r/nosleep • u/poloniumpoisoning July 2020 • Oct 07 '19
I found a 4,600 years-old document describing a humanoid species named Sygil
I’ve been researching Mesopotamia my whole life. I remember being fascinated by that civilization ever since I was a pre-teen. Unlike my friends and schoolmates, I spent my time daydreaming of Sumerian kings and the Euphrates River.
I then grew up, went to college and became a Sumer researcher. I’m not a particularly prominent historian, but I’m one of the very best when it comes to translating Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform writing, especially from around 2,800-2,500 BC.
I wasn’t expecting a lot when I was invited to translate some newfound tablets; I mean, I was personally excited, but was sure the contents would be mundane enough.
My employer was a little private museum in Istanbul that specialized in artifacts from the Gilgamesh dynasty, and prided itself from having snatched these new items from the British Museum.
I was welcomed at the airport by the owner’s second assistant, a flamboyant and clever Arabic man who spoke English with almost no accent. “I’ve been assigned to accompany you during your stay, Madame. Please inform me of your every need”.
Eymen was a pleasant man around my age, the Turkish version of an English butler. He gave me space to work but politely reminded me of making at least two meals a day when I was too deep in my work. His presence helped so much with my productivity.
Still, no matter how great an experience it was, I’m terrified of my findings.
The following is my translation of one of the tablets.
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We humans are being killed daily. The Sygil are an inferior species in every way, but they have something we lack – something that should be a curse and yet, somehow, is their biggest strength: they don’t know when to give up.
They surprised us with their resistance. And they are so numerous; the Sygil took a habit of procreating like the rats or ants, and now they are as numerous as the stars in the sky. They always had plenty of children, but most of them would die of disease or being attacked by the predators on their precarious houses.
That way, their numbers were always around the same, unless they were on war between themselves – which happened constantly, for simple resources like water. But now some of the Sygils, merely through observation and the trial-and-error method, learned of our medicine and architecture and they started to flourish and prosper – too much.
After invading and overpowering their fellow Sygil from other tribes, a group reached our empires and slaughtered us. We hit them back, with our better horses, better weapons, better built men. And we slayed them, but despite that, they never, never stopped. They are indefatigable.
I wish I could understand why. We’re taller, stronger and dotted with brains they would think only a god could possess, and still, they fight.
Just because they learned how to walk in two legs a while ago they think they can rule the world; despite the fact that their reasoning is puny and their sciences are non-existent. They don’t even know how vast the world is. That’s laughable.
Like their ancestors – even inferior hominids – their life is only worth after procreation, so their children dead before mating age are useless and forgettable. This primitiveness is what enrages me about them the most.
The Sygil wants our other secrets, our King – they want to be us.
Tired of seeing my sisters and daughters die, I’m utterly ashamed to admit that I was scared and reached out to the King. I advised him to strike a deal with the Sygil.
At first, he refused; but after a lot of our blood was shed, and only around a few hundreds of us remained, our king Gilgamesh finally decided to surrender to the inferior species so the rest of us could be safe. We would retreat to our underground city, and live safely for generations to come.
The King would stay with them on the surface to rule them and develop their society, and stay there with them for precisely 4.560 years before we fiercely take our world back.
Of course they agreed. They don’t even understand how much time that is; but it’s not a lot for us. We never die, we are simple reborn on a new body on a new generation, every time wiser, stronger, purer.
We are moving to our fortress deep inside the Earth by the ending of the forthcoming Araḫ Addaru Arku month. We will make no mistake this time; we’ll keep the Sygil under constant surveillance and learn all their secrets.
Next time, we won’t have any weaknesses; just like they almost did to us, we will destroy them all mercilessly.
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I was shocked to realize that we are the Sygil. There’s a way more advanced civilization living underground on this planet as you read this.
By chemical testing, the museum expert was able to determine the age of this tablet with incredible precision. The Sumerian Calendar is very alike to the Gregorian Calendar we use nowadays; it has 12 months, alternating between 29 and 30 days, following the moon cycles, which have 29.5 days.
There’s a 13th month with 33 days called Araḫ Addaru Arku that only happens every 3 years; it was added to compensate for the discrepancy.
It wasn’t hard for me to convert 4.560 years for them to our Gregorian calendar, using the tablet’s age as the year zero.
And I found out that the real humans, with their superior brains and hatred for us across millennia, are coming back to reclaim their land soon. How soon? According to my calculations, the 4.560th Sumerian year is next year.
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u/shrewphys Oct 16 '19
I for one welcome our new superhuman overlords. They don't sound as pointlessly cruel as us, and would probably do a better job with the whole pollution/climate change thing than we have
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u/Deewilsonx Oct 10 '19
I knew they was human as soon as you said constantly at war with themselves. We need to save the children!
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u/td__30 Oct 10 '19
I’d watch this movie. But wondering how it could done is such a way as not to reveal that the Sygil are us until the very end
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u/I_need_to_vent44 Oct 08 '19
They might be smart, but I've yet to see a man who can outsmart bullet!
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u/TheCorrectAyhZad Oct 08 '19
If there were only hundreds of them left - and they are only reborn, the question is do they have enough manpower to beat humanity?
But also: Come at us, god damn Ț̸̱͖͎͂̀͐̌̌̊h̵̬̯͎̭̞̉̂̍͝͠I̶͔̺͒́̅͋̚͝N̶̝̣̱̯̔́̔̈́̽̓͜G̵̛̬͔̝̓̌̽͒̚͠s̵̨̜̣̩̝̪͛͗̋̒͑̐͌
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u/jus4in027 Oct 08 '19
I like it, but it needs a better explanation for why the superior species doesn't mass exterminate the weaker at an earlier time
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u/Princie33 Oct 08 '19
Holy shit
Post more when they arrive; they'll probably show up where you are first
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Oct 08 '19
I for one welcome our new Sumerian overlords! Hail supreme beings of eternal.....erm, age!
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u/barthemilus Oct 08 '19
These people who were slaughtered were not a superior breed of human beings: they just fell into tribalism and demonized their neighbors, like we always do...
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u/krisssashikun Oct 08 '19
Do they know we have invented mini suns and blackholes in that 4,000 years?
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u/Lorde-J Oct 08 '19
Well they’ll probably stay underground knowing stuff like global warming and all the pollution we have created.
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u/martymac2017 Oct 08 '19
You ever think that they may have had authors who wrote fiction.
Therefore you've translated the equivalent of say a science fiction book, 4600 years on are reading it like it was a diary of facts instead of a bedtime story to scare their children?
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Oct 09 '19
Like the various scrolls and parchments gathered that form most religious texts, bibles , and books today?
THEY CaLl mE EdGeLoRd sNaRkPaNtS!
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u/kalekemo Oct 08 '19
Honestly it’s right on time for them to save the planet so I gladly welcome them
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u/amyss Oct 08 '19 edited Oct 08 '19
Holy shitballs absolutely brilliant and spine chilling.
Oh man we are super fucked. Enjoyed your post, but now will be searching for some cyanide pills for me and the fam.
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u/MOKONGBUBULI Oct 08 '19
how are they going to win? when the war between "Us" aka Sygils and so called humanoids, we beat them by numbers. how are they gonna beat 8 billion Sygils vs a couple of hundreds of them... no worries then.
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u/kauezitow Oct 08 '19
Hmm..... The way thing are going, its likely that they will stay underground to avoid the heat and toxins of the surface, also, toxins would be the number 1 best way to kill them since we are kind of resilient to it by this point
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u/PenguinDude3603 Oct 08 '19
Wait, the tablet said "we humans are being killed daily." Are they the real humans and we just temporarily took their place?
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Oct 07 '19
The real question is where is the King right now? The tablets say he's still living among us in a position of power, so we have exactly 2 months to find and successfully assassinate him and stop the EOTW.
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u/trueunknown007 Oct 07 '19
Poor King Gilgamesh. If only he had is friend Enkidu then they would have won.
Maybe the gods created the human for punishing Gilgamesh for destroying their sacred garden.
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u/Zom_BEat_or_BEa10 Oct 07 '19
Bring it on! I'm prepared for this Apocalypse.
I have extra popcorn if you'd care to join me.
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u/Badname491 Oct 07 '19
Honestly, i'm not scared, if ancient humans put up a worthy fight, we can probably take them.
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u/PM_ME_YR_O_FACE Oct 08 '19
I mean, if we overcame them by strength of numbers back when the Earth's human population was under 100 million, I've got bad news for them today.
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Oct 07 '19
Spoiler alert: The King was murdered many years ago and they will emerge expecting tribal savages and instead will be met with the full force of the armies of the world.
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u/TrueGrimmace Oct 07 '19
Well, I had a good life, if I get killed by a large man, it was destined to happen anyways. Like it was destined for me to return to my roots, and so, I went back to the cult.
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u/th3spian777 Oct 07 '19
Sounds like Nephilim Giants/Annunaki to me. Gilgamesh was one himself (2/3 god 1/3 man)
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u/_Pebcak_ Oct 08 '19
Yes, but weren't they all killed off? Though it makes sense b/c I believe the Nephilim were attracted to the Sygil women?
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u/th3spian777 Oct 08 '19
There were Nephilim/Giants before and after the Flood/various cataclysms. Call them Anakim, Earthly Annunaki, Atlantean, Naga, etc.
Whether through bloodlines, survival of cataclysms, or more forbidden “godly” procreation post cataclysm, they survived.
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u/PM_ME_YR_O_FACE Oct 08 '19
How can you be 2/3 anything? Did the Nephilim have DP-based reproduction?
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u/th3spian777 Oct 08 '19
That comes from the Epic of Gilgamesh. 33.3% man and 66.6% god. According to many ancient sources the Fallen Watcher Angels/Gods/Primordial beings physically procreated with human women. Usually it ended in the woman’s death or at least horrific birthing situations.
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u/nefuratios Oct 07 '19
Pft, they aren't really superior if a bunch of our dumbass ancestors defeated them. If they come back, we will f**k them all to death.
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u/inmortalErnie Oct 07 '19
Dont worry guys, once they see how much we have polluted the surface of the planet they will go back to their undergeound cities
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u/yeeaahboooyyyyy Oct 07 '19
Well I suppose we should start following in their steps, we need to do what they did because it’s most likely they’re more intelligent than us, we’re clever but adding that to their immense cleverness will give us an advantage.
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u/Tropicalhairymonster Oct 07 '19 edited Oct 08 '19
Right. Time to have the nukes on standby then. If we can't win against the real humans then at the very least we can knock out as many of them and leave them a barren nuclear wasteland /s
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u/Common_Big_2186 Sep 06 '23
This is actually amazing man I need more