#sumerian memes

[number1milfloislover]

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[sumerianlanguage]

Hi there! Could you help with a translation for "I will face god and walk backwards into hell"? I've always wondered if there was a way to write it in Sumerian. Thanks very much!! (Your blog is AMAZING by the way, I really appreciate reading your posts!)

Hello, and thanks for the kind words! My twitch community helped me out with this meme translation, for which we settled on Ngae dingirshe igi ngaren agabi ganzershe in'gadun.

Igi ngar 𒅆𒃻 is a phrasal verb meaning " to appear before, look at, face" when it has a regular direct object. But putting the direct object (here dingir 𒀭 "deity") in the terminative case intensifies the meaning (Halloran 2006 says "adds intensity to the gaze"), making Ngae dingirshe igi ngaren "I face (intensely) the deity".

"Backwards" required some research, down a rabbit hole of spatial vocabulary and Mesopotamian conceptions of time-space relationships. We settled on simply agabi 𒀀𒂵𒁉, from aga "back" with the -bi adverbial ending.

For "hell", rather than use the generic (and somewhat euphemistic) kur "underworld", I chose ganzer 𒅆𒆳𒍝 "hell, flame, netherworld", here also in the terminative case as ganzershe 𒅆𒆳𒍝𒂠 "into hell".

"To go, walk" is ngen, an extremely irregular verb in Sumerian, in this case in the first-person present-future form (i)dun 𒁺𒌦. The prefix in'ga- is the way to connect two verbs with the same subject, basically meaning "and, and also", attached to the second (or third, etc.) verb in the sequence, so in'gadun 𒅔𒂵𒁺𒌦 "and I walk".

Putting it all together, we get Ngae dingirshe igi ngaren agabi ganzershe in'gadun "I face the deity intensely and walk backwards into hell," written 𒂷𒂊 𒀭𒂠 𒅆𒃻𒂗 𒀀𒂵𒁉 𒅆𒆳𒍝𒂠 𒅔𒂵𒁺𒌦 in cuneiform.

#replies #translation #su meme rian #sumerian grammar #sumerian vocabulary

[babyloniastreasure]

something that kind of bothers me about modern feelings toward the epic of gilgamesh is how it's been COMPLETELY watered down to being "gay". Bear with me as I explain.

this is more of an extreme example, but I see this take all the time (not the yaoi part. the gay lover part). it's boiled down to the fact that it's gay over literally anything else in the epic. Gilgamesh's lament to Urshanabi about Enkidu's loss is overshadowed by the fact that Gilgamesh is mourning his gay lover. Gilgamesh is on a journey because he lost his gay lover. Gilgamesh and Enkidu were gay.

Now I understand that with a modern lens, people tend to lock on to how unabashedly Gilgamesh mourns Enkidu, because it's gay and because it's the oldest written epic in human history. People feel deeply connected to the idea that people like them have been around since the dawn of literature. But placing exclusive focus on the nature of the relationship as gay, rather than why the relationship or its loss was important, erases the story the epic is trying to tell.

The Epic of Gilgamesh is a story about love, yes, but it is not a love story. It's about the fear of death, coping with loss, and desperation to stave off the inevitable. It's about the bonds of friendship, about hardship, coming to terms personal change and losing pieces of yourself as you learn and grow. It is about consequences, arrogance, death, second chances, mourning, yearning, loving and LIVING. The Epic of Gilgamesh is about the entire human experience and one man's struggle to accept it. What does it mean to have lived? What does it mean to have loved, and lost? What does it mean to die, and to be remembered? What does it mean to be human?

It is perfectly okay to find appreciation for the Epic because of Gilgamesh and Enkidu's relationship. But also understand that the world's oldest story is not about two gay men who loved each other. It is a story about being alive.

TLDR;

#the epic of gilgamesh #mesopotamia #sumerian #once again recommending that everyone read the epic of gilgamesh at least once because it really is a great story #gilgamesh and enkidu's relationship is first of all--a minor detail at best. homosexuality was normal in sumerian society #so it wouldn't have been unusual. in fact placing such intense focus on it is what's unusual #also they weren't even homosexual. they both also sleep with women. but the erasure of bisexuality is a completely different hornet's nest #i could also probably write a post about how watered down the whole ea-nasir thing is too #but hes so much of a meme i might as well try to convince a brick wall to get up and walk for all the good it'd do #anyway. im pretentious about this topic because i love it so fucking dearly. please recognize what it is youre appreciating

[nyxshadowhawk]

#pagan memes #paganism #neopaganism #memes #hellenic paganism #hellenic polytheism #helpol #norse paganism #asatru #egyptian paganism #kemeticism #mesopotamian mythology #sumerian #celtic paganism #doreen virtue

[monochromevt]

#meme #sumerian #tower of babel #tower of babble #history memes

[peripaltepsy]

♡] YANDERE SUMERIAN! [♡

♡》 Yandere Sumerian who makes you buy him as a slave.

♡》 Yandere Sumerian who helps you hide your valuables before the tax man comes.

♡》 Yandere Sumerian who takes you to the public execution and whispers how he's gonna do that to everyone who wronged you.

♡》 Yandere Sumerian who smears cow shit on the houses of people whom looked at you a little too long.

♡》 Yandere Sumerian who learns to write so he can make you love clay tablets, but doesn't teach you to read because he can recite them aloud and frankly, you don't need to be reading anyone else's clay tablets.

♡》 Yandere Sumerian who kills Ea-Nasir for selling you fake copper.

♡》 Yandere Sumerian who gifts you a two-headed figurine that worryingly looks like you two stitched together.

♡》 Yandere Sumerian who sacrifices his best livestock to your matron goddess just to impress you.

♡》 Yandere Sumerian who locks you inside because you keep over-working on the fields. LET HIM DO IT FOR YOU.

♡》 Yandere Sumerian who sings to you about how future generations will remember your love story forever... as you die from skin cancer and then he poisons himself.

"Darling, my love for you is greater than Gilgamesh's fame~ ♡"

#male yandere #yandere #yandere x reader #shitpost #history shitposting #history memes #mesopotamia #this was funnier in my brain #yandere sumerian #male yandere x you #bronze age #history nerd #extremely niche post #EXTREMELY CURSED POST

[gilgamesh-nation]

Although the alewife is a small part of the epic of Gilgamesh as a whole, her wisdom and near stoic attitude towards life definitely makes her my favorite character

#the epic of gilgamesh #gilgamesh #enkidu #ancient literature #history #meme #mesopotamia #sumerian

[motherlarkspur]

Need you all to know that I wrote my midterm for my college art history class on homoeroticism in the Epic of Gilgamesh and other Ancient Mesopotamian Art. I went as far as to read papers about burial and mourning practices. My professor? Loved it.

#I'm still getting recommended scholarly articles about their culture #it goes so hard #i read one on sumerian grammer?? #life changing #not really but #it went hard #and fed my autism #gilgamesh #enkidu #gilgamesh x enkidu #funny #meme #school #writing #ancient #ancient art #poems #lit #literature #the epic of gilgamesh #i am willing to provide a copy

[silver-horse]

image of me protecting my youtube channel and blocking gamerbros in the comment section under my bg3 vids (2023 colourised)

#say goodbye to poopoopie and russbrand and sumerian king subscribers #my post #my posts #youtube #bg3 mine #protect #meme #about me #shitposting #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #current events #2023

[jentirely-true]

#sumerian #mesopotamia #sumerposting #meme

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Enkidu: Oh just so you know, it's very muggy outside. Gilgamesh: Gilgamesh: Enkidu, I swear, if I step outside and all of our mugs are on the front lawn… Enkidu: *Sips coffee from bowl*

#domestic gilgenkidu #sumerian mythology #mythology memes #incorrect mythology quotes #incorrect quotes #sumerian gods #gilgamesh #enkidu

[sumerianlanguage]

𒁲

Does that "iltam sumra" meme sound effect has a real translation?

Silim, and I found it!

The original audio appears to come from this video, with people narrating text in several ancient languages. The section labeled "Sumerian" is... not in Sumerian. It's an Akkadian quote, from the start of Hymn to Ishtar A, approximately iltam zumrā rašubti ilātim / litta'id bēlet nišī rabīt igigī / ištar zumrā rašubti ilātim / litta'id bēlet iššī rabīt igigī. This section is translated in e.g. Metcalf 2012 (pp. 65-66) as "Sing of the goddess, awe-inspiring among the goddesses, let the mistress of the people, great among the Igigi, be praised. Sing of Ishtar, awe-inspiring among the goddesses, let the mistress of the women, great among the Igigi, be praised!"

You can find another recording of this audio by Doris Prechel (labeled properly as Akkadian, and including the whole hymn) in the SOAS audio library here. Enjoy!

#replies #akkadian #iltam sumra #misinformation #su meme rian #not sumerian

[i-bring-crack]

"Nearly all the literature that we have in Sumerian derives from the tablets written by these young Babylonian scribal apprentices, many of which where found in the remains of the houses of their teachers." - The Epic of Gilgamesh: Translated and with an introduction by Andrew Gorge (p. XIX) from Penguin Classics.

So you are freaking telling me the most records that we have of an old civilization is due to the homework in the teachers house.

OK maybe memes being the only thing in our culture to survive if an apocalypse where to start doesn't sound so far fetched anymore.

You know what's even worse: the actual mood these apprentices had.

Like not a page before it quoted one young student:

The door monitor said, 'Why did you go out without my say-so?' And he beat me.

The water monitor said, 'Why did you help yourself to water without my say-so?' And he beat me.

The Sumerian monitor said, 'You spoke Akkadian!' And he beat me.

My teacher said, 'Your writting is not at all good!' And he beat me.

Obviously my teachers ain't gonna beat me now but they still make me fail my grades if my writting isn't magnus opus perfection (some are chill tho) and that sumerian monitor is basically just the equivalent of the Spanish teacher saying "No English allowed only Spanish in class."

Anyways I'd find it embarrassing to have my math homework be displayed as the representation of knowledge at my time. Like don't even get me started on how bad my math equations are, It would be a miracle if they managed to understand my words in the first place.

#memes #mythology #penguin classics #epic of gilgamesh #uruk #sumerian #akkadian #Mesopotamia #history

[chicken4war]

ancient internet be like: 𐏀𐎮𐎮𐎮 𐎼𐎧𐎠𐏂'𐎽 𐎸𐎯 𐏂𐎸𐎬𐎡𐎫𐎱 𐎡𐎱𐎮𐎽 𐎨𐏂'𐎽 𐏀𐎮𐎸𐎱 𐎡𐎮𐏀 𐎨𐎭𐎠-𐎽𐎧𐎤𐎪𐎵𐎠𐎫 𐎼𐎨𐏂𐎧 𐎠𐎭𐎮𐏂𐎧𐎤𐎱 𐎡𐎠𐎬𐎦𐎤𐎱!!!

#ancient #sumer #sumeria #sumerian #archeology #ancient meme #archeology joke #peter pringle

[conservative-riot]

There is e-bitum way down in New Akkad

They call the e-babbar

And it's been the ruin of many a poor dumu-nita

And Anu I know I'm one....

#Akkad #Akkadian #Meme #mesopotamia #Sumer #sumerian #The animals #classic rock #Русский tumblr #русский тамблер

[emporium]

Behind the Meme: Complaint Tablet to Ea-nasir

In 1953, explorer Sir Leonard Woolley discovered and acquired the tablet from what is believed to be the ruins of Ea-nasir's home while on an expedition to the city of Ur. Several other similar tablets complaining about poor copper quality were also recovered, suggesting Ea-nasir frequently sent his customers poor-quality goods. The tablet is currently held at the British Museum.

A few of the most viral Tumblr posts about this meme: https://probablybadrpgideas.tumblr.com/post/171826102481/your-players-are-faced-with-an-ancient-sumerian https://brightwanderer.tumblr.com/post/645195882465230848/ea-nasir-is-that-you

Translation of the tablet:

Tell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message:

When you came, you said to me as follows : "I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots." You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: "If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!"

What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe(?) you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of copper, and umi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of copper, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Samas.

How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full.

Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.

Source: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/complaint-tablet-to-ea-nasir

#emporium #ea-nasir