Category:Masha Myth Motive

The ancestral origin of Romulus and Remus in the Levant is clearly illustrated in the continuity of the Royal Baptism or Masha Myth employed by the Assyrian, Hittite, and pre-Davidic kings of Turkey, Egypt, and the Levant. This myth was employed during clear dynastic shifts which required the adoption of a foreign king or ruler over a local previously sovereign people. Examples of this is the Dynastic Shift of Assyria with Sargon (Sharruken) of Akkadia (Sharek , Salitis) (b. before -2350), in Egypt with Muksus (Mopsus) ? (Namuseti) (b. about -1391 bur. -1271). The ritual can be traced back to the earliest literary records of Mesopotamia to an origin in Vedic India and usually contains secondary elements which confirm continuity: mentions of Ficus (Figs), and/or Grain (Barley), or the Cadeccus (staff of Asherah).