Humans have been looking upward in awe and wonder at the skies during both the night and day time for thousands of years searching for answers to questions essential to life on Earth. This experience led them to devise whole belief systems based on the celestial bodies they viewed in the heavens above them and the effects the interactions of these celestial bodies has for humans and life on Earth.
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Science has revealed that the Sumerians were one of the earliest recorded human civilizations to create whole belief systems based on myth and deities relating to celestial events and bodies in both the night and day skies, back in the fourth millennium BCE. The Sumerians lived in the southern regions of the alluvial basin formed by the rivers Tigris and Euphrates in modern-day Iraq and used a form of written communication scribed on clay tablets in wedge-shaped (cuneiform) characters in a complicated system comprising signs for words, syllables and vowels, unlike any other written language discovered.
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Archaeologists believe Sumerian theology used hymns, prayers and incantations to communicate myths that reflect the emergence of a coherent cosmic order represented by various deities, each fulfilling an essential role of divine harmony in the heaven and on Earth.
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The creation and maintenance of a coherent cosmic order in the Sumerian civilization and its protection from the forces of chaos and rival cosmic orders are believed to be inherent in the creation of institutions, practices and rituals of the Sumerian civilization. Institutions, practices and rituals that have parallels in civilizations to emerge later in human history, like the Third Dynasty of Ur, when previously independent Sumerian cities came under the control of single political entities ruled by kings often assumed to have divine status by the people they ruled.