The Epic Of Gilgamesh In Sumerian
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มิ.ย. 2014
- The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the earliest great work of literature that we know of, and was first written down by the Sumerians around 2100 B.C.
Ancient Sumer was the land that lay between the two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, in Mesopotamia. The language that the Sumerians spoke was unrelated to the Semitic languages of their neighbors the Akkadians and Babylonians, and it was written in a syllabary (a kind of alphabet) called "cuneiform". By 2000 B.C., the language of Sumer had almost completely died out and was used only by scholars (like Latin is today). No one knows how it was pronounced because it has not been heard in 4000 years.
What you hear in this video are a few of the opening lines of part of the epic poem, accompanied only by a long-neck, three-string, Sumerian lute known as a "gish-gu-di". The instrument is tuned to G - G - D, and although it is similar to other long neck lutes still in use today (the tar, the setar, the saz, etc.) the modern instruments are low tension and strung with fine steel wire. The ancient long neck lutes (such as the Egyptian "nefer") were strung with gut and behaved slightly differently. The short-neck lute known as the "oud" is strung with gut/nylon, and its sound has much in common with the ancient long-neck lute although the oud is not a fretted instrument and its strings are much shorter (about 25 inches or 63 cm) as compared to 32 inches (82 cm) on a long-neck instrument.
For anyone interested in these lutes, I highly recommend THE ARCHAEOMUSICOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST by Professor Richard Dumbrill.
The location for this performance is the courtyard of Nebuchadnezzar's palace in Babylon. The piece is four minutes long and is intended only as a taste of what the music of ancient Sumer might have sounded like. - เพลง
The moment you realize the oldest story ever told opens up with "In those ancient days ...".
This shall teach us.
Makes you wonder of just how far mankind has come.
@@alexs5744 Weird how the mammoths went extinct when the pyramids were almost 1,000 years old and Egypt was less than half way done with it's empire.
@@melliecolesg231Man, I might be bad at math, but a whole BUNCH of people were born, lived, and died even before this was written, and after. I guess we all just take a turn.
The oldest stories ever written, reference older stories that were never written. And the Epic of Gilgamesh was written by a scholar mourning the civilizations that perished before his and recalling oral traditions that were then as old as the Epic is now.
That guy at the party who brought his own gishgudi: "Anyway here's The Epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian"
I could definitely sit down and listen to him all night
I would be so damn awestruck that he could drink my bank to minus. Hearing this live would be godly.
here I am
Such a good way to start a party.
If someone pulls up with a Gishgudi and starts singing this i'd definitely sit down and listen
This song reminded me of the time I wanted to buy some copper. I sent my servant over to the baazar to find a merchant who sold copper at a reasonable price. He found one but when he came back, the quality was terrible. I was so furious I screamed "What in Kur is this shit?!?!?!?!" at the top of my lungs. I wrote a complaint to him but from what I heard, the merchant kept it like a trophy. So I would like to end this review by saying: don't ever buy copper from Ea Nasir.
Bro, FR. Terrible quality stuff.
Glorious
Holy excrement from the anus of Marduk, that is a comment which would make Enki himself fall over dead from laughter!
Al lam sumram
henceforth, man became the first scammer in history
Jokes and memes aside, this man has an absolutely stunning voice.
Yes he does.
Precisely
YES
Yes.. he can make people fell the ancientness
𐏂𐎧𐎠𐎭𐎪 𐏀𐎮𐎸
When the oldest written work known to man talks about the ancient times
Makes you wonder if Mr Graham Hancock is right... “we are a species with amnesia, as a result of a series of cataclysmic events”
Deandalapanda Indeed
When he talks about Ancient Times we soon remind the time when the "Zorra Total" jokes were first made/written/told.
@Columbus 1492 The Brazilians will.
@Columbus 1492 We're owning the Web! Zuckerberg hates us!!!!
-I listen to old songs
-Oh do you like 80's too?
-Actually..
5080s
2180s BC
Only 5080s kids will remember this.
@@jasonmartin4775 the epic of gilgamesh was written in 2100s BC lmao
@@AbrahamLincoln4 issa joke
"When bread was first tasted..." man way to put it in perspective
I wonder if they had invented sliced bread yet
Whoa.
@@johnpearce757not at all
imagine their reaction to peanut butter jam
it was all downhill from there
The irony of Gilgamesh is that in a way he did achieve immortality, More than 5,500 years after his death, people still talk about his history and his journeys throughout the world known to the Sumerians.
@@chrisdawson1776literally who hurt you today? A genuine question
@@chrisdawson1776 dude shut the actual fuck up. Genuine statement.
@@chrisdawson1776ur one miserable old mf huh? 😂
@@chrisdawson1776 Who the fuck asked for your comment? Genuine question.
@@chrisdawson1776though nobody asked him specifically, those who were curious are now grateful that he is here to provide us with his insight.
Man when he said "𒀆 𒀋𒀙𒃰 𒄐𒄑" I felt that.
Awesome writing.
Man's just casually wrote cuneiform and went with it
how my computer supports this alphabet
@@user-ol7bt4wp1j he casually grabbed a hammer and a wooden stick and just carved it on his screen
@@kosovartupac9579 It's written with a stylus, not a hammer and a wooden stick
Civilization now: "shit, ancient times were dope"
Sumerians: "shit, ancient times were dope"
WERE not where
@@OffGridInvestor UD REA AH not were
Some things never change.
Cavemen: "shit, we are dope"
@@jonathanfrakes1284 Dinosaures : "shit, bacteriological life was dope"
Got some Sumerian humor for you
A dog walks into a bar
He says ‘I can’t see anything. I’ll open this one’
GDI😂
😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember reading about this. Has there any legit explanation about the joke?
@@user-bm2rt5xn6k It might be a joke about how poorly lit Sumerian bars were, the dog opening one of it’s eyes (this one) or it’s a mistranslation: Edmund Gordon in the Journal of Cuneiform Studies claims it says “The dog, having entered an inn, didn’t see anything and so he said ‘Shall I open this door?’” with the joke being that the dog entered an inn that served as a brothel, and wanted to see what was behind closed door.
Props to the cameraman for travelling 4000 years to the past to record this
props for giving him modern clothes too
Dude. This was created literally 9 years, like are you joking?
r/wooooooooooosh
@@AdhvaithSane Its a joke, bro. Just a joke.
@@AdhvaithSaner/whooosh
Hope Gilgamesh does not copyright strike this
Lmao
He'd be wondering why people started misspelling his name as Gilgamesh
@@voicelessglottalfricative6567 GIRUGAMESH
@@Eralen00 Bilgames
@@CanalGreat They didn't use the latin alphabet so how do you know for sure its "bilgames"? Maybe we use some other language/culture's interpretation of his name. Are we wrong for calling it Germany even though Germans call it Deutschland?
Kids nowadays can't appreciate how available music is. Back in my day you would walk for a month to the city of Uruk, lay siege for 2 years and if you're lucky and break in, find and enslave a musician. Only then can you listen non stop to all the latest hits. Those were the days...
Sorry for being annoying
1Uruk was the strongest Sumerian city, doubt anyone could’ve won against it at the time (except for lugalzaggesi)
2 probably sieges weren’t practiced at the time, or at least they were far shorter than medieval sigies.
@@godisdeadandwememedhim4174 my brother in christ I dont think he cares about historical accuracy of a joke
wahahaha
@@Bread-nx9fo My brother in Enki: I just wanted to say it because people could’ve learnt. The joke is good
To były czasy xD
"In those distant days"
That verse that makes you remember that 90% of the entire human history has no surviving records, thus being lost forever.
😭😢
If you think about it more, even the history we know is very..
fragile? Everything began to be documented more or less well only around the 17th-19th centuries (Well, and the Roman period, too.) And everything else that we know is just the stories of ordinary people, eyewitnesses of certain events or times.
Damn, the history of mankind is one big blank spot, which is barely filled.
90% sounds made up, but go off
@@ee3660 Consider how much of the history of our own times is recorded only in digital formats. Even if our drives were perfect and file formats didn't become obsolete, if/when the lights go out, bang goes all our history. Within a couple of generations, our world would be the stuff of myth.
3:00 warms my heart even the Sumerians, at the dawn of human civilization, knew when to shred an absolute mad lad riff with vocals
Now all you need is a bystander with goatskin drums adding a backbeat to it. Impromptu jams must have been a thing in taverns 5000 years ago.
We don’t know what the original instrumental music or even vocal melody was, this is just his own interpretation. The oldest melody we have is the Hurrian Hymn no 6 and the full oldest song we have is the Sekeilos epitaph
-Those ancient times when bread was first baked...
-Ok, Soomer.
Sumer haha
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer
@Uncle Rawhide bruh
@Uncle Rawhide man
@Uncle Rawhide ok soomer
I love how the epic is 4000 years old and still begins with "In those distant days"
its so insane. its about the days before history was written down and according to other comments "mourns the civilisations and stories lost as they only existed orally"
They had a past even in the past you know.
@@ricochetsixtyten really drives you crazy thinking about that,
Greek philosophers complained about youth and how better were things in the older times
@@ricochetsixtyten This is different. We have written history, before we reach the prehistory. It's been that way fot thousands of years, but not for the ancient Sumerians. Written history didn't really exist for them like for us, because the times before the Sumerians was quite literally prehistory. History started with them, the Sumerians.
The Indus Valley Civilization has been very quiet since this dropped...
imagine being jealous of old civilizations
we can't even read the IVC languages :(
There's a strange almost nostalgic feeling to this song...as if something inside us remembers those ancient times
Yeah brother! 4000 year nostalgia!
maybe your related to the guy who made this fire beat
And it, as the oldest surviving story in all of human history, begins with a variation of "In those long ago times." You have to love just how deep and foreign and yet familiar it all is.
I'd wager early music like this is just something all humans are prone to create, like how singing is utterly universal because all humans (and hell most animals) have an innate desire to vocalize and communicate
💯🎯🤗
It's fitting how Gilgamesh tried so hard, yet failed to achieve immortality, but now lives on even 6000 years later through a writing by an author who himself is forgotten. Art really does transcend time
The trickster
Its been 6000 years and people still try to achieve immortality
@@edvards_edtrx3475 no one wants to die,especially when you have goals for the specie unlike no ambition peasants who are content with being stepped on by those who have ambition.
Think about this, the Iliad wasn't written by Homer but instead he just pieced it together in a coherent story, the story itself is way more ancient.
Time is an illusion. Look up time lapse of the universe and let me know what you think.
So people in 2100 B.C. already talked about the good old days. Some things in humanity never change
Underrated comment. Should be near the top. Made me laugh super hard.
Jacopo Abbruscato hahahaha
@Jesus Christ Thank you Jesus for the truth...
The more things change, they stay the same.
There are documents of ancient greeks complaining about how disrespectfull and useless are youngsters , not like when they were younger .
Just did a quick Internet search, the epic of Gilgamesh was written around approximately 2000B.C. (give or take a century), while the last known wooly mamoths were thought to have died out around 1600B.C. (400 years later), just think about that
I love ancient Sumerian literature. The "in those X, those ancient X" formula comes up a lot, like in their wisdom literatures "Instructions of Shuruppak", which was written nearly a thousand years before "Epic of Gilgamesh".
Do you have any recommendations?
Who's still listening 4000 years later, in 2019?
remember the good old days when you can take a shit in the street and not wipe and no one will judge you for it?
@@cocopus I remember the good old days when me and the boys robbed some oranges and just got away with it without being sent to slavery
I'm listening 81 years after it came out
:)))))))
Best joke ever :))))))
Zoomer: Billie Eilish
Boomer: AC/DC
Soomer:
OK comment
Lmaooooo SUMER I died
Thirty-two Count on my 7th snuf right no......
lmao sumer
The 8000 year-old Soomer
> AHHHHHH IM SOOOMING AAHHHHHH
mammoths still existed and only became extinct 400 years after this was written, just think about this to know how old this is and yet, the oldest story known to humanity, begins with ''in those days, in those distant days'' ........ that is, the oldest story of humanity, it begins with ''a very long time ago''
"The oldest story known to humanity" and tons of people haven't even read it 🤦🏻♀️ we studied it in sophomore high in Mexico City, along with the Mahabharata, and other ancient books. I'm sooo Grateful to that Teacher who, even though she was a neurotic-psychopathic person, instigated in us the love for literature & knowledge ❤ Kuddos to you Eulalia, wherever you are, your 51 year-old student still remembers you & keeps on learning 🤓
isn't the oldest known story the cosmic hunt
@@sillywilly6999 Nope. Sumerian is literally the oldest language preserved in writing as of yet uncovered, and the Epic of Gilgamesh is the text its preserved through.
@@thrace_bot1012 the cosmic hunt is older than language look it up if you want it's really interesting there is a video that explains it out there :)
@thrace_bot1012 I believe that some consider elements of the verbal tradition of the Australian Aboriginal culture to be the oldest surviving stories. However, the Epic of Gilgamesh is indisputably the oldest recorded story.
Ud rea, ud sura rea
Ĝi rea, ĝi bara rae
Mu rea, mu sura rea
Ud ul niĝdue pa eaba
Ud ul niĝdue mi zid duggaaba
Eš kalammaka ninda šuaba
Šurinna kalammaka niĝtab akaba
An kita, badabaraaba
Ki anta, badasurraaba
Mu namluulu baanĝarraaba
esperanto-ass orthography
Now write it in cuneiform
Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong
@@Starke667 ?
The oldest song in history talks about an even older time, amazing.
Hashir hachi yashan saviv zman yoter yashan, atzum
Wow
@Belmin Hodzic well said
@@warrior5215
אני לוקח הרפתקה מרתקת כדי למצוא את השפה שלך ולתרגם אותה, איזו תרבות והיסטוריה עשירה ויפה, זכות, היא עצומה!
SUmmerian cities were already 2000 years old at that time
Oldest civilization: ”In those ancient days”
Todays people: *The. WHAT?*
Sorry but Mesopotamia is not oldest, ( proto indus valley) = is 11000 years old = mehergarh searching " "mehergarh "
www.dawn.com/news/1316715 check this
@@greaterbharat4175 If you want to be technical the earliest human settlement is in Ohalo in Israel. Mesopotamia is generally considered the cradle of civilization because of writing being invented there first, not because it's the oldest.
This poem created around 2100BC-1500BC and Mesopotamia when Gil was a king estimated around 3000BC-2500BC so 500 gap should be pretty long time right?
Spencer Kurniawan too much Numbers for me to read, i never learned maths. Haha jk
All jokes aside, this man has a majestic voice. I find myself listening to this once in awhile because of how captivating it is.
If someone has attempted to find in the Epic of Gilgamesh the (first) lines here sung and hasn't found them, it's because these lines don't strictly belong to the Epic as such, but to another cycle usually called "Gilgamesh, Enkiddu and the Netherworld", which aren't included in the "orthodox" editions of the poem, but rather added (and not always) as a supplement in the form of a "chapter XII" (the "orthodox" poem ends at chapter XI). There are current debates as to whether this poem should or shouldn't be considered organical part of the poem, but the consensus to this day has preferred to exclude it. So, the first lines sung in this video are not from the Epic of Gilgamesh, but from the complementary poem "Gilgamesh, Enkiddu and the Netherworld".
Parts also sound very similar to the Instructions of Shuruppak, one of the oldest Sumerian texts. etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr561.htm
Thank you, I've been wondering where exactly these verses came from
WE GETTIN OUT OF MESOPOTAMIA WITH THIS ONE 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
and literally transcend time 💯💯💯
Nah bro, we be protecting Mesopotamia with this one
WE GETTING TO HELL AND BACK TO RESCUE FRIEN WITH THIS ONE 🗣🗣💯💯🥶🤑🔥🔥🔥
Mesopotamia was the apex of the world and civilization in those times.
ENTERING THE IRON AGE WITH THIS ONE
Sumerians: in those ancient days!
Me: how ancient?
Sumerians: before bread
Me: oh
😆👍🏼
Nice one
And. Cheese or beer?
@@Mindsi Cheese comes much later.
So, we have bread...then beer...then cheese. I think.
@@eleethtahgra7182 so nothing to the bread?
It always amazes me how people are breaking their necks, staring into the dark expanse of the universe looking for aliens. It amazes me because we are the aliens. We find cultures, languages, musical instruments that sound and feel so completely different, almost alien. But yet we’ve always been human.
One of the finds that touched me the most was the burial of 2 identical twins, buried side by side, covered in ochre, both holding a finely made necklace with what appeared to be amulets. Their oval grave was covered by a big mammoth shoulder blade, carefully carved to fit the grave.
They where burried together on the banks of the Danube, what must have been a place with a magnificent view. The grave is 30.000 years old. To think all those eons ago 2 people loved, cared, mourned and grieved their lost little beans. And gave them a dignified and loving resting place. To look at it is to look at us, same as us. But 30.000 years old… Just thinking of it i feel tears. It’s touching.
This was so beautiful, so epic and worthy of a Middle Eastern movie background song, it made me cry.
The sumarians were ancient to the romans who are ancient to us and still this song is about ancient times for the sumarians. Just awesome...
In time before time is a literary trope for a reason
Humanity peaked in the stone age
@@Mr.Obongo then died of typhoid I presume
I mean yeah, it literally said "before the invention of bread"
Before romans? That’s nothing. We’re talking before ancient Egypt became preposterous
Unbelievable this guy survived 4000 years to tell us about this song
Kian sabe
@@dandz9823 ke
Bro survived the flood and was granted immortality.
Some soul entered his body
He was a camera man in Sumer, that's how he survived so long
I felt very nostalgic when he said "𒂗𒈨𒅕𒃸" it brings back memory's
4000 years later. Still slaps
boomer : remeber when facebook didn't exist?
sumer: remeber when bread didn't exist?
facebook never existed - but I remember microsoft chatservers and old chatclients which where fbooks ancestors
Remember annoying tiktokers doesnt exists, good old times
Remember when we had to use a sled instead of wheels? Oh Boi those were the days. Simpler times
@@lonehiker6648 wheels must have been invented and forgotten 1000 times -I they roll a log You soon realise youcan make a wheel but Something else has to beinvented to get it stick -like a road
@@jari2018 wot is road? I am from 5000BC
Got the original on stone tablets. You can't beat the original.
I have them on endless flowing rivers of virgin blood, you are so new school.
Colin Terry I heard Gilgamesh perform the original live, beat that.
Only 5000 B.C. kids will understand.
I got the actual original on clay tablets. Don't let these stone tablet guys fool you.
Those damn kids with their writing system back in my days it was one Guy who Heard the story from an another one and song it to us after
i have to come back to this video every so often. it's hauntingly beautiful and makes me feel connected to our shared ancient past. i'm thankful that there is someone who took the time to make this labor of love for us all to enjoy. maybe in 4000 years they'll be talking about peter pringle.
All jokes aside, this guy has a truly amazing voice.
Level 99 Bard.
Got time travel skills.
Accurate lol
No joke!
Indeed, this gives me ideas for stuff to do with my bard in preparation for fighting the Big Bad, as well as Sumerian and Cueniform based for the "lost" magical language of my campaign world.
He is the Final Boss bard
You know it’s speaking of real ancient times when it mentions the invention of bread...
Theodore Beer was before bread. And both of it was just a coincidence
@Theodore The oldest evidence of bread making was found recently in Jordan's black desert, dating back to somewhere around 14,000 years BC.
Johan Fouche the moon isn’t a wheel it’s a sphere, and second someone had to make bread for the first time. Bread is an invention, just because multiple human groups thought of it doesn’t make it any less of an invention.
Johan Fouche so if it is made of natural materials or produce like grain it cannot he invented? Computers are made from natural metals from the earth. Plastics are made from oil which was once living beings. Were both those things not invented as well? Your argument is extremely flawed and I can see on top of your ignorance you’re also a racist. It’s common to see people of lower intellect to have racist tendencies. I pity you, Johan. I truly do
Johan Fouche but surely you must realize there was that first person to ever make bread. It doesn’t matter if other cultures also developed it, bread is a man made object. Someone HAD to invent bread and spread it to other people. Like with houses! I’m sure there was that one early human who decided to prop up sticks and logs to create his own dwelling. That person is the inventor of the house. Although of course we can never know who they were because of how long ago that was. Bread is not like fire, bread is not a natural occurrence it had to be thought of by a human and crafted like any object. Granted the method of creating fire was also a manmade process but fire itself is a natural occurrence that does not need the help of man to occur. But bread as a physical object needs to be handmade by a person, and for that to happen someone needed to invent it using their own method. Also of course you know you’re correct, everyone knows that they themselves are correct. If someone knew they were wrong they would change their point of view. I think your views on people of color are outdated and ignorant. I don’t care if you have stereotypes and “observations” on other races that doesn’t make it right.
This man is singing a song written by people back in the day, taking about people back in the first days of civilization. Chilling and makes you feel like a grain of sand in the history of humanity.
POV you're literally in the Bronze Age relaxing at a concert after a long day working the fields
Wish I was in Uruk rn
Sumerians: Yo listen to this guy's weird ass accent
Hahahaha, fancy a Sumerian rap?
אני ממש יודע מה שאתה אומר, זה קורה בעולם ערבי. יש זה לערבית, הרבה שפות לאחד שפה. אני רוצה לנסוע לבבל והולך להתחיל לעשות טיול מסביב לעולם. היתה לי חברה שהיתה קופאית. היא כל כך מדברת כמה שפות, אולי שומרית. רציתי שהכל שאני כותב יהיה לספר משומרים. אני רוצה להתחיל לחשוב על משהו, להיות נבוכדנצר. אתם יכולים להתחיל ללמוד שפות ישנות, לא? כמו הקופאית הזאת.
אחת*
נבוכדנצר thx netanyahu
@Typed Scroll Well that's some zionist shit
Shoutout to Gilgamesh who comes back 4,500 years after his death to sing his epic song again.
yes
I guess he did get that immortality he wanted
The hardest come back of all time!
Oh yeah. He is even before the time of Abraham.
Its kind of funny to imagine that this dude is 17 feet tall
joking aside, I live in the north of Mesopotamia and every time I hear this song there is something that stirs in my blood, something mystical about it. maybe thousands of years ago my ancestors were mowing their fields, leaning their backs against a stone and humming this lament in the sunset, who knows?...
I experienced something similar in Estonia a few months ago. I visited and I had a sudden feeling of rightness, and it was almost like I could see the fishers and farmers and builders from the last 1000 years in front of me. It wasn't just that I liked the people or the place (I very much did) but that it all felt strangely familiar. I am a pretty rational, pragmatic person, but it felt mystical.
I later learned that my father's family, parts of which we know very little about, is from there. My mother had a very similar experience when she went to Wales as a child. It just felt like home and she couldn't explain why. I went through family records and her ancestors were all Welsh.
I wonder if there is a name for this phenomenon. When you are in the land of your ancestors, whether you know it or not, and something--the music, the sunlight on mountains, the smell of the sea--makes you feel like your ancient ancestors are much closer in time and space. Very cool that yiu experience it while listening to this song.
when the nomadic semite says something so barbaric you gotta hit em with the sumerian stare
LMAO
Remember smoking a joint with my bro Hammurabi and listening to this. He had this crazy idea called law...
I heard he teaches in law school after you went to Egypt with that Ania girl.
yeah he tried to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land
(so that the strong, should not harm the weak)
Lol
The last joint smoked free from police paranoia.
so that explains all the hypocrite cops
Sumerian one: Yo momma is soooo old!
Sumerian two: okay,how old is she?
Sumerian one: older than bread!
Everybody else: DAMNNNNN!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
that joke was better in Sumerian
Summerian: Damn, she's at least 50 then
OOOOOOOOOOOooooooooohhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Ngố Bi LMAOOOOOO
DAMN, when that beat drops.... perfectionism
Ea Nasir on his way to sell "superior" copper :
I used to listen to this when I was in high school. I'm 4000 years old now and it still rocks.
Og
𐎡 𐎾𐎠𐎺 𐎮𐎿
you must be the snake that ate the deep sea plant of immortality
@@evielovezlax7383 too political sorry
You ain't even a proper Sumerian then, the Third Dynasty of ur fell on 2004 BCE and by then things were no longer the same as those ancient days.
This was the hottest track of the summer of 2100 B.C. My boy Utnapishtim and I used to blast this while cruising around the fertile plains of Uruk looking for harlots to take our seed and brave men to test our strength against in wrestling matches. Good times.
The Good'l times.
Living for this comment 😁
Yea man, When Sumer was ruled by REAL MEN, unlike them BABYLONIAN PUSSIES
@@willsplayify They couldn't have been that great, they perished in a great flood!
@@SaintOfRage anybody would perish in a flood, given the technology of that day
"Why did you invade Ukraine?"
Putin:
Now it makes sense... he's on a quest to raze the Earth to hunt Ea Nasir, after his shoddy copper left his armed forces in their current deplorable state
People are too careless to look for the history of the entire conflict. I don't stand with either side. It's important to find the deep roots of the issue before blindly preferring one side to the other.
@@usibistro Based
@usibistro If everyone had your common sense the world would be a greater place.
@@usibistro Way too much common sense for that profile picture, change it brother
My wife: "You listen to weird music"
Me:
It's so funny. I too listen to the weirdest shit.
Weird is the music, people listen to today...
@@bilosan97 how is it weird? Culture and music changes. Someone probably though the same thing in the 1800's. Music develops more rapidly in modern times because of technology and the internet. Our culture is changing at a fast pace too.
@@solomale2156 listening to satanic occult music or to rap music with swear words 24/7 isn't weird? Btw. I dont talk about classical music which is full with harmony
@@bilosan97 did you miss my whole point?
Haven't seen a comment about this man's exceptional singing ability.
Top class!
yes he has a terrific voice!
Yeah true, what a great voice to sing the epic of Godking Gilgamesh
This is an Original music from the foundation of truth , and I love the truth when I can decide for myself what is the facts , it is written
Because thats not his voice the face doesn't match his voice who is he lying to lol
@@ishthefish9006 You'd jump through your roof when I tell you about studio recording and voice editing
Fun fact Mesopotamian Iraqi Arabic still uses some sumerian words!
My origins are from southern Iraq too
This was so powerful, so profound, exquisite. It brought tears to my eyes. The sound penetrated my soul
penetrated is crazy 💀😭
More people saw this than what was estimated to be the population of the Sumerian civilization at its peak.
I guess that makes this guy the most famous Sumerian musician of all time.
Bruh
@@yaznaz5340 moment
noice
our population today is 10% of the total humans that has ever lived, ever. (estimation)
This is just so epic
“When bread was first tasted.” The song is describing the transition to agriculture from the hunter-gatherer lifestyle that mankind had lived in for untold millennia. Only the tail end of mankind’s history is recorded.
yeah.. the modern brain existed for like 300k years. And we barely know about the last 10k of those
@@CCCW Saddens me to think of just how many stories will never be told again; to think of how many gods that have been forgotten.
@@TheNightWatcher1385 I imagine a caveman banging his head on the wall and proclaming his new grown blob a proper god. Maybe the tale of how he convinced his 300 millions peers is worth a reading.
"Blob appears, Blob make death water appear, Blob god of death therefore"
No is not lol
There are still hunter-gatherers today
Even years later, I come back to this video. It really does connect us to our ancestors thousands of years removed.
This what I mean when I say I love old songs. Not just from the 80's, 40's, 1800's; like more into ancient.
That moment when literally the most ancient thing in human history starts with "in those ancient nights"
It's close to the oldest, but not the oldest. Firstly, there's another piece of music (Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal, the goddess of orchards), and secondly, we don't know what even more ancient humans sang and played. Just imagine, there's musical tunes played by Homo Erectus which will never be heard again
There have probably been even more ancient cultures or civilizations lost to time
yesterday was ancient times for them
times of the nephilim
of the bosnian pyrami
@@vulpes7079 94% of all human knowledge was wiped away when the library of Alexandria was destroyed
It is literally the worse tragedy in human mind
And gilgamesh wept bitter tears, saying:
*''He who was my companion, through adventure and hardship, is gone forever.''*
I felt that
Can't blame him for the lack of understanding.
He was one step away from saying lover
@@mateohodge6998 Dude, not every story of friendship has to become a love story.
@@haltingultraman7147 the first time Gilgamesh saw Enkidu in his dream, he fucked him. In the dream before that Enkidu was an axe which was the symbol of confused/bisexual sexuality and Gilgamesh fucked it too. Gilgamesh's mother told him that he'd love Enkidu as wife. Their friendship started with a kiss. They laid together. It was normal for a slave and a master to have romantic relationships. Gilgamesh literally rejected the Goddess of Beauty by saying he has Enkidu and he's enough for him. The line between friends and gay lovers were non existent back then in most of Ancient Mesopotamia, as far as I know, since the whole concept of marriage revolved around having children to continue a lineage and sex was a carnal thing. Sure, by the times standarts they were really really close friends. However, by todays standarts they would be count as lovers, however much value that might hold.
For a man named Peter Pringle, he's probably one of the most interesting men in the world to talk to.
“In those days, in those distant days, in those nights, in those ancient nights, in those years, in those distant years, in those ancient days when all things had been created, in ancient times when all things were given their place, when bread was first tasted in the sacred shrines of the land, when the ovens had been lighted, when the heavens had been separated from the earth, when the earth was separated from the heavens, when mankind had been established.” I think we most definitely existed way before this. May God guide us all.
"I'm into 90s music"
"Like 1990?"
"No, 90s BC"
There, are you happy?
1990BC would be closer.
@@johnidchannel6877 People have no idea how ancient civilization on this planet is. It's humbling. And yet it is but the blink of an eye in the history of Earth and the universe.
90s are more closer to nowadays than to days when this music was written
Baalur yeah but you can look at artifacts and determine the age, but still no one knows 1 0 0 percent but it is highly likely we know this was made in 2500 bc
I use the holocene calendar, today is the 8 of august of 12.020 of the Human Era.
I remember when I turned 16 and finally came of age in 2150 B.C. My friend Manishtushu and I went out to Urak by horse for three days. Then some guy named Naram-Sim was on a stage and before he preformed, he said "𒀭𒈾𒊏𒄠𒀭𒂗𒍪 𒈠𒀭𒅖𒌅𒋢𒊬𒊒𒄀" Which really touched me. Then he sang this song. My friend, Manishtushu was killed in battle ☹. Those were the days.
Is it the same Naram-Sim from Karak? 🤔 good man
With the help of its friends and allies of the allied peoples the Sumerian People's Army will continue the fight until victory. We believe that the victory will serve as an example for peoples around the world and open the path to freedom. We look to our allies of the allied peoples and cities. Peoples of all the countries of the world and all the peoples of Sumeria, we call upon you to stand together and not let the enemy divide our peoples. In our words are strength. May the people of Sumeria, all the peoples of the world be successful in achieving their goals of independence and freedom!
In Uruk today the Leader of Sumeria made an address on Sumerian state television condemning the separatists and rebels fighting in Kish. “I will use the forces of Sumer to ensure that our beloved city is safe and that our government is secure. We will stand our ground in this time of turmoil.” The Leader was shown standing in front of the main gate to the city making a speech as a symbol of leadership.
The rebels’ advance is being slowed by their lack of heavy weaponry and the recent rain that has turned many of the city’s streets into muck and mire.
Manishtushu owed me some money. He said @colinwilliams5447 will take care of his debt to me. Bro, can you venmo me the money that your good for nothing buddy Manishtushu owed me. thanks in advance man.
Hippie scum.
Ea-Nasir vibin to this while he fixes his copper weights
Ea-Nassir’s copper is top of the line stuff, come down and buy some
(No refunds, Nassir Inc. is not at fault for any sub-par copper)
This is beautiful and also… kinda scary. Like being teleported to another world completely alien. But it also weirdly feels very human, like being one with our past. It reminds me that humanity is amazing and beautiful at its core (even thought it’s sometimes hard to believe that).
This song is so 90's
Like 2090 bc
rockin since ancient times.
People in 2020: Maaan... I miss the good old days of cruising my Chrysler through the streets of New York back in 1966
People in 2100 BC: Maaan... I miss those days when mankind was established
@You're fake and gay +1 for being fake and gay
Unsubtle Major Dictator +2 for being the Unsubtle Major Dictator
@@OblivionImperialGuard +3 for being an imperial and gaurd
@@Noam_.Menashe +3 for being noam and menashe
@@goealshafay425 +4 for being whatever the fuck those arabic words mean.
I can’t believe how we managed to capture an ancient tale of a dead civilization over 4000 years later. Imagine 4000 years from now, a civilization coming across the songs of today and absolutely fanning over it. I think it would be funny seeing how they piece together the Rick roll.
Damn bro... This was the hottest track of the summer of 2100 B.C. My boy Utnapishtim and I used to blast this while cruising around the fertile plains of Uruk looking for harlots to take our seed and brave men to test our strength against in wrestling matches. Good times.
When you're partying at the Desert Palace because you found a new water source, and the bard whips out this absolute banger
It's not bad
Finding a new wellspring was the shit!
It wasnt so bad in mesopotamia back then, early farming techniques destroyed the top soil to make it like it is today
Lol
It was more of an spiritual song
Crazy to think a song this old talks about "ancient days". Really puts things into perspective.
Peter Newson very true, it makes one think that sumerian list of kings is nothing but pure history...
It shows humanity is way older than we are being told....
No, he could well mean something along the lines of controversial historians who pose that civilization could well be twenty or even thirty thousand years old as opposed to less than ten thousand.
Some people talk of the civilization in sumer appearing suddenly, of course that idea is nonsense, it developed slowly, it just seems to appear because of our lack of knowledge of what came before.
Maybe he means something like civilisation, or something similar?
"When bread was first tasted" is such a chilling line...
Your music still brings me so much comfort. Thank you Peter
I love Led Ziggurat
Lol
Underrated comment
Damn.
Thats a quality joke.
Heavy Metal!
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@Veritas Aequitas, "Enter Sandstone" is their best song in my opinion.
only 2100 B.C.'s kids will remember this
Damn BCE millennials.
I thought sumer older than 2100 bc
Lmaoooo
Unexpected comedy
Fuck off, this place is for 4100 B.C.
0:12 Love how he just fades in, as though he was at that very moment created for the first time
What a banger. Would love to hear it on Spotify.
Kids these days with their filthy Gregorian chants and Mozart. This was the real deal.
Kids love Byzantine chants
smh, why can’t we go before the Islamic Golden Age? So much better
Punks
I know this is a joke but here's some perspective: this song was waay older to the folks singing Gregorian chants than Gregorian chants are to us. This is from almost 3000 years *before* Gregorian chants while Gregorian chants are only 1200 ish years old. And morzart was popular less than 300 years ago
L Pharmer ugarit approves
"In those ancient nights..." What stories, peoples, and places were considered ancient by the oldest civilization we know of? Amazing to wonder about.
Makes you think about Humans and the world dosint it? So many secrets humanity still holds in the sediment of Time. Keeps me up at night to be frank.
did you ever hear about Gobeklitepe ?
@@mustafaalp1568 its not a story the Historians would tell you...
Mustafa Alp That was 8000 years before this song. Pretty damn ancient. And what was ancient to the people who built THAT? Chills man, fucking chills.
@@Kaddywompous recently in Israel a 5000 year old metropolis of 6000 inhabitants was unearthed, it's a shame there are no written records before Sumeria, all we have is what ever previous cultures left and speculation
Дуже гарно, чудовий інструмент!
WE MAKIN IT OUTTA THE FERTILE CRESCENT WITH THIS BANGER 🗣️🗣️💯💯
Why can't modern songs have lyrics about the history of bread?
Now lyrics are about getting bread instead.
Because people hate carbohydrates. Piss on your diets!!
Well, over the last 4,000 years all of the bread songs have been done. Wheat, Rye, Pumpernickel, Oat, the whole deal. These days we have songs about space travel and time dilation, oh and ones about busting a cap in someone's ass. You know, the classics.
Becose we become more egocentric as species what matters now is how we feel(as individuals) rather than our journey
Modern pop is atrocious compared to this. This music has gravitas and purpose
Thousands of years and it's still not on Spotify
@Eisen Chao free sample basically
@Eisen Chao Rights were sold to Cyrus the Great circa 550BC and he hasn't made a spotify contract.
Bitch it here BEFORE spotify
I think it is :)
And also I totally get the joke
@@josephwatkins5500 multiple music apps are allowed to have the same song tho
Beautiful and haunting. I only wish it were longer. Thank you so much for the video.
1:00 we making it outta 3rd Strike with this one
First recorded story of humanity - and it's set in "ancient days" before the poet is speaking. That's some deep time.
it's almost as if an ancient golden age culture was wiped out by some great catastrophe, and all we were left with was scraps of history.
¿? Sumerians actually spoke about this , there are a lot of ancient scripts talking about Pre-Flouting era and it’s very ancient civilizations , they even wrote the exact years and the exact names of the kings who ruled the earth back then . It’s a very weird stories and more blown minded stories than the myths you see in TH-cam about Annunaki .
Matus Motlo Ancient Greece only stored and transferred old knowledge from Mesopotamia & Egypt , and devolved them also , they didn’t invent a lot of important things in human development due to the fact that most of them were already invented by older Civilizations .
Yes, every culture has it's ancient mythology and epics. But it's hard to pin down the exact border between facts and fiction as people at the time didn't differentiate facts and fiction. For them a golden flying bull was as believable as a loaf of bread from a local baker.
@@Theboomdoctor The Bible tells us,beloved.
“Alexa, play my 2200 BC party mix”...
Taylor Watson 😂😂😂
Lol
Lmfao
Omg I love it!!!
Taylor Watson
👏👏👏 😁
I love how most of the song is just explaining how old the tale is
I feel like i went to see those ancient times by myself. Just something that I can't describe . 😭
Imagine someone in the year 6743 singing a song written in the year 2022 about a story that happened during the Bronze Age. That’s the length of time we are dealing with here
Sadly, that person is gonna sing Gucci Gang instead
@@amaneyugihanako-kunofthesi8849 you need to stop listening to boomers man, there is so much incredible music being made all the time, especially with the advent of computers.
@@cravinghibiscus7901 Ummm, current music is mostly shit now, you don't have to listen to a boomer to figure that out. There are some good ones but they tend to have much smaller amounts of listeners compared to those cringe ones. 80s to 2010's music was the best period, onwards to 2020 was when it went to shit.
@@cravinghibiscus7901 And just because computers exist doesn't mean that music quality just got better. With a computer, people have all this power to make great music in their hands, yet only few tap into that power really well, the rest do it mostly in meh quality. Kinda weird that I would consider Bill Wurtz to be one of those aforementioned guys that can utilize the power of music on a computer really well, despite his rather unusual genre of music.
@@amaneyugihanako-kunofthesi8849 yikes... tell me you don't know where to find the right artists without telling me you don't know where to find the right artists