Black Sun stamp "ILU Sun" (Old Babylonian)

Black Sun stamp "ILU Sun" (Old Babylonian)

"Black Sun" stamp.

The "magical" (black) sun is first concretely attested in the Akkadian-Old Babylonian region (Sargon I, Naram-Sin). According to BAB-CHOME, the invisible "dark sun" is considered the worldly power source of the supreme deity "ILU," directly connected to the divine power acting from the beyond, which can be partially utilized by the gods and goddesses, especially Anu, Enlil, Ea, Ishtar, and Marduk. The close kinship of this pantheon with that of the Edda has been proven, even if there is as yet no final, definitive explanation for this Mesopotamian-Germanic commonality.

One of the best-known and most beautiful depictions of the "Black Sun," which is placed alongside the "sun of the day," is found on the large Naram-Sin stele kept in the Louvre in Paris. The myth of the "Black Sun" traveled from southern Babylonia to Assyria, Persia, Phoenicia, Carthage, and Egypt. Emperor Frederick II brought an Assyrian amulet featuring the "Black Sun" to Europe; and this marks its first tangible appearance in Europe (which, however, says nothing about whether the "Black Sun" belief might not have already been native to us in earlier Germanic times; see Mesopotamian-Germanic commonality).

Made from a piece of beech wood and stamp rubber,

• Size of stamped symbol: approx. 35 x 35 mm.