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| Language Introduction Chomsky Bickerton Pinker Brain Theory Conclusion Sumer/Sumeria Civilization Religion Language Sargon Code of Hammurabi Marduk Enki Inanna Asherah Conclusion Biblical References Genesis 'Speaking in Tongues' Tower of Babel Computer Binary Code Snow Crash Sites Bibliograpy Home |
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 Religion The Sumerians developed a religion and a society, which influenced both their neighbors and their conquerors. Sumerian gods and goddesses are as numerous as the Greeks, Romans, and Eyptians deities. They were given the same amount of homage as other deities preciding over the fate of humans. Each city housed a temple that was the seat of a major god in the Sumerian pantheon, as gods controlled the powerful forces which often dictated a human's life. The city leaders had a duty to please the thown's patron deity. The clergy had greaat authority through the interpretations of omens and dreams. Man was created as a broken, labor saving, tool for the use of the gods and at the end of everyone's life, lay the underworld, a generally dreary place. Language Sumerian was spoken in Mesopotamia and is related to no other known language. Sumerian cuneiform, the earliest written language, was borrowed by the Babylonians, who also took many of their religious beliefs. Cuneiform was a syllabic script with hundreds of wedge-shaped signs that developed from 'phonograms' representing sound and meaning of pictures.
Stephenson mentions three of the Sumerian deities, Enki, Inanna and Asherah, in connection with the origins of the Snow Crash virus. Lets take a closer look at these three gods to see how history actually records them. To learn more about the people of Sumer/Sumeria, visit these sites:
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