Mesopotamia

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Uruk.

Like, basically the whole Mesopotamian, um, area.

Is that where the Tigris and Euphrates is?

Yes, exactly.

You have the Chinese in the Neolithic dynasty, the Egyptians dynasties 4, 5, and 6.

You have the Mesopotamians, the early dynastic period, the Sumerians, the early dynastics 3A and 3B, the Peruvians, Norte Chico civilization, and more.

We find a continuous line of culture, construction, art, and historical records that run through the time of Noah's flood was supposed to happen.

So we'll get into more art soon.

They were used by archeoloids to manage and control the human creations.

and workers specifically placed in Mesopotamia.

If the March 1981 President Reagan briefing is an accurate transcript, then the very advanced Ebens turned Earth into a social experiment very long ago.

But evolving primates were deliberately kept ignorant of the true bigger picture.

Government insiders who caught on to what is really happening, they might be running scared.

Perhaps they have come to understand that the Mesopotamian overlords were actually Archeloids, that humans worshipped as Sumerian or Anunnaki gods.

Those rapid-cycle clone biological entities were made by Ebens according to the Reagan briefing.

And how ironic that the Ebens made the Archeloids and then made Homo sapiens sapiens, who worshipped the Archeloids.

Some of them went to the Indus River Valley.

Some of them went to Mesopotamia.

Some of them went to Egypt.

Some of them made it all the way to Algeria.

So they didn't want to end up working on somebody's farm as a peasant.

They said, I'm not going to go there and be a laborer for plants or for a master.

I'd rather be the master of animals in the desert than end up as being mastered and being a part of the domesticated husbandry on a plantation in lower Egypt or in Mesopotamia.

Why would I leave? And that noble pursuit of kind of...

While Cronin may not have singled out any specific inspiration for his fictional mummy, one detail from the film stands out.

Nas Moranian's presence is accompanied by a growing presence of coyotes and wild dogs around the family's house, which might make the demon a reference to the Mesopotamian demon Lamashtu.

In historical depictions such as amulets, sculptures, and plaques, the demon most frequently associated with miscarriages, the Hebrew Lilith, is often flanked by dogs, which are also, you could say, the black hellhounds.

However, beyond these visual similarities, no clear connection can be established.

And conservatives especially have been very upset about the Hanuman statue, calling it, you guessed it, demonic.

which if you know anything about Hanuman, I highly doubt people making those claims do, but if you knew anything about Hanuman, you would know that Hanuman is the very opposite of like a Catholic-style demon, like the absolute total opposite of a Catholic-style demon.

Or a Mesopotamian demon or an African demon.

Hanuman is the exact opposite of all of those things.

And as we saw from this morning's lesson, Ur of the Chaldees was renowned for its idolatry.

It was a hotbed and a center of pagan worship, as was much of the civilization in the Fertile Crescent, the Mesopotamia area at that time.

Then we have his brothers, Nahor and Haran, and both of these brothers would play key roles, or their descendants would play some key roles as it related to Abraham's seed.

It's very interesting to see the family connections in the Bible.

And it's very interesting, right here early in the piece, in verse 30, it tells us, but Sarai was barren, she had no child.

So the Holy Spirit highlights that right up front because this is going to be a major part of Abraham and Sarah's journey of faith together, isn't it? so it highlights that right up the front here at the start of the account that you might remember that because this is where their faith was perhaps most sorely tested as they went through so we see something about Abraham's family then we also notice something about Abraham's country as well there are two words that would help us summarize Ur of the Chaldees it was a city firstly of prosperity We have reference there to Ur of the Chaldees in the text.

And Ur of the Chaldees was located in that Mesopotamia area.

at the Fertile Crescent next to the Euphrates River.

I read thousands of papers.

I physically, in the case of finding Manuland, walk the road between, say, Van and Mesopotamia and back, all before the machines can do anything useful.

The model amplifies a prepared mind.

It could not have prepared one.

The lonely figure in the attic, pram in the hallway, alone with the page, can now reach past the edge of what any single lifetime could grasp at in an afternoon, not by handing over her mind, but by keeping it and pointing the instrument at what she alone can see.

The cure for granting ourselves too little mind is to go and use the mind we have with better tools than any writer before us has owned.

4,300 years ago, Enaduanna, the first named author of human culture, Sargon the Great's daughter, who was a priestess to the moon god Nana in Mesopotamia, 2400 BCE.

Enaduanna heaped the coals in the censer, prepared the offering, and in her own phrase conceived the word.

And I've mentioned just briefly the location, but here's a little map showing this fertile crescent, the area of Mesopotamia with the two great river systems here, Euphrates, Tigris and Babylon was somewhere down towards the bottom there.

This location is described in the passage here as east of Ararat.

They journeyed east, we assume that's coming east from Ararat and that certainly is an accurate description because the land of Shinar, the Mesopotamian plain is located southeast of the mountain range of Ararat and the location of this region is now controlled by modern Iraq so that helps you to just pinpoint in your mind the area we're talking about but this area is a very lush region known as the Fertile Crescent and no doubt because of its water system and the great rivers there and you find that that is something that is a feature of particularly ancient history but even to a certain degree modern history that water plays a very important role in the success of an area now it's interesting isn't it that they chose this location to put down roots as they journeyed Now, was there anything sinful about the prosperity of this region in and of itself? No.

Was there anything wrong with the fact that this was a well-watered plain? No.

But isn't it interesting when you look at examples like this and examples like Sodom and Gomorrah, that sometimes an environment of prosperity becomes a conducive environment to rebellion against God.

Ancient people did not fight odor, they buried it.

By 3000 BC, Egyptians and Mesopotamians were already making perfume.

Priests used aromatic resins to sweeten temples and bodies alike.

Egyptians rubbed scented oils into skin, into wigs, into linen.