I want to learn sumerian and hittite, which order should i follow and should i learn akkadian first, although i dont have interest to akkadian.

also, which book are proper to a beginner about teaching grammar.

Has anyone regretted any of their Sumerian style tattoos? Meanings are evolving, but it seems like the Sumerian civilisation speaks to such a lot of what we believe.

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can help me with this. This is my first time posting anything to Reddit, so sorry if I'm not going about it quite the right way. I'm writing a historical fantasy story, and one of the characters is an ancient Sumerian deity of both healing and disease/curses, similar to Ninkarrak or Gula. Similar to Ninsikila, they were originally worshiped as a male deity before eventually shifting to being worshiped as female. I'm trying to come up with a name for them, and it seems like some of the real-life deities in the Sumerian pantheon are named after nouns or verbs.

I did some research, and I like the Sumerian words lipiš (𒀚) and badr (𒁁 ). From what I've found lipiš can mean the inner body or heart, strong emotion, like anger, rage, or outrage, or innards. And badr appears to mean to open up, spread wide, or separate, to untie, unravel, or reveal, to be distant, remote, or removed, or to thresh.

I also found the words uš (𒁁), potentially meaning death, blood, or to kill, and silim (𒁲), potentially meaning to be healthy, whole, or safe, or to heal or make healthy.

Would any of these, some combination of them, or something derived from them make sense as the name of a deity? Like refering to them as Lipiš, Badr, Lipišbadr, Badrlipiš, Ušsilim, or Ušbadr? Or alternatively, does anyone else have any other ideas for names? I did all of my language research on Wiktionary, so I'm not sure if it's completely accurate, and I definitely don't know how to conjugate anything as the research into Sumerian grammar I was trying to do was just turning up dead ends. Thank you for any help anyone can provide with this!

I believe it to be either cuneiform or early Babylonian, I think the second symbol is sun. If you can't offer translation, maybe a resource that could help me figure out what it means?

Can you please provide any academic references or other authoritative references to backup your answer?

For real, at this point I think we can have a common agreement that r-Sumer is only about textbook reconstructionism as well as it doesn't really care about Iraqis, Assyrians, and Middle Easterns as a whole.

So my suggestion would be if someone here made a well worked subreddit together with s Discord server for be an alternative to r-Sumer, focused on practicioners that aren't textbook reconstructionists and practicioners from the Middle East who disagree with the banalization made by Western pagans and Hellenistic Apologists regarding their religions.

Anyway, I was thinking about the subreddit and Discord server being focused on revivalism, but allowing Sumerian/Mesopotamian henotheism/monotheism like Mardukism and Ishtarism/Inannaism; Sumerian/Mesopotamian polypanentheism like Abzuism/Nammuism; and Hinduistic takes on Sumerian/Mesopotamian paganism.

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From Wikipedia:

Ilawela (formerly variously transcribed as Geshtu-(E), Geshtu, Gestu, or We-ila)^([1]) is, in Sumerian and Akkadian mythology, a minor god of intelligence.

If Geshtu-(E) is a former transcription then why is the article titled Geshtu-E instead of Ilawela? And in transliterating Sumerian, what does the - represent, what do the parentheses represent, and why is the E in parentheses capitalized? Thanks.

I am trying to learn Sumerian as someone who isn't an academic or studying this professionally, and I am aware of a few different works which include sign lists. Borger 2003, Mittermayer 2006, Volk 2012, and the ETCSL sign list. So far I've been looking at Mittermayer, and I noticed that many of the signs are very different from the Unicode versions but still somewhat similar. If it is relevant, I am planning on using the Oracc ETCSRI as a practice resource. I was wondering, which of these four sign lists (or maybe another) should a beginner memorize or work the most with to start?

Hi, machine given me this as Sumerian translation for "You dont belong here."

NU.DINGIR.RA.ESH3

But I can't be sure, particularly because of the number at the end. What is the correct, or mostly correct translation of this sentence?

Thanks.

where does Brazilian remember hair and virgin human hair come from?

Hi! I'm currently investigating a grimoire supposedly written in 2000 in Brazil by a woman interested in witchcraft that could be modern fraud - probably made by a paid artist in 2024. This grimoire is written in English, with passages in Tupi, Latin and... Sumerian.

So, could anyone help me with these passages? Are they coherent? Do they seem like someone trying to write in Sumerian with some knowledge, or just AI gibberish?

usumgal-gu in-sà-ga portal ud-da-la kalam-gu-la Malek-gu in-dul sag-gu

Su dumu-giy , em-nu igi-bar dumu-gal ka-me ra me-lugal em-su- lu du nu – kur , ki-igi-ge su-na-na

uš-me-e ki-sikil-dam-ma nu-gál lá-bi-ta é-sarma ba-na-dù. Šu dumu-dam kur-ĝu10 igi-bi baši-gub u4-dul lu-ma-;-da-na mušen eĝir-bi igima é-gin7 ma-gin7-ma ba-ra-kar

Udeh-tsa-lis-di e-qua no-si-yu-sdi, A-tsi-s-gi-i du-yu-ka-nodv-s-ga, E-qua do-i-sv-i du-de-sv-ta-nv-hi, Ts-yo-li-di-a.

DINGIR-MALEK, é-KUR, za-ra še-mu-ni-bi, a-ši-gub é-lam-ma By giš-dúr gibil ki-ta-ta-ra, dím-ma, šà ga-ba-am3, ki-bi-šár na-ĝál ma-si-ga. ḪUL-gi na-luĝal mu-ga-na-bu! DINGIR-MALEK e-umun-ta-ra, še-mu dumu sáĝ. GIBIL-ig mul ĝá-gub, id-šàr igi-im-mi-ĝar u3-umun é-úr-ma-ma. Giš-búr-ba, gé šà gi-gír, DINGIR-MALEK én-mu-bi, en-na-ku ig-gig.

Many thanks to anyone that could help me!

I’m curious as to what they had or saw as duties to treatment of others. I can imagine there are a lot of specific examples in the Babylonian Councils of Wisdom.

I’m interested in seeing what they are because for order I’m wanting to make a sort of order aligned space marine faction in 40k and am also curious as to what the cuneiform symbol looks like.

I’m learning sumerian right now and I’m on video 2 of Digital Hammurabi. I like sumerian but people say you should start with Akkadian first because it was more widely used and easier and can help me with sumerian too and that sumerian grammar and vocabulary is incomplete. Should I kep learning sumerian or learn Akkadian because it’s more know and more used.