Talk:Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta

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Latest edits, Winter-2008-(North Hemisphere)
(Note: (after reading Me's first paragraphs) there originally are no vowels(in cuneiform): Mu is water, so maybe the great mountain also provided 'Mu', water?)(maybe 'Me' is related to the origins of the Egyptian 'Maat'(Maa-t(t is feminine)Maa then =to Me) I just did some punctuation edits on this article-(tooting my horn)([one may disagree, but at least it can be read non-stop]). I call it 'editting', ...as many articles are either never read, or read too quickly. The most important recent edit was the edit to add the link to "Me (mythology)". I am not going to look at the Me-Mythology article yet, but "me" is Water, and for nearly every Culture on the planet, is of concern, and often part of the "cultural mythology"....so I looked at the page history and saw that important recent edit. ...

I had passed by me in the first Large quote but then upon continuing reading found the wiki, and therefor(e) put into the quote. Me is not just a little word. ....And the big quote (let me reread it) is a large-scale Peace lamentation, as well as "wish for No-rivalries, and Full Abundance". It proves what I have known for some time: LIFE=..."a little overpopulation, people of many languages, all vying for finite resources, ..and space/places to Live". (from the SonoranDesert of SWestArizonaUSA(getting a little more crowded all the time))(and PS: water, H20, is WesternUSA's next big Nat'lResourceProblem)

(okay so I quickly looked at Me-Mythology); it's obviously the same as Egyptian "Maat")...Mmcannis (talk) 13:15, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

External link does not support lead of article, that this is a parallel to the story of the Tower of Babel
In the Oxford The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature that we link to, they read in line 154 i3-kur2, a finite form of the verb kur2 'to be/make strange'. This corresponds to a thesis going back to Alster (1973) that the passage is a prediction that, as Vanstiphout put it, "(he shall) change the tongues in their mouth, as many as he once placed there, and the speech of mankind shall truly be one!" -- that is, that all nations will be dominated by Sumerian culture and come to speak Sumerian, a reading that fits other passages in the text but is incompatible with confusion of tongues thesis. However, more recently those two glyphs (the first of which is not legible) have been read as the reduplicated adjective kur2-kur2 'strange (plural)' -- that is, that he "placed strange tongues in their mouths", which restores the connection to the Tower, and is also a reading supported by another passage. The graphic difference (𒉌𒉽 vs 𒉽𒉽) is slight enough to be difficult to distinguish on a tablet unless it's in very good condition.

I don't know if we want to say something about that, or maybe look for another external link? — kwami (talk) 19:56, 14 May 2019 (UTC)


 * What would be your suggested change? Happy to hear it here! XZealous (talk) 12:48, 7 April 2024 (UTC)