Sumer


Addressing the Sumerian issue. It's assumed that prior to the tower of babel which has been discovered, only a single language existed. I think this is a gross misinterpretation. It's more logical that the world had one unifying language or lingua franca. It's natural to assume that the original lingua franca was semitic because of the Torah and Nebuchadnezzar's later infatuation with restoring the ziggurat which he labeled borsippa literally 'tongue tower'. The break down is

  • Bor - Tower 
  • Sippa - Lip

Lip is used as an idiom for language in Semitic.

Many ancient historians knew of the Babylonians and the Assyrians but did not know that an older culture existed prior to both of them. That culture was the Sumerians. The later Semitic culture was the Akkadians. There is Sumerian in Akaddian and Hebrew but the reverse is not true. I would describe Sumerian as a monosyllable, tonal language isolate that wrote in pictographic cuneiform. It is logical then that Noah or some of the passengers on the Ark were bilingual and spoke Hebrew and Sumerian. Given the fact that Hebrew does have a number of Sumerian words in it's vocabulary it seems to be the most logical deduction. I don't know why it is so natural for people to rule out multi culturalism or possibly interracial marriages. When did we all become bigots?

Thus the Tower of Babel represents a breaking down of Sumerian dominance. There were also ethnic differences as they referred to themselves as “ug sag gig-ga” or “black-headed people". There is no evidence of any other language in their world besides the Akkadians. It's as if only two languages existed on the planet at that time. That is my conclusion. 

Now I do believe that Adam whom all males receive their Y chromosome spoke Hebrew. I have three reasons. 

  1. All cultures except Hebrew believe woman came before man but this goes against science. Where do we get our Y chromosome?
  2. Only in Hebrew do animals have meaning. This is because Adam was tasked with naming the animals.
  3. Adams name has meaning in Hebrew.

Civilization only exists prior to the Sumerians in Gobekli Tepe but no written language is found there. The site is a megalith of animals. I can't find the megalith of the giant armadillo anymore which really upsets me. It's Noah and his family just as is written. Not Africa no matter how many times that idea is forced down our throat with no evidence to back it up. Ankara means 'place of the anchor' because the Greeks always knew that is where Noah and all of humanity originated. 

The above photo might also be an Armadillo in the middle. 

Next we have the oldest civilization - the Sumerians near Borsippa or the Tower of Babel in Iraq.

Hebrew is wayyy purer than Akaddian. In fact some would describe Akaddian as the Japanese of the middle East because it mixes scripts. Why is Hebrew so pure? There are a couple of possibilities.

A. A branch of semites that distanced themselves preserved their language and trilateral root system. The ones choosing a different path would be the Akkadians.
B. The language was later reconstructed. We got Indonesian, modern Hebrew, Turkish, Fusha. No reason the why ancients did not also care about linguistic purity.

Uniter of languages


In the Sumerian epic entitled Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, in a speech of Enmerkar, an introductory spell appears, recounting Enki having had mankind communicate in one language (following Jay Crisostomo 2019); or, in other accounts, it is a hymn imploring Enki to do so. In either case, Enki "facilitated the debates between [the two kings] by allowing the world to speak one language," the presumed superior language of the tablet, i.e. Sumerian.

N. Kramer's 1940 translation is as follows:[note 2]

Once upon a time there was no snake, there was no scorpion,
There was no hyena, there was no lion,
There was no wild dog, no wolf,
There was no fear, no terror,
Man had no rival.

In those days, the lands of Subur (and) Hamazi,
Harmony-tongued Sumer, the great land of the decrees of princeship,
Uri, the land having all that is appropriate,
The land Martu, resting in security,
The whole universe, the people in unison
To Enlil in one tongue [spoke].

(Then) Enki, the lord of abundance (whose) commands are trustworthy,
The lord of wisdom, who understands the land,
The leader of the gods,
Endowed with wisdom, the lord of Eridu
Changed the speech in their mouths, [brought] contention into it,
Into the speech of man that (until then) had been one.

Enki is the son of a sky God. All I know is that human written history is not that old. Hebrew has a longer written tradition and I guess we can say Semitic as a whole. So in the beginning Semitic and some mysterious language isolate we know of as Sumerian. The only logical deduction is the one that makes sense in both cultures. In Hebrew tradition:

Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

Anybody could laugh in which my only reply would be:

Nobody else existed yet. Just Semites and the Sumerians. What could anyone really add to this? We can't go back any further in history and whose fault is that?

My only point is that Judaism has zero conflict with the Sumerian account if we accept the possibility of multiculturalism or even that some of the woman on the Ark could have been multilingual. There is no other logical explanation.

Semites borrowed every single aspect of life from Sumer. The evidence is that the Babylonians were governed by priests. Even to this day Semitic life is governed by religion. This comes from the Sumerians. The Assyrians had a military based society. They were as far as I know ethnically European.

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