In a corner of the world there was a land called Sumer
Whose waters reached the Euphrates Valley and the Syrian Desert,
its high plateau?
As a result, the mud of two northern streams created a delta,
with a pitiless sun…
But rich was the soil, as anywhere on earth!
And man here made his home:
This was the beginning.
Diversified by marshes and reed-beds, rivers flush with their
banks...!
After the Great Flood, retreating waters and a new cultivation
took place; the Antediluvian devoured by the apocalyptic event.
Hence, into Sumer the giants of old went, degreed a civilization
among the dark-haired race, to include the Hulks of Jericho, and those Goliaths
at: ‘Stone Heap of the Wildcat’ and Gaza …
Sporadically circumstances would promote social unity.
And there was Susa, Musyan, Elam, and the Persian
Gulf—Mesopotamia, And Queen shub-ad, who created style.
And pottery formed, and temples were born.
And kings came and left.
Like King Gilgamesh, whose ancestry stretched back to A-lu-lim.,
the first of the Sumerian kings (NUN RI)
And thus came: gold vases, and royal graves at UR, and the
Sumerian hymn and they hummed to the gods of old! And the villagers wore
Garments of sheepskins, and molded clay figurines, roughly
chipped.
From crystal, they wore necklaces: of all kinds, and some with
beads.
This was the lost millennium.
They
thought back then, somehow or another, virtue was a necessity for the gods,
therefore, came sacrifices and the daily ritual:
Spells
that fix and bound man; hoping to remain engaged, to keep the favor of the
gods.
As a
result, feast-days came and went; animals killed for rituals, like flies!
Barbarism,
perhaps, but that was life, at its edge.
It drew
the gods, and man’s moral judgment.
Prompt,
the gods exercised their power, and man then started to build statues to their
likeness, and now human sacrifice even found its way:
With
magic from the dismembered angelic beings: those renegades tossed out from
Heaven!
Those
who cohabited with earthly women, and gave birth to giant children, and created
ungodly occurrences, even cannibalism.
Hence,
Astrology was now born on earth, as Sumerians now ruled the skies.
Astronomical
knowledge came from the gods too, and the gods (those angelic supernatural beings who battled in Heaven against
the supreme!)
Those
ecclesiastical creatures, that fell out of the sky, one earthly day!
Whom
would be eventually cast into the Prison House for Angelic beings, far off in
some cosmic nebula?
Mesopotamia came under Sumerian rule, and Ur, Lagash and Nippur
honored the Moon-god. And then came more public works; Baal was created out of
words whom dwelt in the sands of the Ancient Near East, right up to the
Mediterranean Sea! …
And it became the Sacred Way, and the walls of the Ziggurat
[Temples]
Were built.
Sanctuaries, with an inner court, and doors decorated that lead
to narrow chambers: to the Holy
of Holies. Shrines, sacred vessels.
It was an unusual time, and phenomenon ... were great platforms
were built in Lebanon, and great brickwork, and grand sculptures
Gods and goddesses, enchanting oil-jars; and forever lost
dynasties.
A lost millennium, that would in time stretch to Greater Cities
like:
Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, Jerusalem, Troy, Knossos, Athens,
Rome, Pompeii, and Mecca.
And within, men would lead men like lambs led astray, for what
man knew was next to nothing, taking life jovially and carelessly.
#1522 10/19/2006/ Published in the Arab Magazine “Al-Mashriq”
(GAZA) / Reedited 1-2015 & revised 8-2015
