/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>𒄑𒂆𒈦𒄑𒂆
I kinda enjoy looking at those things

I don't have these letters installed so all I see are boxes

I almost installed some sumerian and egyptian fonts, but got bored and didn't. oh well.

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>>9578298

What use do these bizarre characters have?

>>9578343
Communicating in the language of the gods.

Why is Gil a white, blonde, staight male, if he's a sandnigger?

at last i have truly seen the light

>>9578298
>>9578371
Well damn. Time to get some more fonts.

>>9578365
Babylonians were not sandniggers.

Where's Gil's great big, bushy beard?

>>9578378
>Iraq

>>9578378
They were semites and enslaved the jews.

>>9578416
>>9578411
They were not Arabs, which is what sandnigger implies.

?

>>9578411
In the /pol/ mind everything that is somehow connected to the word “civilisation” is white and naturally blond.
http://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/cuneifont/
Santakku font from here seems to work.

>>9578430
Although looking at it it seems that the characters get garbled. Might look into it later.

>>9578420
Well, they lived in a desert like area and were brown/black with black hair and dark brown/black eyes.

Can you even learn this language anywhere in the world? It would be hella badass knowing it and laughing at all the entry level latin and ancient greek fags.

You'll never get pounded in the ass by manly hairy Gilgamesh. ;_;

>>9578452
Maybe some archeology and ancient languages faculties.

>>9578483
>>9578452

http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/

There are others as well. Couple of universities got fed up with ancient astronaut conspiracy theorists translating cuneiform anyway that kept the boat afloat.

>>9578561
>Couple of universities got fed up with ancient astronaut conspiracy theorists translating cuneiform anyway that kept the boat afloat.
Why is Giorgio so 萌え?

>>9578609

Not quite, it happened a while before his time. But yeah, that's the general idea.

>>9578667
They just want to believe. Why are universities so mean?

>>9578702

Why? Well... I'd say it's because in a way, the truth is often more wondrous and fascinating than the belief.

By providing the whole of known Sumerian litterature without the modern mystical shimmer, people are given the opportunity to appreciate the accomplishments of our ancestors, without today's accumulated knowledge, in their own right. You can see that there is a highly accomplished literary culture as old as 4000 years, millennia older than widespread litteracy. There are literary heroes that parallel those of our own time, who - for all their claims of divinity - openly and without shame display highly human fears and weaknesses, and ponder and struggle with the human condition in ways that modern heroes often smooth over. You can read the mythical parts and see how they have seeped on through into younger religions, emphasizing again how pointless their often bloody disagreements are when they so often rest on the same ground.

In every way but the existance of extraterrestrial life, the fact of our ancestors accomplishing this on their own is more wondrous than the belief of our ancestors being helpless without aliens to pile rocks for them.

Although I got to admit, the modern image of Gilgamesh dogfighting Lancelot surfing on a Tomcat is pleasing in ways the original epic isn't.