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Subject: Re: What About the Anunnaki? by Acharya S
In my talks and writings about the Christian myth and mythology in general,
I am often asked, 'What about Sitchin?' In the first place, I read a number
of Sitchin's books before I came across the information concerning the
Christian myth. Obviously, I was not convinced enough by Sitchin's
speculations that I overlooked the research that subsequently came my way.
Before I address the world of Sitchin, an economist by education and
profession, let me say something about myself. I am a classically trained
archaeologist, historian, mythologist and linguist, which is to say that I
went to excellent schools that applied rigorous scientific methodology. In
such an education, if one discovers factual information that is
contradictory to what one already believes or perceives, one is compelled by
honesty to abandon the earlier, erroneous model and accept the new. These
are the methods by which I have continuously honed in on the history of the
planet and its creatures. While it is true that some people (fewer than the
masses would like to believe) needn't be specialists in a given field
through standard scholastic training, it is of greater validity that someone
who has spent years upon years studying an issue, subjected to criticism and
feedback by way of 'tests' and 'grades,' is in the end going to be more
knowledgeable in that field. For example, if you need a heart transplant,
you must go to a specialist and doctor, not a plumber. On the other hand,
those who are classically educated but do not display acute critical
thinking will mindlessly go along with the party line, no matter how wrong
it may be.
Zecharia Sitchin appeals to those who have seen the flaws in the orthodox
paradigm concerning human origins and the planet's history. Because of
bizarre anomalies and mysteries, neither evolution nor creationism are
completely adequate in themselves. In an attempt to explain these anomalies,
which include weird stories or 'myths' and enormous, astonishing ruins
worldwide, Zecharia Sitchin has written several best-selling books based on
the 'alien astronaut theory,' which dictates that alien visitors have been
influencing human life for thousands if not millions of years, even to the
point of genetic manipulation. Supporters claim that Sitchin is one of the
few people who read the Sumerian language, and he has made a 'pet theory'
from what he has interpreted from his readings. Some supporters also claim
that because he can read Sumerian, he must be interpreting the data
properly. In the first place, the assertion that he is one of the few
scholars of Sumerian is not true. In the second, the idea that someone may
be able to read a language and therefore can interpret the data is a
specious argument, because the one certainly does not guarantee the other.
Also, years befor Sitchin, biblical and Dead Sea scrolls scholar John
Allegro studied Sumerian intimately and came to very different conclusions,
to wit that many of the words revolved around sex and drugs.
While Sitchin is a good researcher and provides much interesting knowledge
concerning the lost global civilization that has left its vast mark in both
story and stone, there are several problems with his pet theory that I
believe are explainable at least in part not because of his scientific
training but because of his cultural and religious conditioning. In the
first place, it should be noted that he is building on the work of von
Daniken and the German School without giving von Daniken much credit. von
Daniken, it should be recalled, was one of the first moderns to put forth
the ancient astronaut theory and was widely ridiculed and vilified for his
observations. Because of Sitchin's apparent scholastic training, he becomes
more credible for many.
Sitchin starts out on the right foot when he looks to the heavens to
determine what the myths of the ancients really mean. He is right on the
money when he sees celestial bodies in some of the characters in these
myths.
However, he seriously blunders when he attempts to make them into human
beings or aliens. For example, his entire thesis is built upon the
speculation that there is a '12th planet' from which a group of
extraterrestrials called the Anunnaki - a term in Sumerian mythology -
descended upon earth every 3,500 years or so.
First of all, the speculation is not needed, as the Sumero-Babylonians
themselves said that the gods were the planets, not people, and that their
stories were myths representing personifications of these bodies. It is
believed that by 'dismissing' the myths of the ancients as myths, we are
somehow robbing them of their 'history.' This claim is ludicrous, as it is
those who insist that there are NO myths who are actually defaming the
ancients. Has everyone already forgotten the learned and esteemed
mythologist Joseph Campbell? Campbell knew that major biblical tales, such
as that of Moses and the Exodus, were mythical. In his book Occidental
Mythology, following a discussion of the Bible, Campbell turns to the 'Gods
and Heroes of the European West,' and says, with apparent resentment:
'Fortunately, it will not be necessary to argue that Greek, Celtic or
Germanic myths were mythological. The peoples themselves knew they were
myths, and the European scholars discussing them have not been overborne by
the idea of something uniquely holy about their topic.'
There ARE mythologists - do they have no science whatsoever to study?
Perhaps mythology is just not as exciting as the UFOlogical paradigm,
whereby ancient astronauts were buzzing all over the place, being worshipped
for their extraordinary capacities. However, the desire to see such a
'history' often seems to be coming from exposure as a youth to comic books
and sci-fi movies.
The Ancients Knew What They were Creating
Also, the ancients were not the dark and dumb rabble commonly portrayed.
They were, in fact, highly advanced. As such, they developed over a period
of many thousands of years a complex astronomical/astrological system that
incorporated the movements and qualities of numerous celestial bodies. I
call this the 'celestial mythos.' The celestial mythos is found around the
globe in astonishing uniformity. In fact, it served as the manner by which
life on Earth was ordered, as it contained information crucial to life, such
as the movements and interrelationship of the sun and moon. Without the
mythos, no people would have been able to become sea-faring, and planting
and harvesting would have been difficult. And the mythos needed no alien
intervention to be developed by humans, nor did it need moderns to come
along and reinterpret it contrary to what its creators intended.
For example, the Anunnaki play a part in the mythos, but they are not
'people,' human or otherwise. The Anunnaki, in reality, represent the seven
'nether spheres' and guardians of the seven 'gates' through which the 'sun
of God' passes into the netherworld or darkness. So, immediately we
encounter a problem which reveals that what Sitchin is putting forth is not
what the ancients themselves said of the traditions they themselves
developed. Like so many before him, Sitchin also wants to make the main
character of the celestial mythos, the sun, into a person. Actually, he
wants to make it into several extraterrestrials. These various 'gods' found
around the globe, such as Osiris, Horus, Krishna, Hercules, Jesus and
Quetzalcoatl, are not people or aliens but personifications of the solar
hero, as was stated by the peoples who created them. The ancients were not
so dumb that they mistook planets for people, even though they personified
those planets and, where the knowledge or gnosis of the mythos was lost,
they hoped for 'the incarnation,' or the carnalization or appearance of a
'god.' There is no need to recreate the wheel here by speculating upon what
the ancients 'really' meant.
(Even a Christian idiot like Jack Chick knows that these ancient gods were
SOLAR HEROES, not people or aliens.)
Is Everything Born of Religious Madness?
I am reminded of an incident during my archaeological sojourn on the island
of Crete. As we stood inside the covered remains of the ancient town near
the sacred site of Mallia, dating to around 2500 BCE, our attention was
directed to the stone bowls that appeared outside of the doors of virtually
every house in this fascinating village, and we were asked to speculate upon
what those bowls could be used for. Now, it may be noted that I have a pet
peeve with archaeologists, because they blast into other people's countries,
with little direct experience of the culture, and attempt to interpret how
those people lived. They often barely even pay attention to the traditions
of the people, especially those who are still living in the area and
frequently in the manner of the ancients. Some of these archaeologists do
not even learn the language of the country they are in, such that they
cannot communicate with the natives, whose insights would no doubt help them
in their quest and reduce the need for endless and groundless speculation.
My professor at the time of this bowl incident was not one of these
archaeologists, as he was married to a Greek woman and spoke the language
extremely well. He thus had respect for the indigenous people and did not
discount their opinions.
When the professor asked the students - the vast majority of whom either
held PhDs or were PhD candidates from respected colleges and universities -
to put forth their interpretations of these bowls, a number of them fell
into the typical archaeological trap by making grandiose pronouncements that
these bowls were for some religious ritual such as the 'offering of the
first fruits to the gods.' The professor then turned to the old Greek man
who had been the caretaker at this site for decades and asked him what the
bowls were for. As he had lived in the area all his life, it made sense that
he would know what these accoutrements were for and, indeed, his answer
nearly made me laugh out loud because it showed how silly were the
archaeologists in their grandiose explanations. The other archaeologists,
not knowing Greek, were not privy to the joke until the caretaker's words
were translated by the professor. 'Well,' said the old man in regard to the
ubiquitous bowls, 'they are for the dogs, for water.' This is a typical
habit with archaeologists. What they cannot explain, they attribute to some
bizarre religious madness.
I am also reminded of another incident that made me appreciate some of
Sitchin's work. Some years ago there was a PBS special about the mysterious
Bolivian site of Tiahuanaco, in which an archaeologist, encountering the
fabulous building with water sluices, pronounced it a 'temple to the water
god.' Sitchin, of course, sees a much more practical silver-working
operation, an opinion with which I can concur, as I do indeed also profess
that there have been at least two global civilizations of high degree tens
of thousands of years ago. I am also not adverse to the notion of 'alien'
visitation, especially because of the legends of the ancients who claimed
that their ancestors came from the Pleiades or Orion or Sirius. I am
likewise not closed to the idea of genetic manipulation eons ago,
particularly because the origin of the races is still not satisfactorily
explained, nor is the evolutionary theory, nor are the bizarre anomalies
found around the world, including the alleged skulls and skeletons of weird
humanoids, giants, elves, etc.
The Sky People
In any serious investigation of this subject, we must be able to discern
between the 'gods' and the 'sky people' mentioned by the ancients. As noted,
the enlightened ancients knew the 'gods' were the planets. The sky people
were a different matter altogether. Some of them may have been 'aliens' in
the offworld sense, but other legends hold that at least some of these sky
people were the remnants of one of the advanced global civilizations
destroyed by cataclysm, and that some of them were coming from inside the
earth. The legends further say that such advanced people appeared around the
world to reestablish civilization after the various cataclysms. In doing so,
they also reintroduced the mythos, which was subsequently developed by the
'natives' to produce their own 'flavor.' When these advanced teachers
appeared and began to speak of the gods in the mythos, they were often
called priests of those gods, i.e., 'priest of Apollo.' These titles were at
times reduced, first to 'priest Apollo,' and then just 'Apollo.' As time
went on, the teacher became associated with the god, such that the mythos
became entwined with the 'history' of the teacher. In other words, although
a legend may hold that the god Apollo appeared in the flesh to teach the
natives, it was in fact merely a representative of the god.
One such 'modern' case of this mistaken identity has occurred in Japan, in
the village of Shingo, where, inhabitants insist, the remains of 'Jesus' and
his 'brother' are buried. The story holds that Jesus's 'brother' was
crucified in his place and that Jesus and his followers fled with the
brother's remains to Shingo, where he lived to be 100 years old and to
father children with a Japanese woman. The legend also holds that Jesus had
been educated by Buddhist masters during his 'lost years.' Unfortunately for
all this mythmaking, the alleged graves of Jesus and his brother actually
belong to two Christian missionaries who arrived in the 16th century. (See
also the Fortean Times article.) Thus, we can see that things are a little
more complicated than they appear and that discernment of the highest order
is required to determine what has actually happened on this planet. In a
serious scientific search, one needs to be more cautious in jumping to
conclusions based on speculation and to produce a recital of facts, with as
little speculation as possible. These facts come from 'the horse's mouth,'
i.e., the archaeological and historical/legendary records of the ancients
themselves, without embellishment or interpretation.
In reality, the ancients also had myths that had nothing to do with
extraterrestrials but which revolved around what was known, i.e., what they
could see and detect around them. Nothing was quite as awesome to the
ancients as the earth, sky, planetary bodies and natural forces. No alien
could have compared to the power contained on earth and in the heavens. In
fact, if anything, the ancients used the priestcraft developed around the
reverence for natural forces to fend off 'aliens.' The ancients, then, did
not mistake the sun and is varied personifications for the real people,
except where the gnosis was lost and the civilization had degraded, or where
it was deliberately obfuscated in order to defraud, as is the case with
Christianity. Also, to suggest that all these solar heroes such as Krishna,
Quetzalcoatl, Osiris, Horus and Jesus, with their identical 'lives,' were
aliens, is just a bit absurd, since it supposes that they all were born of
virgins, had tyrants trying to kill them at their birth, were presented with
the same gifts, did and said the same things and then were all crucified. In
shoring up such a ridiculous premise, we are asked to believe that
'superior' aliens kept 'coming down' and kindly obliging the barbaric
humans, who kept insisting upon crucifying them (between two thieves, no
less). Quite a bizzaro-world, that. (See my dissertation, The Origins of
Christianity and the Quest for this Historical Jesus.)
The Anunnaki and Assorted Other Characters
Contrary to popular belief, the Sumerian culture has been known for
centuries and did not appear suddenly out of nowhere when Sitchin got his
hands on the various tablets. If anything, the tablets verified what we
already knew about Sumeria from its inheritors, the Akkadians and
Assyro-Babylonians. The Sumerians were not a lost civilization, except that
their older remains such as at Ur had not been preserved. Their mythology
and culture were fairly well preserved in the succeeding civilizations.
Indeed, some 300,000 tablets of the Babylonians have been found thus far,
which include much commentary on their gods.
Some of the main characters in the Sumero-Babylonian religion/mythology are
Enlil, Shamash, Marduk, Gilgamesh, Sin, Ishtar and Tammuz. Enlil is the same
as the later Bel or Baal, the Canaanite sun god/solar hero. Hence, he is not
a real person/alien; nor are the rest. Although there were many Baalim, the
singular Baal came to represent the sun in the age of Taurus (@4500-2400
BCE), whence comes the word 'bull.' Shamash is also a Babylonian sun god who
was called Chemosh in Moabite and worshipped by the Israelites. Indeed,
'sun' in Hebrew is 'shamash.' Shamash was called the 'sublime judge of the
Anunnaki.' Marduk, or Merodach, who is the Mordecai of the biblical book of
Esther, was the 'commander of the Anunnaki' and often represented Jupiter,
although as 'Bel-Marduk' he incorporated aspects of the sun god as well and
was considered as such at a late period in his worship. The hero Gilgamesh
is represented as wrestling the 'celestial bull,' which is the sign of the
age of Taurus. Gilgamesh has also been associated with the Egyptian sun god
Osiris, as has the biblical 'Nimrod' or 'Nemrod.' The Catholic Encyclopedia
(CE) states: 'Gilgamesh, whom mythology transformed into a Babylonian
Hercules [the Greek solar hero], whose fortunes are described in the
Gilgamesh-epos, would then be the person designated by the Biblical Nemrod.
Others again see in Nemrod an intentional corruption of Amarudu, the
Akkadian for Marduk, whom the Babylonians worshiped as the great God . . . '
('Babylonia')
Sin, of course, is the moon god encamped at Mt. Sinai. Ishtar was the
goddess, alternately Venus, the moon, the constellation of Virgo, the earth,
etc. Ishtar was 'Astarte' in Phoenicia, and, as Frazer says in The Worship
of Nature, 'Her Phoenician worshippers identified her with the Moon . . . '
Tammuz, or Dumuzi in the Sumerian, was the solar-fertility god worshipped
also in Jerusalem, per the book of Ezekiel. As the Babylonia records state
concerning their 'garden of Eden' or 'Edina,' of Eridu: 'a dark vine grew;
it was made a glorious place, planted beside the abyss. In the glorious
house, which is like a forest, its shadow extends; no man enters its midst.
In its interior is the Sun-god Tammuz. Between the mouths of the rivers,
which are on both sides.' (CE 'Babylonia')
None of these characters is a historical person, as, again, the
Sumero-Babylonians correctly identified their own gods as being the
'planets,' which, of course, included the sun and the moon. Says the
Catholic Encyclopedia regarding Babylon:
'The storied tower of Birs Nimrud counts seven of these quadrangular
platforms painted in seven colors, black, white, yellow, blue, scarlet,
silver, and gold, and in the same order sacred to the stellar gods, Adar
(Saturn), Ishtar (Venus), Merodach (Jupiter), Nebo (Mercury), Nergal (Mars),
Sin (the Moon), Shamash (the Sun).'
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Anunnaki appear thus:
'The Flood: Nergal pull down the dams of the nether waters, Ninurta the war
lord threw down the dykes, and the SEVEN judges of hell, THE ANUNNAKI,
raised their torches lighting the landwith their vivid fire.' The 'nether
waters' represent the heavens, and the Anunnaki were called 'the fates' and
light-bearers of the night sky. They were the 'seven judges of hell' and
'seven nether spheres,' as Barbara Walker relates in her entry on Mary
Magdalene (The Woman's Encyclopedia, 614):
'The seven 'devils' exorcised from Mary Magdalene seem to have been the
seven Maskim, or Anunnaki, Sumero-Akkadian spirits of the seven nether
spheres, born of the goddess Mari. Their multiple birth was represented in
her sacred dramas, which may account for their alleged emergence from Mary
Magdalene. An Akkadian tablet said of them, 'They are seven! In the depths
of the ocean, they are seven! In the brilliance of the heavens, they are
seven! They proceed from the ocean depths [Maria] from the hidden retreat!'
Walker also relates, in The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred
Objects, 13:
'A generally accepted view of the universe in antiquity was the doctrine of
the planetary spheres, conceived as great crystal domes or inverted bowls
nested inside one another over the earth, turning independently of one
another at various rates, and emitting the 'music of the spheres' with their
motions. The theory was evolved to explain the apparently erratic movement
of planets against the background of the fixed stars. Reading from the
innermost sphere outward, arranging them according to the days of the week,
they were the spheres of the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn,
and the sun. Outermost was the eight sphere, the Empyrean, the home of fixed
spheres and the ultimate God: the highest heaven.
'As a corollary to this theory, it was also assumed that there were seven
nether spheres descending under the earth: the 'seven hells' to which Dumuzi
and Inanna (or Tammuz and Ishtar) journeyed; whose seven gates were guarded
by the seven Anunnaki or Maskim, the nether counterparts of the planetary
spirits. According to an Akkadian magic tablet, 'They proceed from the ocean
depths, from the hidden retreat.' From the ancient idea of the seven nether
spheres, Dante took his vision of the descending circles of hell.'
'Early Christians taught that each human soul descends from heaven, picking
up one of the seven deadly sins from each planetary sphere along the way:
lust from Venus, anger from Mars, and so on. After death, the soul returned
to the highest heaven, shedding the same sins one by one, while passing the
'innkeeper' of the spheres - providing, of course, that the soul was
Christianized and therefore properly enlightened.'
When we study what the ancients said about them, we discover that the
Anunnaki, et al., are part of the celestial mythos, not 'aliens.' These
Anunnaki are, in fact, the 'seven nether spheres' or mirror images of the
seven 'planets.' These seven judges are a common mythical motif, also found
in Slavic/Serbian mythology, for example, where they are clearly identified
as the planets. As we can see, the reality of this issue is much more
colorful and luminous than a group of bizarre aliens terrorizing cavemen.
This information is what the ancients themselves wrote. They did not write,
'And so the Anunnaki were sky people from another planet who landed here and
mated with humans, etc.' In fact, 'Anunnaki' is a generic term for gods,
especially secondary gods, and means 'gods of heaven and earth,' not 'those
who from heaven to earth came.'
The Anunnaki were numbered not only seven but 50, representing the gods in
general. The 50 were apparently also the stars, as recorded in the Epic of
Gilgamesh:
'At the break of dawn in the morning there arose from the foundation of
heaven a dark cloud. The Storm god thundered within it and Nebo [Mercury]
and Marduk [Jupiter-Sun] went before it. Then went the heralds over mountain
and plain. Uragala dragged the anchors loose, the Annunak raised their
torches, with their flashing they lighted the earth. The roar of the Storm
god reached to the heavens and everything bright turned into darkness.'
The Annunaki, in fact, were numbered 900 as well, again representing the
stars or 'heavenly hosts,' as worshipped by the Canaanites and Hebrews.
Benson writes in The History of God From Abraham to Moses:
'The Anunnaki were analogous to the 'host of heaven' of the Hebrews. Marduk
allotted portions to the Anunnaki: 'To the Anunnaki of heaven and earth
[Marduk] had allotted their portions.' Likewise, the Canaanite-Hebrew god El
Elyon allotted portions to his sons: 'When the Most High [Heb. Elyon] gave
to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he
fixed the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
For the LORD's portion is his people, Jacob [Israel] his allotted heritage.'
(Deuteronomy 32:8-9 RSV) These 'sons of God' in the following verse are also
called the 'host of heaven,' to whom God divided to all the nations: 'And
lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see ... all the host of
heaven ... which the LORD your God has divided to all nations under the
whole heaven.' (Deuteronomy 4:19 KJV) These gods were secondary gods: 'For
the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords ...' (Deuteronomy 10:17
KJV) 'O give thanks to the God of gods ...' (Psalm 136:2 KJV)
Yahweh
Also, the biblical god Yahweh is NOT a person, alien or otherwise. 'He' too
is in large part a solar myth. Regarding Yahweh, the Catholic Encyclopedia
says:
'It seems likely that the name of Ea, or Ya, or Aa, the oldest god of the
Babylonian Pantheon, is connected with the name Jahve, Jahu, or Ja, of the
Old Testament.' The Babylonian 'Ea' is equivalent to Enlil, whom, as we have
seen, is a sun god. The following is an excerpt from my book The Christ
Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold:
Prior to being labeled Yahweh, the Israelite god was called 'Baal,'
signifying the sun in the Age of Taurus. When the sun passed into Aries,
'the Lord's' name was changed to the Egyptian Iao, which became YHWH, IEUE,
Yahweh, Jahweh, Jehovah and Jah. This ancient name 'IAO/Iao' represents the
totality of 'God,' as the 'I' symbolizes unity, the 'a' is the 'alpha' or
beginning, while the 'o' is the 'omega' or end. In fact, the name Yahweh,
Iao, or any number of variants thereof can be found in several cultures:
'In Phoenicia the Sun was known as Adonis . . . identical with Iao, or,
according to the Chinese faith, Yao (Jehovah), the Sun, who makes his
appearance in the world 'at midnight of the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth
month.''
YHWH/IEUE was additionally the Egyptian sun god Ra:
'Ra was the father in heaven, who has the title of 'Huhi' the eternal, from
which the Hebrews derived the name 'Ihuh.'' Thus, the tetragrammaton or
sacred name of God IAO/IEUE/YHWH is very old, pre-Israelite, and can be
etymologically linked to numerous gods, even to 'Jesus,' or 'Yahushua,'
whose name means 'salvation' or 'Iao/YHWH saves.' As Higgins says:
'The pious Dr. Parkhurst . . . proves, from the authority of Diodorus
Siculus, Varro, St. Augustin, etc., that the Iao, Jehovah, or ieue, or ie of
the Jews, was the Jove of the Latins and Etruscans. . . . he allows that
this ie was the name of Apollo . . . He then admits that this ieue Jehovah
is Jesus Christ in the following sentences: 'It would be almost endless to
quote all the passages of scripture wherein the name . . . (ieue) is applied
to Christ . . . they cannot miss of a scriptural demonstration that Jesus is
Jehovah.' But we have seen it is admitted that Jehovah is Jove, Apollo, Sol,
whence it follows that Jesus is Jove, etc.'
Yahweh had yet another aspect to 'his' persona, as at some early stage the
'sacred tetragrammaton' of 'God' was bi-gendered. As Walker states:
'Jewish mystical tradition viewed the original Jehovah as an androgyne,
his/her name compounded as Jah (jod) and the pre-Hebraic name of Eve, Havah
or Hawah, rendered he-vau-he- in Hebrew letters. The four letters together
made the sacred tetragrammaton, YHWH, the secret name of God. . . . The
Bible contains many plagiarized excerpts from earlier hymns and prayers to
Ishtar and other Goddess figures, with the name of Yahweh substituted for
that of the female deity.'
Thus, even Yahweh was at one time plural, but 'he' eventually became an
all-male, sky god. This singular Yahweh was a warrior god, representing the
sun in Aries, which is ruled by the warlike Mars and symbolized by the Ram -
the same symbolic ram 'caught in a thicket' near Abraham and used by him as
a replacement sacrifice for his son Isaac. This warrior god Yahweh was not
only Jealous but Zealous, as his name is rendered in Young's Literal
Translation:
' . . . for ye do not bow yourselves to another god - for Jehovah, whose
name [is] Zealous, is a zealous God.' (Exodus 34:14) In fact, the same word
in Hebrew is used for both jealous and zealous, although is transliterated
differently, 'qanna' being jealous and 'qana,' zealous. As El Elyon was but
one of the Canaanite Elohim, the Most High God, so was 'Yahweh,' as 'El
Qanna,' the Jealous/Zealous God, which is why in the Old Testament he keeps
sticking his nose in and shouting at everyone. The title 'Jealous/Zealous'
is also appropriate for a god represented by a volcano, as was Yahweh by the
smoky and fiery Mt. Sinai. Hence, Yahweh's followers themselves were
intolerant and hotheaded zealots.
Conclusion
There was in reality never any need for absurd sci-fi explanation or
speculation as to these various characters and their stories. Nor was there
a need to take the Bible as a literal, historical document. Indeed, the
behind-the-scenes elite have known the allegorical, mythical and
astrological nature of the Bible and its characters from the beginning.
It is evident that the ancients recording these myths were in fact often
smarter than the average 'useless eater,' to use a CIA phrase. They knew the
difference between planets and people/aliens. The architecture, writings and
traditions of these various ancient cultures, including Sumero-Babylon,
India, Egypt, Chaldea, Phoenicia/Canaan, etc., show an advanced degree of
civilization surpassing that which followed it. Such later degradation is
particularly true when it comes to biblical peoples. The Bible, in fact,
represents a dumbed-down version of the mythology of the aforementioned
cultures. In reality, in terms of cosmic knowledge, in many important ways
modern man has devolved. One of the major problems is the compulsive and
irrational personification and vulgarization of the planetary bodies and of
the celestial mythos and ritual, a body of knowledge and wisdom concerning
the cosmos and specifically the solar system, which filled the ancients with
awe and reverence. This mythos and ritual is found worldwide, reflecting a
global culture in ancient times. This body of knowledge is traceable through
legends to 70,000 years ago, but, according to Albert Churchward, for
example, extends back much further. It is found in stone and story all over
the world, reflected in the mysterious megalithic ruins.
To reduce this glory to a band of aliens and/or humans is silly and
deplorable, as it robs the ancients of intelligence and wisdom, among other
things, including the quality of humanity itself. Furthermore, part of the
brainwashing to get people to accept the story of Jesus Christ, for
example - which is the story of the sun - was to make 'myths' appear to be
foolish stories with no basis in reality. This mental programming or 'meme'
has been displayed abundantly, but the fact is that myths are not silly
fantasies and hallucinations. They are stories designed to pass along vital
information from generation to generation. It is easier to remember the
'exploits' of the sun, moon and stars, for example, when they are
personified and told in a fun story than when presented in a dry
dissertation. It is only when the knowledge, or gnosis, has been lost that
humans start believing these entities to be real people - and the gnosis was
very effectively driven underground by organized religion, such that it was
lost to the masses, who now must piece it together, often coming up with
erroneous and inaccurate interpretations with occasional hits now and then.
� 1999 Acharya S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://www.paradise-web.com/plus_le/plus.mirage?who=k2&id=311.208226456773
My research into the possiblility of alien visitation has spanned over 25
years. I am offering only a few of my conclusions here, for the evidence is
extensive. The Annunkai were also known as the Nephilim, as Sitchin attests.
The huge structures found around the world were built by giants, who were
the progeny of the fallen angels (Nephilim/Annunaki and earth women. Not
only the Bible, but numerous texts assembled out of the Qumran (dead sea
scroll) fragments support this contention.
The Sumerians/Babylonians developed a religion based on not only the worship
of these beings, but also a solar religion, as you attest in your post here.
The Egyptians, and later the Hellenists, embellished the earlier
Sumerian/Babylonian tales, and the Nephilim/Annunaki were called the 'sons
of Horus/Osiris.' By the way, the term Annunaki is found in Numbers 13:33
and supports the fact that the Nephilim (the King James Bible called the
Nephilim 'the sons of God' in Genesis 6) were the fathers of the giants:
'And there we saw the giants, the sons of anak (annunaki) which come of the
giants'...
The Jewish historian Josephus mentioned in his writings that the ancient
bones of the giants were put on display in his time, ca. 70 A.D.
Yes, I admit that Sitchin makes stretches in order to prove his points, as
did Eric von Daniken did in his time, with his book Chariots of the Gods.
However, there is truth behind all this, and it goes a bit deeper than
ancient religions that deified planetary objects.
As for your claims about the theology of the ancient Hebrews and Israelites,
in regard to Baal worship: on some points you are correct, but on some
points you are way off the charts as far as demonstrating your knowledge of
the scriptures and the history of the ancient peoples. There is more
coherency in today's theology than you may realize; the fact that it is not
readily recognized by many is the fact that so many are not only Biblically
illiterate, but denominationalism, and its foundation built on tradition
rather than knowledge, obfuscates a concise picture of the plan of YHVH.
Consider this: the difference between the polytheism of the cultures that
were opposed to the hebrews, who were warned by YAHWEH (not the sun) Himself
on Mt. Sinai to 'have no other Gods before me' was that the polytheists like
the Sumerians Babylonians, Egyptians, et al., worshipped the fallen angels,
and the Hebrews listened to YHVH.
Incidentally, I just posted a link to the Biblcial Archaeology website.
The true Mt. Sinai is scorched at the top. which offers physical proof of
the Biblical account of the Theophany on Jebel al Lawz, the true Mt. Sinai.
Ex. 19:18
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for other reference material:
http://www.crossfields.com/~watcher/hoag2.html
http://www.mt.net/~watcher/noah.html
http://www.mt.net/~watcher/judgment.html
http://www.mt.net/~watcher/antimars.html
http://www.lambsheart.com/fourwinds/naphal2.html
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