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Dingir

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Sep 9, 2026

Dave ButlerGUEST
15:58
Let me give you a website to look up.
Dave ButlerGUEST
16:00
So if you go to Wikipedia and look up dingir, D-I-N-G-I-R, you'll find an article on a Sumerian ideogram.
Dave ButlerGUEST
16:12
So Sumerian is a cuneiform language that's written by taking a reed with a triangular edge and pressing it into wet clay to make elaborate shapes.
Dave ButlerGUEST
16:21
Okay? And dinghyr is the name of a very, very old symbol, which is an eight-pointed star.
Paul WallisHOST
0:34
They speak about the Apkallu, the sages who taught us.
Paul WallisHOST
0:38
They speak about the Dinjir, There are Assyriologists today who would argue that esoteric interpretations of the ancient stories of Sumer can be found in the Babylonian corpus.
Paul WallisHOST
0:51
But none of those academics would argue that the original meaning Of these core stories, the Atrahasis, the Enuma Elish, the Sumerian Kings List was esoterica.
Paul WallisHOST
1:03
I don't know of any serious academic Assyriologist who would argue that these ancient texts are spiritual messages.

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Paul WallisHOST
11:17
They speak about the Igiji, the observers.
Paul WallisHOST
11:20
They speak about the Apkallu, the sages who taught us.
Paul WallisHOST
11:24
They speak about the Dinjir, and that word means star.
Paul WallisHOST
11:29
In front of the names of these powerful characters, Enki, Enlil, Ninhursag, and many others beside Ninta, Kingu, is an eight-point star.

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