Matthew LaCroix
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He says that we're forgotten forever.
He's talking about a huge amount of time that has gone by between these events, okay?
And we know that because in the Epic of Gilgamesh, he says that he was once from a city called Sherupec that was long before Gilgamesh.
So we know that Sumer, Sumerians and Zayasudra, it's from a completely different time period than Gilgamesh.
I really want to establish that.
It's very important we understand that.
Now, I became...
extremely interested in this concept of me's.
Is it knowledge?
The knowledge of Sumer?
Well, that's, yeah, basically, well, it's knowledge, but it's a type of knowledge.
That's where this rabbit hole is going to go.
Now, as I, as I'm studying that and I'm writing the book, The Missing Key, and we're doing the documentary and we're writing in some narration, we're including it, but we don't know what it is.
I didn't know what it was.
I was, I knew it was knowledge, but what kind of knowledge?
What's the language?
Well, it's Sumerian, but it's Neo-Akkadian, meaning that I believe that the story was actually first written down by Gilgamesh, not before.
Okay.
So that's what I mean by that.
Now, Samuel and Noah Kramer did his best to translate this, but I don't think he got commandments and rights correctly.