In a recent post on the situation pertaining to Palestine-Israel, I wrote – “The stories [of Jewish origins] having been borrowed from much older (by several thousand years) historical accounts held in Babylonian/Akkadian libraries.”. To my horror, but also delight, a friend asked me the question today, in an email – “What did the Babylonian and Akkadian libraries tell you?”. I responded this was a question of such complexity (to answer it properly) that I needed more time and an email response would not be an appropriate place to do so.
So, here I am, with a task which I do not relish but will no doubt be of perhaps incalculable benefit to myself as much as anyone else, since whatever I write here will be a synthesis of a lifetime’s work. Or at least what I have spent much of my years of maturity (say, from the ’90s of last century) studying and struggling with after turning my back on Christianity some years before that. That is the kind of response I want this to be.
So, to begin…
I have a considerable personal library of books I have read to gain an understanding of both human history and origins, and the ability to see through the many gaps and misconstructions in the accepted records of that history which have accumulated over time to – whether accidentally or for some misguided purpose – obfuscate to modern man, and perhaps for many generations back in time, the real picture of existence. And then came the blessing (if you work it right) of the internet. Now, instead of physically searching and combing dry and often misleading narratives, with a simple online query any researcher (that is just a tag for any human with an open mind) can have (sometimes) appropriate information at his/her fingertips in moments. That is a sweet realisation – and one we should treasure, and utilise, while it is still available.
There is no need , I think, for me to specify that folk these days are so confused about everything as a result of having no clear image to cling to of their own place in time, or a lucid meaning ascribing validity to any of aspect of life, that meaningless escapism or indulgence in dangerous pastimes and/or practices are these days essential to keeping, as far as it may be possible, a more or less level head for even a modicum of normal functionality in daily life. The stories of those who don’t make it through the nightmare of modern existence are becoming commonplace, where once such was a rarity.
So, I state, with the authority of a modern human, of a full life and retained sanity, that any explanation which is capable of attaching some level of meaning and order to human existence, through a story of history which actually holds together without recourse to faith or miraculous events or other inventions of the mind, can be taken as an antidote for the ailments of modern life. Such stories can bring peace and deliverance to human minds contaminated by the many false accounts which today plague us.
But now I must focus on answering the question. Or I will be rambling on endlessly about the many sidetracks of research which I have investigated over the years.
[I left a gap here but I can’t remember why now. It was probably something important, which will now not be said. Such is life. Go make a coffee or something else personal to yourself to fill the gap. Then come back]
A word about the Babylonian/Akkadian libraries. The Sumerian written records, which include a great many documents of a secondary business or transactional nature, but also in groups of important historical, scientific and cultural value, about half a million items in total, many of which remain untranslated (plus many as yet unearthed), consist of clay tablets written in the Cuneiform language of ancient Mesopotamia. Many of these tablets are scattered across museums around the world and are still the subject of academic study and translation work.
I have to say that I am not an academic, nor am I able to read Cuneiform, but I do claim to have an acute sense of what is right and what is wrong, though some might disagree. So I rely on the findings of experts mediated by how they fir into my overall acquired cosmic picture of ‘life, the universe and everything’. If something doesn’t fit, then it is viewed as being suspect. And if I can find a point of verification of that suspicion, then that something is rejected. I find that pretty much all I have read of the works of Zechariah Sitchin with regard to the origins of humanity and why things are the way they are, fit nicely into that picture. And so I am a fan. Also bearing in mind that some things may only be ancillary to the retention of meaning from the whole, and may therefore be discardable if it becomes necessary, without the necessity to discard the whole. But, on the whole, I am satisfied that the story mostly holds together as is. That is my position. I don’t expect everyone to agree. That’s OK.
I do not recall how I was introduced to the works of Zechariah Sitchin, following some time spent in trying to understand Velikovsky in my first dabble into ancient human origins, but as soon as I began reading ‘The Twelfth Planet’ – Sitchin’s first book – I was engrossed. I am fully aware that his work is somewhat controversial, and there are some aspects which could be viewed as non-essential or accessory to the main theme, but for me its overall framework provides a more or less fully linked account, backed by original written solid evidence (through interpretation) of the arrival and development of mankind over some 300,000 years of Earth history, out of some calculated 450,000 years of Anunnaki presence here. Further detail is unnecessary at this stage. Whether you agree with that is of course your own personal concern, but let’s take a closer look at just some of the story.
I am going to offer a brief history of the Earth to provide a setting for all that follows. I shouldn’t do this, I know, because in a few salient points it is impossible to draw an accurate picture, but let’s try. Before there was anything in the Cosmos, there was nothing. Not even Time. Most Earth cosmogonies begin like that, some referring to it as ‘Chaos’. Then at some point a star formed, which we can take to be our star, The Sun. We calculate that to have been some 4.5 billion years ago based purely on dubious evolutionary theory – which requires such long periods of time for such ideas to make any sort of sense, and on no other factual basis. This was obviously not the first star to form but the ‘Tellers’ of the story wanted their ‘Listeners’ to understand how our star system began. Nothing else mattered to the story. The Sun (Apsu in the Sumerian story – the so far oldest recorded cosmogony) started to give form to other cosmic bodies which we can relate to being the planets of our solar system. There was no Earth and no Asteroid Belt, but there was another planet called Tiamat which no longer exists. This is all I want to say on that because this is where the original story, laid down for us in the Sumerian literature begins to diverge from all (as far as I know) other – and later – cosmogonies. There is much more detail than I can provide here contained in that story – how the Earth, its Moon, and the Asteroid Belt came to be and what happened to Tiamat. The best and most well-known story on that is the Enuma Elish or The Creation Story in Sumerian literature.
We can then move on to how the stories of the ‘Gods’ were framed. Tales of the coming to Earth of a race of advanced beings known as the Anunnaki – or ‘Those who from the heavens to Earth came’. All told in great detail within the same body of literature recorded as a human inheritance by the Sumerians as related to them by the Anunnaki – straight from the horses mouth, so to speak. A written inheritance we have relegated to the realm of myth – because it conflicts with our current religious views. Views which, in our ignorance, we forget are entirely based on inferior extractions from those original records. The Anunnaki were not gods but we, in our ignorance, have referred to them as such and, in fact, due to our total reliance on them for everything we had learned and gathered, this was the beginnings of our need for and longings to be servants to ‘gods’ of any kind.
Then, if we want to progress to the beginnings of Mankind we can find this also in the Sumerian writings. If we turn to Atrahasis, one such well-known work which also relates about the great flood. An event which almost wiped out humanity and was pre-known to the Annunaki but also provides the clue to the fact that they themselves were not ‘gods’ but simply beings who possessed knowledge far superior to our own, at that time and probably even closer to our own times, very limited understanding of complex matters. They knew the flood was coming but were powerless to prevent it. They were not the creators of nature by any means, but products of that creation themselves.
In order to fully understand any of this, you need to gain background knowledge, or otherwise take what I am saying at face value – which would be a foolish thing, though not an incorrect thing, to do. The Sumerian literature is available to all in books and on the internet. I can recommend a good book source which contains the latest translations from the original clay tablets (many of which are incomplete) of the major historical literary works of Sumeria (Babylon/Akkad) – possibly still available from major bookshops. It is – Myths from Mesopotamia – by Stephanie Dalley – Oxford World’s Classics. Or you may prefer to download a free PDF version here: Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Oxford World’s Classics)
Ideally, and in addition to that, you could, assuming you have never done so before, obtain the whole complete Sitchin ‘Earth Chronicles’ story, some 12 magnificent books. If you are unsure of going the whole hog on this, maybe, to begin with, try just finding his ‘When Time Began’, which covers all you need to know about ‘beginnings’ and what we are talking about here. A free PDF from the same site as above is also available.
Here is a brief extract from that book’s first chapter – The Cycles of Time…
Long before the pharaohs and the Pyramid Texts, an ancient civilization—Man’s first known one—possessed an advanced cosmogony. Six thousand years ago, in ancient Sumer, what astronomers have discovered in the 1990s was already known; not only the true nature and composition of our Solar System (including the farthest out planets), but also the notion that there are other solar systems in the universe, that their stars (“suns”) can collapse or explode, that their planets can be thrown off course—that Life, indeed, can thus be carried from one star system to another. It was a detailed cosmogony, spelled out in writing. One long text, written on seven tablets, has reached us primarily in its later Babylonian version. Called the Epic of Creation and known by its opening words Enuma elish. it was publicly read during the New Year festival that started on the first day of the month Nissan, coinciding with the first day of spring.
Sitchin, Zecharia. When Time Began (Book V) (Earth Chronicles 5) (p. 4). Inner Traditions/Bear & Company. Kindle Edition.
There is much I could say here in addition but this post is coming towards the size limit I don’t want to exceed. Get the books. Read for yourself.
You may think, after reading that quote, ‘How come the Sumerians knew things about the Solar System that we have not discovered until the 1990s? Well, don’t worry your head about that. The Sumerians, descendants of the most recently updated version of humanity created by their visitor overlords, were told all they needed to know by those visiting physical ‘gods’ who had presumably travelled throughout the Solar System on their way to our planet or, more accurately, the planet they were tasked with ruling at the time and on which they had created us to assist them in that task.
Well, I have related all that I feel I should relate just now. Whether you choose to take it any further is up to you. You will find everything I have talked about within the literature recommended in this piece. Our world oversight, the global institutions which govern our activities and rights are geared to obscure our activities and rights to that necessary knowledge, for their own purposes, replacing it with other dialogs of sometimes bizarre nature requiring ‘faith’ instead of ‘knowledge’ to accept. A case of the many held back by the few. But since the ‘gods’ mostly left the Earth some 2,600 years ago, having given up or perhaps having completed their project, and leaving us to our own devices, the ‘demi-god’ lineage they left behind has most probably died out by now. It is mostly some of our own kind which has taken on the role of elitist supremacy for their own advantage. You can relate to that, surely. Then it is up to us to dig ourselves out from under that burden, and in order to do that, we must learn the truth – discarding the lurid tales that have subdued and held back our knowledge and freedoms over time. The truth is still out there, and uncommonly easy to find – if we look. We must look, and discover the extent to which we have been fooled into believing frightfully grotesque consequences of disturbing the status quo. And we must may act to overcome, or to deny any rights to the unlawful and unjust practices of those who consider themselves the world’s elites.
I may say more another time, and as usual I am less than satisfied with what I have said (hoping it makes sense), but I do not consider it my task to personally inform every living soul on things I had to struggle to find for my own enlightenment, such as that may be. At my stage of life, I have withdrawn from all or most of that kind of interaction – engaging only when it would cost more to avoid cooperation than not. I am now, just content to be. It is a marvellous and wonderful thing.
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