Running list of Meso./Sum. Web Communities[Sticky]

[us4-he2-gal2]

In the course of the recruitment effort, which I have been singularly focused on this last week, I realized Ive come across a fair number of Mesopotamian and Sumerian web communities, and -regardless of there inherent value or state of decay- I thought I'd share those here. Some of these groups should be considered beyond redemption, but still may be a place to find potential members..if not the actual community members themselves, then someone who comes and lays a smackdown for example. I call this a running list because I would consider any replies containing additional communities I dont know of yet to be of high value, particularly if there is a message board/forum present. Here are the urls i currently know:


-yahoo:
groups.yahoo.com/group/Sumer-Garden-of-the-gods
groups.yahoo.com/group/babylonianmagick2/
groups.yahoo.com/group/ishtar_worshippers/
groups.yahoo.com/group/Ninmah/
groups.yahoo.com/group/Purified_with_Cedar/
groups.yahoo.com/group/SumerianStudies/


-Proboards/EZboards:
sumeria.proboards104.com/index.cgi?board=music
p221.ezboard.com/fgatewaystobabylonboardfrm11
p086.ezboard.com/bserioussumerianrecons


-webpages
www.mindspring.com/~mysticgryphon/spells.htm
www.sumerianmagick.com/rituals.html (Who is making this?)
b.webring.com/hub?ring=gatewaystobabylo
(Im not bothering to post the gateways to Babylon since its too obvious, but here is its mini webring of 5 sites.)

-livejournals:
community.livejournal.com/sumerianwotd/
community.livejournal.com/akkadian_daily
community.livejournal.com/sumerianstories/
community.livejournal.com/sumerian_magic/
community.livejournal.com/sumerian_pagan/
community.livejournal.com/abzu/

-The "Mesopotamian Historic Society" at Ancientworlds.com
www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Thread/556770
(I really hate the layout here but some of these people may have merit.)

-Necronomicon Communities:
groups.yahoo.com/group/DisciplesofEnki/
groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups.groupProfile&groupID=104315745&Mytoken=D2F30CF0-5043-4393-8B

-Weird 'cult like' movements:
t1c.org/ - Temple of the first covenant
www.templeofsumer.org/ Temple of Sumer
home.earthlink.net/~templezagduku/ - Temple of zagduku
groups.yahoo.com/group/Arratu/ - Temple of Water and Stone

Assholes: **July 22
www.isismoontemple.com/ancientsumeriancollege.html

-Weird 'obsessing-over-little-details-about-obscurities-in-stuffy-and-pseudoformal-environment-people':
enenuru.proboards52.com/

[saharda]

Why do you have T/S listed with Zagduku and Arratu? and what is the temple of the first covenant?

[us4-he2-gal2]

Ensi: That would be an example of my own ill-timed and inverted sense of humor.
It's obvious we will need to greatly increase activity in our "flapping-wings-fall-in-to-boiling-pig-fat-fridays!"..in order to truly be branded a "weird cult."
As for the temple of the first covenant I dont know so much about them, I suppose what they are is in the eye of the beholder. I'd say they are roughly, a small secret fraternity which would seem to have indoctrinated some Sumerian material to greater or lesser effect.

[saharda]

AAAH one of those. I really wish that they would add more or less Sumerian material when groups try stuff like that. The Necronomiconites for example could have a really interesting book if they either added more Lovecraft, or less Lovecraft. I think that there is enough Mesopotamian material on demons to fill a small library without Narlahotep (Sp?)

[us4-he2-gal2]

Having reluctantly submited to the overwhelming social phenomina sometimes termed ' Facebook' , Ive found myself in the midst of something popular and trendy - while its popular and trendy! (and not a decade after)... (strangely enough)

Now that Im there Im mostly bent on abusing the general aimless theme of this network by searching out people with 'kuzbu' ?

For ANE enthusiasts facebook seems to have potential, I am currently considering the facebook groups "Sumerology" and " Society for Sexy Assyriologists" for those persons rare enough to seem explicitly interested in discussions.
Seems I will be employing my ESP on this one..possibly.

cheers

[xuchilpaba]

Facebook is great for networking like that. Its not as popular as myspace, but its a place that has better layouts and more serious work.

[us4-he2-gal2]

StudiVZ

The German StudiVZ network is a very much like facebook - it seems to have originated when people residing in Germany were unable to join facebook due to some technical glitch.

So far as academicly orientated Mesopotamian and Mesopotamian Language groups are concerned, its apparent there is considerably more enthusiasm for these groups at StudiVZ then at facebook (though here as well, these should not be mistaken for discussion groups). Student bodies are quite apparent and the norm in German social networking seems to be toward accessability over privacy, so in theory you have an idea of what someone is about prior to contacting them if thats your intention. If theres any point since your German is abominable (or maybe thats just me?) Id mention the following groups of interest:

• Altorientalistik
  

"Ki-en-gi ki-uri4 zà-me!" The name translates aprrox to "Ancient Orient" while is a common German term refering to what we might more often call the Ancient Near East. This group consists of 124 members, most seem to be students, I have mentioned the execellent links found on the front page of this group in a post on "Online Resources" thread (Sumerologistics section.)

• Freunde der akkadischen und sumerischen Sprache
  

This group contains 75 members and is supposedly "Eine Gruppe für alle, die sich für diese zwei, in Keilschrift geschriebenen, Sprachen begeistern können !" A literal (horrible) translation of which might read 'A group for all, who for these two, in cuneiform written, languages enthusiasm can."

• Vorderasiatische Archäologie
  

Vorderasiatiche means West Asian I believe - which seems to correspond to some extent with the Area we refer to as Near Eastern however geography is a weak spot for me from any definitation. In anycase this group has 205 members and is dedicated to West Asian Archeology.

• DINGIR.DINGIR
  

This group consists of 13 students, largely from the Uni. Leipzig and with an interest in Mesopotamian Divinity.

[amarsin]

admin said:

• Freunde der akkadischen und sumerischen Sprache
  

This group contains 75 members and is supposedly "Eine Gruppe für alle, die sich für diese zwei, in Keilschrift geschriebenen, Sprachen begeistern können !" A literal (horrible) translation of which might read 'A group for all, who for these two, in cuneiform written, languages enthusiasm can."

Or maybe "A group for all who can get enthusiastic about these two cuneiform-written languages" referring to Akkadian and Sumerian?

[xuchilpaba]

hahhaa Laugh bitches at the person who runs this site still calling Sumer; Sumeria.

sumeria.proboards104.com/index.cgi#general

The site is hilarious. I post it for our entertainment.

[adante]

Sorry, but I don't find it funny. I was still calling Sumer Sumeria until I came across a yahoo group a few weeks ago. I thought it was simply a case of the Americans prefer to say Sumer and the Brits Sumeria, and I prefer to go with the Brits. I didn't know it was a corruption of the pronunciation of the name.

[xuchilpaba]

For someone who supposedly put that much research into Mesopotamian studies, I have little sympathy for such a blatant mistake. It's a mistake someone should not be making. She even has bits about the Sumerian religion on her page.

[ninurta2008]

Looks like purified with cedar just has spam, and I closed my forum btw, I don't like that site, it's got bad forum hosting, it always has connection issues.

[enkur]

I emailed them some months ago but there was no answer. I also think they are defunct.

[us4-he2-gal2]

Well, as a general rule a community informed on the ANE in whatever capacity is prone to abrupt termination unfortunately.

I'm not sure how this particular group was able to carry on with the notion that Lilitu would be an advisory figure of any sort. Okay modern scholarship doesn't have to play a role in a magical thinking community - Lilitu wasn't from the world of science, she was a figure in Mesopotamian magic thinking..

On the other hand, why not follow the Mesopotamian magical thinking then? - if you do, you are not going to get advice from her, you going to get advice about what to do about her, from a wisdom god, not a demon 0_0

But okay whatever.

[madness]

Ed has created his own forum, in reaction (I assume) to Yahoo!'s reconstruction of group layouts.

templeofsumer.freeforums.net/

[dingo]

Does anyone here use the Libgen.org website. They have loads of articles drawn from several Ancient Near Eastern academic journals such as the Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions, Anatolian Studies, Iraq, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, Revue d assyriologie et d archéologie orientale and Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie.
Use the top bar to find 'JOURNALS' and search the alphabetic entries.

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[us4-he2-gal2]

Dingo:


This resource is wonderful! Thanks very much for bringing it to our attention This is the best thing I have seen since library.nu and a great chance to obtain some rare and valuable Mesopotamian studies resource in digital form. I don't know how extensive this site is as of yet.. but I am browsing now. Already I have obtained some of the Bulleton on Sumerian Agriculture journals, work I have always wanted to read but it isn't available anywhere in Canada. Great link - Will say more on it soon.

[dingo]

More on the Libgen.org site. As well as many journal articles there are also a great many academic books available for free download.
DIRECTIONS: Go to the main site and on the top bar click 'OTHERS' and then click 'LIBGEN' from the pop down menu. Then go to 'TOPICS' and you get a index of subjects. Go to 'HISTORY' and then 'ARCHAEOLOGY' and you are in.
Happy hunting.

[rummah]

It says something about the Internet that almost all of those links in the first post are defunct.

[hukkana]

Jul 13, 2017 11:43:19 GMT -5 rummah said:

It says something about the Internet that almost all of those links in the first post are defunct.

Sad but inevitable. I doubt most websites I used back when I was 17 are still up.

Especially since geocities, msn groups and tripod websites have been phased out.

[lilitudemon]

I think most of these links are dead. Especially, the yahoo groups. I don't think the community is as active as it was a decade ago.