In the fourteen tablets of enki one of the ancient annunaki gods the history of the anunnaki is explained in great detail. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The sumerians cuneiform writing system is the oldest for which there is evidence excluding protowriting such as the vinca signs and the even older jiahu signs. It opens with the sumerian creation of the world and of man.
Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The king had officers, many of whom were priests, who made sure everything went the way he wanted and who reported to officers of higher rank, like in. Stolen sumerian tablets come from the lost city of. In this paper i shall attempt to clarify the origin of the mystical number 71 by examining literary works containing the number 7, as well as some mathematical. The term sumerian is the common name given to the ancient nonsemiticspeaking inhabitants of mesopotamia by the east semiticspeaking akkadians. At least, this is how the jews would write the history of mankind if they could get away with it. The sumerians were among the first astronomers, mapping the stars into sets of constellations, many of which survived in the zodiac and were also recognized by the ancient greeks. 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. 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 insights into the. Why did they select the number 7 as a mystical or sacred number. Halloran the following lexicon contains 1,255 sumerian logogram words and 2,511 sumerian compound words. Collection of works on sumerian, babylonian, and chaldean.
Sumerian pdf political history of the sumerian people or the nature of their social and. It is believed that around 445,000 years ago, ancient astronauts from another planet in the cosmos came to earth in search of gold. Zecharia sitchin sumerian literature translations are. It concludes with a sketch of a number of theo logical, ethical, and literary ideas of the sumerians which seem. If youre seeing this message, it means were having trouble loading external resources on our website. They also built statues to adorn temples of the gods.
Quiero hacer hincapie, como lo hizo en varias ocasiones en. The sumerians the sumerians moved to the land between the tigris and euphrates rivers about 3500bc. Use this map to explain where the ancient civilization of sumer was located. Ancient near east ancient civilizations world history geography macedonia latina earth maps aleppo. They created system of time, the calendar, writing, agriculture, and many other things. Robert hetzron, with whom i had the pleasure of studying during every week of the four years that i attended the university of california at santa barbara. The sumerians believed that the hoe, one of their basic agricultural tools, in the beginning was given as a gift of the gods. Sumerian language, language isolate and the oldest written language in existence.
How the jews betrayed mankind volume i, the sumerian swindle 5,000 bc to 1500 bc introduction in the beginning were the jews. See palaces, temples, ziggurats, fortifications and city construction, etc. About 2000 bce, sumerian was replaced as a spoken language by semitic akkadian assyrobabylonian but continued in. Zecharia sitchin july 11, 1920 october 9, 20101 was an azerbaijaniborn american author of books proposing an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts. Introduction with 6,400 entries, this is the most complete available lexicon of ancient sumerian vocabulary. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading sumerians. Archaeological evidence, on the other hand, suggests that this great skill has developed by the sumerians during a long period of time. However, as yet we have had no convincing explanation for the sumerians adherence to the number 7. Sumerians established schools where children were taught to write and to read.
The sumerians, the worlds first documented civilization dates back 6,000 years. Learn when and where the sumerians lived, and how they came to build one of the first advanced civilizations. Kings authoritative work on the enuma elish, the babylonian creation myth. First attested about 3100 bce in southern mesopotamia, it flourished during the 3rd millennium bce. The sumerians made many different innovations and had many different acheivements. Suggested by adrev for a 3rd party jim davies trigger finger feat. The sumerians were no longer a distinct and independent people. And here is the true glory of the sumerian civilization and what kept it from being completely lost. According to the creation story, anu, the main god of the ancient sumerians saw that the labor on earth was too great. 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 index sacred texts ancient near east the seven tablets of creation by leonard william king 1902 contents start reading this is an etext of l. Tens of thousands of cuneiform texts have given us a great deal of information about their poetry, codes of law, administration system.
There were religious ideas shared among all inhabitants and cities, but from city to city, as well as between individuals there could be substantial and unsystematic differences. A myth was created explaining the circumstances of this event. Discover how the flooding of the tigris and the euphrates rivers was key to sumerian. The invention of writing, dated from 5000 bc to 2000 bc, was used for keeping accounts, describe religious events, scientific achievements and keep records of extraordinary happenings, known today as written history. The blackheaded people spoke a nonsemitic language. If youre behind a web filter, please make sure that the domains. The origin of humans according to ancient sumerian texts. Nippur was among the most ancient of sumerian cities. Nippur was located in modern nuffar in afak, alqadisiyyah governorate, iraq. Our mission is to support schools in improving their students reading comprehension. 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. It was carved in tablets by the sumerians in mesopotamia.
Here is a video of some of the inventions that the sumerian civilization has brought to life. Sumerian sumerian was spoken in sumer in southern mesopotamia part of modern iraq from perhaps the 4th millennium bc until about 2,000 bc, when it was replaced by akkadian as a spoken language, though continued to be used in writing for religious, artistic and scholarly purposes until about the 1st century ad. Religious ideas and practice among the people of sumer, during the period 35002000 bce. Mesopotamia the land between the rivers was the area in which the sumerians first settled ca. The sumerians were first to develop a human writing system. Someone had to invent the wheelnow you can find out who. Sumerian language anunnaki,alien gods and spirituality. The recording of literature, science, society, aspects of everday life and history is a lasting legacy of the sumerians. In this brainpop movie, tim and moby introduce you to the ancient civilization of sumer. His information was supposedly derived directly from translations of sumerian cuneiform tablets. They formed some of the first monumental agricultural structures.
Nomads travel in small groups until they have eaten the fo od and hunted the animals in their area. One of the ancient sumerian gods was put to death and they mixed his blood with clay from earth. The son of anu, enki, proposed to create a species that would inhabit the planet and bear the labor and so the gods created man. Hundreds of 4,000yearold tablets that were looted in iraq and bought by the u. The sumerians did seem to be a contentious people who seemed to favour acerbic debate, at least from some of the works that have been deciphered. Read and learn for free about the following article.
A descriptive grammar of sumerian universiteit leiden. The few surviving sumerians were assimilated into the akkadian kingdoms. The tablets also offer insight into the origin of life. The sumerian lexicon has benefitted from several classes at ucla with dr. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. 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 sumerians and mesopotamia article khan academy. Reading and writing was a complex skill the sumerians developed, along with steady art. The sumerians were the very first civilization to write down their beliefs.
Details of the sumerian cuneiform script, the worlds oldest writing system, which was used to write sumerian, a semitic language spoken in mesopotamia. A little research into sumerian culture and architecture would have answered this question for you. A period of internecine warfare followed the fall of sumer as local lords battled for regional supremacy. Sumerian, babylonian, and chaldean library at sacred. Both require vocabulary lookup from the companion elementary. The origin of the mystical number seven in mesopotamian. A brief introduction to the sumerians sumerian shakespeare. The term must not be interpreted so that sumerian religion was an established religion. 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.
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