Before Zeus: The Forgotten Gods of Ancient Mesopotamia

Before Zeus: The Forgotten Gods of Ancient Mesopotamia The oldest stories you know are not the oldest stories. The flood and the man warned to build a boat, the descent into the land of the dead, the hero who could not accept his own death: all were written down more than a thousand years before the Bible, and long before Greece, by a people who worshipped gods almost no one can name. This is the complete story of Mesopotamian mythology, the oldest written mythology on earth, told from the original clay tablets. We meet the forgotten first gods, Anu, Enlil, Enki and the queen of heaven Inanna, follow the slaying of the chaos-dragon Tiamat, the descent of Inanna through the seven gates of the underworld, the epic of Gilgamesh, and the great flood written over a thousand years before Noah. And we end with what the modern world still owes these forgotten gods. Lower the lights, settle in, and stay with me by the fire. #mesopotamia #ancientmythology #sumerian #gilgamesh #inanna Subscribe, we return to the oldest myths every week. Chapters and sources in the pinned comment.