Song of the Hoe: the plainly threatening layer

In the last layer of this famous Sumerian epic-poem, we uncover the most bitter and plainly threatening layer yet – a layer the ‘gods’ were not meant to easily understand because not only are the puns and double-entendres the scribe employs extremely sophisticated, only someone clued into the scribe’s vernacular would be able to discern them.

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.

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