GILIM.MA

Authors: Gennady Kurtik, Gennady E. Kurtik, Euin Choung Kim, David Hilder, Wayne Horowitz, Susanne M Hoffmann, Youla Azkarrula, Euin Choung Kim

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planet Venus next to the Pleiades; it is clearly visible in the photograph that rays and "horns" depend on the brightness of the source (Venus has them in a dirty and gloomy atmosphere, the stars don't), photographs by Susanne M Hoffmann April 2020.

^mulGILIM (𒀯𒄃𒈠) is a Sumerian asterism name equated with ^mulAB.SÍN, 'The Furrow' in the Great Star List, in this context perhaps a name for Venus. The most common sense the Sumerian term is Akkadian parāku, 'to lie across,' which occurs in the context of other planets, and the Sun and Moon (CAD P 154-155). This sense of parāku in the context of the 'The Furrow'-asterism could refer to the meaning of parāku, ''to furrow or cross-plow a field' (CAD P 158), with perhaps reference to the 'V'-shaped ears of grain of the drawing of ^mulAB.SÍN on VAT 7847+AO 6488 (Weidner 1967, TAFEL 10, Beaulieu et al. 2018 99 bottom image) which lie across the front of the human figure in the drawing.

Concordance, Etymology, History

The resumption of the sign's-reading with final M (GILIM.MA) insures the reading GILIM in this star-name but the reading GIB/GILIB for the same sign allows for readings GIB/GILIB in other contexts.

Sources	Identifications
"Reports." DIŠ MUL GILIM.MA ina ŠA3 30 GUB / AN.MI SU.BIR4 GAR-an "If the Star of Destruction stands within the Moon: there will be an eclipse of Subartu" [ARAK, 399:1-2].
"Great Star List and Miscellenia." mulgilim = MIN (mulab.sin2) Here GILIM as a by-name for 'The Furrow' (in the context of Venus) [Mesop.Astrol., App. B:42].

Historical Dictionaries

Kurtik (2022, g16)

Gössmann (1950)

вар: mulGILIM; = gilimmu(?) «(Звезда) Разрушение», по другой версии, «Связка тростника»; эпитет Венеры (?) [G. 84, 227]. I. Источники. «Рапорты». DIŠ mulGILIM.MA ina ŠA3 30 GUB / AN.MI SU.BIR4 GAR-an «Если (Звезда)-Разрушение стоит внутри Луны: будет затмение Субарту» [ARAK, 399:1–2]. «Большой список звезд». mulgilim = min(= mulab.sin2) «Связка Тростника = ditto (Борозда, как эпитет Венеры)» [Mesop.Astrol., App. B:42].

G. 84 mulGIB.BA (is obsolete) Nur die Stelle Rep.245 Vs 1: Wenn das Gestirn GIB.BA im Mondes steht, wird eine Verwirrung in Subartu stattfinden. s. mulKIL2. G. 227 mulKIL2 Beiname der ABSIN2 : K250 I 12

References

• Kurtik's references