At dawn there will be kukku-cakes, in the evening he will rain down upon you a shower of wheat.'
Posted on 11/30/2019 11:10:15 AM PST by ransomnote
Ea's duplicity can be traced to nine lines in the text, says Worthington....
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"What the people don't realize is that Ea's nine-line message is a trick: it is a sequence of sounds that can be understood in radically different ways, like English 'ice cream' and 'I scream,'" Worthington explained.
Like "ice cream" and "I scream," Ea's words have multiple meanings that are phonetically the same. While a more optimistic reading might interpret Ea's comments as a promise of plentiful food to come, other more pessimistic readings could decipher his words as a flood warning.
The lines in the flood story, written in Babylonian are:
ina šēr(-)kukkī
ina lilâti ušaznanakkunūši šamūt kibāti
The first, more positive, translation goes as follows:
At dawn there will be kukku-cakes,
in the evening he will rain down upon you a shower of wheat.
But equally, it could have darker connotations. In a second reading, it could be translated as follows:
By means of incantations,
by means of wind-demons, he will rain down upon you rain as thick as (grains of) wheat.
Or, alternatively:
At dawn, he will rain down upon you darkness,
(then) in (this) pre-nocturnal twilight he will rain down upon you rain as thick as (grains of) wheat.
"With this early episode, set in mythological time, the manipulation of information and language has begun. It may be the earliest ever example of fake news," said Worthington, who discusses his hypotheses in a new book, Ea's Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story.
Explaining Ea's motivating for lying—or spreading fake news—Worthington said: "Babylonian gods only survive because people feed them. If humanity had been wiped out, the gods would have starved. The god Ea manipulates language and misleads people into doing his will because it serves his self-interest. Modern parallels are legion!"
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Rules? Us? No way. ;^)
Liars call history fake news.
At least the ending where God steals the sacred gay rainbow to use as some sort of right wing symbol is correct.
The fake newscasters at Newspeak couldn’t bring themselves to credit President Trump:
“Fake news” may have been around since ancient times but it’s been getting more exposure of late, receiving “Collins Dictionary Word of the Year” in 2017 after use of the phrase shot up 365 percent on the previous year.
Atrahasis > Epic of Gilgamesh and the Biblios
Maybe it was inspired by a banana split?
Did this news get picked up from Babylon Bee?
At dawn there will be kukku-cakes, in the evening he will rain down upon you a shower of wheat.'
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"What a revolting development this is."
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Just wondering. Did this tablet say anything like:
"I have a favor I want from you, though. And I'm going to say this only seven times, so you better listen good. I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand? Lots of it."
Just wondering.
Newsweek, the publication proffering prevaricating propaganda for Islam after 911, besides other deception, writing about fake news is worse than a paradox.
Does it use the word “kalaka?” /obscure
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