Suspected tomb of Gilgamesh was said to be found in Iraq. Wikileaks email leak of Hillary Clinton's emails under FOIA discovered "Requesting documents pertaining to the resurrection chamber of Gilgamesh, the location of his giant body and the location of the buried Nephilim." America Uncensored has verified this to be fact.
What source the "shar" of An-Shar and Ki-Shar come from? It is similiar to Egyptian "Shu" and actually has a meaning in PIE and Slavic languages meaning "wide" or "spread" or "area" or "grey color" (szeroki, obszar, szary). Wasn't An-Shar added to mesopotamian pantheon after meeting with PIE people some 2700-2300BC? To make it similiar to each other as: Hyperion - Anu and Ouranus - Anshar?
The tree is a bit off. For one, Ninhursag is Marduk's aunt, not mother. Nabu's mother is the daughter of Enoch, Sarpanit. And Enkidu was created by Enki (hence the "Enki" in the name), and not Anu. In Egypt, Marduk is Ra, Enki, Ptah which means Thoth in Egypt is Ningishzida his brother. Oxford does hold a slew of cuneiform tablets available for review with a translation feature on the site for all to peruse, too.
For anyone wondering why some gods have two names, it’s because Mesopotamia wasn’t a place with a unified language. Early on, there were two completely unrelated language families: the Sumerian language family and the East Semitic language family. Whenever possible, this chart highlights the Sumerian name, since that one is earlier recorded. The ones that only have one name are that way either because the names in both are the same or because the god only gained prominence by the time the East Semitic languages began dominating the whole region.
Regarding east semitic: I speak Hebrew which is a descendant of that language, and it's interesting how many of those god's names are preserved in stuff like names of stars or of months. Kind of shows what an influence the exile to Babylon had on Judaism and to Abrahamic religions in general.
@Ghost Ghost yeah, but it still had a large cultural influence that you can notice with names of Mesopotamian gods in the Hebrew calendar or in names of planets.
@Ghost Ghost Yes, but the intellectuals are the people who wrote everything, and when they came back they took over ruling the region. They would also have been in charge of the calendar, and dominated the structure and form of their language. So there's that. The dominant language among the common people in much of the Middle East at that time was Aramaic, while the liturgical and priestly language in which most of the scriptures were written was Hebrew.
When Gilgamesh return to Uruk thinking that he not succeeded to gain the immortality and look at the walls of his city in this moment he realizes that the immortality not in how many years you live but in what do you do to be immortal so he became a good king and built a strong city and guess what after 5000 years we hear about him what a great epic
@@ErickSoares3 not true. The gilgamesh epos was used to teach cuneiform for app 2000 years. OK with the end of the bronze age the cuneiform got a big hit on the head. But then the greek came with writing and Homers Illias with that old greek was taught for 2500 years.
As an Iraqi (from Masopotamia land), I would like to thank you for documenting this! So appreciated! I read a lot of old books from my family's library (collected since centuries) and I always ended up finding it's very difficult to explain this to other cultures. There are even more details, but overall it is the best that you can do. Thank you! Sincerely, Sarah
Nice. I bet those books are filled with knowledge. I would love to vist Iraq, Syria, Iran, Lebanon (Babylon) just to get a feel of the old Gods and be apart of your culture. So rich and full of spirit. I love reading about it. Stay blessed!
Sarah I would like to come to your land what besides my passport would you recommend or am I required to have? Do I need a hosting? If not do you or can you recommend a service or guidance.
As a dude living in Babylon city (hilla) I’m very enlightened by this video, I would also like to say that in Babylon ruins if you go you can actually see mud huts that are buried in sand and when it rains people usually find fragments of urns and even gold!
amazing to think of the feet that have walked beneath your lands walkways and trade routes wow Peace be on you and your family ... the Ancient of days left His stories and history in the stones of your land
This reminded me of the story of lots sons, born of incest with his daughters (Genesis 19:37-38). Both fathers to the tribes Moabites and the Ammonites.
As an Iraqi who lives in Nasiriyah, the center of the Sumerian civilization, I am proud of this great civilization of development, discoveries and achievements over 28 thousand years. historical and scientificIts discovery is 10% bad. If the remaining 90% are discovered, it will reveal facts and learn the secrets of the Sumerian civilization, and it will be a historical and scientific blow.
if that 90% you mention is discovered, I would very much be interested, something that I am very interested in learning about, I find that the Sumarian culture is very interesting, & very relevent, & plays a bigger part in humanity than what we are lead to believe. also with Enoch
@@davidhunt1350 It is true that if the rest were discovered to me, Rania, that the Sumerians are the sons of Greece, Egypt, and Zeus the Greek, it is said that he is the same as Marduk of Babylon.If this happens over time, it will be discovered, and it will be a scientific, historical and religious blow, like the epic of Gilgamesh, but 1000 times greater than it.
why proud, sorry but it's not as if You have achieved these things. Believe me I'm not proud of being British either. I think nationalism and religion are the main sources violence.
The flood Myth makes perfect sense for a people who lived where they did on huge flood plane between 2 huge rivers. Didn't flood all the time but when it did it destroyed almost everything until they started building bigger and controlling the water better.
@Burannu yhea it makes perfect sense for a people who experienced multiple life changing floods that literally washed away the buildings they lived in and destroyed everything they owned would later create a Myth that told the story as a warning to later generations of what could happen if they didn't build strong buildings and keep the rivers under some kind of control. For me that's what most mythology and so religion was created for. To pass down the necessary stories and skills and understanding that people would need to thrive. Only later was it changed to the form we have today and become a static never changing thing. Religions used to change and adapt with the cultures they were needed by but these days they try to change the culture. Obviously the worship of God like beings or religious places and things was another part of religion but the mythology I think came from a need to pass down important information.
@@itarry4 that theory would be great but for the clear statement in Genesis that the ark ended up in the mountains of Ararat, thousands of miles from the Fertile Crescent...
@@jeremyelford7926 er. The biblical Myth is different to the mesopotamian one and to me is a obvious copy with certain changes like God's and where the ark ends up to this older Myth that Jewish scribes would have heard when in babylonia. However thus video was about mesopotamian gods and talks about their Myth so...
It has been recently discovered a meteor big enough on the artic/antartic (i forgot which one) to have created a flood big enough around the world, the flood myth isnt exclusive to north african mythologies
"...that the other gods felt that Inanna had it coming" is such a reoccurring feeling in my reading of Mesopotamian mythology. She is either totally deserving of all her renoun, or she is the pettiest deity between the rivers, no in-between
Not to mention try to be that white woman In every way, even hated her other versions the same way... I wonder how many other goddesses these woman did dirty.
I love the version where the Bull of Heaven Inanna had Anu send in Gilgamesh was Ereshkigal's husband, and in the descent of Inanna she's going to his funeral in the underworld. Ereshkigal's pissed cause not only did Inanna get her husband killed over her dating life, but she has the nerve to go to his funeral, so she kills Inanna and hangs her from the ceiling by a hook for a week before the stuff with Dumuzid happens. It's so good how it ties in with her being the political goddess too; she weasels out of everything on technicalities and with deals in the myths
We can be glad that gods sworn the oath they will never ever wipe out humanity with the flood again. With all the noise we are doing now, we would be on the seabed long ago.
I wonder how she would have gotten along with Aphrodite. I mean these two are similar. Goddeses of love, beauty and being angry when someone is not lovey dovey.
That's a misinterpretation. The Japan the scroll refers to was actually an underground city on Mars where The Roanoke colonists went when they left town... in 5200 bc lol
This is incredible! I have never found a description of the Mesopotamian myths put side-by-side with each other in all of their interpretations as you just stood which really helps put it into context and even some in chronological order. Thank you so much for this!
@@robertallen1969 Agreed! Anyone thinking that Enlil is a good guy loves delusion, and that Enki is anything but a surly, demon-possessed serpent, and that jealousy doesn't rage between them, even to this day, doesn't have a clue what's actually going on in this war. And that Nanherzag isn't the worst, as in smartest and most vile of the three of them, well, there's a wakeup call coming. That war between Marduk, Enki's son, and Nanherzag was over the 50-year overlap of the zodiacal change, which is how they divided up whose turn to rule the planet. She wanted Now, and he wanted to stay to the end of the overlap. He ended up dead. And just so it's told here, Utnapishtam is the same as Noah. That was Noah's name. And it's correctly pronounced UT-na-PISH-tam. Of Ur. Every bit of this story is laughable, and not to insult those here from that region. History is history, and man did what he had to do to survive those ___turds. Interesting twists, for sure! No wonder any truth is so hard to find these days.
Outstanding and educational. Thank you Gentlemen. The ancient depiction of Gilgamesh slaying the bull is eerily similar to paintings of Mithra found in numerous Roman Mithraeum Temples. I am persuaded to believe that later religions were heavily influenced by early myths and legends, some continuing down to this very day.
Hi, first timer here. I’m 13 seconds in and I am gonna subscribe and like, because your name is Jack Rackam. The endless possibilities and power puns available with a name like that is unending!
Dumuzid, de mas high , the most high, they must hide, our savior... Consonants and vowels a e i o u the word in the word was good and what was with God 🙏
If you ever end up revisiting this topic, I’d be very interested in seeing these names plotted across a map, time, or even both. It’s hard to understand where and when these figures were held in belief, or just referenced.
She offered him love to placate his warring tendencies when enlil said he was a warlord and the people were crying for help he would send the flood and innana said no grandfather let me see if I can bring him to the side of love. She wasn't thirsty and could have who she wanted she was trying to sacrifice to help humanity by living with a tyrant but his pride, blood thirst and weird proclivities for his half animal lover led to him turning her down. Your interpretation is very bitter and mgtow.
I've been studying and researching this for the last 8 years.... Every religion, mythology and historical lore human history produced on a global scale - the major stuff anyways - carry the most similarities amongst the Canon of Gods and Goddesses that ruled over humans in the Past. From Enki, to Zeus, to Odin, to Osiris, the list continues.... Through countless hours and years of piecing texts, stories, myths and good ole interpretive reasoning I've slowly begun giving our past a chance at telling the truth as a whole. Enki can be identified with Zeus, somewhat. But so do the stories of biblical figures like Noah. Or Gilgamesh as being the great grandson of Uta-Napishtum(Noah's Babylonian Name). Not to mention the connected cataclysmic event that every culture recorded and adopted. This video helps me a lot. So thank you
Humans even today love to gossip. Mostly real life is boring so they add their own spices and make it interesting by adding old stories they must have heard before. So 75% is reality and 25% is fiction or legend. Now as years go by and in this case thousands of years, these stories further get twisted and a totally new story is born which is 10% fact and 90% fiction / myth. If that story is interesting enough, it becomes religion.
I don’t think Utu is wearing a spirally hat, Gods in Mesopotamia often have headwear that are adorned with upwards sweeping horns, as can be seen in surviving statues of Lamassu, mythological guardian that are kinda like the Mesopotamian versions of Sphinxs. I think the spirally patterns are three sets of closely packed horns viewed in profile.
@@hightoweriq no Shia Muslims are a mixed bag of arabs Kurds Turkmens etc. Chaldeans and Assyrians they are the oldest indigenous ethnic group of Iraq today. Assyria was centred on the Tigris in Upper Mesopotamia, in modern terms, northern Iraq, northeast Syria, and southeast Turkey. Not the Shias arabs of today. Assyrians are homogeneous Christians and Catholic and their language is the oldest in Middle East oldern than Arabic, they are Semitic the first ethnic group in Iraq the OGS decedents of Assyria empire the. Mesopotamians who never lost their identity, how do you not know your country indigenous ethnicities?
@@mu4281 lol bro relax all the dude said that long live the land of the two rivers...he didn't cast aside ethnic groups nor did he illegitimise them. Would you tell modern day white Americans to fuck right off back to Europe? Because they are not the original ethnic groups who used to live there?... Iraq has a large variety of people of various ethnic backgrounds and heritage...and that, I think that's what makes it special...that is the reason why I'm a proud Iraqi. The rich history, the tales, the gods, the mythology, the first civilization to emerge into this world. Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, Ur These are the Cities that layed foundation to this world. Whether I am an Arabic citizen or another. What difference does it make if we've been living here for at the very least 500 hundred years? Yes people conquer and invade. But why would we hold on to the grudges and conflicts of yesteryear? We're brothers...if not by blood..then by country.
Thank youuuu for sharing your story with the world 💕 it’s really nice to hear from you ❤️ thank youuuu and thank youuuu Keeps it up my dear friend and have a wonderful week
I always wonder about random things. I never really thought about the oldest identifiable human remains but that's an interesting thought. Also, I've always thought the Epic of Gilgamesh was pretty gnarly. It's just cool how it's so old but still a good story and has recognizable themes and archetypes and everything - like it feels almost like it could have been written much more recently.
You sold me when you mentioned annunaki my favorite religious story ever, honestly it's more interesting then greek/Roman Egyptian mythology so thank you thank you for this in simpler terms then how I learned I almost wrote out hahah but remembered last time I did that some one in the Comment said I was an insecure little girl, the girl part didn't bug me just someone getting mad because I wrote out hahah so my message wouldn't be interpreted as malicious
Nah I wouldn't of wrote the hahah out if I was gonna let someone dictate me on the internet lol. But thank you for making me smile enjoy the rest to your day
Thank you for your work. I was so confused about all the connections and overlaps within the deities and their roles but this video helped me to comprehense through it that even Wikipedia couldn't do properly.
Thank you so much for the fascinating precise information and presentation. I am off to watch the other videos you mentioned. I appreciate your research and time making this video which is incredibly helpful. Xxx
14:28, That is super funny! I had no idea. Also, small note; I was taught in college that his helmet is a depiction of four sets of horns. Nearly all of the depictions you show here have them, and they are supposed to designate a hierarchy of godly power, more horns more power.
All mythologies are so intriguing! Also kinda surprised and glad how much accurate info they used about mesopotamian gods in Fate/Grand Order - Babylonia series :D
I was of the understanding that some of the bricks in the massive wall structure that surrounds Uruk are stamped with the name of Gilgamesh? A wall described in texts that is indeed there! In the end of the epic it tells of the death and and burial of Gilgamesh and how the river was diverted and his tomb built at the bottom of the river and then re-diverted over the tomb. Several years ago ground penetrating radar undertaken at Uruk discovered what seems to be that exact scenario. No further excavation or investigation has officially taken place since, unfortunatly.
I like how you mentioned the similarities between the story of Inanna, Dumuzid, and Enkidu, and the story in the Bible of Cain and Abel. But there is another Sumerian story that is similar to both, it's called "Enlil Chooses the Farmer God", which is about two characters called Emesh the shepherd and Enten the farmer.
@@kishordas2300 NONE OF THE ABOVE . ENLIL AS JHVH AS ZEUS BROUGHT ABOUT THE DELUGE AND ALL THESE CHARACTERS WERE NOT IN FAVOR OF MANKIND. ENKI ON THE OTHER HAND IS HALF-BROTHER TO ENLIL AS POSEIDON TO ZEUS AND DEVIL ADVOCATE SATAN TO JHVH. SO WHO IS JESUS? ARCHANGEL GABRIEL-THOTH-HERMES-MERCURY-ARJUNA-BUDHA
Another version has Apsu and Tiamat creating Mummu and two primordial serpents Lakhmu and Lakhamu and it's a union of the serpents that creates Anshar (the sky and masculinity) and Kishar (earth and femininity). Anshar and Kishar then create An (aka Anu) whose consort is Antu. Their children are Nau, Ellil (Enlil) and Ea (Enki). Ea is sometimes credited with creating Mankind and taming the Apsu - Ea has the most to do directly with humans.
Lol I’m Irish and I found out recently In the 1700’s I had a grandparent named Nimrod Kelley. Always wonder why they named him that when nearly all the Kelley’s in my tree were either name John, William, George, etc.
@@leekelley4160 My mom's side is British, and Nimrod was used in England for the name of a war plane. Since it's biblical, it could also just be your family back then was very religious and looked for a unique name.
Every video, book, podcast etc. you see or hear underlays the laws of censorship set by the rulers. You know nothing with certainty! I know nothing with certainty! Every old building, statue or else you see today is meant to be seen by you, slave. All the other buildings you should not see are changed and manipulated or have been destroyed. History of humanity is the biggest crap ever and if we go on allowing them, and believe them blindly, we will never find out where we come from. These ∆ People sharing and making videos won't tell you anything important. Just the opposite is the case, they delete the truth and lie to you. So what do you think is great? Nothing is great on this earth except the lie!
Sort of, but unlike Loki he is actually helpful. He saved Inanna (Ishtar) from the Underworld and he saved humanity from the Great Flood. He also designed mankind and oversaw its creation by Mother Goddesses.
@@staff97 Normally that saying would imply he thinks he would get bored by the video quickly. But it's an ancient history video, so it literally gets to the old stuff very quickly, hence getting "really old, really fast".
@syr i highly doubt that but it all depends on how your looking at it. The atypical Egyptians mythology that everyone looks at then no but each city in Egypt bad its own religion and culture. It wasn't until the power control pharaohs of the old kingdom that the whole of Egypt looked like a single culture. Even then there was a melting pot of cultures from the region
@@js1423 yup. Every city had its own. There is older cities than this. As a matter of history, this was the main city pantheon until the middle kingdom.
I remember watching a video talking about another very specific reason why Gilgamesh rejected Ishtar. It was because the whole purpose of his own birth was to bring humanity back to worshipping the gods (as he is 1/3 mortal). Basically the gods wanted gilgamesh to serve a bridge between the two existence but Gilgamesh didnt like the idea and decided to do as he pleases. On that note, marrying a goddess would symbolize that he stands on the gods' side so by rejecting ishtar he is also making clear of the position he had taken. It is very important to note that it was specifically ishtar whom he rejected bc Ishtar was a very powerful god (and a very reckless one) at the time. Note how she is both the goddess of war and love, while contradicting concepts she holds them both in one body. Lets just say that she was pretty much like a spoiled child but a goddess and was spoiled by the gods themselves. So it was very meaningful that Gilgamesh rejected her.
Gilgamesh says why he rejected her in that he knew Inanna had many lovers and used them for her purposes of power and the end result was usually never good for those men and he wanted no part of her. That is why Inanna turned on him suddenly.
This is something humanity has argued about for a very long time, & in modern times we speak of it as "the Madonna/Whore division". A woman can "good" or "bad", but not both. But in ancient times, most goddesses did represent both death & birth, & were actively involved in deaths & births. It was understood that birth & death are a cycle, & human women were the midwives & the ones who prepared the dead for burial; it's no surprise that goddesses were seen in the same way. Male leaders & gods were usually shown to be both benevolent & blood thirsty, but no one really has a problem with that. Male or female, leaders have to be able to be warriors when necessary, as well as feeding & caring for their people.
Good video, but the "spiraling hat" of Gods, is not spiraling at all. It is a hat/crown/tiara formed by various pairs of horns, and it is evident if you look it frontally!
Thank you for this video! I’ve found myself in debates with people claiming that humans were genetically engineered from the Annunaki and this helps get some perspective into what they’re talking about.
Gobleki Tepe was 14.000 years ago... Care to make this on point please? I think Egypt was up 5,000 BC and Sphinx could be even older since it doesn't rain in the region and looking heavily water polished...
Just wanted to point out that Saturn wasn't the roman equivalent of the greek "I killed my father and I ate my children" Cronos, as the greeks had another god named Cronos, which was not as important for them, but for the romans he was. They had a whole festival around Christmas called "Saturnalia", Historia Civilis and Invicta both have great videos about it.
@@KateHistoryMysteries I say it is the other way around. Saturn is mostly Chronos (that's where the farming came from) but he took some attributes from Cronos (that is where time comes from).
As a Mandaean, born and raised in southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), is so proud of my ancestors. We influenced the whole world with our knowledge, inventions, and mythology.
Why you say that they were older than the Egyptian Gods? Weren't they equally old? Pre-Dynastic Egypt existed from a very long time. And yes, I believe that Gilgamesh "existed", in the sense that there was a real person that lived and people make up histories about him resulting in a mythological composite.
Sumer predates Egypt by almost 1'000 years..... Unless you call pre-dynastic Egypt (an unorganized bunch of farmers and nomads) "Egypt". Historians and scientists only start Egyptian civilisation at the first traces of unification into a nation, about 3'100-3'000 BCE. There is evidence that the Sumerian civilisation developed around 4'000 BCE - even earlier according to some.
@@fluffytom82 What you are calling "Egypt" wasn't actually "Egypt", they didn't call their land that way. It was something like "The Red" and "The White" lands, the "Two Lands". Culture was not created at the time of unification, what changed was the political organization but the culture was a continuation of what already existed for some thousands of years already. It's a similar mistake in the way people think about "Sumer". There was no "Sumer" and "Sumerians", there where a bunch of city states and villages in a particular region that shared some culture. They had another name for themselves and the place they lived. But yes, Sumerian Gods where older than the "Pharaohs" because the title "Pharaoh" only came to be I think in the New Kingdom. You fools, this isn't a discussion about "X is older than Y!", both where even older than that, existed at the same time, and the way we discuss these things is just a conventional and very artificial frame device to simplify things for our understanding.
I love how so many modern genesis details are similar to these older stories, these details percolated through but became a different thing with the essences of the old stories, like Adam being made of earth and the sky being a dome.
Or, for the Christians and Jews in the audience, the original story of Genesis including the Flood were known to the descendants of Noah, some of whom starting changing details over time as the stories were handed down and bastardized, and the similarities with Genesis are the factual, historical details that survived the process.
@@mweskamppp Some seems related to what might have been picked up in Egypt too, there was trading as much as war and slavery all round. Would be interesting to think of ideas where 'God of Gods' and 'Ancient of Days' came from . Would be interesting to look at the temple shown and contrast with the layout of the temple solomon bulit
@@highpath4776 Egyt ruled the levante up to syria for many centuries, on and off. Of course there was an intensive cultural exchange. About slavery. In egypt slavery was not known until the semitic hyksos from the levante conquered the nile delta about 1700 bc - 1500 bc. After that the egyptian used slavery as well. The first known idea of a single god goes back to Amenophis IV aka Echnaton (Akhenaten). All the other gods in the near east have been tribe gods with some lesser gods around. For the shasu it was JHW. All of them in the fertile crescent followed the old sumerian/east semitic myths as far as i can see. Some dropped the main myth and concentrated on one aspect for their tribe god. F.e. Weather (JHW), others chose other aspects so as harvest and fertility. It were mainly smaller groups offside of the big civilization in the cities and kingdoms of mesopotamia who did drop part of it. Why go for harvest - when you are a pastoralist. Why go for a war god, when you are not bound to a city. etc.
Ninurta's story almost sounds like a Zelda plot, working with a talking companion object, defeating enemies in order to gain powers, a climatic end battle.
I will have to buy a few of your charts. This channel is interesting. Can you use these historical facts to explain how real angels could play into this and what (no matter how terrifying ) they looked like? And how the Jesus characters life is explained over and over again living in different times and civilizations? There seems to be a very strange connection with him and the gods of Egypt, Greece, Norse gods and the Sumerian gods to begin with. It all seems connected to me.
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Suspected tomb of Gilgamesh was said to be found in Iraq. Wikileaks email leak of Hillary Clinton's emails under FOIA discovered "Requesting documents pertaining to the resurrection chamber of Gilgamesh, the location of his giant body and the location of the buried Nephilim." America Uncensored has verified this to be fact.
And the primordial godess nammu?
What source the "shar" of An-Shar and Ki-Shar come from?
It is similiar to Egyptian "Shu" and actually has a meaning in PIE and Slavic languages meaning "wide" or "spread" or "area" or "grey color" (szeroki, obszar, szary).
Wasn't An-Shar added to mesopotamian pantheon after meeting with PIE people some 2700-2300BC? To make it similiar to each other as: Hyperion - Anu and Ouranus - Anshar?
The tree is a bit off. For one, Ninhursag is Marduk's aunt, not mother. Nabu's mother is the daughter of Enoch, Sarpanit. And Enkidu was created by Enki (hence the "Enki" in the name), and not Anu. In Egypt, Marduk is Ra, Enki, Ptah which means Thoth in Egypt is Ningishzida his brother. Oxford does hold a slew of cuneiform tablets available for review with a translation feature on the site for all to peruse, too.
For anyone wondering why some gods have two names, it’s because Mesopotamia wasn’t a place with a unified language. Early on, there were two completely unrelated language families: the Sumerian language family and the East Semitic language family. Whenever possible, this chart highlights the Sumerian name, since that one is earlier recorded. The ones that only have one name are that way either because the names in both are the same or because the god only gained prominence by the time the East Semitic languages began dominating the whole region.
Yes
Regarding east semitic: I speak Hebrew which is a descendant of that language, and it's interesting how many of those god's names are preserved in stuff like names of stars or of months. Kind of shows what an influence the exile to Babylon had on Judaism and to Abrahamic religions in general.
@Shibumi Several of the gods. For instance Enki also has the name Ea, Enlil has the names Elil and Ashur, Nannar/Sin, Utu/Shamash, etc.
@Ghost Ghost yeah, but it still had a large cultural influence that you can notice with names of Mesopotamian gods in the Hebrew calendar or in names of planets.
@Ghost Ghost Yes, but the intellectuals are the people who wrote everything, and when they came back they took over ruling the region. They would also have been in charge of the calendar, and dominated the structure and form of their language. So there's that. The dominant language among the common people in much of the Middle East at that time was Aramaic, while the liturgical and priestly language in which most of the scriptures were written was Hebrew.
When Gilgamesh return to Uruk thinking that he not succeeded to gain the immortality and look at the walls of his city in this moment he realizes that the immortality not in how many years you live but in what do you do to be immortal so he became a good king and built a strong city and guess what after 5000 years we hear about him what a great epic
The only problem is: for 2000 years or more this history was forgotten in the midle of the desert...
@@ErickSoares3 This is not true, every culture has stories that directly match on to these.
@@ErickSoares3 not true. The gilgamesh epos was used to teach cuneiform for app 2000 years. OK with the end of the bronze age the cuneiform got a big hit on the head. But then the greek came with writing and Homers Illias with that old greek was taught for 2500 years.
Nice lil book about Gilgamesh!
Also spoiler of Genesis flood narative remake in bible
Thank you! I love to see someday these Myth open their ways to todays lessons, movies, games...people should know more about these.
"43,200 years a reign that surely will only be beaten by Quenn Elizabeth II"
Couldn't agree more man
I legit laughed out loud at that one
@Anonymus X never thought about this before! Good insight.
Longer than FDR!
Queen E == Tiamat ??
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Epic of Gilgamesh: The world's first buddy cop movie
Woa no
what’s a buddy crop movie
@@robdoghd Not sure, but if you want to invest I'd be happy to produce one.
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@@AspieMediaBobby why do you want to pretend strong male friendships are gay? Have you never had a good friend?
As an Iraqi (from Masopotamia land), I would like to thank you for documenting this! So appreciated!
I read a lot of old books from my family's library (collected since centuries) and I always ended up finding it's very difficult to explain this to other cultures.
There are even more details, but overall it is the best that you can do.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Sarah
Nice. I bet those books are filled with knowledge. I would love to vist Iraq, Syria, Iran, Lebanon (Babylon) just to get a feel of the old Gods and be apart of your culture. So rich and full of spirit. I love reading about it. Stay blessed!
Please do your visit! Once you have the opportunity, don't hesitate.
You too! 🙂
Have a nice day!
Sarah I would like to come to your land what besides my passport would you recommend or am I required to have? Do I need a hosting? If not do you or can you recommend a service or guidance.
Could I Trouble you to recommend a few books? I will try to find them on Internet Archive, one of the greatest websites ever.
(history of Iraq)
Babylon, Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, and Mesopotamia❤️
As a dude living in Babylon city (hilla) I’m very enlightened by this video, I would also like to say that in Babylon ruins if you go you can actually see mud huts that are buried in sand and when it rains people usually find fragments of urns and even gold!
@h. bunny yeah it’s very safe especially if you go from Baghdad airport to Babylon which is a very safe journey about 110km about 2 hours in a car.
Woah that’s kinda cool!
amazing to think of the feet that have walked beneath your lands walkways and trade routes wow Peace be on you and your family ... the Ancient of days left His stories and history in the stones of your land
It is in the Babylon province but hilla and Babylon city are different aren’t they?
Where is Hilla located? Which country?
Enki : why creat a family tree when you can creat a family circle
The God Who Folded Himself
This reminded me of the story of lots sons, born of incest with his daughters (Genesis 19:37-38). Both fathers to the tribes Moabites and the Ammonites.
Always keep your circle close
Nasty… smh.
As an Iraqi who lives in Nasiriyah, the center of the Sumerian civilization, I am proud of this great civilization of development, discoveries and achievements over 28 thousand years. historical and scientificIts discovery is 10% bad. If the remaining 90% are discovered, it will reveal facts and learn the secrets of the Sumerian civilization, and it will be a historical and scientific blow.
if that 90% you mention is discovered, I would very much be interested, something that I am very interested in learning about, I find that the Sumarian culture is very interesting, & very relevent, & plays a bigger part in humanity than what we are lead to believe. also with Enoch
@@davidhunt1350
It is true that if the rest were discovered to me, Rania, that the Sumerians are the sons of Greece, Egypt, and Zeus the Greek, it is said that he is the same as Marduk of Babylon.If this happens over time, it will be discovered, and it will be a scientific, historical and religious blow, like the epic of Gilgamesh, but 1000 times greater than it.
why proud, sorry but it's not as if You have achieved these things.
Believe me I'm not proud of being British either.
I think nationalism and religion are the main sources violence.
I Love the history of the Annunaki who did upgrade the african bipedal hominids DNA
creating the human race.
@@paulkeeling6442
Any African person you are talking about you associate him in the civilization of Iraq and even Egypt
The flood Myth makes perfect sense for a people who lived where they did on huge flood plane between 2 huge rivers. Didn't flood all the time but when it did it destroyed almost everything until they started building bigger and controlling the water better.
@Burannu yhea it makes perfect sense for a people who experienced multiple life changing floods that literally washed away the buildings they lived in and destroyed everything they owned would later create a Myth that told the story as a warning to later generations of what could happen if they didn't build strong buildings and keep the rivers under some kind of control.
For me that's what most mythology and so religion was created for. To pass down the necessary stories and skills and understanding that people would need to thrive. Only later was it changed to the form we have today and become a static never changing thing. Religions used to change and adapt with the cultures they were needed by but these days they try to change the culture.
Obviously the worship of God like beings or religious places and things was another part of religion but the mythology I think came from a need to pass down important information.
@@itarry4 that theory would be great but for the clear statement in Genesis that the ark ended up in the mountains of Ararat, thousands of miles from the Fertile Crescent...
@@jeremyelford7926 er. The biblical Myth is different to the mesopotamian one and to me is a obvious copy with certain changes like God's and where the ark ends up to this older Myth that Jewish scribes would have heard when in babylonia. However thus video was about mesopotamian gods and talks about their Myth so...
It was probably inspired by the flooding of the Persian gulf and flooding of the black sea
It has been recently discovered a meteor big enough on the artic/antartic (i forgot which one) to have created a flood big enough around the world, the flood myth isnt exclusive to north african mythologies
"...that the other gods felt that Inanna had it coming" is such a reoccurring feeling in my reading of Mesopotamian mythology. She is either totally deserving of all her renoun, or she is the pettiest deity between the rivers, no in-between
Not to mention try to be that white woman In every way, even hated her other versions the same way... I wonder how many other goddesses these woman did dirty.
I love the version where the Bull of Heaven Inanna had Anu send in Gilgamesh was Ereshkigal's husband, and in the descent of Inanna she's going to his funeral in the underworld. Ereshkigal's pissed cause not only did Inanna get her husband killed over her dating life, but she has the nerve to go to his funeral, so she kills Inanna and hangs her from the ceiling by a hook for a week before the stuff with Dumuzid happens. It's so good how it ties in with her being the political goddess too; she weasels out of everything on technicalities and with deals in the myths
She was not petty, Marduk killed her husband because he was not crowned king of the new age.
@@BarbBedford I agree!
@@diggs36 and then he killed her, Tiamat and the Iron Age began. War and chaos. We are still in this age.
I'm gonna be bombarding these chart videos on mythology gods soon. I'm hyped. Good stuff dude
"Enlil couldn't sleep because there were too many humans making too much noise. So he decided to kill every living thing...." Harsh, but fair.
We can be glad that gods sworn the oath they will never ever wipe out humanity with the flood again. With all the noise we are doing now, we would be on the seabed long ago.
He learned from his great-grandfather, who made a similar decision when younger gods were making too much ruckus.
I would've done that.
@@roiq5263 me too.
@@JustSpectre Sea levels are rising, soo.... :D
Inanna was truly the first gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss.
@The Iguana I sure watch him but I knew about the girlboss thing way before Mr.Films covered it
What’s does it mean?
I wonder how she would have gotten along with Aphrodite. I mean these two are similar. Goddeses of love, beauty and being angry when someone is not lovey dovey.
@@cgt3704 Aphrodite is the Greek rewrite of Inanna -> Ishtar -> Astarte.
She was a genocidal warmonger, and used anyone she could to get her way with no qualms... A spoilt psychopathic being....
your queen elizabeth joke has aged well.
Of course Gilgamesh is real, I heard he fought King Arthur In Japan
Edit: This is a Fate reference.
That's a misinterpretation. The Japan the scroll refers to was actually an underground city on Mars where The Roanoke colonists went when they left town... in 5200 bc lol
Of course not... Zashu
Don't
and he fought King Alexander the Great too
With Lancelot, Diarmuid, Cú Chulainn, Medusa and Heracles too?
This is incredible! I have never found a description of the Mesopotamian myths put side-by-side with each other in all of their interpretations as you just stood which really helps put it into context and even some in chronological order. Thank you so much for this!
Its wrong
this is all nonsense. reread the tablets.
I've listened to and read a lot about the Anunnaki but have never heard it in this context I literally couldn't stop laughing, thank you I needed that
I second that. But everything I once thought I knew is no longer relative either🤔🤐🤦♂️. Lol. Oh well, live and unlearn is my motto.🚫
@@robertallen1969 Agreed! Anyone thinking that Enlil is a good guy loves delusion, and that Enki is anything but a surly, demon-possessed serpent, and that jealousy doesn't rage between them, even to this day, doesn't have a clue what's actually going on in this war. And that Nanherzag isn't the worst, as in smartest and most vile of the three of them, well, there's a wakeup call coming. That war between Marduk, Enki's son, and Nanherzag was over the 50-year overlap of the zodiacal change, which is how they divided up whose turn to rule the planet. She wanted Now, and he wanted to stay to the end of the overlap. He ended up dead.
And just so it's told here, Utnapishtam is the same as Noah. That was Noah's name. And it's correctly pronounced UT-na-PISH-tam. Of Ur. Every bit of this story is laughable, and not to insult those here from that region. History is history, and man did what he had to do to survive those ___turds. Interesting twists, for sure! No wonder any truth is so hard to find these days.
@Brother Joseph It's quite sleazy but I like freedom of speech.
Thank you for the collab! Great video guys!
"He summons a wind...!" We all know the feeling!
And then the released feeling after you rattled it off.
So, he farted? lol
Lmao
I just summoned wind upon the porcelain throne
@@eskapegoat86 And...? How was it?
Literally dying over your re-telling of the stories, I’d listen to this for hours on a podcast 😆
Outstanding and educational. Thank you Gentlemen. The ancient depiction of Gilgamesh slaying the bull is eerily similar to paintings of Mithra found in numerous Roman Mithraeum Temples. I am persuaded to believe that later religions were heavily influenced by early myths and legends, some continuing down to this very day.
Likely it also relates to the position of Taurus in the night sky in relation to the vernal equinox which shifted with axial precession.
13:25 - "Dumuzid fails to mourn her properly"
Now THAT'S an understatement. lmao. Dude was having a blast while his wife was functionally dead.
Without the sister of Dumuzi and the sister of Inanna included, the story is wrecked. All these females scheming and dreaming.
Hi, first timer here. I’m 13 seconds in and I am gonna subscribe and like, because your name is Jack Rackam. The endless possibilities and power puns available with a name like that is unending!
As an Assyrian, I love learning about the religions that my ancestors practiced before Christianity. Keep these videos coming!
Christianity in itself is a descendant of the cult of Dumuzid, and God is simply a monotheistic version of Enlil
You are serbian maybe not an assyrian....you arent an immortal...
Dumuzid, de mas high , the most high, they must hide, our savior... Consonants and vowels a e i o u the word in the word was good and what was with God 🙏
@@lustralustra I am Assyrian and you're definitely confused my friend lol
No, if you were it means you suppose to be 1/3 divine and live 500 hundreds years.
If you ever end up revisiting this topic, I’d be very interested in seeing these names plotted across a map, time, or even both. It’s hard to understand where and when these figures were held in belief, or just referenced.
While I find these videos entertaining and informative, I must admit, my greatest education comes from within the comments! Very very cool!
18:50 The fact that this is the only joke placed in the end of a 24 min long video has me dying
It's not a joke, it is fact.
Yeah that caught me off guard 🤣
I love that the name "Shamash" (the sun) has survived until today in modern Arabic and Hebrew. Also, Nabu (Nabi) also means prophet in Arabic.
And in hungarian =shamash = szemes , the szem > the eye of this solar system = our sun !
Etc...
@Sports Entertainment indo European
yes, and Navi in Hebrew.
@@attilatasciko4817 That's a coincidence.
@@gabor6259 < semmisem véletlen a magyar történelműnkben .
Stb...
Beautiful description! Thank you ,merci infiniment!
according to the list, Gilgamesh is a member of the first dynasty of Uruk the successors of the dynasty of Kish.
Gilgamesh knows how to deal with thirsty gals.
@Sports Entertainment carnival phantasm says otherwise.
She offered him love to placate his warring tendencies when enlil said he was a warlord and the people were crying for help he would send the flood and innana said no grandfather let me see if I can bring him to the side of love. She wasn't thirsty and could have who she wanted she was trying to sacrifice to help humanity by living with a tyrant but his pride, blood thirst and weird proclivities for his half animal lover led to him turning her down. Your interpretation is very bitter and mgtow.
Gilgamesh: "Begone THOT!"
I've been studying and researching this for the last 8 years.... Every religion, mythology and historical lore human history produced on a global scale - the major stuff anyways - carry the most similarities amongst the Canon of Gods and Goddesses that ruled over humans in the Past. From Enki, to Zeus, to Odin, to Osiris, the list continues.... Through countless hours and years of piecing texts, stories, myths and good ole interpretive reasoning I've slowly begun giving our past a chance at telling the truth as a whole.
Enki can be identified with Zeus, somewhat. But so do the stories of biblical figures like Noah. Or Gilgamesh as being the great grandson of Uta-Napishtum(Noah's Babylonian Name). Not to mention the connected cataclysmic event that every culture recorded and adopted.
This video helps me a lot. So thank you
Humans even today love to gossip. Mostly real life is boring so they add their own spices and make it interesting by adding old stories they must have heard before. So 75% is reality and 25% is fiction or legend. Now as years go by and in this case thousands of years, these stories further get twisted and a totally new story is born which is 10% fact and 90% fiction / myth. If that story is interesting enough, it becomes religion.
I always thought Zeus was more like Enlil
I don’t think Utu is wearing a spirally hat, Gods in Mesopotamia often have headwear that are adorned with upwards sweeping horns, as can be seen in surviving statues of Lamassu, mythological guardian that are kinda like the Mesopotamian versions of Sphinxs. I think the spirally patterns are three sets of closely packed horns viewed in profile.
I agree in the tablets it's the number of horns that show your position. Anu was 60, Enlil was 50 and Enki was 40
This narrator is a little bit silly.
yeah , and look like a big falus tip !
@@thomascassler4406 Those Sumerians and their wonky wiener hats.
I am Catholic from IRAQ 🇮🇶✝️
Shia Muslim from Iraq, long live the Land of the Two Rivers.
@@hightoweriq no Shia Muslims are a mixed bag of arabs Kurds Turkmens etc. Chaldeans and Assyrians they are the oldest indigenous ethnic group of Iraq today. Assyria was centred on the Tigris in Upper Mesopotamia, in modern terms, northern Iraq, northeast Syria, and southeast Turkey. Not the Shias arabs of today. Assyrians are homogeneous Christians and Catholic and their language is the oldest in Middle East oldern than Arabic, they are Semitic the first ethnic group in Iraq the OGS decedents of Assyria empire the. Mesopotamians who never lost their identity, how do you not know your country indigenous ethnicities?
@@mu4281 lol bro relax all the dude said that long live the land of the two rivers...he didn't cast aside ethnic groups nor did he illegitimise them. Would you tell modern day white Americans to fuck right off back to Europe? Because they are not the original ethnic groups who used to live there?... Iraq has a large variety of people of various ethnic backgrounds and heritage...and that, I think that's what makes it special...that is the reason why I'm a proud Iraqi.
The rich history, the tales, the gods, the mythology, the first civilization to emerge into this world.
Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, Ur
These are the Cities that layed foundation to this world.
Whether I am an Arabic citizen or another. What difference does it make if we've been living here for at the very least 500 hundred years?
Yes people conquer and invade.
But why would we hold on to the grudges and conflicts of yesteryear?
We're brothers...if not by blood..then by country.
You still ALIVE?!!😱
so what!?
Thank youuuu for sharing your story with the world 💕 it’s really nice to hear from you ❤️ thank youuuu and thank youuuu
Keeps it up my dear friend and have a wonderful week
magnificent! I love this story of Gilgamesh! as well as story of Enlil and Enki!
Sumarian lore is a forerunner to Greek myth in alot of ways
You are 💯%on the dot
I always wonder about random things. I never really thought about the oldest identifiable human remains but that's an interesting thought. Also, I've always thought the Epic of Gilgamesh was pretty gnarly. It's just cool how it's so old but still a good story and has recognizable themes and archetypes and everything - like it feels almost like it could have been written much more recently.
A great collab! Mike is a class act, good choice.
You sold me when you mentioned annunaki my favorite religious story ever, honestly it's more interesting then greek/Roman Egyptian mythology so thank you thank you for this in simpler terms then how I learned I almost wrote out hahah but remembered last time I did that some one in the Comment said I was an insecure little girl, the girl part didn't bug me just someone getting mad because I wrote out hahah so my message wouldn't be interpreted as malicious
You're letting random people on the internet dictate your behaviour? you must be an insecure little girl or something *scoff*
this is a joke btw.
Nah I wouldn't of wrote the hahah out if I was gonna let someone dictate me on the internet lol. But thank you for making me smile enjoy the rest to your day
@@Exziotas I also hope that you enjoy your day friend
Thank you for your work. I was so confused about all the connections and overlaps within the deities and their roles but this video helped me to comprehense through it that even Wikipedia couldn't do properly.
Ah yes just like Sappo and her friend, Enkidu and Gilgamesh were roommates lol
This. No wonder Inanna was salty
Praised to be Mesopotamian Gods
Love from Iraq 🇮🇶❤️
Iraq exists ?!!😱
@@sentinentbeign9915 It has existed since the time of the Sumerians 🇮🇶 the land of Abraham and Noah😝
YEEEEESSSSS 🔥
Thank you for doing this work!
Would you like to make a chart on all mythological versions of the great deluge and how they influenced each other?
Thank you so much for the fascinating precise information and presentation. I am off to watch the other videos you mentioned. I appreciate your research and time making this video which is incredibly helpful. Xxx
Laughed really hard at 20:00 , "Apparently Gilgamesh REALLY misplaced them."
14:28, That is super funny! I had no idea. Also, small note; I was taught in college that his helmet is a depiction of four sets of horns. Nearly all of the depictions you show here have them, and they are supposed to designate a hierarchy of godly power, more horns more power.
i love these videos so muchhhhhhhh they’ve gotten me thru covid omfg
You are now wise.... Wisdom is properly deciding who gets the privilege of hearing your thoughts..I am a high wizard... Gifting you the role of wisdom
All mythologies are so intriguing! Also kinda surprised and glad how much accurate info they used about mesopotamian gods in Fate/Grand Order - Babylonia series :D
I was of the understanding that some of the bricks in the massive wall structure that surrounds Uruk are stamped with the name of Gilgamesh? A wall described in texts that is indeed there! In the end of the epic it tells of the death and and burial of Gilgamesh and how the river was diverted and his tomb built at the bottom of the river and then re-diverted over the tomb. Several years ago ground penetrating radar undertaken at Uruk discovered what seems to be that exact scenario. No further excavation or investigation has officially taken place since, unfortunatly.
I like how you mentioned the similarities between the story of Inanna, Dumuzid, and Enkidu, and the story in the Bible of Cain and Abel. But there is another Sumerian story that is similar to both, it's called "Enlil Chooses the Farmer God", which is about two characters called Emesh the shepherd and Enten the farmer.
Satan and Jesus= Enlil and Enki
@@crystltwilight You wish
@@crystltwilight = Satan
@@crystltwilight enlil is Jesus
@@kishordas2300 NONE OF THE ABOVE . ENLIL AS JHVH AS ZEUS BROUGHT ABOUT THE DELUGE AND ALL THESE CHARACTERS WERE NOT IN FAVOR OF MANKIND. ENKI ON THE OTHER HAND IS HALF-BROTHER TO ENLIL AS POSEIDON TO ZEUS AND DEVIL ADVOCATE SATAN TO JHVH. SO WHO IS JESUS? ARCHANGEL GABRIEL-THOTH-HERMES-MERCURY-ARJUNA-BUDHA
Another version has Apsu and Tiamat creating Mummu and two primordial serpents Lakhmu and Lakhamu and it's a union of the serpents that creates Anshar (the sky and masculinity) and Kishar (earth and femininity). Anshar and Kishar then create An (aka Anu) whose consort is Antu. Their children are Nau, Ellil (Enlil) and Ea (Enki). Ea is sometimes credited with creating Mankind and taming the Apsu - Ea has the most to do directly with humans.
From an Assyrian named Nimrod... thank you for making this video.
Lol I’m Irish and I found out recently In the 1700’s I had a grandparent named Nimrod Kelley. Always wonder why they named him that when nearly all the Kelley’s in my tree were either name John, William, George, etc.
@@leekelley4160 My mom's side is British, and Nimrod was used in England for the name of a war plane. Since it's biblical, it could also just be your family back then was very religious and looked for a unique name.
@@NIMRODWARDA Could be. My grandmothers side was British too.
Love the history of humanity. Thank you for informing us!
Every video, book, podcast etc. you see or hear underlays the laws of censorship set by the rulers. You know nothing with certainty! I know nothing with certainty! Every old building, statue or else you see today is meant to be seen by you, slave. All the other buildings you should not see are changed and manipulated or have been destroyed. History of humanity is the biggest crap ever and if we go on allowing them, and believe them blindly, we will never find out where we come from. These ∆ People sharing and making videos won't tell you anything important. Just the opposite is the case, they delete the truth and lie to you. So what do you think is great? Nothing is great on this earth except the lie!
Somebody forgot Enki's son, Ningishzida.
Ningishzida was NOT the son of Enki, but the son of Ninazu and his wife Ningiridda
That most beautiful & way too aggressive Bro~Mance epic to ever exist.
Quick the holy grail war is about to start. Masters summon your servants, I got some cocky dude with golden armor.
Yoooo, I got a blue dog with long stick, I'm definitely losing this war
I got a gluttonous blonde haired girl
Welp, i got flagbearing blond gal
I heard that cocky dude demanded someone an apology for being born in his world… talk about arrogance lol
Wow y’all are ridiculous
They just said Enlil flooded and killed all humans because he couldn’t sleep. How is that benevolent. That’s the most malevolent thing I ever heard.
Enki sounds like a type of Loki character :-)
Sort of, but unlike Loki he is actually helpful. He saved Inanna (Ishtar) from the Underworld and he saved humanity from the Great Flood. He also designed mankind and oversaw its creation by Mother Goddesses.
Enlil his half-brother is more like the Loki character he was the one who wanted to get rid of us. Enki wanted to help us.
This is going to get really old really fast...
Ha ha ha ha ha 🙃
@@staff97 Normally that saying would imply he thinks he would get bored by the video quickly. But it's an ancient history video, so it literally gets to the old stuff very quickly, hence getting "really old, really fast".
Lmao!!
This production felt like someone hired an atheist to narrate a video about gods.
FGO has prepared me for this!
Gilgamesh in mythology: Big muscular man with great beards
Gilgamesh in Fate: Golden Boi
“sometimes heroic, some villanous and sometimes just plain lazy”
yo das me
Looking forward for Phoenician-Levant pantheon family 🙏🏻
A lot of heavy metal bands in this pantheon.
Greek Gods don't want this video to upload on TH-cam, but here it is... Thanks mate
The deities of Babylon are just as old as Egyptian polytheistic religions.
Yes i meant plural
@syr i highly doubt that but it all depends on how your looking at it. The atypical Egyptians mythology that everyone looks at then no but each city in Egypt bad its own religion and culture. It wasn't until the power control pharaohs of the old kingdom that the whole of Egypt looked like a single culture. Even then there was a melting pot of cultures from the region
You mean the city-triads (like Osiris, Isis, Horus or Amun, Mut, Khonsu)
@@js1423 yup. Every city had its own. There is older cities than this. As a matter of history, this was the main city pantheon until the middle kingdom.
@@nathanieldavis1671 Which one (the Osiris-one or the Amun-one)
Tiamat...that name sounds familiar... I never knew that D&D diety came from mesopotamian legend!
There's more! Enlil, Inanna, and Nanna-Sin, as well as "Gilgeam", are all gods in the Forgotten Realms "Unther" pantheon.
Tiamat is also the name given to one of the bosses in the video game Dark Siders.
@@tothboy01 and final fantasy
Tiamat is also named as Planet in both the Bible and Sumerian tablets.
Lol - 18:50
I can confirm on this day, she did not beat Enmenluana 43,200 year Reign.
Thank you for another hilarious video 😂. Love the part where a God is defeated by a giant turtle 🐢 😂
It must be a mutant ninja turtle 😂
Hi! Can you make one for the Canaanite gods, i.e., one where we could see El, Athirat (Asherah), Ba'al, and Anat? Thank you! :-)
Yes! Also include all the human infant sacrifices to Ba’al!
Great video; thanks for posting. Loved the part about her being smacked in the face with the leg. I got a good LOL.
I remember watching a video talking about another very specific reason why Gilgamesh rejected Ishtar. It was because the whole purpose of his own birth was to bring humanity back to worshipping the gods (as he is 1/3 mortal). Basically the gods wanted gilgamesh to serve a bridge between the two existence but Gilgamesh didnt like the idea and decided to do as he pleases. On that note, marrying a goddess would symbolize that he stands on the gods' side so by rejecting ishtar he is also making clear of the position he had taken. It is very important to note that it was specifically ishtar whom he rejected bc Ishtar was a very powerful god (and a very reckless one) at the time. Note how she is both the goddess of war and love, while contradicting concepts she holds them both in one body. Lets just say that she was pretty much like a spoiled child but a goddess and was spoiled by the gods themselves. So it was very meaningful that Gilgamesh rejected her.
Gilgamesh says why he rejected her in that he knew Inanna had many lovers and used them for her purposes of power and the end result was usually never good for those men and he wanted no part of her. That is why Inanna turned on him suddenly.
This is something humanity has argued about for a very long time, & in modern times we speak of it as "the Madonna/Whore division". A woman can "good" or "bad", but not both. But in ancient times, most goddesses did represent both death & birth, & were actively involved in deaths & births. It was understood that birth & death are a cycle, & human women were the midwives & the ones who prepared the dead for burial; it's no surprise that goddesses were seen in the same way. Male leaders & gods were usually shown to be both benevolent & blood thirsty, but no one really has a problem with that. Male or female, leaders have to be able to be warriors when necessary, as well as feeding & caring for their people.
Looking at the reliefs selected for each deity, man, it's no wonder Japan turned Ereshkigal into an anime girl...
2:30 land is called "Kishvar" in Persian. Maybe there is a connection.
Enlil didn’t “kill” Tiamat, Marduk did.
Good video, but the "spiraling hat" of Gods, is not spiraling at all. It is a hat/crown/tiara formed by various pairs of horns, and it is evident if you look it frontally!
You are right, unfortunately, some of the artists are not very good.
Thank you for this video! I’ve found myself in debates with people claiming that humans were genetically engineered from the Annunaki and this helps get some perspective into what they’re talking about.
Zecharia Sitchin's Earth Chronicles book series is a MUST read which covers all of this in great detail!
Read all the books in3/12
Gobleki Tepe was 14.000 years ago... Care to make this on point please? I think Egypt was up 5,000 BC and Sphinx could be even older since it doesn't rain in the region and looking heavily water polished...
14:15 wow! In Tamil language, Udu means Star. Sun in Sumer language was called as Utu.
What about Moon?
Both cultures share a common proto Indo-European ancestor so would make sense
Even if the languages were completely different
What happened with people saying that depiction of Ninurta and the bird being Marduk slaying Tiamat?
Imagine wanting to conquer the world only to be defeated by a Turtle nomming on your ankle.
Just wanted to point out that Saturn wasn't the roman equivalent of the greek "I killed my father and I ate my children" Cronos, as the greeks had another god named Cronos, which was not as important for them, but for the romans he was. They had a whole festival around Christmas called "Saturnalia", Historia Civilis and Invicta both have great videos about it.
Cronis didn't actually killed his father. He castrated him.
Chronos or Khronos ?
@@agniswar3 Yeah, I know, but practically that was the moment he died (at least figuratively from the mythology).
Not true. Saturn is Cronus although he did also take on the traits of Chronos too.
@@KateHistoryMysteries I say it is the other way around. Saturn is mostly Chronos (that's where the farming came from) but he took some attributes from Cronos (that is where time comes from).
"A reign that will surely only be beaten by Queen Elizabeth II." Please tell me I'm not the only one that found this funnier than I should have.
As a Mandaean, born and raised in southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), is so proud of my ancestors. We influenced the whole world with our knowledge, inventions, and mythology.
I don’t think queen eliz will be beating that record anymore 😅😅
Why you say that they were older than the Egyptian Gods? Weren't they equally old? Pre-Dynastic Egypt existed from a very long time.
And yes, I believe that Gilgamesh "existed", in the sense that there was a real person that lived and people make up histories about him resulting in a mythological composite.
This is the same thing I’m wondering about, I hate it when people say Sumerian culture existed before the Egyptian culture
Sumer predates Egypt by almost 1'000 years.....
Unless you call pre-dynastic Egypt (an unorganized bunch of farmers and nomads) "Egypt".
Historians and scientists only start Egyptian civilisation at the first traces of unification into a nation, about 3'100-3'000 BCE. There is evidence that the Sumerian civilisation developed around 4'000 BCE - even earlier according to some.
@@fluffytom82 What you are calling "Egypt" wasn't actually "Egypt", they didn't call their land that way. It was something like "The Red" and "The White" lands, the "Two Lands". Culture was not created at the time of unification, what changed was the political organization but the culture was a continuation of what already existed for some thousands of years already.
It's a similar mistake in the way people think about "Sumer". There was no "Sumer" and "Sumerians", there where a bunch of city states and villages in a particular region that shared some culture. They had another name for themselves and the place they lived.
But yes, Sumerian Gods where older than the "Pharaohs" because the title "Pharaoh" only came to be I think in the New Kingdom.
You fools, this isn't a discussion about "X is older than Y!", both where even older than that, existed at the same time, and the way we discuss these things is just a conventional and very artificial frame device to simplify things for our understanding.
Its about city and civilization.
We have academic lessons that talk about the Influence of the Mesopotamian civilization on Egypt. There are many books, check them out
wow ! that was a lot to take in . vary interesting i must say wow. good stuff sir and take care. WOW!
I love how so many modern genesis details are similar to these older stories, these details percolated through but became a different thing with the essences of the old stories, like Adam being made of earth and the sky being a dome.
Or, for the Christians and Jews in the audience, the original story of Genesis including the Flood were known to the descendants of Noah, some of whom starting changing details over time as the stories were handed down and bastardized, and the similarities with Genesis are the factual, historical details that survived the process.
Yep, they brought lots of stuff home after the babylonian exile. And dated a lot of things back.
@@mweskamppp Some seems related to what might have been picked up in Egypt too, there was trading as much as war and slavery all round. Would be interesting to think of ideas where 'God of Gods' and 'Ancient of Days' came from . Would be interesting to look at the temple shown and contrast with the layout of the temple solomon bulit
@@highpath4776 Egyt ruled the levante up to syria for many centuries, on and off. Of course there was an intensive cultural exchange.
About slavery. In egypt slavery was not known until the semitic hyksos from the levante conquered the nile delta about 1700 bc - 1500 bc. After that the egyptian used slavery as well. The first known idea of a single god goes back to Amenophis IV aka Echnaton (Akhenaten). All the other gods in the near east have been tribe gods with some lesser gods around. For the shasu it was JHW. All of them in the fertile crescent followed the old sumerian/east semitic myths as far as i can see. Some dropped the main myth and concentrated on one aspect for their tribe god. F.e. Weather (JHW), others chose other aspects so as harvest and fertility. It were mainly smaller groups offside of the big civilization in the cities and kingdoms of mesopotamia who did drop part of it. Why go for harvest - when you are a pastoralist. Why go for a war god, when you are not bound to a city. etc.
If only you knew then how "long" Queen Elizabeth - II had left to live .
Ninurta's story almost sounds like a Zelda plot, working with a talking companion object, defeating enemies in order to gain powers, a climatic end battle.
This was great. Now we need one on Anatolian deities, who later became the Cretan Minoan Deities [another subject!], who later became the Greek gods.
Gilgamesh sleeping body was stolen from Iraq during the war, you always have to question what wars are really about.
For that, i subscribed. Very great ill watch this again
I will have to buy a few of your charts. This channel is interesting. Can you use these historical facts to explain how real angels could play into this and what (no matter how terrifying ) they looked like? And how the Jesus characters life is explained over and over again living in different times and civilizations? There seems to be a very strange connection with him and the gods of Egypt, Greece, Norse gods and the Sumerian gods to begin with. It all seems connected to me.
Egypt, Babylon, Greece...
Thats the path of the jesus narrative.
One after the other religious myths carrying psychedelic psychology.
That's right because the Bible is the word and it's absolutely perfect and our Lord God will keep opening your eyes and ears