Learning Log #5

"I learned about  the epic of gilgamesh and about mesopotamia" (Hugs typed that, mom typed the rest.)


We learned about dimensions.  We learned about 3D objects in Blender.  And to make Suzanne's hat you make a cylinder and you make it sort of long and sort of skinny.  And then you take another cylinder and you make it short and stout. And then you put them together and then you put it on Suzanne the monkey.  And then Suzanne has a hat.  And then Angelic her cylinder was tilted a little, so her hat was tilted.

We learned that Sumeria was one of the first places to have writing.  And they were the people to invent the wheel.  They also were farmers.  And they owned live stock.  And they believed in the wind god, the earth god, the sky god, the salt water god, and the fresh water god, five gods.   And in Summer they had a Zigerat built to the god of wind.  And only the priest, the king and scribes were inside.  And the priests would preform crazy rituals all day, and the scribes would write down everything they do.  And at night they would stand on the zigurat and chart the stars so they could tell when the snow from the mountains would melt to come down into their rivers.  And then they could tell when to build their walls to block the river from overflowing. They also they made walls around every field with a  gate.  And then when one of the fields need watering they just opened the gate a little to water it, and then closed.  And then when the next field needed water they did it again. So on and so forth.

And we learned about the epic of Gilgamesh and how in the story of Gilgamesh, he was really tired so he decided to take a break under this tree. He had a plant of immortality, and when he woke up a snake had eaten the plant of immortality.  And then in another story in the Epic, one of the gods was very angry and we wanted to flood all of Mesopotamia and this other god did not want that.  So the other god told a man to take his sons and his wife and their animals, and go on a boat, and they were on the boat for six days, and then the guy sent out two birds one of them came back and the other one did not because he found a place to live.  So then they landed and they made lots of offerings to their god.

We learned how cave paintings were made.  They took a special rock and hit them together and ground them into a powder.. And then they would mix that powder with animal fat and I think water.  And then they would paint.  And that they believed they all came out of the middle of the earth. And that caves were a way into the middle of thee earth where they came from.  And so they would do weird ceremonies in their. And they would only paint on the part of the cave where it would echo through out the entire cave.  So that other people in the cave could hear them.  And before they went hunting they would go into a cave and do a strange ritual. And they had cave paintings of animal on the walls and then they would stab the animal they were going to hunt with their spear, to ask mother earth's permission to kill that animal.