Article on Summerian writing and Ma -

August 1, 2002

Greetings: All

A wonderful and eye opening article within a paragraph concerning

these ancient Shakta Devotees -

Sumerian Dictionary to Decipher Ancient Texts

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"The people known as Sumerians are credited with starting the first

civilization and building the first settlements worthy of being

called cities. They also invented writing, and then they wrote and

wrote and wrote, filling millions of tablets with their intricate,

detailed characters. They left behind everything from religious texts

to poetry to receipts, much of which remains preserved 5,000 years

later. Understanding the symbols they etched in clay is another

matter. The oldest known language left no descendants. Scholars

studying the ancient world are therefore eagerly awaiting the first

Sumerian dictionary, a 30-year project at the University of

Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Sumerologists

there hope to release an early version by 2004. The Sumerians settled

and farmed the area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in

Mesopotamia, now part of Iraq. Around 3500 B.C., they became the

first people on Earth to congregate in cities, to use complex

mathematics, and to record their ideas with a written language."

The treasure of the whole article was this paragraph -

"Some are simple concepts, said Sharlach. "A dog is a dog is a dog."

Other words are more abstract. Ma, for example, seems to mean "that

without which life is not possible.""

A truly amazing definition of the word Ma! As I remember I believe

the Goddess Inana is the Summerian Fertility Goddess and is the "Ma"

of these people's Shakta Devotion of the time. I thought I would

share this article since we can do much from learning about peoples

and Shakta of the past, since, we are the daughters and sons of the

future Shakta practices that have been eternal and are eternal.

Jai Mahakali

Yeshe

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