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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as sumerian)
avg rating 3.76 — 123,954 ratings — published -1800
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sumerian)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,872 ratings — published 1989
Sumerian Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sumerian)
avg rating 3.91 — 691 ratings — published 1944
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sumerian)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,038 ratings — published 1963
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sumerian)
avg rating 4.01 — 303,413 ratings — published 1992
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sumerian)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,807 ratings — published 1983
Inanna (Sumerians, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as sumerian)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,735 ratings — published 2023
The Reforms of Urukagina (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as sumerian)
avg rating 3.33 — 21 ratings — published -2400
A Manual of Sumerian Grammar and Texts (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sumerian)
avg rating 4.56 — 25 ratings — published 2000
The Literature of Ancient Sumer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sumerian)
avg rating 4.18 — 80 ratings — published 2004
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sumerian)
avg rating 4.20 — 416 ratings — published -2270
History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sumerian)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,062 ratings — published 1956
Gilgamesh (Sumerians, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as sumerian)
avg rating 4.29 — 943 ratings — published 2024
The Exaltation of Inanna (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sumerian)
avg rating 3.83 — 301 ratings — published -2250
The Kesh Temple Hymn (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as sumerian)
avg rating 3.04 — 77 ratings — published -2600
Learn to Read Ancient Sumerian: An Introduction for Complete Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumerian)
avg rating 4.53 — 30 ratings — published
The Code of Hammurabi (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumerian)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,409 ratings — published -1780
Cuneiform (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumerian)
avg rating 4.27 — 412 ratings — published 2015
The Sumerian Language: An Introduction to Its History and Grammatical Structure (Mesopotamia: Copenhagen Studies in Assyriology, 10)
by (shelved 2 times as sumerian)
avg rating 4.18 — 11 ratings — published
Debate Between Sheep and Grain (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as sumerian)
avg rating 3.50 — 20 ratings — published -2600
Sumerian Loanwords in Old Babylonian Akkadian (Harvard Semitic Studies, 22)
by (shelved 2 times as sumerian)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
A Sumerian Reader (Studia Pohl (Series Major))
by (shelved 2 times as sumerian)
avg rating 4.09 — 11 ratings — published 1999
The legend of Etana (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumerian)
avg rating 3.44 — 25 ratings — published -1900
Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumerian)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,829 ratings — published -1800
The Harps that Once...: Sumerian Poetry in Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumerian)
avg rating 4.26 — 111 ratings — published 1987
Sumerian Grammar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumerian)
avg rating 3.83 — 23 ratings — published 2003
The Sumerians (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sumerian)
avg rating 3.79 — 179 ratings — published 1928
The 12th Planet (Earth Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as sumerian)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,063 ratings — published 1976
The Instructions of Suruppak: A Sumerian Proverb Collection (Mesopotamia)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published -2500
Myths of Enki, the Crafty God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 4.03 — 60 ratings — published 1989
Sumer and the Sumerians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 3.50 — 113 ratings — published 1991
Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 4.27 — 121 ratings — published
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,941 ratings — published 2025
A History of the Ancient World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 3.67 — 229 ratings — published 1965
The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 3.89 — 868 ratings — published 2013
Wisdom of Ancient Sumer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 2005
Cosmogony, Theogony and Anthropogeny in Sumerian Texts (Alter Orient Und Altes Testament, 409) (English and Sumerian Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Sumerian Gods of Nibiru (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Anunnaki of Nibiru: Solar System Secrets Hidden in Sumerian Myths (Anunnaki Odyssey)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 4.23 — 56 ratings — published 2012
The Image of the Netherworld in the Sumerian Sources (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 3.75 — 8 ratings — published 2003
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 3.80 — 514 ratings — published
Babylonian and Assyrian Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 3.60 — 20 ratings — published 1962
Healing Magic and Evil Demons: Canonical Udug-hul Incantations (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten Und Untersuchungen, 8)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2015
Мій Близький і Далекий Схід (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published
Sara Lone: 1. Pinky Princess (French Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 3.47 — 112 ratings — published 2013
Sumerians: A History From Beginning to End (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 3.78 — 854 ratings — published 2016
Introduction to Sumerian Grammar (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 1990
Until My Knuckles Bleed Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sumerian)
avg rating 3.40 — 25 ratings — published 2022
“What we finally do, out of desperation ... is go on an impossible, or even forbidden, journey or pilgrimage, which from a rational point of view is futile: to find the one wise man, whomever or wherever he may be; and to find from him the secret of eternal life or the secret of adjusting to this life as best we can.”
― Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative
― Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative
“The image of the Serpent, because of its association with life, rejuvenation, fertility, and regeneration, was a symbol of immortality. The coiled Serpent with its tail in its mouth was a circle of infinitude indicating omnipotence and omniscience. The Serpent, depicted in several successive rings, represented cyclical evolution and reincarnation. In ancient philosophy or mythological systems, creation and wisdom were closely bound together, and the Serpent was a potent symbol of both. It is in this capacity that the Serpent appears in the Babylonian and Sumerian mythologies, which contain elements akin to the Genesis story. The Serpent has the power to bestow immortality but also has the power to cheat humankind. In many of the ancient Near Eastern stories—for instance, the Gilgamesh Epic and myth of Adapa—the Serpent holds out the promise of immortality but then cheats man at the last minute.”
― The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion, and Power in Celtic Ireland
― The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion, and Power in Celtic Ireland
