11: The early Ubaid period in the southern delta, 6500-5300 BCE (Bird vs Fish)
Guest: Annika First, we visit the chronological beginning of Sumerian cosmology again. As soon as Enki transforms the Tigris-Euphrates alluvial plain into marshland, our two combatants make themselves...
23 Nov 202154min
10: Late Neolithic Iran & the Susiana plain, 6800-4700 BCE (Sumerian proverbs)
(Re-recorded as of December 19, 2022) Guests: Kirra, Sheila First: Sumerian proverbs, encompassing both practical advice and obscure references to shepherds' staves. To stand and to sit, to spur on th...
23 Nov 20211h 2min
9: Late Neolithic daily life: farming, herding, cooking, weaving, & brewing, 7000-5300 BCE (Inanna & Dumuzi, part 3)
(Re-recorded as of December 18, 2022) Guests: Kirra, Victoria First: Dumuzi, doomed by his wife Inanna to spend the rest of his life in the underworld, has a prophetic dream, and his sister Geshtinann...
11 Okt 202148min
8: Gender, marriage, & property in Late Neolithic Syria, 7000-5300 BCE (Inanna & Ereshkigal, part 2)
(Re-recorded as of December 18, 2022) Guests: Kirra, Victoria First, we continue the story of Inanna's descent to the underworld, from last episode. She's dead and hanging from a hook on a wall in hel...
28 Sep 202141min
7: Life, death, dinner parties, & the first pottery in Syria, 7000-5300 BCE (Inanna, Enki, & Ereshkigal, part 1)
(Re-recorded as of December 18, 2022) Guests: Kirra, Victoria First: Inanna, patron goddess of Unug, visits Enki in his hometown of Eridu and they start drinking. Will he make any ill-advised decision...
19 Sep 202155min
5: Early Neolithic Iran & livestock domestication, 8200-6500 BCE (Animal proverbs, Enkidu)
(Re-recorded as of November 29, 2022) Guests: Annika, Kelten First, some Sumerian proverbs about animals, including written language's first merciful lion and Mr. Monkey's plaintive cry to his mother ...
1 Sep 202147min
4: Jericho & Early Neolithic Palestine, 9600-7000 BCE (Joshua, Jesus & Satan)
(Re-recorded as of November 29, 2022) Guest: Kelten First, we look at the Hebrew Bible's narrative about the destruction of Jericho: the Israelites cross the Jordan, an angel alludes to Moses's first ...
1 Sep 202149min
3: Early Neolithic Upper Mesopotamia, 9600-7000 BCE (Telipinu)
(Re-recorded as of November 28, 2022) Guest: Jojo First, we sing the wrath of Telipinu, which brought down countless ills upon the mortal world and ruined dinner in Hittite heaven. Then, we continue o...
19 Aug 202153min
