Hello! I'm newly registered here- I had to make an account quickly while researching into something called the Eridu Genesis, an ancient Sumerian text containing Sumer's creation story, stamped into clay tablets in cuneiform, also telling the oldest recorded tale of an ancient flood.
an excerpt here talks about gifts being given to civilzation's first cities- one gift being "half-bushel baskets"
" [41'ff] The firstling of the cities, Eridu, she gave to the leader Nudimmud,
the second, Bad-Tibira, she gave to the Prince and the Sacred One,
the third, Larak, she gave to Pahilsag,
the fourth, Sippar, she gave to the gallant Utu,
the fifth, Šuruppak, she gave to Ansud.
These cities, which had been named by names,
and had been alloted half-bushel baskets,
dredged the canals, which were blocked with purplish
wind-borne clay, and they carried water,
Their cleaning of the canals established abundant growth "
And here a foretelling to Ziusudra about the coming flood, destroying the civilizations who were given the Half Bushel Baskets by the gods.
And as Ziusudra stood there beside it, he went on hearing:
"Step up to the wall to my left and listen!
Let me speak a word to you at the wall and may you grasp what I say,
may you heed my advice! By our hand a flood will sweep over
the cities of the half-bushel baskets, and the country;
the decision, that mankind is to be destroyed, has been made.
The words caught my attention as they did because the baskets are brought up by the god character Enki to Ziusudra as a specifically descriptive quality of the cities. "those who had been given half-bushel baskets." as if there is something significant or defining about these basket-like objects.
Again this is from the Eridu Genesis, Sumer's creation myth. The Half bushel baskets as a translated description of these gifts got my attention immediately as something which could be misinterpreted for these currently known "manbags" coined by Graham Hancock. & a half bushel basket of what? In some hieroglyphics we see characters holding these baskets/bags, as well as pinecone shaped objects. Maybe some psychedelic, or representation for something else.
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an excerpt here talks about gifts being given to civilzation's first cities- one gift being "half-bushel baskets"
" [41'ff] The firstling of the cities, Eridu, she gave to the leader Nudimmud,
the second, Bad-Tibira, she gave to the Prince and the Sacred One,
the third, Larak, she gave to Pahilsag,
the fourth, Sippar, she gave to the gallant Utu,
the fifth, Šuruppak, she gave to Ansud.
These cities, which had been named by names,
and had been alloted half-bushel baskets,
dredged the canals, which were blocked with purplish
wind-borne clay, and they carried water,
Their cleaning of the canals established abundant growth "
And here a foretelling to Ziusudra about the coming flood, destroying the civilizations who were given the Half Bushel Baskets by the gods.
And as Ziusudra stood there beside it, he went on hearing:
"Step up to the wall to my left and listen!
Let me speak a word to you at the wall and may you grasp what I say,
may you heed my advice! By our hand a flood will sweep over
the cities of the half-bushel baskets, and the country;
the decision, that mankind is to be destroyed, has been made.
The words caught my attention as they did because the baskets are brought up by the god character Enki to Ziusudra as a specifically descriptive quality of the cities. "those who had been given half-bushel baskets." as if there is something significant or defining about these basket-like objects.
Again this is from the Eridu Genesis, Sumer's creation myth. The Half bushel baskets as a translated description of these gifts got my attention immediately as something which could be misinterpreted for these currently known "manbags" coined by Graham Hancock. & a half bushel basket of what? In some hieroglyphics we see characters holding these baskets/bags, as well as pinecone shaped objects. Maybe some psychedelic, or representation for something else.
