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Sumerians --- Sacred marriage (Mythology) --- Religion --- -Sacred marriage (Mythology) --- Marriage --- Mythology --- Accadians (Sumerians) --- Akkadians (Sumerians) --- Civilization, Sumerian --- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian --- Ethnology --- Religion. --- Sacred marriage (Mythology). --- Sumerians - Religion

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About a hundred years ago, the first clay tablets bearing curiously wedge-shaped signs were dug out of mounds in Mesopotamia. Buried in the ground for more than three thousand years, the tablets spoke a mute tongue. Since then, devoted scientists around the world have unlocked the door to the secrets of the wedge-shaped signs and, in doing so, have provided us with some of the most startling discoveries of modern archeology. The clay tablets told a tale of a people long dead and forgotten, a tale of the dawn of mankind. As the scientists labored over the mysterious cuneiform signs, a remarkably living picture began to unfold of a civilization which flourished some five thousand years ago in the land of Mesopotamia - the civilization of Sumer. Here was an amazing people form whose culture the later Babylonian Semites gained many of the primordial teachings now embodied in the book of Genesis in newer form. And from the Sumerians came the main stream of what is now modern astronomy. Preserved on the ancient tablets of clay, were found the records of many "firsts" in the history of man's civilization - records which revealed the very origins of modern culture. What were man's first schools like ? Who was the first social reformer ? When did the first recorded tax reduction take place ? Who was the first lawgiver in history ? What were man's first recorded ethical ideals and religious ideas - his first political, social, and philosophical thinking ? This is the incredible tale told by the tablets of Sumer, a tale vividly retold in this unusual book by the foremost Sumerologist in America, Professor Samuel Noah Kramer, Curator of the Tablet Collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Out of the information collected by himself and others, Dr. Kramer has painstakingly pieced together a picture of man's most ancient culture (with the possible exception of coeval Egypt) - a picture remarkable for its intimacy and detail, for its accounts of everyday life. Here, much of the fabric of Sumer's complex culture is laid bare, including such details as the curriculum of Sumerian schools, and the story of the first experiment in shade-tree gardening recorded in history. Of major importance, the myths, epics, and hymns of Sumer live again in Professor Kramer's own translations, providing examples of the powerful epic poetry of this ancient people. Supplemented by fifty illustrations, this book also presents a pictorial record of Sumerian civilization - photographs of statues, tablets, plaques, and steles.

Sumerians --- Sumériens