Originally posted by earth2
Thank you Byrd for the links. Im back on track now.
I will be posting more sumerian threads because they seem to be so darn interesting.
They are! There's lots of interesting work going on in the field.
Here's a fun resource for you:
www.archaeologychannel.org...
Oh... and this one, too!
www.archaeologynews.org...
So the pic I posted is a fake? Ive tried hard to find a solid source with no luck.
I believe it may be. It may also be deliberately misdrawn or misinterpreted.
One more question if you dont mind, do you believe the sumerians had contact with an ET? I know you are a fact kind of person but whats your
gut feeling?
Not a gut feeling, but a knowledge from having studied cultures (I have a degree in anthropology.)
Now, I know that my having a degree in the field causes a lot of people to say "oh! Scholar! They LIE and hide things! She can't see the truth
because her school has biased her!"
Let me explain why it doesn't make any sense:
The postulation is that space aliens formed a race of androids to dig for gold for them.
Now:
* we have a spacefaring race who ignores stars and other planets (there's stars made of gold out in space
newsroom.msu.edu... ) and travel to Earth to mine gold.
* when they land here, they hit the Planetary Stupidity Field and forget how to use high tech mining techniques, for all the mines in the area are
worked using primitive techniques.
* the Sumerian language is an isolate language (not related to others), but this doesn't necessarily mean an extraterrestrial origin.
* Sumerians were in contact with other people. There are no stories from them about Sumerian overlords.
* Sumerians bred freely with other people.
* humans didn't just "suddenly appear" in time. There are older hominids that are their ancestors. They weren't just suddenly created.
* the stories and myths of Sumer are inconsistant with those of enslaved peple. Enslaved people tell a lot of trickster tales about getting the upper
hand over their masters. The Sumerians don't have tales of "how I tricked the gods."
* there are no artifacts made out of materials unavailable to Mesopotamia by trade or manufacture. Slaves often steal from their masters.
* there are no unusually made textiles from Sumeia; textiles that aren't duplicatable by other cultures. Favorite slaves wore the discarded clothing
of their masters.
* Sumerian knowledge of astronomy and the solar system was consistant with visual only astronomy. They named the planets through Saturn -- but
didn't know about Ceres, the world-sized asteroid and didn't know about Uranus or Neptune or Pluto. They didn't know which points of light in the
skies were suns and which were galaxies.
* Sumerians did not call Nibiru a planet. Nibiru was a title (like "President of the United States").
* Sumerians don't show unusual genetic markers that are different from other humans (indicating a genetic breeding program.)
* All ancient people drew or sculpted their gods and rulers as larger-than-life-sized figures. We have many depictions of these rulers (like
Tutankhamen) and their remains, and although the art shows them to be 4 to 8 times the size of "regular people", their bones and bodies show them to
be the same height as their subjects.
* Musical instruments were made from regional materials and there were no unusual or sophisticated constructions.
* There was no global flood (part of Sitchin's theory)
* No planet visits us on a 3600 year cycle (we've had literate civilizations and writing for well over 7,000 years. That's almost 2 cycles of this
mythical planet. Civilizations worldwide would be writing and producing art about something that huge in the skies.
...etc.
