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Acka Backa Sody Cracka Goodly Honeysweet
February 24th, 2007
As an anthropologist and classic love poetry fan, I really dig this: scholars have found what is so far the world’s oldest known love poem, written in cuniform on a clay tablet and buried in the sands of Iraq.
And the desert’s not the only thing hot about it:
Bridegroom, dear to my heart, Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet,
Lion, dear to my heart, Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet.
You have captivated me, Let me stand tremblingly before you.
Bridegroom, I would be taken by you to the bedchamber.
And this is just the first few lines… Click here to read the rest (must be 18 or older).
The sultry serenade was written around 2030 BC for an annual summer Sumerian fertility ritual called Sacred Marriage. At the festival’s peak, the high priestess for the goddess Inanna would recite a poem to invite the Sumerian king into bed.
Interesting how the lofty romance of How do I love thee? Let me count the ways stems from the rather earthier “Stick it in!”
I wonder if thousands of years from now, archeologist will uncover the poem I used over ten years ago to enchant a certain King Kevin:
Acka backa sody cracka
Acka backa boo
Acka backa sody cracka
I’m in love with you!
He was putty in my hands, I tell you.
**Stolen from Maya Angelou’s book about her childhood, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. It’s a lot easier to commit to memory than Barrett Browning.
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Super! Little known fact: ancient pornography was the main reason I got my Ph.D.
Those Sumerians had quite the dirty church scene: check it out here.
There’s plenty of smut in the bible as well. Makes baby jebus cry it does. E.g. read the Song of Songs, but keep in mind, apples, gates, door handles and gardens are all euphamisms for the lady speaker’s sexy bits. Feet (ha! he wishes!), fingers and hands are euphamisms for the male speakers’ tackle.
nerdily yours,
s.
btw, I spell like my students… euphEmism….
embarrassed in TX,
s.