They appeared in all the great epic works of art of the II Millenium B. C. from Assur to Scandinavia.

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Mesopotamia: Age of Charioteers.

In the next great historic cycle, military power moves from Egypt to Mesopotamia, surrounded by hostile, mountainous warrior hordes, that repeatedly invade the fertile rivers. In this manner Mesopotamia becomes a warrior dominant culture, soon in the hands of Semites and Indo-Europeans which invent the next discontinuum of war: the bronze chariot. Lineal weapons (swords) now evolve into cyclical forms (wheels of chariots) and an entire Industrial system of production of war chariots specializes northern Mesopotamia, Assur, in the war industry, creating the first maxi-lineal culture, in which liens, weapons, arrogance, death are the essence of Semite life. Anti-semitism is probably born then, as a natural reaction against the abuse of power of the first goldiron cultures. Soon those Semites divide in trader dominant Levant, and lower Mesopotamia, and warrior dominant, Northern Mesopotamia...

The Indo-Europeans discover the war chariot and invade the north of Mesopotamia, where they will fusion with Semite tribes, giving birth to several empires, of which the long-lasting dominant one will be Assyria. In all those empires the new warrior aristocracy makes of the chariot, his icon-weapon. Kings are buried with chariots and horses, chariots appear in all artistic representations. The entire society becomes a machine of war, fully dedicated to the industrial reproduction of chariot weapons.

Assur epitomizes the epic age of war, and its art images are in all its periods, lineal, full of energy and violence.

Yet we can distinguish in the 3 cycles of North-Mesopotamic art [Old, middle and new empires] the subtle changes from lineal art [Portrait of Sargon of Akkad, the first great Mesopotamic empire], to realist art [Assurnassirpal on his chariot] , to baroque art, in the last century of the Assyrian empire, when the Persians, with better iron infantry and cavalry weapons, conquer the nation [the wounded lioness]:

MESOPOTAMIC  CIVILIZATION.

Akkadian, Assyrian, Warrior dominant Culture

Ages and war cycles:

Art Ages:

I age: Lineal, Warrior               II Age: Realist, Trader    III Age: Formal, baroque.

Youth=Energy                        Maturity                              Old Age=Information

Old Empire,                            Middle Empire             New Empire  

                                                       Visual Art:

Sargon 2500 Bc           Assurnasirpal II 883 Bc     Wounded Lioness, 650 Bc

                   Verbal Art:

I Age: Epic, Arrogant:       II Age: Sensorial, Logic:    III Age: Baroque, extinctive:

When all was conquered,                       2oo kings                                          "Do not eat of the tree of science

Sargon, king of the 4 corners      obey the power of Assur                   of its good and evil fruits         

of the Universe, cleaned his         they bring gold, and wheat           because the day you do, you will die"

sword on the red river,             silver and clothes                                            

tainted with the blood               slaves and servants...    Fall of Ur, End of Sword cycle

of his enemies.                                                                                    Genesis,  ±1800 BC.

Chronicle of Sargon,             Assurnassipal, Chronicle     "The Assyrian shall fall by a sword,

±2500 BC                                          IX C BC                                 and his young men put to forced labor"      

                                                                                              Isaiah 725; End of chariot Cycle

Verbal art: Baroque age: the great prophets of the VI C. BC.

The last of those texts belongs to an external prophet, to the mesopotamic culture, that prophesied the end of the cycle. As the end of the bronze age came into being, the huge historic cataclysm that both iron weapons and coins represented to mankind was prophesied in all the zones of the planet, by different visionary prophets, that are still today considered the highest minds of mankind. This is logic, since ever since money came into being in the form of coins, verbal wor(l)ds started to degenerate, so they loose in a great deal their prophetic capacity. Hence the existence of Buddha, Plato, Lao-Tse, and Isaiah in that border zone between the age of Wor(l)ds and the age of coins...

In verbal art, the youth of history is an age of 'truth', in the sense that words are the only system of communication of human thought. Words measure time, and neither mathematics, nor money have developed enough to substitute the natural language of the human mind. This fact is fundamental to understand why words are sacred, and both in religious thought as in civil thought, people who 'write words', are sacred people. So often the emperors end up his speeches, with the words 'It  is truth, it shall be written', and priests say 'word of God'. The sacredness of human words and their subjective vision of reality, in defense of the human species declines as the new language of the mind, the mathematical money, and its physical expression, money, appear in history. The importance of such linguistic change is fundamental to understand both the styles of verbal thought, and the evolution of history. It took place with the arrival of coins in the Anatolian Greek peninsula. In all organisms, the network of information is the fundamental network. All organisms have only a network of information - the nervous system of the organism. So happened to earlier human history. Yet when mathematics and money proved able to give informative orders, and values to reality, words entered an age of decadence. It would be the baroque age of sacred wor[l]ds, as the arrival of 'metal-eyes', photographic cameras will mean the baroque age of visual painting. Verbal artists, and verbal prophets will have to go beyond reality, to explain with words levels of perception that the realistic values of money, could not achieve. So it would happen to XIX century painters. Such is the most likely reason that explains the explosion of imagination in verbal thought, unparalleled in history that took place within the VI and I century before Christ, between Buddha and Jesus-Christ...

Lao-tse, Confucius, Buddha, Plato, Aristotle, Christ, John, and other Jewish Prophets culminate the age of Wor[l]ds...

The Great masters of analogic thought.

The arrival of a series of Great prophets around the 500 BC [Lao, Kung-Tse, Buddha, Pythagoras, Socrates] perhaps as a contra-reaction to the loss of power of verbal thought to digital money [discovery of coins, ±600 BC], which further programmed humans into metal wantings, originated the far more complex forms of analogic thought. Those prophets instead of believing simple logic as latter Aristotle did, tried to open the far more complex field of analogical perception to mankind, in perhaps the highest moment of Human thought. Yet a prophet can't never communicate the absolute form of his mind. And hence unless he is understood and further evolved and adapted to new social conditions by new believers, its teaching become devolved, simplified and finally fixed in  dogmas, rituals and churches of thought. This is what has happened today thousands of years latter with the teachings of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and western logic, which resembles very little the initial heights of thought of those prophets.

Coins degrade analogic thought. The human baroque.

Parallel to Plato in Greece, before animetals degraded that Indian summer of the Human mind, around the 500BC, Buddha in India, and Lao-Tse in China understood also, the laws of social love (analogy of all human beings) and the sentient Universe (analogy of yin-yang duality in all the beings of the Universe). Confucius said that the Jen age, the age of Neolithic harmony and love was about to die, as the times of coins arrived, and set himself to write down the basic thoughts of that age of love. Yet animetals had found coins, also an analogic, digital form that equaled all men and objects to gold (man=price=Object), and as money multiplied, men were made objects (slaves, workers) and those who invented money (traders) considered themselves unique, and created Gold religions that soon would repress Human thought based in love (Protestant cults, Judaism, Economical nationalisms). The coin brought the biggest rhetoric booster for Gold religions and money makers till the arrival of stocks. And the eye was again hypnotized. The coin that invented Greece was parallel to Socrates - the two sides of the paradox of History... The ethics of money, that made the animetal who invented or possessed money a superior being, and the ethics of the analogic man, who considered  all men equal by the power of social communication, of love.

Unfortunately instead of our analogic prophets (Socrates, Plato, Jesus, Paul, Mhmd, Marx in the western tradition), it would be the coin, what progressed into the language of absolute power. Latter, in the gunpowder age, new weapons of death appeared, and love prophets became mere idealists, on view of the enormous power of evil. Soon Stalin would say: "How many tanks has the Pope" and resume the simple philosophy of the animetal...

We can justly say that the arrival of coins ended the golden age of verbal thought, far more than the legalist, written thought had.

Latter we will see that in the age of extinction of a great culture the biggest prophets appear. And we can justly consider those prophets of the 500 BC. the baroque masters of the Neolithic, of the age of Jen, of the age of love.

Coins also limited our understanding of social numbers, of the magic relationships that certain numbers-groups have (2 people, which means reproduction, etc.).

 In formal mathematics Pythagoras was soon forgotten, and so the magic language of formal numbers died with him [though in China with a longer tradition, dragged in magic rituals till today.]

How could we resume the meaning of analogic thought in man? With a word: love.

We do not need long boos to explain the analogic pure thought in man.

Lao, the master of Eastern religions of the organic universe, wrote only a short book as an old man, and gave no Laws except the natural Laws of yin-Yang. All the great analogic prophets did give indeed a simple law that can be made explicit in a wor[l]d: love=max. communication. Complex laws such as those of animetal legal codes, have to be considered rhetoric systems that hide human truths, as complex politico rituals and 'written' constitutions mask the subservience of Politics to money, stockrats and company-mothers. Indeed, the highest mode of human thought ever achieved - the Buddhist-Taoist understanding of the Universe as a game of multiple communication between organic beings of energy and information- very much in the line of this book, was achieved in a society, the Hindi world, that did not write philosophy, but transmitted it orally. That was the case of the other two great masters of human analogicism, Jesus and Socrates which did not write books but talked on what they sensed, reproducing themselves in the organic minds of his disciples, that wrote down their testimony.

The expansion of the chariot empire. Indo-Europeans conquer the world.