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- 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
- is the New Testament, written in the Koine Greek language. ... creation narrative and that of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, such ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- Language is a structured system of communication that consists of ... Depending on philosophical perspectives on the definition of language ...112 KB (16,049 words) - 21:16, 26 February 2023
- #039;amtum), which was derived from the Sumerian ti ("life") and ... * Yahuda, A. S. The Language of the Pentateuch in its Relation to ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- . They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic ... tablets written around 2800 B.C.E. in the Sumerian city of Ur. This shift from ...43 KB (6,361 words) - 16:51, 25 February 2023
- copies of every publication in the English language. ===Funding=== ... three existing Gutenberg Bibles, and a Sumerian scripted tablet dating back ...24 KB (3,496 words) - 22:34, 25 October 2022
- The Phoenician language is counted among the Canaanite languages in ... In terms of archeology, language, and religion, there is little to ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- A fable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, that employs the literary device, anthropomorphism - that is giving animals, plants, inanimate ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- castration for this purpose are from the Sumerian cities of Lagash in the twenty-first century B.C.E. Over the millennia since, eunuchs have ...18 KB (2,792 words) - 18:55, 11 September 2023
- to the Akkadian edinu, which derives from the Sumerian E.DIN. The latter words mean "plain" or "steppe." Eden is described ...19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
- of Rim-Sin, King of the Larsa dynasty (Sumerian period) c. 2300 B.C.E., ... is a distinct promise expressed in language which is perfectly unmistakable ...41 KB (6,819 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
- number of loanwords from the Chinese language—are known as Sinoxenic ... be the oldest surviving writing system. Sumerian cuneiform, which originated ...55 KB (8,141 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- The Epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian literature features its hero Gilgamesh ... oldest word still in use in the English language to describe hand-to-hand combat. ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- In an Ugaritic tablet (Ugaritic was a north-west Semitic language ... in fact no word for 'virgin' in Sumerian or Akkadian." ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- Japanese myth of Izanagi and Izanami, the Akkadian/Sumerian myth of Inanna's Descent to the Underworld, and Mayan myth of Ix Chel and Itzamna. The ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- divine which featured such goddesses as the Sumerian Inanna, the Mesopotamian Ishtar, and the Syro-Palestinian Astarte, among others. The female body ...23 KB (3,678 words) - 06:01, 11 August 2023
- In the English language, 7 is the only 2-syllable natural, positive 1-digit ... *The Seven Sages in Sumerian mythology and various other mythologies ...35 KB (5,128 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- 6000 B.C.E. in southern Mesopotamia, cradle of the Sumerian civilization, who may have passed on the knowledge to the Egyptians around 3000 B.C.E. The ...36 KB (5,350 words) - 22:56, 20 November 2023
- on a grand scale) can be observed readily in Sumerian and Babylonian epics, e.g. as in Lugal-banda (Sumerian) or Atrakhasis (Babylonian). Such a ...50 KB (7,876 words) - 00:06, 5 March 2024
- Iran, where they adopted the Muslim Tat language, but remained Jewish. The ... The official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, a member of the ...40 KB (5,942 words) - 05:17, 26 August 2023
- The official language is Arabic. Among the immigrant population, English ... with emphasis on English as a second language. There are numerous internationally ...41 KB (6,013 words) - 11:40, 3 May 2023
