The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum

=> Re: your disposition & an observation!

Re: your disposition & an observation!
Posted by Tiglath (Guest) - Friday, August 11 2006, 16:10:01 (CEST)
from 211.28.178.175 - c211-28-178-175.eburwd3.vic.optusnet.com.au Australia - Windows XP - Internet Explorer
Website:
Website title:

>***I don't think your in a position to tell anyone what to do. Perhaps you should tell "pancho" not to insult me when he says that I worship a Jew and that I am not Assyrian because I do not worship Ashur but rather worship Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God. Where is you neutrality there? And try to address what issue? I had posted an article and "Pancho" decided to, as always, tell me that were he trying to post on an Assyrian site he would not be allowed to. Perhaps he should wake up and see that this is because he is a blind fool lost in his conspiracy theories and Pagan worship.

### Dear Concerned Assyrian, with all due respect he was simply making a statement about how Christianity and Assyrianism are opposed to each other. There are many of us who happen to agree with him. In fact there's even a temple dedicated to our old religion that has been opened just 15 minutes from where I live. Here's the Zinda article I wrote about it.



First Anniversary of the Ishtar Temple

David Tiglath Chibo
Australia

(ZNDA: Australia) My first invitation to the Ishtar temple began two days before the end of 2005 in the form of a phone call. On the other end of the line was Zayya Odicho. “You have been invited to attend the 1st Anniversary of the Ishtar Temple,” he said coyly, before giving me the time and place for the event and quickly hanging up.

I had heard only whispered rumours about this place from other activists and colleagues alike, so my curiosity was definitely kindled. I imagined myself being blindfolded and driven to a secret location where they'd make me repeat a fight-clubesque chant before being granted access.


Zayya Odicho welcomes people to the 1st Anniversary of the Ishtar temple.
"The first rule about Ishtar temple is you don't talk about Ishtar temple. The second rule about Ishtar temple is you don't talk about Ishtar temple!"

But I then managed to catch myself in mid-thought and snap back into reality. Why else would they have invited a Zinda Magazine reporter to their temple if they didn't want media coverage?

On 1st January, 2006 at around 4pm, after parking my car and stepping out, I saw the three dimensional multi-coloured Assyrian star - similar to the design that adorned the Assyrian flag – emblazed across the entrance to the Ishtar temple. As I approached the front entrance the following words were adorned across it, “The Goddess of Love, Beauty and Fertility, Symbol of mother nature.”

I entered and was welcomed to the first year anniversary of the establishment of the Ishtar temple. The ceremony began at 4:30pm when three girls took nine helium filled balloons and released them to commemorate the event.


Ornina Esho reads out an ancient prayer to the Goddess Ishtar.
Zayya Odicho, the Master of Ceremonies, then stood and welcomed everyone to the event by boldly declaring in Syriac, “This is the 1st Year Anniversary of the Ishtar Temple. A temple that has been established for the first time in over 2,543 years!” He elaborated further explaining that 545 BC was the year in which ancient Babylon fell to the Persians.

The Ishtar Temple had been specifically established on the first day of the Western calendar not to give us a holiday but as a day of commemoration that will not interfere with the other Ishtar and Tammuz holidays throughout the year. These included the resurrection of Ishtar and Tammuz from the netherworld and the Assyrian-Babylonian New Year, currently adapted by the Christians and called Easter, during the Spring Equinox, March 21st. There was also Christmas which took place 9 months later during the Winter Solstice, December 21st, in which Tammuz is born and Christians celebrate by placing evergreen Tammuz trees in their homes, which they decorate with silver and gold trimmings.

Mr. Odicho began. “The Ishtar Temple’s aim is to awaken Assyrians from their deadly slumber and tell them to not be embarrassed by people who label their ancestors’ heathen. Especially since we today know that the major holidays of Christianity have been derived from our ancestors’ ancient holidays.”

He then began to read out numerous international letters that had been sent to the Ishtar Temple on the occasion from around the world to the group of 30 men, women and children that had gathered for the event.


The ladies link arms and dance in celebration of the event.
An ancient prayer to the Goddess Ishtar was then read out by Zayya Odicho in both Syriac and English. He was followed by Dr. Salam Dinkha who repeated the prayer in Arabic.

Said Esho and his daughter Ornina Esho were next and as Said played a musical piece he had specifically composed for the event, Ornina read out an ancient prayer to the Goddess Ishtar dating back to 1500 BC.

After the poems, prayers and speeches had been read out traditional Assyrian music was played as the guests linked arms and danced traditional dances. The women wearing flowers around their neck took pride in celebrating the customs of their ancient ancestors.

“We want to tell the world that our Goddess Ishtar has returned into the hearts and minds of her followers. We want this day to remind us of the first civilisation in history,” Zayya Odicho proudly declared.

All interested readers wishing to contact Zayya Odicho can e-mail him at zayyaodicho@hotmail.com.



---------------------


The full topic:



Content-length: 5915
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, applicatio...
Accept-encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-language: en-au
Cache-control: no-cache
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cookie: *hidded*
Host: www.insideassyria.com
Referer: http://www.insideassyria.com/rkvsf4/rkvsf_core.php?Re_your_disposition_an_observation-EGav.4BGV.QUOTE
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)



Powered by RedKernel V.S. Forum 1.2.b9