Does anyone know anything about Semiramis (Shamiran)?

Question

I would like to know more about this Assyrian Queen.

Answer 1

The Jewish historian Josephus relates Ninus to the Biblical hunter-king Nimrod.

The name of Semiramis came to be applied to various monuments in Western Asia, the origin of which was forgotten or unknown (see Strabo xvi. I. 2). Ultimately every stupendous work of antiquity by the Euphrates or in Iran seems to have been ascribed to her even the Behistun Inscription of Darius (Diod. Sic. ii. 3). Of this we already have evidence in Herodotus, who ascribes to her the banks that confined the Euphrates (i. 184) and knows her name as borne by a gate of Babylon (iii. 155). Various places in Media bore the name of Semiramis, but slightly changed, even in the middle ages, and the old name of Van Province was Shamiramagerd, Armenian tradition regarding her as its founder. These facts are partly to be explained by observing that, according to the legends, in her birth as well as in her disappearance from earth, Semiramis appears as a goddess, the daughter of the fish-goddess Atargatis, and herself connected with the doves of Ishtar or Astartë. The same association of the fish and dove is found at Hierapolis (Bambyce, Mabbog), the great temple at which, according to one legend, was founded by Semiramis (Lucian, De dea Syria, 14), where her statue was shown with a golden dove on her head (33, 39).

The irresistible charms of Semiramis, her sexual excesses, and other features of the legend, all bear out the view that she is primarily a form of Astartë, and so fittingly conceived as the great queen of Assyria.

Answer 2

Semiramis, who was both Nimrod's wife and mother, was worshiped as the "mother of god" and a "fertility goddess" because she had to be extremely fertile to give birth to all the pagan incarnate gods that represented Nimrod. She was worshiped throughout the world by each the titles associated with Nimrod's worship, in addition to many titles unique to herself . For instance, the respective Greek and Roman names applied to the worship of Semiramis include:
Aphrodite and Venus, the goddess of love Artemis and Diana, the goddess of hunting and childbirth ,Athena and Minerva, the goddess of crafts, war and wisdom, Demeter and Ceres, the goddess of growing things Gaea and Terra, symbol of the fertile earth, Hera and Juno, the protector of marriage and women, who was the sister and wife of Zeus in Greek mythology, and the wife of Jupiter in Roman mythology, Hestia and Vesta, the goddess of the hearth, plus Rhea or Ops, who was wife and sister of the Greek horned-god Kronos.
Semiramis was initially included in the pagan Babylonian trinity as the holy spirit or seed of the divine son in his mother's womb.

i use this name and i know quite a lot of things about her maybe too many to write them all here but I'm sure that you know a lot too

Answer 3

Wikipedia has a good article here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiramis

Worship of Semiramis: http://bupc.montana.com/whores/worsemi.html