Существа, питающиеся людьми в 1903 году — 16 шумерских табличек, которые назвали их всех

This video walks through what the tablets actually say, what the priests were describing, and how the frame was quietly set at the moment of rediscovery. Sources: The Utukku Lemnutu series, 16 canonical tablets, Neo-Assyrian recension from the library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, oldest fragments dating to circa 2400 BC Reginald Campbell Thompson, The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia, two volumes, Luzac and Co., London, 1903 to 1904 Markham J. Geller, Evil Demons: Canonical Utukku Lemnutu Incantations, State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts, volume 5, Helsinki, 2007 Simo Parpola, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars, State Archives of Assyria, volume 10, correspondence between King Esarhaddon and his chief exorcists Adad-shumu-usur and Marduk-shakin-shumi Austen Henry Layard, excavation of Kouyunjik mound at Nineveh, 1847 to 1851 Hormuzd Rassam, continued excavations at Nineveh, 1852 to 1854 and 1878 to 1882 Paul-Emile Botta, French consular excavations at Khorsabad, 1842 to 1844 Benjamin R. Foster, translation of the Epic of Erra in Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature The Diagnostic Handbook (Sakikku), compiled by the scholar Esagil-kin-apli, circa 1050 BC, forty tablets The Book of Enoch, chapters 6 and 7, describing the Watchers and the giants who consumed human beings, preserved intact in the Ethiopian Christian canon Qumran Aramaic fragments of the Book of Enoch, Dead Sea Scrolls collection Genesis chapter 6 verse 4, King James Version Lamashtu amulets, Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods, held in the British Museum, the Louvre, and the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin Pazuzu bronze head with dedicatory inscription, Louvre collection, Nineveh provenance Papyrus Ebers, Egyptian medical papyrus, circa 1550 BC The Epic of Gilgamesh, standard Babylonian version, Ashurbanipal library recension The Papyrus Ebers and Book of the Dead entries on protective entities, held in the Leipzig University Library and the British Museum Aramaic incantation bowls, fourth to seventh centuries AD, Jewish scribal tradition of Sasanian Babylonia Nineveh, destruction of, August 612 BC, coalition of Medes, Babylonians, and Scythians