Semiramis and nimrod

[Lord's Servant]

Does anyone know if this legend is true? Here's the legend: Nimrod was king of the world, had great armies, and built both the Tower of Babel and the great ancient city Nineveh. When Nimrod died his people deified him into the Sun god “Baal.” His wife Semiramis became pregnant by the rays of her deceased husband and birthed a son, Tammuz, who became a great hunter and ruler in his own right. When Tammuz was of age he married his mother. At age 40, while he was out hunting, a boar killed him, and he was thereupon deified as the Son of God. She ruled Babylon until she died at the age of 102 years.
I've been trying to find primary sources or something like that to verify this information but so far I've come across a book written by a man in 19th century and another man named Michael John Rood.If anyone has any information to verify that would be great.

 

[SepiaAndDust]

There's no way to verify fake facts.

The author of Babylon Mystery Religion, Ralph Woodrow, recanted his errors: http://www.ralphwoodrow.org/books/pages/babylon-mystery.html.

Here is a list of the some of the unsubstantiated claims that are made about the religion of ancient Babylon:

• The Babylonians went to a confessional and confessed sins to priests who wore black clergy garments.

• Their king, Nimrod, was born on December 25. Round decorations on Christmas trees and round communion wafers honored him as the Sun-god.

• Sun-worshippers went to their temples weekly, on Sunday, to worship the Sun-god.

• Nimrod’s wife was Semiramis, who claimed to be the Virgin Queen of Heaven, and was the mother of Tammuz.

• Tammuz was killed by a wild boar when he was age 40; so 40 days of Lent were set aside to honor his death.

• The Babylonians wept for him on “Good Friday.” They worshipped a cross-the initial letter of his name.

It is amazing how unsubstantiated teachings like these circulate—and are believed. One can go to any library, check any history book about ancient Babylon, none of these things will be found. They are not historically accurate, but are based on an arbitrary piecing together of bits and pieces of mythology.

The 19th century guy is probably Hislop. His only real supporters were Jehovah's Witnesses, and they gave up on him over thirty years ago.

As for Rood, he's too loony even for Rapture Ready.

So you're chasing smoke. There's nothing to the Tammuz / Nimrod / Semiramis stuff. Still, this is the CT forum, so feel free.

 

[Lord's Servant]

Ah I see then because I've been trying to look for information on those characters or on the "legend" of it and I've been reading some history books and articles on ancient Babylon and Assyria and I've found absolutely nothing on nimrod and I've been reading the actual legend of the Queen Semiramis and it doesn't match up to the Tammuz/Semiramis legend and Rood never says where he got his sources from so he's very suspicious and untrustworthy "historian" if he's is one my guess is that he isn't one because just the way he presents himself in his videos is very very peculiar and he doesn't says what are his qualifications about making these statements and his background education or even his college he attended if he even went to one

 

[ViaCrucis]

Ah I see then because I've been trying to look for information on those characters or on the "legend" of it and I've been reading some history books and articles on ancient Babylon and Assyria and I've found absolutely nothing on nimrod and I've been reading the actual legend of the Queen Semiramis and it doesn't match up to the Tammuz/Semiramis legend and Rood never says where he got his sources from so he's very suspicious and untrustworthy "historian" if he's is one my guess is that he isn't one because just the way he presents himself in his videos is very very peculiar and he doesn't says what are his qualifications about making these statements and his background education or even his college he attended if he even went to one

Yeah, you won't find any mention of Nimrod in any ancient Babylonian or Assyrian sources.

And the husband of Semiramis was Ninus. And Tammuz has no relationship to Semiramis or Ninus.

This theory, best as I can tell, was made up entirely by the imagination of Alexander Hislop in the 19th century; that's something Hislop did pretty regularly--just made things up. And then people have continued to repeat his inventions as facts ever since.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Lord's Servant]

Ah I see then yes I know it was Ninus but some people say that Ninus and nimrod are the same person which seems unlikely because their stories are very different from one another and there are huge differences between Semiramis in the Hislop myth and in the Greek myth as well. For example in the Greek myth she was a demigod and in the Hislop myth she was just a mortal.Hislop like you said made it up and Michael Rood embellished the myth of Hislop to serve his own purposes to sell books and DVDs.In order words to make money off of people own ignorance.

 

[Rhamiel]

hislop is not a reliable source of information

 

[Lord's Servant]

Ah I see then because I've been researching this for less than a year now and people have kept telling me that but they don't give anything to back up their claim that he was a unreliable source

 

[Rhamiel]

well people write books with other books as sources
then other people quote these books

but most of these things go back to Hislop
and his history is very shoddy

here is something else you might like
it is of a similar vein

 

[Lord's Servant]

Ah I see then thanks for the link

 

[Rick Otto]

Does anyone know if this legend is true? Here's the legend: Nimrod was king of the world, had great armies, and built both the Tower of Babel and the great ancient city Nineveh. When Nimrod died his people deified him into the Sun god “Baal.” His wife Semiramis became pregnant by the rays of her deceased husband and birthed a son, Tammuz, who became a great hunter and ruler in his own right. When Tammuz was of age he married his mother. At age 40, while he was out hunting, a boar killed him, and he was thereupon deified as the Son of God. She ruled Babylon until she died at the age of 102 years.
I've been trying to find primary sources or something like that to verify this information but so far I've come across a book written by a man in 19th century and another man named Michael John Rood.If anyone has any information to verify that would be great.

Be very cautious of anything you get from Michael Rood.
I was checking him out about 10 or 12 years ago.
He is working a vein. I suggest you meet him personally and decide for yourself if he is trustworthy. I am not saying he's getting rich, but his whole presentation looks like an income stream. I can't remember specific details, but he likes to work the anticipation tease re: the second coming. Something about the barley being ripe.

 

[Rick Otto]

Ah I see then because I've been researching this for less than a year now and people have kept telling me that but they don't give anything to back up their claim that he was a unreliable source

I have heard this as well, and heard some of the slander. Whether it is true or not, I haven't looked into.

 

[Lord's Servant]

Yeah he made false prophecies in 2010 he said that Jerusalem is going to be attacked on yom kippur and nothing happened and he said stuff about nimrod and Semiramis and he no citied sources ,historical evidence,professors, encyclopedias or ancient sources or peer-reviewed papers of any kind backing his claim. And I have heard that he had some money issues as well and the only thing I've found about nimrod and Semiramis was a 10 page paper debunking the claim with 153 sources

 

[Lord's Servant]

http://localchurchdiscussions.com/vBulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=52

 

[Lord's Servant]

This is the paper if you want to read it