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The text outlines the scope and significance of Sumerian mythology, examines origin myths and stories such as those connected with Kur, and organizes additional miscellaneous myths. A preface argues for Sumerian influence through cuneiform writing, integrated religious and spiritual concepts, and a rich poetic literary tradition inscribed on clay tablets.","SUMERIAN MYTHOLOGY  \nBY  \nSAMUEL NOAH KRAMER  \nA STUDY OF SPIRITUAL AND LITERARY ACHIEVEMENT IN THE THIRD  \nMILLENNIUM B. C.  \nREVISED EDITION  \n1944, revised 1961  \nSumerian Mythology by Samuel Noah Kramer. This edition was created and published by Global Grey  \n©GlobalGrey 2016  \nGet more eBooks at:  \n[www.globalgreyebooks.com](www.globalgreyebooks.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nMan's Golden Age Preface  \nIntroduction  \nChapter 1.The Scope And Significance Of Sumerian Mythology Chapter 2.Myths Of Origins  \nChapter 3.Myths Of Kur  \nChapter 4.Miscellaneous Myths  \nMAN'S GOLDEN AGE  \nThis tablet (29.16.422 in the Nippur collection of the University Museum) is one of the unpublished pieces belonging to the Sumerian epic poem 1 whose hero Enmerkar ruled in the city of Erech sometime during the fourth millennium B.C.The passage enclosed by the black line describes the blissful and unrivalled state of man in an era of  \n1 The extant text of this poem, which we may entitle \"The Epic ofEnmerkar,\" is reconstructed from the following tablets and fragments: CBS 29.13.194, 29.16.422; PBS V 8; PBS XIII 8; SEM 14, 16; SRT 34.  \nThe following pieces may also belong to this composition: BE XXXI 44 (cf.  \nKramer, JAOS 60.250);CBS 2291, 7859; HAV 9.\"The Epic ofEnmerkar\" is to be kept distinct from another epic tale concerned with the same Enmerkar, which we may entitle \"Enmerkar and Enmushkeshdanna.\" The extant text of the latter poem is reconstructed from the following tablets and fragments: Ni 2283; PBS V 9, 10;SEM 13, 18, 19.The following pieces also probably belong to  \nit: CBS 29.16.450; HAV 17;SEM 17.InSL 320 I assumed that we had but one epic composition dealing with the exploits of Enmerkar in the course of subjugating Aratta to Erech.It now seems more likely that we actually have two such epic tales.The first, described in SL as the \"larger portion,\"corresponds to the poem designated above as \"The Epic ofEnmerkar\"; the second, described in SL asthe \"smaller portion,\" corresponds to the one designated \"Enmerkar and Enmushkeshdanna.\" Note also that the number of pieces identified as belonging to these two poems is 20, not 25, as stated in SL 320.  \nuniversal peace before he had learned to know fear and before the\"confusion of tongues\"; its contents,2 which are very reminiscent of Genesis XI:1, read as follows:  \nIn those days there was no snake, there was no scorpion, there was no hyena,  \nThere was no lion, there was no wild dog,no wolf,  \nThere was no fear, no terror, Man had no rival.  \nIn those days the land Shubur (East), the place of plenty, of righteous decrees,  \nHarmony-tongued Sumer (South), the great land of the \"decrees of princeship,\"  \nUri (North), the land having all that is needful, The land Martu (West), resting in security, The whole universe, the people in unison, To Enlilin one tongue gave praise.  \n2 The transliteration and translation of this passage are as follows:  \n1.u4-ba muš-nu-gál-la-àm gír nu-gál-la-àm[ka nu-gál-la-àm]  \n2.ur-maḫ nu-gál-la-àm ur-zir(?) ur-bar-ra nu-gál-la-am  \n3.ní-te-gá su-zi-zi-i nu-gál-la-àm  \n4.lú-lu6 gaba-šu-gar nu-um-tuku-àm  \n5.u4-ba kur-šubur ki-ḫé-me-zi  \n6.eme-ḫa-mun ki-en-gi kur-gal-me-nam-nun-na-kam  \n[7.](7.ki-uri kur-me-te-g)[ki-uri kur-me-te-g](7.ki-uri kur-me-te-g)ál-la  \n8.kur-mar-tu-ú-sal-la-ná-a  \n[9.](9.an-ki-nigin-na uku-sag-s)[an-ki-nigin-na uku-sag-s](9.an-ki-nigin-na uku-sag-s)ì-ga  \n10.den-líl-ra eme-aš-àm, he-en-na-da-[si(?)-el(?)]  \nIn those days there was no snake, there was no scorpion, there was no hyena, There was no lion, there was no wild dog,no wolf,  \nThere was no fear, no terror, Man had no rival.  \nIn those days the land Shubur (East), the place of plenty, of righteous decrees, Harmony-tongued Sumer (South), the great land of the \"decrees of princeship,\"  \nUri (North), the land having all that is needful, The land Martu (West), resting in security, The whole universe, the people in unison, To Enlilin one tongue gave praise.  \nPREFACE  \nThe Sumerians were a non-Semitic","cbCaifAWiOjPSgFn","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifAWiOjPSgFn","pdf",2944314,1,141,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## Man's Golden Age\n## Preface\n## Introduction\n## Chapter 1. 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