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this unless he dismissed other no٨-western civiliaations (form, The understanding in this
cause will econe impossile?

The rcsearcher who is trying to compare or, understand, two different historical
periods; or, two differcnt cultures, has to ''understand it in a historical aspcct, to offer it
telling, careful study, so he can rcuild their cxperiences for himseIf9, Tha٤ will put the
rcscarchcr in a position to cvaluation of two completely different cultures, with conmpletely
different value٩. ''Each life has its own prolems and thcy should e cvalued according to the
success in solving those prolcms, not any other. He should not suggest that one of the two
different ways of life or methods used to reach a comnon ojcct in etter than the other.

'٠Each life has it's own prolems and he should cvalucd according to his succcss in
solving those prolems, not other. He should not suggcst that the t٧o differcnt ways of life
or methods for reaching a common oject, and he should not wondcr if the sccond culture
٠ success to the prophase of it's eisting more than the first one'.

There has to e logical and rcasonale values for any act, however it would seem to our
modern values to e 'unusual'. Especially if this ''unusual' act or relation was performed y
an ancient culture, of which we have very limited knowledge.

As a researcher I have to find, if possile, a iogical reason for Dilmun's 'unusual' act,
and to record it, with all possile data and facts in favour, or othervise, of Dilnmun culture,
i.e. to credit or discredit it.

From my understanding of Diimun culture, I reached the conclusion, as others have
reached efore me, that Dilmun culture values, reactions, eliefs and thoughts were all
related and influenced y their mythology. Therein the logic and reason for the ''unusual'
act could e found, The major prolem was that Dilmun had left no record of any myths that
we know of, and also Dilmun was a mixed culture, a mix from two different known cultures,
Sumerian-Mesopotamian and Indus Valley, Those two independent and different cultures,
with their different myths, and values, comined to form Dilmun's myths, if there are any.
The answer could e in one their mtyhs or, to make it harder, the answer could e in a
mixture of oth cultures' myths.

Searching in the two culture's myths, was the irght angle for understanding the logic and
reason for the unusual' act of Dilmun and therefore, solving the mystery. The 'unusual'
act was indeed a imx of the myths of oth cultures ased on their elief in the idea of sex and
immortality, and in its goddess, since she is known in Sumerian mythology as Inanna .

Dilmuns veyr possily did the 'unusual' act exactly as it is acvred on the two seals. hTe
ersaon for their act was surely a mythological approach to achieve the dream mankind, a
long isating ilfe, the Immotraliyt.

2 The itrh of civilisation in the Near East, Page 26.
‫ ﻕ‬The ldea of Histoyr, Page 328.
4 ١id, Page 329.
5 inanna will e used in this paper in reference to the Dilmun myth of unusua‫ ﺃ‬act' for their

goddess of immortality.

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