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Winged Bulls

Also known as Lammasu, our ancient Assyrian Kings placed pairs of these magnificent limestone guardians at the portals of all our ancient palaces to protect the palace from malevolent forces that would seek to harm the King and Empire. When rediscovered in the 1850s by Austin Henry Layard the Lammasu became the chief symbol of the ancient Assyrians.

Using a subtle and complex symbolism the Lamassu portrayed the intelligence, but also wisdom of a human, controlling the strength of a muscular and very powerful bull with the speed and skill of a graceful winged eagle.

Our typical Assyrian King also had many royal wives and would sire children with most of them during their reign. Problem was that not all the male heirs could be crowned King and in order to reduce the possibility of a civil war, in which Assyrian would kill Assyrian, the most fitting one son was usually chosen to be made King. Most of the other Kings' sons, not being as worthy, were then transformed into Eunuchs through a royal castration ceremony. These castrated men were usually then employed as harem attendants or as dignitaries in Assyrians courts.

Fast forward to the present and we see in our modern symbols the way in which we have unconsciously portrayed ourselves.

Instead of placing winged bulls on our logos, web pages, T-shirts and memorabilia we have instead adopted a fitting symbol of our modern people. The winged cow.

Perhaps this thoughtless desecration of our ancient art was purposely done by us to protect our innocent Christian-Assyrian children from seeing the bull's genitalis, but in my opinion this symbolic desecration lies at the core of our problems. We have an inferiority complex of massive proportions and this self-loathing makes itself evident in our symbols today.

In Australia we have a group called the Victorian Assyrian Community who have used the Lammsau, minus his genitalis as their logo for more then 20 years. When I mentioned that they should change their logo and use a winged bull instead of a winged cow they brushed off my remarks and explained that no-one pays attention to such minute details.

Meanwhile Ninos Aho became a little upset at me when I walked off during the middle of a community meeting with him after seeing one of our best Assyrian poets gifting his sponsors, the Beth Nahrain Cultural Club a plaque with a winged cow on it last time he was in Melbourne.

And over here on the Assyrian Forum, which is proudly brought to you by Assyria online, the first ever Assyrian homepage - established in 1997 - they continue to use the winged cow as their symbol even after Hanna Hajjar pointed out years ago that it is sacrilegious to use this symbol to portray us.

Now guess which of the world's main religions would demand the tampering of genitalis in order for people to join?
Why it's none other than Judaism, the religion we first adopted after dumping Ashur. This is the same religion that later branched off into Christianity and then Islam.

It should then come as no surprise that our holy books have our Syriac letters yoot, heh on their covers, professing our loyalty to YawHeh the Jewish god. Our priests read Psalm 137:8-9 in lishana atiqua, of course, in our churches, in which it demands that we please our new Jewish god and dash our children’s' tiny heads on stones.

It may be part of Ashur's great plan that the same symbolism used by our ancestors portrays us so aptly today. And how fitting that our ancestors were symbolised by Winged bulls whereas we are today symbolised by Winged Cows.

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