シュメール文明４ SUMERIAN 4　 石川源晃著

MESOPOTAMIA in Greek connotes the land midst of rivers. In the present map, this is the land in Iraq that is surrounded by Tigris and Euphrates rivers located. Sumerian was the people of rich and peaceful life in trade and commercial business from ancient achieved. The Sumerian in the poem was the man of brawn skin, short body, small head, big eyes and black hair looked. They moved from the northern hillside to the midst of rivers for agricultural life in about seven thousand years ago or 5000 BC assumed. Even after migration, many records evidenced their trade activities extended to far countries. Excavated many evidences revealed splendid ability of ancient Sumerian lurked. The record evidenced in the year of third millennium B.C. or five thousand years ago that was excavated from the Sumerian town UR has told us that they had piled their commodities for trade with the Orient sea way at three harbor cities, or Gulf of Bahrain, a port in Gulf of Oman and a port in Pakistan located. Ancient site with modern system of sanitary condition in nice water service was found in upper liver of Indus in the western area of India located. Evidences from excavated items indicated that this old city must be a part of colony of ancient Sumerian in forty five hundred years ago estimated. It is widely approved that people in the southern India who are in big eyes, round headed, short body with black hair must be the descendant of ancient Sumerian left. We are in strange sensation that they are quite resemblance with our ancient people of JYO-MON era lived in some several thousand years ago in Japan found prevailed.　Above right illustration is a statue of a Sumerian king in 3000 BC or about five thousand years ago.

The Semite or the descendant of hunting people was friendly to the ancient Sumerian in an easy victim of nice targeted. As the Semite people adored stars in the heaven, the Sumerian with the influence of Semite came to adore a star by five thousand years ago recorded. Although the Sun and Moon have been worshiped by the Semite, however, the Sun for the Sumerian works only daytime and have a rest at night as a sloth and lazy fellow since the Sumerian traveled at night and worked at daytime for their commerce traded. The Moon is changeable and unstable that both luminaries were not important for the life of Sumerian who have respected Venus or INANNA as it could see in day and night in a certain season observed. As the name and roles of the planet Venus have changed widely in accordance with the era changed, these characters of Venus have placed very important fact in studying the laws of astrology that was influenced given from the civilization of particular race evidenced. For instance, the people of Egypt have believed the reincarnation of dead soul recovered through the help of the Sun. On the contrary, the ancient Sumerian did not respect the power of the Sun as it was a sloth of lazy fellow. This has given a good marking for evidencing the origin of the law of astrology in the history lurked.

People of another group of Semite races in the sea shore of Mediterranean had become Jewish people and still another group of Semites had become Chaldeans in Babylonia. Further another group of Semites had become Arabian people. After the disappearance of Sumerians from the main stage of human history, the people from Semites are still active in the nowadays world.

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