(11-06-2021, 11:02 AM)BIAD Wrote: (Ninurta -the Sumerian god, even gets a mention later!)
Egads! I've been caught out! All of my ancient tech and weapons of mass destruction have been laid out for public view now!
Since they've exposed my delicate underbelly right here in front of the gods and everybody, I'll go ahead and post a link here to the "Ninurta Saga" he mentions. I couldn't find the inventory of advanced tech and weapons of mass destruction he mentions, but maybe you can...
He does talk as if the tomb of Gilgamesh was being stored at the Baghdad Museum, but if that is what he is hinting at, he's wrong. The tomb of Gilgamesh is still there, undiscovered and undisturbed. Few people even bother to look for it, as they believe Gilgamesh (Bilgames in the Sumerian) was merely a mythological character. he was not, he was as real, as flesh and blood, as you or I, He was buried in a tomb in the bed of the Euphrates River. They diverted the river out of it's bed using the irrigation canals of Uruk, built the tomb and buried him in it, then re-diverted the Euphrates back into it's normal course. His tomb was in the river bed, outside the city limits, under the flowing waters of the Euphrates River.
In the intervening millennia (he was buried in 2743 BC), the course of the Euphrates has been diverted several miles to the west by nature, and his tomb is now in dry desert land where the river used to run, but has not yet been found. Probably never will be, because people still think he was a fictional character.
The city of Uruk itself collapsed over those same millennia, and is now just a "tell", a dusty decaying mound of ancient abandoned city, sticking out of the desert, and the location has been renamed "Warka" by the Arabs.
It was once the seat of Inanna, the same as the city of Urta, now lost to all historical records, was once the city of Ninurta (Nin-Urta = "Lord of Urta"). Uruk was also the one city that gave it's name to all of Iraq, Iraq = Uruk in the Arabic.
Now it is just a pile of dust and rubble, as all cities will one day be - including the ones we live in now.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’