Hurrians

Anyway, uh, jumping back, I don't know if you guys remember it or not, but we kind of left the story at an exciting point if, if it was a film.

Uh, there was an army that had marched out of the lands of the north, right? The Hittites, the Hurrians, the Elamites, the Amorites, all these guys.

They're marching down- And they are knocking off these massive powers on their way.

This is an army that has toed up with giants and with kingdoms, and nothing seems able to stop them.

He says, "I know where you live, where Satan dwells." So that appears to be the king of the pantheon in Greece, Rome, Canaan, many other places too.

The Hittites, the Hurrians, the, uh, the Norse.

You know, Thor, storm god.

That's Satan.

Yeah.

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But I, I really dig deep into that actually in, uh, the book of, uh, in, in my, in my book, The Second Coming of Saturn, because, uh, the word translated medium in English is ov, and, uh, that actually originates with a people called the Hurrians.

Mm.

I mean, you know, sure, we can say that.

We can say that the Hurrian hymns that they sang in ancient Syria that then got picked up into ancient Greece and then got studied by a bunch of Renaissance scholars are really Italian.

Sure.

But...

And then Amrafel of Shinar would be Babylon, which is now modern-day Iraq.

The two other kings, Ariok and Tito, represented the Hurrians and the Hittites, and these people were in the area of modern-day Turkey.

So that kind of puts it in perspective for you.

These aren't made-up locations.

The material remains highly fragmented.

An Akkadian tablet from Megiddo in Palestine, one from Emar on the middle Euphrates, south of Carchemish, and variants in Akkadian, Hittite and Hurrian languages discovered at Hattusas, the Hittite capital in northern Anatolia.

Several temple library tablets from the late second millennium are also in Assur.

The pieces don't reveal if there were significantly different textual versions or if they included the prologue or the flood narrative.

The tale of Bulukiya resembles the epic of Gilgamesh, raising questions about the likelihood of coincidence.

The narrative is set when Greek was inscribed, specifically in pre-Islamic days.

the youthful monarch Bulukiya, potentially a diminutive variant of the Sumerian or Hurrian Bilgamesh, embarks on a quest for immortality alongside a close companion to get Solomon's ring, supplanting the Humbaba narrative.

His friend experiences an untimely demise just as success is within their grasp.

Because think about the first empire, Jen.

the Neo-Akkadians, then Assyrians, then Babylonians, then Medes, then you get all the way up to the Urartians through the Hurrians.

We're talking about empires that dominated the rest of history, right?

But I think you bring up a really interesting point, and I think that this might cement your hypothesis.

The Ur three kingdoms are gone, and the tribes of wildness have come in, and they've created their own empires now.

If you had to make a list of the important cultures of Abraham's life, it would be the Egyptians, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hurrians, and a group of people from the far east called the Elamites who are living in Persia.

These guys are each cultures.

They're not just one country.

And so you got the problem of being like, "Okay, is this the same guy just using a different name inside of his culture?"

Mm.

And then, like, if I cross the border and suddenly I'm dealing with the Hurrians and not with the Babylonians, they may have a completely different name for this guy.

Or-