The film delves into ancient sumerian language and artefacts that purportedly show ufo and alienlike images dating back to the 3rd millennium bce. Allen hyneks classification of close encounters with aliens, in which the fourth. This book covers the period from the 4th through the 2nd millennium bc when the sumerian civilization was thriving in the area between the tigris and euphrates rivers in modern iraq. The sumerian culture is considered the oldest civilization on earth, dating back to 4000 b. Sumerian literature constitutes the earliest known corpus of recorded literature, including the religious writings and other traditional stories maintained by the sumerian civilization and largely preserved by the later akkadian and babylonian empires. The fourth kind is pretty terrifying in parts and a lot of the footage is disturbing, as you are warned at the beginning of the film that it will be. There are alarming bursts of the ancient sumerian language, either rumbling away on a microcassette.
The sumerian king list, on the other hand, contains an initial section that makes reference to the flood and to sumerian kings of extremely long reigns before the flood. An afrocentricist might argue this must mean that they were black but, to be honest, anyone apart from most north and west europeans could make a good claim to being blackheaded, in the sense of. While the jurys still out 100 percent, its safe to assume that the footage used and the alien. To learn more about amazon pollys neural tts and region compatibility, visit the amazon pollys neural tts documentation. It came up as a recommendation because of the background nature of the movie.
Nov 10, 2009 the fourth kind is, in so many ways, a really awful film. Upon the release of the 2009 film the fourth kind there was rampant discussion of whether the movie was based on actual true events, or whether the marketing was simply incredibly good. The akkadian empire was an empire centered in the city of akkad in what is today ancient iraq, or mesopotamia. The fourth kind is a 2009 science fictionthrillerhorror movie starring milla jovovich. An afrocentricist might argue this must mean that they were black but, to be honest, anyone apart from most north and west europeans could make a good claim to being blackheaded, in the sense of having dark hair. Ancient sumerian proverbs these gems of wisdom are more than 4,000 years old, but many of them still have relevance to us today. Links to halloran lexicon of sumerian, paper analyzing the protolanguage, early numeration paper, faq page, and other mesopotamianrelated sites. He mentions that in ancient sumerian artifacts pictures of men in space suits and ufos were depicted, and that the voice on the tape speaking the. Prior to the events of the movie her husband was killed by an intruder and her daughter went blind from the mental trauma. With milla jovovich, elias koteas, will patton, hakeem kaekazim. Ir 15 native tongue is the language of ancient sumer and a language isolate that was spoken in mesopotamia modernday iraq. The sumerian world explores the archaeology, history and art of southern mesopotamia and its relationships with its neighbours from c. The fourth kind was presented by the movie studio as being based on real events occurring in nome, alaska in 2000, in which psychologist dr. He is a professor of creative writing at the university of guelph.
Nov 10, 2009 inthe onscreen preface to the fourth kindas in close encounters of, a witchylooking milla jovovich assures us thatonly the names have been changed. And the beginning of his nimrods kingdom was babel, and erech, and accad, and calneh, in the land of shinar. It is presented as a docudrama based on alleged events that took place in nome alaska back in 2000. The this book is if i remember correctly about the alien abduction conference at mit. In a city that has no watch dogs, the fox is the overseer. The new thriller the fourth kind, which opens with star milla jovovich speaking directly to the audience about the movies authenticity, has raised some suspicions about the credibility of its claims and supposedly real footage. First of all, the language that the extraterrestrial used in the fourth kind is sumerian. The sumerian elite called themselves ung sang gigga, or the black headed people. Several sources claim that amazon is in discussions to resurrect the expanse for a fourth season. Abigail emily abbey tyler uses hypnosis to uncover memories from her patients of alien abduction, and finds evidence suggesting that she may have been abducted as well. A pseudodocudrama that tries to document strange occurrences of alien abduction that may explain the unusually high number of deaths and disappearances of residents in nome, alaska. After the release of the fourth kind, people on many internet forums have been trying to decipher the aliens sumerian messages portrayed in the movie. I can already see some reader shaking their heads, at such an outrageous claim. Lawrence hills books include the book of negroes and the illegal.
The fourth kind aliens universal although this film is a mockumentary talking about humans being abducted by aliens, the aliens dont appear to be pleasant captors at all. May 05, 2011 life after death experience nde with steve gardipee, vietnam war story one of the best ndes duration. When the same sounds mysteriously appear on one of abigails. Alien abduction flick the fourth kind is dangerous twaddle chris. Alien abduction flick the fourth kind bills itself as containing actual footage. The fourth kind is a 2009 american science fiction psychological thriller film directed by olatunde osunsanmi and featuring a cast of milla jovovich, elias koteas, corey johnson, will patton, charlotte milchard, mia mckennabruce, yulian vergov, and olatunde osunsanmi. The scribes would take a reed stalk, chop the stem at an angle much like clipping a flower stem when put in a vase, and make small impressions in. The fourth kind is a horror movie with a science fiction plot about alien. Wilson, for making the fulfilment of that promise possible although conditions have changed materially.
Alien abduction flick the fourth kind is dangerous twaddle. Full text of sumerian tablets from umma in the john rylands library, manchester, transcribed, transliterated and translated see other formats sumerian tablets from umma in the john rylands library manchester transcribed, transliterated, and translated by c. Olatunde osunsanmi in the fourth kind 2009 milla jovovich in the fourth kind. This is a postmodern movie that really takes the fictionnonfiction blur to the next level. Cosmic symbolism, alien abductions, poppins and gurdijeff. They are implied to be responsible for several abductions in the town of nome, alaska which in real life has a unusual high number of disappearances, despite having no cases of purported alien abductions or ufo sightings as well as for driving some people insane, disoriented. Full text of sumerian tablets from umma in the john rylands. To select a different voice engine, click the voice engine drop down menu and select neural. The fourth kind is a movie based on alien abduction. Watch ancient aliens on history channel, and youll find a couple links to the movie. Even more bizarre, the actual residents of nome would eventually become involved, concerned with apparent real abduction videos and ufo encounters on the films website. So when you read a sumerian tablet the next time youre at a museum, remember. The finished book, with an official publication date of december 10, 2006, has 6,400 entries in 336 pages. Life after death experience nde with steve gardipee, vietnam war story one of the best ndes duration.
Her assistant then gives tyler a recording that plays tylers voice and other distorted. These records were written in the sumerian language during the middle bronze age the sumerians invented one of the first writing systems. Upon further reaserch of what zimabu eter means, i came across the phrase spirit whom you cannot be saved from. And i felt down in my brains heart, that the evening was about. These records were written in the sumerian language during the middle bronze age. This book is our first authoritative sketch of the great. The sumerian is published under a creative commons license except where otherwise noted.
Including material hitherto unpublished from recent excavations, the articles are organised thematically using evidence from archaeology, texts and the natural sciences. In the final analysis, the fourth kind features a therapist, who has a high probability of being fictional, and archived footage that is in actuality reenactments with professional actors. Abigail tyler, as she investigates abnormal sleep patterns in the alaskan town of nome. In addition, no one seems to be able to find any record. Jul 02, 2009 a pseudodocudrama that tries to document strange occurrences of alien abduction that may explain the unusually high number of deaths and disappearances of residents in nome, alaska. The fourth kind may be humorless, paranoid nonsense, but its biggest failure is its inability to scare. It only contains eight kings, while genesis has ten patriarchs.
Although it is a totally made up story it does have some factual origins connected to missing. In the fourth kind it mentions that the sumerians graphically recorded on the cuneiforms events which included alien gods flying between earth and the heavens in a rocket ship propelled by fire, 6,000 years ago. By default, sumerian will use the standard voice engine from amazon polly. A thriller involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years and there are accusations of a federal cover up. Inthe onscreen preface to the fourth kindas in close encounters of, a witchylooking milla jovovich assures us thatonly the names have been changed. The most impressive ploydepending upon your interpretation of the movie as a drastic exaggeration or convincing evidenceused by osunsanmi is the story of creation he includes by giving the aliens sumerian voices.
Sumeriangrammarlesson two possessives wikibooks, open. During the 3rd millennium bc, an intimate cultural symbiosis developed between the sumerians and the semiticspeaking akkadians, which included widespread bilingualism. The principal other enclitics in the language are the determiners, morphemes which modify a noun and typically also have a corresponding pronominal form an english example being that which is a determiner in that book but a pronoun in give me that. Ninetyyearold donna mae hill, shown in liestal, switzerland, 10 minutes before she died, came to europe for the assisted death that she wasnt eligible for in canada. An unseen species of hostile aliens are the main antagonists of the 2009 science fiction horror film the fourth kind. If you were to accept this film at face value, you would be left in no doubt whatsoever that these disappearances were the result of close. In addition, as in english the verb me to be occurs both as a word and in enclitic forms. The fourth kind exposes the terrified revelations of multiple witnesses. It also connects aliens to the ancient language of the sumerians. The fourth kind is a 2009 science fictionthrillerhorror movie starring milla jovovich the movie follows a psychiatrist, dr. The following has been posted here for the sake of reference, relating to what has been said in the ancient sumerian tablets, so that one will understand what i am saying. Much of what we know about sumerian comes from dried clay tablets, inscribed between 3000 bce and 1500 bce, in a writing style called cuneiform.
Full text of sumerian tablets from umma in the john. The scribes would take a reed stalk, chop the stem at an angle much like clipping a flower stem when put in a vase, and make small impressions in the clay to form characters. The influence of sumerian and the east semitic language akkadian on each. The antediluvian patriarchs and the sumerian king list. Before adding the movie the fourth kind to my queue on netflix, i did not think much about the movie. Not only is the story we are about to seetrue, but her dramatization of a psychiatrist named abigail tyler isinterspersed with the voice of the real tyler and even grainy video.
The sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the semites in the land first known as sumer and later as babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums b. Here is an analysis of the supposed sumerian messages in the movie. All it takes is a little effort, and youll be hearing the voices of people just like us, with all the hopes and dreams and ambitions that accompany the human spirit wherever it goes. For me, the text was a bit heavy on translations of cuneiform tablets but otherwise it provides an informative overview of what is believed to be among the first. The sumerian king list is an ancient text in the sumerian language, listing kings of sumer ancient southern iraq from sumerian and neighboring dynasties, their supposed reign lengths, and the locations of the kingship. The fourth kind is a 2009 american science fiction psychological thriller film directed by olatunde osunsanmi and featuring a cast of milla jovovich, elias koteas. The fourth kind is just such a movie and i felt it was important to see it opening day to discover what is being presented to the public. And i felt down in my brains heart, that the evening was. Movie latinization, transliteration, morphological. Severel of her patients share similar stories of being abducted.
Directed by olatunde osunsanmi and released in the uk over the weekend, it purports to be a dramatic reconstruction of events that took. The fourth kind is, in so many ways, a really awful film. The list of kings is sequential, although modern research indicates many were contemporaries, reflecting the belief that kingship. Feb 09, 2010 the fourth kind, sumerian voice lucas amaral. Where version 3 drew upon 36 sources, version 4 draws upon 96 sources. Aug 10, 2011 the sumerian elite called themselves ung sang gigga, or the black headed people. The akkadian state was the predecessor of babylonia and the assyriaian empires. The movie uses real footage shown alongside some scenes involving her patients, and her own, reaccount of thier abduction experiences.
Sumerian mythology revised edition samuel noah kramer a real addition to the body of world mythology. Sumerian city states, 6000 2350 bce neosumerian empire, 2150 2000 bce the sumerians were the very first people to settle into mesopotamia modernday iraq around 4800 bc marking the emergence of the first human civilization. In fact, one of the garbled sumerian voices heard on one video says the phrase i. Also be sure to check out the ntts newscaster style to see which voices support the newscaster voice style. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. A rich source of information on sumerian, including a classified vocabulary, the story of the language, relevant archaeology including a map of sites, and collection of links. Lo and behold, they sound just like demons and they speak in ancient sumerian and her colleague knows how to. The movie might be lying, but it kind of sounds right, and in horseshoes, hand. The fourth kind h have we been blair witched again. Whereas, paranormal activity plays the fake reality game of blair witch and cloverfield.
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