weather: ☀️ was there any june gloom today? i slept late critters: western bluebird; assorted woodpeckers dead languages fascinate me and also make me want to tear my skin off. the last native speaker of hupa died in march. i worry about all the stories and music nobody wrote down, or that we can't read (and may never be able to read). now they're gone, forever, never to be heard again. i hate it. here are some poems and songs you can still experience. hurrian hymn to the goddess nikkaltext + commentary | peter pringle's interpretation | michael levy's performance based on richard dumbrill's reconstruction a song of worship addressing the merciful nikkal, mesopotamian queen of the gods. it is the oldest (incomplete) piece of notated music ever discovered. the hurrian language, spoken by the hurrian people in southwest anatolia, disappeared a few generations after the late bronze age collapse some three thousand years ago, and its cousin urartian disappeared a couple centuries after…
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