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- In Sumerian mythology and later in the religions of Assyria and Babylonia ... "An" can be translated from the Sumerian as "high one ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- Commerce was considered very important in Sumerian Civilization, so much so ... became associated with many legends. The Sumerian literature known as "the ...10 KB (1,482 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- has been dubbed the "Shakespeare of Sumerian literature." merging of the Akkadian Ishtar with the Sumerian Inanna. ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 18:54, 13 February 2024
- dated from around 2250 B.C.E., in Sumerian and in Eblaite—a previously ... appears to have included both Semitic and Sumerian influences, and many ancient ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 17:22, 11 October 2020
- In Sumerian mythology, Ninhursag (NIN.URSAG) was the earth and mother ... a leash. She is the tutelary deity to several Sumerian rulers. ...14 KB (2,349 words) - 04:51, 15 November 2022
- Elamite, Hattic, Hittite, Hurrian, Luwian, Sumerian, Urartian ... The Sumerian script was adapted for the writing of the Akkadian, Elamite ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- practices of the region. The Akkadian language became the lingua franca ... One of them, contemporary with the last Sumerian ruler, Lugal-Zage-Si, was ...13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Amorite (Sumerian Mar.tu, Akkadian Amurrūm, Egyptian Amar, Hebrew ... In the earliest Sumerian sources, beginning about 2400 B.C.E., the ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- a form of communication that is free of language-specific elements and thus ... in Mesopotamia and predated the famous Sumerian cuneiforms (the oldest of ...12 KB (1,772 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- Enki was a major deity in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in ... is "Lord of the Earth." The Sumerian, en was a title equivalent ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- the son of an idol manufacturer in the Sumerian city of Ur, and so could ... #039;s voluminous works, he uses Semitic language etymology and translations ...15 KB (2,395 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- quot; applies to all speakers of the Sumerian language. Sumer together with ... water for farming and drinking. The Sumerian language has many terms for ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- at Ugarit were written in four languages: Sumerian, Hurrian, Akkadian, and ... of writing the widely used diplomatic language of Akkadian in cuneiform—as ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- The ancient royal Sumerian tombs of Ur, located near the Euphrates ... * Much of Sumerian and Akkadian poetry makes reference to lapis lazuli ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 22:35, 22 October 2022
- name of the sun god, corresponding to Sumerian Utu. In mythology, Shamash ... * Finkel, Irving L., and Markham J. Geller. Sumerian Gods and Their ...13 KB (2,138 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- was the name of a major Mesopotamian deity. In early Sumerian inscriptions ... Enlil appears frequently in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Canaanite ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- many other Arabic words in the English language, cumin was acquired through ... quot; has the same meaning as the English language phrase "carrying coals ...12 KB (1,736 words) - 19:46, 11 May 2020
- Dagan is mentioned occasionally in early Sumerian texts but becomes prominent only in later Akkadian inscriptions as a powerful and warlike protector ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- King Atrahasis is listed in the Sumerian king list as one of the monarchs ... written on three tablets in Akkadian, the language of ancient Babylon. ...11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
- excavations at the royal cemetery in the Sumerian city of Ur in the 1920s ... By 2000 B.C.E., Sumerian and Babylonian cultures began delineating ...26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
- It is in principle the representation of language, rather than images of thought ... began to represent syllables of the Sumerian language.[http://www.answers ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- from a pre-Indo-European Mediterranean language, connected with the Illyrian ... Some of the earliest towers were ziggurats, which existed in Sumerian ...15 KB (2,136 words) - 16:19, 29 April 2024
- In ancient Sumerian cosmology, heaven (An) and earth (Ki) were originally ... The sacred marriage of the king of a Sumerian city-state and the High ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- . let us go to the world of men," in language reminiscent of the serpent ... Gilgamesh, the son of Lugalbanda, was, according to a Sumerian king ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 07:45, 24 January 2023
- ===Mesopotamian and Sumerian mythology=== Mesopotamian and Sumerian myths told of numerous gods, such as An ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- === Sumerian === The Sumerian myth of Ziusudra tells how the god Enki warns Ziusudra ...29 KB (4,785 words) - 17:53, 11 November 2023
- could read cuneiform script in Akkadian and Sumerian and claimed that he even understood texts from before the great flood. He was also able to solve ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 22:19, 8 November 2021
- by avoiding any sort of evaluative language. Instead, it uses parataxis ... * McDaniel Thomas F. "The Alleged Sumerian Influence upon Lamentations ...22 KB (3,444 words) - 00:22, 19 November 2023
- linguistic families, as well as a few language isolates. Individual mother ... While Hindi is the official language of the central government in ...30 KB (4,092 words) - 06:53, 4 March 2023
- C.E.) cuneiform was invented for the Sumerian language. Cuneiform literally ... involved knowledge of the extinct Sumerian language, and a complicated ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- it was written in Akkadian, the daily language of Babylon, and could therefore ... civilizations, including the earlier neo-Sumerian example of Ur-Nammu's ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 17:00, 21 January 2024
- It has also been suggested just as the Sumerian goddess Inanna is related to her West Semitic counterpart, Ishtar, so in Canaanite tradition ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- air") may be a reference to the Sumerian goddess Ninlil (also "lady ... #039;s first appearance was as a class of Sumerian storm spirits called Lilitu ...47 KB (7,623 words) - 08:39, 8 March 2023
- [[Image:amagi.png|right|thumb|400px|Ama-gi written in [[Sumerian language ... The ama-gi, a Sumerian cuneiform word, is the earliest known written ...28 KB (4,455 words) - 10:43, 11 April 2024
- *Scholars link Enoch with the ancient Sumerian king Emmeduranki. The specific lifespan of Enoch, 365 years, corresponding to the duration of ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
- to confuse the previously uniform language of humanity, thereby preventing ... 1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And ...34 KB (5,579 words) - 04:46, 1 May 2023
- bloodsucking Akhkharu is mentioned in Sumerian mythology. Bram Stoker& ... bloodsucking Akhkharu is discussed in Sumerian mythology. These female ...26 KB (4,074 words) - 01:36, 18 April 2023
- connotes, dialogue implies the use of language. A dialogue is distinguished ... In the east, the genre dates back to the Sumerian dialogues and disputations ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- such as the Babylonians, retained the Sumerian naming convention but adapted it to their own very different pantheons. The Greeks borrowed much ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- |languages=Egyptian language |fam1=(Proto-writing) |children=Hieratic ... quot; to refer to both the language as a whole and the individual ...23 KB (3,348 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- The earliest written record of dentistry appears to be a Sumerian text from 5000 B.C.E. that describes "tooth worms" as the causal ...16 KB (2,245 words) - 16:53, 26 September 2020
- for the name Iraq. One dates to the Sumerian city of Uruk (or Erech); ... The world's first known civilization, the Sumerian culture, flourished ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- both fertility and militarism, as the Sumerian Inanna presents a valid ... In Avestan, an ancient Indo-European language found in the Gathas ...27 KB (4,334 words) - 12:25, 13 October 2022
- (whose king, Etana, supposedly founded the first Sumerian dynasty after the Deluge). Sir C. Leonard Woolley’s excavations at Ur south of Uruk in the ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 00:43, 24 November 2022
- alongside ancient Egypt and Sumerian Civilization, as a place ... civilization may be preserved in the Sumerian Me-lah-ha, which Asko Parpola ...32 KB (5,016 words) - 21:11, 22 March 2024
- Great Flood described in its text. The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000 ... the nearest town to Mount Ararat. The language spoken by the Celali is Kurmanji. ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 17:03, 10 November 2022
- word for copper, and is related to the Sumerian word for copper, (zubar ... ethnic identities based on religion, language, and close ties with their ...33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- *Sumerian: Ziusudra *Babylonian: Atra-Hasis, Utnapishtim, Xisuthrus *Greek: Deucalion *Toltec: Toptlipetlocali A direct connection to the story ...17 KB (2,732 words) - 18:11, 11 November 2023
- Yam or Yamm, from the ancient Semitic word meaning "sea," is the name of the Canaanite god of rivers and the sea. Yam was also the ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- is wholly extant only in the Ethiopic language. There are two other books ... The Greek language text was known to, and quoted by nearly all, Church ...29 KB (4,679 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
