2021年11月21日 · Flood myth According to Sumerian mythology, a great flood swept over Sumer and destroyed the kingdom, and this may be the basis for the Genesis flood narrative according to some, though it is archaeologically attested that this area suffered from local flooding events, and there must be a reason why they later built flood defences.

2020年11月15日 · One suggestion about the origin of Sumerian society is that it grew out of the fusion of three separate cultures centered at the coastal city of Eridu (Eridu - Wikipedia). And later Sumerian society was a pretty cosmopolitan affair with trade routes connecting it …

2021年6月14日 · I subscribe to the idea that the Hebrew tradition remembers times as Amorites and maybe even earlier Semitic peoples. The city of Mari was an important hub between Semitic and Sumerian peoples in the Early Dynastic, Akkadian, and Amorite periods of Sumerian history. Those later two periods are named after Semitic people.

2020年11月15日 · The "Sumerian" culture/civilization was thus strongly shaped by the Ubaidians. Almost all "Sumerian" deities were, as mentioned, originally Ubaidian. And how important the factor religion was at that time is well known. Sumerian kings and later also the super king Sargon of Akkad thanked the originally Ubaidanian goddess Inanna for their ...

2022年8月22日 · After the conquest of the Ubaid culture by the invading Sumerians (ca. 3,800 BCE), these cities became centers of the Sumerian culture.Already since 4,200 BCE, 400 years before the Sumerian conquest, temples stood in the Ubaid cities which the Sumerian later refer to as ´unir´, a mountain symbol for the union of heaven and earth.

2013年12月23日 · The Origin of Sumerians ^This papper suggests that their origins are being analised separatly, but nontheless " The only possible and provable location of their original homeland, “based on the analysis” is; between the Caspian Sea and the Hindu Kush and Kopet Mountains, which is...

2023年12月2日 · At Cadiz Heracles-Melqart is depicted as a Sumerian shepherd. Phoenician inscriptions associate Melqart with Nergal, the moon god of Harran. At Harran, the residence of the Sabaeans, ancient Sumerian deities like Inanna and Dumuzid are still venerated in medieval times. The cult of Tammuz, or Dumuzid, continued to thrive until the eleventh ...

2015年1月11日 · Further According to Penniman who studied skulls from other Sumerian sites, the Australoid Eurafrican, Austric and Armenoid were the "racial" types associated with the Sumerians. Certainly it cannot be confirmed without further investigation if the Sumerian-Armenian alliance took place on Sumerian or Indian soil.

2015年10月2日 · The Sanskrit word for "thigh" (uru) has absolutely nothing to do with the Dravidian or Sumerian word. The Sanskrit equivalents of Dravidian and Sumerian uru are grama and nagara. The Dravidian usage of uru is identical with the Sumerian usage, while the Indo-Aryan usage is completely different and unrelated. A body part is not a city.

2013年11月15日 · Does anyone know which gods the Sumerians offered the most human sacrifices to? I remember reading about a large pit of fire the Sumerians dug that they would throw people into. What god or gods were those people sacrifices for? Also, when did these sacrificial pits of fire first appear?