Monday, October 08, 2007

Brotherly Love in the Ancient Near East

As for the problems between us, I suggest that the fault may not lie with ourselves but with our messengers; let us bring them to trial, cut off their heads, mutilate their bodies, and live henceforth in perfect friendship.
Excerpt from a letter from king Hattusilis of the Hittites to the King of Ahhiyawa c. 1260 B.C.

Isn't it good to know that is all that it takes to get along?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Heavens. Sounds like my school.

BDT said...

woah. that's intense. How do some people have so little regard for life? kind of funny though, in a dark and morbid way.

Why said...

Oh they had respect for life. Their own. And they knew that they were better than them.
I find it very funny actually. Perhaps that is bad but it is true.

Anna E. P. said...

Where did you find that? Did they become friends? Remind me never to be a messenger.

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