A praise-poem to Shulgi: the pleading layer

Friday, August 26, 2016

Sumerian, reputedly the earliest written language, it seems, was much like Setswana. Indeed, outside of the Sotho-Tswana language group, no other language – whether in the Bantu language family or not – can be substituted and still yield a coherent message matching events in known history.

Now, Shulgi, king of the Ur III Dynasty of Sumer, ascended Ur’s throne in 2096 BC (my Harmonized Timeline) after the tragic death of Ur-Nammu, his father, during battle.

An intriguing aspect of his reign was that he claimed, in his memoirs, to have made love to the great goddess Inanna (Ishtar to the Canaanites, Artemis to the Greeks).

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