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Gods with Buckets |
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In ancient Sumeria they had a tradition of leather buckets
In fact it was all over the ancient world. Leather buckets were used in roman libraries to protect scrolls while they were being moved. They were used in Egypt to draw water from wells and to carry mud for building elsewhere. They were also used to protect provisions on long journeys as this excerpt from a Sumerian text (lugalbanda and the cave) details �Directly in front of the table they arranged for him beer for drinking, mixed with date syrup and rolls with butter. Provisions poured into leather buckets, provisions all put into leather bags his brothers and friends, like a boat unloading from the harvest-place, placed stores by his head in the mountain cave�
In the Olmec and Mayan cultures this tradition is also found and continues to this very day in the traditions of the maya Indians who made this one . |
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Leather can be cured and becomes watertight and there are descriptions in ancient texts of these buckets containing both solids and liquids. It therefore became fashionable in many cultures thereafter to depict travelling Gods with a leather bucket in one of their hands. |
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You can see the well-known travelling sailor Oannes here facing the Sumerian tree of life with a bucket in his left hand |
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Here it is again in an Olmec carving though this time its carried in the right hand. Travellers with provision buckets wave goodbye with the other hand and most of these frescos depict Gods who are departing from somewhere. |
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There are a lot of similarities around the world. Most of them are linked to the turn of the third millennium bce period. Strange sites around the world that show advanced astronomical knowledge that could only be gained from viewing the heavens for a practical reason. That are all built from purely local sources or else bought a great distance by a method that still remains unexplained |
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