FieryGodsIllustrations

Below, two "Fiery Gods" appear with flames erupting from their shoulders in the below cylinder seal, one on the viewer's far left, slits the throat of another god, while the other on the viewer's far right restrains by the arm a god with a demonic face. (cf. fig. 53. P. 54. Othmar Keel. The Symbolism of the Biblical World, Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and the Book of Psalms. New York. The Seabury Press. 1978)

The below cylinder seal shows two Fiery gods, with flames erupting from their shoulders, approaching the god of freshwaters and wisdom, Enki, who resides in his underwaterhouse (located in the depths of the freshwater ocean called Apsu, which the earth floats upon like a raft. Said access to Enki being at his temple in Eridu in lower Mesopotamia). Enki is shown with two streams of water erupting from his shoulders with fish above them. He provided the freshwater for the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in some myths. The Fiery god on the viewer's far left is Shamash the sun-god holding a saw and emerging at day-break from the mountain tops. The Fiery god before him holds a war-mace in one hand. Of interest, is that the Hebrews understood their God, Yahweh, to possess a Fiery body too (cf. Ex 3:2; 19:18; De 4:12, 15, 24).

(cf. fig. 43. P. 48. Othmar Keel. The Symbolism of the Biblical World, Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and the Book of Psalms. New York. The Seabury Press. 1978)

The below cylinder seal shows two gods with horned helmets, spearing a fiery 7-headed dragon-serpent , whose flames erupt from his back (cf. p. 54. Fig. 52. Othmar Keel. The Symbolism of the Biblical World, Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and the Book of Psalms. New York. The Seabury Press. 1978)