Looking at Jess Beck et al.’s Article (2026) “Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing”   (Part 6 of 20)

0074 That was a rhetorical suggestion.

0075 Meanwhile, I doubt whether any of the commentators of the article in Current Anthropology know that Dr. D. Basak has scooped information from publicly available internet sources, therefore performing a function similar to podcasting.  Unfortunately, many of Basak’s references are from Wikipedia and other collating on-line venues, rather than from actual researchers.

0076 The lullu podcasters will solve that defect.

All twenty-three researchers who contribute the Beck’s manifesto should network with podcasters who are (1) interested in the material, (2) humble and (3) willing to ask questions.

0077 A comment by Aja M. Lans is on target in this regard, questioning whether multiversities are “public goods”.  The term, “public good”, sends a message.  The multiversity deserves sovereign support.  The sovereign supports the Anunnaki-level administrators, not the Igigi-level yet-to-be-tenured faculty.

If the label, “public good”, acts as a thesis, and if “the Anunnaki-level administrators who claim that their institutions serve the public good” operate as an antithesis, then, as long as the potential for a synthesis is subverted, the status quo will remain.

Something will break.  The Igigi will rebel.  But, does that bring the synthesis out of the realm of possibility?

0078 Shall we ask Enki?

Is Ninmah available to fashion the podcaster, who will do the heavy labor of interviewing the young professional archaeologists?

The podcasters will be the humans that sustain a world where the Igigi can do what they really want to do: research into the origins of humanity.

0079 In sum, the mythic structures of the ancient Eridu Genesis and a recent (2026) publication concerning academic publishing in archaeology are not only similar, but the comparison allows this examiner to make a prediction.  As soon as podcasters fill the role of the newly created lullu, then the nature of professional academic archaeology will transform.

0080 Here is a comparison of mythic and dramatic elements.

0081 This type of comparison of mythic structures is integral to chapter 1 of Razie Mah’s fiction, titled An Archaeology of the FallThe Sumerian myth of world creation can be compared to the founding of the United States of America.  I call the Sumerian creation myth, “the differentiation of Nammu”.  This myth is discussed in chapters 4 and 5 of Basak’s book.