00:03the forgotten gods of ancient mesopotamia before egypt before rome before even the
00:09mighty pyramids rose from the sands there was land between two rivers a land where
00:15gods walked among men where kings claimed divine blood and where the very idea of civilization
00:21was born welcome to mesopotamia the cradle of civilization and home to forgotten gods whose
00:28names have nearly vanished from history this is the vault of centuries where the past still breathes
00:36the land between rivers between the tigris and euphrates rivers lies a vast plain the heart of
00:41modern-day iraq here more than 5 000 years ago the sumerians built cities like uruk you are and erudu
00:50but these were not just cities they were gateways to the divine each city had its own god and its
00:57people believed those gods ruled over every breath of life to displease a god was to invite famine
01:04floods and war to honor them was to keep the world in balance the gods of creation at the dawn
01:12of all
01:12things stood anew the god of the heavens silent distant and eternal then came enlil the god of
01:20air and storms a powerful being who could bless harvests or destroy them with a single breath
01:25and deep within the waters of the abyss dwelled enki god of wisdom magic and creation
01:31it was enki who shaped mankind from clay and spirit to serve the gods but soon humanity grew too loud
01:38too
01:38rebellious and the gods decided to destroy their creation only one man atrasus was warned
01:46he built a great boat long before the story of noah and survived the divine flood
01:53in anna the queen of heaven embodied both love and war beauty and chaos worshiped in golden temples
02:01she ruled passion and power in the oldest myth she descended into the underworld to face her sister
02:07ereshkigal for three days the world fell silent and she returned forever changed
02:14as the sumerians vanished their gods lived on the akkadians renamed them the babylonians rebuilt their
02:21temples and the assyrians called upon their wrath in war marduk rose as king of the heavens slaying tiamat
02:28to forge order from chaos myths that still echo in genesis and greek legends their temples now
02:35crumble beneath centuries of dust their names fading on shattered clay tablets yet their essence endures
02:41in our myths our fates our very words when we speak of creation floods gods and men we still echo
02:50mesopotamia for its gods never died they became part of us if these ancient gods could speak again what
02:58stories would they tell us what warnings would they give to a civilization that may one day forget itself
03:03just as they were forgotten this has been vault of centuries where every ruin whispers and the past still
03:12breathes
