Our ancestors predated the Romeo`s more than 45 centuries

"Muddy poem" Babylonian: the oldest evidence of love in Levant

Another love story more than 1300km, from Eastern Desert Saqqara, stories from the land of Babylon with their great civilization, one night, during mining in 'Nippur' and area known today by 'Nephar', located in the city of Diwaniya in Iraq, the mission of America found a small stone panel, dating back to 2025 BC, only a few centimeters in length, and as usual seized.

 

'Message of love', less description can describe this next painting of history, little girl, so it seems from her tender, according to Babylonian studies researcher, Prof. Andrew R George in 'Scruple' or Department of the language and cultures of near and middle East at University of Chicago, this Babylonian lover with her poem to her lover, submission finest love poems for humanity.

'Look for me to find me... i am in the wilderness and had finished the uprooting of thorns... Now I will plant a grape vine.. Wildfire was flooded inside me with water... Love me as you love your little children... Took care of me as you take care of your cattle, and look for me… to find me.

 

Those were the Babylonian lover poem verses, had it engraved with her fingertips on the mud plate kind Acadian language, that language also called Assyrian-Babylon and dialect, it`s from East Semitic, spoken languages was in between the two sea , between third millennium until first millennium BC, and it was writing with cuneiform.

After Andrew George succeeded convert 3D engraving text, found that one plate patterns is not a spell as other patterns, it`s a short poem, but give what we got from the world`s civilizations until today, because the Babylonian language used animated characters and characters still, biologists believe it`s possible to pronounce and read it largely, and as was spoken inhabitants of Mesopotamia themselves.

 

Brof. Andrew R George in his lecture in Chicago pointed out that there is the first and the second line, actually the poem used in past tense another in the future tense, first verb 'uproot' and frees up, second verb' plant' and renewal for life, and there was opposite between them: get rid of the problem of the past opposite future meets in the joy of hope, there is a 'space' between truth and reality on the one hand, hope and future on the other hand, the poem was a moan of pain and suffering of her past life, and looked forward to the sweetness of hope and the desire to meet and joy.

What we know from the sound poem, that girl the owner of verses come from an agricultural background, and her boyfriend who call it a shepherd, this symbolizes the love story between them, in a sense to 'mating' of the Babylonian life sections, and stubbornness of its economy: farming and grazing.

 

With that fire might be interpreted today as a symbol of love and passion, but the Sumerian culture, were considered a symbol of anxiety and fear, so can understand tis verse ' Wildfire was flooded inside me with water' that the girl are taking about the end of her fear, she desire to start a new life, and was her loved of a young man who call him has liberated.

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