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In Enlil's defense, I also get really cranky when I can't sleep.

Live in an apartment, and you'll understand Enlil's actions.

Please do an in-depth video adam and eve and its pre biblical origins

Since most civilizations developed along rivers, they all remember that time when Great Great Grandpa was swept away by a big flood.

“Can I copy your homework?”
“Ok but don’t make it too obvious”

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The fact that this game was on the Super Nintendo and not Sega GENESIS is quite amusing

Too late for breakfast unfortunately. Will save this video for later during dinner.

The flood myth also exists in Hinduism. Matsya the first of ten avatars of Vishnu. He guided Manu, an ancestral king to build a boat to save all the creatures in the world along with himself.

There was also an Ancient Greek flood story, where Zeus flooded humanity and only Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha survived by hiding in a floating chest, then repopulated the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, which turned into new people as they hit the ground.

It absolutely makes sense that the Mesopotamian dimensions of the boats would be 14,400. Since that number is itself 24 x 24 x 24 plus 24 x 24. Or 24³ + 24². Which would have been a very nice round number in the base 60 number system that ancient Mesopotamia used. Since 24 is two full hands of finger digit segments that the ancient Mesopotamians would have used for counting on their hands at the time. And it also makes sense why the Hebrew tradition would round that up because the Hebrew language used a quasi decimal system which would have been a strange fit for the Mesopotamian base 60. It seems that whoever wrote the original Mesopotamian flood myth really liked round numbers and consider them very important considering how much time they spent describing the dimensions of it.

It makes me happy that even waaaay back in the day, people couldnt come up with new IP and just kept regurgitating the same story slightly changed.

Some farmer saw the river rising out of it's banks and he hurried his best stock onto his big barge and saved them while everyone else's stock drowned.  The rest is legend.

0:31 Dr Finkle is THE GOAT

The god was mad because people were making too much noise. 100% sure a dad came up with this and it somehow got added to the religion by mistake.

Dr. Irving Finkel is amazing! Not only is he a great lecturer who makes the "dry" subject of ancient languages engaging, but he also has a dry wit that makes me laugh out loud.

It’s amazing how Jehovah also liked the smell of barbecue. We indeed create gods in our own image .

I'm going to start studying theology next semester so now the algorithm started flooding me with religious content. This channel is the only one that caught my eye because instead of getting overly excited with syncratism, it actually cites its sources and rationally explains connections between different texts.

I wish I had access to this kind of information a long time ago.  I grew up in a cult and was not encouraged or allowed to look at things like this.  Thank you for making this.

It's really interesting seeing the culture difference between "nature is dangerous but the heroic gods will save us" and "Our God controls all of nature, when disasters happen he's punishing us".