Ishtar wrote:
I don't want to risk being too graphic as I've only just arrived, and I don't want to give the wrong impression! But I've also heard that the monoliths would often be split into two sections so that the pythoness could stand astride it.
There is a reason for it that fits into some modern day shamanic practices, but I'll spare everyone's blushes for now. Maybe when I get to know everyone a bit better......!
Well, since we're not complete âssholes, and have imaginations too, we already got your number now, Ish . . .
So now we're waiting for the photos of course . . .
Too bad Arch is gone...he could have a stroke shrieking about pagan goddesses.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
...the men of Umma had eaten one storehouse-full of the grain of Nina [goddess of Oracles], the grain of Ningirsu; he caused them to bear a penalty. They brought 144,000 gur,, a great storehouse full, [as repayment]. The taking of this grain was not to be repeated in the future....
This is based on George A. Barton's "Inscription of Entemena #7" in: The Royal Inscriptions of Sumer and Akkad (New Haven, CT; Yale Univ., 1929)
Now, isn't there a 'Nina' mentioned on the Pokotia inscription?
Oh, good..I was going to say, if he's your resident Sumerian expert, you're in big trouble.
You probably know, Beagle, that Marduk's writing a book about how the Sumerians came from South America - and you should see his evidence. It would be laughable if it weren't so pathetic.
Anyway, so what he does is 'dive bomb' anyone on a forum who looks like they might find and publish their evidence before he manages to get some poor, unsuspecting publisher to distribute his 'work'. He doesn't care whether your evidence is good or bad. He only cares that someone might believe your evidence before they believe his...such as it is.
Well, Ishtar, perhaps you are now our resident expert.
I have posted the translation of Dr. Winters. Maybe I missed the part where Nina was mentioned.
Do you have another translation? Because as far as I know, the authenticity of the Fuente Magna bowl is in doubt and the Pokotia Monolith is in question. I am not aware of any other scholars who have linked it to Mesopotamian origins.
It seems that you have encountered him before Ishtar, but then he does post everywhere. Regarding his "pathetic" book - I wouldn't know, but there are some people in this forum that have been helping him write it.
Forum Monk wrote:Well, Ishtar, perhaps you are now our resident expert.
I have posted the translation of Dr. Winters. Maybe I missed the part where Nina was mentioned.
Do you have another translation? Because as far as I know, the authenticity of the Fuente Magna bowl is in doubt and the Pokotia Monolith is in question. I am not aware of any other scholars who have linked it to Mesopotamian origins.
Sorry Monk, I'm no expert although I have read most of the Sumerian writings.
And it also turns out that I'm a dumb-clutz because I've just checked and found that it's not Nina that mentioned, it's "The Great Nia" , and it's not on the monolith, but on the Fuente Magna Bowl.
