Ningirsu & His Temple: A 4,000 Year Old Sumerian Tablet revealed

Join us on our trip to see a genuine Sumerian tablet dedicated to an ancient Sumerian warrior god; Ningirsu.
We would like to give a special thanks to the Special Collections team at the John Rylands Library in Manchester for allowing us to view and hold this beautiful tablet.
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[@HistorywithCy]

This video is a five minute masterpiece. I love this more personal style of video...you showing us the tablet, your narration, reading in Sumerian translation and the visuals you present...I just wish that this video was longer! Thanks for showing us all a bit more of the amazing world of Sumerian literature and history!

[@DumuEnki]

This comment means a lot, truly. Thank you so much for your support and longer content is definitely on the cards I just don’t want people to be bored being a smaller creator 😂 stay tuned for more content, thank you Cy!

[@majesticchessjoe]

Well said

[@SameerRAssudani]

Amazing effort, I'm grateful for you and for everyone working on this.

[@DumuEnki]

You’re very welcome, it is our pleasure! Thank you so much. Stay tuned for more!

[@jamesraymond1158]

Excellent. Nice to see something positive about Manchester, too.

[@oxtin5807]

This was a great video thanks for showing I loved it!!!

[@DumuEnki]

Thank you so much! Glad you liked it 🙂

[@crivensro]

Thank you so much for sharing! Very interesting video!

[@DumuEnki]

Thank you!! Glad you liked it 🙏

[@dumudingirenki]

This is fantastic and next level! Thanks for this!

[@DumuEnki]

🙏🙏🙏

[@dbass4973]

now this is some serious archaeological content on YT. cheers, keep it up

[@DumuEnki]

Thank you so much 🙏

[@SephNite]

Fantastic! As someone who loves learning about Lagash and its associated microstate, it warms my heart to see others take an interest and share what they learn!

[@DumuEnki]

Thank you so much!!

[@kingofakkad]

Great

[@DumuEnki]

Thank you!!

[@watchesandcoins.7738]

Amazing lesson. 👏

[@DumuEnki]

Thank you 🙏

[@donaldlococo954]

That experience must have been an honour and a thrill.

[@DumuEnki]

It truly was an incredible experience!!

[@Henrikbuitenhuis]

Amazing video. You got a New Sub from Denmark. I wish you all the Best.

[@DumuEnki]

Thank you so much! Glad you liked it and thanks for subscribing 🙏

[@SJking-gk4go]

Great content, even *Cy* agrees. 💯😇👍

[@DumuEnki]

Thank you so much 🙏 glad you enjoyed it

[@mirceaexagerban3026]

Absolute slay as always king keep it up

[@DumuEnki]

Thank you so much!! Stay tuned for more content soon 🙏

[@fluxpistol3608]

I want this as my iPhone cover

[@joniikonen9944]

100x times better than any of the british museum "explaining"-videos.

[@loopasadge]

Im happy you got to handle the tablet

[@DumuEnki]

Thank you! It was a surreal experience we will never forget!

[@Sharon-yk7xm]

Very nice enjoyable knowlage great work

[@DumuEnki]

Thank you!! Glad you liked the video 😁

[@paulmicelli5819]

Just subscribed, Great Videos!

[@DumuEnki]

Thank you so much 🙏 appreciate it!!

[@TT3TT3]

Very cool.🎉

[@angelstrawn5493]

I was surprised to see you handling the tablet with bare hands. Is Ningirsu wearing a watch? It certainly appears he is. Just want to start some alien conspiracy thing. Great video.

[@DumuEnki]

Due to the robust material of the tablet, no gloves were needed on this occasion. Ningirsu is wearing a Assyrian rosette bracelet - no aliens here 😁 glad you enjoyed the video!!

[@jamesraymond1158]

@@DumuEnki In the following millennia, scholars will also be able to read your DNA on the tablet.

[@SJking-gk4go]

My!! I'm wondering how you figured the sumerians language. That was cool. Lucky to even hold the tablet. 😊

[@DumuEnki]

I've studied sumerian for a few years now, I got started via Digital Hammurabi's online and books series "learn to read ancient sumerian" then went from there 🙏

[@SJking-gk4go]

OK. So to increase subscribers maybe you can also give some basic lessons on your channel.

[@DumuEnki]

@@SJking-gk4go I have included some lessons in my previous videos including the next video coming up! but most of the lessons I do are currently on My Instagram @dumu.enki 😃

[@SJking-gk4go]

@@DumuEnki thanks for reply. I'll check out your other videos. 💯

[@Chris-Martin424]

Ist there a way to find and acquire a digital copy of that book at the beginning!? With the translations and stuff?

[@DumuEnki]

Good question. I'm not too sure actually.

[@benjima100]

i would love to get past my siezures are go and study cuneiform. do most libraries in the uk have cuneiform tablets?

[@DumuEnki]

I’m not 100% sure but if you check the CDLI (cuneiform digital library initiative) it will tell you which collection the cuneiform tablets sit in so you can plan your visit accordingly 🙂

[@benjima100]

@@DumuEnki there's 1 in Exeter but there are 19 in Truro, i'm hopping the border into cornwall it seems, here in devon we only have 1

[@edwardd.484]

Gudea Budah Judea Zeus Jupiter Judah

[@cartoonraccoon2078]

No gloves?!

[@DumuEnki]

Because of the robust material the tablet is made from no gloves were required on this occasion! 🙂

[@hefruth]

What this tablet doesn't tell you is what is transpiring in the city of Lagash, and why Gudea would disguise his sister's direction to build this temple as a dream. Circa 2400 BCE, Egyptians determined that males play a role in pregnancy (which I discuss in detail in my book, Pitiless Bronze: A Postpatriarchal Examination of Prepatriarchal Cultures). Prior to the rise of "strong men" running their cities, Sumerian cities were more egalitarian and held elections for the 2 primary types of leaders in each city--they were still heavily influenced by their previous matriarchal culture wherein the women were the Creators--believing women created new life out of the power of their own bodies and spirits. Women bled every month, they believed, because they fought a war to bring those new souls from Another Realm to This Earthly One--menstruation (the term originates from women's associations with the moon--also fully discussed in my book) was a sign of Female Spiritual Power, which was long considered stronger than men's magical powers (which I also discuss in my book; men were not without magic, but they longed for the protections of menses, so they imitated it with sympathetic magic, what we call circumcision today). However, after procreation was finally proven by the Egyptians, men ran with the idea, believing that their semen (they had no idea it had sperm in it), either clotted the menstrual blood to create a human (a common belief many people around the world held) or actually contained invisible seeds and that women's wombs were mere "fertile fields" for men to plow and plant, thus taking away ALL the spiritual power from women in order to "transcend" women's spiritual status (this concept is still used by many Abrahamic religions today). Gudea could not admit that his sister, a well-educated woman who probably excelled at many things, even weaving and architectural design, had designed the palace (even though we have documents from a little later that show women were kidnapped for the purpose of designing and building a palace for a later king; remember, women were literally the early home-makers, designing homes from hide to wattle and daub to brick), so he claimed a more spiritual connection (just as Sargon of Akkad did when he manufactured his personal back story)--a dream. Being replaced are the female gods, like the all-powerful Inanna, who, like Isis, is demoted and made to appear to have to steal the sacred me from the male god, even though she previously was well known for transmitting the sacred me to humanity through sex in the qursu ritual (mistakenly assumed to be hieros gamus by scholars who always used the patriarchal Greeks as a frame of reference. So, in order to cement Gudea's role as "strong man" in Lagash, he rebuilt Ningirsu's temple, transforming him from an agricultural god to a warrior god, and himself from an elected official to a ruler.

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