Ancient Mesopotamian Societies Sacrificed Substitute Kings to Eclipses

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Thousands of years before the current day, ancient civilizations accurately predicted both lunar and solar eclipses. They often believed these events were spiritual omens. When an eclipse came at an inauspicious time, multiple priestly classes scrambled to find a substitute king. In the interest of preserving society, these substitute kings would reign during an eclipse, only to be swiftly murdered afterward. Ben defends early humans, asking what we sacrifice today.

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1:04.1	This is a weird story that takes us to Nesipotemia.
1:09.1	What's that we always say here in English?
1:12.7	It's good to be king.
1:14.6	Suzuki to you, Ben.
1:16.7	Suzuki, yes, that's the word of the day, no, that's something we checked in beforehand
1:22.7	to make sure that we were both pronouncing correctly.
1:26.2	Because of course, Suzuki is one of our super producer, Casey Pagrum's favorite words.
1:33.9	And our guest producer, Andrew Howard, would never forgive us if we were too far off in
1:39.2	our pronunciation.
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