MythicDilmun (Bahrain) vs. Dilmun (Nodite HQ)
UBTwo Dilmuns, name migration
Two Dilmuns, name migration = Dilmun (Bahrain) vs. Dilmun (Nodite HQ)
The Connection
Archaeology identifies Dilmun as a Bronze Age civilization on Bahrain (~3000-1600 BCE). But the UB identifies an EARLIER Dilmun: the Nodite city founded "north and east" of Dalamatia after the Prince's city sank (~200,000 years ago). The Sumerians "confused both the first and second Nodite cities with Dalamatia and called all three Dilmun" (77:4.8). Three cities, 200,000 years apart, one name.
UB Citation
UB 77:3.1, 77:4.7-8
Academic Source
Crawford (1998), Dilmun and its Gulf Neighbours; Potts (1990), The Arabian Gulf in Antiquity
Historical Evidence(Moderate evidence)
The Sumerian descriptions of Dilmun as a paradise "where the Gods first blessed mankind" far exceed the archaeological remains on Bahrain. The UB resolves this by identifying the Sumerian paradise memory as referring to the FIRST Dilmun (the Nodite capital) and Dalamatia, not the later Bronze Age settlement. The Egyptians called it "Dilmat." The name survived 200,000 years of transmission.
Related Mappings
UR-AN-TIA, the planet's name
= "Land of An (the Prince)"
DALA-MA-TIA, headquarters city
= "Land/Place of Daligastia"
The UR root, oldest identifiable root in human language
= Ur, Uruk, Urartu, Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Ararat, Aram, Eridu
Van's highland headquarters
= Lake Van (Turkey), name preservation, NOT the HQ location