EP: 159 The Valley of The Shadow of Death with Derek Gilbert
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Great Mountain or Great Underworld?
Luke: It seems like you have both those metaphors going on all the time and the megalithic societies with it. In Sumerian the word kur which means mountain also means netherworld. Just like in Hebrew the word eretz means earth but it also means the nether world. I think that's really interesting because the chief god of Mesopotamia, the Mesopotamian version of Kumarbi or El Enlil, his main epithet or nickname was Great Mountain. So yeah, Great Mountain or Great Underworld? Yeah. Well we also talked this week, Luke. We just talked to Hugh Newman about Kaharan Tepi and it's basically how
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