How did the ancient civilization of sumer first develop the concept of the written word. The ancient anunnaki and mankinds forbidden history. The sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the semit. The sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the semites in. Professor jacobsen accepts the premise that all religion springs from mans experience. The sumerian people of mesopotamia had a flair for innovation. The earliest record of a sumerian creation myth, called the eridu genesis by historian thorkild jacobsen, is found on a single fragmentary tablet excavated in nippur by the expedition of the university of pennsylvania in 1893, and first recognized by arno poebel in 1912.
Like all books from this company the book is short with little detail but as a beginning of a. Iraq, built a civilization that in some ways was the ancient equivalent of silicon valley. The sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the semites in the land first known as sumer and later as babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums b. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. The origins of human beings according to ancient sumerian texts. What is extremely interesting in the ancient sumerian creation story is the fact that initially, man created by the gods was not able to reproduce on their own.
In samuel noah kramers book history begins at sumer he lists 39. Sumer is the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern mesopotamia now. In this and subsequent books, sitchin presented his translations of ancient sumerian texts which tell an incredible story regarding the origins of mankind on earth, stories that are completely different to those that most of us learned in school. The findings of engraved sumerian data that has an earlier date than the bible is very interesting. This is why the gods modified mankind with the help of enki and his sister ninki. Sumer ancient history, mesopotamia history, books barnes.
It is written in the sumerian language and dated to around 1600 bce. His son enki, or ea, proposed to create man to bear the labour, and so, with the. Sumerian writing is considered to be a great milestone in the development of humanitys ability to not only create historical. Sumer, or the land of civilized kings, flourished in mesopotamia, now modernday iraq, around 4500 bc. Sumerian history ancient language tells the story of. I purchased the book out of curiosity and in particular any information it might provide regarding old testament accounts of early mankind.
The sumerians figured out how to collect and channel the overflow of the tigris. Too bad all of us didnt understand and recognize this very early on while growing up. The epic of gilgamesh by anonymous, sumerian mythology by samuel noah kramer, the sumerians. Consider that we have all been programmed with the interpretation of historical data in our history books from school, that someone else has chosen for us. Their history, culture, and character phoenix books. Let this article act as a brief ancient history lesson for those who have no background regarding the annunaki, and human history. In samuel noah kramer s book history begins at sumer he lists 39 firsts in history from the region among which are the first schools, the first proverbs and sayings, the first messiahs, the first noah and the flood stories, the first love song, the first aquarium, the first legal precedents in court cases, the first tale of a dying and resurrected god, the first funeral chants, first biblical parallels, and first moral ideas. In 1976, the late zecharia sitchin raised a controversy with the publication of his book the twelfth planet. The origin of humans according to ancient sumerian texts. The history of writing where the story begins extra. The sumerians also essentially invented time in that their. Sumerians created an advanced civilization with its own system of elaborate. The origins of human beings according to ancient sumerian. Beneath the lugal great man or king, all members of society belonged to one of two basic.
Ancient sumerian translations were taken from william bramleys book. Etana is famous from the myth of the man who ascends to heaven on the. It is only thus that we know that the second king ptolemy commissioned, circa 270 b. The sumerians a legendary civilization vanished under the fertile crescen.
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