I remember back in high school we had to make a tangible object for one of our history classes and a friend of mine chose to make a ziggurat. Of course, he made it hollow and so one of us immediately seized it and put it on his head. Thus was born the "ziggurhat".
… wait, *I* made a hollow model of the Ziggurat of Ur out of foam core board for history class in high school that was (more than) big enough to wear as a hat.
It gets even worse too. When the great Ziggurat of Ur was being built, the city itself was nearly 2000 years old. And agriculture predated that by about 5000 years. It's crazy.
Well, except in East Asia where the architectural preference seems to have been "wide" more than "tall". I suppose they did some tall things too, but generally speaking in China, Japan and Korea a thing's importance seems to have been relative to its surface area more than its height.
@@Lightice1 Idk, Japan does really like their multi-level palaces. But it seems appropriate for a civilization that developed in steep mountains and grew their crops on terraces to build outward rather than upward; If you want altitude, nature provides aplenty. Symbolically, stretching out far as the eye can see is also very impressive when youre so high up to start.
And in every age, even today we move massive amounts of dirt for various projects. And if you are going to count making bricks out of clay as dirt, then you can probably count concrete as dirt as well. (Congrete is aggregate [dirt/gravel/sand] + cement + water)
Fun fact about the "only priests allowed" aspect. The dolls shown at 1:02 were found in groups in the temple areas, and are believed to be effigies of (probably rich) citizens, for the purpose of having a representation of that person in the presence of the divine. Personally, I like to think the way it usually went was: Citizen: "Could you put this figure in the temple so I can be in divine presence?" Priest: "Sure, for 100 Mina." Citizen pays. Priest takes the figure and just unceremoniously throws it in a corner in the temple with the others.
Priest 2: Zohn! The room is overcrowded! Priest 1: Uuugh, just put it in other place. Priest 2: Can't we just, I dunno "cremate" them? Priest 1: Are you nuts? It'll be like we try to kill these guys & you don't wanna get blackmailed if others found us!!!! High Priest: Wrong, I find you two. Priest 1 & 2: AAARRRGHHHH High Priest: Now, where are we supposed to throw these? I don't wanna offend the citizens but these stuffs blocking up the windows that I can't see anymore.
Yeah, it's kinda weird to me just how fixated we seem to be on Ancient Greece, Rome & Egypt, whilst often almost ignoring the incredible urban developments that happened in the rest of Africa & the Middle East, not to mention the Far East, South East Asia or South America? Although the "big 3" are definitely fascinating in their own right, I feel like that intensity of focus tends to really suppress efforts towards educating people about all the other amazing things that were happening around the world? And it's weird how that then flows on into pop culture too. How many TV series or movies have we seen about Mesopotamian or Assyrian rulers?? How much does the average person know about the incredible Indus Valley civilisation?
There's something deeply beautiful about the persistence of human complexity. You'd think that our distant past would be home only to the primitive forms of what we have today, but instead we just find people, who are just as intelligent and artistic and with just as developed cultures as today- and the study of history and anthropology allows us to piece together how they lived, and what world they created for themselves. There's nothing that gives me more faith in our species than to see reconstructions of the Ziggurat of Ur or the Gardens of Babylon or ancient Palmyra and to see beauty in the grand monuments, sure, but also in the mundane features- the streetcorners and greenery, the things residents of those places would actually interact with on a daily basis. We're really no different from them, and our descendents will be little different than us- just with new cultures and art to interact with and appreciate. That gives me hope.
It seems like the only real difference between ancient and modern people is what percent of us speak the same language and how interconnected we are. After all, everything we have is built on everything that everyone did for, what, 7,000 years? They even left negative reviews on a man selling low-quality copper, passed notes in class, and surrounded themselves with beauty, like this manmade mountain or the myriad of paintings, sculptures, and statues.
@@bluesbest1technology is probably one of the few things that genuinely changes between eras. And then technology impacts how interconnected we can be. Rome and China technically traded with eachother but it was done by middlemen with so much markup, and now a cargoship can sail from Hong Kong to London in a matter of weeks, or an Airplane can do it in under a day. Interconnectedness then impacts the need to learn other languages and the ability to stadardize a language. When the fastest travel time between places is riding a horse, and the only communication is face to face or physical letters you don't need to learn many languages. When you can call someone anywhere in the world and have real time conversations it becomes much more important, especially for trade/buisness. So many things people complain about in "kids these days" have been around since the dawn of time. Stuff like dirty jokes and graffiti, i mean the romans drew dicks on Hadrian's Wall. Vikings carved stuff like "Halfnar was here" in the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul. The oldest known joke in English is a dick joke. Its honestly amazing how much can change physically about the world, and yet the behavior of people is fundamentally unchanged.
Blue's teaching me how to appreciate that art in buildings, but I already kind of felt this way in regards to ancient textiles. It's crazy to me HOW complex even Paleolithic groups could make their clothes and baskets and other everyday objects, using basically grass and bark and vines, maybe some bones here and there, maybe some leather for the really fancy stuff... Just amazing. And when you look at some of the objects that survive, the actual artifacts are so PRETTY. Even kind of muddied and faded by time and being buried and everything, they are still obviously made with an eye to beauty: from a simple tool meant to help process flax and bast, to a basket some little girl might've used to pick flowers. All of it. The humble things just as much as the important symbolic things. You've said it much better than I can though!
One of the most ancient mesopotamian tablet we have (from 1750BC) is a complaint letter to a scummy merchant who selled low grade copper to his client. Let that sink in for a moment
@@patchwork5532 In Mesopotamia, the last Neo-Babylonian king excavated the ruins of a temple the Akkadian king Naram-Sin built in the city of Sippar (Nabonidus was about 1500 years off from when Naram-Sin actually lived and thought Sargon of Akkad was Naram-Sin's father instead of grandfather but still)
Ziggurats are truly AMAZING constructions, especially if we consider that most of them are extremely ancient. Very few cinema productions, like the classic 1927 movie "Metropolis" and its 2001 anime version, capture the divine beauty of these architectural monstrosities.
@@6515cgYeah, it's an anime re-imagination of the silent film, written by AKIRA's creator Katsuhiro Otomo and starring the iconic Rock Holmes and other characters of the classic mangas of Osamu Tezuka. It's pretty beautiful actually, and the soundtrack and climax are easily of the best in cinema history. Absolutely reccomended
Looking forward to more Mesopotamian content. Everyone knows about the Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilizations so it's nice to hear about Mesopotamia too.
Mesopotamia was the first civilization I learned about when learning about world history. It really shows how other civilizations have evolved over thousands of years from then to now.
hope it goes well! I just finished the A level myself this year, it's totally worth it. I did the Odyssey, Imperial Image, and Love and Relations as my options. What does your college teach?
Sumerians were the first peoples that we know of who had a patron deity for each of their independent city states, and each had its own temple *ziggurat* where his or hers statue was housed at the top, and it was believed that the deity itself was thus housed in that very same place.
I always figured that the story of the Tower of Babel was based on the construction of a ziggurat. Turns out that I was basically right! Edit: However, the writers of that particular story were commenting on a ziggurat being constructed in Babylon, not the ancient Sumerian one talked about here.
I had once read that Babylon and Eridu are often equated in writings of antiquity, Babylon being seen as a sort of heir to Eridus legacy. I had also read somewhere else that the Ziggurat in Eridu was first abandoned before being revisited, but I'd need to reread to be sure.
@thefbi3056yeah for a while Christianity and Judaism weren’t really big on the idea of building a place for God so much as finding a suitable location. A particularly nice view on a cliff, a mountain or an oasis. Things like that. It wasn’t until the cultural idea of “you could actually build a nice looking place for your God” came around that they started doing it. Even then in biblical texts they were very picky about the whole concept and had stories of God tearing down temples and churches if it was an offensive place of worship (typically if the people running it were corrupt assholes)
If you're getting into talking about Uruk, you have to talk about the most memed-about person of the time period. The quite literal *Ur-example* of the personality archetype that eventually spawned the Discworld's Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler: Ea-nasir.
Huh... I remember seeing some modern office buildings under construction and I had the oddest feeling I'd seen them somewhere. Now I know why: the new buildings are 21st century glass and steel ziggurats! The new buildings feature the sloped structure, the external staircase, and the vegetation from the mesopotamian ziggurats
@@Toonrick12on the other hand physics imposes certail limitations that make some solutions relatively ideal. Pyramids are common across ancient cultures, but this is partly because its a great way to stack rocks without them falling down for a long time. Although i suspect in the case of these offices its an intentional design choice to "reference" the ziggurats of old. (Like the Bass Pro Shop that's a pyramid) Humans are also very nostalgic, almost as much as we are creative.
i think that the most incredible thing about the past isn’t how little we know about these old kingdoms at the start of civilization, but how much we actually *do* know, because it’s crazy we know anything about stuff happening 5,000 years ago
We know for sure about a guy that was very displeased about getting sold some poor-quality copper. We even somehow know the seller somehow lost favour with the royal family later and had to leave the city.
@@Archgeek0 Imagine going back and telling somebody (with proof to show, to make it easier to believe) that one of the most lasting pieces of information about their civilization long after most of it has been lost to time is a chorus of people complaining about that one jerk they know from around the corner? Yeah, everybody millennia later knows he's a piece of shit not to be trusted with the sale of metals. It'd be like somebody in orbit of Rigel Kentaurus three thousand years from now knowing about how at least a thousand people left scathing "yelp reviews" about a crusty diner, absent of any context as to what it means.
I’ve been loving these architectural history videos you’ve done recently. Between this, the castle video, and the church video before that, all these buildings are so cool and the history attached to them so vast and deep
This has made me connect some dots. I am only just now connecting the Biblical High Places that are described in the Books of Kings with Ziggurats and now understand more why God was mad at Solomon for building them. Most of what I’d researched just stated things like elevated mounds of earth or shrines on tall hills, but if he built Ziggurats for his Wives’ Gods that is a whole other can of worms in my opinion. The picture in my head was a small shrine on a hill in the cities not a large structure.
It’s really cool how you use architecture to teach about culture; the way we design really says a lot about what we hold sacred! It’s interesting to think of the central role uniting the city that the Ziggurat played, like a Cathedral would play in Medieval Europe, that a Courthouse would play in most older American towns, that is typically now served by a downtown Business District. It tells a lot about what we value most in any given time or culture. It reminds me of the Curse of Billy Penn in Philadelphia sports. When the One Liberty Place skyscraper was built in 1987, it was the first building taller than City Hall, which had a statue of the state’s founder William Penn on top. Teams from Philadelphia kept losing since then, until a statue of William Penn was placed on the (then-tallest building) Comcast tower. 8 months later, the Phillies won the World Series. That’s a roundabout way of showing how, even today, what we elevate above the rest matters!
Originally came for Reds discussion of writing concepts (as an aspiring author), and now am finding myself often more excited for the history, both because I learn about our world and take a lot of my world building inspiration from real world history. Thank you both for everything you do here, it is incredible!
To be clear, this channel is often my first watch when I have a bunch of notifications because I get so much out of all of the work done by the crew, just hadn't initially anticipated how much I would enjoy the history.
As the owner of an English Literature MA I am very much impressed by the use of "Whomstsoever" in this video. (The history nut in me still loves this too!)
@@Nazuiko Actually modern diets are extremely protein rich, since we eat lots of meat, eggs and milk products. For most ancient people, meat was very expensive and was eaten rarely, and diets were very carb heavy (bread or rice or similar). They did eat less salt, and a LOT less sugar than we did though.
Not entirely related, but I just got to reading Jonathan Strouds Bartimaeus. It's nice to put a picture to the beautiful places described there and learn about the real-world history.
Back in 2006, my unit was redeployed to Al Tallil Airbase before ending our deployment. The ruins of Ur were part of out immediate security zone. One evening after our assigned duties, we were stuck behind a slow convoy of a Romanian unit and I saw the marked turn off for the ziggurat. I told my soldier that was with me, that we are going to make a stop and see something of ancient history. We went to the ruins of Ur. It was remarkable and humbling! This was the remains of an ancient and powerful city. Many locals were rather proud to say that Abraham came from Ur. There was still visible ancient graffiti on what remained of the walls of the various dwellings and we were able to stand atop the ziggurat. There was a paved parking lot and If I recall, three modern two story houses across from the parking lot. Possibly for the visiting teams of archeologists before the war. We were the only living souls around, which gave an air of mystery akin to visiting a very old graveyard. It was certainly a place to respect. I did learn something supposedly interesting about the ziggurat. One of our duties during those last few months was to guard third country nationals. Basically, just make sure they didn't get in trouble on the base. This one group I was with, the boss was a recently returned Iraqi that was living in England for many years as an exile. He returned and started a small construction company and was a awarded a project on the base. He had and engineering degree - I think from a university in Manchester? Anyways, he told me that the foundation fill of the ziggurat was made primarily of cotton seed hulls. He explained to me, that the monsoons would drop so much water and the fibrous seed hulls would be able to absorb the water and release it slowly over time. Apparently, it helped reduce erosion. At the time, I barely knew how to build a frame out of 2x4's, so I don't know if this is accurate but, it sounded good. That little spontaneous diversion really was something I'll always value as an important experience to me. For all the horrors I experienced in Iraq, there is a part of me that would love to go and see and explore more in that region and many other places around the globe one day. I do have a love of history.
in a weird turn of events, I have happenstantial mentioned OSP on a near daily basis for the past week to a friend, and earlier today that friend mentioned how they'd love to talk with someone more knowledgeable on the matter of religion and how it relates to civilisations and the people and things, and this video is a good fit for that!
As a young soldier that had recently gone through his first reality check from war the ziggurat of ur hold a special place in my heart because it even through that lonesome dessert the place still felt alive and well
Aliens after arriving on Earth in the present: "Excuse me, could you tell us where to find the Sumerians? We have brought them the plans they asked for the construction of their new ziggurats. We suffered a little delay while coming here, but sure they won't mind... "
They collapsed ages ago but we are still interested in buying those plans, we will build it in their honor. In the mean time can can we buy plans to your FTL technology?
@@jasonreed7522 “FTL? It took us almost 4000 years to go back and forth between this world and ours once. You really think we have faster than light travel?”
That last line caught me off guard, I had to think about it for a sec but once I realized it I was shocked to realize I was just hit by the dirtiest joke osp has ever written.
Hi Blue. I was wondering, sense you've covered all of anchient Egypt, that you could make a video about their rivaling empire during the bronze age the Hittite Empire. For the longest time, I've been wondering who those people were, and while I admittedly should research it myself and I might after this comment, It would be a banger to hear your take on their history. Because I don't know where to start
@@ferretyluv I'm writing ln my phone, and it's autocorrection is terrible. Where it on pc it would be a lot easier. Besides, english is my second language
@@mr.boomguy *were it on pc and also, would it not make sense to have autocorrection turned off if it was that... idk, terrible? that and being an ESL person, should you not have better english than natives?
@@indiomie I'm not sure if I should take your comment as a insult or a guide. But I got my autocorrect turned on my phone now, even tho I write this comment on my pc
Heck yesssss, really old stuuuuuff! It always boggles my mind, to see the recreations and how long ago they really were, and how recognizable all of it is! That we're not so different from our ancestors as we like to think. To me, that's comforting.
I'd love to hear more about the administration and bureaucracy of the Ur III period. Y'all have a way of explaining these things that reminds me of my best teachers.
If I'm being honest, I never watched much of Blue's content, but I think I'm going to change that now. Blue deserves respect as well, and I'm sorry for not giving that before.
You should cover the extensive culture of mound building in Native American civilizations. It's spread all the way from Mesoamerica to Winsconsin. You could even sneak in the terrace farms of the Andes. Its a really interesting topic.
MORE ARCHAEOLOGICAL/ANTHROPOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY HELL YESSS. History benefits so much from not just explaining the archaeological facts but how it works too, especially with dating bc it can be so misleading.
4:21 "Naram-Sin defiled the people of Babylon. Twice he called up the horde of Gutium against it. ... his people as with a goad ... he gave his sovereignty to the horde of Gutium. Gutium was an oppressive people. They did not know divine worship; rites and regulations they did not know how to perform properly. [Utuhegal] the "fisherman" caught fish as offering-presents on the edge of the seacoast. Until that fish was offered to the [Lord Prince] Marduk, it was not offered to any other god. The Gutians took the cooked fish away from him before it was offered. By his exalted command he took away sovereignty from the horde and gave it to Utuhegal" -The Weidner Chronicle Fun fact, the Gutian king Utuhegal defeated supposedly only ruled for 10 days (according to the Sumerian King List).
Oh Hell Yeah! Excited to learn about Ur! I have no understanding of this space time, but man does it evoke the imagination. The "first" city (according to US public school), the monosyllabic name, the huge animals to contend with! Alright alright alright, imma watch it now. Thanks for doing history stuff!
I think a good way of putting it is the better we can guess what a culture is trying to say through their art/writing, the more advanced it was. If something was universal enough to be studied/established in knowledge outside of archaic academia, it’s probably something other people later used and we have an idea of what it could be. The ziggurat looks a LOT like a Greek column temple, and even was placed on top of mountains like they did. Often used by the later Greeks for the sake stuff, important palaces, temples, and definitely not open access.
"iltam sumra rashupti elatim" (Bronze age meme / Ammi-ditāna's hymn to Ištar) is a pray to god Ištar, Sumerian / Akkadian priest usually read Ammi-ditāna's hymn to Ištar in ziggurat on special occasion. Basically "Lord's Prayer", imagine 2000 years from now, future human use Lord Prayer sound effect for internet memes.
I've only heard this term "Ziggeraut" twice in my life, once in the anime film "Metropolis" and once in the animated series "The Legend of Vox Machina"
Its a standard part of grade school history in the USA (well New York State circa 2010s). Admittedly not a lot of time is spent on ancient Mesopotamia, but they are one of the "defining features" along with cuneiform. Kinda like the Pyramids and Hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt.
Not gonna lie: whenever Blue makes a video talking about architecture that *isn't* domes or Greco-Roman, it always feels just a little like the beach episode in an anime. Like, yeah, it's cool and fun and all, but really just filler while we wait for the story arc to continue.
The story of the king having relations with the high priestess at the top of the ziggurat during the Akitu-festival (Babylonian New Year) recounted by Herodotus comes from the Neo-Babylonian period in Mesopotamian history which is a full millennium and a half after the Ur III state built the first multi-tiered ziggurats! Though it should be noted that the Akitu festival as we know it (12-days of rituals celebrating the sowing of barley and honoring Marduk) took place in Babylon and isn’t really attested until the Kassite period (~1500-1150 BCE according to Middle chronology) which is 600 years after the founding of the Ur III state, and 200-300 years after Babylon rose to prominence as one of the most important cities in Mesopotamia. In addition there is no other attestation in the tens of thousands of Mesopotamian tablets of the ritual Herodotus describes, making it an extremely dubious claim. A great video a solid summary of one of the most iconic features of ancient Mesopotamia!
@@Fakan Nope. The punchline was old when I ran across it. A smoking ziggurat is hazardous to you stealth. A very cut down set up to longer and better punchline.
The Semitic root ZKR (from which the word ziggurat comes I believe) and ones similar to it carry the meanings of "male", "erect", "rememberance", and "hard/sharp", while the semitic roots NSY/'NTh carry the meanings of "female", "flat", "forgetting" and "soft". Something I dug into recently and thought some nerds here might enjoy :) I adore semitic roots ❤
I'm the resident history nerd at work, and we ended up talking about Hirodatus. They asked "so if he was the first historian, was he any good at it?" Ehhhh yes and no. It's... Complicated. Also ancient mesopotamia? 100% psyched
As a fan of the Exorcist, I have often daydreamed about demons like Pazuzu and he pronounces it Akk-ahd-DI-an, not Akk-AY-di-an. I just thought it strange to hear a similar pronunciation here.
Also, the Sacred Marriage rite likely took place, but it’s more likely that it was a ceremony involving the statues of Inanna and Dumuzid, with Dumuzid being associated with the King as a recipient of Inanna’s love and patronage, which bestows legitimacy, political power, material prosperity, victory in battle, etc etc.
I have a REQUEST! PLEASE! Your videos are so great and in the best way possible, they are super great for falling asleep to... except for the parts where it goes **FULL WHITE SCREEN** Can you please make a separate Playlist or something where all of those are blackscreen or like reversed or literally anything. Will repost in several places hoping you will see ❤❤
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I remember back in high school we had to make a tangible object for one of our history classes and a friend of mine chose to make a ziggurat. Of course, he made it hollow and so one of us immediately seized it and put it on his head. Thus was born the "ziggurhat".
Devo did it first.
@@paulwagner688 You can't prove that this person's friend isn't a member of Devo.
The ancients would be proud
… wait, *I* made a hollow model of the Ziggurat of Ur out of foam core board for history class in high school that was (more than) big enough to wear as a hat.
Omg
To put in perspective how old these places are, woolly mammoths still existed on isolated islands around the time Ur was being built
It gets even worse too. When the great Ziggurat of Ur was being built, the city itself was nearly 2000 years old. And agriculture predated that by about 5000 years. It's crazy.
Didn’t wooly mammoths exist when Columbus was alive in small isolated parts of Siberia?
@@SymphonyZachNo. The last evidence for living mammoths are from the 3rd millennium BC, well before Columbus
@@SymphonyZach No but the last Dodo was still alive
@@merrittanimation7721 I swear I remember in my archaeology class talking about a 6th century AD Chinese record of a woolly mammoth
what I've learned from this channel is that humans, no matter where we are, like stacking dirt to make things tall
Well, except in East Asia where the architectural preference seems to have been "wide" more than "tall". I suppose they did some tall things too, but generally speaking in China, Japan and Korea a thing's importance seems to have been relative to its surface area more than its height.
@@Lightice1 I'm not qualified to speak on this with absolutely certainty, but from what I do know, you seem to be correct
@@Lightice1 building wide also provided stability which was important as earthquakes were and I believe still are common to the region.
@@Lightice1 Idk, Japan does really like their multi-level palaces.
But it seems appropriate for a civilization that developed in steep mountains and grew their crops on terraces to build outward rather than upward; If you want altitude, nature provides aplenty. Symbolically, stretching out far as the eye can see is also very impressive when youre so high up to start.
And in every age, even today we move massive amounts of dirt for various projects. And if you are going to count making bricks out of clay as dirt, then you can probably count concrete as dirt as well. (Congrete is aggregate [dirt/gravel/sand] + cement + water)
Fun fact about the "only priests allowed" aspect. The dolls shown at 1:02 were found in groups in the temple areas, and are believed to be effigies of (probably rich) citizens, for the purpose of having a representation of that person in the presence of the divine.
Personally, I like to think the way it usually went was:
Citizen: "Could you put this figure in the temple so I can be in divine presence?"
Priest: "Sure, for 100 Mina."
Citizen pays. Priest takes the figure and just unceremoniously throws it in a corner in the temple with the others.
Martin Luther: "I know I won't be born for millennia, but I still feel like someone just stepped on my grave."
Priest 2: Zohn! The room is overcrowded!
Priest 1: Uuugh, just put it in other place.
Priest 2: Can't we just, I dunno "cremate" them?
Priest 1: Are you nuts? It'll be like we try to kill these guys & you don't wanna get blackmailed if others found us!!!!
High Priest: Wrong, I find you two.
Priest 1 & 2: AAARRRGHHHH
High Priest: Now, where are we supposed to throw these? I don't wanna offend the citizens but these stuffs blocking up the windows that I can't see anymore.
...and that's how we have garden gnomes!
Nahhh, naaahhh, VERY CEREMONIOUSLY throws it in a corner with the others! Sonorous chanting, then YEET!
Legit psyched for more ancient Mesopotamia content.
Same!!! I think theres enough Rome/Greece content on the internet, I love learning about cultures that go even further back
Sadly the ancient mesopotamians have been dead for some time so I doubt we'll be getting more content from them 😢
I agree completely
Yeah, it's kinda weird to me just how fixated we seem to be on Ancient Greece, Rome & Egypt, whilst often almost ignoring the incredible urban developments that happened in the rest of Africa & the Middle East, not to mention the Far East, South East Asia or South America?
Although the "big 3" are definitely fascinating in their own right, I feel like that intensity of focus tends to really suppress efforts towards educating people about all the other amazing things that were happening around the world? And it's weird how that then flows on into pop culture too. How many TV series or movies have we seen about Mesopotamian or Assyrian rulers?? How much does the average person know about the incredible Indus Valley civilisation?
If we can get a more in-depth look at the Achaemenid/Sasanid Persian empires and Zoroastrianism, I will be happy as a hippo in a mud wallow.
"No Randos on the big bricky trapezoid" made me laugh so hard! No other channel blends education and entertainment as well as you guys. You rock!
Cold fusion had called a double airballon an ass ones xD.
There's something deeply beautiful about the persistence of human complexity. You'd think that our distant past would be home only to the primitive forms of what we have today, but instead we just find people, who are just as intelligent and artistic and with just as developed cultures as today- and the study of history and anthropology allows us to piece together how they lived, and what world they created for themselves. There's nothing that gives me more faith in our species than to see reconstructions of the Ziggurat of Ur or the Gardens of Babylon or ancient Palmyra and to see beauty in the grand monuments, sure, but also in the mundane features- the streetcorners and greenery, the things residents of those places would actually interact with on a daily basis. We're really no different from them, and our descendents will be little different than us- just with new cultures and art to interact with and appreciate. That gives me hope.
yes indeed. humans have been culturally complex like this for at least 50,000 years if not more. look up "behavioral modernity" if you're curious
It seems like the only real difference between ancient and modern people is what percent of us speak the same language and how interconnected we are. After all, everything we have is built on everything that everyone did for, what, 7,000 years?
They even left negative reviews on a man selling low-quality copper, passed notes in class, and surrounded themselves with beauty, like this manmade mountain or the myriad of paintings, sculptures, and statues.
@@bluesbest1technology is probably one of the few things that genuinely changes between eras.
And then technology impacts how interconnected we can be. Rome and China technically traded with eachother but it was done by middlemen with so much markup, and now a cargoship can sail from Hong Kong to London in a matter of weeks, or an Airplane can do it in under a day. Interconnectedness then impacts the need to learn other languages and the ability to stadardize a language. When the fastest travel time between places is riding a horse, and the only communication is face to face or physical letters you don't need to learn many languages. When you can call someone anywhere in the world and have real time conversations it becomes much more important, especially for trade/buisness.
So many things people complain about in "kids these days" have been around since the dawn of time. Stuff like dirty jokes and graffiti, i mean the romans drew dicks on Hadrian's Wall. Vikings carved stuff like "Halfnar was here" in the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul. The oldest known joke in English is a dick joke.
Its honestly amazing how much can change physically about the world, and yet the behavior of people is fundamentally unchanged.
Blue's teaching me how to appreciate that art in buildings, but I already kind of felt this way in regards to ancient textiles. It's crazy to me HOW complex even Paleolithic groups could make their clothes and baskets and other everyday objects, using basically grass and bark and vines, maybe some bones here and there, maybe some leather for the really fancy stuff... Just amazing. And when you look at some of the objects that survive, the actual artifacts are so PRETTY. Even kind of muddied and faded by time and being buried and everything, they are still obviously made with an eye to beauty: from a simple tool meant to help process flax and bast, to a basket some little girl might've used to pick flowers. All of it. The humble things just as much as the important symbolic things.
You've said it much better than I can though!
One of the most ancient mesopotamian tablet we have (from 1750BC) is a complaint letter to a scummy merchant who selled low grade copper to his client. Let that sink in for a moment
The fact we even know about things this long ago is truly terrifying in a way, but more terrifying is how much came before this
The oldest signs of civilization we found was 10k BC In Turkey and even that look like culture that had longer history
Saw something a few months ago about how Egypt was so old that Ramses II era Egypt had Egyptian Archeologists.
Which is
ya know
Mind boggling.
@@patchwork5532we know that even by the time of Namur, that lived cleopatra lived closer to us than him, was very old
@@patchwork5532 In Mesopotamia, the last Neo-Babylonian king excavated the ruins of a temple the Akkadian king Naram-Sin built in the city of Sippar (Nabonidus was about 1500 years off from when Naram-Sin actually lived and thought Sargon of Akkad was Naram-Sin's father instead of grandfather but still)
Hold on, is this the Ck3 After the End developer?
Ziggurats are truly AMAZING constructions, especially if we consider that most of them are extremely ancient. Very few cinema productions, like the classic 1927 movie "Metropolis" and its 2001 anime version, capture the divine beauty of these architectural monstrosities.
Wait what, Metropolis has an anime version???
@@6515cgYeah, it's an anime re-imagination of the silent film, written by AKIRA's creator Katsuhiro Otomo and starring the iconic Rock Holmes and other characters of the classic mangas of Osamu Tezuka. It's pretty beautiful actually, and the soundtrack and climax are easily of the best in cinema history. Absolutely reccomended
Looking forward to more Mesopotamian content. Everyone knows about the Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilizations so it's nice to hear about Mesopotamia too.
And it is probably one of the most influential because stuff they did influence on all other Mediterranean cultures
Mesopotamia was the first civilization I learned about when learning about world history. It really shows how other civilizations have evolved over thousands of years from then to now.
Fertile crescent Tigris Euphrates river civilization began like Sumer Babylon Assyria
I think a voice in the sky told them "we must build more ziggurats!"
Edit: as pointed out below:
You must construct additional ziggurats
we must construct additional ziggurats
And War Carts!
But though they built more, this was the original one. The "Ur-ziggurat", if you will.
You must construct additional ziggurats.
You must construct additional ziggurats
You require more vespian gas.
You've not enough minerals.
Not enough energy.
shoutout to Enheduanna, one of the high-priestesses of Ur, who may have been the first poet in recorded history:)
*known poet, as poetry existed before that. We just know her name unlike earlier writers.
@@merrittanimation7721Recorded history is what they said
@@BJGvideos They were saying that older poetry exists (within recorded history), but that their authors are unknown.
@@SamJNE122 Yes. That's what I was saying.
@@BJGvideos That's not really clear. Recorded history could mean writing in general.
This channel is single-handedly responsible for the fact I'm taking Classical Civillisations for A-Level and I don't know how to feel about that
hope it goes well! I just finished the A level myself this year, it's totally worth it. I did the Odyssey, Imperial Image, and Love and Relations as my options. What does your college teach?
@@_ratsoup1348 We do the Iliad, the Aeneid, Greek theatre and Love and Relations
@@dicegerry5127 L+R is the best module I did for sure
Nice, I did those modules when I went to college, I'm sure you'll enjoy it and do great :D@@dicegerry5127
Sumerians were the first peoples that we know of who had a patron deity for each of their independent city states, and each had its own temple *ziggurat* where his or hers statue was housed at the top, and it was believed that the deity itself was thus housed in that very same place.
From my understanding it seemed like it was trend in all Fertile Crescent with god might being started has one of them
@@chimera9818 Sure, thats why I said Sumerians were the first to do it *(that we can reliably know of)
We should bring that back. Philly should build a massive temple for Gritty
@@colbyeckert *gestures to sports stadiums*
@@5peciesunkn0wnnot trapezoidal enough
I always figured that the story of the Tower of Babel was based on the construction of a ziggurat. Turns out that I was basically right! Edit: However, the writers of that particular story were commenting on a ziggurat being constructed in Babylon, not the ancient Sumerian one talked about here.
Would explain why Christians never built something similar, too much religious baggage
I think Tower of Babel was ziggurat
I had once read that Babylon and Eridu are often equated in writings of antiquity, Babylon being seen as a sort of heir to Eridus legacy. I had also read somewhere else that the Ziggurat in Eridu was first abandoned before being revisited, but I'd need to reread to be sure.
Idk why it would be given Ur is in the bible already, like they arent the same city
@thefbi3056yeah for a while Christianity and Judaism weren’t really big on the idea of building a place for God so much as finding a suitable location. A particularly nice view on a cliff, a mountain or an oasis. Things like that. It wasn’t until the cultural idea of “you could actually build a nice looking place for your God” came around that they started doing it. Even then in biblical texts they were very picky about the whole concept and had stories of God tearing down temples and churches if it was an offensive place of worship (typically if the people running it were corrupt assholes)
If you're getting into talking about Uruk, you have to talk about the most memed-about person of the time period. The quite literal *Ur-example* of the personality archetype that eventually spawned the Discworld's Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler: Ea-nasir.
Oh absolutely. I'm surprised there hasn't been a historical comedy about him yet
I'm late AF but:
1. I saw what you did there,
2. I agree, and
3. Discworld reference means I like you.
Huh... I remember seeing some modern office buildings under construction and I had the oddest feeling I'd seen them somewhere. Now I know why: the new buildings are 21st century glass and steel ziggurats! The new buildings feature the sloped structure, the external staircase, and the vegetation from the mesopotamian ziggurats
Human imagination is both endless and easily forgetful.
@@Toonrick12on the other hand physics imposes certail limitations that make some solutions relatively ideal.
Pyramids are common across ancient cultures, but this is partly because its a great way to stack rocks without them falling down for a long time.
Although i suspect in the case of these offices its an intentional design choice to "reference" the ziggurats of old. (Like the Bass Pro Shop that's a pyramid) Humans are also very nostalgic, almost as much as we are creative.
i think that the most incredible thing about the past isn’t how little we know about these old kingdoms at the start of civilization, but how much we actually *do* know, because it’s crazy we know anything about stuff happening 5,000 years ago
We know for sure about a guy that was very displeased about getting sold some poor-quality copper. We even somehow know the seller somehow lost favour with the royal family later and had to leave the city.
@@Archgeek0 Imagine going back and telling somebody (with proof to show, to make it easier to believe) that one of the most lasting pieces of information about their civilization long after most of it has been lost to time is a chorus of people complaining about that one jerk they know from around the corner? Yeah, everybody millennia later knows he's a piece of shit not to be trusted with the sale of metals.
It'd be like somebody in orbit of Rigel Kentaurus three thousand years from now knowing about how at least a thousand people left scathing "yelp reviews" about a crusty diner, absent of any context as to what it means.
“No randos on the brick pyramid” is such an iconic quote
I’ve been loving these architectural history videos you’ve done recently. Between this, the castle video, and the church video before that, all these buildings are so cool and the history attached to them so vast and deep
Now I am just imagining ancient Mesopotamian LEGO advertising the new and exciting three layer ziggurat set.
This has made me connect some dots. I am only just now connecting the Biblical High Places that are described in the Books of Kings with Ziggurats and now understand more why God was mad at Solomon for building them. Most of what I’d researched just stated things like elevated mounds of earth or shrines on tall hills, but if he built Ziggurats for his Wives’ Gods that is a whole other can of worms in my opinion. The picture in my head was a small shrine on a hill in the cities not a large structure.
It’s really cool how you use architecture to teach about culture; the way we design really says a lot about what we hold sacred!
It’s interesting to think of the central role uniting the city that the Ziggurat played, like a Cathedral would play in Medieval Europe, that a Courthouse would play in most older American towns, that is typically now served by a downtown Business District. It tells a lot about what we value most in any given time or culture.
It reminds me of the Curse of Billy Penn in Philadelphia sports. When the One Liberty Place skyscraper was built in 1987, it was the first building taller than City Hall, which had a statue of the state’s founder William Penn on top. Teams from Philadelphia kept losing since then, until a statue of William Penn was placed on the (then-tallest building) Comcast tower. 8 months later, the Phillies won the World Series.
That’s a roundabout way of showing how, even today, what we elevate above the rest matters!
"Is this true? Well, it is Herodotus."
Me: so the odds are 40% possible, 40% an exaggeration (accidental or otherwise) and 20% made the fuck up.
Originally came for Reds discussion of writing concepts (as an aspiring author), and now am finding myself often more excited for the history, both because I learn about our world and take a lot of my world building inspiration from real world history. Thank you both for everything you do here, it is incredible!
To be clear, this channel is often my first watch when I have a bunch of notifications because I get so much out of all of the work done by the crew, just hadn't initially anticipated how much I would enjoy the history.
As the owner of an English Literature MA I am very much impressed by the use of "Whomstsoever" in this video. (The history nut in me still loves this too!)
These ancient people were incredibly fit, considering how many stairs they have to go up...
knee pain was invented afterwards
they werent as sedentary or salt-rich as modern society; diets were more protein based and daily activity was a lot more labor intensive :)
@@Nazuiko Actually modern diets are extremely protein rich, since we eat lots of meat, eggs and milk products. For most ancient people, meat was very expensive and was eaten rarely, and diets were very carb heavy (bread or rice or similar). They did eat less salt, and a LOT less sugar than we did though.
@@Nazuiko Commenter not taking a joke seriously challenge: Impossible
@@eddthehead123 I don't think it was a joke
I am digging these "Blue explains why and how this building is awesome" videos.
That last line dealt 100 points of psychic damage to me. I was NOT prepared.
I absolutely adore that the "Trope Talk" music started playing as Blue was sarcastically declaring the "Easy Answer," hahahaaa
Brilliant video!
I concur with everyone else, this is a great video and I’m REALLY looking forward to more Mesopotamia content this month
Not entirely related, but I just got to reading Jonathan Strouds Bartimaeus. It's nice to put a picture to the beautiful places described there and learn about the real-world history.
Those are some very fun books, enjoy :)
Back in 2006, my unit was redeployed to Al Tallil Airbase before ending our deployment. The ruins of Ur were part of out immediate security zone.
One evening after our assigned duties, we were stuck behind a slow convoy of a Romanian unit and I saw the marked turn off for the ziggurat. I told my soldier that was with me, that we are going to make a stop and see something of ancient history. We went to the ruins of Ur.
It was remarkable and humbling! This was the remains of an ancient and powerful city. Many locals were rather proud to say that Abraham came from Ur. There was still visible ancient graffiti on what remained of the walls of the various dwellings and we were able to stand atop the ziggurat.
There was a paved parking lot and If I recall, three modern two story houses across from the parking lot. Possibly for the visiting teams of archeologists before the war. We were the only living souls around, which gave an air of mystery akin to visiting a very old graveyard. It was certainly a place to respect.
I did learn something supposedly interesting about the ziggurat.
One of our duties during those last few months was to guard third country nationals. Basically, just make sure they didn't get in trouble on the base.
This one group I was with, the boss was a recently returned Iraqi that was living in England for many years as an exile. He returned and started a small construction company and was a awarded a project on the base.
He had and engineering degree - I think from a university in Manchester?
Anyways, he told me that the foundation fill of the ziggurat was made primarily of cotton seed hulls. He explained to me, that the monsoons would drop so much water and the fibrous seed hulls would be able to absorb the water and release it slowly over time. Apparently, it helped reduce erosion.
At the time, I barely knew how to build a frame out of 2x4's, so I don't know if this is accurate but, it sounded good.
That little spontaneous diversion really was something I'll always value as an important experience to me. For all the horrors I experienced in Iraq, there is a part of me that would love to go and see and explore more in that region and many other places around the globe one day.
I do have a love of history.
in a weird turn of events, I have happenstantial mentioned OSP on a near daily basis for the past week to a friend, and earlier today that friend mentioned how they'd love to talk with someone more knowledgeable on the matter of religion and how it relates to civilisations and the people and things, and this video is a good fit for that!
Love this Mesopotamia-focused content! The ziggurat is one of the most majestic structures I've ever seen. I'm so entranced by them.
As a young soldier that had recently gone through his first reality check from war the ziggurat of ur hold a special place in my heart because it even through that lonesome dessert the place still felt alive and well
Neat. Never had the chronology of things in Mesopotamia summed up for me like this. Appreciate it!
This was so fun to watch, I have literally walked on that ziggurat. Extra fun.
Wow! 😮 What an opportunity!
I hope you're a sumerian priest, otherwise o.o
I was actually stationed near the Ziggurat of Ur for a year! Prominently part of the horizon for a good chunk of my life.
The best follow up to this is Red to do the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Aliens after arriving on Earth in the present: "Excuse me, could you tell us where to find the Sumerians? We have brought them the plans they asked for the construction of their new ziggurats. We suffered a little delay while coming here, but sure they won't mind... "
BEGIN THE GOOSE CHASE!
Humans: yeah about that…
Aliens when they learn that the sumerians are long dead: 🧍🏻♂️
They collapsed ages ago but we are still interested in buying those plans, we will build it in their honor. In the mean time can can we buy plans to your FTL technology?
@@jasonreed7522 “FTL? It took us almost 4000 years to go back and forth between this world and ours once. You really think we have faster than light travel?”
That script looks soooo cool!
Being someone with the literal Ziggurat of Ur as a profile picture, merely needed to say thanks for this.
You and Red are just knocking it out of the park on Mesopotamia!!!! Thank you!!!!!
I'm taking a religious history class and was able to use some of the information taught in this video! Thanks, Blue!
Even if I have no clue what he’s talking about, I love listening to Blue. Thank you OSP for making my day
The more I see videos for this channel, the more I just appreciate blue doing history summarized.
2:14 don't worry Blue, we won't blame you, Ur trying afterall, unlike that fishy Gutian king...
Thanks Blue! I've been getting into how interesting this history period is, so timely vid
That last line caught me off guard, I had to think about it for a sec but once I realized it I was shocked to realize I was just hit by the dirtiest joke osp has ever written.
I've got a history test tomorrow (it's about Mesopotamia) so thanks 😊👍🏽 and, excited for the coming videos!
I'd love to see you guys do some New Zealand history! (recent or otherwise)
That intro was the setup for a playlist and I won't believe otherwise
Hi Blue. I was wondering, sense you've covered all of anchient Egypt, that you could make a video about their rivaling empire during the bronze age the Hittite Empire. For the longest time, I've been wondering who those people were, and while I admittedly should research it myself and I might after this comment, It would be a banger to hear your take on their history. Because I don't know where to start
*ancient
*who these people were
@@ferretyluv I'm writing ln my phone, and it's autocorrection is terrible. Where it on pc it would be a lot easier.
Besides, english is my second language
@@mr.boomguy *were it on pc
and also, would it not make sense to have autocorrection turned off if it was that... idk, terrible? that and being an ESL person, should you not have better english than natives?
@@indiomie I'm not sure if I should take your comment as a insult or a guide. But I got my autocorrect turned on my phone now, even tho I write this comment on my pc
I was dead certain Blue made a pun at 0.58 Instead of 'a mess of a tapistry that is....' I heard 'mesopo-tapistry'.. And damn it, I'm sticking to it.
Heck yesssss, really old stuuuuuff! It always boggles my mind, to see the recreations and how long ago they really were, and how recognizable all of it is! That we're not so different from our ancestors as we like to think. To me, that's comforting.
I start each semester with an overview of Mesopotamia!! I have several videos on this early time period in civilization
just did a final on this for my History of Architecture lesson, which honestly Blue would LOVE
2:59
"oh no, step-pyramid, im so stuck"
I hate this very much. Thank you. 😊
@@SupremeLordBruv heh- anytime, buckaroo
I love listening to blue talk about architectural history 😊
I'd love to hear more about the administration and bureaucracy of the Ur III period. Y'all have a way of explaining these things that reminds me of my best teachers.
If I'm being honest, I never watched much of Blue's content, but I think I'm going to change that now. Blue deserves respect as well, and I'm sorry for not giving that before.
I've been to that Zigurat!! I was stationed at C.O.B. Adder back in 2008-2009.... thanks for doing this video great content!
You should cover the extensive culture of mound building in Native American civilizations. It's spread all the way from Mesoamerica to Winsconsin. You could even sneak in the terrace farms of the Andes. Its a really interesting topic.
MORE ARCHAEOLOGICAL/ANTHROPOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY HELL YESSS. History benefits so much from not just explaining the archaeological facts but how it works too, especially with dating bc it can be so misleading.
No dome? You're diversifying your portfolio 😄
Nice work as always.
Great vid! Can't wait for more Mesopotamia dives!!
4:21 "Naram-Sin defiled the people of Babylon. Twice he called up the horde of Gutium against it. ... his people as with a goad ... he gave his sovereignty to the horde of Gutium. Gutium was an oppressive people. They did not know divine worship; rites and regulations they did not know how to perform properly. [Utuhegal] the "fisherman" caught fish as offering-presents on the edge of the seacoast. Until that fish was offered to the [Lord Prince] Marduk, it was not offered to any other god. The Gutians took the cooked fish away from him before it was offered. By his exalted command he took away sovereignty from the horde and gave it to Utuhegal" -The Weidner Chronicle
Fun fact, the Gutian king Utuhegal defeated supposedly only ruled for 10 days (according to the Sumerian King List).
Correction: 40 days
Oh Hell Yeah! Excited to learn about Ur! I have no understanding of this space time, but man does it evoke the imagination.
The "first" city (according to US public school), the monosyllabic name, the huge animals to contend with!
Alright alright alright, imma watch it now. Thanks for doing history stuff!
0:28 Blue: "uncountably infinite"
Red: "are you sure about that?"
And my Friday is complete, OSP has posted
The Ur III system just sounds like ancient federalism. Like we literally do this today in the US. Man, history is awesome.
Blue! I'm just about finished with the audiobook for Anabasis and I was surprised to learn that there wasn't a History Makers: Xenophon!
I think a good way of putting it is the better we can guess what a culture is trying to say through their art/writing, the more advanced it was. If something was universal enough to be studied/established in knowledge outside of archaic academia, it’s probably something other people later used and we have an idea of what it could be.
The ziggurat looks a LOT like a Greek column temple, and even was placed on top of mountains like they did. Often used by the later Greeks for the sake stuff, important palaces, temples, and definitely not open access.
I like how at 2:19 they unknowingly built thier temple to look like A 3-story office building that would be built in like the 1950`s-1960`s AD
I can't even begin to describe how clever the word mesopotapestry is
"iltam sumra rashupti elatim" (Bronze age meme / Ammi-ditāna's hymn to Ištar) is a pray to god Ištar, Sumerian / Akkadian priest usually read Ammi-ditāna's hymn to Ištar in ziggurat on special occasion.
Basically "Lord's Prayer", imagine 2000 years from now, future human use Lord Prayer sound effect for internet memes.
I've only heard this term "Ziggeraut" twice in my life, once in the anime film "Metropolis" and once in the animated series "The Legend of Vox Machina"
It's *pronounced,* "zippertwat."
And Beyblade...
Age of Empires... the Ziggurat of Ur is the Wonder for the, you guessed it, Babylonian civilization
There's also the character of Ziggurat 8 or "Ziggy" from Xenosaga :)
Its a standard part of grade school history in the USA (well New York State circa 2010s). Admittedly not a lot of time is spent on ancient Mesopotamia, but they are one of the "defining features" along with cuneiform. Kinda like the Pyramids and Hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt.
I love Ur
BY WHICH I MEAN UR MOM
(Fascinating history lesson, really loved the video)
"no randos on the big bricky trapezoid" should go straight into the osp quote hall of fame
Not gonna lie: whenever Blue makes a video talking about architecture that *isn't* domes or Greco-Roman, it always feels just a little like the beach episode in an anime. Like, yeah, it's cool and fun and all, but really just filler while we wait for the story arc to continue.
this channels videos are 70% of how I'm passing college. thank you so much
now I gotta find a science channel lol
I would love to see a video on the pre-pottery-neolithic. Great video BTW
The story of the king having relations with the high priestess at the top of the ziggurat during the Akitu-festival (Babylonian New Year) recounted by Herodotus comes from the Neo-Babylonian period in Mesopotamian history which is a full millennium and a half after the Ur III state built the first multi-tiered ziggurats! Though it should be noted that the Akitu festival as we know it (12-days of rituals celebrating the sowing of barley and honoring Marduk) took place in Babylon and isn’t really attested until the Kassite period (~1500-1150 BCE according to Middle chronology) which is 600 years after the founding of the Ur III state, and 200-300 years after Babylon rose to prominence as one of the most important cities in Mesopotamia. In addition there is no other attestation in the tens of thousands of Mesopotamian tablets of the ritual Herodotus describes, making it an extremely dubious claim. A great video a solid summary of one of the most iconic features of ancient Mesopotamia!
This series should be renamed architecture summarized
But what equiring minds want to know is Ea-nāṣirprovide any copper for that ziggurat?
When hiding in ancient Mesopotamia, don't light fires in a ziggurat if you decide to shelter in one.
That's how the Nazgul find you. 🤯
@@Fakan Nope. The punchline was old when I ran across it.
A smoking ziggurat is hazardous to you stealth.
A very cut down set up to longer and better punchline.
The Semitic root ZKR (from which the word ziggurat comes I believe) and ones similar to it carry the meanings of "male", "erect", "rememberance", and "hard/sharp", while the semitic roots NSY/'NTh carry the meanings of "female", "flat", "forgetting" and "soft". Something I dug into recently and thought some nerds here might enjoy :) I adore semitic roots ❤
I'm the resident history nerd at work, and we ended up talking about Hirodatus. They asked "so if he was the first historian, was he any good at it?"
Ehhhh yes and no. It's... Complicated.
Also ancient mesopotamia? 100% psyched
I would also highly recommend Francesco Rochberg's "Before Nature" to talk more in-depth of the cuneiform world's theology, deeper than the myths.
... Blue, I apologize in advance for what I'm about to do.
*clears throat*
Ur-Nammu, I've come to bargain!
As a fan of the Exorcist, I have often daydreamed about demons like Pazuzu and he pronounces it Akk-ahd-DI-an, not Akk-AY-di-an. I just thought it strange to hear a similar pronunciation here.
A little bit of "larping" is allways a good idea, and much preferable the other popular one: human sacrifices.
More Mesopotamia videos? Hell yeah! My favorite era to study!
Also, the Sacred Marriage rite likely took place, but it’s more likely that it was a ceremony involving the statues of Inanna and Dumuzid, with Dumuzid being associated with the King as a recipient of Inanna’s love and patronage, which bestows legitimacy, political power, material prosperity, victory in battle, etc etc.
I have a REQUEST! PLEASE! Your videos are so great and in the best way possible, they are super great for falling asleep to... except for the parts where it goes **FULL WHITE SCREEN** Can you please make a separate Playlist or something where all of those are blackscreen or like reversed or literally anything. Will repost in several places hoping you will see ❤❤
Just turn your phone face down or switch off your computer screen...
The middle chronology has the longest Rush song (2112) for a significant year, and is therefore now my canon.
I just knew that scamp Ea Nasir would make an appearance here, what a rascal with that whole copper situation.
I lost it at the end joke. Bravo good sir I bet that took more than one take to get through though.
I dont get the mop joke....
@@Nazuiko I believe the joke is that someone needs to clean the bodily fluids after their divine roleplay sex thing
I love the slow transition into the osp music in the background 😂