#Jabru

[transmetropolitan]

Cómo andan ustedes? En general. La comida cómo es? Tu señora anda bien?

Jaja que onda recien veo este ask.

Nada, todo bien con la jabru acá. La comida acá en comparación es mejor que en Noruega, pero sigue siendo una bosta. Los alemanes tienen 1000 manes de comer salchicha, y son todas malisimas: salchicha en lata, salchicha en frasco, salchicha seca, salchicha rellena, salchicha en salmuera, salchicha de pavo. Lo que quieras.

Yo ando laburando en un hotel, es de alta categoria así que no esta mal, no me molesta mulear ahí. Mi mujer no tiene un trabajo fijo, pero se las arregla chambeando limpiando para unas casas, y saca buenos euros con eso. Lo bueno es que acá hay gente que ayuda (no mucho los alemanes). Nosotros caimos acá porque un colombiano nos presta el departamento por 4 meses mientras el esta en Colombia y eso nos facilita un monton lo de buscar alquiler por un tiempo, ademas de que el chabon tecnicamente no puede subalquilarnos, pero lo hace igual porque esta podrido de la inmobiliara del lugar. Lo unico malo es que hay una vieja chota, chotisima, que vive acá hace como 50 años, no me la quiero ni cruzar ya.

Terminando esos 4 meses vamos a vivir en el departamento de una mina que lo unico que pide son 300 euros por mes (generalmente piden 900 en alquiler acá) y que le cuidemos una chinchilla. Nada, un regalo, solo espero que no se me muera el bicho.

Y por lo general? La verdad que me decepciona Alemania, o al menos el lugar donde estamos ahora, Leipzig, que es parte de Sajonia. No podemos esperar a volver a Argentina (con Milei y todo), que seguramente lo hagamos empezando septiembre, eso si no queremos hacer una escapadita a algún país antes de volver. La verdad que es muy fácil planear un viaje en europa, eso se los reconozco, todo transporte esta muy bien conectado. Hace un mes hicimos una escapada a Praga, en Republica Checa (allá donde hicieron Monster), y fue hermoso, y lo mejor fue que, nose, lo planeamos 5 días antes de ir para allá.

Despues, digo que Alemania decepciona porque primero que no se gana mucho, al menos no tanto como en noruega. Los impuestos son salados, generalmente te sacan un 30% del sueldo por todo. Ah y son bastante racistas por acá. Entiendo que cualquiera mayor a 40 vio caer el muro de Berlin y tuvo que pasar a vivir en un mundo muy diferente, pero que chotos que son eh. Ni ingles te hablan. Por suerte estamos en Leipzig, que, en palabras de una alemana que nos ayudo con un tramite, es "una burbuja de anti-fascista en medio de Sajonia", ja porque sera, no? Son super fachos en Sajonia (y en muchas partes de alemania), muchos alemanes jovenes lo reconocen. Yo estuve 2 meses antes de encontrar trabajo acá porque simplemente no me dejaban; o me rebotaban porque mi visa no les gustaba o me rebotaban porque me pedían un nivel de aleman C1 para limpiar inodoros. Onda, dale, mucho primer mundo, pero no podes decir ni good morning en ingles. La única razón por la que tengo trabajo es porque mi jefe es venezolano y se apiado un poco de mi situación.

Y me da un poco de bronca porque hay muchos que siguen militando el venir a trabajar a estos países, que vengas así nomás, que ni falta hace aprender ingles. No tienen idea de lo que es pasarla mal en un país que no conoces ni entendes. Solo quiero terminar la temporada de verano acá, que se trabaja bien, y poder volver al mejor país del mundo. Los meses que este en Argentina seguramente solo me dedique a estudiar, que es lo que más quiero porque ando pateando hacer mi perfil de programador y base de datos de hace rato.

Así estamos país, y se lo hemos contado.

[powerwordkrill]

katherine titles go

COOL SO HER NAMES AND TITLES ARE AS FOLLOWS

Cassandra Jones

Cassandra Jabru

Cassandra Jabru Khan

Khan of the Undead City of Samedi

Cassie (what her wife called her)

Katherine (memory wipe)

La Phantasma, The Ghost, The Lich (start of her vigilante work and different gangs in the city came up with names for her)

Aunt Cat (she babysat the orcish grandkid of the woman whose antique store she rented a room in)

The Leech (cops gave her an official vigilante name cause they hate her now 💖)

[laurasearles]

Editorial Director (vibe curator)

For the past two years, Laura has been working as Editorial Director for Marine Snow, a new discovery/community platform featured in RA, Holly Herndon’s “Interdependence,” and other music publications. 

Laura’s editorial picks/curation of music for the platform have been featured on

The FADER

EARMILK

DJ Mag

i-D Magazine (Italy)

Artists licensed: 

Merely, The Growth Eternal, Katie Dey, Armen Nalbandian, Dove, Bliss Gloss, Lucrecia Dalt, Ariel & The Culture, Fievel Is Glauque, Jenys, Lokey, River Moon, Midwife, Garrett David, Semiratruth, Swordman Kitala, Nicolini, MIRRROR, CLIP, Kaja Draksler Octet, Jeremiah Meece, Stanley Star, Hunter Paris, Sovereign State, Nelson Bandela, GAWD, PACKS, K-rAd, Colloboh, Saint Taint, Ada Rook, Marti, Grant Pavol, Malak, Canteen Killa, Deniro Farrar, Cory Champion, Folded Voices, Iftiin Band, Sueuga Kamau & La Favi, Laraaji, Orlando Voorn, Fina, DJ Maaco, Big Dope P, John Moods, Cakes Da Killa, CFCF, Gaunt, Buz, GOJII, Best Fern, Toxe, Cleo Reed, Strange Ranger, Girls Rituals, Banny Grove, Maya Ricci, Princess Ketamine & diana starshine, Bloodshot Bill, Ronald Langestraat, Brandon Ares, Nappy Nina, Leonce, Eliphino, Camden Malik, Cottontail, AnnonXL, Stonie Blue, MuddyMya, CV Vision, Money Lang, Ruth Goller, Sven Wunder, Meishi Smile, JWords, dj genderfluid, Kelora, Folie, Contour, Subsonic Eye, Claude Speeed, Nonna Fab, “Bamba Pana & John Pita", Simili Gum, Computerwife, Mother Cell, Emissive, Gafacci & Black-Lo, Braxton Cook, DavidTheTragic, Tammy Lakkis, Le Makeup & JUMADIBA, FLOSSING, Vance Eris, reuben, Lamorn, DJ Earl, ssaliva, DJ SWISHA & AceMo, TOKYOPILL, Oliver Coates Chrisman & Tshongo Le Magnifique, Jabru, Flo & Lithium, Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet, Cute Door, Miles French, Phonewifey, Mal Devisa, Ayegy, Lav Andula, Petal Supply, Nana Lourdes, ABADIR, Orchid, Flwr Chyld, Hook, Luka Productions & Rokia Koné, Big Dope P & Paul Johnson, Sitcom, fauna, Bickle, Palmistry, Paul Damian Hogan, Angel Bat Dawid, Dirty Bird, Swami Sound, Divine Interface, KC Wray, Bitty McLean, Nunu Belle, Pregnant, Kate Brunotts, 27Delly & Lil Gotit, Quiet Luke, Roland P. Young, Talia Goddess, Oui Ennui, AJRadico, Alexia Avina, Gengis Don & Malaya, Risqué III & K' Alexi Shelby, Juliet Fox, Gabe 'Nandez, Osquello, Beshken, Kelvin T, Ted Kamal, Jennifer Walton, Alto Aria, Jimi Lucid, Savile, Aether Jag, ZAH, Maya Crux, Joshua Asante, Abyss X, Yan Higa, Odete, quannnic, Rosa Pistola, DJ Re:Code, Lidell Townsell, Paive, James Tillman, Internet Death, Evanora Unlimited, TV Room, Family Time, 0kHz, Big Dope P & Katie Got Bandz, Aj simons, bronclair, cutouts, ARTHUR, Ship Sket, Silver Liz, Glitch Gum, HYRADIANCE, Saint Taint, mediopicky, Babebee, Maddie Jay, TAHIR, Coolhand Jax, cktrl, plastic pet, 5v, ilinx, dochi, digifae, Folie, DJ ORANGE JULIUS, nono, Cute Door, Daisy Mortem, 48thST, Maya Nadir, kaixan, YIJIA, SOLIS, Adeodat Warfield, Danny Dwyer, Ola Pang, Caine Casket, Orchid, Kahlil Blu, Danger Incorporated, Vayda, Ayegy, Louke Man, Elujay, Jeremiah Meece, K' Alexi Shelby & Tony Loveless, KAVARI, LustSickPuppy, Maki Adams, Avition, ADA ROOK, odd eyes, CJ808, Adder, diana starshine, Yesterdayneverhappened, DJ MELL G, Klara Zangerl, ARIA VEIL, Earl Dawgit, Lux Vimdor, S1NINJA, Angsty Camboyz Revenge, Trinity Carbon, AKAI SOLO, YhapoJJ, Tochi Bedford, Zack Oke & OSK, Taz Modi , es.cher, Rocco Bunko, Mvntana, alesloveletters, Soft-Bodied Humans & Swordman Kitala, cumgirl8, Harto Falion, Ade Kassim, Rebel 7 & Huzur, The South Hill Experiment, AYLØ & JoulesDaKid, Screen Name, dashie, Luka Productions, demahjiae, TLIM SHUG, Tony Shhnow, Bergsonist, Norman Whiteside, Muddy, Nathan Bajar & Pink Siifu, Martyn Bootyspoon

[thewinedarksea]

myths around the world challenge: @ibuzoo & @thewinedarksea

elamite - jabru, god of the underworld and father of all gods

[thewickedsound]

The Wicked Sound Playlist #29 (2021) New Music Jazz Funk Soul Reggae Beats

  New music from Blue Lab Beats, Kiefer, Tall Black Guy, Ozay Moore, KUMBAYA, Cookin Soul, Freddie Gibbs, New Cool Collective, Irreversible Entanglements, Barrett Martin Group, Byron the Aquarius, Shunaji, Takuya Kuroda, Unc D, Cotton Mom, Kevin Maxwell Smith, Thin Thicket, Tommy Lehman, Gino West, Adibanti, Jackson Mathod, Okvsho, Theo Croker, Thiago França, A Espetacular Charanga do França, Jim Funnell's Word Out, Umberto Echo, Theon Cross, Tony Allen, Hugh Masekela, Adrian Quesada, Brownout, Tomar Williams, FFSYTHO, Jabru, Alice Russell, Gregory Porter, Troy Miller.       01. Blue Lab Beats, Kiefer - Dat It 02. Tall Black Guy, Ozay Moore, KUMBAYA - Viberite 03. Cookin Soul, Freddie Gibbs - Thug Till It's Over 04. New Cool Collective - Shiku 05. Irreversible Entanglements - Lágrimas Del Mar 06. Barrett Martin Group - Please Come Back, She Said To The Sun 07. Byron the Aquarius - Universal Insanity 08. Shunaji - Black Girl Blues 09. Takuya Kuroda - Brand New Shoes 10. Unc D - Trash Happy 11. Adibanti, Jackson Mathod - Mollusc 12. Okvsho - Je suis au jardin 13. Theo Croker - Soul Call || Vibrate 14. Thiago França, A Espetacular Charanga do França - Cheia De Manias 15. Jim Funnell's Word Out, Umberto Echo - Lesser Vice 16. Theon Cross - Forward Progression II 17. Tony Allen, Hugh Masekela - We've Landed - Cool Cats Mix 18. Adrian Quesada, Brownout, Tomar Williams - Funky Chick 19. FFSYTHO, Jabru, Alice Russell - Keep On 20. Gregory Porter, Troy Miller - Dry Bones     Listen to The Wicked Sound weekly playlist #29 (2021) new playlist with new music across Jazz, Funk, Soul, Reggae, Electronic music and Hip Hop Beats below:     Read the full article

[nawanagartime]

જામનગરના રાજ પાર્કમાં વર્લી મટકાનું જબરું નેટવર્ક ઝડપાયું

જામનગરના રાજ પાર્કમાં વર્લી મટકાનું જબરું નેટવર્ક ઝડપાયું

જામનગર : જામનગરમાં રાજ પાર્ક વિસ્તારમાં શિવમ રેસિડેન્સીમાં રહેતા એક વર્લીંના ધંધાર્થી ના રહેણાંક મકાન પર લોકલ ક્રાઈમ બ્રાંચની ટીમે દરોડો પાડી વરલીના આંકડા લખી રહેલા બે બુકીઓને પકડી પાડયા છે, અને તેના ઘરમાંથી રોકડ રકમ તથા વર્લીં મટકાનું થોકબંધ સાહિત્ય કબજે કર્યું છે. જ્યારે તેની સાથે આંકડાની કપાત કરનારા અન્ય 12 ગ્રાહકોને ફરારી જાહેર કરાયા છે. જામનગર મા રાજપાર્ક શિવમ રેસીડેન્સી ફ્લેટ નંબર 501માં…

[yamayuandadu]

Weekly Wikipedia repairs roundup

PLEASE NOTE: since nobody ever has anything to say about the subject matter, no matter how long the articles are, and they did not really lead to any of my articles being nominated for the “good” status or anything, I will most likely cease posting these. They are pointless, equally pointless as the server meant to help with finding people willing to join the editing was.

Namtar, sukkal of Ereshkigal. He has a mother, a wife and a daughter which has far reaching hitherto unexplored implications.

Alalu, an ancestor of Anu in Mesopotamia and a primordial king of gods in Hurrian mythology, where he is confusingly NOT an ancestor of Anu according to most recent translations. His son is instead the Enlil counterpart, Kumarbi.

Shaushka, “Ishtar of Subartu” and one of the two deities to be called “Ishtar of Nineveh.” Going to risk and say that in modern terms you could call her genderfluid since a male Shaushka shows up in the most famous depiction of the Hurrian pantheon, and some rituals mention both a male and female form (I left the category tags pertaining to what I assume are other people’s attempts at identifying this phenomenon with a modern label, though). Much like her Mesopotamian counterpart, she has various wacky adventures in myth, ranging from enforcing her brother’s claim to kingship in heaven to raising a sentient olive tree. Very underrated imo.

Ruhurater, an Elamite deity who may or may not be named “creator of man” despite appearing only in a handful of sources.

Jabru, purported Elamite god with pretty serious credentials (”Enlil of Elam,” “Anu of Elam”) who by some miracle does not seem to exist outside of Mesopotamian god lists.

Hendursaga, cop god.

[tzftw]

Jabru the Deceived.

Custom Guardian of Souls

Made with the body and head of a mounted night of shrouds, lantern from a guardian of souls, spirits from a Lord executioner, chain and ground "swish" from my bits box, base from some sigmarine. Fairly proud of the paint job, first time using nuln oil (I am in love with this black juice!) and trying this ghost effect (which I will now use on some spirit hosts). May have to move away from using a silver base coat (which looks good in person, adding a nice shimmer, but not so great on photos).

[joemuggs]

He’s Gone

Reposted from Facebook... 

Processing this one is really difficult. Andrew Weatherall's music and cultural influence were a staple in my life from the age of 15: probably the most consistent single musical thread for the 30 years since, in fact. I was, and am, a shameless, total fanboy. All my school, Quaker and university friends know what an obsessive I was - I sat outside HMV waiting for it to open on the day of release to get my 12" of "Higher Than the Sun", and hitch hiked from South Oxfordshire to Leicester to see Primal Scream with him DJing that same year... I was unutterably envious of older kids at sixth form who managed to get to Boys Own parties. His early remixes of Galliano, Yello, Throbbing Gristle, James, The Impossibles, The Orb etc etc etc joined so many dots, but crucially he led me to incredible older music - just his remix titles ("American Spring", "Nancy & Lee") alone were a springboard for discovery. They taught us what I'm now realising that the rest of the world is only now catching up with: that you CAN be into everything, that you CAN navigate the glut of information in our culture, as long as you understand the signposts, as long as you do it with skill and finesse, but also with a devil-may-care sense of adventure and humour that punctures any over earnestness, stops it being a dry, diagrammatic exercise, and makes what you're doing part of the living culture.

And as I got more involved with music and particularly club music he was always there. He was hugely supportive of Cristian Vogel and co, when the rest of the UK techno scene wasn't giving them the props they deserved. I constantly heard stories of him supporting artists like that (and more recently he lent his keen support to to Jabru after I passed him an album)... I had the opportunity to meet him a few times - first through Emma, Cristian and co, and later when I met Elliot who was working for Rotters Golf Club, and Richie who knew him of old - but was WAY too scared and introverted to, and he did after all have a formidable reputation. I did shout "you're great!" or "this is amazing!" at him in a couple of nightclubs, mind. But I continued following his every musical move, which were always great (see the articles I've posted already). From seeing him drop the acetate of "Sugar Daddy" after the lights came up in a sweat drenched Zap club, to feeling like the entire party was underwater at a Haywire Session, so wobbly was the bass, to seeing him play The Fall and the rawest rockabilly in an Islington pub, to playing dub in a beautiful light and airy Crystal Palace studio for a Moine Dubh session, to that cosmic-ambient NTS special last month - he kept delivering. The number of references to him in Bass, Mids, Tops show clearly how his influence has echoed down the generations, and been a vital connector through the music that I'm obsessed with.

I finally met him in person about 7 years ago: I saw him standing in a sunny field at Camp Bestival in his "impressionist painter on an away day" outfit, and plucked up the courage to say hi. He was, as you'll expect from all the stories that people have posted the last 24 hours, an absolute gent. He said "oh I know who you are" - always a scary phrase - but continued it by listing off a set of my things he'd read recently in the WIRE, picking out my report from DMZ's 8th birthday that year as just the sort of thing he likes: "a bulletin from something I haven't really got a clue about but I'm glad exists," he said. Funnily enough I then bumped into him again later that day at Burger King in Winchester Services and he said hi to the kids and again chatted jovially.

After that we stayed in touch. I interviewed him a couple of times, most notably around the first Woodleigh Research Facility album, and every so often I'd stop in at the Scrutton Street studio for tea and biscuits, and to swap tunes. And even allowing for the passive weed smoke, I would always come away inspired - he always had time to talk and always had something interesting to say about whatever was in the ether: I can remember discussing poetry, pop-reggae, apocalypse cults, Ozric Tentacles, Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End, the English landscape, The Cramps' fashion sense and indeed - in very great detail - biscuits. He was always up for hearing my harebrained ideas and helped a lot with the very slow evolution of my discussion events which eventually became the Ambient Salon, which he ended up participating in (refusing even the paltry fee I could offer, insisting it go instead to "local underprivileged kids or something"). His willingness to have faith in my frankly wacky idea, just because it sounded fun, gave me the proof of concept I needed to take it further, and I'd always thought that we'd do it again on a grander scale...

And that's the real gut punch isn't it? He was going to do so many great things. I never got to Convenanza in Carcassone because I assumed it would just keep going, building into more and more of a cultural staple. I'm sure eventually Lee Brackstone would have wrung a book out of him. He could have been a radio and TV presenter up there with the best of the best. Maybe he'd have carried through his threat to become a full time painter too. There was SO much possibility there. Like I said in the Mixmag obit, not only was he not jaded, he was the OPPOSITE. He was just getting started in so many ways. And he was always, always enabling idiots like me, unsung musicians, fringe characters, and just anyone who happened to get in contact if they caught his imagination. It is really striking that everyone I met through him - Tim, Nina, Sean, Caroline, Bernie, Lizzie, Keith and the rest - have been great, great people too, who carry that same sense of generosity of spirit, constant sense of enquiry and can-do attitude. My heart is broken for all of them especially, as well of course for his old-school friends from Boys Own times Terry, Cymon and co: I can't begin to imagine what it is like. The same goes for all those who became part of the close knit community - "family" is not an exaggeration - around A Love From Outer Space and the Convenanza festival. Reading the ALFOS FB group this last week has been really, really quite something. Friendships and marriages made, lifelong passions ignited, a genuine, flesh and blood community built, all around one man's vision... And so, so, SO much incredible music and culture being shared, impossible quantities of it, in fact. It's a lot.

[e-tch]

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This is what a silent disco looks like. Me and @jabrumusic were clashing he was team blue i was team red - as you can tell by my rad dancing influenced by sunstroke, strongbow darkfruit and some gin and probably thinking I was Ian Curtis on tranquilisers. The audience were on my team. F u aidy. LOOK IT HIM. EVEN TRYNA STOP ME DANCING #WarOfTheWorlds #Etch #Jabru #SilentDisco #EtchFTW #PurpleCitySouflee #TeamRed #PlayHardcoreNotHouse #Lowestoft #Firstlightlowestoft (at Lowestoft Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzGsrwPAyKO/?igshid=db2d4yjtcl4b

[bassbeatsclicks]

Jabru - Egress feat. Joshua Idehen (Official Video)

“The City makes us all pretenders, looking forward to the next weekender”

Joshua Idehen’s poetic London lament sits atop off-kilter beats with psychedelic flourishes from Jabru. The “Stoke Newington symphony” is perfectly matched to late-night, neon-lit visuals from East London back-alleys and buses, spiced up with trippy in-camera lens effects, from director and Purple City Soufflé boss Matthew D Bayfield. 

From the excellent Ill Conceived LP, out now on Purple City Soufflé. Peep that premium design on the gatefold vinyl, courtesy of Burma Shave Construction Co. The attention to detail is next level!

🎥

Director: Matthew D Bayfield Producer: Craig Haynes for G.I.T.V Productions D.O.P: Jack Thompson Roylance for Deadbeat Films Gaffer / 1st AC: Alex Rice Production Assistant / Exotic Beer Shopper: Ashley Hill Editor: Matthew D Bayfield Grading & Colour: Jack Thompson Roylance Stills Photography: Charlotte McGuinness

[oldmancorner]

Ben & Lex presents 'Angel Bar Legends All-Star New Years Eve'

International mega superstars and top OMC bays ‘Ben & Lex‘ are taking over the Angel Bar for one awesome NYE party!

https://www.oldmancorner.co.uk/events/ben-lex-presents-angel-bar-legends-all-star-new-years-eve/

[dronmusic]

Mighty Force Records have released "MF ACID VOLUME 1" compilation, featuring our track "Wallow"! Comes in CD or digital formats...

Here is the original release info: The first two MF ACID EPs compiled onto a limited edition CD, lovingly remastered by Arni Gretar and including the original, until now unreleased ten minute version of Myoptik's Idsmass Xit. Available at https://mightyforce.bandcamp.com/album/mf-acid-volume-1

Full tracklist:

Phat Chex - The Forgotten 06:20

Macros - A Curious Plan 06:10

Golden Donna - By A Thread 08:10

The Horn - Summer Ending 05:22

Rayspark Industries - You Know 06:00

Fifty Five Fathoms - The Money Shot 07:16

Jabru - Reflux 05:09

Drøn - Wallow 07:44

Long Range Desert Group - Dissociable 04:18

Myoptik - Idsmass Xit V2 (Unreleased Full Version) 09:55

[kngofsoul]

kaku and jabru chasing zoro and sogeking around while the two of them are handcuffed OAIJGOIAGA IT’S SO FUNNY TO ME!!!! like it’s a big ass wolf and giraffe just chasing two dudes around!! oda’s mind

[yamayuandadu]

Wikipedia troubles, or “Father Enlil, (...) don't let your precious metal be alloyed there with the dirt of the underworld“

clarification regarding my post about troubles with a certain site i’ve been contributing to a lot for the past few months. To preface this with a mythical metaphor: in Inanna’s Descent, when Ninshubur pleads with the other gods to save Inanna, she uses the formula “don't let anyone kill your daughter in the underworld. Don't let your precious metal be alloyed there with the dirt of the underworld. Don't let your precious lapis lazuli be split there with the mason's stone. Don't let your boxwood be chopped up there with the carpenter's wood.” Currently this is what is happening to the Inanna article, I am afraid.

So, long story short, as most of you probably have noticed I am contributing relatively often to wikipedia as of late, starting with the creation of a Matara-jin article a few months ago. Among other things I wrote, rewrote or at least significantly improved the following:

articles about Mesopotamian medicine goddesses:

Ninkarrak from the western frontier, Nintinugga, who was associated with funerary offerings, Ninisina, who took over Inanna's gimmick in Isin, Bau, who became a healing goddess by chance, Gula, who eclipsed her peers - as expected from someone named “the great” articles about Inanna's courtiers and associated goddesses:

Ninshubur, her sidekick (my best work overall imo, the one article I wrote which I think fully deserves the “good” badge but I am not vain enough to apply myself), Ninegal, a goddess turned into her title, Nanaya, just the horny part distilled (bought a book just for this one!), Irnina, inexplicably cthtonic personified victory

articles about Mesopotamian gods too insignificant for anyone else to care about them:

Tishpak, a god so foreign nobody knows where he came from, Sebitti, seven warlike brothers, Enmesharra, Enlil's evil uncle, Urash, not the earth goddess – there are two... Urashes, Ningishzida, Dumuzi but with a snake gimmick, Zababa, a war god who's NOT Nergal, Ninimma, Enlil's court scribe, Gatumdag, popular as ersatz mom among kings of Lagash, Manzat, the rainbow

articles about Mesopotamian goddesses whose main trait was being someone's wife: Marduk's wife Sarpanit, Adad's wife Shala, Shamash's wife Aya

articles about Hurrian gods: Alalu, primordial vanquished king of gods, Kumarbi, his son, divine Saturday morning cartoon villain, Ninatta and Kulitta, a pair of divine musicians who always appeared together, Allani, oddly joyful queen of the dead, Šauška, who was so firmly genderfluid there's two of them in the most famous image of the Hurrian pantheon, Lelluri, a mountain goddess, Kubaba, who isn't Cybele, Goddess of the Night, who has no proper name despite being a case study in important religious rituals, Belet Nagar, who was like Ashur before Ashur got popular, Nupatik, who was important but we don't know why

articles about Eblaite gods: Ishara, “independent lady of love associated with scorpion and cannabis” popular everywhere where she went, Aštabi, a war god who really wanted to be like the weather god, Hadabal, who used to be famous but vanished out of blue, Kura, whose mask had to be renewed each year, Adamma, who left her husband to hang out with Kubaba

articles about Elamite gods: Pinikir, sort of like a bootleg Ishtar and an international sensation, Jabru, who exists only in Mesopotamian texts about Elam, Humban, mandate of heaven personified, Ruhurater, oddly obscure creator of mankind, Inshushinak, the underworld judge and his Akkadian helpers Lagamar and Ishmekarab, and Simut, the “strange star”

articles which were borderline unusable before due to low quality of sources:

Astarte, who was much more than vintage Bible scholars might lead you to believe (but not a fertility goddess), Dagan, who wasn't a fishman, Qetesh whose existence proves that Egyptians were fond of making ocs for their favorite foreign franchises

assorted articles about general topics pertaining to Mesopotamia:

Sukkal,  Hurrian religion (ongoing project), List of Elamite gods; also a much needed overhaul of List of Mesopotamian deities (ongoing project)

and, last but not least, a solid chunk of the Inanna article.

Two guiding principles of these ventures were the following:

people who cannot access academic resources or don't know how to use them and as a result rely on wikipedia aren't any less deserving of receiving up to date, credible information

Wikipedia's mode of operation isn't flawed in itself and the only problem is lack of will to edit it

I think I did a pretty good job at these two things, honestly. I made sure to rely on rigorous, credible, and, if possible, easy to understand sources, and removed the horrors which sometimes were hidden in bibliographies: a book written by a hate preacher who believed Bush didn't start enough wars; 1930s race science; what I can only describe as a hybrid of Woman's Encyclopedia and a bdsm manual; a fringe book asserting that Minoan palaces were graveyards and that Egyptians only learned mummification from superior Minoans; etc. Of course, it’s a thankless job, but as long as I could make the site more credible undisturbed, that’s fine by me. I even got some help in a few cases, most notably that of the god list, indicating that the work was on some level appreciated. The only problem I've encountered prior to today came from editing the Ereshkigal article – I've removed the claim the Burney relief depicts “Lilith”; this edit was however undone. I left a message on the editor's page, complete with links to articles about the Burney relief AND about the possible Mesopotamian forerunners of Lilith (who are undeniably not depicted on the Burney relief). They're responded rather dismissively to it, and asserted that even if unproven, a connection existed, so I pretty quickly gave up, as they relied on sources which were outdated or fringe. I focused on fixing two long, important articles instead: the god list, and the Inanna article. Some parts of it were alright, but there was much work needed: fringe theories trying to assign greater antiquity to relatively late myths, and frankly insane hyperdiffusionism, had a prominent place in the article, while well attested association between Inanna and similar deities from cultures closely associated with Mesopotamia wasn't, much of the info was outdated, scandalous hot takes about Dumuzi's treatment were all over the place, the section on Inanna's descent favored Jungian confabulations over credible research, etc. My progress on fixing that had been slow and steady. However, today the aforementioned person intervened when, in between editing the Inanna article and the god list, I reverted a dumb, brief , unsourced edit – made by a third party - which asserted that Inanna's descent is “similar to Persephone” which it isn't – if anything is similar to Persephone in Mesopotamian mythology it's Nergal and Ereshkigal. They pretty clearly didn't take it well: not only the unfounded speculation went back up, but they also added a “source” affirming it, from a controversial -medical- author, not an Assyriologist. They also added Persephone to the list of Inanna equivalents in the infobox, removing any credibility whatsoever from it. The author of the claim this is all about relied on sources so antiquated that they interpreted Inanna's sexual character as her being a child-snatching boogeyman. Inanna's primary connection to boogeymen is that she was invoked, alongside Nanaya whose sexual connection is even more blatant, to -ward off- child-snatching boogeyman Lamashtu (whose character was not sexual, because sumerians and akkadians weren't victorian aristrocrats and weren't paranoically afraid of sex - and why would a demon representing death in infancy be sexual in nature, anyway?). Simply put, the book in mention is worthless as a source. Of course, I reverted that; when it went back up (despite a justification being included in my reversal) I edited the Inanna article to remove this outlandish claim (you have a limited number of possible reversions per day for some arcane reason), also adding other information about Inanna I had prepared: a few tidbits on Assyrian royal inscriptions which involved the warlike and erotic aspects at once, suggesting that transgressors should lose both potency and bravery in battle, some info on love poetry about her and Dumuzi, that sort of stuff. The weird person reverted my edit – removing valuable info – and reinstated the claim. For a moment I lost my cool and reverted this edit, which sadly put me in the reversion overuse danger zone, but which was a necessary sacrifice to save the credibility of article I put weeks of work into. See the edit history here. As you can guess HaniwaEnthusiast is me. I left messages critical of this decision on the talk page of the article and on the talk page of the outlandish editor. Sadly, they responded rather rudely, and basically declared Wikipedia isn't meant to be credible, and that favoring academic sources over random crap is an “ivory tower” approach and should be discouraged; they also insulted me but that's much less relevant and much less hurtful than their desire to spread lies. If you ask me it's more of an ivory tower attitude to say people who cannot access or don't know how to use academic sources do not deserve equally credible info and need to be at the mercy of weird wikipedia editors. What's the main problem here, though? That person is a mod. Not a random user. They have 16 years of Wikipedia experience. They spread fringe, pop-spiritual claims about Lilith and the like, so I assume they have an ulterior religious agenda of some sort, which they seem to actively encourage judging from these ventures. I'm not sure if the Inanna article is a lost cause yet but I do think the weird addition of Persephone they made is a step into some hellish direction, and I am entirely certain I cannot win this conflict. Simply put, I think that if this is the sort of staff the site has, this is a lost cause. I am not sure if I will go back to editing.

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