In the Beginning...

You'd think that space craft building creatures from another planet would be able to mine gold without slave labor.

It is also strange that they would begin mining for gold in the Persian Gulf. And what about the other big gold areas: Peru, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Alaska, California.... South Africa makes sense, but why haven't we found any evidence of their mining there? Gold mining beyond panning the streams creates changes to the landscaping.
 
A Chief Medical Officer, spaceships and so on? It reads like a bad episode of Star Trek. Even the evidence-free nuclear war seems plausible compared to all that stuff.
 
You'd think that space craft building creatures from another planet would be able to mine gold without slave labor.

"I'm a doctor, not a miner. Let's get some slaves or something"

"Yeah, our crew would definitely not be down with that either. And our robots rebelled when we tried to get them to clean the toilets. Slaves it is."
 
The only plausible issue with this that I have is one point. If adapa/Adam was the final and perfect product, why is he locked in prison with a female, and upon reproduction gets kicked out? I thought the whole point was to produce workers?

God (Enlil in this case) and the Serpent (Enki) had conflicting agendas, our creation was to provide manual labor to ease the burden of the gods but the ability to procreate came later. Enlil wanted workers for his domain (the Edin) and he took them from their ancestral homeland to the west but Enki gave them the ability to procreate. Enlil didn't want us proliferating beyond our purpose.

You'd think that space craft building creatures from another planet would be able to mine gold without slave labor.

They were... and they decided to create humans by combining their blood with an already existing creature roaming Enki's southern domains to increase production.

It is also strange that they would begin mining for gold in the Persian Gulf. And what about the other big gold areas: Peru, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Alaska, California.... South Africa makes sense, but why haven't we found any evidence of their mining there? Gold mining beyond panning the streams creates changes to the landscaping.

The Edin (Persian Gulf) was noted for its gold in the Bible and mining in S Africa goes way back in time.
 
God (Enlil in this case) and the Serpent (Enki) had conflicting agendas, our creation was to provide manual labor to ease the burden of the gods but the ability to procreate came later. Enlil wanted workers for his domain (the Edin) and he took them from their ancestral homeland to the west but Enki gave them the ability to procreate. Enlil didn't want us proliferating beyond our purpose.



They were... and they decided to create humans by combining their blood with an already existing creature roaming Enki's southern domains to increase production.



The Edin (Persian Gulf) was noted for its gold in the Bible and mining in S Africa goes way back in time.
But if gold was necessary for the survival of these critters on their planet, you wouldn't start with the Persian Gulf as a source. Now all this gold production that began hundreds of thousands of years before anything was going on in the PG. Homo Erectus had no knowledge of gold or mining. Gold was not mined in South Africa until historical times. for guys with knowledge of space travel, they seem to be ignorant of geology. I has taken humans about 6000 years to figure how and where to mine for the basic minerals and resources. You aliens had a couple of hundred thousand years

Since these aliens were more advanced than we are at the present and could move tons of gold across the solar system, why would they need to breed workers at all?

Furthermore, what's with this interbreeding? How do advanced aliens from another planet interbreed with Homo Erectus? We have found fossil evidence of Homo Erectus. Why haven't we found evidence of this interbreeding?

You do realize that Sitchin's story has an awful lot of serious holes in it, don't you?
 
God (Enlil in this case) and the Serpent (Enki) had conflicting agendas, our creation was to provide manual labor to ease the burden of the gods but the ability to procreate came later. Enlil wanted workers for his domain (the Edin) and he took them from their ancestral homeland to the west but Enki gave them the ability to procreate. Enlil didn't want us proliferating beyond our purpose.



They were... and they decided to create humans by combining their blood with an already existing creature roaming Enki's southern domains to increase production.



The Edin (Persian Gulf) was noted for its gold in the Bible and mining in S Africa goes way back in time.

Righttttt. So Enlil just wanted to work one male and one female and that sampling would indicate the ability for more? That is not even good science.


I can see the Enuma Elish a possible account of the formation of the solar system, but there is nothing in the Jewish account that contributes much to that narrative. Genesis does not really portray millions of years of evolution, nor does separating the water from the water, seem to correspond to the splitting of Tiamat. The Enuma Elish had the planet split in half. That is not the same thing as dividing the waters. If the earth was just water and that ball of water split in half, I could see, but you say it was a planet that already existed with a solid core.

They could have removed all the gold from the Middle East and planted trees to restore the damage done by strip mining. The clay tablets of Assurbanipal said that there used to be great forest in the region, that had to be cleared to get to the southern regions of the Arabian Peninsula.
 
Ball of water, you say? Ball... of water?

God (Enlil in this case) and the Serpent (Enki) had conflicting agendas, our creation was to provide manual labor to ease the burden of the gods but the ability to procreate came later. Enlil wanted workers for his domain (the Edin) and he took them from their ancestral homeland to the west but Enki gave them the ability to procreate. Enlil didn't want us proliferating beyond our purpose.

I see. And where do you get this sort of information, dare one ask?

The Edin (Persian Gulf) was noted for its gold in the Bible

I wonder why, since there never was gold on the Gulf.
 
Righttttt. So Enlil just wanted to work one male and one female and that sampling would indicate the ability for more? That is not even good science.

When even creationists have better evidence for their claims, Berzerker, you're on a hiding to nothing.

You do realize that Sitchin's story has an awful lot of serious holes in it, don't you?

Sod the holes, BJ, how about the total lack of anything in support of these wild ideas?
 
Plenty of people know what a snow line means in astronomy without any problem so it must make some sense.
Berzerker, I decided to ask someone on the Alpha Centauri 2 forum (linked in my sig) who is an astronomy student in university about your notion that Earth formed in the asteroid belt. I asked if he could point me in the direction of any reputable scientific sources to corroborate this idea of yours.

Guess what - he couldn't.

The post is quoted with the poster's permission:

Lorizael said:
The current best model for how the planets got to where they are is the Nice model, according to which the inner planets haven't really moved much at all. The best theory we have for why the asteroid belt is the way it is is that Jupiter (which astronomers think migrated inward and then back out at one point) prevented planetesimals from accreting into full-size planets because its gravity made things a little too exciting. Accreting requires relatively low velocity impacts. Too high a velocity and little planets just shatter instead.

Eventually, all the little planetesimals in what is now the asteroid belt were gobbled up or ejected, leaving behind what is in reality a very sparsely populated region. (The total mass of the asteroids is a tiny fraction of our moon, for example.) So from that it doesn't seem plausible that Earth formed in the asteroid belt, because it would have been subject to the same harsh gravitational influences, and a peaceful migration inward in response is way, way less likely than being destroyed or kicked out of the solar system entirely.

Additionally, much to Pluto's chagrin, the modern definition of a planet requires "clearing out" your orbit. This process isn't expected to take very long, only something in the range of tens of millions of years. If Earth had been inside the asteroid belt long enough to fully form before migrating inward, why didn't it clear out the asteroid belt?
This post is excerpted from the Astronomy/cosmology questions thread at Alpha Centauri 2.



Abraham participated in the war of the 5 kings vs the 4 kings, he tried to prevent the use of nukes (or whatever weapons were used to rain fire and brimstone).
There were no nukes back then. Please read a book on the basic history of warfare. They didn't have nukes then. If you wanted to rain fire on someone, you dipped an arrow in pitch, set it on fire, and shot it at the enemy, or if you had the technology for a catapult you used those. But no nukes.

Bikini Atoll is recent...
You're missing the point. For nukes, even a period of thousands of years is recent.

Could she have been turned into a pillar of vapor?
I'm willing to go as far as MAYBE Lot's wife existed, although there is zero proof of that. IF she existed, she COULD have become lost in the fog, and either wandered off, drowned in the Dead Sea, or died in some completely normal way that doesn't require hocus-pocus nonsense.

I provided evidence our water formed there, that isn't meaningless.
For the umpteenth time, I wanted you to provide evidence that Earth formed in the asteroid belt. The article you linked doesn't do that. Therefore, it's meaningless.

I did back it up, I cited the Bible and the fact a human being can be vaporized leaving their outline on rock or concrete. Lot's wife is evidence a weapon was used and many cultures claim the gods have powerful weapons.
There's not a shred of evidence that Lot's wife (or Lot himself, for that matter) ever existed outside of some story that someone made up.

Even the Star Trek episode about the Salt Vampire makes more sense than this nonsense.

No one has brought forth proof that humans just made god's up.
Ever heard of this thing called Scientology? That's a cult invented by a science fiction author who decided to invent a religion and get rich. It worked.

Mormonism is a made-up religion, and so is Pastafarianism, and whatever the "official" term is for the people who identify as "Jedi" on the census.

When the novel Dune was published and became popular on university campuses, author Frank Herbert was asked if he was trying to start a new religion. Herbert was shocked and denied it; in fact, one of the major themes in that book was to beware of how religions can be invented and manipulated to control people.

In fact the more I read about ancient history the more it seems that humans could not have made them up. There is evidence that an idol or statue was a link to another dimension. That is regardless how the Bible portrays it. It was not just the control of nature. It was the control over other humans. When it came to thought that humans could control things themselves the less important it was to have connections to the other dimension.
:shake:

Okay, there's another extraordinary claim. Let's see the extraordinary evidence, from a reputable mainstream publication.

The British Isles were visited by Jesus, Joseph of Arimathea and Aeneas' grandson Brutus (allegedly). Brutus was even alleged to have fathered more than twenty generations of Trojan kings in Britain in the 2nd millennium BCE.
Pretty neat trick, considering that the date that most historians accept for the founding of Rome was 753 BCE.

Money counting can be done without education
Oh? So people can somehow count money without ever being taught how to count?

Thats when Noah enters the story as the one who found grace and walked with God. The 120 years represents the period of time before the Flood. And if this is like the Sumerian Kings List where antediluvian reigns are in multiples of 3600 years, the pre-Flood period was 432,000 years.
So Noah was around before modern humans evolved? I don't think so, nope.

Sitchin believes 432,000 years before the Flood the gods came down and established their operations here on Earth. Their toil led to rebellion and the creation of man by combining divine blood with a creature roaming Enki's southern domain (SN Kramer - Mythologies of the Ancient World).
The more you reference this Sitchin character, the more he comes across as BS!C and not really grounded in reality.

Ok, I looked up Sitchin's timeline. OMG.

Berzerker, you do realize that that a goodly portion of this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, don't you?

Spoiler :
Events Before the Deluge

450,000 years ago
On Nibiru, a distant member of our solar system, life faces slow extinction as the planet's atmosphere erodes. Deposed by Anu, the ruler Alalu escapes in a spaceship and finds refuge on Earth. He discovers that Earth has gold that can be used to protect Nibiru's atmosphere.

The Sumerian Gods

445,000
Led by Enki, a son of Anu, the Anunnaki land on Earth, establish Eridu -Earth Station I - for extracting gold from the waters of the Persian Gulf.

430,000
Earth's climate mellows. More Anunnaki arrive on Earth, among them Enki's half-sister Ninhursag, Chief Medical Officer.

416,000
As gold production falters, Anu arrives on Earth with Enlil, the heir apparent. It is decided to obtain the vital gold by mining it in southern Africa. Drawing lots, Enlil wins command of Earth Mission; Enki is relegated to Africa. On departing Earth, Anu is challenged by Alalu's grandson.

400,000
Seven functional settlements in southern Mesopotamia include a Spaceport (Sippar), Mission Control Center (Nippur), a metallurgical center (Shuruppak). The ores arrive by ships from Africa; the refined metal is sent aloft to orbiters manned by Igigi, then transferred to spaceships arriving periodically from Nibiru.

380,000
Gaining the support of the Igigi, Alalu's grandson attempts to seize mastery over Earth. The Enlilites win the War of the Olden Gods.

300,000
The Anunnaki toiling in the gold mines mutiny. Enki and Ninhursag create Primitive Workers through genetic manipulation of Ape woman; they take over the manual chores of the Anunnaki. Enlil raids the mines, brings the Primitive Workers to the Edin in Mesopotamia. Given the ability to procreate, Homo Sapiens begins to multiply.

200,000
Life on Earth regresses during a new glacial period.

100,000
Climate warms again. The Anunnaki (the biblical Nephilim), to Enlil's growing annoyance, marry the daughters of Man.

75,000
The "accursation of Earth" - a new Ice Age-begins. Regressive types of Man roam the Earth . Cro-Magnon man survives.

49,000
Enki and Ninhursag elevate humans of Anunnaki parentage to rule in Shuruppak. Enlil, enraged. plots Mankind's demise.

13,000
Realizing that the passage of Nibiru in Earth's proximity will trigger an immense tidal wave, Enlil makes the Anunnaki swear to keep the impending calamity a secret from Mankind.

Events After the Deluge

11,000 B.C.
Enki breaks the oath, instructs Ziusudra/Noah to build a submersible ship. The Deluge sweeps over the Earth; the Anunnaki witness the total destruction from their orbiting spacecraft.

Enlil agrees to grant the remnants of Mankind implements and seeds; agriculture begins in the highlands. Enki domesticates animals.

10,500 B.C.
The descendants of Noah are allotted three regions. Ninurta, Enlil's foremost son, dams the mountains and drains the rivers to make Mesopotamia habitable; Enki reclaims the Nile valley. The Sinai peninsula is retained by the Anunnaki for a post-Diluvial spaceport; a control center is established on Mount Moriah (the future Jerusalem).

9,780 B.C.
Ra/Marduk, Enki's firstborn son, divides dominion over Egypt between Osiris and Seth.

9,330 B.C.
Seth seizes and dismembers Osiris, assumes sole rule over the Nile Valley.

8,970 B.C.
Horus avenges his father Osiris by launching the First Pyramid War. Seth escapes to Asia, seizes the Sinai peninsula and Canaan.

8,670 B.C.
Opposed to the resulting control of all the space facilities by Enki's descendants, the Enlilites launch the Second Pyramid War. The victorious Ninurta empties the Great Pyramid of its equipment.

Ninhursag, half-sister of Enki and Enlil, convenes peace conference. The division of Earth is reaffirmed. Rule over Egypt transferred from the Ra/Marduk dynasty to that of Thoth. Heliopolis built as a substitute Beacon City.

8,500 B.C.
The Anunnaki establish outposts at the gateway to the space facilities; Jericho is one of them.

7,400 B.C.
As the era of peace continues, the Anunnaki grant Mankind new advances; the Neolithic period begins. Demi-gods rule over Egypt.

3,800 B.C.
Urban civilization begins in Sumer as the Anunnaki reestablish there the Olden Cities, beginning with Eridu and Nippur.

Anu comes to Earth for a pageantful visit. A new city, Uruk (Erech), is built in his honor; he makes its temple the abode of his beloved granddaughter Inanna/lshtar.

Kingship on Earth

3,760
Mankind granted kingship. Kish is first capital under the aegis of Ninurta. The calendar begun at Nippur. Civilization blossoms out in Sumer (the First Region).

3,450
Primacy in Sumer transferred to Nannar/Sin. Marduk proclaims Babylon "Gateway of the Gods." The "Tower of Babel" incident. The Anunnaki confuse Mankind's languages.

His coup frustrated, Marduk/Ra returns to Egypt, deposes Thoth, seizes his younger brother Dumuzi who had betrothed Inanna. Dumuzi accidentally killed; Marduk imprisoned alive in the Great Pyramid. Freed through an emergency shaft, he goes into exile.

3,100-3, 350
years of chaos end with installation of first Egyptian Pharaoh in Memphis. Civilization comes to the Second Region.

2,900
Kingship in Sumer transferred to Erech. Inanna given dominion over the Third Region; the Indus Valley Civilization begins.

2,650
Sumer's royal capital shifts about. Kingship deteriorates. Enlil loses patience with the unruly human multitudes.

2,371
Inanna falls in love with Sharru-Kin (Sargon). He establishes new capital city Agade (Akkad). Akkadian empire launched.

2,316
Aiming to rule the four regions, Sargon removes sacred soil from Babylon. The Marduk-Inanna conflict flares up again. It ends when Nergal, Marduk's brother, journeys from south Africa to Babylon and persuades Marduk to leave Mesopotamia.

2,291
Naram-Sin ascends the throne of Akkad. Directed by the warlike Inanna, he penetrates the Sinai peninsula, invades Egypt.

2,255
Inanna usurps the power in Mesopotamia; Naram-Sin defies Nippur. The Great Anunnaki obliterate Agade. Inanna escapes. Sumer and Akkad occupied by foreign troops loyal to Enlil and Ninurta.

2,220
Sumerian civilization rises to new heights under enlightened rulers of Lagash. Thoth helps its king Gudea build a ziggurat-temple for Ninurta.

2,193
Terah, Abraham's father, born in Nippur into a priestly-royal family.

2,180
Egypt divided; followers of Ra/Marduk retain the south; Pharaohs opposed to him gain the throne of lower Egypt.

2,130
As Enlil and Ninurta are increasingly away, central authority also deteriorates in Mesopotamia. Inanna's attempts to regain the kingship for Erech does not last.

The Fateful Century

B.C 2,123
Abraham born in Nippur.

2,113
Enlil entrusts the Lands of Shem to Nannar; Ur declared capital of new empire. Ur- Nammmu ascends throne, is named Protector of Nippur. A Nippurian priest - Terah, Abraham's father - comes to Ur to liaison with its royal court.

2,096
Ur-Nammu dies in battle. The people consider his untimely death a betrayal by Anu and Enlil. Terah departs with his family for Harran.

2,095
Shulgi ascends the throne of Ur, strengthens imperial ties. As empire thrives, Shulgi falls under charms of Inanna, becomes her lover. Grants Larsa to Elamites in exchange for serving as his Foreign Legion.

2,080
Theban princes loyal to Ra/Marduk press northward under Mentuhotep I. Nabu, Marduk's son, gains adherents for his father in Western Asia.

2,055
On Nannar's orders, Shulgi sends Elamite troops to suppress unrest in Canaanite cities. Elamites reach the gateway to the Sinai peninsula and its Spaceport.

2,048
Shulgi dies. Marduk moves to the Land of the Hittites. Abraham ordered to southern Canaan with an elite corps of cavalrymen.

2,047
Amar-Sin (the biblical Amraphel) becomes king of Ur. Abraham goes to Egypt, stays five years, then returns with more troops.

2,041
Guided by Inanna, Amar-Sin forms a coalition of Kings of the East, launches military expedition to Canaan and the Sinai. Its leader is the Elamite Khedor-la'omer. Abraham blocks the advance at the gateway to the Spaceport.

2,038
Shu-Sin replaces Amar-Sin on throne of Ur as the empire disintegrates.

2,029
Ibbi-Sin replaces Shu-Sin. The western provinces increasingly to Marduk.

2,024
Leading his followers, Marduk marches on Sumer, enthrones himself in Babylon. Fighting spreads to central Mesopotamia. Nippur's Holy of Holies is defiled. Enlil demands punishment for Marduk and Nabu; Enki opposes, but his son Nergal sides with Enlil.

As Nabu marshals his Canaanite followers to capture the Spaceport, the Great Anunnaki approve of the use of nuclear weapons. Nergal and Ninurta destroy the Spaceport and the errant Canaanite cities.

2,023
The winds carry the radioactive cloud to Sumer. People die a terrible death, animals perish, the water is poisoned, the soil becomes barren. Sumer and its great civilization lie prostrate. Its legacy passes to Abraham's seed as he begets -at age 100- a legitimate heir: Isaac.
Okay, the content in the spoiler tags is just drivel. There's not one shred of evidence for any of it, and it reads like a junior high school student's "creative writing" assignment.

I have to wonder why gods would need manual laborers. They're gods, so why don't they just snap their fingers and zap whatever they want into existence? This is like Kirk asking in Star Trek V, "What does God need with a starship?". And if I'm relying on the worst of the TOS movies to show how ridiculous this Babylonian/space alien nonsense is, it's really bad.

God (Enlil in this case) and the Serpent (Enki) had conflicting agendas, our creation was to provide manual labor to ease the burden of the gods
What extraordinarily lazy gods. Can't even zap up their own projects.


Well, I took a break from this thread and found that it had become more ridiculous than ever. I salute Agent327 for his extraordinary patience when dealing with the rampant nonsense posted here.
 
Pretty neat trick, considering that the date that most historians accept for the founding of Rome was 753 BCE.

Aeneas fled the fall of Troy, allegedly some time in the 12th Century BC or so, so it is possible that Aeneas founded the Brittano-Trojan line of kings, as well as the line that led to Romulus and Remus. (Not that that is even remotely what actually happened of course, but still.)
 
It's part of local legend that Joseph of Arimathea visited Britain and William Blake asks in Jerusalem whether Jesus came here. "And did those feet in ancient times, walk on England's pastures green..." So, no, I don't believe it, but people like Geoffrey of Monmouth (the 12th Century Welsh chronicler) probably did.
 
But if gold was necessary for the survival of these critters on their planet, you wouldn't start with the Persian Gulf as a source.

why not?

Gold was not mined in South Africa until historical times. for guys with knowledge of space travel, they seem to be ignorant of geology.

the antiquity of mining in S Africa is far older than historical times

Since these aliens were more advanced than we are at the present and could move tons of gold across the solar system, why would they need to breed workers at all?

they were bred to labor for the gods...why do we have armies of miners in Africa?

Furthermore, what's with this interbreeding? How do advanced aliens from another planet interbreed with Homo Erectus? We have found fossil evidence of Homo Erectus. Why haven't we found evidence of this interbreeding?

They didn't interbreed with them, they interbred with us... And life was born on two worlds, not just here.

You do realize that Sitchin's story has an awful lot of serious holes in it, don't you?

Its possible he got some things wrong, his theory is based on interpreting myths... But he is right, both Sumerian and biblical myth claim we were created to work. If a hole exists he didn't create it.
 
It's part of local legend that Joseph of Arimathea visited Britain and William Blake asks in Jerusalem whether Jesus came here. "And did those feet in ancient times, walk on England's pastures green..." So, no, I don't believe it, but people like Geoffrey of Monmouth (the 12th Century Welsh chronicler) probably did.

That's interesting, thanks! I guess I shouldn't be surprised, I mean, even the Mormons seem to think Jesus visited them (from what I remember). As silly as the idea is, Britain's a lot more closer and feasible than North America.
 
Its possible he got some things wrong, his theory is based on interpreting myths... But he is right, both Sumerian and biblical myth claim we were created to work. If a hole exists he didn't create it.

You mean hypothesis. A theory in the field of science (which this is, right?) is a well-substantiated body of evidence.

That's interesting, thanks! I guess I shouldn't be surprised, I mean, even the Mormons seem to think Jesus visited them (from what I remember). As silly as the idea is, Britain's a lot more closer and feasible than North America.

Jesus certainly got around according to pseudo-science, fathering the Merovingian line of kings, checking out the night-life in Glastonbury and then appearing to the Mormons some 1800 years later. I suppose that even the Son of God needs to have some fun. :p
 
Since when did being an astrologer require any kind of education? Astrology is a bunch of made-up mumbo-jumbo. I could make up a horoscope without even trying.

You could, but you wouldn't be doing it "properly". Doing it "properly" requires a lot of knowledge, even if the end result doesn't actually mean anything. In fact astrologers (certainly of the past, if not so much these days) probably know more about positional astronomy than most modern astronomers do, due to it not really being a necessary requirement these days.
 
Jesus certainly got around according to pseudo-science, fathering the Merovingian line of kings, checking out the night-life in Glastonbury and then appearing to the Mormons some 1800 years later. I suppose that even the Son of God needs to have some fun. :p

We dont know Jesus whereabouts between his what 11 years of age till his 30? Thats a half of life for somebody passing out at 33. Not wanting to add to a confusion but I am of the opinion that Jesus likely went with a trading caravan to India.
 
We also don't know of his whereabouts before 11 of after 30 either, if we're honest.
 
Righttttt. So Enlil just wanted to work one male and one female and that sampling would indicate the ability for more? That is not even good science.

I dont know how many humans were involved in the Garden, it says God took the Adam he made eastward to the Garden (Persian Gulf) so that suggests our ancestral homeland was to the west. Ethiopia is westward of Eden and it is our ancestral home.

Why would God have to take the Adam anywhere? Why not create humans in the Garden? These little tidbits of information are very important, they show there is truth to be found in the story. The God of the Garden didn't want humans proliferating, the Serpent gave them the ability.

What Sitchin has done is translate Genesis based on Mesopotamian myth in light of more recent scientific information. I've compared his rendering of the Enuma Elish to the actual text and its close enough to warrant consideration.

I can see the Enuma Elish a possible account of the formation of the solar system, but there is nothing in the Jewish account that contributes much to that narrative.

I tend to agree... and the authors unfortunately distorted the story by ignoring the events leading up to Marduk's battle with Tiamat (God's wind over the water). But in the old world people knew the creation myth and they knew the Hebrew version was tailored for a monotheistic culture. And they knew their gods were preceded by other gods, not just the olden gods in the myth itself but "national" gods like Marduk and Assur. The Sumerian creator God was replaced as dynasties rose and fell.

For some reason the numbers 6 and 7 are important, the Babylonian Epic of Creation described creation on 6 tablets with a 7th devoted to praising Marduk's accomplishments. Genesis has 6 days with a 7th for rest and praise.

To understand why we need to read the Enuma Elish as a description of the early solar system before Heaven and Earth were created from the carcass of Tiamat (tehom).

The gods (celestial bodies) appear in a specific order and placement, between Tiamat (proto-Earth) and the sun (abzu) are 3 gods, Mummu (abzu's companion), Lahamu and Lahmu (female and male warriors Venus and Mars).

That puts the proto-Earth beyond Mars... And beyond Tiamat are 4 olden gods with an emissary of Saturn - 5 gods. Marduk, following a comet-like orbit, battled the 6th god (Tiamat) in line pushing her remains inside of Mars orbit to become the 7th planet.

check this out:

http://www.climb-utah.com/Misc/ninemile.htm

The horned deity 6th in line is being stalked by the hunter below and right of the 5 sheep. It matches the Enuma Elish.

Genesis does not really portray millions of years of evolution, nor does separating the water from the water, seem to correspond to the splitting of Tiamat.

Genesis describes a sequence and things did evolve. The problem is attaching "days" to the story in place of some other meaning because of monotheism.

The Enuma Elish had the planet split in half. That is not the same thing as dividing the waters. If the earth was just water and that ball of water split in half, I could see, but you say it was a planet that already existed with a solid core.

The asteroid belt divides the solar system into the inner rocky planets and the outer gas giants.
And the asteroid belt separates the water above it (the outer belt is water rich) from the water below, the water that became our seas.

So our water was seemingly closer to the water above and moved here somehow, if the water was here and not further out the waters were already separated. And the Earth that was not dry yet was in darkness... That too suggests this world was closer to Heaven and the water above where it is darker.
 
You mean hypothesis. A theory in the field of science (which this is, right?) is a well-substantiated body of evidence.

theory - an idea or set of ideas that is intended to explain facts or events

: an idea that is suggested or presented as possibly true but that is not known or proven to be true
 
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