@Frodo_Swagginz@TiltingatM3 Gilgamesh literally lays it all out in the open. Yes you get to be with the goddess of beauty and fertility but look what happened to all of her previous lovers. Dumuzid himself was supposedly a former king of Uruk. So Gilgamesh woulda known full well not to touch that
@hall129767@_Healthyorg Theoretically of all of our ancestors had to periodically do this to survive for hundreds of thousands of years. Obviously they were probably choosing prey with less endurance than a horse but point stands
@bruceaswanton@CShredwards@ProofofMaro You’re right, I choose to believe this interpretation because I think it’s cool. But I have no doubt ancient ppl felt the same sense of awe gazing upon ancient ruins as we do.
I’m aware of Kramer’s The Sumerians but haven’t read it. I’m in the middle of Joan Oates Babylon atm.
@bruceaswanton@CShredwards@ProofofMaro Neo-Babylonians certainly had a concept of archeology. Nabonidus conducted excavations and preservation work at sites like the ancient capital Akkad. His daughter Ennigaldi even ran a public museum. They were explicitly interested in the history the land. https://t.co/1oISwlgvYT
@shekelmanc64@medievalmlord Adonis is Dumuzid? lol that makes a lot of sense actually. Really crazy how long lived some of these deities were, makes you wonder how long before written records some of these figures were worshiped.
@shekelmanc64@medievalmlord lol fair play. It really is the type of thing the Ur III dynasty would be on. Does seem like the Akkadians are getting some portion of the name Ishtar from somewhere else. Idk there’s probably a book by some old german dude in like 1910 that talks about it.
@fvckusa2026@Rojalotfi The Sasanians were civilizationmaxxing to the absolute limits. Never seen anything like it. Late Sasanian Mesopotamia had a population density that looks like a post industrial society.