Thug Bush wants to civilize the Iraqis. Ha.. Ha.. Ha..
Part (I)
Abu Assur
The French High school pupils at a Lycée in Toulouse (south of France) are studiously working these days and over a whole week on an Iraqi Babylonian clay tablet engraved in the second millennium B.C.
This initiative suggested by the writer of this article who is by the way a professor of Ancient Civilizations and organized by Mrs. Michèle Moucoud, a professor of mathematics and a member of the Gigouzac Club of Astronomy (Southern France), proposes to the Lycée students a dreamlike trip to the roots and the origins of our universal common culture and civilization in Mesopotamia. Yes it was on this sacred land of Iraq, where the first time ever in history, some six thousands years ago, Iraqis, established urban centers, built schools, invented the writing, organized the society, conveyed a message, accumulated knowledge, and documented history and defied death with the power of the written word. Thousands of years ago Iraqis watched and analyzed the revolution of the stars, predicted eclipses of the moon and the sun, and invented our today hexadecimal and decimal mathematics systems.
The four thousand years old baked clay tablet in some Iraqi furnace, written in cuneiform characters and measures only two tiny inches, deals with a trapezoidal land parcel whose owner, may he rest in peace, he was a caring father, wanted to bequeath equally to his six sons.
The tiny priceless clay tablet, now at the Louvre Museum in Paris, has been engraved by a reed stylus in the scribe's own hand palm, and has some forty lines on both sides. Most moving when you have the chance to see it, is when you can still distinguish the vague lines of what is thought to be the scribe's own blessed palm. What an experience! A palm is a mirror of our face... The clay tablet resuscitated this Iraqi ancestor from his -nom al hana wa salam - peaceful and delicious sleep of thousands and thousands of years.
The tablets, discovered in the nineteenth century, ask the school pupils: how to equally divide this trapezoidal land parcel in six portions using parallel lines? This clay tablet like hundreds of tablets found in Iraq, is a mathematical geometrical exercise prepared and written for school children in Babylon some four thousands years ago.
The French Lycée pupils will try during this week to imitate their Iraqi Babylonian colleagues to study and analyze the clay tablet translated of course into French and attempt mainly to find by themselves a solution to this Mesopotamian mathematical problem.
Mrs. Michèle Moucaud the professor of Mathematics presented the exercises through questions and answers to help her young twenty first century A.D. French students to understand the mechanic of the Ancient Iraqi calculation system used thousands of years ago by the Babylonians, based on the digit, sixty.
The Iraqi well known scientist and writer Reverend Dr.Youssef Habbi affirms in one of his many books written on Ancient Mesopotamian sciences, that the Iraqis were able since the fourth millennium B.C. to develop the theoretical notion of the figures, adding that the digit symbolism took shape and form at the hands of the Acadians and Babylonians beside the well known digit scientific role used in the Babylonian representation of the world, or what the scholars call: Cosmogony.
It is important to note according to Rev. Dr. Habbi that the Sumerian term An shar represented by the cuneiform writing as a circle, means in fact, all or a whole, and includes heaven, earth and the lower world, and expresses the Babylonian theory of the beginning of the Cosmos, and includes the two primordial entities which are AN-SHAR the upper or the heavenly whole and KI-SHAR which is the lower or the earthly entity which got united at one stage, and gave birth to the first deities.
Numbers and digits were used in every way and in every day life in Ancient Iraq. In an example of the numerical value of the names, we discover from the texts of the Iraqi Assyrian King Sargon the second (VIIIth century B.C.) who asserts " 16280 arm length, are the components of my name, I made as a measurement of the ramparts of my capital Dur Sharrukin, west of actual Mosul". We discovered too that Dur Sharrukin's clay bricks measures were close to the arm length evaluated at 0.390 meter and are different from the Babylonian palaces bricks, which measure 0,490 meter.
The Iraqi illustrious scholar Dr. Youssif Habbi explains also that geometrical figures gave birth to the mathematical theory. Here, it is indeed easy to verify that the circle divided in 360 degree and the year in 360 days had a common intellectual representation which was used to explain the time and the duration notions altogether. The Iraqis in Mesopotamia always linked the human birth to the idea of the generations. "Dara" is generation in Aramaic and means in Arabic and Aramaic too, to go around in circle. Thus Iraqis in Mesopotamia represented the wheel as an idea of the Duration, incarnated Universality and gave concept to the Eternity.
The lucky French High school pupils meanwhile, copied on clay with proper reed styluses an Iraqi multiplication by 25 log dated first millennium BC. The writer of this article closed a paternal eye while some anxious French students cheated, using their ultra modern electronic calculators to find a quick answer to some unreadable cuneiform lines. It was quite a sight: Civilizations, generations and times came to a halt. Reed styluses, clay tablets, cuneiform writing, ultra modern digital calculators caressed and manipulated by frail and enthusiastic French hands, were embracing each other in an amazing, beautiful, enriching, and gratifying experience between civilizations and cultures.. away.. God yes! so much far away! from the thug Bush and co.. conflict of civilizations.. This thug Bush who came to Iraq..to civilize Iraqis and to.. build schools for Iraqis!
Part (II)
Thug Bush imposes a Zionist backward constitution on Iraqis... Ho! Ho! Ho!