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Thank you. Sharing how you have to choose a language in your work was a great way of helping me understand the possible approach the priests took and the obstacles to translation.
Dr. Finkel is by far one of the most interesting lecturers I've ever listened to. He makes the information so very interesting keeping you in stitches all the while. I don't remember what I was watching before, but the doctor's program about the Ark came on. I had not been paying a lot of attention to what I had on before, but I rewound to the beginning & listened to every word of his lecture. He is amazing to listen to even if you're not interested in the subject. My 15 yr old g'son started listening & chuckling. He had barely heard of Cuneiform, Assyria and most definitely a coracle.
Oh that's actually really coolllll because most builders would not be educated in math right, a similar thing was done in gothic cathedral building sites, where you can give the head of construction the plan and the proportions without the exact measurements and they can in turn direct the builders better using instruments like that ruler. You don't need to know any numbers to be able to build a temple!
Interesting how *any* rational number equals the ratio between two unit fractions. So once you get the idea of ratios, you only need unit fractions to have them *all*. Or maybe not interesting at all, since ratios between two integers also work. 🤔
This just doesn’t make sense from how they get the letters based on these pictures. How do you know this is the real meaning of what they were trying to say. I believe, if you really knew what they were trying to communicate, we would know exactly what they did, what they were trying to do and how they did it. We still don’t know anything about them truly, if we did, we would be advancing in a rapid race as they were more advanced than us with what they had spiritually.
This video is brilliant. Maths, archeology, ancient history, ancient mythology, all combined into one. I think there could be no better temple to Ninurta than this one. And yes, that is another name for Ningîrsu. Thank you, thank you very much for this :)
"Ningirsu" meaning "The Lord/God of Girsu" seems to me like more of a title than a name. This makes me think of other deities who are referred to by a title because it is forbidden to speak their names, even if their names are known to a few of the priesthood. Do we know if it was the same for the Sumerians, or was this "title" the only known name for the deity?
ancient gods were same as more recent ones, fiction co-opted and manipulated by elites, for their political power and wealth. in this case additionally using maths for the fairytales. nice and horrific at same time
Great content! People back then who understood math and could apply it to engineering probably had to say it was divinely inspired. It makes sense. Gives authority while avoiding tedious explanations.
Are we sure his hands are clasped “in prayer” and is not depicting a literate man holding a ball of mud he is about to flatten and write on? Hold your hands like this statue. The posture of a scribe working his next ball of mud would have been a visual icon of the era, referencing the literacy.
any correlation with the megalithic yard or egyptian cubit? weren't the devotees of PTAHgoras pursuing the same sentiments? the egyptian 'deus faber' is all over antique greek names...
So it is not suprising pythogoras the famous mathematician founded a religious cult. mathematics was seen as a divine way to explain cosmic order or the divine way of creating order from chaos even from its beginnings
