Re: [tied] Wheels.

Sumerian didn't invent the names of days of week: they invented the names of
days of week now used in Western World, addapted through Greece and Rome.

Joao SL
Rio

----- Original Message -----
From: Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Wheels.


>
>
> John:
> > the Sumerians (who invented writing, historical record keeping,
>temple
> >building, the wheel, irrigation etc etc)
>
> Mark:
> >The wheel? The wheel is nowhere attested until after 4000 BCE. After
>4000
> >BCE it seems to be everywhere. The Brononice pot is apparently >the
> >earliest representation ***ANYWHERE*** of a wheeled vehicle.
>
> Thanks, Mark. I'd like to also add that just because Sumerians have
> supposedly native names for planets doesn't necessarily mean that they
were
> the first to create the cosmo-mythological associations. The Japanese have
> "Japanese" terms for the days of the week as well as the planets. Were
they
> the originators of the days of the week? The Chinese perhaps? I'll just
let
> John sit on that one for a while and rotate like a wheel.
>
> - gLeN
>
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