Monday, December 30, 2024

My Top 15 Goth/Industrial Songs of 2024


I may not have been keeping up with my monthly music blogs, but I’ve still been listening to new music. As I’ve written about, I have been keeping a playlist of The 2020s in Music, and it’s about halfway done now. One of the rules for this playlist is that it can only have one song per album, so this doesn’t represent all the songs I liked this year. I added 37 new songs for 2024, it’s been another great year for the dark alternative. Over the course of the year my musical tastes have delved from post-punk to industrial, which I hadn’t been into much over the past few years but I got a craving for it over the summer, after exploring the discographies of longtime bands Vomito Negro and dreDDup. The former didn’t have any 2024 releases, but the latter did. It’s a lot of songs so I don’t think I’ll be writing a huge essay about each song, but I may say a thing or two about my favorites. These will be more or less in the order I heard them, which is close to the order they were released in. I will include links to the albums on Bandcamp too. 


You can find all the songs on the playlist, just scroll down to the end and work your way up to the first song below.


The Full List


  • Obsidian - Night Director 
  • Raw Desire - Avaricia
  • Metawave - Ausencia 
  • Tango Mangalore - Re-Vamp
  • Scary Black - The Fallacy of Worth
  • Anja Huwe - Exit
  • No Man Cry - Qo Achkery 
  • Kalte Nacht - The Last Breath
  • Damian Hearse - Bad Luck Charm
  • Скубут - T’Ma
  • Selofan - Love’s Secret Game
  • Guerra Fría - En Mi Tumba
  • Mekong - Danse Danse
  • Slow Danse with the Dead - Today is a Good Day to Die
  • Alone in the Rain- Amore Malato
  • Aven Graph - Bloody Kisses
  • Melancholy Rat’s - No sé bailar
  • Glis - Dream Catcher
  • Last Grasp - Goth Enough
  • Damien Hearse - Negative Mental Attitude 
  • The March Violets - Hammer the Last Nail
  • Devoted Sinners - It Was Tuesday 
  • Molchat Doma - Ty Zhe Ne Znaesh Kto Na
  • Statiqbloom - Posession
  • Gothic Vixen - Tik Tok Ate Your Brain
  • No Horizon - Eternal Void 
  •  Desmond Doom - Damaged Goods
  • Attic Frost - A Sad Thought Made Dance
  • Worm Man - Spit it Out (Feeling like a Demigod)
  • dreDDup - President Evil
  • Neon Nightmare - She’s Drowning
  • Elita - Masturbating in a Coffin
  • Заабризль - Гоки под Луной
  • Bax Taylor - All I Had to Give
  • Ratpajama - Infamia
  • Kontrast - D3R DIKTATOR
  • Mr. Strange - Metropolis 2984



Obsidian ~ Night Director

Album: 19 Dead
Release Date: January 19
Origin: USA
Notes: Obsidian have grown as artists, I like this release better than their previous albums. A good start to the year.

Metawave ~ Ausencia

Album: Fragmento
Release Date: March 8
Origin: Paris, France
Notes: This song is goth music with a Middle Eastern accent, which I wish happened more often. Metawave are a Portuguese-French duo.

Tango Mangalore ~ Re-Vamp

Album: Re-Vamp
Origin: Greece
Release Date: March 1
Notes: I first heard Tango Mangalore in 2017, and was captivated by this Greek fisherman goth who sings in a ghostly tone about longing for the sea, and hating being on land. His new album didn’t disappoint at all, this certainly isn’t the only good song on it. 

Scary Black ~ The Fallacy of Worth

Album: The Fallacy of Worth (single)
Origin: Louisville, Kentucky 
Release Date: February 24
Notes: A wonderfully motivational song, about not letting other people determine your self-worth. It’s a lesson I’ve been learning over the past few years. You don’t get too many pep talk songs within the goth genre but this one is really good. Worth is a fallacy. Looking forward to more from Scary Black, one of my favorite still-active bands in the scene. No album to go along with this track, it’s just a single, hopefully we will see more songs from Scary Black in 2025. 

Anja Huwe ~ Exit

Album: Codes
Origin: Hamburg, Germany
Release Date: March 8
Notes: Anja Huwe was a member of the seminal early1980s post-punk band Xmal Deutschland, and this is her first release decades after leaving the band. The song was the first I had heard of her, I love that guitar feedback throughout the song, gives it really freaky spine-chilling vibes. She’s still got it. 

No Man Cry ~ Qo Achqery 

Album: T’Mard (not on Bandcamp, was released on YouTube for free)
Origin: Yerevan, Armenia 
Release Date: January 14
Notes: The singer of No Man Cry was gone for two years as he did his mandatory military service in Armenia. Fortunately he made it out, and he’s back with new music! I was excited to see him again and know he was okay. This song is a post-punk cover of an old Armenian song. Here’s another very different-sounding cover of the same song by the band Lav Eli for comparison. I never really liked how Armenian gets transliterated sometimes, maybe a better way to do it would be “Koh Atchkeruh” if that helps, it means “Your Eyes” and is a love song. 


Kalte Nacht ~ The Last Breath

Origin: Athens, Greece 
Release Date: March 22
Notes: I had been waiting for Kalte Nacht to release more music since 2020, and I was not disappointed. This one is a very catchy, dancey darkwave track that was stuck in my head for a couple months last spring. 

Damien Hearse ~ Bad Luck Charm

Origin: Arkansas, United States 
Release Date: January 23
Notes: Damien Hearse is an amazing artist and definitely one of the musicians I listened to the most this year. He had two 2024 releases and I’m picking one song for each for my playlist (the rules are if an artist has two releases in one year they can both be represented). This song, about being born unlucky, was just a little bit relatable in some ways. 


Скубут ~ T’ma (Dark)

Origin: Vienna, Austria 
Release Date: May 17
Notes: My favorite Russian post-punk band from Austria was back this year with a great new album. Among their best entries I would say. Their music stands out in a genre where a lot of the music can tend to sound the same, they have their own sound instead of just riding on the coattails of Molchat Doma, let’s just say. 


Selofan ~ Love’s Secret Game

Origin: Athens, Greece 
Release Date: April 10
Notes: It’s kind of funny how much Selofan and Kalte Nacht have in common. Both are darkwave bands from Greece that I was waiting since 2020 to hear from again, and they both came back with new albums this year! I even get them mixed up sometimes. Their track “Absolutely Absent” carried me through the dark times of Fall 2020. This album seemed a little more upbeat for the most part, although it includes a lot of songs recorded during the Covid lockdowns, so there’s that too. I wonder if this is the last year we might get some lockdown music. 


Devoted Sinners ~ It Was Tuesday

Origin: Ireland
Release Date: July 30
Notes: Devoted Sinners came out with a new album of mainly older material but with a couple new songs, this one included. I just so happened to know where the quote comes from, a line from the live action Street Fighter movie. “For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.” I know this more because there’s a trope on TV Tropes named after it than from the movie. It’s a song about that feeling where someone’s really upset at you, but you don’t care because they and their opinion are insignificant to you. It can be an empowering song, not unlike “The Fallacy of Worth” earlier. 


Molchat Doma - Ty Zhe Ne Znaesh Kto Na

Origin: Minsk, Belarus
Release Date: September 6
Notes: Molchat Doma was previously known for their slow, melancholic post-punk that would serve as a good soundtrack for exploring the abandoned ruins at Chernobyl, but this track is one of the danciest ones I’ve heard in a long time. Like I can’t not start at least head-bobbing when this comes on. This song belongs in a dance club. Admittedly I haven’t tried translating the lyrics, but that tune is hypnotic. One of my favorite songs to come out this year.

Gothic Vixen - Tik Tok Ate Your Brain

Origin:
Release Date: TBA
Notes: Gothic Vixen seems to be kind of a mysterious artist at the moment. They only appear to have a YouTube account, I don’t see them on Bandcamp, but maybe they’ll get there when their album is finished. Tellingly there’s no TikTok profile either. But this song is a very timely one, a good anthem for the early 2020s. I have avoided that website, but I’ve seen how that website ruins attention spans and can send someone spiraling down the conspiracy theory rabbit holes. Back in my day we rotted our brains with good old YouTube Poop, mah boi. And before that, it was bad flash animations on Newgrounds and EBaum’s World. Not that I find the reasons for banning TikTok justified either. I feel worse about American corporations spying on me and collecting my data than China, like what’s China going to do to me? Anyway, YouTube has its issues and is run by an evil corporation too, but I’ll stick with the devil I know, I guess. Same way I feel about Facebook. 

Worm Man - Spit it Out (Feeling like a Demigod)

Origin: Opovo, Serbia
Release Date: August 12
Notes: I discovered two new favorite bands doing a deep-dive on the ex-Yugoslavian dark alternative scene. This song is off Worm Man’s second release, and first EP. Their music is full of adrenaline, and might have you feeling like a demigod yourself. I like how they chose the term “demigod”, it’s so randomly specific, like not quite a God but almost there. The title track is a close second favorite, check that one out too. 

dreDDup - President Evil

Album: Pan/Dora
Origin: Novi Sad, Serbia
Release Date: September 7
Notes: dreDDup is a criminally underrated industrial band that has been around since 1997, giving me an extensive discography to get through when I first discovered them. They happened to release an album this year, which is always a nice bonus when you discover a new band. “President Evil” was a very timely song for this year, for reasons. My favorite song from this band at least at the moment is “Garden of Dead Friends” from 2011. 

Friday, December 27, 2024

Set’s Music Corner ~ “Those Whom the Gods Detest” by Nile


Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest


Nile is a very heavy black metal band, who often incorporate Kemeticism into their lyrics. If you’ll remember the last song I reviewed, “Xeper-i-Set” by Dissection, while being about Set had a lot of Satanic, Aleister Crowley influences which I personally am averse to, not because I disagree with Satanism per se I just don’t like Abrahamic religion in general, nor do I like mixing it with paganism. I follow Set from a more Kemetic perspective, the Set known throughout the Oases and in Nubt/Ombos. Nile’s singer and lyricist Karl Sanders does do his research from what I have seen. Most of his songs are about “destroying the enemies of Ra”, but he explained his writing process on the same website where I found the lyrics, that he wanted this song to be more from the “bad guys’” perspective for a change, although with Set being lumped in with Kemeticism’s baddies once again. It would appear that he based some of the lyrics on the Book of the Dead. Here are the lyrics:


“I will not speak

The spell for not dying again

I will not speak

The spell for not dying again

I will not speak

The spell for not dying again


I am the murderous Seth

My hostility made manifest

In the rebelliousness that is humanity


Entwined in coils of wrath

I disrupt the continuity of the sublime

And defy the words spoken from the mouth of Ra


We are they whom the gods detest

We are they whom the gods detest


Unrepentant

I deny the secrecy of the texts

Impenitent

I blaspheme the sacred scrolls

Unwilling to submit

I embrace what Ra hath called profane


We are they

We are they


I shall not hail to he who rises and sets

I shall not bend to he who imprisons myriads at his will

He who would bathe in my blood

And drink my gore


Embraced within the coils of Set

I have no fear of the second death

Of being slashed with knives

Of being butchered on the slaughtering blocks

No God or Demon will feed on my entrails or drink my blood

No blind servant of the throne of Ra

Shall I willingly allow to devour me

No consuming flames of uttermost damnation shall I fear

No tongue speaking words of redemption shall ever penetrate my will

Darkly splendid I remain unconquered

Supreme and terrible Ra

Who maketh Gods and men tremble before thee

I am counted amongst legions of the unrighteous

Who dread not being immersed in pits of fire


We are They Whom the Gods Detest”


The lyrics seem to reflect a time when Set was being heavily demonized, like during the Ptolmaic or Roman eras. Ra was usually on Set’s side even when most of the other Netjeru were not, as even in the Plutarch version of The Contendings of Seth and Horus most people know of it was Ra who vetoed their vote to put Heru on the throne despite it being known that he murdered Asar. It makes sense for Ra to take Set’s side once you think about the other stories; Set protects Ra from the Chaos Serpent every night, not to mention that incident where Aset almost killed Ra to get his secret name, which I’m sure he didn’t just forgive and forget. I just can’t see Set ever being a rival to Ra. In fact, you could worship both synchronized as Set-Ra. 


Well, to each their own. Anyone else have thoughts on the lyrics? 





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~ Siamanto the Foreigner

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Monday, December 23, 2024

Santa is a God: Here’s Why

 


Image found here.

When you get into polytheism, you have to define for yourself what a God is. Western society is a lot more polytheistic than it believes itself to be. You have statism which is sort of a religion, in which the flag is a religious symbol, borders are considered holy, the constitution is a holy manuscript, and the “founding fathers” are ascended Gods; you also have the cult of money, in which people waste their lives away in the pursuit of imaginary numbers, sacrificing irreplaceable hours of their lives to a malevolent deity that does nothing more than uphold an unjust social hierarchy; our mainstream fiction spawns Gods, such as superheroes, who often reflect the values of western society, good and bad.  I feel like Neil Gaiman might have been onto something when he wrote “American Gods”, not that I think the book is completely true, mind you. A lot of the modern Gods are seemingly negative, but there’s one nice one, who has his time to shine around this time of year. Sorry to be the one to break the news to you but technically, Santa Claus is a God. Think about it. 


  1. Children believe in him literally, and they leave offerings for him in the form of milk and cookies (his preferred offerings), 
  2. He has several epithets such as Kris Kringle, Father Christmas, and others.
  3. He has an entire mythology behind him, which differs depending on who’s telling the story. The elves are like demigods who aid him, the reindeer is his sacred animal. Maybe the ancient Egyptians would have depicted him with the head of a reindeer. 
  4. He has hymns written and sung about him.
  5. Mall Santas are like his priests, channeling him as he speaks through them to his loyal followers who sit on his representative’s lap. The followers present the priest a list of desires, like a written prayer. 
  6. He has areas of specialty, called ‘domains’ when we’re talking about Gods, and could be said to represent winter, parental love, the ‘spirit of giving’; but when his image is corrupted, he can represent consumerism.



He may have his roots in Odin, and the historical St. Nicholas, but he has sprung off into his own entity, much the way Aphrodite can be traced back to Ishtar but spun-off into Her own entity. Now does this mean if we go to the North Pole we’re literally going to find a toy factory where he lives, and that he’s able to fly around the world in a flying sleigh pulled by flying reindeer, and deliver presents around the world in one night? Of course not, but you’re not going to look up in the sky and see Ra riding his Solar Barque across the sky either. And night is still caused by the side of the planet you’re on facing away from the star it orbits, not literally Ra going into the Amduat. For you see, that is Santa’s stumbling block into being considered a God; mythic literalism. 


Polytheists usually know that mythology isn’t to be taken literally, but symbolically; if the mythological events did happen somewhere, it was on another plane of existence, the Unseen World, aka Duat or the Astral Realm. In Set’s nightly battles with the Chaos Serpent for instance, one can find inspiration for their own battles against depression and self-doubt. It really doesn’t matter if the story literally took place, you’re supposed to learn a lesson from it. And mythic literalism is the main feature of Abrahamic monotheism, particularly Christianity. This has misled many people and obscured the true definition and functions of a God even outside the religion, and is the main reason most people become atheists after leaving Christianity, as they’ve been trained to think that all religion is mythic literalism; therefore they look at both people who think the Earth is only 6,000 years old and Noah’s flood really happened, and people who follow polytheism, as equally moronic. Good on these types of people for having the courage to leave the toxic belief system they were raised in behind, I’m an ex-Christian myself, but that doesn’t suddenly make them an expert on all world religions. It’s often said that the disillusionment in finding out that Santa Claus isn’t real is the first stepping stone toward atheism. But religion shouldn’t be looked at as “either real or not real, one religion is right and all the others are wrong”, nor as a suspension of disbelief, nor as a replacement for rational scientific thought. This is mainly a feature of Abrahamic monotheism, particularly in its more extreme forms. Before monotheism became widespread, people would look at another culture’s religion the same way you might look at their language. It’s just their way of looking at the world, and just because someone speaks a different language from you doesn’t make their language wrong. 


Santa Claus perhaps is only allowed to stick around because he is never referred to as a God, only rises to importance for a couple months out of the year, and followers are expected to abandon their “faith” in him after childhood. Yahweh certainly wouldn’t have tolerated him otherwise, although you get the sense he only begrudgingly allows Santa to stick around, seeing him as a distraction from his own hijacking of the winter solstice holidays (which is why the “keep the Christ in Chrtistmas” people don’t like him). Santa still has to work within the confines of Christianity and Capitalism, as do many other modern deities who might wear sainthood like a mask in order to still be allowed to interact with their followers. Unless Santa has been very corrupted over the years, perhaps this is not Santa’s ideal set of circumstances, but he cares too much about the children to give up. Maybe he wants that poor kid living in an apartment with the single parent to have the newest video game console, but the world just doesn’t work that way, and Gods aren’t omnipotent.


I never had that moment of feeling betrayed by Santa not being “real”, I figured out from a very young age that he wasn’t to be taken literally without anyone having to break the news to me, as it were. But all the same, I ended up turning my back in Santa for a long time, associating him with all the things I dislike about this time of year, such as organized religion and consumerism. But now that I see him as a God, I have a bit more sympathy for him. I’m not really going to venerate him, but I don’t think he’s malevolent. He does what he can for the children, he would like to do more but his hands are tied, and he can’t help it if his image gets hijacked by greedy corporations for advertisements.


Anyway, I’m still celebrating Moomas this year, where Anpu and Wepwawet are the ones delivering toys. 


Saturday, December 14, 2024

The Pantheon of Urartu

 The Pantheon of Urartu


Pictured: My Khaldi figurine I got when I was in Armenia 


The ancient Kingdom of Urartu, also known interchangeably as the Kingdom of Ararat, Biainili (as they called themselves) or Van, was a kingdom to the north of Assyria, stretching across the modern borders of Armenia, Turkey, and parts of Iraq and Iran, existing from about 860-585 B.C. “Urartu” was a name given to them by the Assyrians, their arch-rivals throughout their history, and what the kingdom is most known by today. It’s best understood as a proto-Armenian kingdom, directly preceding the Orontid dynasty of Armenian rulers under the authority of the Median Empire. The earliest verifiable mentions of Armenia, from Persian sources in the 500’s B.C , use it interchangeably with Urartu. The language they spoke is of Hurrian-Hittite origin, and basically the only living language distantly related to it is modern Armenian; an Indo-European language, but with a lot of old loan words that can be traced back to Urartian. The Urartians used a cuneiform alphabet, much like Assyria.   


The Gods of Urartu were a mixture of imported and local deities, some coming from the Hittites, Hurrians, and Assyrians, among others. When Urartu conquered a new area they would often adopt their Gods into the state pantheon, which grew very large as a result. Near the modern day city of Van is a door-like carving into the face of a cliff, with the cuneiform names of 79 deities and what to offer each. Later Armenian legends call this the Door of Mher, and it is said that when the world ends, the door will open and the old Armenian hero Lion Mher will pass through it on a fiery horse and pass judgment on the enemies of his people. No one deciphered the cuneiform until the 1800s. 



When I went to Armenia in 2015, I visited Erebuni, an ancient Urartian fortress located outside Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, several times while I was there. At one time I was going through a library and found an archeology textbook about Urartu. I wish I knew the title and author now, but I sadly neglected to save it. It was one of the only books on Urartu I found in Armenia that was in English. It had a few Urartian words, phrases and names of deities in it. I do still have the notes I took though. As far as I have been able to gather, these are the names of some of the Gods in the Urartian pantheon. With some of them, all that we have is a name. If I have a tidbit of information about Them I will include it. 


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Adaruta - God of Birth 

Adia/Aia - Goddess of the City of Adia

Ainau

Airaini

Apaltushini

Anapsha

Ardi

Arni

Arrinna - A Hittite Solar Goddess, aka Huba/Hepat

Arshibedini 

Arsimela

Aui

Atbini

Araza 

Artinis - Son of Arubani and Khaldi, might be an alternate name for Shvini

Artuarasau - God of the Unnia Plain

Arubani - Goddess of Art and Fertility, consort of Khaldi

Baba

Babaninaue/Babania - Goddess of Mountains

Bagmastu - Another name of Arubani, as she was known in eastern Urartu

Bagvarti - Consort of Khaldi, possibly another form of Arubani

Barshi

Diduaini - God of Herding 

Dvininaue- Goddess of Water and Seas, an earlier form of Tsovinar 

Ea

Eiduru - Mountain God  of Sipan

Elia’a 

Elipuri - A Hurrian God

Eliwre

Epaninaue - Goddess of Land and Earth

Erina 

Gula

Hara

Huba/Hepat - Solar Goddess, Wife of Theispas, related to Arinna 

Hutuini - God of Luck, Fate and Victory

Ilu Aluše Uruliliue Šiuali - God who Accompanies the Dead 

Iphari - A Goddess 

Innuani/Innuannau - Mother Goddess; also the Urartian word for ‘Goddess’

Iubsha/Iarsha - (Իուբշա); Had a temple at Erebuni 

Irmushini - God of Healing who cures illness,  had a temple in what is now modern Cavus Tepe 


Khaldi - Supreme God of Warfare, possibly a deification of Hayk. Has three forms:

Iniriashie - Khaldi as Youth

Aluishie - Khaldi as Man

Dirushie - Khaldi the Elder


Kilbani - God of Mountains who ruled from Mt. Varaga overlooking Tushpa

Kuera - God of Earth and Water

Kumanu

Marduk - God of Babylon, imported from Assyria

Nala-ini - Goddess of the Nala Mountains

Nergal - God of War, Disease and Death, imported from Assyria 

Nusk

Quera - God of the Underworld 

Qumenu - Storm God, Kumme in Assyrian, related to Hurrian Teshub

Sardi/Saris - the Urartian form of Ishtar, later developed into Astghik 

Selardi - Moon Goddess, daughter of Khaldi and Arubani

Shebitu - God of the Unnia Plain (like Artuarasau)

Shiniri

Shvini (𒀭𒅆𒄿𒌑𒄿𒉌 in Urartian) - Sun God, pictured with a winged solar disc

Shuba

Silia

Sinuiarda - An unspecified Goddess 

Sumaliu

Suqamuna

Talapura

Taraini

Teysheba/Theispas - God of Storms, son of Khaldi and Arubani

Turani - God of Rainbows, son of Teysheba and Huba

Tushpunia - Winged Goddess of the Dawn and of Tushpa

Ua

Uia - Solar Mother Goddess, “She Who Looks Down Upon Us”

Unina

Ura - God of the city of Ur

Ziuqini 

Zubabu 

Zuzumaru 


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The Loose Urartu-Egypt Connections


There was probably very little if any direct contact between Urartu and Egypt. Yet a distant connection can be found. They did both have to deal with the Assyrians invading them, and distance-wise were only about as far apart as Italy and Scotland, or Texas and Wisconsin. Their being in the same general geopolitical neighborhood, and being invaded by a lot of the same empires over the centuries, lead to Urartu and Egypt sharing at least one deity, the Goddess Astarte, known as Sardi or Saris in Urartian, and Ishtar elsewhere. Astarte is one of Set’s consorts. Sardi would later develop into Astghik in the Armenian pantheon, who maybe not coincidentally is the consort to another storm God, Vahagn, who like Set battles chaotic reptiles in the form of dragons in the mythic Chaoskampf trope. Vahagn can be traced back to similar storm deities from the area, such as Theispas in the Urartian pantheon, the Hurrian God Teshub, Tarhunt in the Hittite pantheon, and Ba’al, who would have been known to the Assyrians. So the connection is there; there is a Set-to-Vahagn pipeline if you know where to dig for it. 




Another fascinating deity of Urartu is Shivini, a winged solar deity sometimes depicted with the head of an eagle, whose symbol was a winged sun disc. It’s basically  the Urartian Ra. I can’t say how directly they might have been inspired by Egyptian symbolism, but ideas have a way of traveling, and the ancient world was more interconnected than modern people often give it credit for. The winged sun disc was a motif in Sumerian art too, although they might have gotten it from Egypt; so it most likely was brought to Urartu via Assyria rather than straight from Egypt.




Khaldini ishmasini - By the will of Khaldi. (A common end to an inscription.)

Khaldini kuruni - Khaldi is strong. 


Sutekhi Kuruni - Sutekh is strong. 



Works Cited


The book People of the Hills: Ancient Ararat and the Caucasus, by Charles Burney and David Marshall Lang


https://studfile.net/preview/16501883/page:60/


https://www.worldhistory.org/Urartu_Religion/


https://www.urartians.com.tr/alticerik/61/gods.html


(A partial list of what is written on Mher’s door.)


https://sunofchedorlaomer.fandom.com/wiki/Urartu?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR05rPNDqVk9yuuMiOacEj6jp_h-Th_PhZJOBzE4zYC80rNSRuQ2_kUUI9I_aem_jy6kU_HlJwVMHgXXKJEG-g


(Yes, Fandom wikis are an even worse academic resource than Wikipedia, but it had the most complete list of the Urartian pantheon I’ve ever seen online, and I can confirm at least some of it is accurate.)



~ Siamanto the Foreigner

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