Go to any Sumerian exhibit

[Mr. Sin]

And you'll see statues of apollo what a load of shit

 

[RoJoHen]

You're an odd one, aren't ya?

 

[Captain Pike]

Goddam Sumerians..

 

[Broccoli]

Gozer worshipers?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Sumerians worship Crom, not Apollo!

Oh wait. That's Cimmerians.

 

[Trent Roman]

I am duly outraged that museum curators have become so incompetant as to place Grecian artifacts in Mesopotamian exhibits. You invite this kind of classificatory chaos, and the next thing you know irrelevant spam starts showing up in Sci-Fi/Fantasy forums.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Capn Flukie]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLfbu7NzBWI[/yt]

 

[Demonland]

Three Sumerians walk into a bar ....... BOOM BOOM. I'm here all week folks.

 

[Admiral_Young]

At least there were no Nausicaans there...

 

[Canadave]

Man, when it comes to early civilizations, the Sumerians were the WORST.

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

Grecian statues in Sumerian exhibits? Oh no! Won't somebody think of the children?

 

[Myasishchev]

Actually, I can kind of see being pissed off about this, unless there's actually a reason for Apollo to be in the Sumerian exhibit (e.g., it turns out Apollo was a Sumerian god adopted by the Greeks, although I don't think this is the case).

 

[Nerys Myk]

We talking Hatch or Bamber?

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

Carl Weathers I think...

 

[Captain Pike]

Re:

unless there's actually a reason for Apollo to be in the Sumerian exhibit (e.g., it turns out Apollo was a Sumerian god adopted by the Greeks, although I don't think this is the case).

It's just possible.

In her book, Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend (2006), Nancy Thomson suggests the entymology of Apollo is from the Hittite diety Aplu, which in turn came from the Akkadian 'Aplu Enlil', meaning "son of Enlil" which was a title given to the god Nergal who in turn was linked to the Babylonian god of the sun, Shamash (i.e the Sumerian god Utu).

Beware of Sumerians bearing statues, I always say..

 

[Neroon]

Given this poster's history and the lack of substance of this thread....