Matthew LaCroix

And Matt, why don't you go ahead and can you read that for me?

The Mies.

There are things in that tiny passage that are massive.

The first thing, look at how he says that the me's that were brought from Sumer were forgotten forever.

Boom, it's already a different time period in the Gilgamesh.

See?

Done.

And in the ethical Gilgamesh, when he meets him, he says that Sharupak is a far older city.

So that's not in the debate.

Now, the second thing to notice there is that he says you brought back the me's that were forgotten forever.

What are me's?

They are what I found.

Me's are divine decrees of understanding how an entire civilization should function and how the understanding of the universe works.

It's everything.

It's like a blueprint for a world.

I originally didn't know what the me's were.

And so when I was writing the book and doing the documentary, I went and flew to Penn Museum to go to the archive to go explore this.

But I didn't really understand what it was.

And nobody really talks about the me's.

Nobody does.