Taran Meshem
Taran Meshem is an independent researcher and ritual historian specializing in Mesopotamian religious structures, priesthoods, and the continuity of ancient theurgical systems into modern ceremonial praxis. His principal focus is on the Chaldean roots of temple cosmology, the Gate doctrines of the Simon Necronomicon, and the practical restoration of ritual knowledge drawn from the sacred offices of ancient Mesopotamia.

Meshem approaches his fieldwork with methodological sobriety, balancing textual fidelity with operative insight. His scholarship is grounded in a working knowledge of Akkadian and Sumerian religious texts, with specific attention given to the Fifty Names of Marduk, the Seven Gates, and the liturgical symbolism encoded in ancient rites. He maintains that structured ceremonial action—when informed by ancient cosmological patterns—serves not only as personal transformation but as participation in the primordial architecture of divine order.

Currently residing in the United States, Meshem curates a private temple and library containing an archive of grimoiric manuscripts, clay-tablets, numerous replicas, and ritual materials, ritual facsimiles, reconstructed hymns, and extensive annotations of cuneiform-derived magical texts. He consults on the integration of Mesopotamian theurgy within contemporary ritual systems and lectures privately on esoteric priesthoods of the ancient Near East.