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Post by Iasin the Steward on Jan 15, 2006 5:00:02 GMT -5
It is at this time that I have established the name of the Wiconsin site. From this time forward to be known as:
[shadow=white,left,400]The Kingdom of Eridu[/shadow]
(pronounced *air-ee-due*)
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On that land the tower will be called:
The Tower of Kiengir
(pronounced: *key-in-jur*)
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Post by Lord Reilloc Kram on Jan 15, 2006 14:55:50 GMT -5
sounds good ;D
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Post by Iasin the Steward on Jan 16, 2006 3:57:44 GMT -5
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Eridu (or Eridug) was an ancient city seven miles southwest of Ur . Eridu was the southernmost of the conglomeration of cities that grew about temples, almost in sight of one another, in Sumer, southern Mesopotamia. It was most likely founded close to the Persian Gulf near the mouth of the Euphrates river, but with accumulation of silt at the shoreline over the millennia, the remains of the city are now some distance from the gulf at Abu Shahrain in Iraq.
Eridu appears to be the earliest of Sumerian urban settlements, having grown up perhaps in the fourth or fifth millennium BC. The urban settlement was centered on an impressive temple complex built of mudbrick, within a small depression that allowed water to accumulate.
Archaeological investigations were carried out in the 1940s. According to Oppenheim, "Eventually the entire south lapsed into stagnation, abandoning the political initiative to the rulers of the northern cities," and the city was forsaken in 600 BC.
In Sumerian mythology Eridu was the home of the god Enki, the Sumerian counterpart of the water-god Ea. Like all the Sumerian and Babylonian gods, Enki/Ea began as a local god, who came to share, according to the later cosmology, with Anu and Enlil, the rule of the cosmos. His kingdom was the waters that surrounded the world and lay below it.
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