It was an excllant book. Being a translation, what i can confim is the content is what I sogh and the translations were excellant.
What is more intersting is the reason I bough it was I was searching and found book by autodidacts relating theories of hte dark gods being alens, which being skeptical, I keep and open mind ubt tend towards not agreing so I go this book to read p on scholarly work. It was printed originally around 1913 or so, I can't remember exactly and had many reprints, upto 1970 or so, but it states in the 1941 reprint intro that, all the works in the book, man incomplete or fragmented, were now complete and t expexct in hte next year a new volume with the complete works of creation myths in their complete form from the DIg in Ur I beleive by the University of Penn.
But no such book was ever printed and books on Sumeria by academia are scarce and all very old predating 1945 or so, and even the Librarry at university of Penn idn't offer the books of new translations, but perhaps I didin't look.
What was interesting i s that the only place on the net any related translations from digs were avaialble was the University of Ocford, which had only a shot intro on the works found in the Penn Dig in circa 1870, and hte oxford site lost its funding in 1996 or so and it was a site that made it difficult and tedious to download the material.
Its bery much as if, acadamia was for some reason pressured to keep Quiet.
Of course the reason I don't beleive are due t o aliens, but that, if one is familiar with world myth, philosophy and religions one sees that, Sumeria may be the root source reeligon from which alal others evolved with some variance as, usually there are always singularities. But, to me it seemed that, Sumeria, from studiying related texts, in a way, jeopardized the authenticity fo veracity of the claims of relgions that are important to nations, as relgion is an aid to nationalism, and in etraining people and develping a culture that is docile and also it, as it I beleive is known that COnstantine's original vsion of In Hoc Vince and the sun god, was not of Christ but a form of apollo, who has similar traits, but that, it, well Socrates in Critias and TImeas mentions, or n those writings it is mentioned that basically the greek msteries to the higher initiates were utterly monistic and the mths were anologies and a sort of miror to mathamatical language used in science toda, they used analogy, and for years, how rare it is you see a book on greek myths where they translate the proper nouns, as Prometheus means forethought and Epimetheus means afterthought, so, that oudl go with what I said earlier aobut plato's writings or via the name socrates, Plato's main character.
IF we look at Gilgamesh and then revelations, despite Sumer said to be rediscovered and a frgotten nation to history, John of Patmos used WHore of Bablon, a important character in Gilgamesh and probabl, the mirror of eve, where Endiku, was probabl the achetype of adam, but Sumeria like Early Hindu societies of the rig veda, celebrated Urbanism, rather than decryied it.
Also it mentioned the Sumerian language was translateable as Chladean poterry had 3 r so languages, and so they pulled from that to translate. Chaldean society was semetic and was the society Abram came from, and there is sign of a flood that consumed the valley and that woudl explain why there is no prehistor or evidenc f a proto sumeria.
Bt so where even the story of Pandora, where promtheus staels fire and thus the beginning of knwoele, he is punshed and man falls, albeit through epimetheus. But then if you study things, Intellgiences and elementals in one religion are titans and gods in another, angels and fallen angels in another and in GNostic, Aeons and archaons, not respectively of course.
Bu it is probably, hte mthery cults saw benefit along with religous leaders to remove factionims as thelay took preferance of gods an d that cause tribalism, and so a monistic god, which is the oldest form, albeit they sometimes relate animism, and welll, shinto or anscetor worship, but then they also ha a sun god, Amaterazu. But, the shift as, Sumeraia was non semetic and the next laer was Akkadian, then chalcedeian I bleive, both semitic and the movemnt towards seing knowledge as the reason for the fall from Innocence.
Laslty as the reson I got into it was the seeing the books claiming aliens came down to mine and made man, as they needed food, the author migh have missed that hindu thought in the time of the vedas, also aknowledged that the gods couldnt eat so soma was made b priests and Brahman made a blaanc btween heave and earth or man, called Dharma, or obligaions, law of sorts. As man was powerless, but could provide food and gods had power but could not eat.
Again I keep m skepticism as, my belef is if you werent there and didnt see it, then what you ahve is pure conjecture, and confidnce has no relation tot corectness of opine.
tha tthe US is 80% christian and that well, Nixons strategy for winning the south focuses on that fact, as well guns and so forth, [watergate sort buggered him], but religions that are singular to a nation are beneficial to nationalism, and CHritianity is and promotes docility, and is oddly similar in ways to buddhism, which i discovered there were buddhist monk missionaries in JEruselem and the area for quite a while. But, so the possibility arose that SUmerian culture ma have been sot of swept to the sid twice in history for similar reasons. As, if one looks at the wire frame strructure of the story lines, the fix wondeerfull with most other religions, if ou understand that, well the first language is nature itself, and eh, Ive goneon far o much. But a excellant book fo those seeking the development of mankind via religion in this case or mythology.
For at this tim in history, as much as we think we know we are a yougn race and what we know is still insignificant as to what is avaiable, and science has its own supersticians, and prejudices. As well I think our anscesrs, the ancients ma have had a greater sense of self that we do, via our psychology, neurology and sociology, which are still barel seedling sciences...albeit they proabal disagree. We certainyl have changed little, per war, corrption and imperialism and mankind rather than evolving conscosly is chasing his tale....and the weest soon may fall in to its decline, as ironically, technology directly ffects our culture and concept of self and our intelligenc, as pposed to our facility of rational thought, which is, a lower form of sentience, but that, as we grown technolgoically, we decline psychlogically as we become less self reliant and fre and more dependant for security, convienience and the hedonism that luxury, once a word that had no positive connotation, which is the norm of our western way.
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