>>21833483>>21833490>>21833528>>21833532You will never look like Hercules.
>Hercules, the Greeks’ favorite hero is described as dark (melanan), hook-nosed (grupon) by Dicaearchus (Clement of Alexandria, “Protreptic to the Greeks” 2.30.7). Hercules was also proverbially melampugos (having a black behind) as indicative of his bravery, as opposed to pugargos (having a white behind), a coward>The first Assyrian conqueror of note was Tukulti-Ninurta I. It seems very likely that he served as the original inspiration for the Greek legend of Ninus. In the Greek legend, Ninus singlehandedly founds Nineveh, conquers all of Babylonia and Armenia, and the nomadic regions to the east as well, founding the Assyrian Empire. It seems quite possible that, in analogous fashion, "Ninurta" became "Nimrod" (son of Cush/Nubia and grandson of Ham/Africa) to the editors of Genesis. There is a city named Nimrod in Mesopotamia which is the seat of the temple of Ninurta; a city which never had a king and was ruled by the priests of Ninurta who kept their god as the symbolic kinghttps://sdbiblestudy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/The-Greater-Bundahishn-Creation-of-Zoroastrianism.pdf>CHAPTER 20, B>This, too,] one says, “Jamshed, when [his] light had departed from him, took a she-dev to wife, and gave his sister Jami to a dev to wife, owing to the fear [of] the devs; the ape, the bear, [the resident of the forest,] the tailed being, and other noxious races arose from them; [his lineage did not progress therefrom.”>As regards the black one one says, “Azi Zohak [Nimrod], during his reign, let loose a dev on a young woman, and let loose a young man on a parik [pixie]. They performed coition with [the sight] of the apparition; the black one came into being through that [novel] kind of coition.” When Freton came, they went away from Eranshahr, and formed a settlement on the seacoast. Now, [on] the coming of the Arabs, they have again mingled in Eranshahr 