3,000-YEAR-OLD BABYLONIAN TABLET TELLING STORY OF NOAH'S ARK IS "EARLIEST EVER EXAMPLE" OF FAKE NEWS

newsweek.com ^ | 11/26/19 | ROSIE MCCALL

[ransomnote]

Ea's duplicity can be traced to nine lines in the text, says Worthington....

SNIP

"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!"

[Vermont Lt]

Or maybe it was inspired by the gods, and thus a true story?

[TexasGator]

As on the earlier thread, most will misread the headline, nit read the article and make uninformed comments.

[Jim W N]

No, Newsweek’s story about the 3000 year-old tablet is fake news.

Newsweek is in the business of lying as are their Leftist media buddies.

[dowcaet]

So Ea was the original founder of CNN, and not Ted Turner. Interesting.

[BenLurkin]

“At dawn there will be kukku-cakes”

“John has a long mustache”

[kaehurowing]

“Blessed are the cheesemakers.”

[Larry Lucido]

[fproy2222]

Another example of dualing hermeneuticises.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article ransom note. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

What’s diverse about swamp Democrats is they find all kinds of ways to “shine the headlights” in the eyes of the “deer” to stay out of jail.

[SunkenCiv]

• 3,000-year-old tablet describing Babylonian Noah's Ark tale could be 'earliest ever example..[tr]

[neverevergiveup]

My faith does not require it to be true, in the slightest way. That said, for anyone to do their own translation of such old text and use that as a basis for making definitive statements that they've disproved something held for thousands of years is a bit ridiculous.

A true intellectual approach to the world requires self-doubt and humility. Current self-described ‘intellectuals’ do not generally have these qualities.

[Texas Eagle]

No, the first example of Fake News is when Satan told Adam and Eve that God was holding out on them.

[lizma2]

Newsweek reported on Thursday that Trump spent Thanksgiving playing golf.....until they found out he was in Afghanistan LOL!!!.

[ransomnote]

Yes, I saw that it was posted 4 days ago. I do believe we are not required to limit the posting of an article to one and only one - unless that rule is no longer in effect.

During a heated campaign, the admin allowed for posting of the same article so that more people could see it. At that time it was every 4 hrs but that was either Monica Scandal or an election being stolen by Obama. THe idea at the time was that the night shift might not see what the day shift posted and would be following incoming posts.

I never saw the prior post of this article, I think others missed it to. I don’t know what the current rule is but can’t really respond accordingly unless i get some indication what’s allowed now.

[mrsmith]

That’s a poetic technique, not “fake news” by any stretch.
Read some of Herodotus and it’s filled with “fake news” he gathered (and often tries to decipher).

[Big Red Badger]

Well,
God Bless Texas!
I Love ice cream
and
God cut Loose on
Sodom and Gomorrah!

[Leep]

So, Newsweak recognizes their is fake news?

[Leep]

So, Newsweak recognizes there is fake news?

[jonascord]

Or that it was the sudden collapse of the Bosporus Dam, that flooded what was a below sea level freshwater lake, now the Black Sea, as supported by geologic evidence, 7500 years ago?

Perhaps the story of the Great Flood was handed down in tribal lore, until someone in Sumeria wrote it down?

And before you reject catastrophic flooding stories, out of hand, look up the Scablands of Eastern Washington State...

I'm offering it as a "suppose". Only Democrat/Socialist/Communists are blandly certain of the Absolute Truth of their theories.