Re: A China-Sumer connection

From: Comm (tjsrno_at_spampost.com)
Date: 03/06/05 

Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 01:38:11 GMT

"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:422A2E7D.C29@worldnet.att.net...
> Comm wrote:
>>
>> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>> news:4229AC26.5A1A@worldnet.att.net...
>> > a.manansala@attbi.com wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I think these guys won't settle for anything less than sending them
>> >> the
>> >> actual Sumerian clay tablets and fish man mummies by Federal Express
>> >> <smile>.
>> >
>> > Well, considering that you haven't cited a single actual Sumerian clay
>> > tablet ...
>>
>> Got a question. Is Shugara or Shagura some Sumerian deity? Person 1
>> said
>> it's from a comic book (heisted from there). Person 2 said the comic
>> book
>> heisted it from Sumerian.
>
> I certainly don't know all about Sumerian deities, but that doesn't look
> familiar.
>
>> > (In case you missed it, the Adapa poem you misquoted from Dalley isn't
>> > Sumerian.)
>> >
>> > And this is the first we're hearing of "fish man mummies" -- perhaps
>> > your Afrocentric core thinks your "Malay" (as someone termed them)
>> > "fishmen" actually came from Egypt?
>>
>> Fishmen = people who fish, live on boats. Horsemen - no need to explain
>> what that is. Cowboys, same.
>
> Paul somehow got from fishermen/boat people to people who live with fish
> to fishmen (which you made into "people in fish costumes").

There are illustrations of them - someone gave a url. Looks like clothing
to me. I'm saying that "fishmen" means fisher men, boat people.

I also stated, along with Phillips - my own idea about nomads, land or sea -
because that is what nomads do.
> --
> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net

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