https://ase.exopla.net/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=SIPA.ZI.AN.NASIPA.ZI.AN.NA - Revision history2026-04-14T11:31:52ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.1https://ase.exopla.net/index.php?title=SIPA.ZI.AN.NA&diff=40221&oldid=prevRolandlaffitte at 07:08, 26 March 20262026-03-26T07:08:40Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Ori+umgebung planiJena2020 smh 2014.jpg|thumb|Orion in Old Babylonian drawing style (CC BY R. Perdok, LWL Planetarium Münster)<ref>Hoffmann, S.M. (2017). History of Constellations as popularization of uranometry, in: Wolfschmidt, Gudrun (ed.). Nuncius Hamburgensis Bd. 41, tredition Verlag, 135-157</ref> as a shepherd, mapped to the planetarium sky (photo by SMH in Planetarium Jena). ]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Ori+umgebung planiJena2020 smh 2014.jpg|thumb|Orion in Old Babylonian drawing style (CC BY R. Perdok, LWL Planetarium Münster)<ref>Hoffmann, S.M. (2017). History of Constellations as popularization of uranometry, in: Wolfschmidt, Gudrun (ed.). Nuncius Hamburgensis Bd. 41, tredition Verlag, 135-157</ref> as a shepherd, mapped to the planetarium sky (photo by SMH in Planetarium Jena). ]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>SIPA.ZI.AN.NA (𒉺𒇻𒍣𒀭𒈾), 'The Faithful Shepherd of Heaven' is the traditional Sumerian name for the main portion of classical [[Orion]] including the torso, arms, and legs. It is described as a male bearded human figure holding three objects (a ''kurkurru'', a lock, and key) in the Uranology group. His right hand and right heel are mentioned in the GU-text. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>SIPA.ZI.AN.NA (𒉺𒇻𒍣𒀭𒈾), 'The Faithful Shepherd of Heaven' is the traditional Sumerian name for the main portion of classical [[Orion]] including the torso, arms, and legs. It is described as a male bearded human figure holding three objects (a ''kurkurru'', a lock, and key) in the Uranology group. His right hand and right heel are mentioned in the GU-text. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>No Akkadian direct equivalence of the constellation name survives in cuneiform tradition. Another Sumerian name, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara, [**translation of the Sumerian here**] has been taken to be the source for names of the constellation loaned into Akkadian as ''šitaddaru'', ''šitadallu'', ''šidallu,'' which goes back deep into the second millennium BCE in a Old Babylonian Prayer to the Gods of the Night. Likewise, note ''ti-ša-at-ta-??lu'' in a lexical text from Emar. This last writing may in fact show a ''t''-''š'' interchange of ten found in t-root forms in Akkadian. Both exemplars suggest a Semitic origin for the term from the root ''šdr w''hich was then borrowed back into Sumerian as šita.dara'','' rather than the Akkadian being a loan-word the Sumerian. If so, the explanation of the Sumerian name in the Great Star List, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara = ''ša ina kakki mahșu,'' the one who is smitten by the weapon'','' is a later learned exposition of the original Akkadian name suggesting a (false) original Sumerian etymology. Below, another possibility proposed in Selz 1998 is presented sub. Concordance, Etymology, History. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>No Akkadian direct equivalence of the constellation name survives in cuneiform tradition. Another Sumerian name, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara, [**translation of the Sumerian here**] has been taken to be the source for names of the constellation loaned into Akkadian as ''šitaddaru'', ''šitadallu'', ''šidallu,'' which goes back deep into the second millennium BCE in a Old Babylonian Prayer to the Gods of the Night. Likewise, note ''ti-ša-at-ta-??lu'' in a lexical text from Emar. This last writing may in fact show a ''t''-''š'' interchange of ten found in t-root forms in Akkadian. Both exemplars suggest a Semitic origin for the term from the root ''šdr w''hich was then borrowed back into Sumerian as šita.dara'','' rather than the Akkadian being a loan-word the Sumerian. If so, the explanation of the Sumerian name in the Great Star List, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara = ''ša ina kakki mahșu,'' the one who is smitten by the weapon'','' is a later learned exposition of the original Akkadian name suggesting a (false) original Sumerian etymology. Below, another possibility proposed in Selz 1998 is presented sub. Concordance, Etymology, History. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* ''= Rē’û but Šamê,'' ‘the Faithful Shepherd of Heaven’.<ref>Roland Laffitte (2012), ''Le ciel des Arabes''</ref><ref>Roland Laffitte (2025), ''Nommer les étoile: 500 noms hérités des Arabes - Apport de l'uranographie arabe'', Orient des Mots</ref> </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>SIPA.ZI.AN.NA (𒉺𒇻𒍣𒀭𒈾), 'The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">True </del>Shepherd of Heaven' is the traditional Sumerian name for the main portion of classical [[Orion]] including the torso, arms, and legs. It is described as a male bearded human figure holding three objects (a ''kurkurru'', a lock, and key) in the Uranology group. His right hand and right heel are mentioned in the GU-text. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>SIPA.ZI.AN.NA (𒉺𒇻𒍣𒀭𒈾), 'The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Faithful </ins>Shepherd of Heaven' is the traditional Sumerian name for the main portion of classical [[Orion]] including the torso, arms, and legs. It is described as a male bearded human figure holding three objects (a ''kurkurru'', a lock, and key) in the Uranology group. His right hand and right heel are mentioned in the GU-text. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>No Akkadian direct equivalence of the constellation name survives in cuneiform tradition. Another Sumerian name, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara, [**translation of the Sumerian here**] has been taken to be the source for names of the constellation loaned into Akkadian as ''šitaddaru'', ''šitadallu'', ''šidallu,'' which goes back deep into the second millennium BCE in a Old Babylonian Prayer to the Gods of the Night. Likewise, note ''ti-ša-at-ta-??lu'' in a lexical text from Emar. This last writing may in fact show a ''t''-''š'' interchange of ten found in t-root forms in Akkadian. Both exemplars suggest a Semitic origin for the term from the root ''šdr w''hich was then borrowed back into Sumerian as šita.dara'','' rather than the Akkadian being a loan-word the Sumerian. If so, the explanation of the Sumerian name in the Great Star List, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara = ''ša ina kakki mahșu,'' the one who is smitten by the weapon'','' is a later learned exposition of the original Akkadian name suggesting a (false) original Sumerian etymology. Below, another possibility proposed in Selz 1998 is presented sub. Concordance, Etymology, History. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>No Akkadian direct equivalence of the constellation name survives in cuneiform tradition. Another Sumerian name, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara, [**translation of the Sumerian here**] has been taken to be the source for names of the constellation loaned into Akkadian as ''šitaddaru'', ''šitadallu'', ''šidallu,'' which goes back deep into the second millennium BCE in a Old Babylonian Prayer to the Gods of the Night. Likewise, note ''ti-ša-at-ta-??lu'' in a lexical text from Emar. This last writing may in fact show a ''t''-''š'' interchange of ten found in t-root forms in Akkadian. Both exemplars suggest a Semitic origin for the term from the root ''šdr w''hich was then borrowed back into Sumerian as šita.dara'','' rather than the Akkadian being a loan-word the Sumerian. If so, the explanation of the Sumerian name in the Great Star List, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara = ''ša ina kakki mahșu,'' the one who is smitten by the weapon'','' is a later learned exposition of the original Akkadian name suggesting a (false) original Sumerian etymology. Below, another possibility proposed in Selz 1998 is presented sub. Concordance, Etymology, History. </div></td></tr>
</table>Rolandlaffittehttps://ase.exopla.net/index.php?title=SIPA.ZI.AN.NA&diff=39772&oldid=prevSushoff at 16:49, 12 March 20262026-03-12T16:49:27Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>SIPA.ZI.AN.NA (𒉺𒇻𒍣𒀭𒈾), 'The True Shepherd of Heaven' is the traditional Sumerian name for the main portion of classical [[Orion]] including the torso, arms, and legs. It is described as a male bearded human figure holding three objects (a ''kurkurru'', a lock, and key) in the Uranology group. His right hand and right heel are mentioned in the GU-text. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>SIPA.ZI.AN.NA (𒉺𒇻𒍣𒀭𒈾), 'The True Shepherd of Heaven' is the traditional Sumerian name for the main portion of classical [[Orion]] including the torso, arms, and legs. It is described as a male bearded human figure holding three objects (a ''kurkurru'', a lock, and key) in the Uranology group. His right hand and right heel are mentioned in the GU-text. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>No Akkadian direct equivalence of the constellation name survives in cuneiform tradition. Another Sumerian name, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara, [**translation of the Sumerian here**] has been taken to be the source for names of the constellation loaned into Akkadian as ''šitaddaru'', ''šitadallu'', ''šidallu,'' which goes back deep into the second millennium BCE in a Old Babylonian Prayer to the Gods of the Night. Likewise, note ''ti-ša-at-ta-??lu'' in a lexical text from Emar. This last writing may in fact show a ''t''-''š'' interchange of ten found in t-root forms in Akkadian. Both exemplars suggest a Semitic origin for the term from the root ''šdr w''hich was then borrowed back into Sumerian as šita.dara'','' rather than the Akkadian being a loan-word the Sumerian. If so, the explanation of the Sumerian name in the Great Star List, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara = ''ša ina kakki mahșu,'' the one who is smitten by the weapon'','' is a later learned exposition of the original Akkadian name suggesting a (false) original Sumerian etymology. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>Below, another possibility proposed in Selz 1998 is presented sub. Concordance, Etymology, History. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>No Akkadian direct equivalence of the constellation name survives in cuneiform tradition. Another Sumerian name, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara, [**translation of the Sumerian here**] has been taken to be the source for names of the constellation loaned into Akkadian as ''šitaddaru'', ''šitadallu'', ''šidallu,'' which goes back deep into the second millennium BCE in a Old Babylonian Prayer to the Gods of the Night. Likewise, note ''ti-ša-at-ta-??lu'' in a lexical text from Emar. This last writing may in fact show a ''t''-''š'' interchange of ten found in t-root forms in Akkadian. Both exemplars suggest a Semitic origin for the term from the root ''šdr w''hich was then borrowed back into Sumerian as šita.dara'','' rather than the Akkadian being a loan-word the Sumerian. If so, the explanation of the Sumerian name in the Great Star List, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara = ''ša ina kakki mahșu,'' the one who is smitten by the weapon'','' is a later learned exposition of the original Akkadian name suggesting a (false) original Sumerian etymology. Below, another possibility proposed in Selz 1998 is presented sub. Concordance, Etymology, History. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Another possible name for Orion is <sup>mul</sup>U<sub>5</sub>.RI<sub>2</sub>.IN, which occurs as a ''tikpu-star'' (i.e. asterism with a element consisting of small points of light close together to one another). If so, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del><sup>mul</sup>U<sub>5</sub>.RI<sub>2</sub>.IN could be a non-Sumerian, non-Semitic, and even non-Indo-European name for the constellation that was borrowed for [[Orion]] into Greek. If so, we would suggest that the ''tikpu''-element in 'The True Shepherd of Heaven' is what we know today as Orion's Belt. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Another possible name for Orion is <sup>mul</sup><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[U5.RI2.IN|</ins>U<sub>5</sub>.RI<sub>2</sub>.IN<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, which occurs as a ''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>tikpu<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>-star'' (i.e. asterism with a element consisting of small points of light close together to one another). If so, <sup>mul</sup>U<sub>5</sub>.RI<sub>2</sub>.IN could be a non-Sumerian, non-Semitic, and even non-Indo-European name for the constellation that was borrowed for [[Orion]] into Greek. If so, we would suggest that the ''tikpu''-element in 'The True Shepherd of Heaven' is what we know today as Orion's Belt. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Concordance, Etymology, History<ref>[[Mesopotamian (All Terms)|Planetarium Babylonicum 2.0]], All Skies Encyclopaedia.</ref>==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Concordance, Etymology, History<ref>[[Mesopotamian (All Terms)|Planetarium Babylonicum 2.0]], All Skies Encyclopaedia.</ref>==</div></td></tr>
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</table>Sushoffhttps://ase.exopla.net/index.php?title=SIPA.ZI.AN.NA&diff=39148&oldid=prevWayneHorowitz at 07:32, 26 February 20262026-02-26T07:32:14Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>SIPA.ZI.AN.NA (𒉺𒇻𒍣𒀭𒈾), 'The True Shepherd of Heaven' is the traditional Sumerian name for the main portion of classical [[Orion]] including the torso, arms, and legs. It is described as a male bearded human figure holding three objects (a ''kurkurru'', a lock, and key) in the Uranology group. His right hand and right heel are mentioned in the GU-text. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>SIPA.ZI.AN.NA (𒉺𒇻𒍣𒀭𒈾), 'The True Shepherd of Heaven' is the traditional Sumerian name for the main portion of classical [[Orion]] including the torso, arms, and legs. It is described as a male bearded human figure holding three objects (a ''kurkurru'', a lock, and key) in the Uranology group. His right hand and right heel are mentioned in the GU-text. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>No Akkadian direct equivalence of the constellation name survives in cuneiform tradition. Another Sumerian name, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara, [**translation of the Sumerian here**] has been taken to be the source for names of the constellation loaned into Akkadian as ''šitaddaru'', ''šitadallu'', ''šidallu,'' which goes back deep into the second millennium BCE in a Old Babylonian Prayer to the Gods of the Night. Likewise, note ''ti-ša-at-ta-??lu'' in a lexical text from Emar. This last writing may in fact show a ''t''-''š'' interchange of ten found in t-root forms in Akkadian. Both exemplars suggest a Semitic origin for the term from the root ''šdr w''hich was then borrowed back into Sumerian as šita.dara'','' rather than the Akkadian being a loan-word the Sumerian. If so, the explanation of the Sumerian name in the Great Star List, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara = ''ša ina kakki mahșu,'' the one who is smitten by the weapon'','' is a later learned exposition of the original Akkadian name suggesting a (false) original Sumerian etymology. Below, another possibility proposed <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is </del>Selz 1998 is presented sub. Concordance, Etymology, History. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>No Akkadian direct equivalence of the constellation name survives in cuneiform tradition. Another Sumerian name, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara, [**translation of the Sumerian here**] has been taken to be the source for names of the constellation loaned into Akkadian as ''šitaddaru'', ''šitadallu'', ''šidallu,'' which goes back deep into the second millennium BCE in a Old Babylonian Prayer to the Gods of the Night. Likewise, note ''ti-ša-at-ta-??lu'' in a lexical text from Emar. This last writing may in fact show a ''t''-''š'' interchange of ten found in t-root forms in Akkadian. Both exemplars suggest a Semitic origin for the term from the root ''šdr w''hich was then borrowed back into Sumerian as šita.dara'','' rather than the Akkadian being a loan-word the Sumerian. If so, the explanation of the Sumerian name in the Great Star List, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara = ''ša ina kakki mahșu,'' the one who is smitten by the weapon'','' is a later learned exposition of the original Akkadian name suggesting a (false) original Sumerian etymology. Below, another possibility proposed <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </ins>Selz 1998 is presented sub. Concordance, Etymology, History. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Another possible name for Orion is <sup>mul</sup>U<sub>5</sub>.RI<sub>2</sub>.IN, which occurs as a ''tikpu-star'' (i.e. asterism with a element consisting of small points of light close together to one another). If so, <sup>mul</sup>U<sub>5</sub>.RI<sub>2</sub>.IN could be a non-Sumerian, non-Semitic, and even non-Indo-European name for the constellation that was borrowed for [[Orion]] into Greek. If so, we would suggest that the ''tikpu''-element in 'The True Shepherd of Heaven' is what we know today as Orion's Belt. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Another possible name for Orion is <sup>mul</sup>U<sub>5</sub>.RI<sub>2</sub>.IN, which occurs as a ''tikpu-star'' (i.e. asterism with a element consisting of small points of light close together to one another). If so, <sup>mul</sup>U<sub>5</sub>.RI<sub>2</sub>.IN could be a non-Sumerian, non-Semitic, and even non-Indo-European name for the constellation that was borrowed for [[Orion]] into Greek. If so, we would suggest that the ''tikpu''-element in 'The True Shepherd of Heaven' is what we know today as Orion's Belt. </div></td></tr>
</table>WayneHorowitzhttps://ase.exopla.net/index.php?title=SIPA.ZI.AN.NA&diff=39147&oldid=prevWayneHorowitz at 07:31, 26 February 20262026-02-26T07:31:12Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>SIPA.ZI.AN.NA (𒉺𒇻𒍣𒀭𒈾), 'The True Shepherd of Heaven' is the traditional Sumerian name for the main portion of classical [[Orion]] including the torso, arms, and legs. It is described as a male bearded human figure holding three objects (a ''kurkurru'', a lock, and key) in the Uranology group. His right hand and right heel are mentioned in the GU-text. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>SIPA.ZI.AN.NA (𒉺𒇻𒍣𒀭𒈾), 'The True Shepherd of Heaven' is the traditional Sumerian name for the main portion of classical [[Orion]] including the torso, arms, and legs. It is described as a male bearded human figure holding three objects (a ''kurkurru'', a lock, and key) in the Uranology group. His right hand and right heel are mentioned in the GU-text. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>No Akkadian direct equivalence of the constellation name survives in cuneiform tradition. Another Sumerian name, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara, [**translation of the Sumerian here**] has been taken to be the source for names of the constellation loaned into Akkadian as ''šitaddaru'', ''šitadallu'', ''šidallu,'' which goes back deep into the second millennium BCE in a Old Babylonian Prayer to the Gods of the Night. Likewise, note ''ti-ša-at-ta-??lu'' in a lexical text from Emar. This last writing may in fact show a ''t''-''š'' interchange of ten found in t-root forms in Akkadian. Both exemplars suggest a Semitic origin for the term from the root ''šdr w''hich was then borrowed back into Sumerian as šita.dara'','' rather than the Akkadian being a loan-word the Sumerian. If so, the explanation of the Sumerian name in the Great Star List, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara = ''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sha </del>ina kakki <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mahtsu</del>,'' the one who is smitten by the weapon'','' is a later learned exposition of the original Akkadian name suggesting a (false) original Sumerian etymology. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>No Akkadian direct equivalence of the constellation name survives in cuneiform tradition. Another Sumerian name, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara, [**translation of the Sumerian here**] has been taken to be the source for names of the constellation loaned into Akkadian as ''šitaddaru'', ''šitadallu'', ''šidallu,'' which goes back deep into the second millennium BCE in a Old Babylonian Prayer to the Gods of the Night. Likewise, note ''ti-ša-at-ta-??lu'' in a lexical text from Emar. This last writing may in fact show a ''t''-''š'' interchange of ten found in t-root forms in Akkadian. Both exemplars suggest a Semitic origin for the term from the root ''šdr w''hich was then borrowed back into Sumerian as šita.dara'','' rather than the Akkadian being a loan-word the Sumerian. If so, the explanation of the Sumerian name in the Great Star List, <sup>mul</sup>šita.dara = ''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ša </ins>ina kakki <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mahșu</ins>,'' the one who is smitten by the weapon'','' is a later learned exposition of the original Akkadian name suggesting a (false) original Sumerian etymology. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> Below, another possibility proposed is Selz 1998 is presented sub. Concordance, Etymology, History. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Another possible name for Orion is <sup>mul</sup>U<sub>5</sub>.RI<sub>2</sub>.IN, which occurs as a ''tikpu-star'' (i.e. asterism with a element consisting of small points of light close together to one another). If so, <sup>mul</sup>U<sub>5</sub>.RI<sub>2</sub>.IN could be a non-Sumerian, non-Semitic, and even non-Indo-European name for the constellation that was borrowed for [[Orion]] into Greek. If so, we would suggest that the ''tikpu''-element in 'The True Shepherd of Heaven' is what we know today as Orion's Belt. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Another possible name for Orion is <sup>mul</sup>U<sub>5</sub>.RI<sub>2</sub>.IN, which occurs as a ''tikpu-star'' (i.e. asterism with a element consisting of small points of light close together to one another). If so, <sup>mul</sup>U<sub>5</sub>.RI<sub>2</sub>.IN could be a non-Sumerian, non-Semitic, and even non-Indo-European name for the constellation that was borrowed for [[Orion]] into Greek. If so, we would suggest that the ''tikpu''-element in 'The True Shepherd of Heaven' is what we know today as Orion's Belt. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hoffmann and Krebernik (2023).<ref>Hoffmann, S. M. and Krebernik, M. (2023). What do deities tell us about the celestial positioning system, in: R. Rollinger, I. Madreiter, M. Lang, C. Pappi (eds.). The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East, Papers held at the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique International and 12th Melammu Symposium July 16-20 2018, Innsbruck. Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 539-579</ref> <blockquote>The sumerogram means “true shepherd of heaven”. Its Akk. equivalent has several variants; in the earliest attestations (OB prayer to the Gods of the Night) it appears as ''ši-ta-(ad)-da-ru''. The etymology is opaque. If the equation SIPA.E.NE ‘herdsmen’ = ''ti-ša-at-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">talu</del>'' in a lexical text from Emar is not a secondary development, it could point to an ancient term for “shepherd”. cf. Selz 1998 [Fs. Römer, AOAT253], 300: “Damit dürfte die Verbindung unserer Berufsbezeichnung [scil. NAMEŠDA] mit der Šita-Waffe, der als Wurfkeule bekannten Hirtenwaffe, außer Zweifel stehen.” Ancient scribes, assuming a Sum. origin *šita-ta-ra(-a), explained the Akk. term as ''ša ina kakki maḫṣu'' “he who was slain with the weapon”. For references see CAD Š/3 128 s.v. ''šitadallu''. <sup>mul</sup>SIPA.ZI.AN.NA (AN 7l). For the twins in front of <sup>mul</sup>SIPA.ZI.AN.NA see ''LatSAA 8''<ref name=":3">''Hunger H.'' Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. Helsinki, 1992 (State Archives of Assyria, VIII).</ref>.</blockquote></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hoffmann and Krebernik (2023).<ref>Hoffmann, S. M. and Krebernik, M. (2023). What do deities tell us about the celestial positioning system, in: R. Rollinger, I. Madreiter, M. Lang, C. Pappi (eds.). The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East, Papers held at the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique International and 12th Melammu Symposium July 16-20 2018, Innsbruck. Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 539-579</ref> <blockquote>The sumerogram means “true shepherd of heaven”. Its Akk. equivalent has several variants; in the earliest attestations (OB prayer to the Gods of the Night) it appears as ''ši-ta-(ad)-da-ru''. The etymology is opaque. If the equation SIPA.E.NE ‘herdsmen’ = ''ti-ša-at-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ta-šlu</ins>'' in a lexical text from Emar is not a secondary development, it could point to an ancient term for “shepherd”. cf. Selz 1998 [Fs. Römer, AOAT253], 300: “Damit dürfte die Verbindung unserer Berufsbezeichnung [scil. NAMEŠDA] mit der Šita-Waffe, der als Wurfkeule bekannten Hirtenwaffe, außer Zweifel stehen.” Ancient scribes, assuming a Sum. origin *šita-ta-ra(-a), explained the Akk. term as ''ša ina kakki maḫṣu'' “he who was slain with the weapon”. For references see CAD Š/3 128 s.v. ''šitadallu''. <sup>mul</sup>SIPA.ZI.AN.NA (AN 7l). For the twins in front of <sup>mul</sup>SIPA.ZI.AN.NA see ''LatSAA 8''<ref name=":3">''Hunger H.'' Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. Helsinki, 1992 (State Archives of Assyria, VIII).</ref>.</blockquote></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Ori+umgebung planiJena2020 smh 2014.jpg|thumb|Orion in Old Babylonian drawing style (CC BY R. Perdok, LWL Planetarium Münster) as a shepherd, mapped to the planetarium sky (photo by SMH in Planetarium Jena). ]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Ori+umgebung planiJena2020 smh 2014.jpg|thumb|Orion in Old Babylonian drawing style (CC BY R. Perdok, LWL Planetarium Münster)<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref>Hoffmann, S.M. (2017). History of Constellations as popularization of uranometry, in: Wolfschmidt, Gudrun (ed.). Nuncius Hamburgensis Bd. 41, tredition Verlag, 135-157</ref> </ins>as a shepherd, mapped to the planetarium sky (photo by SMH in Planetarium Jena). ]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>SIPA.ZI.AN.NA (𒉺𒇻𒍣𒀭𒈾), 'The True Shepherd of Heaven' is the traditional Sumerian name for the main portion of classical [[Orion]] including the torso, arms, and legs. It is described as a male bearded human figure holding three objects (a ''kurkurru'', a lock, and key) in the Uranology group. His right hand and right heel are mentioned in the GU-text. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>SIPA.ZI.AN.NA (𒉺𒇻𒍣𒀭𒈾), 'The True Shepherd of Heaven' is the traditional Sumerian name for the main portion of classical [[Orion]] including the torso, arms, and legs. It is described as a male bearded human figure holding three objects (a ''kurkurru'', a lock, and key) in the Uranology group. His right hand and right heel are mentioned in the GU-text. </div></td></tr>
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