Omnisutra Sumeria

Please join us for a musical rendition of the oldest known goddess chant, and the Sumerian creation story, sung in the original Sumerian with music by Omnisutra.

The Enuma Elish, over 4000 years old, is the sung creation story from the Sumerian, Akadian and Babylonian civilizations. It sings of how the mother of chaos and god of the underworld crated the universe, but then the father of order Marduk (Jupiter) created order in our solar system allowing life on earth to flow with the motions of the planets. It is a song about astrology...

The Raising of the Hand to Ishtar is one of the oldest most complete Goddess invocations in history. It sings to Ishtar, Inanna, Venus, the supreme goddess of nature and human culture and the moods and motions of change through which we must grow...

Omnisutra is band that re animates ancient Holy songs in their original language, with some musical resemblance to the folk music from where it came, and some improvisation and embellishment. With such mystical presence the piece is never played the same way twice.