Secret_History

486 The Secret History of the World
different principles. Nevertheless, base 60 did not disappear entirely, as we have
already mentioned.
We should note, however, that it was with the sudden appearance of the
Sumerian civilization - as early as the 5th millennium BC - that the long era of the
tribal, egalitarian society of the Neolithic came to an end between 4,000 and 3,000
B.C. Archaeologists and anthropologists have documented that the early society of
Mesopotamia had been guided by women and had a Goddess as deity. The end of
female leadership can be deducted from the following quote in “In the Wake of the
Goddesses” by Frymer-Kenski:
The dynasty of Kish was founded by Enmebaragesi, a contemporary of Gilgamesh.
The name breakes down as follows: enetik - eme - ebakin - aragikor - ageriko - ezi
which can be transliterated to “from that time on - female - harvest - lustful -
notorious - to domesticate” or “From that time on the lustful, notorious harvest
female was domesticated.”
This “name” tells us in no uncertain terms that the time of the Goddess was on
the decline, because male domination had arrived with the Sumerians. Sargon,
conversely, attributed all of his successes to the Goddess.
Now, let’s come back to the clues that the French words for 80 and 90 (quatrevingts,
quatre-vingt-dix) carry the traces of a vanished ancient European vigesimal
arithmetic, put together with the fact that the first Semitic king came from the
“North” and that the “Semitic influence” of the Goddess worshipping Sargon
accelerated the development of the Sumerian culture toward something more than
being economic slaves to the gods. Considering these factors, we might wish to
reconsider the term “Semitic”.
Indeed, the religion of the ancient Sumerians has left its mark on the entire
Middle East. Not only are its temples and ziggurats scattered about the region, but
the literature, cosmogony and rituals influenced their neighbors to such an extent
that we can see echoes of Sumer in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition today. In
other words, most of what we consider to be Semitic is actually Sumerian written
in the Semitic Akkadian language. Undoubtedly, those peoples who today are
called Semitic by virtue of having had a name assigned to them from the Bible, are
actually descendants of the Sumerians, and their “Semitic language” was imposed
on them by Sargon of Akkad who was clearly not one of the “black-headed
people”.
The linguistic affinity of Sumerian has not yet been successfully established.
Ural-Altaic (which includes Turkish), Dravidian, Brahui, Bantu, and many other
groups of languages have been compared with Sumerian, but no theory has gained
common acceptance. 358
358 Arno Poebel, Grundzüge der sumerischen Grammatik (1923), partly out of date, but still the only
full grammar of Sumerian in all its stages; Adam Falkenstein, Grammatik der Sprache Gudeas von