The Wise Men From the East: Tracing the origin of Sumerians and their civilisation by Ifejika Matthias

Author:Ifejika, Matthias [Ifejika, Matthias]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-04-25T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Unlocking the Mystery of Noah’s Ark – the Sumerian key.

‘Oh man of Shuruppak, son of Ubartutu, tear down your house and build a boat’ .

— Epic of Gilgamesh

The flood set the stage for our first tragedy. Now that there is no mountain left for the Ark to rest, we have to search for what Noah built to save himself and tell the story of his survival. Just as it was in the time of Noah is how it is today. If by any chance we receive a warning of an impending disaster, do we move or remain where we are? Do we normally return after the event had ended? Who tells the story and do other people in other parts of the world get to hear it? The earliest people’s battle against floodwaters (ide) was enormous.

The Bible told about the raging flood that existed from the beginning. The primeval water, which charted its course as it meandered through the surface of the Earth, was no other but the mighty flood – ide . As indicated by some scholars, Sumerians bore the title – Ide , which means both flood and pillar. In Igbo parlance, Idejiana , is mostly understood as the ‘Pillar of the Earth’ , although it might have referred to the powers of the flood to hold or conquer its space. Like a colonist, the flood carves its own path to reach its destination. Humans like the flood of the Earth, have wandered through the nooks and crannies of the world. The flood gave us its name to remind us that we are as old as it is. Man has seen flood; man has battled flood; man has become flood.

Today, we still talk about the Flood that covered the whole Earth and we still battle the flood just as our ancestors did. It was because of flood that the earliest farmers started to make mounds, ‘kur’. Due to the threat of flood, we started to raise our dwellings on top of hills. The idea of digging control channels became necessary, to control the powers of the flood. The ancient Igbo people soon figured out a way to hold the rains from falling so that they can prevent the menace of flood. This ancient tradition is still practised till date. The flood made it possible for us to apply our ingenuity.

Shack or Ark before the Flood

If you were Noah, what would you have built? If the ‘Meteorological Office’ had warned you about a forthcoming flood, would you have torn down your house to build a boat? This was the instruction given to the flood hero in the Mesopotamian account of another flood event. I know you will be imagining how plausible it was to take such an action yet several scholars indicated that this flood hero ended up building a cubic ark that was unseaworthy.

Why would he destroy his house to build a reed boat and then end up with a cubic ark? It may have been the

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