Re: Ashurbanipal, the "Trampler of Nations" |
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- Friday, August 20 2004, 20:30:35 (CEST) from - Windows XP - Internet Explorer Website: Website title: |
Paul Younan wrote: >Khizmie David, > >Maybe I should become more nationalistic like you and instead of a Cross and Yudh-Heh, I should commission Farid to make a replica of this kinder, more gentle and compassionate quote from Ashurbanipal...instead of the Psalm? What do you think? > >"I besieged and conquered the city… I captured many troops alive. I cut off of some their arms and hands. I cut off others their noses, ears and extremities. I gouged out the eyes of many troops. I made one pile of the living and one of heads. I hung their heads on trees around the city. I flayed as many nobles as had rebelled against me and draped their skins over the pile of corpses… I flayed many, right through my land and draped their skins over the walls. I cut off the heads of their fighters and built therewith a tower before the city. <font color=red>I burnt their adolescent boys and girls. </font>(Bleibtreu 1991)" --------------------- |
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