Gudea of Lagash, Ancient Sumer's Enlightened King
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In this video, we take a look at one of ancient Sumer's most enlightened rulers, Gudea, king of Lagash. In a world where might made right and a ruler's subjects were often expendable, Gudea perhaps introduced an ideology of kingship that put his people first and likened a king to a shepherd watching over his flock. Along with his devotion to Lagash's patron deity, Ningirsu, Gudea is known for the many beautiful and now famous works of art that he commissioned as well as sowing the seeds for what would become a renaissance of Sumerian culture in ancient Mesopotamia.
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Gud is the Sumerian word for Bull, Gud-EA = Bull-EA aka Enki
Also Gudea/Judea, Pebbles/Smooth Stones.
Also consider this, Sumerian - Bilgamesh, Akkadian - Gilgamesh, now, Gudea...... Budea, come on Cy, wake up!
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I feel so honored to be featured.
I'm honored you're here! You're such a role model and inspiration for us all! Thanks for watching and hope I got the details of you life correct!
It’s subjects like this that makes ancient history so fun to learn about. Most people that even know of this time period wouldn’t imagine a man like gudea being a ruler. Most rulers of this time periods had egos barely large enough to fit in a room. And even if only part of what is written about Gudea is true it’s a huge departure from most rulers.
Its important to remember that a lot of that ego was propaganda and may not have reflected them personally.
@@waltonsmith7210 that’s what makes it so cool. Those inscriptions are like Twitter. Talk all this crap about how powerful or badass they are and then Gudea is very humble and I’m just a normal guy. To me that’s really fascinating and the reason he stands out especially in this time period where you have rulers stating they are the king of the universe, Gudea is I’m a Shepard. One of the many reasons I love ancient history is discoveries of people like him.
@@mattstakeontheancients7594 oh yeah I agree. The way a man chooses to represent himself does say a lot. Its nice to see that there were people with their own idiosyncratic ideas and good morals.
@@mattstakeontheancients7594 perhaps he wasn't powerful enough.
@@mattstakeontheancients7594 Maybe that was just his "i'm totally working class guys" post to increase his popularity among the citizens.
He is so underrated as an Ancient ruler.
Agreed! Thanks for watching!
Was waiting for a segment on Gudea and, as always, History with Cy didn't disappoint.
Haha I'd been wanting to put out one for some time.. Gudea is pretty underrated. Thanks for watching, appreciate it!
I really love your focus on multiple (sometimes rarely covered) aspects of ancient civilizations, I especially liked your video on the seldom covered BMAC.
I never imagined that Gudea was such a fascinating character!!! Thank you so much for this amazing video
I once saw one of the many remaining Gudea statues at the museum. Next time it will have a complete different meaning for me
Thanks, glad you got to know him! Yes, Gudea seems to be in many museums... he's like the modern ambassador of ancient Sumer! As always, thanks for watching and the all of the support, really appreciate it!
Gudea's inscriptions were the first thing we've been studying in our course on Sumerian. So you may not know him if you don't dig into the ancient Mesopotamia, but if you do - he is unavoidable. I even keep a small bronze statue of Gudea at my house, and would like to propose my wife to, if we ever have a child, give her or him the second name of Gudea.
Thing with Gudea is that, while Eninnu may have withered with time, the inscriptions that Gudea left were one of the most important sources for deciphering the Sumerian language. The texts commemorating the temple appeared to be more important for the history than the temple itself. I find a certain irony of life in that.
This was a fascinating story on a king I have always wondered about, having seen his statues in a number of books. Thank you, Cy!
Yeah, he's a popular guy. I think I have three or four books on the Sumerians/Mesopotamia with his face on them. Thanks for watching and more on the way, stay tuned and safe!
I can't thank you enough for such a great video! Gudea was one of the primary reason I felt in love with the history of Mesopotamia!
Thanks, I'm so glad you enjoyed this! Hope to do similar videos with other rulers, stay tuned and thanks again for watching!
What a lovely man! Such a contrast with the brutality of later ages. His face has a sweet expression and I love the pious way they used to fold their hands.
Yes, reminds of looking a statue of the Buddha... helps to bring a sense of peace and tranquility to the one viewing it. Thanks for watching!
Aw man, Gudea is one of my favorite figures from ancient Mesopotamia. Thanks so much for the video!
My pleasure, thanks for watching!
We don’t have Matthew of Nineveh 😠🇮🇶
Excellent again, Cy!! Thank YOU 💕 i love the details... as many as possible!!
My pleasure, thank you for watching!
HOW IS EVERY ONE OF YOUR VIDEOS SO FKIN GOOD AHHHH
Thank you CY! I get so excited when I see you have a new video. Sumerian history is so fascinating.
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed this! More Sumerian history on the way, stay tuned!
And yet another find of pure gold! you never fail to impress sir! Also i know this question is a bit off topic but what are your thoughts on the city of hazor?
Hazor was a really important city in the fertile crescent and they also found tablets similar to the law code of hammurabi... So do you think that hammurabi may have passed by or maybe even lived there for a short period of time?
besides the off topic question, this video was fantastic!
Hi Reuben, thanks for watching and the comment! I know of the city of Hazor in Israel but I didn't know about tablets with such law codes. Without knowing the date of the tablets it'd be hard to say for me to say, but, to try to answer your question, I don't know of any evidence that Hammurabi's reach ever extended that far to the west. However, there might a be few reasons as to why such tablets might exist in Hazor. One is that the people/ruler of Hazor adopted a similar law code from Babylonia similar to that of Hammurabi's (maybe it worked in Babylonia so why not in Hazor?). Another could be that the tablets were just brought there from Babylonia. Another interesting possibility could be that the tablets you're speaking about are a compilation of local laws based on Amorite/Canaanite customs. Hammurabi was of Amorite ancestry and many scholars have pointed out that his law code reflects this - for example, many of the punishments for the same offenses are much harsher than the previous Sumerian laws that were present throughout Mesopotamia. In fact, they are pretty similar to what we know of local Levantine laws than those of Sumer a few generations before. That is one idea, but again, one would have to see the language/dialect of the tablets (are they the Akkadian of Hammurabi's time, some local variant or from a different period of history altogether) to help make that conclusion. Interesting find nevertheless! Thanks for sharing and now that I'm about this find, I try to see if I can find some recent journal articles about it. If so, I'll let you know! Thanks again!
From what I've researched, there were two Hammurabis: the Hammurabi of Babylon, but also the Hammurabi of Yamhad, the son of Yarim Lim I, and his mother was queen Gashera. The kingdom of Yamhad stretched well up to the Mediterranean Sea, which would explain Hammurabi's "influence" that far in the west (2 different Hammurabis). Since he reigned the same time as Hammurabi in Babylon and even aided him in military campaigns, sending him troops to fight the Elamites, etc... And he was the one making military moves in the western Levant against the Qatnaites who were forming alliances with the Elamites (who were warring with Babylon). It was in an important position between Babylon and Halab (Aleppo) at the time. Hammurabi of Babylon would eventually sack the kingdom of Mari souring relations between them though.
From what I know, Yamhad and Babylon were pretty close along with Mari. Could be more I'm missing but there's that....
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I love the way Cy reads the inscriptions out! Such great timing and emphasis 👏💕
Haha thanks, I never know if people are bored with the quotes or actually find them helpful. I love reading primary sources though, gives us a little more insight into their minds and world. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it! More on the way, stay tuned and safe!
History with Cy, always coming through with high quality and informative videos! This one was excellent.
Yes, that is true
Thanks, hope you enjoyed watching it as much as I did making it... this one probably had more of my favorite artwork of any video I've put out recently. Thanks for watching and more on the way, stay tuned!
Cyrus - I put your videos on and listen in the background nearly every day, now I'm almost through all of them, and might have to rewatch some!
Thanks my friend, really appreciate it and glad you're enjoying these! I'll be putting out some longer videos next month so hopefully you'll have a lot more to go through haha. Thanks again for the support, really appreciate it!
Fabulous production, as customary. Somehow, I missed this one until today; though I was naturally aware of Gudea, I have learned quite a bit more, thanks to you. BRAVO!
I’ve been viewing the ancient podcast you’ve put out and they are informative.
It amazing these people are. All related . ♥️
Thanks again Cy, great video!
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it!
I have recently started learning Sumerian language. I now know I must do my translation exercises of the inscriptions by/about Gudea.
That's awesome! If you need any sources or books, please don't hesitate to send me an email. Thanks again for watching and good luck with your Sumerian studies!
@@HistorywithCy Thank you! I really appreciate it. I am currently using A descriptive Grammar by Jagersma, A sumerian Reading book by gadd and Manual of Sumerian by Hayes L John. And referring to inscriptions on google images :)
I was late to see this one cy! Thanks for your amazing work.!
Thank you for watching and glad you enjoyed it! I'll put out similar videos on other rulers soon, stay tuned and thanks for the support!
Fascinating stuff, Cy!
Thank you, more on the way!
your video presentation is so excellent, please keep up the great work!
Thank you, will do! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
I really enjoyed this. I had not see this period put in its historical context as well.
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
So cool!
I enjoyed it, learned something... Thanks
My pleasure, thanks for watching!
Thanks for telling us about him !
My pleasure, thanks for watching!
Someone who was ancient to Marcus Aurelius, yet so humble who was the "first of his kind to be kind". I liked your story telling about Shulghi.. but Gudea is someone who must inspire.
Amazing!
Thanks
Thank you for watching!
Excellent! I've never heard of Gudea.
Always happy to get more Mesopotamian videos!
My pleasure, I'm always happy to provide them!
And possibly a person who was a source of inspiration for the character of Gilgamesh by later storytellers (in addition to the historical Gil of course)
Not really Gilgamesh was totally different. Though he was something special in this time.
I thought the Gilgamesh story was older than his rein?
@@elliottprats1910 it's REIGN..and it was
@@elliottprats1910 The stories of Gilgamesh were likely orally told and written down over hundreds of years. The most common version you'll find today is Akkadian, only compiled toward the end of the 2nd millennium in Babylonia, drawing on versions that had come before. Gudea is theorized to be one figure whose own life was sourced as material for the fictional Gilgamesh over the centuries.
Gud is the Sumerian word for Bull, Gud-EA = Bull-EA aka Enki
I love the Sumerians! Great vid!
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
Gudea's clean shaved face was the new face of Sumeria, surviving the Guteans and being a model leader followed by subsequent rulers.
Was just watching this video and enjoyed it a great deal (as I have for all your videos on the ancient world.) Thank you for showcasing knowledge about the past. In your inscription of Gudea, it says “…and put the bricks into the mould.”
I’m thinking this should be ‘mold’ if it’s referring to a clay formed brick shaping device.
Anyway, keep up the good work. Sumer is a favorite subject of mine and I used several of your videos as research sources in the construction of my novella “Testimony of an ancient soul”.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed this! I just checked the source from where I got the quote and there it is written "mould" which I believe is the British spelling. Good luck on your novella, let me know when it comes out, would love to check it out! Thanks again for watching, really appreciate it!
@@HistorywithCy the story starts out on an uncharted island near Crete 4500 years ago. It’s told by the main character Saverin and he details his adventures though various situations. I was greatly inspired by the author Mika Waltari and especially his book ‘The Egyptian’. My story is an unapologetic homage to him and while it starts in Crete, it moves to Egypt, and then Mesopotamia. While my story probably has some historical and geographical inaccuracies (which I know historians dislike) it’s an adventure fantasy. Hopefully if you read it, you can look past the anachronisms. I did try to link the timelines to the rulers from those 3 geographic areas.
Here’s where it starts:
mymindfudge.wordpress.com/2020/06/12/testimony-of-an-ancient-soul-i/
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Hi thank you act for the presentation. I came across your ppt as I was searching for information on Guea of Larash as it was mentioned that there was trade with Sumer in olden days. My architectural dissertation thesis helped me to track my family links to Sumer. My ancestral family and other 95 families traveled from Sumer to Goa, India in 1000BC. We call ourselves Gaud Saraswat Brahmins. The general character of all these families is that the are very influential and well to do with the characteristics of Gudea of Larash. I always wondered y all GSB were down to earth even after achieving well known positions in academia, defence , journalism etc. Another bit that has been playing on my mind is the name Kamat as many families have the surnames as kesh Kamat, Kamat bambolkar,mamai Kamat etc. I’ve recently found that Egypt was called Kemet in olden days and was wondering if it had any connections that you may be aware of. Waiting for your reply.
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Gudea of Lagash is now one of my favorite ancient rulers, definitely an underrated one.
The list of things making a place less ritually pure was interesting. Apparently they ranged from the childbirth, through violence of any kind (especially against children) or anything related to death, to legal disputes and tax and/or debt collection.
Yeah purification rites are really interesting... in many parts of Asia the did (and still do) similar rituals before consecrated a temple or sacred space, especially when it comes to the presence of women and those with afflictions not being present. The cancellation of debt by a ruler was pretty standard practice in ancient Mesopotamia to create goodwill between the ruler and the ruled. Usually it occurred when a new king was coronated or after conquering a city in order to win points with the local population. Interesting stuff for sure!
Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
i cant' wait to listen to this later
Hope you enjoy it!
Thanks
You're welcome!
Great video. Gudea sort of reminds me of the emperor Augustus in a couple of ways. Apparently a strong 'king' but not using the accepted title and his focus on cultural revival and large building projects.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! Another idea I have is to do videos on each Roman emperor, but that would be later on, perhaps next year or so. I think that would be a lot of fun to do. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
Please do a video about Dacians
It is wonderful hearing of a good king like Gudea, who inspired the Gracchi, Julius Caesar. Most leaders were military leaders, but the best were men who cared about their people and saw themselves as good shepherds.
Yeah, he was a great guy...thanks for watching and more on the way, stay tuned!
Interesting 🤓 !
Thanks, glad you found it so! More on the way, stay tuned!
I wonder how far Gudea was influenced by the seemingly fairly egalitarian society of the Indus valley.
Interesting question, not sure if he was since the IVC was quite some distance away; goods were definitely exchanged between Lagash and IVC, don't know how many ideas though. Interesting topic to explore in the future. Thanks for watching, appreciate it!
The worst thing in the world is how little we actually know about these ancient people and their lives
Stopped driving and owning a car ten years ago. Didn't have much choice, but, damn, it sure has improved my carbon footprint.
Talk about Jungian synchronicities, I was just thinking, shortly after my boards, that I need to brush up on my Sumerian history and mythology again.
I gave him my respects when I visited Louvre. In Mexico, we have a copy of his statue too in Palacio de Gobierno.
Nice! I've seen him in the MET and at a visiting exhibit at the Getty villa (statues on loan from the Louvre). All of them have the same, calm expression, almost like statues of the Buddha. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
it would be interesting to know how he improved the medical field. Though he made many of the sick leave, based on what was stated he must have improved the health of the people. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated. 😃😃😊😊💚💚
yay!
Dang Gudea you pretty cool
Thanks, glad you enjoy these! I'm thinking of doing a follow up to the BMAC video, something related to trade with its neighbors. Stay tuned and thanks for watching!
Excellent: he is one of the few rulers moderns can truly identify with; there are several art exhibits about that feature statuary of Gudea.
Yes, the Louvre has the greatest number but I've seen a couple in the MET and didn't realize until I was researching this but even the Cleveland Museum of Arts has one. As always, thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
I have strange feeling that this cylinder of 9:23 was kind of a printing press
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Thank you!
Ive seen that black figurine in the opening everywhere mentioning sumeria weird.
Yes, it's one of the most popular statues/figures from ancient Mesopotamia. Due to the number found, they have statues or parts of statues of Gudea in several museums around the world. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
I was just thinking about Gudea a few days ago. Maybe I've pulled a Paul Atreides and have gleaned some Prescience 😂
Sniffing spice again have you?
Sweet, glad I put this out then! One of my first videos was on him but I always wanted to do a better and longer version. Thanks for watching, appreciate it!
a humble person: nice
A different type of "greatness"... thanks for watching!
sheesh indeed
I like how Elam is hovering around doing nothing in like every single animation even when they have nothing to do with anything going on. Is that a running gag.
The problem is that despite archeologists rediscovering various Elamite tablets their language is still not 100% understood .
Most of their chronology,list of kings and chronicles only survived when mentioned by sumerians,akkadians,babylonians,assyrians and persians.
Elamites had some powerful dinasties (like the ones that sacked Ur and centuries later Babylon) and outlived their old sumerian rivals-it is a shame we don't known them as well as their neighbours.
Haha that's funny you noticed that! Actually it's more just to take up space on the screen and also so viewers know that particular area on the map is part of Elam, lounging and looming about like the existential threat that they were haha. I think this Summer I'll do some more on Elam itself. Anyway, thanks for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
It is interesting that daughters' right to inherit predates the same in Mosaic Law by so many centuries, and does not seem to be something decided reluctantly, as the Mosaic code seems to suggest.
Gudea also made a good youtube channel.
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From Michel G Rabbat /Egypt-Amer./Florida.Good work...The mention Of UR-Namu, reminds me of the Chaldean , Tony Nammur, husband of my cousin Soad,In Egypt he was a senior rocket engineer working with german scientists to develop military missiles until he left for Lebanon. Thank you Anthony Gilmer for the info
I knew a Glymo Sen. Educ. Off. in Nigeria when I taught there...He was from Cornwall..UK, not the street I dwell in...Probably from Canaanite "Ghulaimu "(Also Arabic) for young man
Guti, Gudea...leader as the shepherd of the people. This ethical leadership quality actually seems to be a unique aspect of Judea, reflecting the Jewish criticism of its own people for taking on a military king rather than an ethical leader like Moses and his theocratic list of rules. David being a shepherd boy conquering the giant warrior, clearly dramatizes the ethic behind Gudea's self-image as a leader. I believe this also goes into the nature of kingship in Gothic/Germanic tribalism, where women had relatively equal rights as men in regards to being heirs to power. There is the healing aspect of this ethic that also echoes the Greeks' view of the Geats, known as the best healers of their times (and avid cannabis spiritualists). Herodotus believed this barbaric neighboring people learned "Pythagorean" immortality and religion from Zalmoxis, a supposed slave of Pythagoras. Making a feasting hall over a pit burial cave, then held the celebration as Zalmoxis entered the cave. A large boulder was rolled over it, and after 3 years he was mourned as dead before rolling the stone away. Zalmoxis walked out, considered to be fully incarnated after having died...the major detail of proving Christ's rebirth. Here we get to the "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want..." of the classic Christian heritage. The important part is that Herodotus believed himself that Zalmoxis "lived long before Pythagoras" This suggests the philosophy of a divine shepherd had a very old European branch. I'm wondering if the Yamnaya wave of IE migrations may have inspired much of the urbanized imperialism at the end of the 4th millennium BCE, going along with the Bovine Imperialism. Obviously, Yamnaya didn't begin the bovine worship, but they seem to have been a micro culture that took it to an extreme as they domesticated horses to aid their efforts. We know that bovine based diets cultivated relative giant people as they took milk digestion to an extreme too. The oldest ritual to Zeus was a tauroctony whereby the people involved were tried for murder, but the blade was found guilty and not the people. These blades were abused before being drowned in a murky pool of water. This explains the purpose for bog swords and mummies in early Denmark. We cannot ignore the fratricidal mythology in these groups too...the Biblical one happening because the grain-sacrifice was not as well accepted as the flesh sacrifice. Fat burns better than veggies, so the tongues of the divine mouth preferred meat.
Then there is the Scythian story of fratricide where Herodotus depicts the details Then there is the Scythian story of fratricide where Herodotus depicts the details Then there is the Scythian story of fratricide where Herodotus depicts the details as if the tribe detests foreign things. The one brother wanted to adopt an imperial center, while the other who inherited the crown too decided to remain nomadic but brought home orgiastic rites from his Eastern exploits. The former brother killed the other in the act of copulating in the forest as punishment for defiling the warrior restraint from their supposed ascetic ethics. This drama follows not only the Indian tale of Prajapati and Tejas, where Rudra shoots Prajapati while incestuously copulating with his daughter, (Tejas="thought that is light"), but also explains why Ymir was considered "evil" enough to be killed. This connects us to not only Yama, lord of Death in India, but also Yamantaka of Buddhism (wrathful manifestation of Manjushri, Bodhisattva of Compassion, who is also a Bull-headed man like Yama). Even still, it connects us to Yima of Persian myth where he refused to take the laws to the People, so was charged with filling the world with Life. Succeeding in this, he stabbed the Earth to make her swell twice so he could continue to reign. The third time she didn't swell, so he danced in the clay and dug out an underground cavern sanctuary that saved life. Finally, he was killed as a new age took over. We can also see the depiction of Yama in Buddhist art combines the important details of the Minotaur! Yama, a bull-headed child, rides a bull copulating with a woman...which is the princess of Minos who offended his patron Poseidon, who had demanded the king sacrifice his bull to him. Varuna receives "filthy sacrifices" like murders...just like the sacrifice to Zeus.
So, my "question" is, how much do we know about the potential connection between Gutians, Goths, Geats, and Kurds (being the inheritors of the Gutian language)? It seems to me that a comparative study of these tribes might be useful in explaining some mysteries in Western History. I'm wondering if the Yamnaya culture may be a colony from the earliest Crescent empires, cut off by a fall of their "Mother Land," and the pre-IE Europeans related to Etruscans and Minoans. Supposedly the Etruscans called their gods Aesir, just like the Norse, and their name "Etruscan" derives from their identity as liver diviners in animal sacrifice...also extremely important in Northern China around this time too!!! Cherusci and Etruscans...seems like a potential influx from Italy into Germania after Rome destroyed the Etruscan league of 12...just like Snorri described...which also follows the origin of Sumerian city-state networks.
I would imagine that anyone in the city where that temple was being built left just to get away from all the rules.
Hmmm, interesting, I don't know about that. My guess is that the building of such a temple would have been a great event for most people in Lagash, and so such strictures, which were temporary, probably were too much of a bother. Plus, many believed that just by being in attendance during such purification, they'd get some blessings too. Interesting to think about for sure. Thanks for watching, appreciate it and more on the way, stay tuned and safe!
Got a question: Did they ever find the tomb of Gudea?
@7:40 Gudea looks a lot like some depictions of Buddha, or is that the other way around?
Gudea lived 1.500 years before Buddha .
It's interesting how Sumerian folklore seems to mirror early Jewish folklore.
Any good examples?
@@lucianjanusm the flood story for one but mostly read the Epic of Gilgamesh
i bet he was only acting humble because he wasn't that secure on the throne, not being the son of a king, so he might have got overthrown if he got too big for his boots
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@@HistorywithCy i wish i had the financial means to contribute, your channel has really been there for me through a lot of dark periods. appreciate you Cy!
No worries my friend, just watching and learning from these for me is my greatest reward. Seriously, really appreciate all of your support and if there's anything that I can do, please don't hesitate to let me know. Thanks again!
Imagine being “king of the universe” without electricity 😂
It's Gudea to be the king!
🤣 love it! Thanks for watching!
I'm sorry to point this out, but some of the years and dates in this video seem to be contradicting. How could Utu Hegal have ruled cca 2020 BC if Ur Nammu ruled since 2112 BC? Great video nontheless!
Ur Nammu was just a minor king subjected to the gutians.
Gudea is a great name. If I ever have a son, I will call him Gudea.
Nice! I don't know anyone today with that name so he may be the first! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
Is the king of Gudea is the king of Sumerian or Gutians?
King of the Sumerian city-state/Kingdom of Lagash.
"The dreamlike spell of this contemplative, metaphysically orientated tradition, where light and darkness dance together in a world - creating cosmic shadow play, carries into modern times and image that is of incalculable age. In its primitive form it is widely known among the jungle villages of the broad equatorial zone that extends from Africa eastward, through India, southeast Asia, and Oceania, to Brazil, where the basic myth is of a dreamlike age of the beginning, where there was neither death nor birth, which, however, terminated when a murder was committed. The body of the victim was cut up and buried. And not only did the food plants on which the community lives arise from those buried parts, but on all who ate of their fruit the organs of reproduction appeared; so that death, which had come into the world through a killing, was countered by its opposite, generation, and the self-consuming thing that is life, which lives on life, began its interminable course....
For the West, however, the possibility of such an egoless return to a state of soul antecedent to the birth of individuality has long since passed away; and the first important stage in the branching off can be seen to have occurred in that very part of the nuclear Near East where the earliest god - kings and their courts had been for centuries ritually entombed: namely Sumer, where a new sense of the separation of the spheres of god and man began to be represented in myth and ritual about 2350 BC. The king, then, was no longer a god, but a servant of the god, his Tenant Farmer, supervisor of the race of human slaves created to serve the gods was unremitting toil. And no longer identity, but relationship, was the paramount concern. Man had been made not to be God but to know, honor, and serve him; so that even the king, who, according to the earlier mythological view, had been the chief embodiment of divinity on Earth, was now but a priest offering sacrifice in tendance to One above - not a god returning to himself in sacrifice to Himself."
[The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology, Joseph Campbell, Ch. 1: Signatures of The Four Great Domains, pg. 4]
gudea hrmm judea. . . seems legit.
Maybe Gudea had some kind of 'autonomous vassal state' status within the Gutians hedgemony - which would explain why Gudea was careful to only call himself governor, even if he operated quite independently.
Sure, may be he and his line kept the cultural core alive to the moment Sumerians could reclaim it all . 🤓
Linguistic quibble: how is it pronounced 'goo-dee-uh' but spelled Gudea instead of Gudia? Something is wrong here.
That's just English buddy
Yeah your right. Based off of what we know about Sumerian, It's pronounced goo-de-ah
@@wombathijs4560 I think it's just a mistake. It's not an English name, and nothing about English phonology should prevent one from saying "goo-day-uh"
Gudea should have been a Lugal,he sounds like he was a truly great and for once peaceful leader of Ancient Mesopotamia.Except against Elam😔
Sorry but your sponsor sounds like the secular capitalistic version of the catholic churches indulgence sheme. Tell us your sins and we will.. Who is doing the work behind these organizations and at what wages?
What if everybody does that? Who will do all the work and where?
Why not reduce your footprint - calculate it.
I like your contend - the more I am surprised.... hmpf
While Wren is one of many companies running a carbon footprint racket, but why take these fools money especially since most of his audience know it’s a racket and will ignore the ad.
@@elliottprats1910 This concernes the subject of integrity more than "gullability"--- at least for my part. You have your view and valid point.
All well though. I was merely surprised about the invideo ad than angry. One has to survive. Still... questionable choice.
l'homme qui se prenait dans le passé et qui continue de se prendre pour dieu...
Un roi dont la symbolique la force et le pouvoir absolu
Genetic kurd
Gutian kingdom
Gudea = Judah/Judea. That's why we have the shepherd kings of the Tribe of Judah such as David and Jesus.
@VanquisherOfTroons He was from the Tribe of Judah and ruled over the Kingdom of Judah, which the Tribe of Benjamin were loyal to.
Sons in law ... Not son in laws. 😁👍
This 'shepherd' story is very interesting ☺️
Gudea : - i.e. 2400...
Nem szép dolog "Sumer - történelmét 2400 - al - a végóráival - kezdeni.
Akkor már , min. 1000 éve létezik... - de, inkább 2 - 3 ezer éve..... - amikor megjelennek az Akkádok , /egy hóditó - semita nép , aki el is pusztitja
azt ... ! /
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Shit all this time I’ve been trying to make my carbon footprint larger!!!
Please do a deeper dive into "the real carbon problem" (hint: it aint us). ...its...
C.H. []. N.A.
The 'laws' of the 'Jubilee Years' in Leviticus seem very similar to Gudea's ideas. Methinks a 'hallowed hebrew' (today known as the genocidal jew) stole Gudea's ideas and now lays claim to them. Just like EVERYTHING the jew claims is theirs.