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In all things it is
important to carefully consider the beginnings. The beginnings of the planet and the people who inhabit it; the beginnings
of the cultures of those people, its conduct and
eschatology. A daunting task and one that will require several
leaps to draw together threads into a
plausible scenario. The remarks
of fringe thinking that the creation week was supernatural
and therefore beyond our understanding is a position for those who
might find Christianity to be a tool for
self-aggrandizement and authority but that doesn't
make it make it right or make it the right way to go about the
examination of our history. To not question is to take
someone else's word and to take someone else's word potentially puts one at the mercy of those who would tell you what the true
faith and true facts are for whatever motivation.
It may be popular to discount most of the historic
record of the people of Earth as a myth; however, this could be a
effort, consciously or unconsciously, to protect the current status
quo from being undermined by more complex realities. One of the
inconsistencies in our knowledge base is shown in the Book of Genesis,
Chapter Six, where not only the sons (plural) of god
(as distinct from the only begotten...) but also the presence of giants
is described. With this starting point we may begin to
question our picture of our beginnings. If one thinks of the records
of the literate cultures in the past as if they were the ramblings of child-like minds
which lacked the
ability to distinguish fact from fiction then one has taken a patronizing
attitude to the people who built the nation-states of Sumer and Babylon. |
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came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face
of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, |
| 2). That
the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they
were fair; and they took them wives of all which
they chose. |
| 3). And
the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive
with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days
shall be a hundred and twenty years. |
| 4). There
were giants in the earth in those days; and also
after that, when the sons of God came unto the
daughters of men, and they bare children to them,
the same became mighty men which were of old, men of
renown. |
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God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the
earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of
his heart was only evil continually. |
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it repented the Lord that he had made man on the
earth, and it grieved him at his heart. |
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the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have
created from the face of the earth, both man, and
beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the
air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. |
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Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. |
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In these three images is seen that this idea of there being giants is
supported in a collection of cultures. The first
image is of the scribe Ipi petitioning Annubis a god in
Egypt. The second image depicts the Indian god Krishna and
a human consorts. The third is from China and
portrays
a meeting between a human and a hsien or mountain immortal.
With the assumption
that Annubis is wearing a head-piece or helmet
along with the authority symbols or weapons in his hands; the commonality is the image of two
persons, one of which is approximately twice as tall as the other;
interrelating, respectively, in worship, intimacy, and
dialog. |
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Further back in
history, in Sumer, - is found historical
documentation incised in clay tables called Enuma Elish,
which has been translated "when in heavens above"
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the opening line of the record. The work existed on many
copies which were inscribed in sets of seven tables and
which relate the story of the creation of the heavens and
Earth by the god Marduk. The seven tablets or books of
this creation myth corresponds remarkably well to the days of creation in Genesis. This maybe taken to
support the obvious indications that the stories told in the
Book of Genesis were
derived from Enuma Elish and other text and record
through the period of Babylonian contact.
As an example, of the fourth
day of creation the King James Bible,
Genesis 1:14-19,
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14). And God said, 'Let there be
lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the
day from the night; and let them be for signs and
seasons, and for days and years: |
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15). And let them be for lights
in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the
earth': and it was so. |
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16). And God made two great
lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the
lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars
also. |
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17). And God set them in the
firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth, |
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18). And to rule over the day
and night, and to divide the light from the
darkness: and God saw the it was good. |
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19). And the evening and the
morning were the fourth day. |
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Which may be compared to the last
stanzas of the fourth tablet of the Enuma Elish: |
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...he gazed at the huge body,
pondering how to use it, what to create from the
dead carcass. He split it apart like a cockle-shell;
with the upper half he constructed the arc of sky,
he pulled down the bar and set a watch on the
waters, so they should never escape. He crossed the
sky to survey the infinite distance; he stationed
himself above apsu, that apsu built
by Nudimmud over the old abyss which now he surveyed,
measuring out and marking in. He stretched the immensity
of the firmament, he made Esharra, the Great Palace, to be
its earthly image, and Anu and Enlil and Ea had each their
right stations. |
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In the book The 12th Planet,
Zachariah Sitchen explores the possibility that Tablet IV
describes the intentional and catastrophic modification of
the solar system in an act of war; and the subsequent creation of the Earth,
or Ea, and
the asteroid belt from the remains of Tiamat after that
planet was struck successively with several moonlets
collected from the outer planets. |
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In The 12th Planet and several other
of his books Mr. Sitchen tells the story of the Anunnaki. A story that
extends into a space and a time beyond our current concept of
humanity. It is a story of a colony on this planet and the story of
our genesis.
For more than two centuries
uniformitarinism has been the ruling paradigm in archeo-geology.
The idea that the planet was formed by the same order of forces
observed today has embedded itself deeply into academic thought. It is
a idea that inhibits open consideration of theories
presenting radical explanations.
It is the purpose of a theory to present
an idea in a coherent form in order that the theory's viability may be
evaluated by peer review. Keep in mind that much
of the scholarly discourse on our origins are being interpolated from a very
thin data set. A short review of the changes in the theories of the
nature of our neighboring planets in this solar system in the last
twenty years should remind us to be open-minded as is also advised
when
understanding our remote history.
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Ancient
Civilizations: The Near East and Mesoamerica |
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Lamberg-Karlovsky & Sabloff, © 1979, 1987, Waveland Press,
Inc. |
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From an archaeological point of view, the
Olmec civilization suddenly appeared in a relatively well-developed
form around 1200 B.C. As we have seen, its antecedents were few. There
seems to have been no long, slow sequence of local growth in the Gulf
Coast lowlands prior to the rise of the Olmecs. If the Olmecs did not
evolve in the same area where they later flourished, where did they
arise? Were the elements of Olmec civilization developed elsewhere and
imported to Mexico? While we can dismiss the idea that the
civilization originated in such places as Atlantis or outer space as
totally without support or merit, other hypothesis involving diffusion
of ideas, art styles, and people from areas like the Far East cannot
be rejected out of hand. There are some resemblances between Olmec and
Chinese art. But there is nothing further to back the contentions of
actual connections. Thus, for the moment at least, ideas of diffusion
from overseas cultures must be viewed as conjecture.
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That quote from an university textbook
exemplifies the specie of thinking we are trying to move beyond.
Having admitted one's own poverty and to still be unwilling to
consider other's theories seems incompatible with scientific thinking.
We can see many problems with the theory
that we are researching, but it also seems that as time goes on
those problems are resolving. For an instance; the data from
NASA's NEAR Project received in 2000 which showed that the asteroids resemble the
crust of the Earth has been encouraging
for it strongly supports the Enuma Elish as interpreted by Mr. Sitchen
that the asteroids where "artfully" arranged fragments of the planet
Tiamat, now known as Earth.
Click
this link to see the timeline that was synthesized from these two sources:
You Are Becoming A Galactic Human, by Virgina Essene and
The Twelfth Planet, by Zecharia Sitchin.
In these tales and timelines we have all
of the ingredients of a H. P. Lovecraft novel: Un-human elder races,
giants, outside forces controlling human destiny. For reasons the Atlantis/Lemuria
enthusiast will understand we find interest
in systems of human thinking and of organizing human activity that
lays before the sudden evolvement of the essentially modern city/state
in Mesopotamia. This worldview that has been called shamanism finds
its archetype in Siberian Shamanism and that current found, seemingly,
its fullest flowering certain systems of Chinese Taoism; although the
sometimes secret nature of the teachings of WuTangShan makes it
difficult to trace exact origins with certainty.
From
the Victorian Age scholars have investigated the historic and
geologic records and have gleaned what they considered to be substantive
arguments for the previous existence of the continent of Atlantis, and
before that, the continent of Lemuria. |
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