Asiatic Athena: karmic roots of Greek culture in Hittite class struggle (Song of Release, 15th c. BCE)
Added 2024-05-24 05:47:42 +0000 UTCIn a series that I hope will include Martin Bernal’s classic Black Athena (about the modern British fabrication of “ancient Greece” and its true roots in ancient Egypt), we start with the East: in recent decades, great advances in Hittite studies have illuminated much of the mechanics of transmission of Mesopotamian literature and religion to a nascent Greece from a grain state in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) which used cuneiform writing (in addition to their own distinctive hieroglyphs) and was ruled over by an Indo-European-speaking ruling class. In addition to illuminating details of class struggle between slave-owning city council members against a king who wants to free the slaves—though perhaps only in order that they may serve the cult of his ancestors in the temple—we contemplate the dependent origination and lack of perduring essence of ‘ancient Greece’, that flimsy idol enshrined at the center of the white supremacist worldview.
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Indeed. I was puzzling over this for a minute, but is this how my little podcast hug motivational moment came out in this episode? It sounds trite and a bit threatening when you type it in all caps like that. I meant like, whatever earth shaking things happen, all we can ever do is live in the moment
Fergal Schmudlach
2024-05-24 13:07:27 +0000 UTCWHAT CAN YOU POSSIBLY DO BUT TRU YOUR HARDEST? RIGHT NOW
Aaron Berge
2024-05-24 12:44:30 +0000 UTCWell I haven’t gotten there yet, as the description says, but I'm glad to know you’re still down! I’ll definitely plan on doing the Bernal episode(s) with you. Meeting in person! I’ve already turned down opportunities to do that so it’s a bit of a policy not to, but you’re welcome to a virtual session anytime!
Fergal Schmudlach
2024-05-24 06:58:43 +0000 UTCCan't believe you rushed to Black Athena without me, I might be coming to Tokyo next month which means we need to have a long talk about this ;)
The Return Of The Repressed
2024-05-24 06:38:05 +0000 UTC
