However, as yet we have had no convincing explanation for the sumerians. Tens of thousands of cuneiform texts have given us a great deal of information about their poetry, codes of law, administration system. I am also at variance with both general and expert opinion as regards the nature and causes of the socalled higher civilization. Le sronrrs collccrrd hl sumerian king list is an ancient text in the sumerian language, listing kings of sumer ancient southern iraq from sumerian and neighboring dynasties, their supposed reign lengths, and the locations of the kingship. Although ningishzida was a power of the netherworld, where he held the office of throne bearer, he seems to have originally been a tree god, for his name apparently means lord.
A logogram is a reading of a cuneiform sign which represents a word in the spoken language. Sumerian bible pdf long before the bible, there were the sumerian tablets. One of the most dramatic finds is the sumerian king list, which dates to. Jan 04, 2016 6 this would not be a problem except for a number of signs which have long and short values. No one knows where they came from or the origins of their language. Cunningham, sumerian word classes reconsidered, in your praise is sweet. What we are looking at here, is a sumerian tablet that actually shows the tree of life. Descargue como docx, pdf, txt o lea en linea desde scribd. Anu the supreme god of heaven, enlil god of water, and ea god of magic were among the gods most worshipped by the sumerians. At least, this is how the jews would write the history of mankind if they could get away with it. Map of mesopotamia with picture of gods over different cities. A memorial volume for jeremy black london, 2010 4152. It seems that various sumerian words containing the number 7 had taken firm root in their culture by the twentysecond century bce at the latest. The indosumerian seals deciphered internet archive.
The sumerians were possibly the earliest society to emerge in the world, in southern mesopotamia. The sumerian gods personified local elements and natural forces. The origin of the mystical number seven in mesopotamian. Kings authoritative work on the enuma elish, the babylonian creation myth. Aspects of faith, myth, and ritual in ancient sumer samuel noah kramer 1 bloomington. The following lexicon contains 1,255 sumerian logogram words and 2,511 sumerian compound words. Zecharia sitchin july 11, 1920 october 9, 20101 was an azerbaijaniborn american author of books proposing an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts. A stray sumerian tablet has been published today by cambridge university library and focuses on a diminutive clay tablet, written by a scribe in ancient iraq, some 4,200 years ago. The sumerians were highly evolved for their time and are known for starting the first civilization and building the first settlements worthy of being called cities. E, we find that the sumerians believed that their gods came from a place in the east named dilmun. A description of the tablet along with highresolution images and a 3d model can also be seen on cambridge digital library containing six lines of cuneiform script, and roughly the size of an adult. Nanna is a sumerian deity, the son of enlil and ninlil, and became identified with the semitic sin.
His translation of sumerian cuneiform texts suggesting that an alien race called the anunnaki created humanity has been translated into over 25 languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. Sumerians of the third millennium bce believed the number 7 out of the many natural numbers to be special. How the jews betrayed mankind volume i, the sumerian swindle 5,000 bc to 1500 bc introduction in the beginning were the jews. Several texts belonging to the wellknown liturgical type of daily prayer, such as survived almost exclusively and in great numbers into the semitic cults of babylonia and assyria, will be found here. His information was supposedly derived directly from translations of sumerian cuneiform tablets. Halloran the following lexicon contains 1,255 sumerian logogram words and 2,511 sumerian compound words. This etext includes the complete introduction, and the english text of the enuma elish and other related texts, with selected footnotes. As far as i know, it presents the fullest and most detailed treatment of sumer s political history available to date. The anunnaki main file the chronicles of the girku quoted materials from books, interviews, and communications by a. Sitchin attributes the creation of the ancient sumerian culture to the anunnaki, which he states was a race of extraterrestrials from a planet beyond neptune called.
The recording of literature, science, society, aspects of everday life and history is a lasting legacy of the sumerians. The sumerians held the belief that a sacred ritual marriage between the ruler and inanna, goddess of love and fertility, brought rich harvests. The sumerian civilization existed for ca 3000 years, between the fifth and the second millennium bc. The sumerians invented writing and were the worlds first great civilization as we know it. It is an enthusiastic introduction to the sumerians. However the sumerians are revered as one of the oldest. The sumerians was published in 1963 by university of chicago press.
I am also using the sumerian tablet translations for public interest. The formal definition of a sumerian word remains problematic see j. Zecharia sitchins work has encouraged the development of the believe in alienset from outer space. It concludes with a sketch of a number of theo logical, ethical, and literary ideas of the sumerians which seem. A descriptive grammar of sumerian leiden repository. It was carved in tablets by the sumerians in mesopotamia. The nag hammadi library main file the necronomicon main file the new world and its fall fall of man from a higher civilization in antiquity the nibiru, the anunnaki and human devolution a tale of two brothers the nineveh constant and the art of time travel.
This has further encouraged the development of the believe system where some alienset are experienced to harm human beings. Parks the old ones the time before sumeria the origins of human beings according to ancient sumerian texts. Sumerians established schools where children were taught to write and to read. Jul 30, 2014 in the writings of famous sumerianologist samual noah kramer, who identified the sumerians as a nonsemitic, nonindoeuropean people who lived in southern babylonia from 40003000 b. Long before the bible, there were the sumerian tablets. The earliest record of the sumerian creation and flood is found on a single. The hymns sung to the deified kings of ur and isin, who ruled from 2475 to 23 b. The civilization flourished in the valleys between the two great rivers tigris and euphrates, the area known as southern iraq today. Third dynasty of ur by examining the lexical and religiousliterary documents. So far as they add new material for knowledge of the corpus of liturgical literature and fill up gaps in hitherto. A geometric algorithm with solutions to quadratic equations. This suggests that the translations provided by sitchin were based on a partial truth, that the sumerians had been helped by a technologically.
How much hardwon knowledge did sumerian speakers acquire over those millennia, that can be extracted from their vocabulary. The history of the sumerians is shrouded in mystery. Sumerians are known for their cuneiform script, a vibrant religious and literary tradition and advancement in government, mathematics, urbanization and agriculture. Those familiar with zecharia sitchins books know his story that humans were genetically engineered by a race of people from another planet that settled on the earth the annunaki or, that is, the sumerians.
The seven tablets of creation by leonard william king 1902 contents start reading this is an etext of l. The human family tree is traced back to our african mother named eve by testing mitochondrial dna mtdna, a process which, identifies the genes and breaks the organizational code to establish their sequence. Its hard to come across evidence that is conclusive about how life really was back then, but suffice to say that sumeria has always been a. I havent read them myself, so i cant give you a personal opinion, but these are where i would start, given that they appear to be fairly foundational works in the scholarly community. Sumerians built their civilization in southern mesopotamia over a continuous period of four thousand years, from the start of the ubaid period around 6,000 bc calibrated to the end of the ur iii period around 2,000 bc. A descriptive grammar of sumerian universiteit leiden. But apart from the ability to create cities the discovery of the 5,000 year old tablets with well detailed characters holds very interesting clues to the history of man and also.
The problem, according to the latest revelation by secret space program whistleblower, corey goode, is that sitchins translations contain. Sitchins sumerian text translations contrived by illuminati. Here are a couple of the most widely cited books on the sumerians. Inscriptions are in fact objective documents that, together with other historical. The sumerians were possibly the earliest society to emerge in the world, in southern mesopotamia more than 5000 years ago. The discovery in south america of the fuente magna and other artifacts attests to their presence in. Ki, d nanna was the god of the moon in the mesopotamian religions of sumer, akkad, assyria and babylonia.
Sentido pedaggico epopeya gilgamesh busqueda inmortalidad cuya empresa lanzar gilgamesh despus muerte amigo gjlgamesh. The two chief seats of nannassins worship were ur in the south of. As i noted in my open letter to zecharia sitchin, i have challenged him and other ancient astronaut researchers to produce one line of one cuneiform text that demonstrates his ideas about the anunnaki are really in the sumerian texts. The sumerians the sumerians moved to the land between the tigris and euphrates rivers about 3500bc. The list of kings is sequential, although modern research indicates many were contemporaries, reflecting the belief that kingship. A product of ten years of research and support from leading american and european universities, a universal history of the destruction of books traces a tragic story.
I want to see one line of one text that says things like the anunnaki inhabit a planet or inhabit. Zecharia sitchin sumerian literature translations are. Presumably, the inner earth civilization had also told the sumerians that they were gods. The case of the evil wind climate study corroborates sumer s nuclear fate the case of the genetically modified primate the case of the intelligent designer the forbidden history of early mankind the mars findings of zecharia sitchin the olmecs and zecharia sitchin. I want to see one line of one text that says things like the anunnaki inhabit a planet or inhabit nibiru, or that the term anunnaki means people. Nomads travel in small groups until they have eaten the fo od and hunted the animals in their area. Sumerian civilization in the south eastern region of mesopotamia between the mighty euphrates and tigris rivers lay the ruins of the sumerian citystates.
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