Ev Cochrane details the origin of the myths of MARS, including its role in the polar configuration and why the red planet is seen as the paramour and husband of Inanna, the Queen of Heaven. This is a re-release of his conference presentation at EU2017.
The name for Mars comes from the cult of the Latin god Mars and that the characteristics of the Latin god are closely paralleled in the earliest Babylonian descriptions of the red planet. Far from being confined to the ancient Near East alone, the very same Mars-motifs are depicted in the New World, ancient China, and aboriginal Australia—yet few make any sense by reference to Mars today.
A highly respected comparative mythologist, Ev Cochrane is the author of Martian Metamorphoses (1997), The Many Faces of Venus (2001), Starf*cker (2006), On Fossil Gods and Forgotten Worlds (2010), and Phaethon (2017).
Read below from the back cover of Ev Cochrane’s forthcoming new book, The Case of the Turquoise Sun (2024), summarizing nearly a half-century’s worth of research into ancient myth and archaeoastronomy.
“History matters, not only as an intellectual endeavor but because it remains with us at all times, shaping our lives in countless ways seen and unseen. Yet the history being taught at the top universities today is largely fictional in nature and in dire need of revision. This is nowhere more apparent than in modern astronomy and its uniformitarian understanding of the solar system’s recent history. The book before the reader provides compelling evidence that a different sun—a Turquoise Sun—dominated the sky well within the memory of Humankind. It is this Turquoise Sun which was the subject of creation myths around the globe, myths which continue to shape virtually every aspect of human civilization to this very day.”
