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It recorded an early flaming in the diatribe against Engar Dug: http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr5411.htm http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr5411.ht

It recorded an early flaming in the diatribe against Engar Dug: http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr5411.htm http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr5411.htm

gus_massa 11y ago
Is there a photo of the original cuneiform text? (Just curiosity, I can't read cuneiform.)
- indubitably 11y ago
  http://i.imgur.com/BIy8fcj.jpg http://i.imgur.com/BIy8fcj.jpg The rest of the images are in: Sjöberg, Åke W. 1972. “He Is a Good Seed of a Dog” and “Engardu, the Fool.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 24(4). 107–119. doi:10.2307/1359629. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1359629 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1359629
GnarfGnarf 11y ago
Hilarious! "Engar-dug, blocked at the anus" I wish the writer had given some idea as to why Engar-dug earned his enmity. Other pearls of wisdom: "a young woman did not fart in her husband's embrace" Was the reverse equally untrue in their culture?
- contingencies 11y ago
  I have it on good authority (the guy has a PhD and reads cuneiform, Syriac, Hebrew, ancient Chinese, etc.) that one of the early religions of Central Asia which spread to China along the Silk Road lauded farting as releasing the souls of vegetables or something similar, I think it was Manichaeism... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism ... but can't find a reference online. Pythagorus had a lot to say about farts too: Pythagoras also said that no one was to ever eat a bean under any circumstance! His reasons for making such a drastic statement are based on the theory from a Roman peer of his named Diogenes Laertius. Around the first century, B.C. it was felt that beans are " the materials which contain the largest portion of that animated matter which our souls are made of." Let me explain. The Greek word for soul was "anemos" which also meant wind. The animated matter which Diogenes is referring to is the intestinal digestion that goes on inside us with the beans. Are you starting to catch on? In other words, they believed that the buried dead released their souls in the form of gases or winds, that got absorbed into the fava beans. When you ate these beans, (the intestinal process) these spiritual soul winds got released and then ascended into Heaven. - http://www.brownielocks.com/beans.html http://www.brownielocks.com/beans.html
  - sbmassey 11y ago
    Diogenes Laertius cannot really be described as a peer of Pythagoras, as Pythagoras lived in the 6th century BC, long before anything Roman might be considered a peer to anything Greek, and Diogenes Laertius in the 3rd century AD.

It recorded an early flaming in the diatribe against Engar Dug: http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr5411.htm http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr5411.htm

gus_massa 11y ago

Is there a photo of the original cuneiform text? (Just curiosity, I can't read cuneiform.)

indubitably 11y ago
http://i.imgur.com/BIy8fcj.jpg http://i.imgur.com/BIy8fcj.jpg The rest of the images are in: Sjöberg, Åke W. 1972. “He Is a Good Seed of a Dog” and “Engardu, the Fool.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 24(4). 107–119. doi:10.2307/1359629. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1359629 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1359629

GnarfGnarf 11y ago

Hilarious! "Engar-dug, blocked at the anus" I wish the writer had given some idea as to why Engar-dug earned his enmity. Other pearls of wisdom: "a young woman did not fart in her husband's embrace" Was the reverse equally untrue in their culture?

contingencies 11y ago
I have it on good authority (the guy has a PhD and reads cuneiform, Syriac, Hebrew, ancient Chinese, etc.) that one of the early religions of Central Asia which spread to China along the Silk Road lauded farting as releasing the souls of vegetables or something similar, I think it was Manichaeism... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism ... but can't find a reference online. Pythagorus had a lot to say about farts too: Pythagoras also said that no one was to ever eat a bean under any circumstance! His reasons for making such a drastic statement are based on the theory from a Roman peer of his named Diogenes Laertius. Around the first century, B.C. it was felt that beans are " the materials which contain the largest portion of that animated matter which our souls are made of." Let me explain. The Greek word for soul was "anemos" which also meant wind. The animated matter which Diogenes is referring to is the intestinal digestion that goes on inside us with the beans. Are you starting to catch on? In other words, they believed that the buried dead released their souls in the form of gases or winds, that got absorbed into the fava beans. When you ate these beans, (the intestinal process) these spiritual soul winds got released and then ascended into Heaven. - http://www.brownielocks.com/beans.html http://www.brownielocks.com/beans.html
- sbmassey 11y ago
  Diogenes Laertius cannot really be described as a peer of Pythagoras, as Pythagoras lived in the 6th century BC, long before anything Roman might be considered a peer to anything Greek, and Diogenes Laertius in the 3rd century AD.