@@CanalGreat They didn't use the latin alphabet so how do you know for sure its "bilgames"? Maybe we use some other language/culture's interpretation of his name. Are we wrong for calling it Germany even though Germans call it Deutschland?
Lyrics of this song: Ud rēa, ud sura rēa Ngi rēa, ngi bara rēa Mu rēa mu sura rēa Ud ul ningduē pa ēaba Ud ul ningduē mi zid duggaaba Eš kalammaka ninda šuaba Imšurinna kalammaka ningtab akaba An kita badabaraaba Ki anta badasuraaba Mu namluulu baangaraaba In those days, in those distant days in those nights in those remote nights in those years, in those distant years in days of yore, when the necessary things had been brought into manifest existence in days of yore, when the necessary things had been for the first time properly cared for, when bread had been tasted for the first time in the shrines of the Land, when the ovens of the Land had been made to work when the heavens had been separated from the earth when the earth had been delimited from the heavens when the fame of mankind had been established
@@melliecolesg231Man, I might be bad at math, but a whole BUNCH of people were born, lived, and died even before this was written, and after. I guess we all just take a turn.
The oldest stories ever written, reference older stories that were never written. And the Epic of Gilgamesh was written by a scholar mourning the civilizations that perished before his and recalling oral traditions that were then as old as the Epic is now.
Kids nowadays can't appreciate how available music is. Back in my day you would walk for a month to the city of Uruk, lay siege for 2 years and if you're lucky and break in, find and enslave a musician. Only then can you listen non stop to all the latest hits. Those were the days...
Sorry for being annoying 1Uruk was the strongest Sumerian city, doubt anyone could’ve won against it at the time (except for lugalzaggesi) 2 probably sieges weren’t practiced at the time, or at least they were far shorter than medieval sigies.
If you think about it more, even the history we know is very.. fragile? Everything began to be documented more or less well only around the 17th-19th centuries (Well, and the Roman period, too.) And everything else that we know is just the stories of ordinary people, eyewitnesses of certain events or times. Damn, the history of mankind is one big blank spot, which is barely filled.
@@ee3660 Consider how much of the history of our own times is recorded only in digital formats. Even if our drives were perfect and file formats didn't become obsolete, if/when the lights go out, bang goes all our history. Within a couple of generations, our world would be the stuff of myth.
its so insane. its about the days before history was written down and according to other comments "mourns the civilisations and stories lost as they only existed orally"
@@ricochetsixtyten This is different. We have written history, before we reach the prehistory. It's been that way fot thousands of years, but not for the ancient Sumerians. Written history didn't really exist for them like for us, because the times before the Sumerians was quite literally prehistory. History started with them, the Sumerians.
@@haltingultraman7147 the first time Gilgamesh saw Enkidu in his dream, he fucked him. In the dream before that Enkidu was an axe which was the symbol of confused/bisexual sexuality and Gilgamesh fucked it too. Gilgamesh's mother told him that he'd love Enkidu as wife. Their friendship started with a kiss. They laid together. It was normal for a slave and a master to have romantic relationships. Gilgamesh literally rejected the Goddess of Beauty by saying he has Enkidu and he's enough for him. The line between friends and gay lovers were non existent back then in most of Ancient Mesopotamia, as far as I know, since the whole concept of marriage revolved around having children to continue a lineage and sex was a carnal thing. Sure, by the times standarts they were really really close friends. However, by todays standarts they would be count as lovers, however much value that might hold.
It's fitting how Gilgamesh tried so hard, yet failed to achieve immortality, but now lives on even 6000 years later through a writing by an author who himself is forgotten. Art really does transcend time
@@edtrx3475 no one wants to die,especially when you have goals for the specie unlike no ambition peasants who are content with being stepped on by those who have ambition.
This man is singing a song written by people back in the day, taking about people back in the first days of civilization. Chilling and makes you feel like a grain of sand in the history of humanity.
And even the people they're talking about at the beginning of civilization many thousands of years before their time are still not even close to the beginning of humanity
@@Dell-ol6hb And think about including all the history of the other hominins who also happen to have been part (even in minor quantities) of our gene pool. Their journeys through the Earth before or alongside the Homo Sapiens. The path of the Neanderthals to the coldest regions of Eurasia, and so on.
More people saw this than what was estimated to be the population of the Sumerian civilization at its peak. I guess that makes this guy the most famous Sumerian musician of all time.
This was the hottest track of the summer of 2100 B.C. My boy Utnapishtim and I used to blast this while cruising around the fertile plains of Uruk looking for harlots to take our seed and brave men to test our strength against in wrestling matches. Good times.
No, he could well mean something along the lines of controversial historians who pose that civilization could well be twenty or even thirty thousand years old as opposed to less than ten thousand.
Some people talk of the civilization in sumer appearing suddenly, of course that idea is nonsense, it developed slowly, it just seems to appear because of our lack of knowledge of what came before.
@@Kaddywompous recently in Israel a 5000 year old metropolis of 6000 inhabitants was unearthed, it's a shame there are no written records before Sumeria, all we have is what ever previous cultures left and speculation
¿? Sumerians actually spoke about this , there are a lot of ancient scripts talking about Pre-Flouting era and it’s very ancient civilizations , they even wrote the exact years and the exact names of the kings who ruled the earth back then . It’s a very weird stories and more blown minded stories than the myths you see in UA-cam about Annunaki .
Matus Motlo Ancient Greece only stored and transferred old knowledge from Mesopotamia & Egypt , and devolved them also , they didn’t invent a lot of important things in human development due to the fact that most of them were already invented by older Civilizations .
Yes, every culture has it's ancient mythology and epics. But it's hard to pin down the exact border between facts and fiction as people at the time didn't differentiate facts and fiction. For them a golden flying bull was as believable as a loaf of bread from a local baker.
I remember when I turned 16 and finally came of age in 2150 B.C. My friend Manishtushu and I went out to Urak by horse for three days. Then some guy named Naram-Sim was on a stage and before he preformed, he said "𒀭𒈾𒊏𒄠𒀭𒂗𒍪 𒈠𒀭𒅖𒌅𒋢𒊬𒊒𒄀" Which really touched me. Then he sang this song. My friend, Manishtushu was killed in battle ☹. Those were the days.
With the help of its friends and allies of the allied peoples the Sumerian People's Army will continue the fight until victory. We believe that the victory will serve as an example for peoples around the world and open the path to freedom. We look to our allies of the allied peoples and cities. Peoples of all the countries of the world and all the peoples of Sumeria, we call upon you to stand together and not let the enemy divide our peoples. In our words are strength. May the people of Sumeria, all the peoples of the world be successful in achieving their goals of independence and freedom!
In Uruk today the Leader of Sumeria made an address on Sumerian state television condemning the separatists and rebels fighting in Kish. “I will use the forces of Sumer to ensure that our beloved city is safe and that our government is secure. We will stand our ground in this time of turmoil.” The Leader was shown standing in front of the main gate to the city making a speech as a symbol of leadership. The rebels’ advance is being slowed by their lack of heavy weaponry and the recent rain that has turned many of the city’s streets into muck and mire.
Manishtushu owed me some money. He said @colinwilliams5447 will take care of his debt to me. Bro, can you venmo me the money that your good for nothing buddy Manishtushu owed me. thanks in advance man.
Can we just spend a minute and admire this man's flawless vocals? It has that weird, compelling quality to it, almost mystical and magical, that gives this piece another meaning.
Well, over the last 4,000 years all of the bread songs have been done. Wheat, Rye, Pumpernickel, Oat, the whole deal. These days we have songs about space travel and time dilation, oh and ones about busting a cap in someone's ass. You know, the classics.
I remember when I heard this being played after the Siege of Kish, where we annihilated the Kishites and slaughtered them. I bet you there was not a damn iPhone in sight, just people living in the moment.
Nowadays, everyone's all on their clay tablets all the time, they really don't do sieges like they used to. I still remember popping over at the starch beer bar with the boys and returning home after looting another one of those savages down the Euphrates...darn, those were the days.
Not as much as those people living in the moment back in those ancient nights when the first bread was tasted though. Damned kids these days and their chariot warfare!
Copyright last lifetime of author plus 70 Years after his death. Commercial copyright last 95 years of first publication. Everything out of date become PUBLIC DOMAIN. So no claims possible.
The irony of Gilgamesh is that in a way he did achieve immortality, More than 5,500 years after his death, people still talk about his history and his journeys throughout the world known to the Sumerians.
Johan Fouche the moon isn’t a wheel it’s a sphere, and second someone had to make bread for the first time. Bread is an invention, just because multiple human groups thought of it doesn’t make it any less of an invention.
Johan Fouche so if it is made of natural materials or produce like grain it cannot he invented? Computers are made from natural metals from the earth. Plastics are made from oil which was once living beings. Were both those things not invented as well? Your argument is extremely flawed and I can see on top of your ignorance you’re also a racist. It’s common to see people of lower intellect to have racist tendencies. I pity you, Johan. I truly do
Johan Fouche but surely you must realize there was that first person to ever make bread. It doesn’t matter if other cultures also developed it, bread is a man made object. Someone HAD to invent bread and spread it to other people. Like with houses! I’m sure there was that one early human who decided to prop up sticks and logs to create his own dwelling. That person is the inventor of the house. Although of course we can never know who they were because of how long ago that was. Bread is not like fire, bread is not a natural occurrence it had to be thought of by a human and crafted like any object. Granted the method of creating fire was also a manmade process but fire itself is a natural occurrence that does not need the help of man to occur. But bread as a physical object needs to be handmade by a person, and for that to happen someone needed to invent it using their own method. Also of course you know you’re correct, everyone knows that they themselves are correct. If someone knew they were wrong they would change their point of view. I think your views on people of color are outdated and ignorant. I don’t care if you have stereotypes and “observations” on other races that doesn’t make it right.
More like "Alexander the Late" Am I right, guys? I had this on my tablet when it first dropped. "Wedge-mark, wedge-mark, dash, wedge-mark" it was a whole dance craze.
yeah, and to be clear, they never got off of that. There was no "a long long time ago, this happened". It was just "a long time ago, in ancient times, when bread was first tasted, ah aah AAH ah AHA ah aAHHaA AHHAah"
@@greaterbharat4175 If you want to be technical the earliest human settlement is in Ohalo in Israel. Mesopotamia is generally considered the cradle of civilization because of writing being invented there first, not because it's the oldest.
Imagine someone in the year 6743 singing a song written in the year 2022 about a story that happened during the Bronze Age. That’s the length of time we are dealing with here
@@amaneyugihanako-kunofthesi8849 you need to stop listening to boomers man, there is so much incredible music being made all the time, especially with the advent of computers.
@@cravinghibiscus7901 Ummm, current music is mostly shit now, you don't have to listen to a boomer to figure that out. There are some good ones but they tend to have much smaller amounts of listeners compared to those cringe ones. 80s to 2010's music was the best period, onwards to 2020 was when it went to shit.
@@cravinghibiscus7901 And just because computers exist doesn't mean that music quality just got better. With a computer, people have all this power to make great music in their hands, yet only few tap into that power really well, the rest do it mostly in meh quality. Kinda weird that I would consider Bill Wurtz to be one of those aforementioned guys that can utilize the power of music on a computer really well, despite his rather unusual genre of music.
@@amaneyugihanako-kunofthesi8849 yikes... tell me you don't know where to find the right artists without telling me you don't know where to find the right artists
Tom Servo Babylon and the amorites are the thieves of the real sumeria. they destroyed sumeria and then the scum hammurabi, Babylonian, and the wild amorites were the imposters of the real peaceful sumeria. Baghdad and Babylon are wild men that's all and zero connection to real sumeria !!! more detailed info at links below. ua-cam.com/video/bX9SVkixxtk/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/gJF_lYSREgc/v-deo.html
@@dr.enochmetatron6830 Yes, it's widely known that Babylonian culture is separate from Sumerian culture. Amorites did not destroy Sumerian culture (it fell out of favor long before Hammurabi's reign), and instead invited themselves into Akkadian culture, which was already dominating Mesopotamia at the time of their arrival. Actually, nobody even destroyed Sumerian culture. It was peacefully assimilated into Akkadian culture during Sargon's empire, and died alongside it.
joking aside, I live in the north of Mesopotamia and every time I hear this song there is something that stirs in my blood, something mystical about it. maybe thousands of years ago my ancestors were mowing their fields, leaning their backs against a stone and humming this lament in the sunset, who knows?...
I experienced something similar in Estonia a few months ago. I visited and I had a sudden feeling of rightness, and it was almost like I could see the fishers and farmers and builders from the last 1000 years in front of me. It wasn't just that I liked the people or the place (I very much did) but that it all felt strangely familiar. I am a pretty rational, pragmatic person, but it felt mystical. I later learned that my father's family, parts of which we know very little about, is from there. My mother had a very similar experience when she went to Wales as a child. It just felt like home and she couldn't explain why. I went through family records and her ancestors were all Welsh. I wonder if there is a name for this phenomenon. When you are in the land of your ancestors, whether you know it or not, and something--the music, the sunlight on mountains, the smell of the sea--makes you feel like your ancient ancestors are much closer in time and space. Very cool that yiu experience it while listening to this song.
@@no3namesalike I really don't know why it happens, but when you come into contact with a song or an object from the place of its origin, it draws you in without you knowing it and you don't know why, it's very breathtaking, I would like to investigate this in detail, according to what you said, your mother also experienced this situation, and when I look at it now, it is a very impressive and strange feeling that people are so similar to each other and have something in common. I started to dive into deep thoughts again, I wish you well, my friend, I am very happy...
Happened to me in an ancient Temple of Artemis in Greece. I walked in giving a tour to a school group (had never been there before) and I looked at one of the ancient marble plaques detailing acts of heroism and service and I found that I could read them damn near effortlessly. To be fair, ancient greek and modern greek share similarities, and I was taught the ancient version in school for several years. However, the tour felt... Special. As if I was showing them around my living room, as if I wholly belonged there. It also helped that I found my name in one of the plaques: Αλέξανδρος (Aléxandros)
Ud rēa, ud sura rēa Ngi rēa, ngi bara rēa Mu rēa mu sura rēa Ud ul ningduē pa ēaba Ud ul ningduē mi zid duggaaba Eš kalammaka ninda šuaba Imšurinna kalammaka ningtab akaba An kita badabaraaba Ki anta badasuraaba Mu namluulu baangaraaba For anyone interested in the correct lyrics. The only thing that must be pointed out is that Peter chose to pronounce the "ng" sound differently than it is originally intended
@@oolooo it is considering it all but even more so how Sumerian came into being seemingly out of nowhere. Another thing to point out, most lyrics you see written around aren't in Sumerian as much as they are written in the Akkadian script but I'm sure that with a little bit of research will do the trick into clarifying these things
We don’t know what the original instrumental music or even vocal melody was, this is just his own interpretation. The oldest melody we have is the Hurrian Hymn no 6 and the full oldest song we have is the Sekeilos epitaph
Well, what did you expect? Ea-Nasir doesn't provide anything else! I heard he keeps all his complaints in a special room in his house, like who does that?
I can relate to this song. The memory of taste of bread in 80's and early 90's seem like thousands years away and in eastern Poland this bread was probably the best thing that happened to me when I was a kid. Specifically its crust, I have not tasted anything better in my life. Good, ancient times...
@@lonehiker6648 wheels must have been invented and forgotten 1000 times -I they roll a log You soon realise youcan make a wheel but Something else has to beinvented to get it stick -like a road
It's close to the oldest, but not the oldest. Firstly, there's another piece of music (Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal, the goddess of orchards), and secondly, we don't know what even more ancient humans sang and played. Just imagine, there's musical tunes played by Homo Erectus which will never be heard again
I think the utter enormity of this song is lost on most minds. This is the first civilization (as we know it) and the oldest known song ever. And even still it starts with, "long long ago." What i see when this is heard is haunting beauty. A vast moon lit desert with sand that is pure white and soft to the touch. And the only thing over the horizon, the faint flickering flames of the place that would become the great city. And in your soul you know there is a choice to make.
I play this while I rake in the hot summer sun, I then look up to the sky heroicly as if... I am about to do something, but instead I just return to raking.
Sumerian Lyrics: Ud rēa, ud sura rēa Ngi rēa, ngi bara rēa Mu rēa mu sura rēa Ud ul ningduē pa ēaba Ud ul ningduē mi zid duggaaba Eš kalammaka ninda šuaba Imšurinna kalammaka ningtab akaba An kita badabaraaba Ki anta badasuraaba Mu namluulu baangaraaba English Lyrics: In those days, in those distant days In those nights, in those ancient nights In those years, in those distant years In those ancient days all things had been created In ancient time when all things were given their place When bread was first tasted in the sacred shrines of the land When the ovens had been lighted When the heavens had been separated from the earth When the earth had been separated from the heavens When mankind had been established
Really tells you the value of agriculture when the ancient Sumerians saw "The Old Days" as when they could begin to produce bread at a large enough scale to support civilization.
@@MeizarFarizky It might be a joke about how poorly lit Sumerian bars were, the dog opening one of it’s eyes (this one) or it’s a mistranslation: Edmund Gordon in the Journal of Cuneiform Studies claims it says “The dog, having entered an inn, didn’t see anything and so he said ‘Shall I open this door?’” with the joke being that the dog entered an inn that served as a brothel, and wanted to see what was behind closed door.
I was asleep but had my "watch later" UA-cam list on When this played I awoke, for a second I felt like I was listening something out of this world. So beautifuly created, thank you so much. I'll have my Iraqi family listen to it as well 🌸
“When bread was first tasted.” The song is describing the transition to agriculture from the hunter-gatherer lifestyle that mankind had lived in for untold millennia. Only the tail end of mankind’s history is recorded.
@@TheNightWatcher1385 I imagine a caveman banging his head on the wall and proclaming his new grown blob a proper god. Maybe the tale of how he convinced his 300 millions peers is worth a reading. "Blob appears, Blob make death water appear, Blob god of death therefore"
People in 2020: Maaan... I miss the good old days of cruising my Chrysler through the streets of New York back in 1966 People in 2100 BC: Maaan... I miss those days when mankind was established
This song reminded me of the time I wanted to buy some copper. I sent my servant over to the baazar to find a merchant who sold copper at a reasonable price. He found one but when he came back, the quality was terrible. I was so furious I screamed "What in Kur is this shit?!?!?!?!" at the top of my lungs. I wrote a complaint to him but from what I heard, the merchant kept it like a trophy. So I would like to end this review by saying: don't ever buy copper from Ea Nasir.
אני ממש יודע מה שאתה אומר, זה קורה בעולם ערבי. יש זה לערבית, הרבה שפות לאחד שפה. אני רוצה לנסוע לבבל והולך להתחיל לעשות טיול מסביב לעולם. היתה לי חברה שהיתה קופאית. היא כל כך מדברת כמה שפות, אולי שומרית. רציתי שהכל שאני כותב יהיה לספר משומרים. אני רוצה להתחיל לחשוב על משהו, להיות נבוכדנצר. אתם יכולים להתחיל ללמוד שפות ישנות, לא? כמו הקופאית הזאת.
Back in the day you had to hunt a mammoth for a living, not sit on your ass and bake bread. Youngsters these days. - written in city of Uruk, 2100 BC colorized.
Ud rēa, ud sura rēa Ngi rēa, ngi bara rēa Mu rēa mu sura rēa Ud ul ningduē pa ēaba Ud ul ningduē mi zid duggaaba Eš kalammaka ninda šuaba Imšurinna kalammaka ningtab akaba An kita badabaraaba Ki anta badasuraaba Mu namluulu baangaraaba English Translation: In those days, in those distant days In those nights, in those ancient nights In those years, in those distant years In those ancient days all things had been created In ancient time when all things were given their place When bread was first tasted in the sacred shrines of the land When the ovens had been lighted When the heavens had been separated from the earth When the earth had been separated from the heavens When mankind had been established Edit: PSA This is someone else's work! I found these lyrics with the English translation through a simple Google search. My only intent when posting this was to sing along with Peter and admire the beauty of the song.
this is so nostalgic. i remember hanging out with my bros listening to this when it came out about 4000 years ago. thank you for bringing back my childhood.
Funnily enough, to put into perspective on how ancient this civilization is. 4000 years ago was actually around the time the ancient Sumerian civilisation ceased to exist. 1200 years before the city of rome itself was founded.
Is hard to put into words, what I felt when I first heard this song. Tears came down my eyes. I can’t even understand why. It is a feeling of immense familiarity and a calling from the past.
It is absolutely INSANE that we’ve managed to get a hold of music that’s almost 4000 years old, the fact that the people who wrote the Epic of Gilgamesh wouldn’t even comprehend the thought of people listening to this on devices is also crazy. Also as a side note, for some reason this gives me a feeling of nostalgia, maybe it’s because Peter sings it in a certain way that I find very pleasing
It's pretty cool. What I want to know is the actual MUSIC reconstructed (I'd assume it was) or was that included in the cuneiform. Obviously a translation of the lyrics were.
@@THEPRO562 Ironically, humanity has only existed for around ~300 thousand years. Earth has existed for over 4.5 billion years (and we’re already 70% through its lifespan). When you do the math, human history only makes up .007% of Earth’s history overall so when you put it into perspective we haven’t been in existence for very long at all. It just seems like it from our vantage point because we don’t know of any other sentient Homo sapiens akin to us
Man, i remember crackin' this in Babylon with my buddy hammurabi. I moved to Uruk after school so I haven't heard of him ever after. I Wonder what he's up to these days...
@@bilosan97 how is it weird? Culture and music changes. Someone probably though the same thing in the 1800's. Music develops more rapidly in modern times because of technology and the internet. Our culture is changing at a fast pace too.
@@solomale2156 listening to satanic occult music or to rap music with swear words 24/7 isn't weird? Btw. I dont talk about classical music which is full with harmony
Peter, this video literally changed my life. I saw it in middle school and now I'm studying ancient near-eastern civilizations at university! Thank you so much for bringing history to life. You really inspired me.
@@murtadhaalkenani3876 What's the difference? European and American scholars have their own terms and that's none of your business. And your scholars can call our territory whatever they like and this is none of our business.
Thousands of years and it's still not on Spotify
@Eisen Chao free sample basically
@Eisen Chao Rights were sold to Cyrus the Great circa 550BC and he hasn't made a spotify contract.
Bitch it here BEFORE spotify
I think it is :)
And also I totally get the joke
@@josephwatkins5500 multiple music apps are allowed to have the same song tho
That guy at the party who brought his own gishgudi: "Anyway here's The Epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian"
I could definitely sit down and listen to him all night
I would be so damn awestruck that he could drink my bank to minus. Hearing this live would be godly.
here I am
Such a good way to start a party.
If someone pulls up with a Gishgudi and starts singing this i'd definitely sit down and listen
Hope Gilgamesh does not copyright strike this
Lmao
He'd be wondering why people started misspelling his name as Gilgamesh
@@voicelessglottalfricative6567 GIRUGAMESH
@@Eralen00 Bilgames
@@CanalGreat They didn't use the latin alphabet so how do you know for sure its "bilgames"? Maybe we use some other language/culture's interpretation of his name. Are we wrong for calling it Germany even though Germans call it Deutschland?
Lyrics of this song:
Ud rēa, ud sura rēa
Ngi rēa, ngi bara rēa
Mu rēa mu sura rēa
Ud ul ningduē pa ēaba
Ud ul ningduē mi zid duggaaba
Eš kalammaka ninda šuaba
Imšurinna kalammaka ningtab akaba
An kita badabaraaba
Ki anta badasuraaba
Mu namluulu baangaraaba
In those days, in those distant days
in those nights
in those remote nights
in those years, in those distant years
in days of yore, when the necessary things had been brought into manifest existence
in days of yore, when the necessary things had been for the first time properly cared for,
when bread had been tasted for the first time in the shrines of the Land, when the ovens of the Land had been made to work
when the heavens had been separated from the earth
when the earth had been delimited from the heavens
when the fame of mankind had been established
how do you even know!?
@@petroll.02 He edged & gooned for months on end until it finally came to him..
@@whyyes6429 What made you write that?
@@whyyes6429your mind has about 4 weeks before total rot
@whyyes6429 you have 2 weeks before your genitals are cut off
The moment you realize the oldest story ever told opens up with "In those ancient days ...".
This shall teach us.
Makes you wonder of just how far mankind has come.
@@AlexKS1992 Weird how the mammoths went extinct when the pyramids were almost 1,000 years old and Egypt was less than half way done with it's empire.
@@melliecolesg231Man, I might be bad at math, but a whole BUNCH of people were born, lived, and died even before this was written, and after. I guess we all just take a turn.
The oldest stories ever written, reference older stories that were never written. And the Epic of Gilgamesh was written by a scholar mourning the civilizations that perished before his and recalling oral traditions that were then as old as the Epic is now.
The sumarians were ancient to the romans who are ancient to us and still this song is about ancient times for the sumarians. Just awesome...
In time before time is a literary trope for a reason
Humanity peaked in the stone age
@@Mr.Obongo then died of typhoid I presume
I mean yeah, it literally said "before the invention of bread"
Before romans? That’s nothing. We’re talking before ancient Egypt became preposterous
Kids nowadays can't appreciate how available music is. Back in my day you would walk for a month to the city of Uruk, lay siege for 2 years and if you're lucky and break in, find and enslave a musician. Only then can you listen non stop to all the latest hits. Those were the days...
Sorry for being annoying
1Uruk was the strongest Sumerian city, doubt anyone could’ve won against it at the time (except for lugalzaggesi)
2 probably sieges weren’t practiced at the time, or at least they were far shorter than medieval sigies.
@@godisdeadandwememedhim4174 my brother in christ I dont think he cares about historical accuracy of a joke
wahahaha
@@Bread-nx9fo My brother in Enki: I just wanted to say it because people could’ve learnt. The joke is good
To były czasy xD
"In those distant days"
That verse that makes you remember that 90% of the entire human history has no surviving records, thus being lost forever.
😭😢
If you think about it more, even the history we know is very..
fragile? Everything began to be documented more or less well only around the 17th-19th centuries (Well, and the Roman period, too.) And everything else that we know is just the stories of ordinary people, eyewitnesses of certain events or times.
Damn, the history of mankind is one big blank spot, which is barely filled.
90% sounds made up, but go off
@@ee3660 Consider how much of the history of our own times is recorded only in digital formats. Even if our drives were perfect and file formats didn't become obsolete, if/when the lights go out, bang goes all our history. Within a couple of generations, our world would be the stuff of myth.
@@MrNyathi1 That is the single most mortifying thing I've read in a long time
I love how the epic is 4000 years old and still begins with "In those distant days"
its so insane. its about the days before history was written down and according to other comments "mourns the civilisations and stories lost as they only existed orally"
They had a past even in the past you know.
@@ricochetsixtyten really drives you crazy thinking about that,
Greek philosophers complained about youth and how better were things in the older times
@@ricochetsixtyten This is different. We have written history, before we reach the prehistory. It's been that way fot thousands of years, but not for the ancient Sumerians. Written history didn't really exist for them like for us, because the times before the Sumerians was quite literally prehistory. History started with them, the Sumerians.
And gilgamesh wept bitter tears, saying:
*''He who was my companion, through adventure and hardship, is gone forever.''*
I felt that
Can't blame him for the lack of understanding.
He was one step away from saying lover
@@mateohodge6998 Dude, not every story of friendship has to become a love story.
@@haltingultraman7147 the first time Gilgamesh saw Enkidu in his dream, he fucked him. In the dream before that Enkidu was an axe which was the symbol of confused/bisexual sexuality and Gilgamesh fucked it too. Gilgamesh's mother told him that he'd love Enkidu as wife. Their friendship started with a kiss. They laid together. It was normal for a slave and a master to have romantic relationships. Gilgamesh literally rejected the Goddess of Beauty by saying he has Enkidu and he's enough for him. The line between friends and gay lovers were non existent back then in most of Ancient Mesopotamia, as far as I know, since the whole concept of marriage revolved around having children to continue a lineage and sex was a carnal thing. Sure, by the times standarts they were really really close friends. However, by todays standarts they would be count as lovers, however much value that might hold.
Man when he said "𒀆 𒀋𒀙𒃰 𒄐𒄑" I felt that.
Awesome writing.
Man's just casually wrote cuneiform and went with it
how my computer supports this alphabet
@@LordBackuro he casually grabbed a hammer and a wooden stick and just carved it on his screen
@@POAgaming1944 It's written with a stylus, not a hammer and a wooden stick
For a man named Peter Pringle, he's probably one of the most interesting men in the world to talk to.
E
still water often runs deep
i like how you said “for a man named peter pringle” like his name being peter pringle isn’t already interesting as fuck
Did he invent the Pran of Cringles?
I used to listen to this when I was in high school. I'm 4000 years old now and it still rocks.
Og
𐎡 𐎾𐎠𐎺 𐎮𐎿
you must be the snake that ate the deep sea plant of immortality
@@evielovezlax7383 too political sorry
You ain't even a proper Sumerian then, the Third Dynasty of ur fell on 2004 BCE and by then things were no longer the same as those ancient days.
So people in 2100 B.C. already talked about the good old days. Some things in humanity never change
Underrated comment. Should be near the top. Made me laugh super hard.
Jacopo Abbruscato hahahaha
@Jesus Christ Thank you Jesus for the truth...
The more things change, they stay the same.
There are documents of ancient greeks complaining about how disrespectfull and useless are youngsters , not like when they were younger .
It's fitting how Gilgamesh tried so hard, yet failed to achieve immortality, but now lives on even 6000 years later through a writing by an author who himself is forgotten. Art really does transcend time
The trickster
Its been 6000 years and people still try to achieve immortality
@@edtrx3475 no one wants to die,especially when you have goals for the specie unlike no ambition peasants who are content with being stepped on by those who have ambition.
Think about this, the Iliad wasn't written by Homer but instead he just pieced it together in a coherent story, the story itself is way more ancient.
Time is an illusion. Look up time lapse of the universe and let me know what you think.
Ea Nasir on his way to sell "superior" copper :
This fucking fraud
E
LoL 😆
@@EEEEEEEEi hope you read gadsby 1939
Ea Nasir : fuck off about the copper!!
🤣🤣
The oldest song in history talks about an even older time, amazing.
Hashir hachi yashan saviv zman yoter yashan, atzum
Wow
@Belmin Hodzic well said
@@warrior5215
אני לוקח הרפתקה מרתקת כדי למצוא את השפה שלך ולתרגם אותה, איזו תרבות והיסטוריה עשירה ויפה, זכות, היא עצומה!
SUmmerian cities were already 2000 years old at that time
Haven't seen a comment about this man's exceptional singing ability.
Top class!
yes he has a terrific voice!
Yeah true, what a great voice to sing the epic of Godking Gilgamesh
This is an Original music from the foundation of truth , and I love the truth when I can decide for myself what is the facts , it is written
Because thats not his voice the face doesn't match his voice who is he lying to lol
@@ishthefish9006 You'd jump through your roof when I tell you about studio recording and voice editing
When the oldest written work known to man talks about the ancient times
Makes you wonder if Mr Graham Hancock is right... “we are a species with amnesia, as a result of a series of cataclysmic events”
Deandalapanda Indeed
When he talks about Ancient Times we soon remind the time when the "Zorra Total" jokes were first made/written/told.
@Columbus 1492 The Brazilians will.
@Columbus 1492 We're owning the Web! Zuckerberg hates us!!!!
This man is singing a song written by people back in the day, taking about people back in the first days of civilization. Chilling and makes you feel like a grain of sand in the history of humanity.
You feel the weight of time
Nostalgia is as old as civilization itself
And even the people they're talking about at the beginning of civilization many thousands of years before their time are still not even close to the beginning of humanity
@@Dell-ol6hb And think about including all the history of the other hominins who also happen to have been part (even in minor quantities) of our gene pool. Their journeys through the Earth before or alongside the Homo Sapiens. The path of the Neanderthals to the coldest regions of Eurasia, and so on.
It's beautiful and makes me want to research.
-I listen to old songs
-Oh do you like 80's too?
-Actually..
5080s
2180s BC
Only 5080s kids will remember this.
@@jasonmartin4775 the epic of gilgamesh was written in 2100s BC lmao
@@AbrahamLincoln4 issa joke
Civilization now: "shit, ancient times were dope"
Sumerians: "shit, ancient times were dope"
WERE not where
@@OffGridInvestor UD REA AH not were
Some things never change.
Cavemen: "shit, we are dope"
@@jonathanfrakes1284 Dinosaures : "shit, bacteriological life was dope"
More people saw this than what was estimated to be the population of the Sumerian civilization at its peak.
I guess that makes this guy the most famous Sumerian musician of all time.
Bruh
@@yaznaz5340 moment
noice
our population today is 10% of the total humans that has ever lived, ever. (estimation)
This is just so epic
2:53 Ancient jumpscare
The first jumpscare in history.
When he said "HOHOHOHOWHHHHHOHOHIWHOHWHOHOHOWH""
I felt it
LMAO
LOL!
This was the hottest track of the summer of 2100 B.C. My boy Utnapishtim and I used to blast this while cruising around the fertile plains of Uruk looking for harlots to take our seed and brave men to test our strength against in wrestling matches. Good times.
The Good'l times.
Living for this comment 😁
Yea man, When Sumer was ruled by REAL MEN, unlike them BABYLONIAN PUSSIES
@@willsplayify They couldn't have been that great, they perished in a great flood!
@@SaintOfRage anybody would perish in a flood, given the technology of that day
Crazy to think a song this old talks about "ancient days". Really puts things into perspective.
Peter Newson very true, it makes one think that sumerian list of kings is nothing but pure history...
It shows humanity is way older than we are being told....
No, he could well mean something along the lines of controversial historians who pose that civilization could well be twenty or even thirty thousand years old as opposed to less than ten thousand.
Some people talk of the civilization in sumer appearing suddenly, of course that idea is nonsense, it developed slowly, it just seems to appear because of our lack of knowledge of what came before.
Maybe he means something like civilisation, or something similar?
"In those ancient nights..." What stories, peoples, and places were considered ancient by the oldest civilization we know of? Amazing to wonder about.
Makes you think about Humans and the world dosint it? So many secrets humanity still holds in the sediment of Time. Keeps me up at night to be frank.
did you ever hear about Gobeklitepe ?
@@mustafaalp1568 its not a story the Historians would tell you...
Mustafa Alp That was 8000 years before this song. Pretty damn ancient. And what was ancient to the people who built THAT? Chills man, fucking chills.
@@Kaddywompous recently in Israel a 5000 year old metropolis of 6000 inhabitants was unearthed, it's a shame there are no written records before Sumeria, all we have is what ever previous cultures left and speculation
Man this reminds me of the time I got scammed with some low quality copper
An underrated comment
Ea-Nasir
First recorded story of humanity - and it's set in "ancient days" before the poet is speaking. That's some deep time.
it's almost as if an ancient golden age culture was wiped out by some great catastrophe, and all we were left with was scraps of history.
¿? Sumerians actually spoke about this , there are a lot of ancient scripts talking about Pre-Flouting era and it’s very ancient civilizations , they even wrote the exact years and the exact names of the kings who ruled the earth back then . It’s a very weird stories and more blown minded stories than the myths you see in UA-cam about Annunaki .
Matus Motlo Ancient Greece only stored and transferred old knowledge from Mesopotamia & Egypt , and devolved them also , they didn’t invent a lot of important things in human development due to the fact that most of them were already invented by older Civilizations .
Yes, every culture has it's ancient mythology and epics. But it's hard to pin down the exact border between facts and fiction as people at the time didn't differentiate facts and fiction. For them a golden flying bull was as believable as a loaf of bread from a local baker.
@@Theboomdoctor The Bible tells us,beloved.
I remember when I turned 16 and finally came of age in 2150 B.C. My friend Manishtushu and I went out to Urak by horse for three days. Then some guy named Naram-Sim was on a stage and before he preformed, he said "𒀭𒈾𒊏𒄠𒀭𒂗𒍪 𒈠𒀭𒅖𒌅𒋢𒊬𒊒𒄀" Which really touched me. Then he sang this song. My friend, Manishtushu was killed in battle ☹. Those were the days.
Is it the same Naram-Sim from Karak? 🤔 good man
With the help of its friends and allies of the allied peoples the Sumerian People's Army will continue the fight until victory. We believe that the victory will serve as an example for peoples around the world and open the path to freedom. We look to our allies of the allied peoples and cities. Peoples of all the countries of the world and all the peoples of Sumeria, we call upon you to stand together and not let the enemy divide our peoples. In our words are strength. May the people of Sumeria, all the peoples of the world be successful in achieving their goals of independence and freedom!
In Uruk today the Leader of Sumeria made an address on Sumerian state television condemning the separatists and rebels fighting in Kish. “I will use the forces of Sumer to ensure that our beloved city is safe and that our government is secure. We will stand our ground in this time of turmoil.” The Leader was shown standing in front of the main gate to the city making a speech as a symbol of leadership.
The rebels’ advance is being slowed by their lack of heavy weaponry and the recent rain that has turned many of the city’s streets into muck and mire.
Manishtushu owed me some money. He said @colinwilliams5447 will take care of his debt to me. Bro, can you venmo me the money that your good for nothing buddy Manishtushu owed me. thanks in advance man.
Hippie scum.
Can we just spend a minute and admire this man's flawless vocals? It has that weird, compelling quality to it, almost mystical and magical, that gives this piece another meaning.
You’re the only person I’ve seen discussing this. Agreed.
Yes his voice is amazing, I can’t stop listening to this masterpiece
No.
Absolutely, it transports you
As a song this has weight /gravitas and defies description like all great really great music .
0:12 Love how he just fades in, as though he was at that very moment created for the first time
Mans just time traveling. 😄
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Shoutout to Gilgamesh who comes back 4,500 years after his death to sing his epic song again.
yes
I guess he did get that immortality he wanted
The hardest come back of all time!
Oh yeah. He is even before the time of Abraham.
Its kind of funny to imagine that this dude is 17 feet tall
Why can't modern songs have lyrics about the history of bread?
Now lyrics are about getting bread instead.
Because people hate carbohydrates. Piss on your diets!!
Well, over the last 4,000 years all of the bread songs have been done. Wheat, Rye, Pumpernickel, Oat, the whole deal. These days we have songs about space travel and time dilation, oh and ones about busting a cap in someone's ass. You know, the classics.
Becose we become more egocentric as species what matters now is how we feel(as individuals) rather than our journey
Modern pop is atrocious compared to this. This music has gravitas and purpose
Remember smoking a joint with my bro Hammurabi and listening to this. He had this crazy idea called law...
I heard he teaches in law school after you went to Egypt with that Ania girl.
yeah he tried to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land
(so that the strong, should not harm the weak)
Lol
The last joint smoked free from police paranoia.
so that explains all the hypocrite cops
4000 years later and this song is still not on Spotify
When you're partying at the ziggurat because you invented irrigation, and the bard whips out this absolute banger
It's not bad
Finding a new wellspring was the shit!
It wasnt so bad in mesopotamia back then, early farming techniques destroyed the top soil to make it like it is today
Lol
It was more of an spiritual song
I remember when I heard this being played after the Siege of Kish, where we annihilated the Kishites and slaughtered them. I bet you there was not a damn iPhone in sight, just people living in the moment.
Transistors were an unnecessary technology at that point. Electron gates? Pffft.
“Ok Sumer”-Hammurabi, King of Babylon
Nowadays, everyone's all on their clay tablets all the time, they really don't do sieges like they used to. I still remember popping over at the starch beer bar with the boys and returning home after looting another one of those savages down the Euphrates...darn, those were the days.
Not as much as those people living in the moment back in those ancient nights when the first bread was tasted though. Damned kids these days and their chariot warfare!
@@swevixeh Back in my day, we fought with our feet firmly on that sand and we LIKED IT!
This song is so 90's
Like 2090 bc
rockin since ancient times.
Uruk has fallen. Thousands must listen. Millions even.
Shalom cobson xir
Billions even
-Those ancient times when bread was first baked...
-Ok, Soomer.
Sumer haha
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer
@Uncle Rawhide bruh
@Uncle Rawhide man
@Uncle Rawhide ok soomer
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Friggen Disney.
This content is owned by Ancient Sumeria, an imprint of Universal Media Group, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.
Copyright last lifetime of author plus 70 Years after his death. Commercial copyright last 95 years of first publication. Everything out of date become PUBLIC DOMAIN. So no claims possible.
Neanderthals: Are we a joke to you?
@@YKW-YouKnowWhat : I'm not trying to be sarcastic, just curious. Would it be legal to produce bottles of Coca Cola with labels from the 1800's?
The irony of Gilgamesh is that in a way he did achieve immortality, More than 5,500 years after his death, people still talk about his history and his journeys throughout the world known to the Sumerians.
@@chrisdawson1776literally who hurt you today? A genuine question
@@chrisdawson1776 dude shut the actual fuck up. Genuine statement.
@@chrisdawson1776ur one miserable old mf huh? 😂
@@chrisdawson1776 Who the fuck asked for your comment? Genuine question.
@@chrisdawson1776though nobody asked him specifically, those who were curious are now grateful that he is here to provide us with his insight.
While I doubt the original audience would recognize this version, I think they would agree that this cover slaps.
You know it’s speaking of real ancient times when it mentions the invention of bread...
Theodore Beer was before bread. And both of it was just a coincidence
@Theodore The oldest evidence of bread making was found recently in Jordan's black desert, dating back to somewhere around 14,000 years BC.
Johan Fouche the moon isn’t a wheel it’s a sphere, and second someone had to make bread for the first time. Bread is an invention, just because multiple human groups thought of it doesn’t make it any less of an invention.
Johan Fouche so if it is made of natural materials or produce like grain it cannot he invented? Computers are made from natural metals from the earth. Plastics are made from oil which was once living beings. Were both those things not invented as well? Your argument is extremely flawed and I can see on top of your ignorance you’re also a racist. It’s common to see people of lower intellect to have racist tendencies. I pity you, Johan. I truly do
Johan Fouche but surely you must realize there was that first person to ever make bread. It doesn’t matter if other cultures also developed it, bread is a man made object. Someone HAD to invent bread and spread it to other people. Like with houses! I’m sure there was that one early human who decided to prop up sticks and logs to create his own dwelling. That person is the inventor of the house. Although of course we can never know who they were because of how long ago that was. Bread is not like fire, bread is not a natural occurrence it had to be thought of by a human and crafted like any object. Granted the method of creating fire was also a manmade process but fire itself is a natural occurrence that does not need the help of man to occur. But bread as a physical object needs to be handmade by a person, and for that to happen someone needed to invent it using their own method. Also of course you know you’re correct, everyone knows that they themselves are correct. If someone knew they were wrong they would change their point of view. I think your views on people of color are outdated and ignorant. I don’t care if you have stereotypes and “observations” on other races that doesn’t make it right.
Unbelievable this guy survived 4000 years to tell us about this song
Kian sabe
@@dandz9823 ke
Bro survived the flood and was granted immortality.
Some soul entered his body
He was a camera man in Sumer, that's how he survived so long
This song/story is so old by the way that when I arrived in Babylon, it was already 3000 years old.
Omg already 3000 years old??? That's ancient!
@@jazmynbrown6820 Not quite. This was written around 2100 BC, and Alexander came around 300 BC, so more like 2000
@Charles Martel But that doesn't excuse the fact it was written around 2100 BC even if there aren't too many tablets of it
wait wat thats so ancient!
More like "Alexander the Late" Am I right, guys? I had this on my tablet when it first dropped. "Wedge-mark, wedge-mark, dash, wedge-mark" it was a whole dance craze.
I got chills when he said “ 𒅋 𒌓 𒍪 𒌝 𒊏 𒊏 𒋗 𒌒 𒋾 𒄿 𒆷 𒁴“
Three minutes just to sing "A long time ago". Absolutely epic
♩A long, long, time ago... I just started singing this sentence.♫
@@maighstir3003 on a distant land far far away. Where people first discovered bread, where the first city was created,
absolute chad
yeah, and to be clear, they never got off of that. There was no "a long long time ago, this happened". It was just "a long time ago, in ancient times, when bread was first tasted, ah aah AAH ah AHA ah aAHHaA AHHAah"
@@clickthecreeper9463 that's because it's the beginning of an epic, there are other parts
Oldest civilization: ”In those ancient days”
Todays people: *The. WHAT?*
Sorry but Mesopotamia is not oldest, ( proto indus valley) = is 11000 years old = mehergarh searching " "mehergarh "
www.dawn.com/news/1316715 check this
@@greaterbharat4175 If you want to be technical the earliest human settlement is in Ohalo in Israel. Mesopotamia is generally considered the cradle of civilization because of writing being invented there first, not because it's the oldest.
This poem created around 2100BC-1500BC and Mesopotamia when Gil was a king estimated around 3000BC-2500BC so 500 gap should be pretty long time right?
Spencer Kurniawan too much Numbers for me to read, i never learned maths. Haha jk
Imagine someone in the year 6743 singing a song written in the year 2022 about a story that happened during the Bronze Age. That’s the length of time we are dealing with here
Sadly, that person is gonna sing Gucci Gang instead
@@amaneyugihanako-kunofthesi8849 you need to stop listening to boomers man, there is so much incredible music being made all the time, especially with the advent of computers.
@@cravinghibiscus7901 Ummm, current music is mostly shit now, you don't have to listen to a boomer to figure that out. There are some good ones but they tend to have much smaller amounts of listeners compared to those cringe ones. 80s to 2010's music was the best period, onwards to 2020 was when it went to shit.
@@cravinghibiscus7901 And just because computers exist doesn't mean that music quality just got better. With a computer, people have all this power to make great music in their hands, yet only few tap into that power really well, the rest do it mostly in meh quality. Kinda weird that I would consider Bill Wurtz to be one of those aforementioned guys that can utilize the power of music on a computer really well, despite his rather unusual genre of music.
@@amaneyugihanako-kunofthesi8849 yikes... tell me you don't know where to find the right artists without telling me you don't know where to find the right artists
Your voice is so beautiful. I hope this video reaches to people even another four thousand years later.
"anyway, here's Wonderwall" -Hammurabi
Tom Servo Babylon and the amorites are the thieves of the real sumeria. they destroyed sumeria and then the scum hammurabi, Babylonian, and the wild amorites were the imposters of the real peaceful sumeria. Baghdad and Babylon are wild men that's all and zero connection to real sumeria !!!
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Today, is gonna be the day, that bread was first tasted
By now, you should've somehow, figured out how to make a thatched hut with reeds
@@dr.enochmetatron6830 it is our history not yours to talk about it
@@dr.enochmetatron6830 Yes, it's widely known that Babylonian culture is separate from Sumerian culture. Amorites did not destroy Sumerian culture (it fell out of favor long before Hammurabi's reign), and instead invited themselves into Akkadian culture, which was already dominating Mesopotamia at the time of their arrival.
Actually, nobody even destroyed Sumerian culture. It was peacefully assimilated into Akkadian culture during Sargon's empire, and died alongside it.
Edgy the Edgehog - ok
Jokes and memes aside, this man has an absolutely stunning voice.
Yes he does.
Precisely
YES
Yes.. he can make people fell the ancientness
𐏂𐎧𐎠𐎭𐎪 𐏀𐎮𐎸
Got the original on stone tablets. You can't beat the original.
I have them on endless flowing rivers of virgin blood, you are so new school.
Colin Terry I heard Gilgamesh perform the original live, beat that.
Only 5000 B.C. kids will understand.
I got the actual original on clay tablets. Don't let these stone tablet guys fool you.
Those damn kids with their writing system back in my days it was one Guy who Heard the story from an another one and song it to us after
joking aside, I live in the north of Mesopotamia and every time I hear this song there is something that stirs in my blood, something mystical about it. maybe thousands of years ago my ancestors were mowing their fields, leaning their backs against a stone and humming this lament in the sunset, who knows?...
I experienced something similar in Estonia a few months ago. I visited and I had a sudden feeling of rightness, and it was almost like I could see the fishers and farmers and builders from the last 1000 years in front of me. It wasn't just that I liked the people or the place (I very much did) but that it all felt strangely familiar. I am a pretty rational, pragmatic person, but it felt mystical.
I later learned that my father's family, parts of which we know very little about, is from there. My mother had a very similar experience when she went to Wales as a child. It just felt like home and she couldn't explain why. I went through family records and her ancestors were all Welsh.
I wonder if there is a name for this phenomenon. When you are in the land of your ancestors, whether you know it or not, and something--the music, the sunlight on mountains, the smell of the sea--makes you feel like your ancient ancestors are much closer in time and space. Very cool that yiu experience it while listening to this song.
@@no3namesalike I really don't know why it happens, but when you come into contact with a song or an object from the place of its origin, it draws you in without you knowing it and you don't know why, it's very breathtaking, I would like to investigate this in detail, according to what you said, your mother also experienced this situation, and when I look at it now, it is a very impressive and strange feeling that people are so similar to each other and have something in common. I started to dive into deep thoughts again, I wish you well, my friend, I am very happy...
Happened to me in an ancient Temple of Artemis in Greece. I walked in giving a tour to a school group (had never been there before) and I looked at one of the ancient marble plaques detailing acts of heroism and service and I found that I could read them damn near effortlessly.
To be fair, ancient greek and modern greek share similarities, and I was taught the ancient version in school for several years.
However, the tour felt... Special. As if I was showing them around my living room, as if I wholly belonged there. It also helped that I found my name in one of the plaques: Αλέξανδρος (Aléxandros)
Northern Iraq*
@@hashimalsmael3396 no
Ud rēa, ud sura rēa
Ngi rēa, ngi bara rēa
Mu rēa mu sura rēa
Ud ul ningduē pa ēaba
Ud ul ningduē mi zid duggaaba
Eš kalammaka ninda šuaba
Imšurinna kalammaka ningtab akaba
An kita badabaraaba
Ki anta badasuraaba
Mu namluulu baangaraaba
For anyone interested in the correct lyrics. The only thing that must be pointed out is that Peter chose to pronounce the "ng" sound differently than it is originally intended
I can never thank you enough
If I might ask then- how is the “ng” originally intended to sound?
@@jroynonfisher kind of like the "ng" sound in "reading". A more nasal sound
It is downright miraculous that we can know the proper pronounciations
@@oolooo it is considering it all but even more so how Sumerian came into being seemingly out of nowhere. Another thing to point out, most lyrics you see written around aren't in Sumerian as much as they are written in the Akkadian script but I'm sure that with a little bit of research will do the trick into clarifying these things
3:00 warms my heart even the Sumerians, at the dawn of human civilization, knew when to shred an absolute mad lad riff with vocals
Now all you need is a bystander with goatskin drums adding a backbeat to it. Impromptu jams must have been a thing in taverns 5000 years ago.
We don’t know what the original instrumental music or even vocal melody was, this is just his own interpretation. The oldest melody we have is the Hurrian Hymn no 6 and the full oldest song we have is the Sekeilos epitaph
Still rad as hell though. @@Bundpataka
I asked Ea-Nasir to send me his torrents of the album but he sent me substandard copper instead.
plus your servant had to walk through a warzone just to place the complaint
This is my favorite post.
Sublime.
Well, what did you expect? Ea-Nasir doesn't provide anything else! I heard he keeps all his complaints in a special room in his house, like who does that?
Amateur..
I can relate to this song. The memory of taste of bread in 80's and early 90's seem like thousands years away and in eastern Poland this bread was probably the best thing that happened to me when I was a kid. Specifically its crust, I have not tasted anything better in my life. Good, ancient times...
I still clearly remember when Sumerians won the Urukvision Song Contest in 2005 BC with this song. The Harappans were runners up
Harappans won the next year!! #Harappan_for_life
@@caraxes_noodleboi And Great Britain still got nil points.
@@jimminystew Well, of course. Those Grassland Beyonders were still relative unknowns with their weird Neolithic music.
If I'm not mistaken wasn't the song 'Oh Shuruppak ya face?'
That was the year the Tartans were disqualified
boomer : remeber when facebook didn't exist?
sumer: remeber when bread didn't exist?
facebook never existed - but I remember microsoft chatservers and old chatclients which where fbooks ancestors
Remember annoying tiktokers doesnt exists, good old times
Remember when we had to use a sled instead of wheels? Oh Boi those were the days. Simpler times
@@lonehiker6648 wheels must have been invented and forgotten 1000 times -I they roll a log You soon realise youcan make a wheel but Something else has to beinvented to get it stick -like a road
@@jari2018 wot is road? I am from 5000BC
That moment when literally the most ancient thing in human history starts with "in those ancient nights"
It's close to the oldest, but not the oldest. Firstly, there's another piece of music (Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal, the goddess of orchards), and secondly, we don't know what even more ancient humans sang and played. Just imagine, there's musical tunes played by Homo Erectus which will never be heard again
There have probably been even more ancient cultures or civilizations lost to time
yesterday was ancient times for them
times of the nephilim
of the bosnian pyrami
@@vulpes7079 94% of all human knowledge was wiped away when the library of Alexandria was destroyed
It is literally the worse tragedy in human mind
I think the utter enormity of this song is lost on most minds. This is the first civilization (as we know it) and the oldest known song ever. And even still it starts with, "long long ago." What i see when this is heard is haunting beauty. A vast moon lit desert with sand that is pure white and soft to the touch. And the only thing over the horizon, the faint flickering flames of the place that would become the great city. And in your soul you know there is a choice to make.
Who's still listening 4000 years later, in 2019?
remember the good old days when you can take a shit in the street and not wipe and no one will judge you for it?
@@cocopus I remember the good old days when me and the boys robbed some oranges and just got away with it without being sent to slavery
I'm listening 81 years after it came out
:)))))))
Best joke ever :))))))
I play this while I rake in the hot summer sun, I then look up to the sky heroicly as if... I am about to do something, but instead I just return to raking.
A buzzard flies lazily overhead, bringing with it a deep feeling of dread in this barren wasteland.
Our War is a spiritual war.
The buzzard perches on a tree on the other side of the street & looks at you in the eyes.
the crowning sun rains down its waves of heat in this leaf strewn expanse, the Buzzard calls out
As if on cue, a caravan appears on the horizon. They're headed east, always east...You wish you knew why.
Sumerian Lyrics:
Ud rēa, ud sura rēa
Ngi rēa, ngi bara rēa
Mu rēa mu sura rēa
Ud ul ningduē pa ēaba
Ud ul ningduē mi zid duggaaba
Eš kalammaka ninda šuaba
Imšurinna kalammaka ningtab akaba
An kita badabaraaba
Ki anta badasuraaba
Mu namluulu baangaraaba
English Lyrics:
In those days, in those distant days
In those nights, in those ancient nights
In those years, in those distant years
In those ancient days all things had been created
In ancient time when all things were given their place
When bread was first tasted in the sacred shrines of the land
When the ovens had been lighted
When the heavens had been separated from the earth
When the earth had been separated from the heavens
When mankind had been established
I was looking for this reply 😭 thank you so much
nice 👍
Cok armıştım ne diyor diye cok teşekkürler güzel insan
Es kalammaka ninda suaba
Thank you!
Really tells you the value of agriculture when the ancient Sumerians saw "The Old Days" as when they could begin to produce bread at a large enough scale to support civilization.
It is the language that I speak in Iraq
@@baqrestora1971 They speak bread in Iraq?
@@grant.5345"Ash kalam" that is a bread meaning
This song is basically "Once upon a time" lyrics repeated again and again.
And it's still gold
i think its only a small part of it
@@FortifiedBastion It says in the description this is only the beginning lines of the poem
Sumerian literature has a lot of repetitions
It's still beautiful, of course
@@moviereviews1446 yeah i just saw yesterday a full version
Got some Sumerian humor for you
A dog walks into a bar
He says ‘I can’t see anything. I’ll open this one’
GDI😂
😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember reading about this. Has there any legit explanation about the joke?
@@MeizarFarizky It might be a joke about how poorly lit Sumerian bars were, the dog opening one of it’s eyes (this one) or it’s a mistranslation: Edmund Gordon in the Journal of Cuneiform Studies claims it says “The dog, having entered an inn, didn’t see anything and so he said ‘Shall I open this door?’” with the joke being that the dog entered an inn that served as a brothel, and wanted to see what was behind closed door.
Lyrics in Ancient Sumerian cuneiform:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
𒌓𒌷𒄴 𒌓𒍪𒊏𒌷𒀀 𒄄 𒌷𒀀 𒄄𒁀𒊏𒊑𒀀 𒈬𒊑𒀀𒈬𒋢𒊑𒀀
𒌓𒆕𒂊𒉺𒂍𒀀𒁀 𒌓𒌌𒎙𒁺𒂊𒆕𒂵𒀀𒁀𒁀 𒐁𒆗𒉘𒈠𒅗𒎏𒁕 𒋢𒀀𒁀 𒁽𒋢𒎏𒋰𒀝𒊓𒁀 𒀭𒆠𒋫 𒁀𒁕𒀀𒊏𒁀
𒆠𒀭𒋫 𒈬𒉆𒇻𒌋𒌋 𒁀𒀀𒀀𒊏𒁀
How u got that keyboard
@@rasoolcrepsley1976 he chiseled it on his iPhone
Old Persian a.k.a. Anachmenid?
Sorry i dont speak triangles
@@theterranccrowe Dafuq? All good at home?.This is clearly Annunaki characters.
I was asleep but had my "watch later" UA-cam list on
When this played I awoke, for a second I felt like I was listening something out of this world. So beautifuly created, thank you so much. I'll have my Iraqi family listen to it as well 🌸
“When bread was first tasted.” The song is describing the transition to agriculture from the hunter-gatherer lifestyle that mankind had lived in for untold millennia. Only the tail end of mankind’s history is recorded.
yeah.. the modern brain existed for like 300k years. And we barely know about the last 10k of those
@@CCCW Saddens me to think of just how many stories will never be told again; to think of how many gods that have been forgotten.
@@TheNightWatcher1385 I imagine a caveman banging his head on the wall and proclaming his new grown blob a proper god. Maybe the tale of how he convinced his 300 millions peers is worth a reading.
"Blob appears, Blob make death water appear, Blob god of death therefore"
No is not lol
There are still hunter-gatherers today
People in 2020: Maaan... I miss the good old days of cruising my Chrysler through the streets of New York back in 1966
People in 2100 BC: Maaan... I miss those days when mankind was established
@You're fake and gay +1 for being fake and gay
@@OblivionImperialGuard +3 for being an imperial and gaurd
@@Noam_.Menashe +3 for being noam and menashe
@@Spinozathecat +4 for being whatever the fuck those arabic words mean.
Yup he’s referring to the time when the aliens genetically engineered us by mixing DNA, before some shish happened and they left.
This song reminded me of the time I wanted to buy some copper. I sent my servant over to the baazar to find a merchant who sold copper at a reasonable price. He found one but when he came back, the quality was terrible. I was so furious I screamed "What in Kur is this shit?!?!?!?!" at the top of my lungs. I wrote a complaint to him but from what I heard, the merchant kept it like a trophy. So I would like to end this review by saying: don't ever buy copper from Ea Nasir.
Bro, FR. Terrible quality stuff.
Glorious
Holy excrement from the anus of Marduk, that is a comment which would make Enki himself fall over dead from laughter!
Al lam sumram
henceforth, man became the first scammer in history
Thankyou for performing this beautiful song 🙏
Sumerians: Yo listen to this guy's weird ass accent
Hahahaha, fancy a Sumerian rap?
אני ממש יודע מה שאתה אומר, זה קורה בעולם ערבי. יש זה לערבית, הרבה שפות לאחד שפה. אני רוצה לנסוע לבבל והולך להתחיל לעשות טיול מסביב לעולם. היתה לי חברה שהיתה קופאית. היא כל כך מדברת כמה שפות, אולי שומרית. רציתי שהכל שאני כותב יהיה לספר משומרים. אני רוצה להתחיל לחשוב על משהו, להיות נבוכדנצר. אתם יכולים להתחיל ללמוד שפות ישנות, לא? כמו הקופאית הזאת.
אחת*
נבוכדנצר thx netanyahu
@Typed Scroll Well that's some zionist shit
songs of this time: "wish we go back time, to the good old days."
this song: "remember when bread was invented?"
Make Sumer Great Again
Back in the day you had to hunt a mammoth for a living, not sit on your ass and bake bread. Youngsters these days. - written in city of Uruk, 2100 BC colorized.
@@masterexploder9668 underrated comment
OK Google: What was the best thing BEFORE sliced bread?
So when was bread invented? About 5,000 years ago or so.
Ud rēa, ud sura rēa
Ngi rēa, ngi bara rēa
Mu rēa mu sura rēa
Ud ul ningduē pa ēaba
Ud ul ningduē mi zid duggaaba
Eš kalammaka ninda šuaba
Imšurinna kalammaka ningtab akaba
An kita badabaraaba
Ki anta badasuraaba
Mu namluulu baangaraaba
English Translation:
In those days, in those distant days
In those nights, in those ancient nights
In those years, in those distant years
In those ancient days all things had been created
In ancient time when all things were given their place
When bread was first tasted in the sacred shrines of the land
When the ovens had been lighted
When the heavens had been separated from the earth
When the earth had been separated from the heavens
When mankind had been established
Edit: PSA This is someone else's work! I found these lyrics with the English translation through a simple Google search. My only intent when posting this was to sing along with Peter and admire the beauty of the song.
An entire song just for "once upon a time"
Thank you so much!
Thank you!
Can I please russian translate ?
Thanks ☺️
This was so beautiful, so epic and worthy of a Middle Eastern movie background song, it made me cry.
this is so nostalgic. i remember hanging out with my bros listening to this when it came out about 4000 years ago. thank you for bringing back my childhood.
Guyss U r so funny out here lmao
The Assyrians been real quiet since this shit dropped.
@@14rss not only Assyrians... This silenced entire africa 🥵🥵🥵
Funnily enough, to put into perspective on how ancient this civilization is.
4000 years ago was actually around the time the ancient Sumerian civilisation ceased to exist.
1200 years before the city of rome itself was founded.
I prefer the House remix
I love Led Ziggurat
Lol
Underrated comment
Damn.
Thats a quality joke.
Heavy Metal!
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@Veritas Aequitas, "Enter Sandstone" is their best song in my opinion.
such a tune, takes me back to the summer of 2100 B.C.
jeez, you're ancient.
Remember that one day when We watched the whole of society crumble? What a party THAT was.
Yes, the Summer of Sumer.
Sumer of 2100 B.C dude fucking smh
Geospiza hehe Sumer
Is hard to put into words, what I felt when I first heard this song. Tears came down my eyes. I can’t even understand why. It is a feeling of immense familiarity and a calling from the past.
I know just what you mean
I'd pay hundreds just to hear you sing the whole epic.
It's like traveling back in time.
me too!
Unfortunately, we don't have the whole story. Many of the tablets were damaged by the British while they were looting them.
Same though
1000th Like 🤙🏽
I concur
It is absolutely INSANE that we’ve managed to get a hold of music that’s almost 4000 years old, the fact that the people who wrote the Epic of Gilgamesh wouldn’t even comprehend the thought of people listening to this on devices is also crazy. Also as a side note, for some reason this gives me a feeling of nostalgia, maybe it’s because Peter sings it in a certain way that I find very pleasing
What's even more insane is that the song speaks of ancient times. Really puts into perspective just how long humanity has existed.
@@THEPRO562 yeah, I forgot to mention that
It's pretty cool. What I want to know is the actual MUSIC reconstructed (I'd assume it was) or was that included in the cuneiform. Obviously a translation of the lyrics were.
Anemoia?
@@THEPRO562 Ironically, humanity has only existed for around ~300 thousand years. Earth has existed for over 4.5 billion years (and we’re already 70% through its lifespan). When you do the math, human history only makes up .007% of Earth’s history overall so when you put it into perspective we haven’t been in existence for very long at all. It just seems like it from our vantage point because we don’t know of any other sentient Homo sapiens akin to us
"When bread was first tasted..." man way to put it in perspective
I wonder if they had invented sliced bread yet
Whoa.
@@johnpearce757not at all
imagine their reaction to peanut butter jam
it was all downhill from there
>appears out of thin air
>sings in ancient Sumerian
Man, i remember crackin' this in Babylon with my buddy hammurabi. I moved to Uruk after school so I haven't heard of him ever after. I Wonder what he's up to these days...
I heard he went to law school
Damn, you 2nd millennium BC kids don't even know what it's like to hear it live. Looks like you guys were born about 200 years too late
He became king and wrote first social laws of society,what did you do man ?! Lol.
@@innerlight4601 Trying to become immortal what about you?
@@clastagehtdichnixan3426 Just listening,and contemplating.You?
My wife: "You listen to weird music"
Me:
It's so funny. I too listen to the weirdest shit.
Weird is the music, people listen to today...
@@bilosan97 how is it weird? Culture and music changes. Someone probably though the same thing in the 1800's. Music develops more rapidly in modern times because of technology and the internet. Our culture is changing at a fast pace too.
@@solomale2156 listening to satanic occult music or to rap music with swear words 24/7 isn't weird? Btw. I dont talk about classical music which is full with harmony
@@bilosan97 did you miss my whole point?
Peter, this video literally changed my life. I saw it in middle school and now I'm studying ancient near-eastern civilizations at university! Thank you so much for bringing history to life. You really inspired me.
Good luck remembering the names of the eastern kingdoms leaders :P
It's nice that your studying ancient civilizations. Maybe you will find something ancient.
It's middle eastern not near eastern plz don't use that term.
@@murtadhaalkenani3876 Apologies, I only used it because that's what my class is called. I didn't realize it was offensive
@@murtadhaalkenani3876 What's the difference? European and American scholars have their own terms and that's none of your business. And your scholars can call our territory whatever they like and this is none of our business.
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Props to the cameraman for travelling 4000 years to the past to record this
props for giving him modern clothes too
Dude. This was created literally 9 years, like are you joking?
r/wooooooooooosh
@@AdhvaithSane Its a joke, bro. Just a joke.
@@AdhvaithSaner/whooosh
Sumerians: in those ancient days!
Me: how ancient?
Sumerians: before bread
Me: oh
😆👍🏼
Nice one
And. Cheese or beer?
@@Mindsi Cheese comes much later.
So, we have bread...then beer...then cheese. I think.
@@eleethtahgra7182 so nothing to the bread?
Helped build tombs when this song came out.
Still played on home planet, classic song
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Pfft. You illegals are always trying to take credit for shit you didnt do.
Bro never come back you scare the shit out of us now
>Oldest known musical piece
>Starts with "In those days"
for everyone who doesn't know, this guy was a pop-singer in the 80s and now does stuff like this, awesome
Cool. What is his name?
No this the original
@@FProductions64 Peter Pringle. I don't think he was known much outside of Canada.
@@stanrogers5613 thanks!
You say he isnt 4000 years old?
I love how authentically Sumerian this is. The ancient instrument, the backdrop, the microphone.
One of those Sumerian mics that I keep hearing about.
Yeah them sumerians really had some dope tech didnt they xD
Don't forget the authentic sumerian camera they used to record with back in ancient times.
everybody knows they were ahead of their times
I love how he's wearing the traditional garb too
I'm more impressed that the guy is called Peter Pringle.
For real
What? I only read Peter🤣🤣🤣
I'd kill for that last name
@@tlgk7697 me too
PRINGLES
Wonderfull! Thanks a lot! Feels like listening a live performance 5000 years ago.....