in the last 2 weeks I've seen so many of Dr Finkel lectures, I'm starting to feel (falsely) comfortable regarding my knowledge about Mesopotamian civilization, which is not something I ever anticipated would happened to me. And I'm delighted. Please, don't stop! And then i realized I've actually watched that video somewhere else few times 😂
Matthew! I had no idea I'd see you here although I guess I ought not to be surprised! So exciting to find out you're also a Finkel Fan! Excited for the monster book!
The ancient Chinese also practiced extensively divination using sheep scapulae, turtle carapiced, and some other species. Besides indicating an global intellectual movement of the time that held sway across cultures (which itself is fascinating), there must have been some practical functional purpose or "reality" to these divination practices, given their widespread application over such a long period of time, across wide geographical space, and cross-cultural circumstances.
Maybe the Mesopotamian divination practices were kind of tapping into psychic phenomena which todays government's also take advantage of through psychics or lay people through mediums such as the Ouija boards. I would love to live in the Mesopotamian era for its connection to nature and simple lifestyle. Maybe the closest we get to experience this in the 21st century is urban areas or third world countries where the moon is the only lamp in the sky at night, the stars shine bright and aromas from herbs are freely available to experience at night. Maybe this ancient right and left way of thinking contributed towards Galen's c. 190 ce study of four basic temperaments from earth as fluids which we know better today as a persons nature based on their four bodily fluids. This in return lead towards the study of the mind and the formation of psychology as a scientific discipline.
"And what if Babel was not called Babel, and if there were never any Babylonians, nor Mesopotamians, knowing that the classical definition of Mesopotamia, to which you adhere, Doctor, covers an area of 500,000 square kilometers-enough to house all the humans of that time, and there would still be room for Gog and Magog. So what seemed to be Babel, or Ur, or the Chaldeans, and everything else, rather seems to be football fields or a villa of Michael Jackson."
"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own." ― Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side Prophecy goes on as long as humans exist.
If him read 250 words/minutes and the 10 thousand omens have +/- 50 to 250 words each, we approximately have 1,250,000 words, divides by 250 we have 5,000 minutes what's 83,3333...4 hours vídeo. An marvelous thing if we ignore him health by advanced knowledge and wise age, doing that 🎉
Irving’s mined must be downloaded digitally don’t ask me how but this magnificent brain that was shaped by decades of diligent and faithful work can not be lost.
An international treasure, the man who so effortlessly transports us thousand years into the past. I have little doubt that among the ancient divinations buried under the sands of Iraq there are images of a bearded sage telling the story of a kingdom long gone. May you be praised, oh Finkel the Great!
Ahh! Dr Irving Finkel, teaches by telling a story, as though one is in his house as a friend, listening to him relate his experiences. A treasure to behold.👑A King in the world of academics, of which there are few. Many could learn from this man how to impart knowledge, alas, unlikely in this age we live. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ to Archaeology Now
Thank you Dr Finkel for translating and sharing this with all of us not just as a scholar but also as a spirited storyteller. Esoteric arts in particular don't seem to be of much use in the academic community but the rest of the world is fascinated by it, myself included! I very much enjoyed his book "First Ghosts" and I hope he might also write books on other "paranormal" topics he's collected from the ancient tablets. Subjects like magic and divination, Cryptids and magical beings similar to Celtic Sidhe or Fae and Offworld Alien/UFO (or whatever they're calling it nowadays) would be exceptionally interesting. Cheers!
Please sir Finkel, U have apprentices, I'd hate for ur craft, to b lost.. I learn every time I listen..x Can u teach the old lettering on line... I may finally get it..xx
If you think about it, the environment and feed would affect the livers of all animals. If the liver was fattier a more severe winter, etc or swollen perhaps a rain was coming to destroy crops or make warfare difficult. If you are a certain age your body becomes a barometer! I read persimmon seeds. Those and wooly worms never let me down on predicting winter!
This is always a fascinating meeting with the perspective of Dr. Irving Finkel and the ancient world, even leans into the unknown of pre-historic man. Well appreciated and much gratitude for these.
I find the ammount of data collection and the attempt to draw conclusions from co- occurants impressive. I presume a lot of it was just accidental. But some natural phenomenons are linked to other phenomenons: 👉 think of the El Nino effect, when one thing brings on another (droughts ☀ in some regions, floods ⛈🌧 and landslides in another, dead fish 🐟 in certain regions) 👉less rainfall can increase the percentage of minerals in drinking water (e.g. arsenic in some regions) and have a harmful affect on human and animal pregnancies 👉 a certain climatic condition , or animal pest might weaken your neighbours, but not yourself. For example, if you grow different forms of cattle, one 🐏 🐑☠ falling prey to a disease, the other 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐 is totally immune. 😁 Or if you can expect a good 🌾🌾🌾🌾harvest, but your neighbor 🌱 does not. That would be the perfect time to increase your power by war or by trade. And these "omens" could be connected to certain conditions that are favourable or adverse to certain undertakings. Like the pharao in the story of Joseph who asked for a dream interpreter. He stores harvest from the good years to feed his people through the bad years and increases his power over his hungry neighbours. They probably believed a lot of superstitious nonsense, but if they seriously observed, studied and documented nature for houndreds of years, they must have gotten some things right. We should not discard their believes offhand.
Dr Finkel, you need to meet Kurdish people to help you reading the coniform language. It is similar to Kurdish language. Summarian people are not extinct, they are Kurds ancestors For example: when we call sheep and goats we say gid gid gid
The likes of Leonardo da Vinci would have listened intently. I am thrilled and humbled to be in the virtual presence of a truly great man. Thank you, Mr Finkel, for your incredible contributions, in bringing a lost civilization's lifestyle back to light. Absolutely thankful!
Hi again from Michigan, a bit late! Living in a ancient city set on a height would prevent the gravitation flow of good water in and bad water out. This would cause all types of horrible issues, with human waste and disease etc., making living there to "not be good"! Maybe . . . .?? And, to think, I've just read scientific papers explaining that the memory of all of our ancestors is stored in our DNA/RNA! I also called the Greeks the "Liver Lookers"--now I know where that came from. Then there were diviners who would discern the answers by observing the pattern in the movement of loosed birds. Now we are much more civilised, reading tea leaves and palms!
Tank you kindly for a most interesting lecture. On another note, I am currently reading "The first ghosts" and it is absolutely fantastic as well. Great read and wonderfully informative.
Ancient thinking was symbolic, relied on images that conveyed much denser, layered and subtle information (or even knowledge and wisdom) than a set of explanations could. Images could be understood intuitively without scientific or technical training, it involves the right hemisphere of the brain. Symbolic thinking has its limitations, although far fewer than the algorithms (the domains of the left hemisphere) into which they seemed to have tried to shoe in some of what those images could mean. One must read Dr. Iain McGilchrist, another brilliant Briton who bares the secrets of our brain. Today, however, algorithmic thinking is canon and sacrosanct and symbolic thinking is woo woo stuff. As McGilchrist says: "The left brain can't see what it can't see."
(22:38) Concerning the sheep v. goat issue, in the interpretation of mash-shu-gid-gid, it might be of interest that even today, the term for the meat of a sheep -- mutton -- may also be used as the term for the meat of a goat, depending on what part of the world one is in.
I followed a twitter bot that was someone posting their omen translations every once in a while, and it was quite fun. Lots of stuff that couldn't happen also was noted, like if a baby was born with a tail and stuff it means the king will face adversity and fall
Babies are often born with tails. The medicall staff usually whip them off straight away. Webbed feet are also common and hermaphrodite are born regularly.
I am completing an “Everday Omens” book for publishing this Fall that follow omens throughout time so others can use this guidebook in building an everyday practice of connecting to what surround us (nature, celestials, animals, etc.). My 60+ source documents begin prior to Mesopotamia, but MANY omens were translated started during that civilization! ✨ Thank you for your scholarship, it’s been such a joy to follow as I start these volumes so I can help humanity practice this wisdom again. 🫶🏼
A comment on 49:40. There are probably more bilingual people than native English speakers in the world. In many countries the higher education is bilingual.
Can someone please tell me if Dr. Finkle has written any books on the subjects of his lectures/teaching? I'm sure many viewers would love know! 👳♂️➡️🧠➡️🤯
An excellent video with a crucial question at its heart. It seems to me that your argument that historic seers would never put their reputation on the line is diminished by the fact that the system lasted so long ... why on Earth would any system of divination be so long-lasting if it never provided an accurate answer ?
I'm interested in early science, crafts, technical practice, cosmology. Not interested in superstition and religion. I've read about divination in Greece and Rome. Have read that almost all slaughtering of animals was deemed to be 'sacrifice'. And of course the meat was eaten. Our saying of grace before eating appears to be a continuation of this practice. Early scientists could predict some things e.g. eclipses, so no doubt pressure was put on and incentives given to attempt other (impossible) predictions . Very interesting that only the King could request thus.
In science there is a word called "entropy." The concept deals with things that can not be described without the use of incalculable, large number, such as: the number of sand grains on the beach, bladed of grass in a field, or hairs on your head. The concept also claims predictability, similar to that of the Mesopotamian divination (however not remotely as well practiced or usable). They claim that if you let an enthropic "field" evolve with enough time you get solid & tangible information, like a sand castle that appears once in a malinia with enough crashing of the waves. After watching your video I no longer believe enthropic fields could possibly reveal much information to us people. I'm sitting here squinting at the grass outside my window, and thinking there must be something better to read!
Fascinating. It is remarkable how the sheep appears to have been an "unclean" animal to the New Kingdom Egyptians, so I presume they had something different,
It is heavenly delight to listen to what you have to say. It reminds me why I took 4 years of Latin in high school 😊😊😊. Also I know you tell these facts with perfect veracity. Thank you.
The Etruscan liver is actually called the Piacenza liver because it was found around Piacenza, Italy in the Po river valley. The text language is an alphabetic form of Akkadian (European Akkadian or Druid Akkadian) which has been translated. This is the language of the Neolithic farmers who settled Europe from northern Mesopotamia. The runic letter style is closer to Alpine Lepontic than Etruscan.
Dear Irvin Finkel. As always with bigger respect and thanks for all your research! 👏 It would be great appreciated if you could discover and talk interesting topics about Urartian culture and ancient scripts and cuneiform. Thank you! ❤️
Your artwork should be a combination of unpredictable, spontaneous, out of control, out of your mind activity, and the other 50% should be well thought through, calculated , well organized, and balanced composition. This was a quotation from #LeonardoDaVinci notebooks “ - I recommend you read. The same goes about personal life. I imagine everyone wants to be a spontaneous as social limitations allow in this particular neighborhood. But at the same time you need to make sober minded choices about friends, career, money, and education. I don’t have a minute to waste. I don’t know about you, but my time is limited on this dusty rock as Carl #Sagan said. #Bogoslowsky .🦁🤴🐗 Well, #CarlSagan didn’t make reference to time, but he did call planet a “blue dot” . Since solid planets are classified in astronomy as rocky planets, not gassy planets, although today it was very gassy. I don’t know why one of the videos made me so embarrassed, but it’s going viral I don’t care. Kids #loveIt .
Man I just love being alive at a time when Irving Finkel is sharing with the world. WooHoo! And I'm in it! 😁
And we're glad we're on this journey together!
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in the last 2 weeks I've seen so many of Dr Finkel lectures, I'm starting to feel (falsely) comfortable regarding my knowledge about Mesopotamian civilization, which is not something I ever anticipated would happened to me. And I'm delighted. Please, don't stop!
And then i realized I've actually watched that video somewhere else few times 😂
So glad you're exploring this civilization! It's a great ride!
Thank you, Dr. Finkel, for your respect of ancient cultures.
Ah! This information makes my imagination soar!!!!
A huge part of it is Dr. Finkel's descriptions and enthusiasm! Thank you!
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How lovely. Thank YOU!
Always a phenomenal learning experience with Dr. Finkel!
Fascinating! Thanks you Dr. Finkle!
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Divination by examining a hairball from a cow's stomach is described in "Huckleberry Finn".
Good call!
Thanks!
Matthew! I had no idea I'd see you here although I guess I ought not to be surprised! So exciting to find out you're also a Finkel Fan! Excited for the monster book!
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So pleased to see you here. Thank you for your generosity. We're honored!
Thank you mister Finkel. A delight as always!
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Omens are warnings.
There's a saying about predictions :
It's easier to CREATE history than to predict it...
Tamil language scholars believe that an archaic form of Tamil was related to Sumerian. There are videos on that subject.
The ancient Chinese also practiced extensively divination using sheep scapulae, turtle carapiced, and some other species. Besides indicating an global intellectual movement of the time that held sway across cultures (which itself is fascinating), there must have been some practical functional purpose or "reality" to these divination practices, given their widespread application over such a long period of time, across wide geographical space, and cross-cultural circumstances.
Perhaps it has to do with the structure of logical syntax, as Prof F suggests.
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This guy is exactly how I pictured Dumbledore
That stone was, once upon a time, our map to move into our home
Thank you, Doctor !
Fabulous!
Wow just found out about this channel :) very nice indeed
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Maybe the Mesopotamian divination practices were kind of tapping into psychic phenomena which todays government's also take advantage of through psychics or lay people through mediums such as the Ouija boards. I would love to live in the Mesopotamian era for its connection to nature and simple lifestyle. Maybe the closest we get to experience this in the 21st century is urban areas or third world countries where the moon is the only lamp in the sky at night, the stars shine bright and aromas from herbs are freely available to experience at night. Maybe this ancient right and left way of thinking contributed towards Galen's c. 190 ce study of four basic temperaments from earth as fluids which we know better today as a persons nature based on their four bodily fluids. This in return lead towards the study of the mind and the formation of psychology as a scientific discipline.
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"And what if Babel was not called Babel, and if there were never any Babylonians, nor Mesopotamians, knowing that the classical definition of Mesopotamia, to which you adhere, Doctor, covers an area of 500,000 square kilometers-enough to house all the humans of that time, and there would still be room for Gog and Magog. So what seemed to be Babel, or Ur, or the Chaldeans, and everything else, rather seems to be football fields or a villa of Michael Jackson."
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I can understand There meanings and this Hurts .
"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own." ― Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side Prophecy goes on as long as humans exist.
Is there any evidence on the how people with severe someone in the Sumerian culture and how are they reported them just saying my look good on t-shirt
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All that wrong info brought to earth by fallen angels.
Ahh! A fellow Miltonite!
Dr Finkle-- what a treat! Please have him back again!
We're working on it.
I would happily listen to Dr Finkel read all ten thousand omens
If him read 250 words/minutes and the 10 thousand omens have +/- 50 to 250 words each, we approximately have 1,250,000 words, divides by 250 we have 5,000 minutes what's 83,3333...4 hours vídeo. An marvelous thing if we ignore him health by advanced knowledge and wise age, doing that 🎉
Dr Finkel deserves national formal recognition. Does he have an OBE or something similar?
NO! We think we need to figure out a way to start a campaign! We are SERIOUS about this!
It's possible to nominate him for honours on Gov.uk, anyone can do it
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Irving’s mined must be downloaded digitally don’t ask me how but this magnificent brain that was shaped by decades of diligent and faithful work can not be lost.
An international treasure, the man who so effortlessly transports us thousand years into the past. I have little doubt that among the ancient divinations buried under the sands of Iraq there are images of a bearded sage telling the story of a kingdom long gone. May you be praised, oh Finkel the Great!
Living higher up often means less readily available running water & waterways. Perhaps there was a little kernel in that.
Also volcanoes....
One also builds on a hill for defensive reasons. This suggests that the region is dangerous. Living in that city will perforce be unpleasant.
Finkel! Finkel! Finkel!
Ahh! Dr Irving Finkel, teaches by telling a story, as though one is in his house as a friend, listening to him relate his experiences. A treasure to behold.👑A King in the world of academics, of which there are few. Many could learn from this man how to impart knowledge, alas, unlikely in this age we live.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ to Archaeology Now
Thank you Dr Finkel for translating and sharing this with all of us not just as a scholar but also as a spirited storyteller. Esoteric arts in particular don't seem to be of much use in the academic community but the rest of the world is fascinated by it, myself included! I very much enjoyed his book "First Ghosts" and I hope he might also write books on other "paranormal" topics he's collected from the ancient tablets. Subjects like magic and divination, Cryptids and magical beings similar to Celtic Sidhe or Fae and Offworld Alien/UFO (or whatever they're calling it nowadays) would be exceptionally interesting. Cheers!
Let's start a request drive!
This comment is magic in itself ❤. Will have to check out his books you referenced. Huge fan of Dr. Irving Finkel ❤.
Please sir Finkel,
U have apprentices,
I'd hate for ur craft, to b lost..
I learn every time I listen..x
Can u teach the old lettering on line...
I may finally get it..xx
Bless you Sir........
Love your knowledge...wit and passion...thank you x ☓
So much love for Dr Finkel.
I could listen to Dr. Finkel all day long! Thank you for posting these lectures!!💖
Yes!! Finkle Time!
Oh I love this guy
Celebrating my birthday with Dr. Irving Finkle! 😊
happy birthday
LOL… My Birthday is today as well - Dr. Finkel, What a Gift to the World he is… Have a Wonderful Bday 🥂🎂🎁
Now THAT is a birthday! Congratulations!
@@Northcountry1926 Oh my goodness! Thanks ever so much for your generous donation! And Happy Birthday!
If you think about it, the environment and feed would affect the livers of all animals. If the liver was fattier a more severe winter, etc or swollen perhaps a rain was coming to destroy crops or make warfare difficult. If you are a certain age your body becomes a barometer! I read persimmon seeds. Those and wooly worms never let me down on predicting winter!
Hmmm...marketable??!
If there's one thing we human beings excel at, it's making connections that don't really exist and treating them as factual.
😁 yay for today😂 Divination in the ole Mesopotamia days - exactly what I need to hear all about 🥰
This is always a fascinating meeting with the perspective of Dr. Irving Finkel and the ancient world, even leans into the unknown of pre-historic man. Well appreciated and much gratitude for these.
I find the ammount of data collection and the attempt to draw conclusions from co- occurants impressive. I presume a lot of it was just accidental. But some natural phenomenons are linked to other phenomenons: 👉 think of the El Nino effect, when one thing brings on another (droughts ☀ in some regions, floods ⛈🌧 and landslides in another, dead fish 🐟 in certain regions)
👉less rainfall can increase the percentage of minerals in drinking water (e.g. arsenic in some regions) and have a harmful affect on human and animal pregnancies 👉 a certain climatic condition , or animal pest might weaken your neighbours, but not yourself. For example, if you grow different forms of cattle, one 🐏 🐑☠ falling prey to a disease, the other 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐 is totally immune. 😁 Or if you can expect a good 🌾🌾🌾🌾harvest, but your neighbor 🌱 does not. That would be the perfect time to increase your power by war or by trade. And these "omens" could be connected to certain conditions that are favourable or adverse to certain undertakings. Like the pharao in the story of Joseph who asked for a dream interpreter. He stores harvest from the good years to feed his people through the bad years and increases his power over his hungry neighbours.
They probably believed a lot of superstitious nonsense, but if they seriously observed, studied and documented nature for houndreds of years, they must have gotten some things right. We should not discard their believes offhand.
The way Dr. Finkel calmly talks about what steaming fresh sheep livers look like.........
Dr Finkel, you need to meet Kurdish people to help you reading the coniform language. It is similar to Kurdish language. Summarian people are not extinct, they are Kurds ancestors
For example: when we call sheep and goats we say
gid gid gid
So interesting! Thank you for this, I just love and respect Dr Finkel.
The likes of Leonardo da Vinci would have listened intently. I am thrilled and humbled to be in the virtual presence of a truly great man. Thank you, Mr Finkel, for your incredible contributions, in bringing a lost civilization's lifestyle back to light. Absolutely thankful!
Fantastic to see the Great Irving Finkel again.
It's amazing that knowledge has taken so long to evolve. Thank you for the talk, Dr. Finkel.
"I never confuse a favorable sign with an unfavorable one."
Pretty sure that's a G&S lyric! Patience? Iolanthe?
Such a wonderful teacher 🤍🪽
Hi again from Michigan, a bit late! Living in a ancient city set on a height would prevent the gravitation flow of good water in and bad water out. This would cause all types of horrible issues, with human waste and disease etc., making living there to "not be good"! Maybe . . . .?? And, to think, I've just read scientific papers explaining that the memory of all of our ancestors is stored in our DNA/RNA! I also called the Greeks the "Liver Lookers"--now I know where that came from. Then there were diviners who would discern the answers by observing the pattern in the movement of loosed birds. Now we are much more civilised, reading tea leaves and palms!
Marvellous Irving ! I have so much respect now for our Mesopotamian cultural ancestors
Tank you kindly for a most interesting lecture.
On another note, I am currently reading "The first ghosts" and it is absolutely fantastic as well. Great read and wonderfully informative.
Glad you are enjoying "The First Ghosts." Hope you have a chance to see the video on this channel that is a companion to the book!
@@ArchaeologyNow That made me get the book! 😊
Ancient thinking was symbolic, relied on images that conveyed much denser, layered and subtle information (or even knowledge and wisdom) than a set of explanations could. Images could be understood intuitively without scientific or technical training, it involves the right hemisphere of the brain. Symbolic thinking has its limitations, although far fewer than the algorithms (the domains of the left hemisphere) into which they seemed to have tried to shoe in some of what those images could mean. One must read Dr. Iain McGilchrist, another brilliant Briton who bares the secrets of our brain.
Today, however, algorithmic thinking is canon and sacrosanct and symbolic thinking is woo woo stuff. As McGilchrist says: "The left brain can't see what it can't see."
(22:38) Concerning the sheep v. goat issue, in the interpretation of mash-shu-gid-gid, it might be of interest that even today, the term for the meat of a sheep -- mutton -- may also be used as the term for the meat of a goat, depending on what part of the world one is in.
This man must be a teasure for the British museum 😊
I like Dr. Erving finkle.
A bit quiet, this one. On max volume.
The study of cause and effect ... one of the uber-basics of our scientific understanding of the world may have started in ancient Mesopotamia.
I just completely fell in love with this man!
I followed a twitter bot that was someone posting their omen translations every once in a while, and it was quite fun. Lots of stuff that couldn't happen also was noted, like if a baby was born with a tail and stuff it means the king will face adversity and fall
WOW!
Um, babies can be born with a tail. Google it.
Babies are often born with tails. The medicall staff usually whip them off straight away. Webbed feet are also common and hermaphrodite are born regularly.
Ok!
@@casteretpollux oh nooo, poor kings then 😭😭
I am completing an “Everday Omens” book for publishing this Fall that follow omens throughout time so others can use this guidebook in building an everyday practice of connecting to what surround us (nature, celestials, animals, etc.). My 60+ source documents begin prior to Mesopotamia, but MANY omens were translated started during that civilization! ✨ Thank you for your scholarship, it’s been such a joy to follow as I start these volumes so I can help humanity practice this wisdom again. 🫶🏼
Dr Finkel is the most magnificent story reader of all time!
2nd!!
I need to be part of an Irving Finkle fan club.
Dr Finkle may not get a knighthood, but I heard there's been another prestigious position open since that Merlin-guy left office.
A comment on 49:40. There are probably more bilingual people than native English speakers in the world. In many countries the higher education is bilingual.
Can someone please tell me if Dr. Finkle has written any books on the subjects of his lectures/teaching? I'm sure many viewers would love know! 👳♂️➡️🧠➡️🤯
YES - there are 5 titles for adults and 2 releases for children listed on Amazon! It makes shopping very easy!
@@ArchaeologyNowyippee!
An excellent video with a crucial question at its heart. It seems to me that your argument that historic seers would never put their reputation on the line is diminished by the fact that the system lasted so long ... why on Earth would any system of divination be so long-lasting if it never provided an accurate answer ?
The Attenborough of ancient Middle Eastern history
I'm interested in early science, crafts, technical practice, cosmology. Not interested in superstition and religion. I've read about divination in Greece and Rome. Have read that almost all slaughtering of animals was deemed to be 'sacrifice'. And of course the meat was eaten. Our saying of grace before eating appears to be a continuation of this practice. Early scientists could predict some things e.g. eclipses, so no doubt pressure was put on and incentives given to attempt other (impossible) predictions . Very interesting that only the King could request thus.
Ill tell you what it means for the 2024 election if you venmo me the same munny you tithe to orangeman
Clicked on this to go to sleep to and ended up staying for an extra hour totally emthralled lol
In science there is a word called "entropy." The concept deals with things that can not be described without the use of incalculable, large number, such as: the number of sand grains on the beach, bladed of grass in a field, or hairs on your head. The concept also claims predictability, similar to that of the Mesopotamian divination (however not remotely as well practiced or usable). They claim that if you let an enthropic "field" evolve with enough time you get solid & tangible information, like a sand castle that appears once in a malinia with enough crashing of the waves. After watching your video I no longer believe enthropic fields could possibly reveal much information to us people. I'm sitting here squinting at the grass outside my window, and thinking there must be something better to read!
GREAT!
What a terrific topic!!! As always, great talk!!!
Yay.
Thanks a ton
Fascinating. It is remarkable how the sheep appears to have been an "unclean" animal to the New Kingdom Egyptians, so I presume they had something different,
Love dr finkel
It would be cool to make a sheep liver shaped magic 8-Ball, I wonder if it would improve the accuracy
Hah!
It is heavenly delight to listen to what you have to say. It reminds me why I took 4 years of Latin in high school 😊😊😊. Also I know you tell these facts with perfect veracity. Thank you.
The Etruscan liver is actually called the Piacenza liver because it was found around Piacenza, Italy in the Po river valley. The text language is an alphabetic form of Akkadian (European Akkadian or Druid Akkadian) which has been translated. This is the language of the Neolithic farmers who settled Europe from northern Mesopotamia. The runic letter style is closer to Alpine Lepontic than Etruscan.
So interesting to think some of the language of Neolithic culture could still be spoken
Wow, that is amazing!
Dear Irvin Finkel. As always with bigger respect and thanks for all your research! 👏 It would be great appreciated if you could discover and talk interesting topics about Urartian culture and ancient scripts and cuneiform. Thank you! ❤️
Finkel!! Adore this man!!
They were much clever like today Science.❤
Dr Finkel, you found so much, but have you found the lord? Jesus is coming and time is running out sir
Does the great Irving Finkle have any insights to the use of mushrooms for divination?
Hah! Don't know but will be fascinating to find out.
Came across foundation statue of king shulgi with basket over head, gives appearance of mushroom, any connection?
Your artwork should be a combination of unpredictable, spontaneous, out of control, out of your mind activity, and the other 50% should be well thought through, calculated , well organized, and balanced composition. This was a quotation from #LeonardoDaVinci notebooks “ - I recommend you read. The same goes about personal life. I imagine everyone wants to be a spontaneous as social limitations allow in this particular neighborhood. But at the same time you need to make sober minded choices about friends, career, money, and education.
I don’t have a minute to waste. I don’t know about you, but my time is limited on this dusty rock as Carl #Sagan said. #Bogoslowsky .🦁🤴🐗
Well, #CarlSagan didn’t make reference to time, but he did call planet a “blue dot” .
Since solid planets are classified in astronomy as rocky planets, not gassy planets, although today it was very gassy. I don’t know why one of the videos made me so embarrassed, but it’s going viral I don’t care. Kids #loveIt .