Song of the Hoe: the plainly threatening layer

Such a vernacular, we have demonstrated, is Setswana – and more so its Sotho-Tswana sister languages – but Sumerians far exceeded the capabilities of our modern scribes.

Sumerian is a now-extinct, ancient language of Mesopotamia (now mainly Iraq) and arguably the oldest written language, and ‘gods’, we have consistently shown, were no mere figments of ancient, primitive imaginations, but real, flesh-and-blood beings of super-advanced technology who for millennia dominated the affairs of ordinary people.