12: Ubaid culture and the golden age of Eridu, 5300-4200 BCE (Enki & the world order)

Guests: Kelsey, Michaela

First, Enki, patron god of Eridu, creates the world, invents agriculture, blesses foreign lands, and produces the Tigris and the Euphrates as part of an extremely convoluted and mildly unsettling metaphor.

Then, a look at the Ubaid material culture, including pottery and figurines. Also, just for fun, head-shaping!

Then, we return to Eridu, the first city in Sumerian legendary history, and possibly the oldest continuously occupied settlement when the first historical texts were written. What can it tell us about life during the Ubaid?

Finally, Inanna confronts Enki about ignoring her in his cosmic plan, so he grants her the heaping up of human heads like piles of dust, among other blessings. How does she feel about that? We actually won't find out!

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