History says that Nimrod married his mother Semiramis.
The initial element ‘sammur’ when translated into Hebrew becomes ‘Shinar.’
Therefore Semiramis’ name is also Shinar.
Now you can understand why the Genesis writer described Nimrod’s kingdom being “in the land of Shinar.”
Nimrod’s kingdom will later be ruled by Semiramis and called “the land of Shinar.
The Scottish minister and writer Alexander Hislop added to Semiramis’s mythology in his 1853 book The Two Babylons. Hislop claimed that Semiramis was married to Nimrod (see Genesis 10:9–11). The Bible describes Nimrod as “the first on earth to be a mighty man” (Genesis 10:8); According to Hislop, Semiramis’s greatest accomplishment was aiding her husband in replacing the worship of God with a polytheistic system based on the stars. She became associated with Ishtar/Astarte/Ashtoreth: the original Queen of Heaven (see Jeremiah 44:15–19). Her son joined her in creating the world’s first mother/son cult. The Semiramis/son pair inspired Isis and Osiris in Egypt, Venus and Adonis in Greece, and Ushas and Vishnu in Hinduism.
Hislop also claimed that the Catholic Church adapted mother/son worship into their veneration of Mary.
