P. Second question is, is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, what the Sumerians would call a meh? Some of the ancient works have trees being called meh's. While I don't think they are referring to the same trees, I do wonder if it would be proper to view this tree in Genesis as a meh.

The short answer is meh. The meh, it's just meh. It's a two-letter word. Meh in Sumerian is an abstract concept or an abstract noun. I have an article open here. The article is entitled, it's by Jacob Klein. The title is Sumerian Meh as a concrete object. It's from some scholarly journal. The North Korean Talish of Forshenen, the same journal, 1997. Klein writes this. He says, it is a common knowledge. Ha ha, at least to those who do Sumerian stuff. It is a common knowledge that meh is an abstract noun referring to cultic, cultural, political or social institutions, norms, laws, functions, attributes, etc. This is me breaking it down. In other words, the Sumerian, Meh, can refer to just about anybody. It's an abstract concept that's really unfamiliar to us. If you're thinking something like Plato's forms, that might get you in the ballpark, but it's not that either. Back to Klein, he says, however, the precise meaning of this abstract concept is elusive, and therefore it has been subjected to many different translations, in other words. This is me now. How do translators describe what is read by that? It's not very easy. It's actually pretty difficult. So Klein continues to raise serious difficulties. Consequently, it has been suggested by Greg, another author, that in the course of its development, that seems to have acquired concrete connotations. Those are the symbols connected with the person's places or institutions. And then Klein says, in the present paper, I will try to demonstrate that the term met occasionally refers neither to the abstract concept, not to a concrete object connected with it, but to a two-dimensional symbol or image. In Greg, or painted on a sign, a banner, or a standard representing the underlying abstract concept. I'll just close the quote down. But basically, the met is a very foreign concept to us. It could be used of almost anything in Sumerian culture. Again, cultural, political, social institutions, norms, laws, functions, attributes, so on and so forth. So there's no way to pin it to a tree necessarily. Although it could refer to a tree because trees, you know, in that list. Again, just basically our next almost everything. But to use that and say this is the tree of life, it's just way off the mark. The two things really have nothing to do with each

other.