THE ACADEMIES IN SUMERIAN AND TAMIL

THE ACADEMIES IN SUMERIAN AND TAMIL

In my earlier studies of the Flood theme, I showed many parallels between the original account available in Sumerian and Tamil which cannot be accidental or even borrowed.

While there are many ramifications of the Deluge theme in both Tamil and the Akkadian and so forth and which seem to have played a central role in both Christianity and Saivism, I shall pursue now another theme : that of the ACADEMIES and in this first part the Elementary School in both in Sumerian and Tamil using for this purpose the original texts in both these languages and incidentally also point out that Sumerian is Archaic Tamil and hence Tamil by entering into some linguistic discussions.

The Tamil account of Academies, Cangam, is available in many Cangkam classics but in some detail in the commentary to iRaiyanar AhapporuL ( 5th cent AD ?).

The general account : there were THREE academies and that the Last Academy was in Mathurai in Tamil Nadu where most of the Cangkam classics that we have to this day were sanctioned as superb achievements and so forth; the Second Academy was in KapaadapuRam and the First in Kumari presided over by Civa, Murukan and other Tamil deities.. I shall provide the details later.

Meanwhile we find that in Sumer (also Su. Kumari or Kauri) we have extensive descriptions of many kinds of educational institutions and academies showing that the Sumerians emphasis given over to education as something very central in the cultural development of the people, a notion also present among the Cangkam Tamils.

The Sumerian contributions in this direction has had widespread influence all over the world and it seems to have spread along with the cuneiform script they invented and perfected.

Loganathan Krishnan @ Ullaganar