Matthew LaCroix
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Right.
So she's talking about visiting.
She basically, she goes to visit Enki in the Abzu.
What's the Abzu?
The temple to the underworld.
Enki is a god to the underworld.
Okay.
So she goes to see him and she says, she describes how she knows the me.
Now I'm going to, it's me's in English, but me in Sumer, but we can't say me because it doesn't really work as we're talking.
So what they did is they translated to say me's, but they're the same thing.
Okay.
So it says she knows the me's, the holy laws of heaven and earth.
So that's not quite the same as commandments and rights, is it?
which is how we know, unfortunately, Samuel Noah Kramer mistranslated that part.
Commandments and rights or holy laws.
Well, because he's looking at it from kingship, from an existing structures of kings.
That's why he's doing, it was, it's just an, it's just based on an existing understanding.
I get it.
Yeah.
So this is where it all, this all really began.