DGP chapter 2

     This chapter discusses writing, and the importance of it in early civilizations, they began to value written transmission over oral transmission. People who could read and write were held to more importance than others in early civilization because they could write the laws and interpret them. About six thousand years ago in Mesopotamia, they began to site. At  first it was pictures but then became more complex.
     As time went on the first things to be written down were their societies creation stories. The Jews had their Torah, the Mayans developed a calendar and system of writing. The Mayans may have been the most advanced in their times. The creation stories that follow are those of the ancient societies, historians say to read them without thinking about what you believe, so one is not superior or inferior, thats hard to do. I really like the excerpts from Atra-hasis, about the Gods, how they created people for their benefits, then sent down plagues when they got too loud, I like it because I feel like I'm listening to a story. But some of the others are hard to understand.