The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-12-17
JAZZ played IN
ancient BABYLON
Popular Songs Were Also the
Rage in Those Days.
FIRST USED DEMONSTRATION
English Arehaeoloaist, Engaged in
Study and Exploration Of Assyrian
Ruins for Thirty Years, Gives seme
Interesting Facts About Ancient
People--Pants Life in Babylon and
Ur as curiousy Modern-People
Deeply Religious.


Deeply Religious.
Jazz and popular songs, such as
Love is Blind" and Come Into the
Garden existed as long ago as the
days of ancient Babylon, according to
Professor Stephen Laugdon. Profys.
SCR Langdon, head of the AssyriOlugy
department Of oxford university, Eng
land, came to Syracuse, \. Y, to adj
dress the Syracuse Archaeological
Society ON "Muslc and Llurgics Of
Ancient Babylouiun Worship" and
opened up several new avenues Of
thought auent the Biblical race by his
description OF It's life.
Popular songs were sung to the
music Of the Lutte the harp, the tam
BOURNE and the pipe, Professor Lang
don declared, and about 800 b. G. the
BabylOuiUus invented orchcstratlon.
From pipes which have been found,
he declared, 1t Is known that the an.
clients were familiar with the octave
1900 years ago.
Life IN Babylon and In Ur of the
Chaldees, Abrahums home town, was
made to seem curiously modern by
the English speaker who has been
engaged in the exploration and study
of Assyrlan ruins for thirty years,
and Is accounted one of the worlds
greatest authorities on the subject.
Worlds Greatest Race.
1t Is possible, according to the
scholar, to definitely date events
which happened 1900 B. c., while rec
ords Of kings, which probably go back
800 years earlier, have been unearthed.
Professor LangdOn described these
earlier people, the Sumerlans, as one
Of the greatest races the world has
ever produced. Remains Of busts and
bas reliefs show them to have been
handsome and of the highest physical
type. They were the first to invent
the art of writing and many other fun
damental inventions may be attributed
to them.
Professor LangdOn gives the credit
for the. majority of the great Biblical
stories to these earlier races. Even
Moses had a counterpart in an older
race, he declares, and llkens the life
of Sargon, the Assyrian ruler who
was found, according to legend, float
ing down the current of a river in a
basket, to that of Moses. The He
brew tales of creation, the food end
the fall of man are but adaptations
of Babylonlan history, the British
scholar declares.
The Assyrian worship was a poly
theism, the speaker declared, the lead
ing deity being the virgin Mother
Earth and her son, the god Of the
fruits Of earth, whose yearly death
at the time of the summer drought
and whose resurrection in the spring
time was the basis Of most of their
elaborate llturgies.
Deeply Religious.
Professor Langdon said he had been
asked the question how man who
knew these things could stiu be a
Christian, 1t being the popular i'm
preston, he said, that archaeologlsts
were agnostics. This viewpoint he
fails to understand, he asserts.
"The Babylonians and Assyrians
were very religious people," he said.
''They had an elaborate and beautiful
worship. They profoundly influenced
religious thought, even to our day.
All their cities and temples have
crumbled to ruins, Of their material
civilization nothing remains; but their
contribution to religious humanity still
lives ON. Thnt to NV mind nrnNna