OS 33 - A Time of Ritual and Law
This week we look at the somewhat obscure 1900's BCE in Isin, where details will be thin on the ground, but that will just give us more time to focus on the Law code of Lipit-Ishtar and the annual rit...
20 Touko 202036min
OS 32 - Lay of the Land
This is a good place for new listeners to start, particularly those interested in Hammurabi and the middle bronze age. Today we resume our history with the massive political upheaval which accompanied...
13 Touko 202032min
OS 31 - First Men
The legends of Adapa, Enmeduranki, and Etana are the tales of three very early kings, though tales that don't seem to come around until the middle bronze age, and they are in a sense creation myths bu...
6 Touko 202036min
OS 30 - The Tablet of Destinies
Ninurta the action hero god returns, this time in an adventure to recover the stolen Tablet of Destinies. In doing this, we will wrestle with Semitic concepts of godhood and destiny, as well as peek u...
29 Huhti 202034min
OS 29 - The Enuma Elish
The Babylonian creation myth, Enuma Elish, tells the story of the creation of the world and how it was a terrible mistake immediately regretted by its parents. Said parents then attempt a late-term ab...
22 Huhti 202031min
OS 28 - The Chamorros of Saipan
Special Episode. This week is a break from normal as we discuss the Chamorro people of the Marianas islands, A four thousand year oral culture in the Pacific ocean. We will look at a few creation lege...
15 Huhti 202036min
OS 27 - The Study of Sumer and Ancient Aliens
There were some very important and talented people who have dug up the once lost civilization of Sumer and given their stories new life. Then there are the ancient aliens people. We will pay our respe...
8 Huhti 202037min
OS 26 - The Oldest Debates
Today we return to Sumerian Wisdom literature and see some of the oldest philosophy ever recorded, with the debates on creation and the oldest investigation of the problem of evil in A Man and His God...
31 Maalis 202032min
