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Originally Posted by Quoth
He's in the bible.
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Yes--from whence cometh the whole "mighty hunter" thing, no? I mean, that seems to be what I remember.
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Nimrod probably was a local smart King.
The tradition of him being involved with the Tower of Babel isn't in the Bible.
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I've never heard that, but that doesn't mean bupkus.
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There isn't a clear identification of him in Akkadian records. He might be the founder of Erech.
We know more about Gilgamesh who might be from about the same period. And his story is the world's oldest found in written form. Burning down a town tends to preserve cuneiform tablets by firing them like pottery! Most of them are now in Chicago and have not yet been read. But then most ancient Irish Manuscripts (many older than the oldest written Norse legends) are in UK Universities and haven't been properly catalogued or read or translated. Almost no modern Irish speakers can read them.
Amazingly we can translate them. Though there are four main kinds of cuneiform and only one is alphabetic (technically an Abjad).
I find it very interesting.
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Look at the bright side--much was lost during the Dark Ages. Whilst I would argue that the Monks trying to convert the Irish did their own fair share of damage, they also preserved a LOT of the written Celt heritage, too, during that same period, which is more than most other regions/nation-states got; most of their stuff pre-Dark Ages is lost.
Hitch