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them boring tablets again
Posted by parhad (Guest) - Thursday, March 4 2004, 10:28:45 (EST)
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I think the guy's name was George Smith..an English amateur scholar who taught himself to read cuneiform and dazzled the people in the British Museum...or something like that so they hired him and he was the one to decipher or find the first half of the Gilgamesh Epic. Anyway that's not the most important part.

In one of their expeditions to dig around in Iraq a treasure trove of tablets was uncovered barely below the surface. The pieces were taken back to London and lo and behold...what was the world's surprise when half of the Epic of Gilgamesh was discovered. And the part that electrified all Europe...aside from the fact that the existence of the biblical Assyrians was actually "proven"...was that the story of Utnapishtim was revealed to be the much older source for Noah. How could this be? Weren't the Assyrians filled with degenerate kings...which is what Christians would go on believing to this day...our's included?

So, money was quickly found and another expedition sent back and be damned if after only three days of digging...in another pile, they found the second half of the Epic...and everything else they found was just BORING BUISINESS DOCUMENTS...so they quickly took them to London and buried them again...lest the people get bored right out of their fond fables and Jew Fairy Tales.

How likely is that? How likely that you would even find such a thing...find only half of it and then go back and with hardly any effort find the rest of it? And then maintain in all seriousness that everything else in that section was all just boring stuff no one needed to know about?

A few years before he died in the late 1980s, Jean Botero published a book in which he'd deciphered several Assyian recipes and lists of food comsumed etc. Now this is merely a "boring" cook book really...and who wants to read a silly old cook book unless he plans to cook..but as literature? When you have the bible??

Narsai was so excited by the contents that he tried to contact Botero but he was dead by then. Now, I have to admit I always thought the people back then ate locusts and wild honey and dry bread...at least we know this was Jewish take-out at the time. But it turns out that over in Betnahrain...where heaven was already on earth...they had 300 different types of breads...several of them humorously...or wickedly...baked in the shape of human genitals...they had appetizers..they had full-course meals...there were recipes for delicaces and desserts and all the refinements one would expect if you really THOUGHT about just how grand and accomplished they were...but we've never been encouraged or allowed to believe it for certain..instead we've had Kids speculating for us and "degenercy" pushed in our faces till we all believe eating flying bugs was the way to go.

It's more likely that those tablets have been re-buried because of the wealth of interesting, provocative, difficult and new information they contain...information that would overturn many a Judo/Christian applecart.

Scholarshit indeed.



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