【Secrets of mud and stone slabs】
Although I like myths
Strictly speaking, though, I prefer the history contained in myths
That is, the part of the non-history of faith
Archaeology, genetics, linguistics... The historical truth that can be restored
It's more interesting than the literature
They have a lot more room for imagination
Egyptian civilization unfolded very early and continued into historical times
The surviving religious ideas are also relatively mature...
This means that Egyptian mythology is closer to Buddhist Islam
It's a sorted-out system
Another analogy is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Yes, not the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
This is already a very late descendant to reconnect the information
So I'm not going to look at too much Egyptian mythology
Relatively speaking, the Sumerian culture, which claims to be the world's first civilization
Probably more informative
The current origins of Sumerian culture can be traced back 7,300 years
The Two Rivers Valley, which holds the oldest myths, is no joke...
The shadow of Sumerian mythology can be seen in the mythological systems of many regions
Among them, the relationship between the gods and the various city-states is similar to that of Egyptian mythology
So we should try to go back to earlier Sumerian mythology
Let's start with the creation of man
If we take the mythical creation of man as the origin of the human species
Then it's really good to look at the smile
It is more likely to refer to the origin of an ethnic group, or a civilization
Focus on Anunaki for the time being
Strictly speaking, the Anunaki are not a god, but a synonym for a group of gods
Unlike historical mythology, the Sumerians used different language systems from our later written language systems
Therefore, it is meaningless to delve too much into the details, and sometimes it will fall into the misunderstanding of translation
But you can notice that the Anunnaki are closer to the Asuras in the sense that they are an ethnic group
In Earth Chronicles, the Anunnaki are an alien race
Nor is it pure blowing, as the Sumerian literature mentions more than once that "kingship descends from heaven"
This is the most primitive indication of the divine directness of monarchy around the world
And this line of thinking is also the starting point of the world's mainstream "human beings from other planets"
The main god of Sumer, Enriel, was the Anunnaki people
After Enriel founded the world, the Anunnaki worked hard under him to create everything
But it's fucking tired
So Enriel's brother Enki and his sister Nyingma began to try to create laborers: humans
The brothers and sisters who created man have the image of a human head and a snake body
If you are familiar with Chinese mythology, you will know that the human head snake body is also quite popular in China
Both Fuxi and Nuwa have this image
In one version of the Great Flood, the two great gods were also brothers and sisters
And let's go back to Sumerian mythology about the creation of man, the process is a little scary
It can be roughly divided into four stages
The first stage of human beings has no fertility, but is simply labor
The fact that there is no fertility, we use a scientific point of view, is the so-called offspring produced by different species
Thoughts? The horse-to-donkey hybrid is called a mule, which is infertile but better than both parents as a labor force
Allow me to use the word "contemplation" fear
We modern humans belong to Homo sapiens in terms of racial classification, that is, the protagonist of the African ethnogenesis theory
Before Homo sapiens left Africa, there were other races in the world, but they all died out
For example, the famous Neanderthals
Neanderthals are different from Homo sapiens, theoretically
But later humans show signs of hybridization... But it can be passed on to future generations
Genetically this is a mystery
It is also a problem that must be solved for Nkinima
Thus was born the second generation of fertile humans
Our eternal mystery was solved by the Sumerian god of medicine in three or two clicks
The level of knowledge is certainly not on the same level
But the second generation of human beings still has a defect, that is, a lack of wisdom
The history of mankind is very long, and the origin of making something with fire tools is very early
But progress is very, very slow
It wasn't until forty thousand years ago that human creativity exploded violently
More civilized objects have been unearthed
It is also commonly known as unlocking the genetic lock... Knowing that I know that I don't particularly advertise this novel
The bible says that Adam and Eve ate the apple
In short, three generations of human beings are the advanced versions of intelligence and creativity
Abbreviated Homo sapiens (huh?) ）
Homo sapiens is different from the laborers who used to work hard
Noisy all day long
It is said that when the lord god Enriel lost sleep, a great flood fell and fucking destroyed this batch of first homo sapiens
Ahhh, almost forgot the epic hero part
The epic heroes of Greece are well known to everyone
The epic heroes of Sumer probably only recognized Gilgamesh
The focus is not on the Hero King himself, but on the process of creating people, and the responsible Enki and Nyingma can't help but be impulsive
He fired a few shots at the humans he had created
As a result, descendants of demigods were born
(Gilgamesh's grandmother was Nyingma.
If it is for research, demigods should be born in the first generation of infertile human mothers, thereby breaking through the research bottleneck
But they seem to be the descendants of the second and third generations of humanity. Otherwise, it is good to directly produce demigods, so why study two or three generations
How to say it... Well, totally understandable
It was just the same mistake as Zeus all over the world
In short, this passage can be used as a model for the world's myths
It is also inexplicably related to the history of human evolution
More scientific Sumerian accounts
That's probably the case
Incidentally
Anunaki is synonymous with the gods of the earth and the gods of the underground(hades).
There is also another one: the cosmic god - Igigi
At first glance, it sounds like Igigi is more high-end?
In fact, they are just another group of Enriel's laborers... Say it again next time