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Download or read book The Sumerians written by Paul Collins and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world’s earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BCE. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing, and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urban, literate world. But is this picture correct? Paul Collins reveals how the idea of a Sumerian people was assembled from the archaeological and textual evidence uncovered in Iraq and Syria over the last one hundred fifty years. Reconstructed through the biases of those who unearthed them, the Sumerians were never simply lost and found, but reinvented a number of times, both in antiquity and in the more recent past.
Book Synopsis The Sumerians by : Samuel Noah Kramer
Download or read book The Sumerians written by Samuel Noah Kramer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world. "There are few scholars in the world qualified to write such a book, and certainly Kramer is one of them. . . . One of the most valuable features of this book is the quantity of texts and fragments which are published for the first time in a form available to the general reader. For the layman the book provides a readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture. For the specialist it presents a synthesis with which he may not agree but from which he will nonetheless derive stimulation."—American Journal of Archaeology "An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity."—Library Journal
Download or read book Sumerian Tradition written by Joshua Free and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sumerian Tradition: Secrets of the Anunnaki in Babylonian Mythology" -- an amazing insight into the Anunnaki 'alien gods' credited with the establishment of human civilization as accounted for on ancient cuneiform tablets preserving Sumerian and Babylonian traditions. Here is the much anticipated follow-up to Sumerian Religion: Secrets of the Anunnaki & The Origins of Babylon (Liber-50). Joshua Free, world renown authority on the Anunnaki, completes his "Mesopotamian Religion" series with this newly revised edition of the "Sumerian Religion II" (Liber-51/52) materials. Today, we consider these materials to represent Sumerian Tradition at its finest. This new revision of the classic tome reveals the influential power of the Anunnaki of Mesopotamia (Sumerian, Babylonian, Akkadian, Chaldean, Assyrian, etc.) of which the public has only known through nearly insubstantial communications and pop-culture presentations that provide few answers. Uncover the mysteries that lay hidden in ancient Mesopotamia, with a message so relevant today, it is no wonder it became the greatest kept secret of Babylon!
Book Synopsis Reading Sumerian Poetry by : Jeremy A. Black
Download or read book Reading Sumerian Poetry written by Jeremy A. Black and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authority on ancient Mesopotamian culture, Jeremy Black here provides an introduction to the world's oldest poetry. Sumer, in southern Iraq, was the first literate civilization, with writing dating back as far as 3100 B.C. Its extensive poetic literature was lost for nearly two millennia; rediscovery and decipherment of the ancient writings began in the nineteenth century. Black is fully aware of the difficulties of applying modern literary methods to the study of ancient literature, emphasizing theoretical problems that arise from contemporary expectations of a unitary text. Looking closely at the imagery in the Lugalbanda poems, Black perceives in them a rich and sophisticated poetic imagination and technique, which, far from being in any sense "primitive," are so complex as to resist modern literary analysis.
Book Synopsis Urnamma of Ur in Sumerian Literary Tradition by : Esther Flückiger-Hawker
Download or read book Urnamma of Ur in Sumerian Literary Tradition written by Esther Flückiger-Hawker and published by Saint-Paul. This book was released on 1999 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new standard editions of all the hitherto known hymns of Urnamma, the founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur (fl. 2100 B.C.), and adds new perspectives to the composition and development of the genre of Sumerian royal hymns in general. The first chapter is introductory in nature. The second chapter presents a general survey of Urnamma's hymnic corpus. The third chapter deals with correlations of Urnamma's hymns with other textual sources pertaining to him. A fourth chapter is devoted to aspects of continuity and change in royal hymnography by analysing the Urnamma hymns in relation to other royal hymns and related genres. Chapter 5 presents editions of Urnamma hymns,
Download or read book Sumerians written by Henry Freeman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legendary civilization vanished under the Fertile Crescent and escaped a fate worse than death until Sumerologists questioned widely accepted truths. The Sumerians reemerged onto the extraordinary timeline of human history. Their tales of kings and gods, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, and their fearless trade in distant lands, during the remarkable Bronze Age, centered in the world’s first city-states that chronicled ancient rivalries and their enduring impact. Inside you will read about... ✓ How We Know What We Know About Sumerians ✓ The Bronze Age – Sumer And Its Contemporaries ✓ How Did The Sumerians Become Civilized? ✓ How Long Were They Around ✓ Primer Of Impact Of Sumerian Ancient Civilization On Our World ✓ What Did They Look Like? ✓ What Shaped Their Worldview? And much more! Our journey relies on excavated and historical evidence to explore their productive fascinations with order and man’s place in the universe. Their application of impressive knowledge helps us unfold their mysterious civilization.
Book Synopsis Gates of the Necronomicon by : Joshua Free
Download or read book Gates of the Necronomicon written by Joshua Free and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Necronomicon of Mesopotamia... Sumerians... Star-Gates of Babylon... The Anunnaki... Ancient Alien Gods... The most critically acclaimed and bestselling materials from the Mardukite Research Organization now available in one volume! GATES OF THE NECRONOMICON is a highly innovative and accessible anthology featuring the the complete text from three installments: "Sumerian Religion: Secrets of the Anunnaki & The Origins of Babylon" (Liber 50), "Sumerian Religion II: Secrets of the Anunnaki in Babylonian Mythology" (Liber 51/52) and "Necronomicon Revelations" (Liber R) in a single incredible compilation! Here is the definitive work in its much anticipated revised and expanded 3rd edition; the original companion volume of the Mardukite Chamberlains developed from their second active year of research in 2010! Arriving on the surface world from the underground - an amazing insight into the Anunnaki 'alien gods' and the establishment of human civilization famously accounted by the Sumerian and Babylonian traditions. Prolific writer, Joshua Free, presents this topic such as the modern world has never before had access to, developed from the revolutionary work conducted by the next generation of Seekers actively using a revival Anunnaki tradition in the present day. Sumerian Religion: Secrets of the Anunnaki (Liber 50) is not merely the presentation of dry academic renderings of obscure tablets; Sumerian Religion will take you on a progressive journey that is just as relevant and critical today as it was thousands of years ago! A perfect practical companion to the study and pursuit of any and all systems, displaying the primordial origins of human traditions on the planet, a fundamental truth that all can benefit from. Originally designed and released in 2010 exclusively underground for the Mardukite Chamberlains as "Liber 50," this amazing tome stands alone - unique as it is practical - revealing the nature, origins and traditions of the the Anunnaki Alien Gods of Mesopotamia (Sumerian, Babylonian, Akkadian, Chaldean, Assyrian, etc.), which the public has previously only known through nearly insubstantial communications. Babylonian Myth & Magic/Sumerian Religion II (Liber 51/52) is unparalleled in displaying the post-Sumerian mystery tradition of the ancient Babylonians, now accessibly comprehensible with this book to any seeker for the first time in modern history. Revealed within are the very methods by which Babylon rose to power from seemingly prehistoric nothingness and how these very real systems born in the Ancient Near East are still with us today! Finally, in Necronomicon Revelations (Liber R), after nearly two decades involved with this work, prolific writer and Mardukite founder, Joshua Free, candidly reveals how these 'spiritual beings' have influenced the imaginations of 'metaphysical' writers and artists increasingly in the last century - 'primordial gods' seeking to have their stories told or reborn. What's more, these forces appear to be behind all of the systems installed into human civilization and consciousness, both social and mystical, since the time of the Sumerian Anunnaki. Now, at the cusp of a 'New Age', the mysterious development of "Simon's" infamous edition, haunting narratives of H.P. Lovecraft, Thelemic work of Aleister Crowley, otherworldly communications by Kenneth Grant, the Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, a resurgence of interest into 'ancient aliens', and mainstream Cthulhu Mythos revivals by Enochian magicians like Donald Tyson all seem to be pointing toward something - some inevitable theme setting the stage for the destiny of mankind for the approaching era, uncovering the most dangerous truth about life, the universe and everything: The Great Deception of a systematic light-matrix reality under the control of the Anunnaki - the real otherworldly Gatekeepers of Life, Death & Existence.
Download or read book Sumerian Origins written by Norah Romney and published by DTTV PUBLICATIONS. This book was released on 2020-06-07 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mysterious Group of People came to settle in southern Mesopotamia, sometime around 5400BC. What is now the modern state of Iraq, the first city of Mesopotamia was founded named Eridu. Although historians have generally regarded this as the world’s first city, we have seen this challenged on numerous occasions by recent discoveries too numerous to mention here. Eridu had all the things we ordinarily associate with an ancient city: temples, administrative buildings, housing, agriculture, markets, art, and, of course, walls to keep out unsavoury characters.The elusive aspect is we have absolutely no idea where they acquired their language, and bizarre language it is, we have no idea what they originally looked like. Their language, which we call Sumerian, and the subsequent Akkadian derivative were linguistic isolates. Sumerian is the oldest known written language on Earth, and any languages it might have derived from or developed alongside have been lost to time. Figuring out what their baffling ethnic identity based on their art is a doomed effort, because their art was so stylized that a good case could be made that it portrays people of any ethnicity, or the people they encountered. The Sumerian language was not Semitic, and the Akkadian conquests of 2334 BCE disrupted the ethnic and cultural isolation of the Sumerian people. By about 2000 BCE, the Sumerians were speaking Akkadian and the Sumerian and Akkadian civilizations were regarded as a single enterprise.Does this mean that we’ll never know how the Sumerian language developed, or where the Sumerians originally came from? Well if any reasonably well-preserved Sumerian bones can be found DNA testing could tell us their ethnic origin. Although this all sounds murky, we have literature left in the form if cuneiform writing that speaks volumes on their day to day life and their highly unusual gods. The Sumerian pantheon reads like wild science fiction at times and although they often speak of their own origins in terms of their gods and family ties many have chosen to label this as mythology, ignore it, or merely treat it in a literature aspect.
Book Synopsis Myths of Enki, The Crafty God by : Samuel Noah Kramer
Download or read book Myths of Enki, The Crafty God written by Samuel Noah Kramer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious and well-researched study brings together for the first time translations of the ancient literature concerning the Sumerian god Enki, one of four gods and goddesses who comprised the highest level of the Sumerian pantheon. The very existence of these writings, which date from the Third Millennium B.C., was unknown until about 100 years ago, when their cuneiform script was deciphered. Since then, it has become apparent that Sumerian literature had a profound and enduring influence on both Biblical and classical Greek literature, and so on the literature of the western world as a whole. Kramer, one of the world's leading sumerologists, has prepared these translations from among the scores of works he has published over the last fifty years; John Maier provides a full interpretive framework that places the translations in their broader comparative cultural context. This rare collection will be of interest to students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines from Near Eastern and Biblical Studies to Mythology and Comparative Literature.
Book Synopsis The Topography of Remembrance by : Gerdien Jonker
Download or read book The Topography of Remembrance written by Gerdien Jonker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Topography of Remembrance deals with different forms of remembrance and collective memory in Mesopotamia, discussing both its public (national) and private (family) aspects. The Introduction offers a history of modern, European memory in comparison with the Mesopotamian mode. The research adds to the recent discussion on collective memory. The Mesopotamians found tools for the construction and passing on of common remembrance in liturgical repetition, in the preservation of buildings and monuments, and in communication channels. To describe these processes the author deals with different texts written between 2300-300 BC, which transport memory from a historical, administrational or religious perspective. According to this study, the need to remember was prompted by the search for identity, a dynamic process in which forgetting played an essential part. The description of this process is also relevant to modern society. It offers an important contribution to the discussion of acculturation and identity.
Book Synopsis Reading Sumerian Poetry by : Jeremy Black
Download or read book Reading Sumerian Poetry written by Jeremy Black and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the oldest form of poetry. Sumer, in the southern part of Iraq, created the first literary culture in history, as early as 2500BC. The account is structured around a complete English translation of the fragmentary Lugalbanda poems, narrating the adventures of the eponymous hero. The study reveals a work of a rich and sophisticated poetic imagination and technique, which, far from being in any sense 'primitive', are so complex as to resist much modern literary analysis.
Book Synopsis The Sumerian Legacy by : Joshua Free
Download or read book The Sumerian Legacy written by Joshua Free and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-lost secrets of ancient Mesopotamian religion, Anunnaki mythology and mysteries of Babylonian magic are coherently revealed in the first complete esoteric guide to Sumerian archaeology accessible to all readers. From the world renown "Mardukite Research Organization" developed by Joshua Free. This amazing guide to esoteric archaeology reveals the secret Anunnaki tradition of Babylon, forbidden knowledge lost thousands of years.ago--from the origins of Sumerian civilization in ancient Mesopotamia to the rise of Babylonian magic, mythology and religion. World renown expert and Director of the modern "Mardukite Research Organization"--Joshua Free--invites the Seeker on an incredible progressive journey to illuminate the most ancient and inaccessible facets of human history, spirituality and religious tradition on the planet. For the first time ever, anyone can discover the secrets of the Sumerian Anunnaki and the origins of all physical and metaphysical systems born from the Mesopotamian Mystery Tradition that directly led to Babylonian religion--a unique combination of Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian and Chaldean lore revealed with perfect clarity for all modern readers: the academic, esoteric and even the "just curious." Originally published in two installments as Liber-50 and Liber-51/52, this new commemorative edition of "The Sumerian Legacy" (formerly "Sumerian Religion") collects some of the most critical contributions from the modern "Mardukite Research Organization" rewritten and revised in combination with amazing new cover graphics by Kyra Kaos.
Book Synopsis Religion, Literature, and Scholarship: The Sumerian Composition Nanše and the Birds by : Niek Veldhuis
Download or read book Religion, Literature, and Scholarship: The Sumerian Composition Nanše and the Birds written by Niek Veldhuis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses insights from religious studies, literary theory, and the history of science for understanding the Sumerian composition Nanše and the Birds in the context of the Old Babylonian scribal school. It contains editions of all the relevant Sumerian texts.
Book Synopsis The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture by : Jean M. Evans
Download or read book The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture written by Jean M. Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the sculptures created during the Early Dynastic period (2900–2350 BC) of Sumer, a region corresponding to present-day southern Iraq. Featured almost exclusively in temple complexes, some 550 Early Dynastic stone statues of human figures carved in an abstract style have survived. Chronicling the intellectual history of ancient Near Eastern art history and archaeology at the intersection of sculpture and aesthetics, this book argues that the early modern reception of Sumer still influences ideas about these sculptures. Engaging also with the archaeology of the Early Dynastic temple, the book ultimately considers what a stone statue of a human figure has signified, both in modern times and in antiquity.
Download or read book Mesopotamian Magic written by Joshua Free and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Mardukite Heritage Edition: A reissue of an otherwise cycled out-of-print edition kept available for review and posterity as part of the developmental legacy of the Mardukite Research Organization, founded 2008.] A master compilation of mystical exploration into the heart of the ancient Mesopotamian Mysteries, this complete practical companion to the Mardukite "Necronomicon Anunnaki Cycle" illuminates the revolutionary teachings and source materials of the Modern Sumerian-Babylonian-Anunnaki Tradition of the Mardukite Chamberlains (Ordo Nabu Maerdechai), edited by Joshua Free, the presiding Nabu of the organization since its inception. MESOPOTAMIAN MAGIC is a highly innovative and accessible anthology of the complete "Year-3" research and development of the Mardukite Research Organization including three volumes ("Magan Magic," "Maqlu Magic" and "Beyond the Ishtar Gate") in a single incredible compilation! In MAGAN MAGIC: THE ENUMA ELIS (Liber-E) amazing cuneiform tablet records of magick and creation are drawn together to reconstruct the most antiquated, powerful and legendary "magician's primer" ever known to the minds of men --formulated by the ancient Sumerians and Babylonians! MAQLU MAGIC (Liber-M) reveals an authentic "Necronomicon Spellbook" of advanced Mesopotamian Magick drawn from the sands of Babylonia forming a complete Anunnaki ('alien sky god') "grimoire" used by magicians and priests for thousands of years to combat in wizards' duels, reverse the effects of evil spells and curses, banish disease and nightmares, and conjure the protection and blessings of the gods! Finally, BEYOND THE ISHTAR GATE (Liber C) is concerned with the 'other side' of the tradition, parts that have been concealed and yet also what made the tradition famous - mainly, the connection to the "Other," that which we have been programmed to perceive as 'separate' from this reality.
Book Synopsis The Descent of the Sumerian Civilization and the Rise of the Akkadian Empire by : Ryan Moorhen
Download or read book The Descent of the Sumerian Civilization and the Rise of the Akkadian Empire written by Ryan Moorhen and published by DTTV PUBLICATIONS. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sargon of Agade or Akkad is a name associated primarily with later Mesopotamian tradition, and modern writers view his reign as one of the most crucial periods in the ancient history of his country. As Nabonidus mentions the age of Naram-Sin in his text, the Dynasty of Akkad has become the canon to measure the relative ages of other dynasties of rulers whose inscriptions have been found on various Mesopotamian sites in the past. Despite those historians who have refused to place reliance upon the figures of Nabonidus, Sargon's position in history has not been diminished by their refusal; and, since tradition associates his name with the establishment of his empire, the terms "Pre-Sargonic" and "Post-Sargonic" have been used to describe the earlier and later phases in the history of Sumer and Akkad. The discovery of early inscriptions and tablets attributed to Shar-Gani-Sharri of Akkad removed any tendency to discount the historical value of the later traditions, and identify Shar-Gani-Sharri with Sargon of the Assyrian and Neo-Mesopotamian scribes ceased to be questioned. Sargon of Agade's historical character is a point in early Mesopotamian history that can be considered solidly established. A recent discovery at Susa has added another dimension to the discussion and opened it up along unfamiliar lines. To explain and reconcile the new data with the old, it will be helpful to briefly mention the steps by which Sargon's name was recovered and his place in history determined.
Book Synopsis Sumerian Epic of Paradise, the Flood and the Fall of Man by : Stephen Langdon
Download or read book Sumerian Epic of Paradise, the Flood and the Fall of Man written by Stephen Langdon and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
