It’s something like ‘chitlins?’
I think they are called crotch goblins.
To be fair, if those palm trees are intended to be full height, those are some exceptionally big adults, lol.
And we all know how exceptionally good and important it was for ancient people to have art with accurate and always on proportion perspective.
Oh, absolutely. It’s directly proportional to their scientific understanding of the origin of mankind, lol. :P
I’m no expert in Babylonian mythology, but if this were in fact a depiction of giants/gods as part of their creation mythos, that makes more sense to me than the OPs insistence that the little one is intended to be a child.
It doesn’t mean that there really were giants any more than the existence of a mythical Zeus means people could once throw lightning bolts for fun.
Just saying that the picture probably isn’t intending the small ones to be children.
It really looks like a child and mother reacting to each other.
Eh, the “child” looks to have much more adult-like proportions to me. The head is to small.
But, as you say, analyzing ancient Sumerian drawings and interpreting them through a modern lense is guesswork at best. Especially since I assume neither of us have the context surrounding this image.
Your gut feeling is that it looks like a mom and child. My gut feeling is that that looks like a small adult. Without further evidence, we’re just in a feelings war.
Which, to be clear, doesn’t mean giants were real in either case. But ancient people pretty holistically believed they did, so seeing them depicted in art wouldn’t be unusual.
Theu have limited space. The palm trees are just inteded as background. They could have made the people muuch shorter, but that would have made it difficult to give them more details. The workers are the main focus, so they are drawn/chiseled on first and then the palms were added to show an activity and fill in the background.
The kid looks like that because children are crazy hard to get right in art
When you look out the window, do you think the buildings and trees gradually get smaller?
means people could once throw lightning bolts for fun.
Gods
As was said, perspective was not a thing. Also, date palms don’t start tall. And dates are smaller than that. I’m pretty sure those are supposed to be dates.
Wasn’t it typical to size figures by their importance? IE. Depict Gods as huge, Kings slightly smaller, etc?
Uh… Sumarian texts talk about giants a few times, and they are depicted often in their glyphs and whatnot.
The Anunnaki are pretty much always depicted as much larger than humans and godlike. Their texts describe them in detail.
It’s literally been translated down all the way to the king James Bible (these ancient texts are the baseline for Abrahamic religions, IE dead sea scrolls):
Genesis 6:1[4]
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
This is pretty well known that abrahamic religions truly believed giants used to roam the earth. It’s not weird for old glyphs on walls of the very stories of those same religions to depict giants considering their religion talks about em a few times lol.
Literally just Google up on the Anunnaki, there’s lots of info on it.
PS, you way wanna take a second look at that picture, and take note of the fact the giants are being depicted literally as tall as trees are, which were included for scale likely on purpose
I have palm trees in my living room right now it’s almost like you can grow plants to any size…
I’ll go with an actual archaeologist on this one.
Why? Babalonian texts literally talk about giants and describe them this way. It’s not a hot take to say that these people had legends and stories of giants lol.
It’s in their texts. Multiple times. And they literally had a word for then.
I think the problem here is you are arguing giants are in their legends and OP is arguing giants aren’t real. You don’t disagree with each other but are defending your position because we are on the internet and that’s just how it goes
No - the picture talks about the existence of gigants in mythos, and OP posts it as evidence that the one posting the picture on Facebook is insane.
Imo it’s OP that’s lost
Sumerians don’t have a single creation myth. The gods Enki, Enlil and Ninmah are all said to have created mankind in different stories. None of their creation myths involve giants.
A tiny human, approaching a giant female figure, seeking and receiving both affection and nourishment? Sounds like “Chariot Of The Gods” time to me!
Are you kidding? Of course it’s obviously giants, such a kidder
They’re called people with dwarfism, in this case it looks like proportionate dwarfism. “Little people” is a generally accepted term in the community, but it’s best not to assume with things like that, so just call them a person. It’s actually a very woke carving.
Or it’s a toddler. Which most people draw as “smaller adult” when asked to draw stick people.
I was being sarcastic, I don’t know what it’s supposed to be and neither does anyone in here, lol
Whether or not this is a depiction of ancient gods as giants, or just adults and an oddly proportioned child…
You cannot just take everything ever written or depicted literally.
The Sumerian list of their supposed ancient kings goes back nearly a million years. They claim to have kings that reigned for thousands and tens of thousands of years, similar to how many of Adam’s descendants lived hundreds of years.
Like, when you read up on Egyptian beliefs about the dead, do you think that is evidence that Anubis is actually real, or Ra or Osiris or Isis? Do you think that Medusa and the Minotaur are actually real from Greek Mythology, or that even the Roman myth of how Rome was founded is literally true?
Apparently this is how many people do actually think.
King Arthur? Herakles?
Totally Real.
Hamlet? Critias?
100% historically accurate, down to every word.
Even fucking Herodotus, the ‘Father of History’ has been determined to have in many cases just repeated tall tales and exaggerations he heard.
It’s like believing Paul Bunyan was actually real, actually had a big blue ox.
seems to me like another instance of “awwww look at that baby, he looks so cute in grown up clothes”
I think the word is “children” 😀
