
Episode 1: The Tower of Babel (Cuneiform)
Literature and History
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Two Sheep God Inana
In the oldest clay tablets, there is an essential human rationality and creativity at work. The growth and diversification of cunaea form during the thousand b c e was like that of programming languages in our own age. So say, four words on a five thousand year old ura clay tablet. Two sheep god inana. I want to read it to you, these four words, rushing forward from five thousand years ago, and then talk about the effect it might have on us.
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