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enbycrip · 5 months

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#trans #nonbinary #trans nonbinary #ancient history #sumer #gender #we have always been here #historical trans people #you cannot legislate us away and you cannot wipe us out while humanity still exists #we are as perennial as the grass #inanna #trans is sacred

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galina · 8 months

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So many amazing bookshops in Manhattan, but one of my favourites is the worker-owned and radically compassionate Bluestockings Cooperative

#books #bookblr #booklr #bookshops #travel #travelgram #travelspo #zines #city #sumer #new york #nyc #new york city #manhattan #studyblr #studygram #studyspo #studying

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moonbiit-arts · 4 months

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Happy Birthday, Wanderer !!! ˚₊·—̳͟͞͞-`♡

#wanderer #genshin impact #anime #manga #fanart #genshin fanart #genshin impact wanderer #genshin wanderer #kunikuzushi #scaramouche #scara #genshin scaramouche #inazuma #sumer #anemo #anemo boys #hbd

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memories-of-ancients · 5 months

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The Hymn of Ninkasi

The Ancient Sumerians loved their beer. In fact they loved their beer so much that thousands of years later ancient recipes and artwork depicting beer making and beer drinking survive to this day. Many of these recipes are being recreated and brewed thousands of years later by crafted breweries today. They drank it for ceremonial and religious reasons, they drank it for nutritional reasons, and they drank it for the same reasons we drink it today. You know ... to get pissed.

The Sumerians were so serious about their beer that they had their own deity devoted to the beverage named Ninkasi. Ninkasi was the goddess of beer and alcohol, who brewed the beverage daily to to “satisfy the desire” and “sate the heart.” One of the earliest known devotions to Ninkasi was a hymn written on clay tablets dating to 1800 BC. Called “The Hymn to Ninkasi” it was more than just a devotional script or prayer, it was a recipe and procedure for brewing, written as a poem so that it would be easy to remember in an age when most people were illiterate. The beer that was produced was a very sweet beverage with around 3.5% alcohol by volume, created by brewing with malt and a twice baked honey bread (bappir) that had the taste and consistency of granola. It would have been very sweet compared to modern beer as the Sumerians lacked hops which gives the bitter flavors of beers today. Traditionally the beer was stored in clay pots and sipped using long drinking straws to filter out left over particulates.

The Hymn of Ninkasi

Borne of the flowing water, Tenderly cared for by the Ninhursag, Borne of the flowing water, Tenderly cared for by the Ninhursag, Having founded your town by the sacred lake, She finished its great walls for you, Ninkasi, having founded your town by the sacred lake, She finished it’s walls for you, Your father is Enki, Lord Nidimmud, Your mother is Ninti, the queen of the sacred lake. Ninkasi, your father is Enki, Lord Nidimmud, Your mother is Ninti, the queen of the sacred lake. You are the one who handles the dough [and] with a big shovel, Mixing in a pit, the bappir with sweet aromatics, Ninkasi, you are the one who handles the dough [and] with a big shovel, Mixing in a pit, the bappir with [date] - honey, You are the one who bakes the bappir in the big oven, Puts in order the piles of hulled grains, Ninkasi, you are the one who bakes the bappir in the big oven, Puts in order the piles of hulled grains, You are the one who waters the malt set on the ground, The noble dogs keep away even the potentates, Ninkasi, you are the one who waters the malt set on the ground, The noble dogs keep away even the potentates, You are the one who soaks the malt in a jar, The waves rise, the waves fall. Ninkasi, you are the one who soaks the malt in a jar, The waves rise, the waves fall. You are the one who spreads the cooked mash on large reed mats, Coolness overcomes, Ninkasi, you are the one who spreads the cooked mash on large reed mats, Coolness overcomes, You are the one who holds with both hands the great sweet wort, Brewing [it] with honey [and] wine (You the sweet wort to the vessel) Ninkasi, (…)(You the sweet wort to the vessel) The filtering vat, which makes a pleasant sound, You place appropriately on a large collector vat. Ninkasi, the filtering vat, which makes a pleasant sound, You place appropriately on a large collector vat. When you pour out the filtered beer of the collector vat, It is [like] the onrush of Tigris and Euphrates. Ninkasi, you are the one who pours out the filtered beer of the collector vat, It is [like] the onrush of Tigris and Euphrates.

#history #ancient history #sumerian #sumer #ancient mesopotamia

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tsalmu · 9 months

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Babylonian Stele of Nabonidus before Moon, Sun, and Venus c. 545 BCE Babylon, Iraq (?) British Museum #90837

Harranian Stele of Nabonidus before Moon, Sun, and Venus c. 545 BCE Harran, Turkey Şanlıurfa Museum, Urfa, Turkey

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clepysdra · 8 months

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Tinkering around in blender and gimp rn

#my wips #sims 4 #s4mm #sims 4 history #mesopotamia #mesopotamian #assyrian #assyria #sumer #sumerian #queen puabi #bablyonian #bablyon #wip hair #wip outfits

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sowelimaxima · 1 year

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alternate universe where the most popular cocktail is the white gilgamesh

BARKEEP: what'll it be

CUSTOMER: TWO THIRDS BEER AND ONE THIRD MILK

*BARKEEP joining in* FROM A GOAT OR OF ITS ILK

ENTIRE BAR: GOES DOWN HARSH, IT ISN'T GOOD

MAKES YOU FEEL YOU'RE MADE OF WOOD

#white gilgamesh #gilgamesh #bartending #barkeep #script #screenwriting #scrumblr #cocktails #cocktail #cocktail inspo #bar inspo #barlife #sumer #sumerian

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olmoonlight · 9 months

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💛 Just feel my summer 🌼 My Mood 💛

#GOOD MORNING 🌞🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼

#mp4 #lifestyle #my life #sumer #flowers 💐#my mood today #goodmood #good morning 🌞

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gwydpolls · 4 months

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Time Travel Question 37: Ancient History XVII and Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.

In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

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dwellerinthelibrary · 1 year

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#Mesopotamia #Sumer #Lagash

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whencyclopedia · 6 months

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Mesopotamian Inventions

Mesopotamian inventions include many items taken for granted today, most of which were created during the Early Dynastic Period (2900-2334 BCE) or developed from achievements of the Uruk Period (4100-2900 BCE). The Sumerians are credited with the earliest inventions, which were further developed in the Akkadian Period (2334-2218 BCE) and then by later Mesopotamian civilizations.

#History #Writing #Sumer #Pottery

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electricalpylon · 1 month

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#mesopotamia #sumerian #Sumer #history #mythology #Bronze Age #Ishtar #Gilgamesh #the epic of gilgamesh #epic of gilgamesh #John waters #divine #divine drag queen #pink flamingos

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ancientorigins · 6 months

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The ancient Sumerian flood story, engraved onto Sumerian tablets, reveals a tale of gods fleeing the Earth and returning from the heavens, the origins of humanity, and a monumental deluge.

#flood #Sumerian #Sumer #tablets #Enki #Mesopotamian Gods and Religion #Mesopotamian Writings

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memories-of-ancients · 3 months

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