Babylon and never described as having a son. In fact Semiramis is NEVER mentioned in the Bible, not even once. Tammuz is spoken of just once in relation to the women weeping for him, which will be looked at and explained later in this writing. He is not stated as being the son of Nimrod or Semiramis.
Nimrod appears himself just 4 times in the Bible.
Nimrod was the great grandson of Noah. His father was Ham’s son Cush. Twice we are given the information that cush was his
Father, 3 times we are told that he was a mighty warrior and or he began to be mighty and once we are told that Assyria was known as the land of Nimrod.
Genesis 10-8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
Genesis10-9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
Further to Genesis 10: 8 and 9 we Genesis 10-10 and 11 where we are told that he had a kingdom
Genesis 10-10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
1 chronicles 1-10 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.
Micah 5-6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
That’s it. That’s all the information that the Bible actually gives us.
No mention of his wife, no mention of his children if any at all.
The Bible never states that Nimrod built the tower of Babel and it never mentions how or indeed when he died. All of which seem, by its silence on the matter, to be irrelevant to the Biblical narrative.
Surely a story as relevant as this, so important, if it were true, would have at least some biblical support, at least a verse attesting to the fact, but it doesn’t. There is nothing in the Bible that would even hint at the narrative let alone give us this story. So this story regarding Nimrod and his wife is not in fact a biblical story.
This fact alone should at least cast doubt over its veracity. We must discern what we consider authoritative.
The biblical silence on the matter and so in actuality the lack of biblical support for the theory and so negating the theory is actually categorically supported by history itself. It must also be acknowledged that there is not one single piece of written historical evidence from anyone in antiquity that directly links Nimrod and Semiramis together…in ANY way. There is nothing in the Apocrypha writings that can be used to link them together. There is no mention of them in ANY Hebraic/Jewish writings, including the Talmud. Not even Josephus the famous Jewish historian mentions her being Nimrods wife. There is also no mention of them having a son called Tammuz or having any children for that matter which shouldn’t be a total surprise seeing in fact there is NO mention whatsoever of Nimrod and Semiramis together by ANYONE, ANYWHERE until the 1850’s…..AD. Yes that’s right the 1850’s AD. Less than 175 years ago when Alexander Hislop made this claim in his infamous book the 2 babylons.
He stated
“The trinity got its start in Ancient Babylon with Nimrod – Tammuz – and Semiramis. Semiramis demanded worship for both her husband and her son as well as herself. She claimed that her son, was both the father and the son. Yes, he was “god the father” and “god the son” – The first divine incomprehensible trinity.” – The Two Babylons; Alexander Hislop, p.51
Anytime it is said, written or placed into a meme, yes we all know those notoriously truthful facebook memes that the poster believes is actually counted as evidence for the claim in the meme but proves absolutely nothing, that Semiramis was the wife of Nimrod, the source of the information in that claim will undoubtedly be direct from or based on the information and claims made inside the pages of this book.
The claims in this book are the basis on which the claims made by most people who state Nimrods wife was Semiramis. Even if the person making the claim does not know it themselves.
Many of those said people have done little to no research at all themselves into the claim.They simply take it as if it were true. It sounds good, it looks good, it must be good. Now i’m certainly not saying that this is the case for everyone, there are many highly studied people who still believe this. I have certainly come across many in my time both studied and unstudied, hey I used to use this myself. Of course it was true. The video on Youtube said so.They even gave the “evidence”, which so turns out to be the information provided in the 2 babylons book……and round in a circle we go.
Most of the claims made by Alexander Hislop catch the attention. They draw upon the emotions. They feel like they are revelational, eye opening, revealed long lost hidden secrets that the devil wants so desperately to conceal, theologically sound and historically supported arguments. They are most likely, although I cannot say for certain intentionally so. Now I am almost as certain, almost is the correct word, that Hislop believed what he wrote. I believe that he was passionate and meant no harm by his deception, I highly doubt he was aware of the fact he was wrong. He may very well have thought that the way in which he connected the dots was correct. But no matter of the extent of his convictions or the nature of his intent, wrong he was and wrong he remains.
So the question must be asked, a question that is vitally important to the understanding of this theory. If nobody before Alexander Hislop had ever written about Nimrod , Semiramis and Tammuz together how did he come up with the theory in the first place?
The answer to this question is indeed much simpler than the way in which Alexander Hislop went about drawing his conclusion. Through assumption, comparative theology, the use of incorrect and inaccurate historical information, association, misrepresentation and a whole heap of amalgamating together numerous and unrelated ancient myths and stories based on similarities ,cherry picking pieces of information while simply ignoring others or imposing any one or any combination of the aforementioned. Alexander Hislop “creates” this story himself a
story that is never told or known by anyone before him.A story unheard or untold in the ancient world. A story that has since been embellished, conflated and confused by those that have retold it. It is now applied to virtually every deity that has “existed”.
As already stated there is no historical written evidence of Semiramis and Nimrod being married but that little fact did not derail Hislop.
Seeing that Semiramis is not attested to in the Bible alongside Nimrod the first thing that Hislop did was “prove” that Semiramis lived at the same time as Nimrod.
In the 2 Babylons book Hislop uses Marcellinus, Justinus and the chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea as proof that Semiramis lived at the same time as Abraham
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