2006-06-15 07:55:43 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
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2006-06-15 07:57:40 · update #1
i mean Gabriel.the archangel. Like in the Bible. Sorry about not being clear
2006-06-15 09:32:36 · update #2
Recently Silver Raven Wolf wrote a book on the subject. Her book was not researched and not edited. Thanks to this I have gotten several questions recently as to the history of Gabriel.
I am a Sumerian Reconstructionist. I have a large library on the subject and I can say that there is definitely no parallel between Gabriel and any Sumerian god.
There might however be a distant parallel between him and a minor Sumerian demon known as the Asag.. The Asag was a winged griffin demon that was adopted by the Babylonians, then the Assyrians, then the Zoroastrians, and then finally the Muslims in the form of Djini. The idea of angels comes from Zoroastrian sources and Gabriel can probably be traced there.
One way that you can tell that Gabriel was not Sumerian was from the suffix El meaning lord in many Semitic languages. Were Gabriel a direct Sumerian name it would have begun with the prefix En.
2006-06-17 09:42:17 · answer #1 · answered by ryversylt 3 · 5⤊ 2⤋
I don't understand, what is currently believed about Gabriel?
2006-06-15 16:14:17 · answer #2 · answered by cj 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2006-06-15 15:02:38 · answer #3 · answered by jyd9999 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋