The City of Eridu and its Significance in Sumerian Myth and History (Ancient Mesopotamia in Minutes)
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I've always had this fascination with ancient sites like Eridu, so I thought I'd just to this little tribute to the city of Eridu, one that was was held by the Sumerians with reverence.
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Imagine 3000 years of continues use of a temple site. Perspective: think 3000 years back from today to 1000 BC. We HARDLY know anything how our world looked like.
Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome dates back to the fourth century, and the Ka'aba in Mecca has been the holiest shrine of Islam for one thousand and four hundred years, and before Islam it was already a centuries-old temple dedicated to the traditional Arab gods.
For sure, I was just thinking that the gap in time between the construction of the pyramids and the Roman annexation of Egypt is about the same as the length of time between Caesar and our own day. Just boggles the mind how much must have occurred during all of those centuries!
@@HistorywithCy and how little we really know about it.
@@alessandrodelogu7931 The Pantheon in Rome is probably the oldest continuously used building still in existence.
@@HistorywithCy perhaps the sumerian people had listened about Gobekli Tepe or Çatal Hüyük, and they would be like us when we study the Egyptian pyramids or ancient Rome. Maybe sumerians knew something we don't know
Its amazing that these ruins are still here and we are able to get an image of such complex cities with little data
Oh boy I love videos about the Sumerians!
Me too, I love making them! Don't worry, there will be many more coming on the way, stay tuned and safe!
@@HistorywithCy Awesome! Can’t wait!
Happy as always to start my day with a history lesson. I was curious if any new long form videos are on the way?
Thanks, glad to be of service! Yes, for sure there are several in the works - the next one will probably be on Dynasty 1 of Egypt, and then the other longer ones in the works (scripts in various stages of production) will be on the Peloponnesian War, a full history of Babylonia, Ancient South America and Alexander the Great (though not exactly in this order... will depend on order of completion). Also have a few podcasts coming up which will be between 20-30 minutes each. Thanks for your interest in this stuff, really appreciate it! Stay safe!
Big respect. I totally waited for a separate video about Eridu, keep the great work!
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed this! Other Sumerian cities on the way, stay tuned and safe!
Awesome video, really focused and well put together. Excellent work, as always!
I can't help but marvel at the thousands of years continuous history of the city and it's temple. A testament to the record-keeping abilities of the Mesopotamian civilisation.
Eridu keeps amazing me! Such a great example of an earliest soft power 🥰
May i ask you a question, Cy? When you mention kings, especially those in the early dynasty era, do you mean the title "Sar"? What interests me is when the transition first happen from Lugal/Ensi to Sar? Where did the word first appear and how it spread?
Perhaps there has been a video on this or related topic earlier in your channel that i have missed?
Thank you very much!
Please do one on greco Indian culture and the land of diyonysus
Eventually will do some stuff on India, probably later this year or first half of 2022, stay tuned!
@@HistorywithCy great
@@HistorywithCy please do one bronze age warefare
Thank you Cy, it's always good to see your videos! Can't wait for the next one!!
Thanks, hopefully it'll be next week, stay tuned and thanks for always stopping by, appreciate it!
@@HistorywithCy always my friend..
This is the video that got me interested in your channel. Eridu fascinates me its so ancient!
Nice! Yeah I wanted to update it a bit since the one you saw was one of my first videos. When I saw it again I realized it was more about ancient Sumerian cities in general and not specifically about Eridu, so I thought I'd quickly put this together. I'll do some of the other cities as well including Uruk and Eshnunna. Thanks again for stopping by, stay tuned and safe!
"Uruk, Ur and Babylon"
Why you gotta diss Kish like this ? : (
Oh don't worry, Kish is going to get its own video, stay tuned!
Kish? Pffft! nothing next to the Glory of Lagash!!! ;P
@@carlhassler5336 Haha no worries, Lagash will get a special video too!
@@HistorywithCy Awesome, it's one of the most underrated cities and yet it deserves attention. At least for its connection to Sargon of Agade and for title King of Kish.
Great video as always! It's amazing how Sumer developed such society so early. I wonder if there was any contact with ancient Egypt of the same/similar period.
Thanks, glad you liked it! There apparently was early on, especially with Uruk, probably between 3300-3000 BC as can be attested by certain types of grave goods that have been discovered, but shortly afterward it seems to have stopped until several centuries later, and by then such goods were exchanged through middlemen such as the Phoenicians and other seafaring peoples. Thanks again for stopping by, really appreciate it... stay safe!
Anu (Ra) ... his sons were Enlil (Seth) and Enki (Osiris). We revered them as Gods, but they were the aliens that created us.
Love your content bro, appreciate it muchly
Thanks, appreciate you watching!
Praised be Enki!
I have to learn Sumerian first and then read the Sumerian King List to verify the length of reign of each king. The Sumerians had a sexagesimal (base-60) numbering system, which means they used 59 digits to represent numbers (as opposed to the 10 digits we use today in decimal system). Unfortunately, Sumerians did not have a digit representing zero, and this means they did not know of the radix point. If we did not know of the digit, we would not know of the decimal point, and this would mean that we could not differentiate between the numbers 234, 23.4, 2.34, and even 0.234 or 2340. As for the Sumerian mathematics, if they had a number, say (59)(58), that is, a two-digit sexagesimal number formed by the last two digits of the Sumerian base-60 numerical system, they could calculate the same number as 59*60+58, or 59*3600+58*60, or 59*216000+58*3600, or … or even 59+58/60, or 59/60+58/3600, or …
The conclusion is that the given numbers in this translated version of the Sumerian King List must be corrected by someone who has a basic knowledge of reading Sumerian cuneiform numerals. And then, and only then, this beautiful documentary is worth referring to. Cheers! ❤️
As far as I know the numerical values for antedivluvian kings in SKL are in sars and one sar equals 3600 so the first ruler ruled for 8 sars and the second one for 10 sars. But the number is always preceeded by sign for year, so we know they were counting years. Why they used sars for antediluvian kings and years for kings after the flood remains mystery which lead some researchers to some unusual conclusions.
Unfortunately even transliteration of the text on ETCSL uses numerical values, not the original counting system. If you want to tackle the text in Sumerian, feel free here:
etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=c.2.1.1&display=Crit&charenc=gcirc#
Probably the best way to estimate the reign lengths is to use Newton's average reign length of 20 years per king. That way you can skip all the mathematical speculation and at least get a ballpark number for the number of years involved for a king list.
@Jaroslav Doežel I have not read the article you mentioned. You are right, but how do we make sure one “sar” is indeed 3600 years? 3600 would be represented as “100” in base 60 and considering, as I wrote earlier, that Sumerians did not have a digit for zero, means that this number could mean either of 1, 60, (60)^2, (60)^3, or basically any power of 60. There is a transition from sexagesimal Sumerian numerals into our decimal system and that is were the math goes wrong.
Another great video! Have you ever checked out the movie and supplemental for Is Genesis History? They talk about Eridu in biblical terms, you may find it interesting!
😄 I've watched a lot of your videos - what a happy surprise to see your face! Thanks for your work - love it!
Thank you and glad you enjoyed this! I have a better camera now so I'll be appearing now and then in future videos more often. Thanks for watching and stay tuned for more!
Thank you for this.
Great as always Cy!!
Thanks, glad you liked it! More on the way, stay tuned!
great work
Thank you!
Good stuff, Cy!
Thanks man! Stay tuned for more cities!
Love the content man! I’ll be teaching a class about ancient empires and the students will probably end up watching some of your videos
Thanks and that's great to hear! If there's any way that I can help you, please don't hesitate to shoot me an email. Good luck with the class and stay safe!
Love your channel, can you do a video on the Kardouchis (Corduene)?
Channel > Kings and Generals if you love history
Another great video! I love me some Sumerian content, baby.
Maybe you could do a video on the Sicilian Expedition by Athens during the Peloponnesian War. It's quite interesting!
Oh, I have a whole long video on the Peloponnesian War on the way... just adding the Thucydides quotes to script actually. Hope to have it out by the end of the summer, stay tuned!
@@HistorywithCy Awesome, I can't wait!
Excellent Video!
Thanks, glad you liked it! More cities on the way, stay tuned!
Another great one
Thank you, glad you liked it!
Sir your videos are thing of knowledge for me The scenic view of your videos pleases my eyes.your channel is a inspiration for history lovers I gain various knowledge from your video when I watched your videos I bore it in my heart. I also want to tell you that A page of history is worth a pound of logic, Which I get from your channel
I long awaited for the video about skanderbeg so sir when will you upload this video.
One day, one day... thanks for stopping by, appreciate it!
@@HistorywithCy thank you so much brother.
My only issue is this was too short hahaha really enjoyed this Cy! Thank you for all the work and love you put Into this!
haha it's just the calm before the storm... have a few much longer videos in the works for you all! Thanks again for stopping by and the support, means the world! Stay safe my friend!
Great work as always 👏 👍 👌
Thank you!
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Thanks, appreciate the kind words of support! More on the way, stay tuned and safe!
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Thank YOU for watching, you and all the viewers are amazing!
Eridu, first city established on earth.....Recently I have watched a video from Expedition Bible on TH-cam who is an archaeologist and followed the biblical account of the 4 rivers that converged at the Garden of Eden....Tigris, Euphrates, Gihon and most specifically Pishon which the authors proves through clues given in Genesis that this river flowed from the Red Sea across Saudi Arabia to the Persian Gulf below Eridu and the Ubaid cultures. For those of us who follow the biblical account it is clear this is the case which makes your statements from the King's list 100 percent true even though the translation of the dates do not match the archeological record. This also clears up the commandment of Moses to Joshua to conquest the land all the way to the Euphrates River. thanks for your good job!
Wow very nice and interesting video 👍
Thanks, glad you like it! More on the way, stay safe!
@@HistorywithCy thank you so much
Always admire the way you pack millennia of history in 8 minutes! So many firsts from ancient Mesopotamia! Please stay safe and healthy and you may see 36,000 yrs(ha ha)!
Thank you, same to you and thanks for watching! Stay safe!
youre a treasure cyrus keep up the great work
Thanks, glad you like the videos! More on the way, including one on Alexander the Great in a few months, stay tuned and safe!
Channel > "Kings and Generals" if you love history
Nice to finally find someone with the same name as me. And great content!
That's a long time for these cities to be around. I wonder what technology innovations happened throughout that time period. Or were there really nothing much that changed at all?
Good question... according to the archaeological record, Eridu and the nearby sites gradually adopted the modern technology of the day, at least when it came to pottery and tools. Both got more advanced over the ages - for example, at the earliest levels there are some simple copper tools; as time went on, these became more intricate and eventually they were replaced with bronze. So in that sense, technology did improve. I'm sure there were many other innovations as well, probably in irrigation and the like. Thanks for stopping by, appreciate it and more on the way, stay tuned!
All around the World, we thankyou for this history 😊
Amazing video man, bro you should make a series about Abrahamic religion events and people in the ancient near east
Is there any way to identify which year we have now based on early summerian calendar?!
2 videos in a week 👏👏
Yeah, I'm trying to be a bit more consistent with the release schedule ... more on the way and thanks for watching, appreciate it!
"After the kingship descended from heaven" ... Herein lies a vast history.
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Paused the video to snoop through your book collection Cy!
Is the offering of fish at temple a Mesopotamian tradition? I don't think i've read about it from similar cultures in the region
Thanks for your channels fine work ❤✌
Haha yeah those are some of my old books from when I was younger and they actually first got me into ancient history (the two Time-Life series). I actually got most of them at library discard sales. Though old and some of them are outdated, they have some great images and art that fascinated me as a kid. About fish - to be honest I've only read about it in reference to Enki, not anywhere else. Maybe in some places it was an offering but I think since cattle and sheep/goats were considered to have been more valuable (fish was probably abundant in the marshes), those would have been used more for offerings to the gods. It's a good question though and I can't say that I have a good answer because though I haven't heard or read about fish offerings at other places doesn't mean that the practice didn't exist. If I find something more about this, I'll let you know!
@@HistorywithCy maybe you'd consider doing some book reviews/recommendations? Somewhat historically accurate fiction is hard to find plus I'd always be curious to see non-fiction that inspires you
Good point about the livestock...makes sense from an agricultural society
Problem with fish is that it doesn't preserve well in archaeological record. It can be said it was pure luck it got preserved in Eridu. Or maybe it was the amount of offered fish that broke the statistics 😁
Fortunately for us, there are numerous records of temple offerings which lists commodities delivered to the temple so it can be found out.
@@JustSpectre Great point! There are so many tablets with accounts of temple offerings and rations - many that still have to be translated, especially from the Ur III period - that would shed more light as to how often fish may have been used for offerings and to which deity. Thanks!
@@HistorywithCy Thanks so much for your work. A question here: if Enki, (as in Epic of Gilgamesh) could date to the time of the Flood, (and Noah who lived another 350 yrs after it) would fish not be more abundant than cattle?
I love it!
Thanks! More on the way, stay tuned!
Can you please make a video of ancient Chorasmia? It is a land beyond Caspian sea and it had its own now extinct language. I hope you consider my request.
As much as I've enjoyed your content, Cy, I've only just noticed that your 'profile pic' has a chap holding a Gibson SG!
Is this a recent addition or have I missed it this whole time?
Does it mean that you're also a guitarist?
Hey Paul, great to hear from you! That's been the channel avatar for the past couple of years. Yes, I also play guitar and have red Gibson SG Special. I started with a Fender Strat (which I love) but being a big Black Sabbath fan, eventually I wanted to play with the same axe that Toni Iommi uses, so a few years ago I finally got my own SG. In the original artwork, the soldier was holding a sword but to give it more a personal touch and for fun, I replaced it with the SG. Haha that's a little history of the the channel icon.
I love guitars and if you look at my patreon site, you'll see that I added guitars to the historic artwork for each tier. Guitars and books... my two favorite things! Do you play as well?
Always great to hear from you and thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it! Stay safe!
@@HistorywithCy Thanks for your response, Cy!
Yes, I'm a wannabe axeman, too, I've only been playing for 30 ish years though.
I used to have A Gibbo Explorer, dang, that had the best neck ever!
I eventually got into Sabbath after Metallica and INXS, Soundgarden and GnR and the Doors, why did I leave those groovy riffs so late?!
Wow, I've never played an Explorer but love the design. I'm not planning to buy a guitar anytime soon but if I did the next one would be either an Explorer or Fender Jaguar... I just love the look of both! You know, GnR is what really got me into playing guitar. I remember when I first saw the video for the song "You Could be Mine" from Terminator 2 and was just blown away and about a month or so later convinced my dad to get me a Squirer. I really wanted to see GnR two nights ago in LA but I was (still am) out of town. I also love the other bands you mentioned, especially older Metallica and Soundgarden.
Ah, the good old days....
@@HistorywithCy I think the Jaguar/Jazzmaster shape is Fender's most attractive, I'd love one of each if I could afford to!
Since yoy've already got a channel, why not make another where you're just having fun with guitars?
I bet you're more competent than many youtube guitarists, who frequently get sent free guitars!
Enki Save the King Alulim!
Enki, the Lord of Freshwaters and Wisdom... and fish! As always, thanks for stopping by, appreciate it!
You are the best
Yay Cy!
woohoo!!!!! Thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCy Of course!
Thanks
My pleasure, thank YOU!
I'm a shaman and the spirits say that "Year" in Sumerian does not mean the same thing as the modern solar Year definition.
Also the true Eridu is most likely in Africa, as the migrations after the Ice Age 10 000 years ago forced humanity to migrate a lot as temperatures were changing and the middle East stayed bountiful for a long time allowing monolithic construction.
Odin says it best, "Asgard is not a place, it's where Asgardians are"
A little late on this, but great video Cy!
No worries, better late than never! Thanks for watching!
It seems that very few people realize that every time an "Expert" gives a date or age to something they NEVER ever continue the sentence with the word "Because". As in "The projected age of Eridu is about 6000 BC "Because".......etc. Nope the sentence ALWAYS stops at the date.
YES CY!
Thank you!
Can you talk about the rasenna???
Desert environments preserve history very well. If we follow this concept, I am sure there are innumerable discoveries to be made across the desert, and geologists can help with the reclamation of human civilized history.
As I have said many times, "we've all done this before" and we shall do it again. Human society is as old as the next oldest find. With Gobekli Tepe, there should be more of a push to discover the archaeological history of human beings.
Nice video. You could make one day something about pre-Islamic Mecca or the history of Varanasi, to stay on ancient sacred cities.
Oh, I never thought about those, great suggestions! I definitely want to do more on India-related topics later on this year or early next. Pre-Islamic Arabia / Yemen has also been a popular request so looking into those as well. Let's see how much I can find for both...thanks again!
A new video? I call that a deal.
Help Cy! Would you be able to create/leave quizzes on these videos? My suggestion is leaving a GOOGLE FORM, which you never have to manage. It’ll just be up as long as it’s linked into a Google Account. These quizzes can automate a response once completed with the answers for us subscribers to check our work 😊
I’m an hour late but I’m here and I’m ready
No worries, anytime is a great time watch lol. Thanks for stopping by, appreciate it! Stay safe!
Sumerians are my favorite!
I love 'em too. You're in luck, more on Sumer on the way, stay tuned and safe!
Kinda funny how every civilization starts on a mountain and ends in a valley
What was before Eridu ?
Swamps.
Was Skillshare also invented in Sumer?
No, but the Sumerians had mad SKILLS that they SHARED with the world (ok, I tried haha). Check out S. N. Kramer's book History Begins at Sumer... you'll enjoy it!
that could have been where the legendary tower of babel was built.
When i see numbers like 28.800 given as years, i tend to think that's a bit stark. The first calenders were based on moon cycles: moon calenders. The moon circles the earth 13.5 times per year. So for Alulim it would be 2.133 years our counting and for Alalgar 2.666 years. Which leads me to believe that they are not talking about acutual kings, but more about "houses" or dynasties because nobody lives that long, it's impossible. So for both a total of 4.800 years, which makes much more sense to me and would fit much more into the timeline given by archeology. It was only in the periode of the invention of writing that the first yearly calenders wich we use today appeared and the ages in the Sumerian Kinglist become more reasonable.
Also one should take into account that the total world population at the time was something around 4 to 5 million people. Which is the size of Kuwait or New Zealand today. People had enough space to live and wars were not yet a thing. That is probably the reason that these houses/dynasties could last that long. Living together in a city was probably enough to keep wrongdoers at bay.
Btw I do the same with the exorbitant ages given in the bible, which also give much more reasonable ages.
Oh great, another one to add to my travel bucket list. Cy, you're ruining me. Maybe I could sell a kidney 🤔
Haha yeah I'd love to travel there too. Be careful though, if you look on Google maps, there's an Italian firing range nearby!
its all so mysterious. are their 'years' really 365 days?
Eridu, the capital of humanity. We will rebuild it one day.
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Woohoo! Thanks!
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Stars are a turn of the stars so its like à little bit of the time depictes as rulers
TIME... Always a factor for those who are intellects. Time and time again.
A good factor to consider. Yes.
What was mesopotamia's name before the Greeks called it that
Ki En Gir. The land between rivers. Its the same meaning than in greek.
Ki en gir means "land of civilized lords".
Finally put a face to the Voice!
How many people would have lived in Eridu at its peak?
My favorite city of the time is actually Lagash, but I would definitely have vacationed in Eridu!
believe it or not eridu is the site of the tower of babel which can be proven.
If it can be proven, i dont need to believe
It was the first city created by the sumarians when they got here specifically, there was life here beforw they got here earth wasnt empty
The fish bones where the sumarians bc they where shapshifters. That's why u see "fish people" on the Mesopotamia walls, they had actuel fish heads and body's
They left because of war bro. Sumarians was on a mission for gold not to chill and hang around one place
Uruk was the home of An - king of Kings. His sons were Enlil (Seth/ The Devil) and Enki (Ea/ Osiris / Our god). All were from Nibiru. Enki created us. Enlil lived in Nippur. Enki lived in Eridu. Nippur was described as the 'house that was a mountain'. In the bible, Enkin is God, the Devil is Enlil. In Egyptian, Enli was Seth, brother of Osiris (Enki) and son of Ra (Anu). Enlil was the first ruler of Earth, he was usurped by Horus (Marduk) son of Osiris. They were aliens, remember this. Enki and Anu returned to heaven through 'secret gates'. Portals. But Uruk was the first city, built before there was mankind.
This cant be just 'Myths' as most traditional historians, writers or archaeologist declares. i'd prefer to go out beyond that position.
I'm sure that with all myths, there is some truth behind them. Thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it! More on the way, stay safe!
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Eridu in anatolia north of Syria
Not in Iraq at all
Old Persia.. yes. Iraq
Eridu the Holy City to God Enki Praise be Enki.
Praise him!
@@HistorywithCy Hey cy did you check out my Mesopotamian Pagan Poly Group ?
The kings descended from the heavens…hmmm. Give deep credence to the hypothesis of ancient aliens which Sitchen proposes…thank you for the wonderful documentary…I fully enjoyed it 👍
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Regarding a comment (not by Cy)...
As you state you are a shaman...
It's odd that you ask a quantum Question...
Of TIME
History with Cy should read Vishnu Purana, where it is recorded of an even older city than Eridu or Jerico. Where Krishna preached the Sanatan (eternal) religion among the Yadava people at Dwarka 9500 bc (probably the first civilization, blessed by the first monotheistic god Vishnu, making the Yadava prosperous and they multiplied and spread all over India, explaining linguistic and religious uniformity). Even before that Prithu son of an evil King Vena ruled there. Dwarka (door way to India) was the nerve center of a vast shipping network, trading with all the coastal areas of Baluchistan, Oman, even Sumeria.
So Vishnu is a migrant to India?
@@user-zu4ht7eh6c I didn't know JEWS are a muddled lot.
It's more cuneiform lies of false years waste of time
Work of Magog clearly
The sumerians king lists are hilarious with they thousands of years rule, its such a funny lie
I love, you have that fat laughing Buddha figurine behind you
Thanks, it was a gift from a relative who had visited Singapore!
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Dutch rapper Def P is also a fan of the Sumerians, dedicating a full length album on the annunaki myth. It is pretty funny. Today we would call it 'wappie' in Dutch since it involves aliens and stuff. Truth be told, myths about sky gods are just the equivalent of sci fi space opera's. I believe in neither but they are interesting things to ponder and the lore is great
Oh nice, I've never heard of Def P but I'll check out the song if it's on TH-cam or Spotify... thanks! "Wappie" is something else I didn't know or had heard about...interesting!
Uruk is still better. 😤😤😤
No worries, Uruk will have it's own video, stay tuned!
Never really excavated. Might be the oldest city on earth. Shame.
20% of your video is plugging adverts, I hate TH-cam. People gotta make a living, but when making a living is the driving factor, become obvious quickly.
Hi, I'm sorry about that. Honestly, I don't set the ads, TH-cam places them. All I do is to click the box to monetize or not. I'll look into it though...thanks for letting me know.
Good honest answer. Thanks