NMC380Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mesoamerican Creation Myths, Hattusa, Tudigong
13 May 2016
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What we say one day may not be true the next due to a discovery. The sumerian don"t know where they came from another language. Another language spoken at that time was akkadian. Akkadian became the lingua franca at that time. Semitic dialect amorite hammurabi from amorite different of akkadian but made of linguistic group from syrian. City of babylon city occurs in bible and greek literature representation of a huge metropolis. Hittite capital hattusa not far from ankara huge citadel discovered by germans and turkish. Cosmos cosmei to put things in order. When one comes to look at another civilization we have to flush the ideas of our own cultures so we don"t compare. Sumerian one deity created earth in 7 days. Ancient sumerian and akkadian not monotheistic but rather polytheistic. Stripping away judai christian ideas of the 7 days of creation. Dutch scholar summary of overview of sumerian cosmology.
