The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

Chaldean prophet. For that time, the title was one of high distinction and carried with it the connotation of spiritual and supernatural excellence. The Chaldeans were warlike people who inhabited the mountains of Kurdistan. Astrology was their primary divinatory activity. Theirs was considered a work of carving the stars, constellations, and engraving people’s futures from them. See Magi. 1564. Uri—Fire. 1565. Urim and Thummim—Lights and perfection. Tools given by the Lord for soliciting and obtaining the will of Yahweh by His priests, and sometimes His kings. Exodus 28:30; Leviticus 8:8; Nehemiah 7:65. 1566. Uruk—A) Biblical Erech mentioned only once in the Bible in Genesis 10:10. B) The name of a city built by Nimrod in ancient Babylonia also called Shinar. C) The city whose name means “the seat,” being between Ur and Babylon is gives its connection between these two prominent areas. Uruk/Erech was situated on the Euphrates River, a site that has significant history for the Lord God as can be deduced from His summons of the powers that governed it since time began in Revelation 7:1. The area of Uruk has been popularized in ancient history because the Babylonians and Assyrians gave it its name. To the Arabs it was Warka and to the Greeks and Romans it was Orchoe. Whatever its latter names, Uruk was understood by its founders to be the seat of great powers. The area built by the mighty hunter before the Lord Nimrod has a long tumultuous history. It is also called Akkad; see elsewhere. The earliest ziggurat, ancient temple, held the earliest signs of writing in the world dated about 3,400–3,300 B.C. Ancient Uruk hosted the temple of Inanna, Lady of the Heavens, a heathen goddess. See Queen of Heaven. Because of this, it was considered a great city seat as the meaning of its name indicates. In the time of the Ur dynasty, the temple of Ishtar, or Inanna, flourished and were venerated, as did that of the war god Nergal. This land was also home of the ancient hero-king Gilgamesh who wrote an epic describing the god clash that supposedly brought the worlds into existence. The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the many circulating creation myths. Characteristic of all the cities of its time, Uruk’s land was riddled with catastrophes, calamities, crime, and religion-based conflicts where one god waged war against another to take over the land and set its own king up to rule