A Re-Visit of The Sumerian Name "BILGAMESH"

(A New Understanding of the Name so-called "GILGAMESH")

(BILGAMESH KING OF URUK)
By Polat Kaya
(Copyright Polat Kaya, 2005)
INTRODUCTION
In this study, it is not my purpose to retell the epic story of BILGAMESH ("GILGAMESH") but rather to give the
reader a totally new insight of the name "BILGAMESH" ("GILGAMESH") together with some other names that
appear in the epic story. It must be noted that the name BILGAMESH (GILGAMESH) and all the other names
used in this most ancient epic story are character names (yazi adlari) arranged in riddles which have served as a
model for most other mythological and Biblical names. Although the name BILGAMESH (or GILGAMESH) is not
known as Turkish, the amazing thing is that both of these names are Turkish and are from Turkish. In the epic
story, the identities of the characters have been described in a way that explain the meaning of the character
names in Turkish. For that reason I will give some background information from the epic story of BILGAMESH
itself and also from other sources. But before that, let us learn about the word BILGEMISH (BILGAMESH) in
Turkish.
The Turkish verb "BILMEK", meaning "to know", is the root word for the Turkish word BILGEMISh (BILGAMESH).
The stem of this word is "BIL" meaning "know". In order to 'know' and to have 'knowledge', one has to "learn" all
sorts of things and concepts from the time of birth onwards. The more one learns, the more one "knows", and in
turn, the more one "knows" the more one wants to "learn" about other things.
From "BIL" comes the Turkish word "BILGI" meaning "knowledge; learning; science; information; wisdom; archaic
diviner, seer". Similarly, "BILGIN" meaning "scholar, scientist". "BILGE" means "learned". For example, "BILGE
KISI" means "learned man". The modern Turkish term "BILGEMISH" means "one who has become learned", "one
who has become full of knowledge", "one who has become wise and acquired wisdom". Thus, "BILGEMISH" is an
adjective that can be used to describe a learned, knowledgable and wise person. The hero of the Sumerian epic
story "BILGAMESH" or its altered version of "GILGAMESH" was such a person, thus making the Turkish
"BILGEMISH" as old as the Sumerian "BILGAMESH" - and even earlier. In order to utilize a word such as
"BILGAMESH" in an epic story, that word and the concept that it represents must have been known far earlier than
the time that it was used in the epic story. The story of BILGAMESH (GILGAMESH) must have been composed
and written at least 6,000 years ago. Most likely it is much older than that.
This we see in the PROLOGUE of the epic story of Gilgamesh (Bilgamesh). We are given the following by N. K.
Sandars: [1]
"O GILGAMESH, lord of Kullab, great is thy praise. This was the man to whom all things were known; this was the
king who knew the countries of the world. He was wise, he saw mysteries and knew secret things, he brought us a
tale of the days before the food. He went on a long journey, was weary, worn-out with labour, and returning
engraved on a stone the whole story."
Thus started the PROLOGUE of the Sumerian epic story of Bilgamesh ("Gilgamesh"), and continued:
"When the gods created Gilgamesh they gave him a perfect body. Shamash the glorious sun endowed him with
beauty, Adad the god of storm endowed with courage, the great gods made his beauty perfect, surpassing all
others. Two thirds they made him god and one third man."
The introduction of Bilgamesh continues as follows:
"In URUK he built walls, a great rampart, and the temple of blessed Enanna for the god of the frmament Anu, and
for Ishtar the goddess of love. Look at it still today: the outer wall where the cornice runs, it shines with the
brilliance of copper; and the inner wall, it has no equal. Touch the threshold, it is ancient. Approach Enanna the
dwelling of Ishtar, our lady of love and war, the like of which no later-day king, no man alive can equal. Climb upon
the wall of Uruk; walk along it, I say; regard the foundation terrace and examine the masonry: is it not burnt brick
and good? The seven sages laid the foundations."
>From Sumerian sources, N. K. Sandar writes about ANU of the Sumerian pantheon: [2]
"ANU: Sumerian AN; Father of Gods, and god of frmament, the 'great above'. In the Sumerian cosmogony there
was, frst of all, the primeval sea, from which was born the cosmic mountain consisting of heaven, 'AN'. And earth,
'KI'; they were separated by Enlil, then AN carried of the heavens, and Enlil the earth. Anu later retreated more
and more into the background; he had an important temple in Uruk."
N. K. Sandars, referring to the King Assurbanipal, the King of Assyrian empire [3] writes: "He tells us that he sent
out his servants to search the archives of the ancient seats of learning in Babylon, Uruk and Nippur, and to copy
and translate into the contemporary Akkadian Semitic those texts which were in the older Sumerian language of
Masopotamia. Among these texts, written down according to the original and collated in the palace of
Assurbanipal, King of the World, King of Assyria, was the poem which we call the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Not long after the completion of this task of collation the epic was virtually lost and the heros name forgotten, or
disguised and garbled out of recognition."
Indeed the heros real name "BILGAMESH" was forgotten because it was disguised and garbled into the
alienated name of "GILGAMESH" which has come to present times. Even the name "GILGAMESH", however, is
from Turkish word AGILGAMESH meaning "has become learned", "has become full of knowledge", "has become
wise and acquired wisdom". The root of the word is the Turkish "AKIL" (AGIL) meaning "reason, intelligence;
wisdom; mind; comprehension; memory; idea, opinion; maturity". The name GILGAMESH is obtained when the
front vowel "A" is dropped from AGILGAMESH. Evidently, that is what they have done in altering this Turko-
Sumerian name into so-called "Semitic" name.
Clearly alteration of the name was intentional and was with the intent to obliterate the Turanian culture that it
belonged to. Changing Turkic names into unrecognizable non-Turkic forms instantly transfers the name and the
culture that it represents to the side that the second name belongs to. This is a usurping trick that has been
widely used by the ancient Semites and the other wandering groups.
N. K. Sandars further writes: [4]
"The Sumerians were the frst literate inhabitants of Mesopotamia, and theirs is the language of the oldest tablets
from Nippur which relate to Gilgamesh. They had already irrigated the country and flled it with their cities, before it
was conquered by Semitic tribes in the course of the third millennium. They were themselves probably conquerors
from the north and east, who arrived during the fourth millennium. The infuence of this gifted people, shown in
laws, language, and ideas, persisted long after they had been conquered by their Semite neighbours."
N. K. Sandars writes again: [5]
"Because of their wealth the cities were great prizes, tempting to the wild Semitic tribes of Arabia, and to the
warlike people of Elam to the east, and to the Persian highlands. Not long after the fall of Uruk, when the Semites
had established themselves at Agade in the north, Sargon, their king, claimed that he had a standing army of
5,400 soldiers. Among the chief of his exploits was the destruction of the walls of Uruk. These had been a by-
word. Men said Uruk of the strong walls, and Gilgamesh was traditionally the great builder".
All these indicate that the Sumerians were great builders of cities and monuments which caused the jealousy of
many hostile wanderer tribes who attacked, invaded and destroyed their cities at the opportune times.

N. K. Sandars also writes: [6] "The cities of Mesopotamia shared a common pantheon, but the gods were not
worshipped everywhere under the same names. The Semites when they invaded Mesopotamia inherited most of
the Sumerian gods, but they altered their names, their mutual relations, and many of their attributions."
Although Sandars writes above saying that the invading Semites "inherited" the Sumerian Gods and then
performed alterations on their names, attributes and relations, it was not an inheritance. The problem with this
wording is that invaders do not "inherit" what they just took over. The fact is that they "loot" or they steal but they
do not inherit! The invaded Sumerians did not hand over their civilization on a gold platter to the invading Semites
as a father would hand over his estate to his son which is inheritance. Therefore using the term "inherited" in
the above statement is an incorrect and laundered term. The meaning of the above statement is that the invading
Semites did not have a "God" concept of their own as elaborate as that of the Sumerians. Semites were the
wandering gypsies and the "wind" (Tr. YEL/EL) believers. That is why they had the name "SEMITE" which is a
word made up of SEM + ITE which is from Turkish "ESME + ITI (IDI)" or "ESMETI" meaning "it is blowing", "it is
wind".
The name is claimed to be from the name "SAM" which itself is the anagrammatized form of the Turkish word
ESME meaning "wind". Thus they took everything from the Turko-Sumerians and altered their names, hence an
already established Turanian Turko-Sumerian civilization was underhandedly transferred from Tur/Turk Sumerians
to the wandering "Semites". By use of a similar trick they also changed the Sumerian language, which was akin to
the Eastern Anatolian and Azerbaijan dialect of Turkish, to make a language for themselves called "Akkadian".
Among all the name alterations, the Turanian name "BILGAMESH" was also altered into "GILGAMESH" and ever
since, it is known and designated by this so-called "Semitic" name. In other words, even the Turkish name
"BILGAMESH" was stolen and distanced from Tur/Turk peoples by way of altering the name into "GILGAMESH"
and thereafter always referring to the Sumerian story with this altered name.
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Joseph Campbell, in an internet article entitled "Goddess of Universe" writes the following [From URL:
http://mindfre.ca/In%20All%20Her%20Names/In%20All%20Her%20Names%20-%20The%20Goddess
%20Universe.htm] :
"Throughout those very greatly troubled times the land of Sumer had been open to both peaceful settlement and
violent invasions by Semitic hordes from the Syro-Arabian desert, until fnally, ca. 2350 B.C., the mighty usurper,
Sargon I of Akkad, carved out for himself with great violence and destruction -- of which his monuments proudly
boast -- an empire that extended from the Taurus ranges to the Persian Gulf, which "began," as Samuel Noah
Kramer has remarked, "the Semitization of Sumer that fnally brought about the end of the Sumerian people, at
least as an identifable political and ethnic entity. . . . His infuence made itself felt in one way or another from
Egypt to India."(8)
The mutilated Flood text of ca. 2000 B.C. is from the ruins of Nippur, which Sargon's grandson, Naram-Sin,
sacked and desecrated ca. 2230 B.C. The Sargonids themselves were then over-powered, ca. 2150 B.C., by a
mountain people from the Zagros range, the Guti, who overran the empire and maintained control in Mesopotamia
until ca. 2050 B.C., when Utuhegel of Erech, a Sumerian, overthrew their king Tirigan and, having caused him to
be blinded and brought before his throne, "set his foot upon his neck."(9)"
This citing from Joseph Campbell also verifes how the Sumerian civilization was Semitized and usurped.
Incidentally, the term "USURP" itself is a usurped and restructured word from the Turkish word "AShURUP"
(AShIRIP) meaning "he stole". Thus the word "usurper" means "thief". In this alteration the Turkish sound "Sh"
has been changed to letter "S" and while letter "A" has been dropped the remaining wovels have been changed.
It is now also known that the Semites replaced the name TUR with the name "MAR" in Sumerian texts. [7] In the
name "NARAM-SIN", when MAR in NARAM is replaced by the word TUR, we get the name "NA-RUT-SIN" which
when rearranged as "TURANSIN" it becomes the Turkish expression "TURANSIN" meaning "You are TURAN".
This again explains how the Semitic king Sargon and his grand son NARAM-SIN robbed the ancient TURAN
name and its civilization. In doing that they also obliterated that ancient civilization. Ever since that deceitful
takeover of the ancient Turko-Sumerian civilization, the whole world has been conned with endless lies and
deceptions by the same group. Hence in that regard, the above citing by Joseph Campbel is an eye opener.
***
About the name "LUGULBANDA"
LUGULBANDA: is described as: [8] "Third king of the post-diluvian dynasty of URUK, a god and shepherd, and
hero of a cycle of Sumerian poems; protector of Gilgamesh."
If LUGULBANDA was the 3rd king of Uruk after the food, GILGAMESH the ffth king of Uruk after the food, how
then could LUGULBANDA be a protector of Gilgamesh? The answer to this question forces us to think that both
Gilgamesh and Lugulbanda are personifcations of concepts in the story and have nothing to do with real people.
The concept of "personifcation" is to make an imaginary personality out of a concept used in a story and make
him speak and act as if he/she was a real person. In other words, it is a character name, in Turkish "yazi adi"
(name in writing), "sz insani" (man in words), "sz agasi" (lord in words). Thus, the name "BILGAMESH" is a "sz
agasi" (the personifcation) of "KNOWLEDGE" (BILGI) in the epic story of BILGAMESH (AGILGAMESH or
GILGAMESH).
Similarly, the name LUGULBANDA is a personifcation of several related concepts of which the hidden aspects
need to be explored. The name LUGULBANDA can be re-arranged in a number of ways where we fnd Turkish
words that are relevant to the epic story of Bilgamesh. For example:
1. LUGULBANDA, when rearranged letter-by-letter as "BULGULANDA", is a form of the Turkish word
"BILGILENDI" meaning "it gained knowledge". Thus the epic character name LUGULBANDA is related to
"knowledge" and is again a personifcation of a concept. BULGULANDA also is the Turkish word "BULGULANDI"
meaning "made discoveries"; additionally,
2. LUGULBANDA, when rearranged letter-by-letter "ULUG-BALAND", is the Turkish expression "ULUG-BILENDI"
(OK BILENDI) meaning "he who knew much", and also "ULUG BULANDI" meaning "He who is great discoverer"
which is again related to "knowledge"; ... furthermore,
3. LUGULBANDA, when rearranged letter-by-letter as "BULGU ALAND", is a form of the Turkish expression
"BILGI ALANDI" meaning "he who receives knowledge" or "He who collects knowledge" or "he who bought
knowledge". In other words, those who learn and/or keep knowledge are also the protectors of knowledge and/or
the administrators (shepherds) of knowledge. Hence the epic character named LUGULBANDA is a
personifcation of "learned people" and/or the concept of "library" (Turkish "bitiklik" or "kitablik"). But most
importantly, LUGULBANDA is the personifcation of "mans head" ("mans mind"). Mans head protects what is
inside, i.e., the knowledge, and man's head is metaphorically the original "library" that each person carries with
him/her everywhere and uses it as needed.
The ancient Turko-Sumerian epic story named "Bilgamesh" ("Gilgamesh") is probably the most ancient Turanian
Tur/Turk epic story in the world and it was usurped (stolen) by the Semitic priests of Babylon from the Tur/Turk
Sumerians.
REFERENCES:
[1] N. K. Sandars, "THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH", Penguin Books, 1964, Glossary of Names, p. 59.
[2] N. K. Sandars, "THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH", Penguin Books, 1964, Glossary of Names, p. 119.
[3] N. K. Sandars, "THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH", Penguin Books, 1964, Glossary of Names, p. 8.
[4] N. K. Sandars, "THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH", Penguin Books, 1964, Glossary of Names, p. 14.
[5] N. K. Sandars, "THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH", Penguin Books, 1964, Glossary of Names, p. 15.
[6] N. K. Sandars, "THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH", Penguin Books, 1964, Glossary of Names, p. 23.
[7] C. J. Gadd, "A Sumerian Reading Book", Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1924, p. 49, footnote III.1
"TUR is read "MAR" in the name of this god".
[8] N. K. Sandars, "THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH", Penguin Books, 1964, Glossary of Names, p. 122.
Best wishes to all,
Polat Kaya
19/12/2005
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A Re-Visit of The Sumerian Name "BILGAMESH"
(A New Understanding of the Name so-called "GILGAMESH")
(BILGAMESH KING OF URUK)
By Polat Kaya
(Copyright Polat Kaya, 2005)
About the name "BILGAMESH":
N. K. Sandars gives the following about GILGAMESH (BILGAMESH):
[9] "The hero of the Epic; son of the goddess NINSUN and of a priest of
Kullab, ffth king of Uruk after the food, famous as a great builder and as
a judge of the dead".
This Sumerian epic story has always been presented to the world by the
name "GILGAMESH", however, it is actually written in the form
"BILGAMESH" in Sumerian texts as reported by C. J. Gadd [10], John
L. Hayes [11] and many others. The name "BILGAMESH" is a pure
Turkish word, the root of which is the Turkish word "BIL" from Turkish
verb "bilmek" meaning "to know". C. J. Gadd equates the root "GILGA"
of "GILGAMESH" with "BILGA" which is the Turkish word "BILGI,
BILGE, BILGA" meaning "knowledge". Actually, GILGA itself is a
restructured form of Turkish "AGILGA" which is essentially the same as
Turkish BILGE. Turkish AGIL (AKIL) means "wisdom, intelligence,
reason, mind, comprehension," and many similar concepts related to the
mind. The sufx "-GE, -GA" is a Turkish sufx.
In the epic story of BILGAMESH, this name is a "character name" of the
story personifying "knowledge". That is why its name is "BILGAMESH"
meaning "he who has acquired knowledge". But to acquire knowledge
one has to look for it, search for it and research and study subject
matter. It just does not happen by itself. Evidently, one Sumerian king
also took the name "BILGAMESH" as his title. In the Sumerian texts,
Bilgamesh is called by the name "God Bilgamesh", i.e., Sumerian
"Dingir Bilgamesh", Turkish "Tengir Bilgamesh". Knowledge is a "godly"
attribute and lives in mans head. The concept of God being wise and
having infnite wisdom comes from this ancient Turco-Sumerian source.
Thus from the given information, it becomes clear that the name
"BILGAMESH" is a personifcation of "knowledge" (Turkish
"BILGI") rather than the name of a "real" king person in the story.
Obviously the importance of knowledge ("BILGI") was known to the
ancient Turanian Tur/Turk peoples far earlier than the epic story
"BILGAMESH" was written. It is only after such a conscientious
appreciation of the importance of "knowledge" that one can write a story
such as "BILGAMESH" (that is, "GILGAMESH" or more correctly
"AGILGAMESH").
Since "BILGAMESH" is a personifcation of "KNOWLEDGE", here I want
to introduce the real make up of the English term "KNOWLEDGE". As I
have pointed out in many of my writings, the letter W is a bogus letter
having many identities used to disguise usurped Turkish expressions. W
is a letter having the fuid identity of UU, VV, YY and any two letter
combinations of U, V, and Y. In this case it stands for the combination
VY. Substituting this in the word "KNOWLEDGE" makes it
"KNOVYLEDGE" and when this is rearranged as "KON-VYLGEDE", it
becomes the restructured and disguised form of Turkish expression
"KUN BILGIDI" meaning "sun is knowledge" which is indeed a
factual statement since without the sun, there is no knowledge possible.
Additionally if the word "knowledge" is rearranged as "VYLGE-KONDE",
it is the restructured form of Turkish expression "BILGI GND"
meaning "knowledge is sun" or "knowledge is light". It is a known
fact that knowledge enlightens the mind. Thus these Turkish
expressions relate sun and sunlight to wisdom, and similarly wisdom to
sun and sunlight. This once again shows that Turkish language is indeed
the SUN Language. We will see this relation again later on in another
expression.
The Latin word for "knowledge" is given as "SCIENTIA". When it is
rearranged as "CINESTI-A", it is also found to be Turkish expression
"KINESTI O" (GNESTI O) meaning "It is the Sun" which relates
"science" to sun and sunlight. Conceptually this again verifes the above
defnition of "knowledge" in Turkish that relates "knowledge" to the sun
and sunlight
The Sumerian name BILGAMESH is also the title of a Sumerian king.
Parallel to that, there is the Turkish name "BILGE-KAGAN" as the title of
a Turkish Hakan in Turkish history. Thus in both cases, the Turkish word
"BILGE" has been used as an exalting title by these Turanian men.
Another much later Turkish epic book using BILGI in its title is the
Turkish "KUTADGU BILIG" by famed Yusuf Has Hacip [12]. In this title
the word "BILGI" appears in the form of "BILIG" meaning the same.
Ancient Turanians believing in the importance of "knowledge" (BILGI)
have immortalized it most elegantly in the name of the epic story
"BILGAMESH" which is the oldest story known to man. In the Sumerian
tablets carrying the "Bilgamesh" (Gilgamesh) story, the character
Bilgamesh is described as follows as written by Will Durant in his book:
[13]
"Two thirds of him is god,
One third of him is man,
Theres none can match the form of his body ..
All things he saw, even to the ends of the earth,
He underwent all, learned to know all;
He peered through all secrets,
Through wisdoms mantle that veileth all.
What has hidden he saw,
What was covered he unlid;
Of times before the storm food he brought report.
He went on a long way,
Giving himself toil and distress;
Wrote then on a stone tablet the whole of his labour."
"Fathers complain to Ishtar that he leads their sons out to exausting toil
"building the walls through the day, through the night"; and husbands
complain that "he leaves not wife to her master, not a single virgin to her
mother." Ishtar begs Gilgameshs mother, ARURU, to create another son
equal to Gilgamesh (BILGAMESH) and able to keep him busy in confict,
so that husbands of Uruk may have peace. Aruru kneads a bit of clay,
spits upon it, and moulds from it the satyr Engidu, a man with the
strength of a boar, the mane of a lion, and the speed of a bird. Engidu
does not care for the society of men, but turns and lives with the
animals; "he browses with the gazelles, he sports with the creatures of
the water, he quenches his thirst with the beasts of the feld." A hunter
tries to capture him with nets and traps, but fails; and going to
Gilgamesh (Bilgamesh), the hunter begs for the loan of a priestess who
may snare Engidu with love. "Go, my hunter," says Gilgamesh, "take a
priestess; when the beasts come to the watering-place let her display
her beauty; he will see her, and his beasts that troop around him will be
scattered."
In the above Sumerian description of the so-called "GILGAMESH"
(BILGAMESH), the concept of "KNOWLEDGE" (Turkish: bilgi, bilme, us,
akil, bilgemish, akil olmush, akillanmish, agilgamish) is described in full
detail. This description once again clearly shows that the name
BILGAMESH is the personifcation of Turkish "BILGI, BILGE, BILGA"
meaning "knowledge".
In the above description, when the Sumerian text says: "Two thirds of
him is god, / One third of him is man," a reference is made to the
personifcation of "knowledge". Knowledge lives in the godly-creator
"mind" in the human head (Turkish "bash", "tepe", "kafa") which is
located on the top of the human body. The human "mind" is something
that one cannot touch or hold in his hand as one can touch and hold any
physical object. Thus this "invisible" yet all potent entity is a "godly"
entity which is why the personifcation of "bilgi" (knowledge), i.e.,
Bilgamesh (Gilgamesh) is two-thirds god and one-third "man". It is
partly "man" because it (bilgi) lives in the human head.
The saying "This was the man to whom all things were known; this was
the king who knew the countries of the world. He was wise, he saw
mysteries and knew secret things, he brought us a tale of the days
before the food" describes BILGAMESH (AGILGAMESH or
GILGAMESH) as a person of knowledge who has matured in wisdom.
That imaginary person is the accumulated human "KNOWLEDGE"
which is expressed by the Turkish name and adjective "BILGAMESH".
All things were and are known to collective human "knowledge" but not
to "any one particular man". Hence BILGAMESH representing
accumulated "knowledge" (bilgi) is a metaphorical "king" to whom even
the mightiest of real human mortal kings bent over in respect and
salutation. The names of countries of the world are known to common
"knowledge" (bilgi) in spite of the fact that we have lots of living "kings"
even at present times who do not know the names of many countries.
Of course it was the collective human "knowledge (bilgi) that was wise,
and saw mysteries and knew secret things at all ages rather than any
real king called "Bilgamesh" or "Gilgamesh" of the Sumerian city of
URUK.
The saying: "Theres none can match the form of his body .." also
applies because "knowledge" itself does not have a describable "body"
form, however, knowledge displays itself in many fantastic forms that it
builds, creates, writes, imagines and puts into the visible world as
concrete objects, etc. It is a shapeless abstract concept that can exhibit
itself in many ways. Just like the creator Sky-Father-God (Gk Ata
Tanri), knowledge is not "visible" but it exhibits itself in many diferent
ways and forms. "Knowledge" (BILGI) is represented on our earth with
all the things that man has created throughout its civilization. The
ancient monuments such as pyramids, ziggurats, stone artifacts such
as Stonehenge, tombs, etc. are the visible remnants of the ancient
"knowledge". When we look at these ancient monuments, we are
looking at the "knowledge" that imagined and built them. Although these
products built by knowledge have endless shapes and forms, knowledge
itself does not have a defneable form.
The saying: "All things he saw, even to the ends of the earth, / He
underwent all, learned to know all" is indeed referring to the realm of
learning and acquiring knowledge. Man does that in order to learn what
he has to do for his survival. "Seeing is learning" (Tr. "grme
grenmedir"). It is curious to note that Turkish word "grme" meaning
"seeing" is also embedded in Turkish "grenme" meaning "learning".
Similarly Turkish "grnme" meaning "being seen" is very much a form
of Turkish "grenme" meaning "knowing". Thus all these give the
impression that these Turkish words are not random creations by men,
but rather are special creations and are very related to each other. We
must also note here that "seeing, being seen and learning" is possible
only with the enlighting rays of the sun. Without the sun, "seeing" or
"being seen" is not possible - and similarly "learning" is not possible
either.
When the story says: "He peered through all secrets, / Through
wisdoms mantle that veileth all. / What has hidden he saw, / What was
covered he unlid," it is a description of the way that man acquires
"knowledge". Man, using his existing knowledge, investigates all things,
analyzes and experiments with them and unveils the secrets of nature
that have not been known before. This is the way of building up
"KNOWLEDGE", i.e., "BILGAMESH" (or "AGILGAMESH").
When the epic story says that: "Fathers complain to Ishtar that he leads
their sons out to exausting toil "building the walls through the day,
through the night"; and husbands complain that "he leaves not wife to
her master, not a single virgin to her mother", this rather allegorical
statement has been taken wrongly in a negative meaning by scholars
who try to give an evil meaning to it.
Actually, it has a totally diferent connotation: since BILGAMESH is a
personifcation of "knowledge" and thus "learning", learning in the form
of schooling takes the sons and daughters away from fathers and
mothers. Similarly husbands and even wives, if they are teachers in
addition to being mothers, are taken away from each other. Learning
takes one away from the loved ones because while learning, one cannot
be with mothers and fathers. Additionally, when the learned ones start
building walls, roads, canals for irrigation, castles, etc. they are also kept
away from the home.
Of course BILGAMESH built all kinds of walls, bridges, canals, buildings,
ramparts, felds, etc. in the Sumerian city of URUK all of which are done
by "KNOWLEDGE" (BILGI). A king only pays the wages of the people
who make these things. But whoever does these things, he/she uses
"knowledge" to do the work, hence, "it is the "knowledge" that does it
all. Therefore "KNOWLEDGE" (BILGI) is the "king". Similarly, he/she
who has become "BILGAMESH" is also the "king" or the "queen" with
respect to those who are not as enlightened with knowledge and
wisdom.
Finally, when the Sumerian text says: "Of times before the stormfood he
brought report. / He went on a long way, / Giving himself toil and
distress; / Wrote then on a stone tablet the whole of his labour", it
explains how man and his memory go through all kinds of pain in writing
down on stone, clay tablets or paper to preserve what he has discovered
and learned and his predictions. The Turanian Sumerians probably knew
about an ancient food or expected the occurance of a "major food"
event and talked about it before it happened just like scientists are
talking about the warming of the worlds climate today. That would be the
prediction of an oncoming event by one or more "BILGAMESH" (i.e.,
knowledgeable) people.
The original Sumerian form of the name BILGAMESH [14], [Hayes], has
been intentionally altered to "GILGAMESH" so that it is recognizable as
Semitic and not Turkish. The name "GILGAMISH" is a name which is
distorted and disguised from the Turkish source expression
"AGILGAMESH" (akillanmis, uslanmis, bilgilenmis") meaning "He who
has acquired knowledge". In fact the word "AGILGAMESH" is also
Turkish but the Semitic cabalists dropped the vowel "A" in front of the
word leaving "GILGAMISH", thus alienating it from Turkish.
With this understanding about the name of the prime character of the
epic story "BILGAMESH" (GILGAMESH), the reason why it was called
by the Turkish name of "BILGAMESH" becomes unquestionably clear.
Here I want to cite the following - which is also relevant to the
BILGAMESH story from N. K. Sandars: [15]
"The only remaining god to play an important part in the poem EA
(Sumerian Enki), god of wisdom, whose particular element was the
sweet waters bringing life to the land, and whose house was at ERIDU,
which was than on the persian Gulf. He appears as a benign being, a
peace-maker, but not always a reliable friend, for, like so many
exponents of primitive wisdom, he enjoyed tricks and subterfuges and
on occasion was not devoid of malice. But here he acts as a great "lord
of wisdom who lives in the deep. His origins are obscure, but he is
sometimes called the son of ANU, "Begotten in his own image . . . . of
broad understanding and mighty strength." He was also in a particular
degree the creator and benefactor of mankind."
In this writing, human wisdom is being described but in a rather vague
manner. The description brings into the picture the "sweet waters" to
further camoufage that he is talking about wisdom. This confrms my
insight that the Sumerian EN-ZU (En-SU) meaning "Lord Water" was
also the reprsentation of "Lord Wisdom" (wisdom god) in the form of
"EN-US" (Turkish "HAN US") meaning "Lord wisdom" or "god of
wisdom". Thus in the Sumerian texts, EN-ZU (En-SU) also can be read
as "EN-UZ" (EN-US) meaning "Lord Wisdom", that is "HAN-US" or
"HAN OGUZ" in Turkish which is also the name of the Sky-God. Thus
this Turkish expression, while representing the Sky-God in one hand, is
also representing "mans mind and wisdom" in the other. That is why
ANU (HAN O) created "mans mind and wisdom" in his own image."
The source for all of these creational and theological concepts are in
Turkish and belong to the civilization of the ancient Turanian Tur/Turk
world.
In the Sumerian texts EA (Sumerian EN-KI) is read as the "God of sweet
waters, also of wisdom". EA, when read as "EYA" or "AYA", is the
Turkish word "AYA" meaning "white light". But "white light" is also the
symbol of "physical and mental enlightenment" which is done by sunlight
and knowledge. So, EA or EYA (AYA) is also Turkish in origin. It is said
that his house was in ERIDU - a Sumerian city. But in actuality, the
name ERIDU is the Turkish word "YERIDU" (YER IDU) meaning "it is
the earth". The underground "sweet waters" (tatli sular) live deep down
in the Earth, while the "knowledge and wisdom", that is, Turkish "US"
also live deep down in the "mind" of man, i.e., the "brain". His ancestry
being uncertain implies that no one knows who created the original
seeds of "knowledge and wisdom". However it can be said with
confdence that its original name was in Turkish language, i.e., "BILGI"
before it was obliterated by the Akkadian Semites of Babylon and
Aryans (Arayans).
***
About the name "ARURU":
It is said that GILGAMESHs (BILGAMESH) godmother (goddess of
creation) was named ARURU. She was the "a goddess of cration, she
created ENKIDU from clay in the image of ANU". [16] This is most
enlightening because this fctional name (personifcation) is also from
Turkish. It is the Turkish expression "ARAR-O" (ARUR U) meaning
"he/she searches" or "it is searching" or by modern saying "it is
research" which is metaphorically the "godmother" or
"grandmother" of knowledge and learning. Indeed searching for
knowledge involves the Turkish words "arama" (searching), "arastirma"
(research), "sorusturma" (inquiry), "konusturma" (asking questions and
getting answers, investigation), "gzetleme" (observation), "grme"
(seeing), "isitme" (hearing), "tadma" (tasting), "dokunma" (touching),
"koklama" (smelling), "dsnme" (thinking), "konusma" (speaking),
"yazma" (writing) and "isleme" (embellishment). Thus the ancient
Sumerian name "ARURU" (i.e., Turkish "ARAR O"), as the name of the
godmother / grandmother of BILGAMESH, also gives up its secret
identity in Turkish, once again indicating that the whole epic originally
was written in Turkish.
***
About the name NINSUN:
NINSUN: "The mother of Gilgamesh, a minor goddess whose house
was in URUK; she was noted for wisdom, and was the wife of
LUGULBANDA." [17]
The Sumerian name NINSUN in one meaning is the Turkish word
"NINESUN" meaning "you are grandmother". Grandmothers are even
closer to young men (grandchildren) than the mothers are. My
grandmothers were like that. These "wise" old ladies are the source of
wisdom in many respects in teaching their grandchildren. Additionally
the name NINSUN, as a character name (Tr. yazi-adi), is the
restructured Turkish expression "US-NINEN" meaning "your wise
grandmother" or "your (divine) grandmother for wisdom". NINSUN
(NINESUN) is also referred to as "divine mother" of GILGAMESH. [18]
Gilgamesh always asks for her advice regarding his dreams and his
friends.
Since Bilgamesh is the personifcation of "knowledge", his mother must
also be related to him in this context. Thus NINSUN is the
personifcation of Turkish "US" meaning "mans wisdom"
(intelligence, mental powers, mind) personifed as "mother" or
"grandmother". This is also seen from the Turkish words "NINESUN"
and "US-NINEN" corresponding to the name "NINSUN". Like
"knowledge", "Ninsun" (US-Ninen or simply "US") also lives in Uruk, that
is, the "city" of the human head.
***
REFERENCES:
[9] N. K. Sandars, "THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH", Penguin Books, 1964, Glossary of Names, p. 122.
[10] C. J. Gadd, "A Sumerian Reading Book", Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1924, p. 63, note. No. 32, p. 69,
Line 32.
[11] John L. Hayes, "A Manual Of Sumerian Grammar and Texts", Undena publications, Malibu, 1990, p. 129.
[12] YUSUF HAS HACIP, "KUTADGU BILIG" (eviri: Reshid Rahmeti Arat) , Trk Tarih kurumu Basimevi,
Ankara, 1974.
[13] Will Durant, "Story of Civilization: Part I "OUR ORIENTAL HERITAGE", Simon and Schuster, new york,
1954, p. 251.
[14] C. J. Gadd, "A Sumerian Reading Book", Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1924, p. 63, note. No. 32, p. 69,
Line 32.
[15] N. K. Sandars, "THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH", Penguin Books, 1964, Glossary of Names, p. 26 also p. 120.
[16] N. K. Sandars, "THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH", Penguin Books, 1964, Glossary of Names, p. 60, 120.
[17] N. K. Sandars, "THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH", Penguin Books, 1964, Glossary of Names, p. 123.
[18] N. K. Sandars, "THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH", Penguin Books, 1964, Glossary of Names, p. 15.
Best wishes to all,
Polat Kaya
23/12/2005
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A Re-Visit of The Sumerian Name "BILGAMESH"
(A New Understanding of the Name so-called "GILGAMESH")
(BILGAMESH KING OF URUK)
By Polat Kaya
(Copyright Polat Kaya, 2005)
Bilgamesh Part-3:
Goddess "ISHTAR" Sumerian "INANNA"
Referring to achievents of Bilgamesh (Gilgamesh), it is said: [19]

"In URUK he built walls, a great rampart, and the temple of blessed
Eanna for the god of the frmament Anu, and for Ishtar the goddess of
love. Look at it still today: the outer wall where the cornice runs, it shines
with the brilliance of copper; and the inner wall, it has no equal. Touch
the threshold, it is ancient. Approach Eanna the dwelling of Ishtar, our
lady of love and war, the like of which no later-day king, no man alive
can equal. Climb upon the wall of Uruk; walk along it, I say; regard the
foundation terrace and examine the masonry: is it not burnt brick and
good? The seven sages laid the foundations. The seven sages laid the
foundations."
{Correction: I also referred to this citing in Bilgamesh Part-1 where the
word EANNA was, by mistake, shown as ENANNA in two places. It
should have been EANNA. Hence this correction note.}
About the name "ISHTAR":
"Ishtar (Sumerian Inanna) was worshipped in the great temple in Uruk,
together with Anu. She is the queen of heaven, and as goddess of love
and of war an equivocal character.; an awful and lovely goddess like
Aphrodite." [20]
The name "ISHTAR" was the Semitized form for the goddess of love
while the Sumerian version is given as INANNA. Ishtars Greek version
was the goddess "APHRODITE". All of these names are diferent
versions in Turkish of the words describing "wife", "mother" and
"woman". This so-called "Semitic" goddess name ISHTAR has two
aspects to her name. In one, she is Turkish word "ESHTIR" (ESHTUR)
meaning "she is wife", "she is mate"; additionally the name ISHTAR is
the Turkish name "ISHITAR" (ISHITIR) meaning "it lights", "it is light",
and additionally "it is enlightenment". Thus in the frst meaning,
"ESHTIR", goddess "ISHTAR" personifes "wife", "mother" and "woman"
who is the "goddess of love" and also the other half of man. In this
representation, she is also the cause of all sorts of fghts among men
who cannot tolerate her to go astray to another man. In this context she
is also a personifcation of "fghting".
In the second meaning, that is, Turkish ISHITAR (ISHITIR), the name
Ishtar personifes the "sun" which lights and also "enlightens." Similarly
"mother" also "hears" (Tr. "ISHITIR" meaning "hears") her children, and
teaches and enlightens them. Mans enlightenment is achieved by
learning and gaining knowledge and wisdom.
The light of the Sun is an inseparable part of the Sun, that is, the Sun
and its light are always together (i.e., mates). Similarly, "mental powers
of man", that is, his/her enlightenment also stays with him/her. Because
they are "mates".
A third meaning of ISHTAR is Turkish ISITIR meaning "She warms",
"she heats," and additionally "it is heat", "it is warmth". In this case again
the Sun and the Suns heat and heating have been personifed as a
female person. But "LOVE" of woman also excites and gives warmth like
a fame. Hence she is the personifcation of "love and warmth" as
expected of mothers and wives. In fact The English term "LOVE" is
nothing but the rearranged and disguised form of Turkish word "ALAV
(ALEV)" meaning "fame, heat, fre". "LOVE" is "ALEV"! Those who fall
in love are mataphorically "on fre" for the one they are in love with.
Thus the name ISHTAR was not a "Semitic" name in origin as they
would like us to believe, but rather a term which combined a number of
ancient Turkish words into one restructured word which has been
portrayed as Semitic. Evidently the ancient Babylonians and their
followers have done a very efective language transformation job and
conned all of us all this time.
***
About the name "INANNA":
When the Sumerian name INANNA (i.e., Ishtar) is separated as "AN-
ANNI", it is the Turkish expression "AN ANNE" (GK ANNE) meaning
"Sky Mother". In other words, in one meaning "she is the queen of
heaven" as Ishtar was described to be. Her personifying the "Sky-
Mother" deifes her and makes her a "goddess". Both the Sky and the
Sun can metaphorically be regarded as "Sky-Mother" because they are
the ones who provide space and life for all living beings on earth and
most likely in other billions of "earth-like" places in the sky.
In the second meaning it is the Turkish expression "HAN ANNA" (Han
Anne, Han Ana) meaning "Lord Mother". Thus even Sumerian INANNA
is Turkish and is a personifcation of the "mother", "wife" and "woman"
concept. While "mother" is mother to her children, she is also the wife to
the childrens father.
In this personifcation she is regarded as "goddess" by calling her by the
adjective "HAN" meaning "lord". It is also important to note that in
Turkish, "woman" is also called "HANIM" (HANUM) meaning "lady" or
"my Lady" but additionally it means "I am lord". The mother, the lady of
the home is indeed the lord of the home. In one more meaning in
Turkish, the word "HANUM" (HANIM) also means "my palace, my home"
where "woman" has the utmost importance. This also indicates the value
given to women in Turkish society since very ancient times.
Sumerian AN or EN are versions of Turkish "HAN" - meaning "lord" and
also meaning "palace". The Sumerian "ANNA" or "ANNI" as presented
in the name INANNA is nothing but the Turkish "ANNA, ANNE, ANNI,
ANA" all meaning "mother" and they have all been used in the Turkish
language up to present times. Additionally, Sumerian word "AMA"
meaning "mother" is a shifted form of Turkish "ANA" meaning "mother".
Evidently, the readers of the Sumerian texts presented the word "ANA"
in the form "AMA" in order to distance Sumerian from Turkish.
***
About the name "EANNA":
Bilgamesh had built in URUK "the temple of EANNA for the god of the
frmament Anu, and for Ishtar the goddess of love". The Sumerian word
EANNA is a composite word which is made up of "E + ANNA" where
Sumerian word "E" means "house" and/or "temple". ANNA is a name.
The Sumemerian "E" is a form of Turkish "EV" meaning "house". When
we say "TANRI EVI" in Turkish it means a "temple of God". It is most
likely that the readers of the Sumerian texts dropped the letter V from
"EV" and came up with Sumerian E meaning house. It is admitted that
frequently, the fnal consonant is dropped in Sumerian words.
In this regard John L. Hayes writes the following: [21]
"One of the thorniest questions in Sumerian involves the status of word-
fnal and syllable-fnal consonants. According to most Sumerologists,
certain consonants, when in word-fnal position, were not pronounced."
The consonant in the word "EV" must have been one such dropped
consonant in Sumerian texts. If the original Sumerian word for "house"
was "EV", then dropping the fnal consonant "V" from it would certainly
alienate Sumerian from Turkish. The purpose of this was most likely
intended to distance Sumerian from Turkish.
John L. Hayes also writes the following: [22]
"Many Sumerologists believe that Sumerian had a phoneme usually
symbolized by /dr/; its exact phonetic signifcance is unsure. Its
existence has been proven in only a few cases. Because of the
difculties of proving its existence in specifc words, it is usually not
indicated in transcription; instead, in the standard sign-lists and in most
transcriptions it is refected as d."
The so-called phoneme "dr" in this citing from John L. Hayes is nothing
but the Turkish sufx "-dir, -dIr, -dur, -dr, -tir, -tIr, -tur, -tr" which comes
at the end of all defnitions in Turkish. Once this sufx is dropped of
from Turkish words and phrases, Turkish loses its most important
characteristic. Evidently the Babylonian Semites, in restructuring and
destroying the ancient Turkish language, removed its most important
feature from Turko-Sumerian. Hence the presented Sumerian became a
"unique" language not resembling Turkish. This deliberate confusion of
ancient Turkish was designed to obliterate Turkish and the worldwide
civilization that it represented. This confusion also opened the door for
the usurpation of the ancient Turko-Sumerian civilization into the so-
called "Semitic" civilization. No wonder Babylonians and Sumerologists
removed the godname "TUR" from Sumerian texts and replaced it with
the word "MAR" without any justifcation. Genesis 11-1 states this
intentional evil act by saying:
Genesis 11-1: "Now all the earth continued to be of one language and of
one set of words".
Genesis 11-6 and 7: "After that Jehowa said: "look! They are one
people and there is one language for them all, and this is what they start
to do. Why, now there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that
will be unattainable for them. Come now! Let us go down and there
confuse their language that they may not listen to one another's
language."
So the so-called Babylonia and its overly numerous magician priests
had the evil idea of destroying that ancient Turkish language which the
world spoke, and in order to achieve that ambition, they concocted all
kinds of language alterations which made Turkish into many so-called
"Semitic" and "Indo-European" languages which never existed before. In
the meantime they described Sumerian which was nothing but ancient
Turkish as a "dead and isolated language that had no living or dead
language like it". This is how Babylonian-based science was made to
function.
Since the temple EANNA was built for the universal creator sky God
ANU, (Turkish "HAN-O"), it was therefore a temple for the Sky-Father-
God (Tr. "GK ATA TANRI"). In other words, a HOUSE OF GOD.
Additionally, the Sumerian word ANNA is the Turkish word "ANNA,
ANNE, ANA" meaning "mother". Above I noted that both the names
ISHTAR and INANNA meant "mother", "wife" and "woman". Thus the
Sumerian EANNA (E-ANNA) means "The Temple of Mother" or "The
Temple for Mother" where "mother is personifed by the names ISHTAR
and INANNA who were the heavenly Mother or the Sky Mother. In this
concept, the universal creator God is both "mother" and "father" which
brings in the "duality" aspect of the creator God. Both "father" and
"mother" are creators and hence are "god-like" and "goddess-like". It is
useful to recall here that the ancient Turanian Tur/Turk peoples were
also "ancestor" worshipping peoples. That is why they erected
monumental tomb stones for their ancestors.
Furthermore, since ISHTAR represented the Sun, Sunlight, and the Fire
of Sky, and INANNA represented the "AN ANNA" the Sky-Mother", the
temple E-ANNA was also the temple for sun, sunlight, sky and the sky-
mother. Thus E-ANNA was a general temple for the ancient Turanian
Sky-God concept that included all of these sub concepts. Hence we see
that even the temple name EANNA (E-ANNA) was Turkish in origin for
an ancient Turanian religious concept.
Here it is useful to remember the Anatolian (Phrygian) Goddess so-
called "CYBELE", also called "The Great Mother", that is the goddess of
nature. She was also identifed with Greek Rhea. [23] The name
CYBELE seems to have been made up from the Turkish word "BILICI"
meaning "one who knows". This is verifed by the name "SIBYL" which
is defned as: [24]
"SIBYL. 1. In ancient Greece and Rome, any of several women who
prophesied under supposed inspiration of some deity, chiefy of Apollo,
and delivered their oracles in a frenzied state. 2. A fortune-teller;
sorceress."
These women were given "SOMA" juice or so-called "crazy-honey", in
Turkish "deli-bal", before they were to deliver their "inspired" foretelling of
the future. But "foretelling" in Turkish is "BILICILIK, FALCILIK". Hence
the name "SIBYL", like the name CYBELE" is made up from Turkish
word "BILICI" (> "BILISY") meaning "one who knows", or with F to B
transformation, SIBYL is from "FALCI" meaning "fortune teller".
Evidently this was a good source of money making in ancient Greece
and Rome. Foretelling has been known to be a trademark of the
wanderers.
***
About the name "APHRODITE":
The supposedly Greek name APHRODITE is another stolen name from
Turkish. This Greek name APHRODITE is actually made up of two
Turkish words, namely, "AFROD (AVRAT) + ITI" together meaning "she
is wife", "she is woman". Turkish "AVRAT" means "wife, woman,
mother". Aphrodite as "goddess of love" is nothing but a personifcation
of wife and woman.
A second Turkish meaning of APHRODITE becomes clear when the
word is rearranged letter-by-letter as "PHR-OD-ITE-A" is the Turkish
expression "BIR OD IDI O" meaning "one-fre she was". This refers both
to the feryness of the woman and also the Sun. In ancient Turkish
culture the "sun" was also personifed as a beautiful woman.
In view of all this, it is clear that all of these very ancient Turkish-origin
words are at least 6,000 years old in the form INANNA, 4,000-plus years
old in the form "ISHTAR" and probably 3,000-plus years old in the form
of "APHRODITE".
Hence the so-called Akkadian or Semitic name ISHTAR, Greek
APHRODITE and Sumerian INANNA are all ancient names made up
using Turkish language as the source. Since there is no reference made
to Turkish as the source, this is an indication that an act of stealing and
obliteration of the ancient Turkish civilization has taken place.
***
About the name "SHAMASH" Sumerian "UTU"
N. K. Sandars writes: [25]
"When the gods created Gilgamesh they gave him a perfect body.
Shamash the glorious sun endowed him with beauty, Adad the god of
storm endowed him with courage, the great gods made his beauty
perfect, surpassing all others. Two thirds they made him god and one
third man."
The name SHAMASH is supposedly the "Akkadian" name for Sun-God,
that is, replacing Sumerian "UTU". First of all Sumerian UTU meaning
"Sun God" and Turkish "OTO" (ODO (OD-O)) meaning "It is Fire", and
Turkish "ATA" meaning "father" are one and the same because the Sun
is a creator and Father is a creator. It must be remembered that God is
always referred to as "Father" (Ata or Apa). Thus Sumerian name UTU,
the name for Sun-God, is a Turkish word. The ancient Turkish words
"UT" (OD meaning fre"), "UT" meaning "time", UT (OKUZ) meaning
"Bull" and "UT" (T) meaning "to sing" and/or "to speak" are all
linguistically as well as theologically related to each other. The Turkish
OGUZ and AGUZ concept is embedded in them.
The so-called Semitic name SHAMASH is also a disguised Turkish word
describing the sun. SHAMASH in the form "ISHAMASH" is the Turkish
word "ISHAMASH" (ISHIMISH) meaning "it is burning brilliantly", "it is
giving of brilliant light", "it is glowing" which is, of course, the "SUN".
Thus the source of the name SHAMASH is the Turkish verb "ISHIMAK"
meaning "to radiate light". Similarly, when the "heating" element inside a
light bulb heats to white hot state, it becomes "ISHIMISH" meaning "it is
radiating light and heat". The SUN is exactly that, that is, a giant fre
radiating brilliant light and "heat".
Presently the Arabic word "SHAMS" for the Sun is nothing but the
altered and disguised Turkish word "ISHIMISH". Thus the source for
these so-called "Semitic" words for the ancient Turanian Sun-God is in
fact the Turkish language contrary to all the denying and disguising
verbosity that have been used. Thus even if millions of people are taught
that the word SHAMASH or SHAMS is "Semitic", it will not change the
fact that the source of these words is Turkish. A falsehood is still a
falsehood irrespective of whether it is believed as "truth" by one person
or millions of people. A large number of believers does not make a
"falsehood" a "fact".
***
The name ENGIDU (ENKIDU):
The name ENGIDU (ENKIU) represents a young man in the Sumerian
epic story of Bilgamesh. The following is a description of him as written
by N. K. Sandars in his book. He writes: [26]
"So the goddess (Aruru) conceived an image of her mind, and it was of
the stuf of Anu of the frmament. She dipped her hands in water and
pinched of clay, she let it fall in the wilderness, and noble ENKIDU was
created. There was virtue in him of the god of war, of Ninurta himself.
His body was rough, he had long hair like a womans; it waved like the
hair of Nisaba, the goddess of corn. His body was covered with matted
hair like Samuqans, the god of cattle. He was innocent of mankind; he
knew nothing of the cultivated land.
Enkidu ate grass in the hills with the gazelle and jostled with wild beasts
at the water-holes; he had joy of the water with the herds of wild game."
Similarly Will Durant writes: [27]
"Aruru kneads a bit of clay, spits upon it, and moulds from it the satyr
Engidu, a man with the strength of a boar, the mane of a lion, and the
speed of a bird. Engidu does not care for the society of men, but turns
and lives with the animals".
These descriptions of ENGIDU (ENKIDU) actually represent the young
peasant boys of the village. At a young age village boys were asked to
attend lambs and goats in the nearby felds, and later on as they grew
older they would work in all kinds of hard work that village life required of
them. By the time they were teenagers, they were well developed and
powerful. They would tend herds of sheep, cattle and horses, and thus
become extremely familiar with them. Young boys in the village were
called by the Turkish name "GEDE" (GIDE, GEDA, OLA, OGLAN,
OCUK). Hence the name ENGIDU personifes a young man of the
village. This we will see below when we analyse the name ENGIDU.
Encyclopaedia Britannica World Language Dictionary defnes the term
"satyr" as: [28] "In Greek mythology, a woodland deity in human form,
having pointed ears, pug nose, short tail and budding horns, and of
wanton nature." The mythological Satyr is an imaginary being combining
man and goat features.
Interestingly, the Turkish word "OGLAK" maning "kid" or "young goat" is
similar to the word "OGLAN" meaning "boy". Additionally in Turkish, the
word "GIDIK", or in short "GIDI", also means "kid", that is, the "baby
goat". These similarities in the Turkish names for "young boy" and
"young goat" could have been the reason for the ancient Greeks to
come up with the mythologic name "Satyr" as defned above which is
really a putdown expression against the ancient Turanians.
It is important to note here that the English term "KID", meaning both
"baby goat" and "child", has the features of these Turkish words, that is,
"GIDIK" (GIDI) meaning "baby goat" and "GEDE" meaning "young
boy". Hence this English term too has been usurped from Turkish and
Sumerian.
With this backgrond information let us now turn to the name ENGIDU
(ENKIDU).
The so-called Sumerian name "ENGIDU is made from two parts.
Namely: "EN + GIDU" which are respectively Turkish "HAN" meaning
"lord" and "GEDE" (GIDE, GEDA) meaning "boy". Thus the name
ENGIDU means "Lord Boy". Parallel to this expression there is the
Turkish saying "GENLIK HANLIKTIR" (GENLIK SULTANLIKTIR)
meaning "one is a lord in his/her youth". Thus Sumerian ENGIDU is a
form of the Turkish expression "HAN GEDE" meaning "Lord Boy".
Linguists should be able to see how this Turkish expression "HAN
GEDE" can be reduced to Sumerian "ENGIDU".
In the epic story of Bilgamesh ("Gilgamesh") ENGIDU (ENKIDU)
becomes the closest friend of Bilgamesh which is a true statement
because "man" and his "knowledge" are always together and are
"closests of friends". Additionally while man, as represented by
"ENGIDU", is "mortal" and eventually dies away, his knowledge is
passed on to others. Hence it is in a way "immortal" and stays with the
rest of the living men almost forever. This "immortallity" of knowledge
gives a divine quality to itself.
Thus from all of this it is clear that the Sumerian name ENGIDU
(ENKIDU) is also a Turkish based name used as a character name in
the Sumerian "BILGAMESH" epic story. Evidently the name
"GILGAMESH" was an altered and disguised form of the Turkish
expression "BILGAMESH" or "AGILGAMESH". These two words can be
changed into "GILGAMESH" by replacing the letter "B" with "G" in the
frst case, or by dropping front vowel "A" in the second one.
The story names discussed in this paper were words that belonged to
ancient Turkish contrary to all kinds of deceitful verbosity trying to make
the epic story of BILGAMESH a "Babylonian Semitic story" under the
altered name of GILGAMESH. These names are extremely important
evidences indicating that the ancient Turanian civilization developed in
Sumeria was stolen, abducted, altered, confused, rearranged and then
attributed to all kinds of wanderer people except the "Tur/Turk" peoples
themselves. These ancient wanderers perpetrated a huge crime against
the ancient Turanian Tur/Turk peoples by obliterating their fourishing
civilization and redefning its creations and advances under altered
names that were then assigned to themselves.
REFERENCES:
[19] N. K. Sandars, "THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH", Penguin Books, 1964, Glossary of Names, p. 59.
[20] N. K. Sandars, "THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH", Penguin Books, 1964, Glossary of Names, p. 26.
[21] John L. Hayes, "A Manual Of Sumerian Grammar and Texts", Undena publications, Malibu, 1990, p. 21.
[22] John L. Hayes, "A Manual Of Sumerian Grammar and Texts", Undena publications, Malibu, 1990, p. 20.
[23] Encyclopaedia Britannica World Language Dictionary, 1963, p. 320.
[24] Encyclopaedia Britannica World Language Dictionary, 1963, p. 1166.
[25] N. K. Sandars, "THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH", Penguin Books, 1964, Glossary of Names, p. 59.
[26] N. K. Sandars, "THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH", Penguin Books, 1964, Glossary of Names, p. 60-61.
[27] Will Durant, "Story of Civilization: Part I "OUR ORIENTAL HERITAGE", Simon and Schuster, new york,
1954, p. 251.
[28] Encyclopaedia Britannica World Language Dictionary, 1963, p. 1119.
Best wishes to all,
Polat Kaya
28/12/2005
(End of Part-3)