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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 before
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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