However, it is also important to realize that Brahmanism existed in some form up to 10,000 years ago in India too and Sanskrit was invented 1700 to 1200 BC too. However, I think the distinction people are making here is that the Sumerians were the first literate society. So, likely they might have been the first to educate more of their people? not sure about this.
As you can see I have more questions than answers. But, after all College is about learning to ask really good questions so the other 8 billion people on earth can answer them.
One good question: "How do we prevent human extinction this century?" We all want to know the answer to this question.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_religion
The Sumerians believed that the universe had come into being through a series of cosmic births such as gods. First, Nammu, the primeval waters, gave birth to Ki (the earth) and An (the sky), who mated together and produced a son named Enlil. Enlil separated heaven from earth and claimed the earth as his domain. Humans were believed to have been created by AnKi or Enki, the son of the An and Ki.
Heaven was reserved exclusively for deities and, upon their deaths, all mortals' spirits, regardless of their behavior while alive, were believed to go to Kur, a cold, dark cavern deep beneath the earth, which was ruled by the goddess Ereshkigal and where the only food available was dry dust. In later times, Ereshkigal was believed to rule alongside her husband Nergal, the god of death.
The major deities in the Sumerian pantheon included An, the god of the heavens, Enlil, the god of wind and storm, AnKi Enki, the god of water and human culture, Ninhursag, the goddess of fertility and the earth, Utu, the god of the sun and justice, and his father Nanna, the god of the moon. During the Akkadian Empire, Inanna, the goddess of sex, beauty, and warfare, was widely venerated across Sumer and appeared in many myths, including the famous story of her descent into the Underworld.
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