#Hurrian hymn

[la-cocotte-de-paris]

Hurrian hymn my beloved ♡

[crouton-knight]

A commission for PEnfys on twitter and discord of the Akkadian goddess Ningal/Nikkal, based on a specific bust statue. This was a pretty cool commission to work on, very unusual. Made a font for the cuneiform text, even.

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[seamusicpoetry]

Hurrian Hymn No. 6

In 1955, in the palace of ancient Ugairt, in Syria, archaeologists unearthed a clay tablet containing a musical fragment dating back 3,400 years—millennia older than the previously oldest known composition.

The tablet contained a cuneiform inscription in Hurrian, an ancient Mesopotamian language. It also included a system for reproducing the melody. The hymn is dedicated to Nikkal, goddess of the orchards, and was to be accompanied by the nine-string lyre.

The work is unsigned, and the composer remains anonymous. The text of the song is written in an obscure form of Hurrian, which remains impenetrable to linguists. The Hurrian hymn uses a diatonic (do-re-mi) scale.

[rediscoveringmusic]

The Oldest Song in the World -

Hurrian Hymn c.1400 B.C.

[julianerui]

I came across the oldest known melody in human history! That’s cool. It was played on lyre. 

“The Hurrian Hymn was discovered in the 1950s on a clay tablet inscribed with Cuneiform text. It is over 3400 years old. The hymn was discovered in Ugarit, now part of modern-day Syria, and is dedicated to NIkkal, the Hurrians' goddess of the orchards". 

One version is to be found here: The Hurrian Hymn. Look at this comment: “Listened to this as a 15 year old, loved every second of it. Now as a 3440 year old, it’s just as good as it was back then. Thanks for sharing.” 

[sumerianlanguage]

Hello! Thanks for doing this. Question: how do you say and write "musical note" in sumerian? As a side ask, did a concept such as "musical note* existed back then? Did they have a way to separate music sounds like us?

Hello! The Sumerians certainly had concepts of musical notes and intervals, but I don't know of a word that strictly corresponds to "note" in this way.

What they did have were terms for specific strings of a lyre. Sa 𒊓 is "string" in general, and we know saus 𒊓𒍑 is the second string; a typical lyre would have five, nine or eleven strings. And ngishshub 𒄑𒊒 means "the musical interval created by lyre strings 1+3". There are (Akkadian) texts that describe re-tuning a given lyre to change its mode, so the intervals weren't fixed by instrument, and they used several sets of intervals (see Mirelman & Krispijn 2009).

Given the importance of this instrument to Sumerian music, I'd probably just use sa "lyre string" metonymously to mean "musical note" within a given piece of music. This word was borrowed as "instrument string" into Hurrian, the language that the Hurrian Hymns, one of our best sources of Mesopotamian music notation, are written in.

For a broader survey of Mesopotamian music as we know it, check out Kilmer 1971, and for other Sumerian music vocabulary see my Sumerian music tag!

[musicwithoutborders]

Anonymous/ Brayden Olson, Hurrian Hymn To Nikkal / No. 6 (1400 BCE), 2013

[wolfisland]

why is spotify playing hurrian hymn no.6 on my on repeat playlist when its not even ON the fucking playlist. what

[la-cocotte-de-paris]

thinking about her (hurrian hymn no. 6)

[yunessa]

I have so many for Yunessa....

🌲- What is this oc's greatest strength and weakness?

🌴- Who is this oc's favorite person?(Can be another oc, a fictional character, a celebrity, anyone)

🍂- What music does this oc like?

☁️- What is this oc's clothing style like?

🌲- Loyalty. Not to a cause or country, but to the people who matter to them. To people who accepted them as they were, helped them, and didn't need to understand Yunessa to be their friend/family. You're almost there in the story where you'll see what I mean. ;)

A lot of people write chaotic neutral characters as wacky and funky folks who ignore laws or do far out funny things. But the thing with CN characters is that they make their own morals and values- those can be good, they can be bad, plain as vanilla, or downright vile. But what makes them CN is that the one thing that they hold close is their own freedom. Keeping that freedom, however the character defines it, is what makes them CN. I've always felt that if a CN character sets their path, regardless of good or evil choices, then it's because they chose to do so.

But on the flip side, while a Yunessa who cares for you would give you their bracelet without regret, they also struggle to express their personal thoughts and feelings. Sometimes you don't need to hold onto shards of a broken glass because the pain is yours.

🌴- In a world where Aivu exists then how can you have favorites? She;s so cute. Alternativly excluding romances, I feel like Yunessa and Siavesh would make for a good KC/ companion pair because they seem to get along swimmingly.

🍂- Old music. Not classic or what they can sing in the bars, but ancient music. Like, songs written on stone tablets or buried in graves millennia ago. They would find it fascinating to learn and give it a twist. Yunessa would be a big fan of the Hurrian Hymn, for example. Alternatively any wordless song they can play on their lyre.

☁️- Loose clothes with lots of pockets, a bit of bardic flair (Embroidery, stripes, etc), in darker colors that don't show stains easily- it's better for travel. They don't like showing off their skin so it's always long sleeves and pants. Getting them away from that style is more of a challenge than you'd think. Desna knows Daeran will try.

[hrodvitnon]

So the Titans have been around since before humans were basically even evolved, so it can be reasonably assumed they've seen basically all of human history.

That being said, what are each of the Titans' personal favorite eras of history and why?

Oh lordy, I gotta look up world history for this. Sabaton, I've failed you!

Goji is partial to the Uruk Period because it takes him back to his youth thinking about the early evolution of human civilization and language. Some nights when he's feeling especially nostalgic, he recites the Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal when the moon is full. He also started getting interested in Japanese history particularly around the Mongol invasions. If he were to try a video game in Shamhat, it would be Ghost of Tsushima for just that reason.

Mothra doesn't like to play favorites because the whole world is fascinating to her, but she gets nostalgic when reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Rodan will throw hands with anyone who reduces the Aztecs to the "haha stabby people" because he remembers Tenochtitlan at its peak, he remembers their ingenious floating gardens and iconic architecture, he remembers their knowledge of medicine and astronomy and mathematics, he remembers the fucking codices!

Ghidorah loves empires, and no empire has his complete attention than the Roman Empire. Everything about it, from the arts and architecture to the politics to the military to, of course, the gladiator games.

[deathlessathanasia]

"Zeus himself, the central character in Hesiod’s Theogony, bears some of the most easily recognizable Northwest Semitic features, in addition to those of the Indo-European Sky God inherited by the Greeks. It is not necessary, therefore, to discuss them at length. It suffices to recall that the Canaanite Storm God Baal and the homologous Greek god share a similar position in the succession of kings in Heaven, as well as the position of the youngest son. They both reign from a palace on a northern mountain (Olympos, Zapanu/Zaphon), and they wield thunder as their distinctive weapon. As with his Near Eastern counterparts, thunder, lightning, and the thunderbolt were the “missiles/shafts of great Zeus.” The position of his sister and principal consort Hera is like that of Anat, Baal’s sister and partner (though not consort). For some, this coupling “violates the incest taboo” in Greek myth but allows Hera to remain an “equal” partner according to her right of birth, as the daughter of Kronos. In Il. 4.59 she is the oldest daughter, in Il. 16.432,18.352 she is called “sister and wife” and in Hesiod Th. 454 she is the youngest daughter of Kronos, exactly as Zeus is the last son.

The list of similarities between Zeus and the different manifestations of the Canaanite god (either Baal or El or Yahweh in the later Hebrew theology) is long and has been the subject of much discussion by classicists, Semitists, and biblical scholars. Perhaps most interesting are the parallels noticeable at the level of their epithets, such as Zeus the “cloud-gatherer” (nephelegereta)or “lightener” (asteropetes), and the frequent characterization of Baal in Ugaritic poetry as the “cloud-rider” (rkb ʿrpt). Other epithets of the Northwest Semitic Storm God Adad (Haddad) are preserved in Akkadian hymns, such as “lord of lightning” or “establisher of clouds.” …

Zeus’ “high-in-the-Sky” position and Sky-nature are reflected in other epithets such as hypatos and hypsistos. At the same time, similar divine epithets meaning “the high one” (eli, elyon, and ram) are very common in Northwest Semitic religious texts, accompanying several principal divinities. For instance, this epithet is used in the Ugaritic epic for Baal, and different forms of the adjective are attested in Aramaic, as well as in the Hebrew Bible accompanying El, Yahweh, and Elohim. … The association of the Storm God in Syro-Palestine with the bull as a symbol of fertility is also present in the various mythological narratives involving Zeus, most clearly in the famous motif of Zeus’ kidnapping the Phoenician princess Europa and carrying her on his back after taking the shape of a bull.

The final fight of Zeus with Typhon (Th. 820-880) has also been compared to the fight between Baal and Yam (the Sea) in the Ugaritic Baal Cycle and to that between Demarous and Pontos (the Sea) in Philon’s Phoenician History (P.E. 1.10.28). As mentioned earlier, the Storm God’s struggle with a monster also (albeit more distantly) resembles the clash between the Hurrian Weather God Teshub and the monsters Ullikummi, Illuyanka, and Hedammu. The figure of Typhon in Hesiod can in fact be seen as a Greek version of a “cosmic rebel” repeatedly reimagined with different characteristics in the specific versions, who endangers the Weather God’s power and generally has both marine and chthonic features. The Levantine and Greek adversaries probably have more than a merely thematic resonance, as the very name of Typhon might have a Semitic origin. It has hypothetically but quite convincingly been associated with the Semitic name Zaphon. Mount Zaphon (Ugaritic Zapunu or Zapanu) is a central point of reference in the geography and the religion of Ugarit. Known by Greeks and Romans as Kasion oros/ mons Casius (today Jebel al-Aqra), this peak on the north coast of Syria (south of the Orontes River) was also mentioned in Hurrian-Hittite myths. The mountain occupies a central spot in both the fight between Ullikummi and Teshub (as Mount Hazzi) and in the Ugaritic Baal Cycle. In the Ugaritic epic, the fight against Yam (the Sea) is not described as taking place on the mountain, but the celebration of Baal’s victory is, as it is the god’s abode overlooking the Mediterranean: “With sweet voice the hero sings / over Baalu on the summit / of Sapan (= Zaphon).” Much later, Apollodoros locates the cosmic fight with Typhon on Mons Casius precisely, which indicates that the link between Typhon and Zaphon had persisted, even though the name known to Hellenistic authors was the Greek, not the Semitic one."

- When the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East by Carolina López-Ruiz

[gothyanki]

Can’t stop thinking about the Watcher using past life memories to teach Kana the Engwithan equivalent of the Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal…

[art-o-bart-o]

If anyone ever asked me what songs my Ancient ocs listen to or their spotify lists are...

no it's none of the shit today, cus they would've literally listen to this:

This is the oldest musical piece known to man from Ancient Mesopotamia (where my Assyrian ocs are from), so this is what they would listen too LOL

[dethangel]

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