"The epic of Gilgamesh' - Ancient Sumerian Song by Peter Pringle

Guy who made and sung the song: / copperleaves
The Epic of Gilgamesh (/ˈɡɪlɡəmɛʃ/) is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia, regarded as the earliest surviving notable literature and the second oldest religious text, after the Pyramid Texts. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Bilgamesh (Sumerian for "Gilgamesh"), king of Uruk, dating from the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100 BC). These independent stories were later used as source material for a combined epic in Akkadian. The first surviving version of this combined epic, known as the "Old Babylonian" version, dates back to the 18th century BC and is titled after its incipit, Shūtur eli sharrī ("Surpassing All Other Kings"). Only a few tablets of it have survived. The later Standard Babylonian version compiled by Sîn-lēqi-unninni dates from the 13th to the 10th centuries BC and bears the incipit Sha naqba īmuru ("He who Saw the Abyss", in unmetaphoric terms: "He who Sees the Unknown"). Approximately two-thirds of this longer, twelve-tablet version have been recovered. Some of the best copies were discovered in the library ruins of the 7th-century BC Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.
The text in Sumerian:
Ud rēa, ud sura rēa
Ngi rēa, ngi bara rēa
Mu rēa mu sura rēa
Ud ul ningduē pa ēaba
Ud ul ningduē mi zid duggaaba
Eš kalammaka ninda šuaba
Imšurinna kalammaka ningtab akaba
An kita badabaraaba
Ki anta badasuraaba
Mu namluulu baangaraaba
The text in English:
In those days, in those distant days
In those nights, in those ancient nights
In those years, in those distant years
In those ancient days all things had been created
In ancient time when all things were given their place
When bread was first tasted in the sacred shrines of the land
When the ovens had been lighted
When the heavens had been separated from the earth
When the earth had been separated from the heavens
When mankind had been established
Guy who made the song: / copperleaves
#sumer

[@kutwor5506]

Text in the description.

[@Seagull0115]

औचुपडुज!

[@dmitritelvanni4068]

I can't read it its not in cuneiform.

[@raja2850]

​@@dmitritelvanni4068 मानवः निर्बुद्धि

[@user-on6ej6gn2x]

Ud rēa ud sira rēa Ngi rēa, ngi bara rēa Mu rēa, mu sura rēa Ud ul ningduē pa ēaba Ud ul ningduē mi zid duggaaba Eš kalammaka ninda šuaba Imšurinna kalammaka ningtap akaba An kita badabaraaba Ki anta badasuraaba etc etc

[@user-on6ej6gn2x]

Mu namluulu baangaraaba

[@echoesmourn3108]

One of the oldest songs known to mankind talks about "the old days". Humans have been suffering from nostalgia since day 1.

[@beepIL]

We are in truth just yearning for the beautiful naive times of childhood, where the worries of the world were spared from us, those naturally were "the good days" not because they were actually good days, but because they were OUR good days, and when we grow old we will always yearn for that feeling of naive security and simplicity. This is why no matter where you are and when you are, you will feel this feeling of nostalgia, all were kids, and all eventually grow up.

[@Kira1Lawliet]

@@beepIL What's really funny is, you're right, but you don't know how right. The text this song comes from, "The Epic of Gilgamesh," dates to around 2000 BCE, based on earlier Sumerian stories that go back a few centuries earlier. But the actual oldest text we have on record is called "The Instructions of Shuruppak," a wisdom text from Mesopotamia dated to about 2600 BCE, and the opening line of that text also goes "in those days, in those far off days; in those times, in those far remote times..." So yes, humans have never stopped catching the nostalgia bug.

[@pedroaleb]

I dont think you are wrong but i believe that is a different kind of "old days" then the nostalgic one. It seems he is talking about the creation of the world rather then a recorded time in wich his ancestors lived or he lived and misses

[@Skeditx95]

Imagine them saying in those old days, will justify how far far we came. By far I meant billions of years brothers

[@jimmyjasi-]

I love this theory that Sumerians were descendents of hunter gatherers from land that vanished 5000BC at the end of Ice Age at the bottom of Persian Gulf. That's how the Noe Flood myth originated! Genetics backs it. No Indian DNA found in Marsh Arabs of the región so far.

[@Herobrineminecraft-return]

Ea-nasir sells the worst Copper never buy from him

[@joebaumgart1146]

He's a bigger scam than Established Titles!

[@equilibrum999]

but Ae-Risan sells good quality bronze, trust him.

[@PerplexPlays]

@mczhongli9912of course you'd like it cheap, zhongli

[@Daizz009]

​mczhongli9912 Quality over quantity

[@TrueFork]

extremely rude too, abused my servant. Terrible shopping experience!

[@artemisarrow179]

You know a story is old when bread is a recently new invention

[@hansglauberzehn]

That's funny

[@unnot5706]

​@@hansglauberzehn thank you Michael De Santa

[@hansglauberzehn]

@@unnot5706 no problem

[@-ICITRONSI-]

you can tell that bread is really old because even 5000 years ago they still said "back when bread was first eaten"

[@Aly_Son.2000]

0:43 That timeless drop

[@battadia]

UD RĒĒĒĒĒĒĒĒĒĒĒĒĒĒĒĒĒĒĒĒĒA

[@Pufferfish1805]

FACTS

[@kenneth27205]

thanks

[@mushroomy9899]

beat hit harder than the fall of sumer

[@BepisMogus]

​@@battadia UD SUUUUUUUUUURA REEEEEEEA

[@TherapistThe_rapist]

When he said "𒌓𒉿𒂊𒀀", I really felt that and broke into tears.

[@kutwor5506]

If this world had more ud rēa, it would be easier for people to live 🥹

[@rubber_face8410]

Oh hey bro! Remember than one time me and 𒉿𒉿𒂊𒀀 went camping and you 𒌓𒉿𒉿𒂊𒉿𒂊𒀀𒀀 with his 𒀀𒉿

[@jaxsgarbagedisposal3258]

@@rubber_face8410 ha! I remember that, but remember when he 𒀉𒀊𒀀 𒀌?

[@debizancio307]

​@@rubber_face8410 enserio, como carajos escribo así.

[@TherapistThe_rapist]

​@@debizancio307 Busca "letras en sumerio" y deberia estar unas de esas letras para copiar y pegar

[@macario1885]

"When you're happy, you enjoy the music. But when you're sad, you understand the lyrics".

[@OneTrueVikingbard]

2:37

[@Jasmixd]

Damn, could've just get sad instead of taking all that time to learn the language smh

[@محمد_حبيب_الله]

𐏓𒆸𒆸𒁇 𒁇𒆸𒆸𒐞𒐕𒐖𒋝 𒈦𒀼𒉽𒈦😢

[@muntathr_g6830]

You'd even understand the old dead language lyrics

[@thememester1190]

Memes aside, there's something unsettling about the most ancient civilization we know any surviving record of having songs speaking of times that were distant and ancient to them.

[@M4th3u54ndr4d3]

The song is about the creation of the world. The primordial chaos (Tiamat and Absu) were defeated, the heavens were separated from earth, and men were created.

[@gourdguru]

@@M4th3u54ndr4d3 also the dawn of man. “when bread had first been tasted(bread=grain. it speaks of the invention of agriculture), when the ovens were first made alight(the discovery and harnessing of fire)." "When mankind had been established(not born, not created, but *established* , as in a civilization/kingdom, it eludes to man's first thriving collectively)" all you're missing is mention of the invention of the wheel.

[@IAmAlpharius20]

​@@gourdguru proof? This is just baseless conjecture.

[@pegasus_2137]

​@@IAmAlpharius20it's literally in the lyrics

[@IAmAlpharius20]

@@pegasus_2137 its depicting Sumerian mythology, lol. This guy is just making assumptions

[@pioxgames7132]

when hittite jumpscares you 0:42

[@sialmeckerjr]

AUHHGGGGAAGGUUUOOOHH!!!!

[@throwfascistsintopits3062]

my reaction: 2:37

[@glassbottlemenacesyou8323]

My honest reaction 2:38

[@idsfxtm5759]

More like when Sea People Start pillaging your nation

[@nikkofish7105]

𒄩

[@zach415]

This song is about the transition from hunter-gatherer culture into a more agricultural one. The lines “when bread had first been tasted, when the ovens were first made alight” kinda already gives it away. But think of how crazy that is. The Sumerians to us are about 5000 years old. Modern agriculture is estimated to be about 10,000 years old. So these people are singing about something that is nearly as old to them as they are to us. Meaning that, if Gilgamesh was a real person person, it would be like us keeping a record of the founder of ancient Sumer, which as far as I know we don’t have.

[@carlosfrog5090]

The historical Gilgamesh has been estimated to have lived somewhere between 2800 BCE and 2500 BCE.

[@zach415]

@@carlosfrog5090 interesting. Then again he might not have been a real person at all. We’ll never know

[@carlosfrog5090]

@@zach415 It’s hard to say exactly, as his reign is estimated to have occurred over 4500 years ago, so even if he is an historical figure, many details have probably been lost. That said, most historians do believe that he was a real historical person. There’s an inscription that seems to refer to him from his own time, so most probably he was a real person.

[@zach415]

@@carlosfrog5090 interesting. Could you send me that inscription? I would like to learn more

[@carlosfrog5090]

@@zach415 The Wikipedia article on Gilgamesh mentions the inscription in a section about the historical figure and links to a book on the subject. To read the book all you have to do is create a free account. I haven’t gone through the entire book, but I believe it should be in there.

[@Republic_Of_Vicoria_Official]

Only 3000 BC kids will remember this song.

[@Republic_Of_Vicoria_Official]

It was a joke, calm down!!

[@Aiesh_Lyrics]

Im from 3020 BC. And i must say, This song was a banger in 3000 BC.

[@shodan2002]

Good old days

[@yesseru]

As a 5,350,000 BC kid, I really related to this.

[@zarakdurrani7584]

​@@yesseru do you identify as a coelacanth?

[@aMbAtUkAm-69420]

we learned about Rome was our ancient time, Roman people learned about Sumer was their ancient time, and even Sumerian people had a song their ancient time

[@user-bs1lr8nx1h]

about the time after the ice age and great flooding

[@diansc7322]

the Romans actually never knew that Sumer existed

[@hassanalkhalaf1115]

​@@diansc7322 did they have a sense of the past?

[@diansc7322]

@@hassanalkhalaf1115 yep, there are tons of histories made by Romans, like Diodorus Siculus or St Jerome and Eusebius of Caesarea

[@user-vu1lb6qb3z]

Mu the land under the waves of the coast of Queensland. When all we had was our word. Yes in there.

[@JeevesAnthrozaurUS]

I know it's been noted that Sumerians were ancient to the Romans who are ancient to us, but consider this: To the people who spoke Akkadian, the language the epic of Gilgamesh was composed in, Sumerian was to them what Latin is to us, an ancient dead language of high prestige in religious and scholarly circles

[@victorhugofranciscon7899]

Just to point out that the last Sumerian texts discovered were from 100 AD/CE, the language survived for likely 4000 years of scholar/religious use.

[@user4241]

Don't forget that, someday, we'll be the ancient ones.

[@PHEONIX881]

@@user4241 and someday english will be latin to future people

[@scoopish2880]

@@user4241 fingers crossed

[@KickBAc3]

Keep in mind that the comparison is even more great when Romans were much more recent to us compared to how ancient Sumerian was to the Romans.

[@SMH55]

The fact that these people were as foreing and ancient to the Romans as the Romans are to us visualises how long ago this rly was

[@scott-gaming.8834]

Elaborate

[@sexyxavier]

@@scott-gaming.8834 The romans viewed them as ancient, and now we view the romans as ancient.

[@jorgedeanoperez2997]

There was a Babylonian king from the Neo-Babylonian Empire, if memory serves, that was regarded as the first archeologist of human history. Imagine what must have been ancient for that man, who himself was ancient for the Greeks and they in turn for us

[@equilibrum999]

@@jorgedeanoperez2997 and he also was tke last Lugal[king] of Babylon

[@pezequilibradohace5anos538]

@@jorgedeanoperez2997 He probably found Obama’s last name

[@billyvue98]

I guess Gilgamesh did become immortal just not the way he wanted.

[@ali-haider5788]

Actually if you read the story in the end he knew he will be immortal if he did great things but immortal in people's mind

[@Kaibutsu_lol]

WE GETTING OUT OF MESOPOTAMIA WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@verycoolperson46]

WE GETTING OUT OF THE FERTILE CRESCENT WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@pureconfuzion]

are you sure??? cuz Mesopotamia is where every gangsta wants to be

[@walangchahangyelingden8252]

Time to move to 𒈨𒈛𒄩𒆠 (Meluhha).

[@SonOfIrak]

Deja Vu

[@me_12-vw1vi]

@@pureconfuzionshout out to my boy Hammurabi, the OG, keeping the hoes in check with those tablet laws

[@abrissimon914]

2:37 greatest drop in human history

[@Yuhanna._]

When you realize that the oldest epic begins with "in those ancient days"

[@ali-haider5788]

Giving how long iraq history is then its understandable The Neanderthals lived in iraq for more than 85000 years then the first people in the world to start farming were in iraq some 12000 years ago then real cities showed up in iraq like uruk since 7000 years ago when rest of the world still dont even know how to farm And only only few villages showed in the world Then a whole civilization started in iraq wich is sumer 6000 years ago when the world just started to build small cities Then the first empire akkadian empire showed in iraq when the world just started to get civilized Then babylon was built wich is the greatest city the world had ever seen Even 1000 years after it was founded when the persians controled it they were stunned by the city and made it their capital and after it alexander took the city and was even more amazed by the city and also made it his capital for a short time and wantsd to die in it and he did die in it And even after 1000 years from that the arabs came around and built amazing cities beside it and even built baghdad near it wich was the greatest city of its time It show you how rich iraq history is but those poor people went through so many wars they lost every thing

[@chimpkinglich1637]

I see so many people scared at the sumerians speaking of even more ancient times, to me that just ads to the beauty of this piece, we really are an amazing species

[@cyborgk269]

Whats incredible is that if All of earths history was in 1 year, we as a species wouldn't appear until December 31st, at 10:50PM, Which means only 70 minutes before the new year.

[@goldenbard]

@@cyborgk269 damn bruh why you gotta fuck my day up 😂

[@cyborgk269]

@@goldenbard because funny

[@goldenbard]

@@cyborgk269 wait so how does the actual "timeline" look in terms of percentages

[@cyborgk269]

@@goldenbard I dont really remember.. lmao

[@fiineur]

The first season of Humanity was truly amazing. Some say that it's a shame that because of low budget they made this instant ending, but we all should agree that it gives just enough mysteriousness to it and it works just perfectly.

[@adamgoldbein3105]

Yeah I was really hyped when everybody started to use Bronze weapons but then the authors just wrote in a bunch of "sea peoples" (they never explain where they're actually from) to destroy everything the series was building up to :/

[@kutwor5506]

They just got bored and wanted to end the season and done it in a most banal way :(

[@That_Mazzini_Fan]

It was super sad when they killed off the Mammoths tho

[@impyrobot]

@@adamgoldbein3105 >Sea people pull up >Raze the bronze age city states to ground >Refuses to elaborate

[@serkxneo8293]

yeah even though it lacked in the action departemant compared to the prequel:Dinosaurs ,that feeling of unknown lore to explore and discover is really what made this first season interesting

[@genokugel]

This is definitely me when I deliver my best offerings to the temple of Ishtar only to receive the worst harvest I've ever had in my life

[@doctorhunger921]

Real

[@a2zz-gk197]

Only for some guy named Abraham to say that all the gods are fake, and that he is a patriarch of a new nation, but that silly man is old, he can’t have any kids! Anyways last I heard he’s in Harran getting visions from his God

[@extremely.hung.individual2693]

Upon the name of Ashdod and Ahdod, life just gives us one blow after another.

[@BasileosHerodou]

You try too hard, and she can tell

[@user-pv2fz6wm2g]

maybe go west? ive heard of some tales of her in greece

[@JohnMonkee]

“Ud rēa” It hit so hard fr 😭😭

[@sig2536]

Fascinating. This song is basically describing the transition from hunter-gatherer society to the very first farmers.

[@M4th3u54ndr4d3]

No guys, the song is about the creation of the world. You guys need to read the Enuma Elish. The primordial chaos (Tiamat and Absu) were defeated, the heavens were separated from earth, and humans were created. And bread was one of the first man-made foods

[@mggentry]

@@M4th3u54ndr4d3two things can be true

[@M4th3u54ndr4d3]

@@mggentry not in this case

[@gourdguru]

@@M4th3u54ndr4d3 *"not in this case"* yes, in this case. it's a poetic scriptural text, do you really think that they aren't using double meaning and symbolic prose? get some better reading skills. the author is USING the topics of the formation of the heavens and of man's move toward civilization as literary tools for setting the time period he's speaking of for the story about to be told, a time period in the past just after the creation myth occurs, and using significant events to frame the rough time period he's talking about for the reader: "in ancient days(long ago), when heaven and earth were first parted(at the creation of the cosmos), when man first tasted bread(IE, we harvested grain, IE agriculture), when the ovens were first lit(when fire was first discovered/harnessed), when man was first established(not born/made, but established/founded, like a tribe, or a civilization)" the greater text may be expounding on the creation myth and the events immediately thereafter, but the verses quoted here are using the creation of the world and man's first discovering fire and agriculture as bookends to set the stage and frame the time period he's talking about as essentially being after the creation and before/concurrent with the dawn of mankind.

[@iqmi_3]

​@@M4th3u54ndr4d3it's actually amazing how sumerian myth about creation of the humanity is kinda similar to the transformation gatherer -> farmer

[@SeagullEnjoyer]

Truly a certified Iltam Zumra rashupti Ilatim moment.

[@dummlp]

I can't not say that with a German accent

[@giorgospapoutsakis5271]

Iltam sumra rashputi ilatim,itali belet ishi labit igigi Ishtam sumra rashputi ilatim itali belet nishi labit igigi

[@kutwor5506]

Asbat šarrāqānam ina ālim

[@Lance14470]

Ud rēa

[@UH-60_Blackhawk]

tf happened in this section 💀

[@GodpraisethePALANTINE]

I loved the 𒂗𒈨𒅕𒃸 part. And the drop by the 𒂊𒉡𒈠​𒂊𒇺​𒆷​𒈾𒁍𒌑​𒃻𒈠𒈬​𒉺𒅁𒇺​𒄠𒈠𒌈 made me feel great!

[@69isaverysillynumber]

We making it out of Uruk with this one 🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯🗣️🗣️

[@bullabuck7535]

when we young, we enjoy the song, when we old, we understand its lyrics

[@2ndcomingofFritz]

So you automatically understand sumerian when you turn 18? Damn, can’t wait

[@user-cm6lg5eo9x]

@@2ndcomingofFritz It wasn’t literal. Also, 18 is far from old.

[@cosmichorizon3273]

He was joking​@@user-cm6lg5eo9x

[@Gilgamesh_King_Of_Uruk]

This brings back so many memories...

[@rehanfamaandmama8895]

😂

[@BrazilianDaftPunkFan]

Love Sumeria from Brazil 🇧🇷 hope we get more relations in the far future!

[@lethalkillazz]

💀

[@abdullahchhab2325]

Syria and Iraq are the successor nations. We love you back.

[@alrinzxvbr6425]

Bro forgor that sumeria existed 4000 years ago or something idk im stupid

[@makutas-v261]

@@abdullahchhab2325 Love Iraq from México ❤❤ one struggle.

[@giorgioandreatini7332]

​@@abdullahchhab2325 there's no mesopotamic blood there. Too much time has passed and, even more important, the arabs

[@pezequilibradohace5anos538]

“In those distant years” Bro, you’re as distant as it gets.

[@Spingerex]

Lol

[@anxiousseal556]

If we go back more we’ll be at Table of Contents

[@dungeontnt]

The story is as distant for them as they are for us

[@willowthesily672]

this civilisation started 9500 years ago humans evolved 200000 years ago

[@TomfooleryOfTheTrolls]

@@anxiousseal556that was the creation of the universe

[@licro4792]

This unironically sounds better than most modern music

[@jaimar_99]

So true!!

[@محمد_حبيب_الله]

Agree

[@Tachi778]

It's actually amazing how few words they needed to make such a complicated description, especially at 1:59 and 2:09

[@kutwor5506]

Yeah, that's because of the Sumerian grammar. And because Sumerian agglutinative and ergative language.

[@pit2992]

"Badabaraaba"

[@billb.3503]

I wonder what the least wordy language is still used today..

[@niapsievil7002]

​@@billb.3503 Probably greenlandic

[@user-vz2fj4wq7d]

Latin can do that too using its ablative case

[@SeverinHawkland7855]

This song has such an ancient feeling to it. The deep past feels like a place far away, so alien and scary in a way. The ancient Greeks are as ancient to the Romans as the Romans are to us, and the neolithic civilizations are as ancient to the ancient Greeks and the ancient Greeks are to us. If I went back to the bronze age or earlier, I think it would feel like being far far away from home. Like I was so far away I had no connection to it. Like I was on another planet, in another solar system.

[@SkaG1997]

That hits hard bro... Just imagining that this story is nearly as old as our civilization is just mind-blowing

[@Da_King_o_yamom]

and keep in mind the story itself takes place in times that were ancient even to them like stories from the very beginning of agricultural society

[@helloimskip]

WE'RE GETTING OUT OF HUNTING-GATHERING WITH THIS ONE 🥶🥶🥶🗣️🗣️🗣️🙏🙏🙏

[@GuntherRommel]

You're doing Gilgamesh's work here, friend. Thank you very much.

[@kutwor5506]

I'm not the author or a singer. You better check out the original video, link in the description. I just made video with lyrics, that you could sing along.

[@GuntherRommel]

@@kutwor5506 oh no, I know Peter Pringle did this. I just couldn't figure out the lyrics to sing it myself; this is an awesome resource for self teaching!

[@kutwor5506]

@@GuntherRommel Oh, okay. Thanks :)

[@dmslidecancel]

I can’t wait for Hollywood to discover the Epic of Gilgamesh so the Rock can play Gilgamesh and they can cast Kevin Hart as the minatour

[@magyarorszaguszofiu9945]

Simply Amazing! This song makes me think of an old man from long ago on his deathbead reflecting on his life and the old times before he became a part of time itself.

[@Boone69]

Ezzel 100% egyetértek

[@salamander5865]

A dog walks into a bar. He says “I can not see anything! I’ll grab that one.” Had me rolling 😂 edit 𐎨 𐎫𐎮𐎵𐎤 𐎢𐎧𐎤𐎤𐎽𐎤 🤩🤯😇

[@bblunder]

In ancient times that was the best thing they can find

[@theamorphousflatsch2699]

The correct translation is: A dog walks into a bar and says: "I can't see a thing" Maybe he should open his eyes.

[@salamander5865]

@@theamorphousflatsch2699 thanks ! My buddy in ur will be rolling in his grave when I tell him this version ! 😂🤣😄

[@arifahmedkhan9999]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Fr fr lmao!

[@pavelgrulich2989]

𐎨 𐏂𐎮𐎮 𐎫𐎨𐎪𐎤 𐎢𐎧𐎤𐎤𐎽𐎤

[@ForestWizardLookingForPotion]

Peter Pringle is an ASTONISHINGLY GOOD singer. His control is insane.

[@goonsquad8258]

Of course a fellow roach dogg jr would have excellent taste

[@PatroitSongChannel]

when they said "𒌑 𒀀𒄿𒅗 𒄫𒄑 𒌑 𒌫 𒆠" it chills me up

[@august_astrom]

Homines Sapientes have been around for hundreds of thousands of years regardless what estimates you use; as ancient as we see the Sumerians, there must have been whole worlds of music and culture for thousands of years before them that were just totally lost to time, and we only hear echoes of them through songs like this.

[@Honorable_Judge_Mental]

Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe, for starters, predate the Sumerians.

[@fLaMe427]

Nice touch

[@porothashawarma2339]

@@Honorable_Judge_Mental brother you are on the path to opening your eyes

[@lilemont9302]

@@Honorable_Judge_Mental Gobelki Tepe was more ancient to the Sumerians than the Sumerians are to us. It was more ancient even to Gilgamesh, going by the assumptions that there is a true historical kernel that would place him in the Early Dynastic period, than Gilgamesh is to us. However, even to the inhabitants of Gobelki Tepe, those distant days when bread was first tasted in the sacred shrines of the land, were as ancient as classical ancient Greece is to us. For two-thirds of their history, bread-eaters were absolutely illiterate. Only phantoms of their tales, in poems here and there, remain.

[@kourii]

I won't pretend I didn't enjoy that Latin plural

[@cottbdbdbbd]

"what kind of music you listen to?" "it's complicated..."

[@haruspexambient]

2:37 the oldest jumpscare

[@Freedom_iwant]

☠️ wtf😂😂😂

[@VideoGamingSociety]

I swear, this is exactly what happened 7000 years ago.

[@kutwor5506]

6.000*

[@katzestuff]

i cried when he said "𒃲𒄭𒀀𒅖"

[@SirJack-lr3vm]

There is a phrase in mexican spanish: el año del caldo. It literally means "during the soup age" and is used to describe a very distant past in an ironic way. The song makes me remeber this idiom.

[@overpricedhealthcare]

"soup age", reminds me of the primordial soup

[@fellowbalkaner09]

In Albania we have a similar phrase that means “ in the onion age”. There is a more vulgar variant that means “in the fart age”. I swear to God i’m not making this up

[@gourdguru]

now you got me wondering where the phrase came from. like, is it a reference to the primordial soup? is it a reference to when mexico was under direct spanish oppression and the mexican peasantry were idk struggling to survive off of gruel and low quality stews? is it a play on words in spanish that just doesn'tcarry over well to english?

[@SirJack-lr3vm]

@@gourdguru The spanish never opressed the mexicans

[@SirJack-lr3vm]

@@gourdguru Mexico was born from Spain

[@jellyshonagon]

this hits hard when you're staring into the sunset/sunrise.

[@lennertplayz]

when you hand a sumerian person the aux cord:

[@alconomic476]

Vintage meme bro. I dig it like I dig for Sumerian clay tablets.

[@artisticsyrian]

when bro said *“𒌨 𒋻 𒁀 𒋻”*, i felt that 🙏

[@SpartanJoe193]

Damn. You know you've made an impact when even people 5000 years later sing this banger.

[@Kyle_Broflowski1997]

I mean thats the literal first song known to humanity

[@SpartanJoe193]

​@@Kyle_Broflowski1997We sang songs before this.

[@sondaaahhhh]

I remember when I turned 16 and finally came of age in 2150 B.C. My friend Manishtushu and I went out to Urak by horse for three days. Then some guy named Naram-Sim was on a stage and before he preformed, he said "𒀭𒈾𒊏𒄠𒀭𒂗𒍪 𒈠𒀭𒅖𒌅𒋢𒊬𒊒𒄀" Which really touched me. Then he sang this song. My friend, Manishtushu was killed in battle ☹. Those were the days.

[@kutwor5506]

I hope your friend can rest in peace now 🙏

[@sondaaahhhh]

@@kutwor5506 Thank you

[@johnxina5126]

Naram-Sim? You met Sargon's grandson? Sargon of Akkad was a great friend of mine, we used to play football together as kids, was a great lad

[@sondaaahhhh]

​@@johnxina5126indeed.

[@hellomoto2084]

You all are delusional , when I was the plumber at Chernobyl , a great light appeared on horizon . It was real .you all are delusional

[@venmis137]

I can't believe that Mr Pringle made a song in Sumerian. First he invents one of the most popular snacks in the world, now this. The man is truly talented.

[@villagernumber7882]

There's just something about that part at 1:32 I just really like.

[@kutwor5506]

The part he is, I don't know, "clicking"? This part is in this timecode is unique and very interesting.

[@the.n.1]

@@kutwor5506 it's what ء would sound like in arabic

[@kutwor5506]

@@the.n.1 Yeah, we have same sound in Russian too by the way. But only in one word, lol. Неа (N'e-a) which is one of the forms to say no. This connection between E and A is this sound.

[@dustinweaver9135]

Man when he said "𒀆 𒀋𒀙𒃰 𒄐𒄑" I felt that.

[@ghoulzngunz3320]

Straight up copy and pasted mine 😂

[@user-ux8dm3zo8t]

Это просто великолепно, я часто возвращаюсь чтобы послушать это снова

[@user-ok7sq1cg5q]

After another 4000 years, someone will sing about us like this.

[@FriendwithNoName7]

I doubt humans will exist another 4000 years. At the time of the epic of Gilgamesh they thought of the global flood as literal history wich happened about 2000 years before that. The Jews and many other cultures saw it as history aswell. If we look at it according to their history we are about 6000 years after the global flood and according to jewish and sumerian mythology the God created the earth in 6 days and rested on the 7th day. This could all be metaphorical according to their ancient calenders, they must have known something we don't and according to them our world should end in the next 1000 years.

[@BlueNades1]

​​@@FriendwithNoName7you think if there was a huge ass flood that covered the ENTIRE EARTH in water, we wouldn't find anything supporting that theory? The thing about religions is that there is a lot of evidence proving it's bollocks, and none at all proving it's not

[@IAmAlpharius20]

​@@BlueNades1 ah yes, "evidence". Evidence that strangely doesn't seem to be needed when Atheists talk about evolution 😂

[@BlueNades1]

@@IAmAlpharius20 tf? We have plenty of evidence supporting evolution is a thing

[@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45]

0:42 Hittite jumpscare

[@UntitledJAY_1Q]

Memes aside, there's something in this song. It sounds soothing and cozy, its like a listening to a guy next to campfire as you are preparing to sleep.

[@FlorenciaOrteza]

Literally video game music when you enter an ancient place/entering a desert/entering an arab country:

[@artisticsyrian]

BRO THIS IS LITERALLY HOLLYWOOD 😭😭😭😭

[@sheenapearse766]

Haunting and ethereal. Love it

[@canadadoesnotexist]

The fact that this got popular due to Bronze Age Shitposts is a testament to the cyclical nature of the world.

[@nulsn]

WE GETTIN' OUT OF SUMER EMPIRE WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥

[@verylostdoommarauder]

I find it fascinating how literally the oldest surviving written narrative starts with talking about "the old days". It's solid evidence that nostalgic bias is baked into us on some level.

[@trafficlover74]

0:43 certified ud rēa moment

[@mcdonaldsboy33]

David Dorito when Peter Pringle walks in:

[@mikhailreznik6364]

This is fucking beatiful

[@pinksheep406]

This song is 4000 years old yet is about a time when bread was introduced and ovens were becoming common place more than 8000 years ago.

[@Whiter99]

1:33 bro snapped💀😭

[@gagstik4916]

WE MAKING MASSIVE AGRICULTURAL DISCOVERIES WITH THIS ONE 🗣️‼️🌾

[@محمد_حبيب_الله]

"So what kind of music do you listen to?" "Uhh.. it's complicated"

[@aleksanderuzelac3319]

So haunting, in a good way

[@varunsriram286]

Kind of an emotional song ngl. I wonder what life was like back then. Everyone saying they wanna live in the 20s or 30s or 50s but real ones wanna live in 2000 BC

[@jamkikiki]

It's 2024 and I am still stuck in Ud rēa, ud sura rēa.

[@BruceForte]

Weird sappy comment to make, but listening to this and thinking about the implications regarding having access to this music made me feel a particular sensation very strongly; I love being a human. I don't have words for how special it is to share some invisible connection with all of you, and every human who came before. We really are something special.

[@user-up7nb6id1f]

This hit so hard

[@glennskriegangob8652]

Those people from 5,000 years ago sings about the ancient times, a very ancient and very distant time..... I wonder what happened on those very ancient time that the song is saying.

[@N3gativeR3FLUX]

The song is most likely talking about both the creation of the world in their mythology and the creation of agriculture. More than over 8000 years ago.

[@Minerva_88_]

The first poems that talk about Gilgamesh were written around the year 2,100 BC, during the period known as the Sumerian Renaissance. This period began after the collapse of the Akkadian Empire and was the peak of the Sumerian civilization, under the hegemony of the city of Ur. But only a few fragments remain from this time. The Sumerians, instead of compiling the entire epic in a single document, separated it into multiple different poems. The first document that compiles the entire story of Gilgamesh in a single text was written around the year 1,300 BC, that is, 800 years later, already during the time of the Assyrian Empire. Between the first written poems and the first unified epic of Gilgamesh, the First Babylonian Empire was born and died and subsequently the wars occurred between the Kassites and Assyrians for control of Mesopotamia. It was a very turbulent period, and it is very possible that some of those poems were lost and that when the unified version was created, already in the Assyrian Empire, some poems were not taken into account. The epic of Gilgamesh has many gaps that we still need to resolve by finding new written tablets. The number of verses we know from this epic has tripled since 1900. There is still much to discover about the incredible story of Gilgamesh.

[@Daniell482]

0:42 best part

[@AsylumDaemon]

Türkçe çeviri / Turkish translation Ud rēa >O günlerde Ud sura rēa >O uzak günlerde Ngi rēa >O gecelerde Ngi bara rēa >O eski gecelerde Mu rēa >O yıllarda Mu sura rēa >O uzak yıllarda Ud ul ningduē pa ēaba >Her şeyin yaratıldığı o eski günlerde Ud ul ningduē mi zid duggaaba > Her şeye yerinin bahşedildiği o eski zamanlarda Eš kalammaka ninda šuaba >Ekmek, topraklarımızın kutlu mabetlerinde ilk kez tadıldığında Imšurinna kalammaka ningtab akaba > Fırınlar yakıldığında An kita badabaraaba > Gök, yerden ayrıldığında Ki anta badasuraaba > Yer, gökten ayrıldığında Mu namluulu baangaraaba > İnsanlık kurulduğunda

[@vitorrodrigoferreiracosta5898]

Uma bela melodia que felizmente venceu a prova do tempo e chegou a nós.

[@ynk69]

This is a certified Uruk classic

[@hartingtherealone]

To think that most likely before the sumerians, there was so much stuff happening around the world, which we only have mere snippets of, is scary...so much knowledge lost forever...

[@IAmAlpharius20]

Whaddya mean, lost? The Bible has it all written down! (Shameless Christian plug)

[@amirx-yk3yc]

فقط آن جا که دو دوست دست هم دیگه رو گرفتند💔♥️

[@Busson_0]

That was the coldest Ud rēa in my life🥶...

[@jonde3]

I literally have no idea why sumerian memes are getting popular but im glad

[@kingneptune4200]

A timeless classic

[@harveymogarawanderingfilip5318]

I always asked to myself when I see something about Sumeria: "What if Sumerians were still around today?"

[@Ali-aliraqi7000]

If you mean by continuing the culture and language, then yes, they did not continue, and if you mean by continuing the ethnicity, then they are still continuing

[@altoidss10]

atleast we still have Assyrians

[@lewakar]

​@@altoidss10 all we need as if Arabs and Turks let them independence

[@37boy60]

well, there is a theory that Turks originate from Sumerians and it does have some validity

[@unionist6668]

@@37boy60, lo wtf 💀

[@rn5896]

I’ve heard people saying that this poem is about humans transitioning from hunter gatherer societies, to agricultural ones. But this raises a question for creation myths, could other creation myths, like genesis be similar? imagine the fall of Adam and Eve, not being literal, but figurative. It makes perfect sense, humans gained forbidden knowledge, like the cognitive revolution.

[@thenablade858]

The Fall of Adam and Eve, which may have been partially influenced by the myth of Pandora, might be an attempt to explain the problem of evil, human mortality and why women suffer from severe pain in childbirth/pregnancy complications. Also, why snakes look weird.

[@lukabaratashvili8984]

@@thenablade858 Dont know, even though you have added "may" the actions of those two stories may be drastically different and were just tied to a single motif of curiosity killed the cat. As a Christian myself, i believe it was a rule from God to test his creations, and pandora was simply a show of how curiosity affects a person, even if they know it might hurt them, idk if i reworded this it would be roughly the same but to each their own, thanks for the food for thought!

[@M1NTlSH]

Man what a banger cant wait for the next album

[@TakahashiRyosuke13137]

It blew my mind to know how old Akkadian is as a language, around the year 500 A.D the language was already in desuse. The Romans were very recent as a civilization by then.

[@johnxina5126]

What is even crazier is that for someone like Sargon of Akkad(2000BC) Gilgamesh is about as ancient as Jesus Christ (pbuh) is to us! To furthee this perspective, for Christ(pbuh) Sargon is as close to him as you and I to him. Even then Gilgamesh predates Sargon by about 2 thousand years!

[@new_swabia]

I really felt when he said "ud rēa",A very meaningful word with a very deep meaning 🥲

[@fahidlangs9266]

Mesopotamia never dies 🇮🇶🇸🇾 Uruk -> Iraq & Assyria -> Syria ❤️

[@tninryo6785]

أخواته هي العراق فقط

[@s_40]

​@@tninryo6785ابو جاسم باع سوريا يمر بيه نهر الفرات يعني هم تعتبر من ضمن بلاد مابين النهرين

[@tninryo6785]

لا شمال سوريا من أصول عراقية مثل دير الزور و الحسكة و الرقة أخي هذة تاريخ العراق فقط@@s_40

[@flyingPower97]

Mesopotamia is the land of the two rivers aka modern day Iraq

[@SeeASquaRE]

0:43 When you ask people about the pre-covid times.

[@stalker4474]

WE ARE GETTING OUT OF MESOPOTAMIA WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@bibekkarmakar5541]

I get a chill everytime hearing this song.....😢

[@SonOfIrak]

and here laides and gentleman the revoulation of music begins

[@studentube4309]

when he said 𐎥𐎹 𐎿𐎧, I really felt that

[@Jpnotmyname]

got hold of school speaker system......bout to sell all the copper on full blast.

[@Kira1Lawliet]

All the Bronze Age shitposting memes aside, this is actually a really beautiful song.

[@TiMaEv-d5u]

As for me, this is amazing ancient song;)

[@kutwor5506]

Same :)