https://egee.tv/videos/watch/713ad3c2-1295-4f14-b477-26f55cd67141 Listen and enjoy my speculative history about poetry starting with the first examples of Human art and ending with the very first named poet in history. Credits & Sources Art: https://bsky.app/profile/raspberryfoxy.bsky.social Fireplace Sounds: https://www.freesound.org/people/inchadney/sounds/83986/ https://www.freesound.org/people/Slowmote/sounds/406335/ https://www.freesound.org/people/LukaCafuka/sounds/783660/ https://www.freesound.org/people/shaunhillyard/sounds/610766/ Poetry: https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/index1.htm https://pyramidtextsonline.com/ https://enheduana.org/ 0:00 Introduction 1:01 Background & Disclaimer 4:55 Pre-History Human Artistic Expression 17:20 Early-Early History - 75,000BCE~ 23:25 The Lion Man - 38,000 BCE~ 28:08 Why Make Poetry and Music? 30:35 Kesh Temple Hymn - 2600BCE~ 34:20 Wisdom of Shuruppak - 2600BCE~ 40:00 Pyramid Texts of King Unas, Utterance 245 2300BCE~ 43:03 Enheduanna's Hymns to Inanna 2300BCE~ 52:37 Outro Ramble Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:22:33 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://egee.tv https://egee.tv/lazy-static/avatars/c442067a-b1cd-4092-86f3-f62a35770553.png https://egee.tv/videos/watch/713ad3c2-1295-4f14-b477-26f55cd67141 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://egee.tv/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.