History of Enenuru and the ANE Magic and Recon Communities

[anzu]

I hope this message finds you all well.

I'm currently trying to write and research a chronology and timeline for the Sumerian Babylonian and Akkadian reconstructionist, pagan, esoteric, magic and ritual communities, and wanted to get some input and background into the datings.

Can anyone tell me anything about what was happening around the time when Enenuru.net launched and what existed before it in terms of forums or websites on ANE magic or Mesopotamian paganism?

I'm also trying to trace when Dan Sullivan first launched his Twin Rivers site, and what existed before it.

Currently I have Twin Rivers website as the earliest site I can track but I cannot find an exact date, then a date of 1999 for the first incarnstion of Enenuru.net being launched, then Gateways to Babylon website in 2000, Garden of the Gods forum in 2000, Purified by cedar forum in 2002, Ed's Tablet of Destiny in 2003, Temple of Sumer launching in 2006, and Enenuru boards around March 2007.

I would be incredibly grateful for your input and recollections so I can write up the timeline as accurately as possible.

Also, any websites, forums or resources I have missed please let me know.

Many thanks in advance.

Steffy

[us4-he2-gal2]

Hello Steffy:


I'm glad to clarify what I can about these online communities. I started posting at Tablet of Destiny in 2006, I believe. At the time, I wasn't a pagan recon per se, but was strongly interested in Mesopotamia. I didn't personally use the Twin River's Rising website (I think it was 'Twin River's Rising' as opposed to just 'Twin Rivers'), because it was down by that time. Ed told me about the website, and about Adapa who ran it. He said it was the main place to get Sumerian translations on the net before the ETCSL took off. Adapa seems to have lost interest by the time I was looking to connect with people online. I may have tried to contact him once I half remember that, but I got no response.

Enenuru forum was created in March 2007 yes. I think the main reason for making a new forum was that I was never really a pagan and I wanted a place where reading and exploration of the material could be carried out in a group setting and with purely academic goals. I was not a student at that time, but I did begin university in 2008. So these distinctions were not arbitrary. For these reasons, enenuru technically may not belong in a history of online pagan communities. Of course, we try and help any recons who may ask questions here, but we do so by relaying what academia says about something and without reference to personal religious beliefs. With Sheshki, I put up the enenuru.net website in 2008/2009 (not 1999). The point of the website was to draw further attention to the enenuru forum, secondarily to make something of a resource for the general public - it remains incomplete.



Speaking of nostalgic online Mesopotamian community trivia - you might want to add Belmurru's (Real name: Ross) "Babylonian Magick" website. An Angelfire website still up and running!

www.angelfire.com/tx/tintirbabylon/nam.html


There is a web design now 10-15 years out of date I'm not sure anymore where Belmurru came from, if I ever was. I think he may have been active in the twin rivers rising crowd. He lives in France, and he took some Assyriological courses in a university I believe, had some knowledge of the literature and also of Akkadian - oddly he also seems to mix that with a real interest in the occult, to what extent I'm not sure. He joined enenuru in 2007 and made a post on the Ur III incantations board:

enenuru.proboards.com/thread/61/uriii-incantations


But by this point in life, he seems to have been much more concerned with whatever his day job was, and for reasons unknown to me he deleted his enenuru account a few months later and was never heard from again. Of course his webpage and whatever other activity had stopped long before his enenuru appearance. We also appreciate Ross for his translation the Maqlu series from the German and sharing that translation with enenuru.net:

enenuru.net/html/cuneiform_magic/maqluexpl.htm

[hukkana]

No problem with old website designs Bill. I actually have no problem if a site uses an old ass layout cause it means there aren't a million different flash ads everywhere trying to get you to play World of Tanks.

[anzu]

Thanks Bill. Very much appreciated. I will post the final version of the article here when complete.