You're listening to the ancient tradition.

A Wonk Media production.

Music provided by Joseph McDade.

Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition. It's great to be with you today. I'm your host,

Jack Logan. Before I get going here, I want to tell you about our sister podcast, the ancient tradition audio writ. That podcast is important

because it has full audio recordings of the text that we talk about in this program, like the

Anuma Aleish, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Book of Joseph and Azanath, along with a lot of others.

In our last episode, I mentioned the Mesopotamian text, the Assyra Temple text,

which describes the Assyra Temple, home to the sacred Kiskano tree, as being situated

right along the banks of the Euphrates River. Last week, I decided to upload an audio

recording of that text to audio Rit. So if you're

interested in checking it out, just search for the ancient tradition audio writ wherever you get your

podcast. Or you can also find it on our companion website, the ancient tradition.com. It's a pretty

short text. It's pretty easy to follow. and I've even added a little bit of commentary.

So if you are interested in listening to the ancients in their very own words, I recommend

giving those ancient texts a listen.

For today's episode, I had originally planned to cover the link between the ring dance and the

creation but I've decided that doing that is going to take us too far afield from where we are

right now in the podcast so I'm going to save that material for when we dive into religious ritual

which may be a little while yet.

So today we're going to return to the creation.

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