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Re: Eden Naby...they say.
Posted by beezelbub (Guest) - Tuesday, July 12 2005, 9:11:32 (CEST)
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Maggie wrote:
>This book, in particular was sheer torture. I wanted to be fair to people I don't understand, and supportive of Assyrian writers. But the book is sheer agony to the extent that it is entirely made of quotes taken from other writers, and thus not a single original thought in it.

...I fear that's how Ken managed to "write" a book and rush it through his desktop printer in time to show Tiglath that he at least wrote a ninth book...even if the eight previous ones he claims to have written are nowhere to be seen.
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>What really puzzles me about some Assyrian writers is that when you come up with something original that you can figure out yourself, having been an Assyrian all your life, and inspired by Assyrianism, i.e. art, sculpture, history, artifacts, little details others might not have noticed, etc., these so-called historians jump all over you and ask where are you references, as if the words of non-Assyrian writers and thinkers are much more worthy, and their thoughts are more valid than yours. This is what makes them mediocre and boring, stuck in their own world of dogma and imprisoned by their own fears.

...I think this belies their claim to being modern Assyrians...because they refuse anyone the right to think and act AS an Assyrian today. To them we can all only copy the past...like we aren't the descendants of those artists and thinkers who are alive today and that what we create from an Assyrian base is nothing less than the expression of the same basic Assyrianism they practised...but carried on by us, centuries later.

That's what's so disheartening about the new Chaldean museum in Detroit. It's wonderful that they even did such a thing..the first SERIOUS attempt and I know they'll do it better than Norman Solkha and Nimrod's "museums". But I'm dismayed that they're going to fill it with copies of originals from the Louvre and anywhere else they can get them. Rather than signify pride in their heritage this seems to indicate doubt and insecurity...anyone would ask, "have you done nothing in all these years that you must place plaster copies of three thousand year old pieces in what you call a museum?"

There are Chaldean artists living and breathing today who are the heirs of the ancients ONLY if their own people validate that claim...and the best way to prove Chaldeans of today are the descendants of the ancients is to SHOW the work they have continued doing up to the present.

Along these same lines I recall having many arguments with "experts" who insisted that Hammurabi HAD to wear what he is shown wearing on that famous stelle...as if the Great King of Kings, King of the Four Corners Of The World...had ONE outfit in his closet. Yet they felt it was sacrilege on my part to IMAGINE another set of sandals, or belt...taken from a host of details you just know they used on many other items NOT found yet. But there isn't that real belief, like I have, that we are INDEED those people and therefore the ONLY ones today who could know what an Assyrian does TODAY.



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