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It’s subjects like this that makes ancient history so fun to learn about. Most people that even know of this time period wouldn’t imagine a man like gudea being a ruler. Most rulers of this time periods had egos barely large enough to fit in a room. And even if only part of what is written about Gudea is true it’s a huge departure from most rulers.

He is so underrated as an Ancient ruler.

Was waiting for a segment on Gudea and, as always, History with Cy didn't disappoint.

I never imagined that Gudea was such a fascinating character!!! Thank you so much for this amazing video I once saw one of the many remaining Gudea statues at the museum. Next time it will have a complete different meaning for me

I really love your focus on multiple (sometimes rarely covered) aspects of ancient civilizations, I especially liked your video on the seldom covered BMAC.

Gudea's inscriptions were the first thing we've been studying in our course on Sumerian. So you may not know him if you don't dig into the ancient Mesopotamia, but if you do - he is unavoidable. I even keep a small bronze statue of Gudea at my house, and would like to propose my wife to, if we ever have a child, give her or him the second name of Gudea. Thing with Gudea is that, while Eninnu may have withered with time, the inscriptions that Gudea left were one of the most important sources for deciphering the Sumerian language. The texts commemorating the temple appeared to be more important for the history than the temple itself. I find a certain irony of life in that.

Aw man, Gudea is one of my favorite figures from ancient Mesopotamia. Thanks so much for the video!

HOW IS EVERY ONE OF YOUR VIDEOS SO FKIN GOOD AHHHH

This was a fascinating story on a king I have always wondered about, having seen his statues in a number of books. Thank you, Cy!

What a lovely man! Such a contrast with the brutality of later ages. His face has a sweet expression and I love the pious way they used to fold their hands.

I can't thank you enough for such a great video! Gudea was one of the primary reason I felt in love with the history of Mesopotamia!

I have recently started learning Sumerian language. I now know I must do my translation exercises of the inscriptions by/about Gudea.

And yet another find of pure gold! you never fail to impress sir! Also i know this question is a bit off topic but what are your thoughts on the city of hazor? Hazor was a really important city in the fertile crescent and they also found tablets similar to the law code of hammurabi... So do you think that hammurabi may have passed by or maybe even lived there for a short period of time? besides the off topic question, this video was fantastic!

Gud is the Sumerian word for Bull, Gud-EA = Bull-EA aka Enki

History with Cy, always coming through with high quality and informative videos! This one was excellent.

I love the way Cy reads the inscriptions out! Such great timing and emphasis 👏💕

Excellent again, Cy!! Thank YOU 💕 i love the details... as many as possible!!

Fabulous production, as customary. Somehow, I missed this one until today; though I was naturally aware of Gudea, I have learned quite a bit more, thanks to you. BRAVO!

Someone who was ancient to Marcus Aurelius, yet so humble who was the "first of his kind to be kind". I liked your story telling about Shulghi.. but Gudea is someone who must inspire.

Thanks again Cy, great video!

I’ve been viewing the ancient podcast you’ve put out and they are informative. It amazing these people are. All related . ♥️

Thank you CY! I get so excited when I see you have a new video. Sumerian history is so fascinating.

Fascinating stuff, Cy!

Cyrus - I put your videos on and listen in the background nearly every day, now I'm almost through all of them, and might have to rewatch some!

I was late to see this one cy! Thanks for your amazing work.!

Amazing! Thanks

your video presentation is so excellent, please keep up the great work!

So cool!

Thanks for telling us about him !

I really enjoyed this. I had not see this period put in its historical context as well.

Excellent! I've never heard of Gudea.

I enjoyed it, learned something... Thanks

Always happy to get more Mesopotamian videos!

And possibly a person who was a source of inspiration for the character of Gilgamesh by later storytellers (in addition to the historical Gil of course)

Thank you.

I love the Sumerians! Great vid!

Thanks

Gudea's clean shaved face was the new face of Sumeria, surviving the Guteans and being a model leader followed by subsequent rulers.

Was just watching this video and enjoyed it a great deal (as I have for all your videos on the ancient world.) Thank you for showcasing knowledge about the past. In your inscription of Gudea, it says “…and put the bricks into the mould.” I’m thinking this should be ‘mold’ if it’s referring to a clay formed brick shaping device. Anyway, keep up the good work. Sumer is a favorite subject of mine and I used several of your videos as research sources in the construction of my novella “Testimony of an ancient soul”.

i cant' wait to listen to this later

Hi thank you act for the presentation. I came across your ppt as I was searching for information on Guea of Larash as it was mentioned that there was trade with Sumer in olden days. My architectural dissertation thesis helped me to track my family links to Sumer. My ancestral family and other 95 families traveled from Sumer to Goa, India in 1000BC. We call ourselves Gaud Saraswat Brahmins. The general character of all these families is that the are very influential and well to do with the characteristics of Gudea of Larash. I always wondered y all GSB were down to earth even after achieving well known positions in academia, defence , journalism etc. Another bit that has been playing on my mind is the name Kamat as many families have the surnames as kesh Kamat, Kamat bambolkar,mamai Kamat etc. I’ve recently found that Egypt was called Kemet in olden days and was wondering if it had any connections that you may be aware of. Waiting for your reply. Nickita

Interesting 🤓 !

Gudea of Lagash is now one of my favorite ancient rulers, definitely an underrated one. The list of things making a place less ritually pure was interesting. Apparently they ranged from the childbirth, through violence of any kind (especially against children) or anything related to death, to legal disputes and tax and/or debt collection.

Please do a video about Dacians

Great video. Gudea sort of reminds me of the emperor Augustus in a couple of ways. Apparently a strong 'king' but not using the accepted title and his focus on cultural revival and large building projects.

It is wonderful hearing of a good king like Gudea, who inspired the Gracchi, Julius Caesar. Most leaders were military leaders, but the best were men who cared about their people and saw themselves as good shepherds.

yay!

I gave him my respects when I visited Louvre. In Mexico, we have a copy of his statue too in Palacio de Gobierno.

Dang Gudea you pretty cool

I wonder how far Gudea was influenced by the seemingly fairly egalitarian society of the Indus valley.

it would be interesting to know how he improved the medical field. Though he made many of the sick leave, based on what was stated he must have improved the health of the people. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated. 😃😃😊😊💚💚

Stopped driving and owning a car ten years ago. Didn't have much choice, but, damn, it sure has improved my carbon footprint.

Talk about Jungian synchronicities, I was just thinking, shortly after my boards, that I need to brush up on my Sumerian history and mythology again.

Ive seen that black figurine in the opening everywhere mentioning sumeria weird.

The worst thing in the world is how little we actually know about these ancient people and their lives

Excellent: he is one of the few rulers moderns can truly identify with; there are several art exhibits about that feature statuary of Gudea.

I have strange feeling that this cylinder of 9:23 was kind of a printing press

I was just thinking about Gudea a few days ago. Maybe I've pulled a Paul Atreides and have gleaned some Prescience 😂

sheesh indeed

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@7:40 Gudea looks a lot like some depictions of Buddha, or is that the other way around?

Guti, Gudea...leader as the shepherd of the people. This ethical leadership quality actually seems to be a unique aspect of Judea, reflecting the Jewish criticism of its own people for taking on a military king rather than an ethical leader like Moses and his theocratic list of rules. David being a shepherd boy conquering the giant warrior, clearly dramatizes the ethic behind Gudea's self-image as a leader. I believe this also goes into the nature of kingship in Gothic/Germanic tribalism, where women had relatively equal rights as men in regards to being heirs to power. There is the healing aspect of this ethic that also echoes the Greeks' view of the Geats, known as the best healers of their times (and avid cannabis spiritualists). Herodotus believed this barbaric neighboring people learned "Pythagorean" immortality and religion from Zalmoxis, a supposed slave of Pythagoras. Making a feasting hall over a pit burial cave, then held the celebration as Zalmoxis entered the cave. A large boulder was rolled over it, and after 3 years he was mourned as dead before rolling the stone away. Zalmoxis walked out, considered to be fully incarnated after having died...the major detail of proving Christ's rebirth. Here we get to the "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want..." of the classic Christian heritage. The important part is that Herodotus believed himself that Zalmoxis "lived long before Pythagoras" This suggests the philosophy of a divine shepherd had a very old European branch. I'm wondering if the Yamnaya wave of IE migrations may have inspired much of the urbanized imperialism at the end of the 4th millennium BCE, going along with the Bovine Imperialism. Obviously, Yamnaya didn't begin the bovine worship, but they seem to have been a micro culture that took it to an extreme as they domesticated horses to aid their efforts. We know that bovine based diets cultivated relative giant people as they took milk digestion to an extreme too. The oldest ritual to Zeus was a tauroctony whereby the people involved were tried for murder, but the blade was found guilty and not the people. These blades were abused before being drowned in a murky pool of water. This explains the purpose for bog swords and mummies in early Denmark. We cannot ignore the fratricidal mythology in these groups too...the Biblical one happening because the grain-sacrifice was not as well accepted as the flesh sacrifice. Fat burns better than veggies, so the tongues of the divine mouth preferred meat. Then there is the Scythian story of fratricide where Herodotus depicts the details Then there is the Scythian story of fratricide where Herodotus depicts the details Then there is the Scythian story of fratricide where Herodotus depicts the details as if the tribe detests foreign things. The one brother wanted to adopt an imperial center, while the other who inherited the crown too decided to remain nomadic but brought home orgiastic rites from his Eastern exploits. The former brother killed the other in the act of copulating in the forest as punishment for defiling the warrior restraint from their supposed ascetic ethics. This drama follows not only the Indian tale of Prajapati and Tejas, where Rudra shoots Prajapati while incestuously copulating with his daughter, (Tejas="thought that is light"), but also explains why Ymir was considered "evil" enough to be killed. This connects us to not only Yama, lord of Death in India, but also Yamantaka of Buddhism (wrathful manifestation of Manjushri, Bodhisattva of Compassion, who is also a Bull-headed man like Yama). Even still, it connects us to Yima of Persian myth where he refused to take the laws to the People, so was charged with filling the world with Life. Succeeding in this, he stabbed the Earth to make her swell twice so he could continue to reign. The third time she didn't swell, so he danced in the clay and dug out an underground cavern sanctuary that saved life. Finally, he was killed as a new age took over. We can also see the depiction of Yama in Buddhist art combines the important details of the Minotaur! Yama, a bull-headed child, rides a bull copulating with a woman...which is the princess of Minos who offended his patron Poseidon, who had demanded the king sacrifice his bull to him. Varuna receives "filthy sacrifices" like murders...just like the sacrifice to Zeus. So, my "question" is, how much do we know about the potential connection between Gutians, Goths, Geats, and Kurds (being the inheritors of the Gutian language)? It seems to me that a comparative study of these tribes might be useful in explaining some mysteries in Western History. I'm wondering if the Yamnaya culture may be a colony from the earliest Crescent empires, cut off by a fall of their "Mother Land," and the pre-IE Europeans related to Etruscans and Minoans. Supposedly the Etruscans called their gods Aesir, just like the Norse, and their name "Etruscan" derives from their identity as liver diviners in animal sacrifice...also extremely important in Northern China around this time too!!! Cherusci and Etruscans...seems like a potential influx from Italy into Germania after Rome destroyed the Etruscan league of 12...just like Snorri described...which also follows the origin of Sumerian city-state networks.

a humble person: nice

Gudea also made a good youtube channel.

Got a question: Did they ever find the tomb of Gudea?

From Michel G Rabbat /Egypt-Amer./Florida.Good work...The mention Of UR-Namu, reminds me of the Chaldean , Tony Nammur, husband of my cousin Soad,In Egypt he was a senior rocket engineer working with german scientists to develop military missiles until he left for Lebanon. Thank you Anthony Gilmer for the info I knew a Glymo Sen. Educ. Off. in Nigeria when I taught there...He was from Cornwall..UK, not the street I dwell in...Probably from Canaanite "Ghulaimu "(Also Arabic) for young man

It is interesting that daughters' right to inherit predates the same in Mosaic Law by so many centuries, and does not seem to be something decided reluctantly, as the Mosaic code seems to suggest.

I like how Elam is hovering around doing nothing in like every single animation even when they have nothing to do with anything going on. Is that a running gag.

i bet he was only acting humble because he wasn't that secure on the throne, not being the son of a king, so he might have got overthrown if he got too big for his boots

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It's interesting how Sumerian folklore seems to mirror early Jewish folklore.

Imagine being “king of the universe” without electricity 😂

It's Gudea to be the king!

I'm sorry to point this out, but some of the years and dates in this video seem to be contradicting. How could Utu Hegal have ruled cca 2020 BC if Ur Nammu ruled since 2112 BC? Great video nontheless!

Is the king of Gudea is the king of Sumerian or Gutians?

I would imagine that anyone in the city where that temple was being built left just to get away from all the rules.

"The dreamlike spell of this contemplative, metaphysically orientated tradition, where light and darkness dance together in a world - creating cosmic shadow play, carries into modern times and image that is of incalculable age. In its primitive form it is widely known among the jungle villages of the broad equatorial zone that extends from Africa eastward, through India, southeast Asia, and Oceania, to Brazil, where the basic myth is of a dreamlike age of the beginning, where there was neither death nor birth, which, however, terminated when a murder was committed. The body of the victim was cut up and buried. And not only did the food plants on which the community lives arise from those buried parts, but on all who ate of their fruit the organs of reproduction appeared; so that death, which had come into the world through a killing, was countered by its opposite, generation, and the self-consuming thing that is life, which lives on life, began its interminable course.... For the West, however, the possibility of such an egoless return to a state of soul antecedent to the birth of individuality has long since passed away; and the first important stage in the branching off can be seen to have occurred in that very part of the nuclear Near East where the earliest god - kings and their courts had been for centuries ritually entombed: namely Sumer, where a new sense of the separation of the spheres of god and man began to be represented in myth and ritual about 2350 BC. The king, then, was no longer a god, but a servant of the god, his Tenant Farmer, supervisor of the race of human slaves created to serve the gods was unremitting toil. And no longer identity, but relationship, was the paramount concern. Man had been made not to be God but to know, honor, and serve him; so that even the king, who, according to the earlier mythological view, had been the chief embodiment of divinity on Earth, was now but a priest offering sacrifice in tendance to One above - not a god returning to himself in sacrifice to Himself." [The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology, Joseph Campbell, Ch. 1: Signatures of The Four Great Domains, pg. 4]

Gudea is a great name. If I ever have a son, I will call him Gudea.

Gudea should have been a Lugal,he sounds like he was a truly great and for once peaceful leader of Ancient Mesopotamia.Except against Elam😔

Maybe Gudea had some kind of 'autonomous vassal state' status within the Gutians hedgemony - which would explain why Gudea was careful to only call himself governor, even if he operated quite independently.

gudea hrmm judea. . . seems legit.

Sure, may be he and his line kept the cultural core alive to the moment Sumerians could reclaim it all . 🤓

Linguistic quibble: how is it pronounced 'goo-dee-uh' but spelled Gudea instead of Gudia? Something is wrong here.

l'homme qui se prenait dans le passé et qui continue de se prendre pour dieu... Un roi dont la symbolique la force et le pouvoir absolu

Sorry but your sponsor sounds like the secular capitalistic version of the catholic churches indulgence sheme. Tell us your sins and we will.. Who is doing the work behind these organizations and at what wages? What if everybody does that? Who will do all the work and where? Why not reduce your footprint - calculate it. I like your contend - the more I am surprised.... hmpf

Genetic kurd Gutian kingdom

Gudea = Judah/Judea. That's why we have the shepherd kings of the Tribe of Judah such as David and Jesus.

Sons in law ... Not son in laws. 😁👍

Gudea : - i.e. 2400... Nem szép dolog "Sumer - történelmét 2400 - al - a végóráival - kezdeni. Akkor már , min. 1000 éve létezik... - de, inkább 2 - 3 ezer éve..... - amikor megjelennek az Akkádok , /egy hóditó - semita nép , aki el is pusztitja azt ... ! / *

Shit all this time I’ve been trying to make my carbon footprint larger!!!

Please do a deeper dive into "the real carbon problem" (hint: it aint us). ...its... C.H. []. N.A.

The 'laws' of the 'Jubilee Years' in Leviticus seem very similar to Gudea's ideas. Methinks a 'hallowed hebrew' (today known as the genocidal jew) stole Gudea's ideas and now lays claim to them. Just like EVERYTHING the jew claims is theirs.