10/04/2021 0:00:01
As some people know……….that conversations about the general history of things common to people, such as religion, etc., always get us into problems with some people related to the faith and specialty of those who have the right to talk, and we always criticize the approaches to these problems. From the point of view that religion, for example, is a topic related to every human being and is not restricted to a specific group.
But there are other conversations that deal with different topics, and we also regularly get into problems with some people related to the identity and nationality of those who have the right to talk about these topics.
These topics are about the local history of countries and peoples.
The truth is…there is a problem we have when we want to understand things. We believe, for example, that the place in which we live is the only space from which we obtain knowledge, and we consider only the things in our environment to be the source of our awareness and to belong to us alone. .. As for the rest of the things outside our environment, they are not in our cognitive space, and do not affect our awareness.
This problem represents a major barrier that prevents us from having a sound awareness of things.
I believe that the modern concepts that appeared with the emergence of the modern state and were instilled within us… are what contributed greatly to creating this problem for us, and this problem did not exist with us before the emergence of the modern state.
These modern concepts created within us a local space whose area is the borders of the state, and this created for us an awareness confined within the scope of the border state and the things in it, and made our consciousness believe that the things within our borders are the basis of knowledge and are the basis of our awareness only, but outside the borders things have no effect. On our local awareness as a border phenomenon that has a distinct name in the world.
This problem has made us lose the meaning of something we have in common within us, and this thing is that we are a single, inseparable human phenomenon on Earth. The loss of this thing prevented us from realizing that our cognitive space is the entire Earth, and it also prevented us from realizing that anything is anywhere on Earth. It will have a cognitive impact on us within our border space.
Everything new anywhere on earth is related, its impact will penetrate any place on earth, and will target the awareness of all people on earth.
Our lack of the common human meaning between us… in favor of the border meaning of the modern state… has caused us difficulty in realizing a very simple idea, that I do not need to discover anything new within the space of the borders of your residence, even… Create a new awareness for yourself and make it belong to you. I can discover anything new in another country and I will create a new awareness for you and it actually belongs to you.
So this is the problem…which made the things within the space of our borders our only belonging on earth, and made the space within our borders the only source of our knowledge and awareness, and made us lose the common thing (man) in favor of the distinct thing (nationality), and made us lose our belonging to the things outside. Space is our borders, and we neglect the rest of the Earth as a space that influences us and is the source of our knowledge and awareness.
This problem…..made us believe, subconsciously, that any new discovery takes place within our space, that it is not related to the other and does not belong to the other.
Example :
Discovery of ancient clay tablets in Iraq.
It made us believe that they are things related to a special border phenomenon, and not related to a general human phenomenon. They are things that are specific to the residents of Iraq only, and are not related to the residents of Tunisia, the residents of Morocco, the residents of Yemen, or the residents of Misr as well.
It made us believe that the information extracted from within those panels has an impact limited to the inhabitants of a border area and has no impact on the inhabitants of the entire Earth. Its impact is on the inhabitants of Iraq, and its impact will not last long on the inhabitants of any other country.
If the tablets were talking about the emergence of an ancient society in Iraq, and a Allah named Ishtar, Enlil, and Shamash was worshiped, then this means that it was only the religion of the inhabitants of Iraq in the past, and not, for example, the religion of the inhabitants of Algeria in the past, or, for example, the religion of the inhabitants of Yemen in the past, and you made us We believe that this information in the tablets currently has an impact on the population of Iraq alone, and has no impact on the rest of the Earth’s population, because they are separate things on Earth.
The above makes us realize…the real reason…that makes our mind easily accept any new awareness, when something new is discovered within our political borders, and makes our mind find it difficult to accept that there is also an impact on our consciousness that must occur, when Nothing new is discovered outside our political borders.
This is the entry point from which some people place their non-objective criticisms on many conversations related to the history of local societies, and those criticisms always revolve around the lack of the right of the author of the article to talk about this local topic, because he is of a different nationality, because it is a specific border and identity topic and not a humanitarian topic. It belongs to someone, and its influence is limited within the space of the state’s borders, and it has no effect in the space outside the state’s borders, so that anyone from outside the state’s borders has the right to talk about it.
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Yesterday………. UNESCO announced that Iraq will recover a clay tablet from the Epic of Gilgamesh, after it was confirmed to the American authorities that it was stolen from an Iraqi museum in 1991.
It is certain that many people in Iraq and elsewhere have come to know this name (Gilgamesh) and some simple parts of his story, with the spread of books and the Internet and the increase and spread of means of communication, which have made the world live in the information age, and have even become material for researchers in history. And religions, by following the materials published on the Internet and social networking sites……But perhaps many do not know the story of the discovery of this epic and some of the details of that epic.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
It is an Iraqi Sumerian epic written in cuneiform script on 12 clay tablets. It was in the personal library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in Nineveh in Iraq, and all 12 of these clay tablets are preserved in the British Museum.
The tablets are written in the Akkadian language and bear at the end the signature of a person named Shin-i-qi-unini, who some believe was the author of the epic, which some consider to be the oldest story written by man.
It tells the story of an Iraqi king, half Allah and half human, who decided to search for immortality after his friend whom he loved died.
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What is the story of the discovery of this epic?
In 1853, a British researcher discovered, by chance, at an archaeological site in Iraq, about 12 clay tablets written in cuneiform script. All of these clay tablets were taken to Britain and were preserved in the British Museum.
When these tablets were discovered, no one knew what was inside them, because at that time, there was no one on earth who could read the cuneiform writing, or in other words, the cuneiform writing had not yet been deciphered by any Western scientist.
In that year… 1853… the West was still working hard and trying to decipher the cuneiform writing, after it had managed to decipher two ancient writings in the region, which were the pictographic writing in Misr and another writing in Iran that was somewhat similar to the cuneiform writing. .
Although the inscriptions in Iran are approximately four fingers long, the West was able to decipher the inscriptions, which do not differ much from the cuneiform inscriptions in Iraq. However, the West insisted that they were a completely different writing representing a different language, even though Iraq and Iran are close to each other. There is not a large distance between them.
The efforts of Western scholars, especially the British, continued for 20 years, trying to decipher the cuneiform inscriptions.
In 1872, a British man named George Smith was able to decipher cuneiform inscriptions.
George Smith’s personal biography says…that signs of genius appeared in him since his childhood, and when he grew up he became a worker in the British Museum, and he was interested in studying the history of ancient civilizations and reading the book of the Old Testament.
It is not possible to ignore George Smith’s genius nor his personal interests in his work, but coincidence played a major role in George Smith’s success in deciphering cuneiform writing.
The coincidence of his presence as a worker in the British Museum, in addition to a coincidence that occurred with him while he was retransferring things in the British Museum, made him hold the clay tablets that were discovered in Iraq, and made him try to understand what those tablets contained.
George Smith was busy trying to dismantle those boards.
One day, suddenly something appeared that caught George’s attention.
He was not in front of an ordinary table with equipment, but rather in front of an Eastern epic, the epic of Gilgamesh… the great hero… and George Smith continues reading the texts… and cannot believe his eyes… it talks about the great flood… that drowned… The universe…it is the flood that the Old Testament book talks about.
George Smith rushed to the Bible Society and presented to them a report on his discovery. The members of the Bible Society did not believe this news.
Unprecedented news… George Smith was very knowledgeable in the Old Testament, and he was certain that this discovery was evidence of the authenticity of the Flood in the Old Testament. The news of the Babylonian Flood spread throughout all scientific circles.
Almost this is the story of discovery.
George Smith’s role in writing ancient Iraqi history can be considered like Champollion’s role in writing ancient Egyptian history.
If the Frenchman Champollion is the one who is credited with deciphering the ancient writing in Misr and extracting the ancient information contained in the pictorial writing in Misr…then the British George Smith is the one who is credited with deciphering the ancient writing in Iraq and extracting the ancient information contained in the cuneiform writing. .
It is true that Champollion’s international fame is the largest and most overwhelming, while George Smith is obscure in our media and in the West’s scientific celebrations, but it can be said that we are facing one person, not two people, because of the similarity of the genius of the two, and the similarity of the presence of coincidences in the stories of the two’s success in deciphering those writings. The first step the two took after their success in deciphering these writings was similar.
Champollion was a genius when he was young
George Smith was a genius when he was young
Coincidence brought a stone tablet to Champollion
Coincidence brought a clay tablet to George Smith
Champollion deciphered an ancient writing in Misr
George Smith deciphered ancient writing in Iraq
Champollion’s first action was to go to the Linguistic Society to preach to them
George’s first action was to go to the Old Testament Society and preach to them
Champollion took over the management of the museum
George Smith worked in a museum
The only difference between Champollion’s case and George Smith’s case is one thing:
The story of George Smith… was never concerned with the point of deciphering the writing and the language. Happiness was never in their success in deciphering and knowing the language. History focused on how happy George Smith was when he immediately went to the Old Testament Society after his success in deciphering the writing. ……so that he can announce to them that he has information that confirms the occurrence of the flood mentioned in the Old Testament, and that it is evidence of the authenticity of the Old Testament book.
– George Smith…His happiness was not in decoding and understanding language.
– George Smith…his happiness is that it confirms the stories of the Old Testament.
– George Smith did not go to the Society of Scholars to give them good news that he had succeeded in deciphering the writing and knowing the language…… Rather, he went to give them good news that the Old Testament book was true.
George Smith’s interest was focused on proving the authenticity of the stories of the Old Testament writers
As for the story of Champollion……. She was never interested in proving the authenticity of the Book of the Old Testament, nor was she happy in the presence of stories that confirm the Book of the Old Testament. History focused on how happy Champollion was when he immediately went to the Linguistic Society after his success in deciphering the writing. ….so that he could give them the good news that he had succeeded in deciphering writing and knowing the language of writing.
– Champollion… His happiness was not in the contents of the writing that matched the book of the Old Testament.
– Champollion… his happiness in arriving at the language.
– Champollion did not go to the Society of Scholars to give them good news that he had discovered a story that confirms the book of the Old Testament… Rather, he went to give them good news that he knew the correct language for writing.
Champollion’s interest was focused on proving the validity of the language he had arrived at.
I wonder what is the reason?
Why was most of the attention in Britain focused on a religious topic and not a linguistic one, while most of the attention in France was focused on a linguistic topic and not a religious one?
Champollion is French… George Smith is British
Is it because…… France separated religion from rule, while Britain did not separate religion from rule?
Is it because……the state philosophy in France is based on secularism, while the state philosophy in Britain is based on the church?
Was there an agreement between them?
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Now what is the story of Gilgamesh?
The epic is written in a poetic way, but we will quote the summary of that epic according to Wikipedia.
The epic begins by talking about Gilgamesh, king of Uruk – Uruk, whose mother was an immortal Allah and his father a mortal human, and for this reason it was said that two-thirds of him was a Allah and the remaining third was human. Because of the mortal part of him, he begins to realize the fact that he will not be immortal. The Epic makes Gilgamesh a king unpopular with the people of Uruk; Bad practices are attributed to him, including the practice of forcing people to build a huge wall around the great Uruk.
The inhabitants of Uruk prayed to the gods to find a way out of Gilgamesh’s oppression. The gods responded, and one of the goddesses, named Aruru, created a living man whose body was covered with thick hair and who lived in the wilderness, eating herbs and drinking water with animals. That is, he was the complete opposite of Gilgamesh’s character. Some analysts believe that there are symbols of the conflict between civilization and city life, which the Sumerians gradually began to get used to after they left the life of simplicity and agriculture, represented by the character of Enkidu.
Enkidu was saving the animals from the trap of the hunters who were making a living by hunting, so the hunters filed their complaint with King Gilgamesh. So he ordered one of the temple maids to go and try to tempt Enkidu to have sex with her. Thus, the animals move away from Enkidu’s company, and Enkidu becomes tame and civilized. King Gilgamesh’s plan was successful, and the temple maid – whose name was Shamkhat, and she worked as a maid in the temple of the goddess Ishtar – began teaching Enkidu civil life. Such as how to eat, dress, and drink wine. Then she begins to tell Enkidu about the power of Gilgamesh and how he enters with brides before their husbands enter with them. When Enkidu learned about this, he decided to challenge Gilgamesh to a fight to force him to abandon this habit. The two fight fiercely; They are close in strength, but in the end Gilgamesh prevailed, as Enkidu recognized Gilgamesh’s power, and after this incident the two became good friends.
Gilgamesh always tries to do great deeds to keep his name immortal. One day he decides to go to a forest of cedar trees. He cuts down all of its trees, and to achieve this he must eliminate the guardian of the forest, a huge and ugly creature named Humbaba. It is worth noting that the Cedar Forest was the place where the gods lived and it is believed that the intended place was the Cedar Forest of Lebanon.
Conflict in the cedar forest
Gilgamesh and Enkidu begin their journey towards the cedar forests after receiving the blessing of Shamash, the sun Allah, who was also the Allah of wisdom among the Babylonians and Sumerians. He is the same Allah that we see in the famous Hammurabi Stele, handing the laws to King Hammurabi. During the journey, Gilgamesh sees a series of nightmares and dreams, but Enkidu, who… Deep down, frightened by the idea of killing the forest guard, Gilgamesh is constantly reassured that his dreams carry meanings of victory and victory.
When they arrive at the forest, they begin to cut down its trees. The forest guard, Humbaba, approaches them and a violent fight begins, but Gilgamesh and Enkidu prevail, as Humbaba falls to the ground and begins to beg them not to kill him, but his plea is of no use, as the two finish off Humbaba and kill him.
The killing of the forest guard angered the water goddess Enlil, as Enlil was the goddess who entrusted Humbaba with the responsibility of guarding the forest.
After the death of the forest guard, who was considered a terrifying monster, Gilgamesh’s name begins to spread and his fame spreads across the horizons. The goddess Ishtar tries to get close to him for the purpose of marrying Gilgamesh, but Gilgamesh rejects the offer. Ishtar feels humiliated and becomes very angry, so she asks her father Anu, the Allah of the sky, to avenge her pride, so Anu sends a bull. Sacred from heaven, but Enkidu managed to grab the bull’s horn and Gilgamesh finished him off and killed him.
After the killing of the sacred bull, the gods hold a meeting to consider how to punish Gilgamesh and Enkidu for killing a sacred creature. The gods decide to kill Enkidu because he was a human. As for Gilgamesh, the blood of the gods ran through his veins from his mother, who was a goddess, so the disease sent down by the gods begins to infect Enkidu, Gilgamesh’s close friend, and he dies. After a period.
Gilgamesh’s journey in his search for immortality
After Enkidu’s death, Gilgamesh feels great sadness for his close friend, as he does not want to believe the truth of his death, so he refuses to let anyone bury the body for a week until worms begin to emerge from Enkidu’s body. Gilgamesh buries Enkidu himself and wanders off into the wilderness outside Urk. He abandons his luxurious clothes and wears… Animal skins. In addition to Gilgamesh’s sadness over the death of his good friend Enkidu, Gilgamesh was deep down afraid of the fact that he would have to die one day because he was human and humans are mortal and there is no immortality except for the gods.
Gilgamesh began his journey to search for immortality and eternal life. In order for Gilgamesh to find the secret of immortality, he must find the only person who achieved immortality, and his name was Utnapishtim, which some consider very similar, if not identical, to the character of Nouh in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religions. During Gilgamesh’s search for Utnapishtim, he meets one of the goddesses, whose name is Siduri, who was the goddess of wine. Siduri provides a set of advice to Gilgamesh, which can be summed up that Gilgamesh should enjoy what is left of his life instead of spending it searching for immortality, and that he should fill his stomach with the best food, wear the best clothes, and try to… To be happy with what he has, but Gilgamesh was insisting on his quest to reach Utnapishtim to learn the secret of immortality, so Siduri sent Gilgamesh to the circumnavigator Urshanbe, to help him cross the Sea of the Dead to reach Utnapishtim, the only person who was able to achieve immortality.
When Gilgamesh finds Utnapishtim, the latter begins to tell the story of the great flood that occurred by order of the gods. The story of the flood here is very similar to the story of Nouh’s flood. Only Utnapishtim and his wife survived the flood, and the gods decided to grant them immortality.
After Utnapishtim noticed Gilgamesh’s persistence in his quest for immortality, he offered Gilgamesh a chance to become immortal. If Gilgamesh could remain awake without falling asleep for 6 days and 7 nights, he would achieve eternal life, but Gilgamesh failed in this test, but he continued to insist on Utnapishtim. And his wife wants to find another way for him to gain immortality.
Utnapishtim’s wife feels pity for Gilgamesh, so she shows him a magical herb under the sea that can restore youth to Gilgamesh. After his quest for immortality fails, Gilgamesh dives into the depths of the sea in the land of immortality, Dilmun (currently Bahrain), and is able to uproot the magical herb.
Gilgamesh returns to Uruk
After Gilgamesh obtains the magic herb that restores youthfulness, he decides to take it to Urk to try it there on an old man before he eats it, but on his way back, when he was washing in the river, one of the snakes stole the herb and ate it, so Gilgamesh returned to Urk empty-handed and on the way back. He sees the great wall he built around Uruk and thinks deep down that a huge work like this wall is the best way to immortalize his name. In the end, the epic talks about the death of Gilgamesh and the grief of Uruk over his death.
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What is the impact of this epic on reality?
The truth is that the story of that epic has had an impact on the reality in Iraq and outside Iraq, through our follow-up of intellectual and cultural topics.
In Iraq… that epic led an Iraqi artist to get busy composing a piece of music called The Epic of Gilgamesh.
In Iraq and outside it, that epic and the names found in it have become material for some researchers in history and religion, as they attempt to find an explanation for religious names or understand the origins of religious stories that people believe in as a belief.
Do you know who found the origin of the name Mecca…..in the story of Gilgamesh?
There are those who found the origin of the story of Nouh… in the story of Gilgamesh
There are those who have created the origin for many other stories.
Because it is the oldest story written by man.
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What is the truth of this story?
It is not difficult for any ordinary researcher to realize that Darwin’s theory shaped and continues to shape global consciousness today.
Darwin’s theory made the current world with its natural consciousness an anomalous state, and made the anomalous state the natural origin of things.
This theory made it easy for us to imagine the history of the first beginnings in everything, because it made us see the first man naked and screaming, then he moved to the stage of knowing fire and learning to dress….. and so on until stable societies began and the first civilization began, which is It is like a small child being born, a civilization with societies that have a childish mind, childish religions, gods that resemble children’s series, and whose stories resemble children’s stories.
This is the reason why the world of the Sumerian civilization, the oldest civilization on earth, had fairy tales, because in our consciousness it was the first ancient civilization, and this means that it had the beginning like a human beginning as a child… and naturally, the awareness of this civilization would be like the awareness of a child. And the world of this civilization is like the stories of the cartoon series that we watch on television… so it became logical for the existence of such a civilization on Earth that believes in the story of Gilgamesh.
The truth is that I do not find in the story of Gilgamesh any image of the truth that appeared on earth…and I only find it as a story that is completely similar to the stories of the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, who is considered the most famous author of fairy tales for children in the modern era, the story of the mermaid, The story of the swan…etc
Dragonborn story
It tells about a child, searching for his mother, who was angry with the Allah, because she was monopolizing food and preventing him from being hungry, so he turned her into a creature, then the child grows up a little and does not care about people, and decides to search for his mother, and wrestles with goblins, then he has a friend from the goblins. Then he goes to fight a monster in the forest, and one day a drought disaster occurs, so he decides to save people by making a hole in a lake so that water can reach them. He goes to it and finds an animal in the lake, so the creature brings up its mother, and she helps him and they save the people, so his mother returns to being a human being. After the curse of the gods is removed from her.
A story similar to the story of Gilgamesh.
The truth is… George Smith did nothing for Iraq except what Hans Christian Andersen did for children… children’s fairy tales that fit the children’s world.
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What is the truth about these panels?
It is impossible for the first ancient man to write anywhere on earth, in a writing such as what is called cuneiform, and it is impossible that it was the first writing on earth.
The first writing written by ancient humans anywhere on Earth will be pictorial writing, and it is the first writing to appear on Earth.
{He said: What is the matter with the first centuries? (51) He said: Their knowledge is with my Allah in a Book. My Allah does not go astray nor forget. (52)}
{And We gave Musa the Book after We had destroyed the first generations, as insight for mankind and guidance and mercy so that they might remember.}