Beyond the prosaic level of the fact that Ninurta’s temple was centered at Nimrud in modern day Iraq, there are other much more suggestive themes that link the two. For example, one of Ninurta’s titles that Gardner’s genealogical chart clearly highlights is his title of “The Mighty Hunter,” a title associated in turn with Ninurta’s defeat of (An)Zu. It is, in other words, a title deliberately and directly associated with the cosmic war and the theft and recovery of the Tablets of Destinies, with their universal-power bestowing properties. As Assyriologist Stephanie Dalley notes, Ninurta is the avenger and champion of Enlil and the leader of the Anunnaki in that phase of the war that concerned itself with the second theft of the Tablets.560 It is with this tapestry of concepts and titles associated with Ninurta that one finds the resemblance to the Biblical figure of Nimrod.
Nimrod is mentioned only very briefly in the Old Testament, in Genesis 8: 8-10. The context here is significant, for Genesis 8 forms one part in the total “Flood” context that begins with chapter 6 and ends with the Tower of Babel moment in chapter 11. At this point, it is worth quoting what Genesis 8:8-10 has to say about him:
8. And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
10. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.561
Thus Nimrod shares with Ninurta the distinctive title of “Mighty Hunter.” And in the biblical version, it is clear that Nimrod is given this title because he is a conqueror, indeed, the very first conqueror-despot mentioned in the Bible. In this he closely parallels Ninurta, who obtained his title of Mighty Hunter for similarly warlike reasons.
It is also interesting to note the context in which these verses occur within chapter ten, for the entirety of the rest of the chapter is nothing but a record of “the generations of the sons of Noah (v. 1).” In other words, the usual succession of “begats” is interrupted momentarily to provide a small commentary on the enigmatic figure of Nimrod, and then the text resumes for twenty-one more verses of “begats”, whereupon the chapter ends, and the eleventh chapter begins. And this is significant, for the eleventh chapter of Genesis begins immediately with the story of the Tower of Babel in verses 1- 9. Now note what Gen 8:10 says about Nimrod’s kingdom: it began in Babel. This strongly suggests that the biblical account intends for the reader to associate Nimrod with the Tower of Babel moment.
Now let us recall - once again - what I said in my book The Giza Death Star Destroyed about the Tower of Babel moment.
1. The Genesis Account
“There is another event that bears mentioning with regard to the decline of the paleoancient Very High Civilization and its presumably unified physics and sophisticated technology: the Tower of Babel. The Old Testament affords a significant clue into the event that transformed the unified and paleoancient Very High Civilization into a multitude of squabbling and declined legacy cultures that resulted from it. The story is recounted in Genesis 11: 1-9:
1. And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
2. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt with there.
3. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
4. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.562
“In the context of the broad scenario previously outlined, the “Tower of Babel Moment” permits a further speculation: could the “one language” and “one people” be taken in the broadest sense, not only of one natural human language and one civilization, but of one language of science, a unified science and physics? And could the “one people” refer not only to that one paleoancient Very High Civilization, but also to the unifying cultural effects that “one language” and unified scientific worldview afforded it? Nothing in the biblical account precludes these possibilities, and indeed, there is a strong indication that the Tower may be the Pyramid itself, if one understands the “top which reaches to heaven” to be a metaphor of the Pyramid’s many dimensional analogs of local celestial mechanics. By a similar line of reasoning, a unified physics and science is implied in the divine observation that “nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.” Clearly, the “Tower” was no Renaissance painting of vast brickwork straining to reach skyscraper heights with wooden scaffolding and cranes groaning to lift massive weights to enormous heights. Something else entirely was at work. In this context, it might not be going too far to speculate that the destruction of the Tower of Babel may refer, in oblique terms, to the destruction of “the Great Affliction” and “Weapon,” the Great Pyramid.”
And thus I wrote in The Giza Death Star Destroyed.
But we now have new data that forms part of the paleophysical context from which to view the Tower of Babel moment, and these are the Tablets of Destinies, which as we have seen throughout the previous chapters, not only conveyed a universal power to their possessors, but their power - as we have theorized - was based on the fact that they were catalogues of the holographic interferometric “gratings” of objects in local space, inclusive of the emotional states of conscious beings. Recalling also that R.A. Boulay stated that the Tablets or MEs were a kind of “instruction manual” or software to a technology of some sort, then it stands to reason that one way to interfere with or to destroy a project designed to build - or rebuild - an “ekur,” “tower” or “pyramid” that utilized the Tablets in a hegemony-bestowing way was to render the “software” inoperable by rendering its human interpreters incapable of understanding its “operating language.” It is a classic maneuver in a kind of guerilla warfare.
To put it differently, if Nimrod is associated with Ninurta, then he is associated with the Tablets of Destinies, and this in turn means that the Biblical account of the Tower of Babel may be yet another chapter in the saga of the Tablets and the Story of the Stones.
2. The Sumerian Tower of Babel
But Nimrod is also associated with...Enki. In the Sumerian version of the Tower of Babel, known as Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, composed ca. 2000 BC and thus in all likelihood older than the Genesis version of the story, the “whole world, the people as one, to Enlil in one tongue gave voice.”563 Then enters a peculiar character, En, or Enki:
Then did the contender - the en (lord)
The contender - the master
The contender - the king
The contender - the en
The contender - the master
The contender - the king
Enki, en of hegal,
The one with the unfailing words,
En of cunning, the shrewd one of the land,
Sage of the gods, gifted in thinking,
The en of Eridu,
Change the speech of their mouths,
He having set up contention in it,
In the human speech that had been one.564
Nimrod in the Sumerian version of the story is represented by the character Enmerk
ar. Now note that in the Hebrew, with is a consonantal alphabet, the name Nimrod would be represented n-m-r-d. In Sumerian, the character Enmerkar is simply Enmer, to which the suffix “kar,” meaning “hunter”, has been added. Enmer would be consonantally represented as n-m-r.565
The parallels do not stop there.
The Sumerian Kings List, to which reference has already been made in this book, states that Enmerkar also constructed Uruk. In Genesis, the center of Nimrod’s kingdom was Babel or Babylon and Erech, which is another name for Uruk. Here too there is reason to believe the Biblical text, given its antiquity, might not refer to Babel or Babylon, but to Eridu, the cult headquarters for Enki. This headquarters was known as the “nun-ki” or “mighty place,” a title that was only bestowed on Babylon some one thousand years later with the temple to Marduk that was dedicated there, where it was known as the “bab-ilu”, its Akkadian name. “In other words, Bab-ilu equates to Nun.ki, and the original Nun.ki was located not in Babylon, but in Eridu.”566 Archaeology would appear to support this idea, since there is an impressive ziggurat that was unearthed in the 1940s at the ancient site of Eridu. More importantly, the excavators discovered that at the hightest point of this massive ziggurat, the entire settlement was entirely and suddenly abandoned.567
This surely seems as far from Egypt, Giza, and Osiris as one can get.
However, the picture is not quite that simple, for the name Osiris itself was hieroglyphically written as the sigil for a throne, followed by that of an eye, but the order was subsequently reversed. The Egyptian form of Orisis, Ausar, is a cognate of the Mesopotamian Ashur, and implies someone who possesses his throne. Other meanings are “The seat that creates” and “The seat of the eye,” and “the Mighty one.,,568 The connections with the “Sound Eye” of the Edfu texts and with the title of Nimrod in Genesis are now apparent. The revisionist scholar David Rohl explains this constellation of symbols — Osiris, Nimrod, Eridu-Babel, and the Tower of Babel — this way:
It appears that we are dealing here with a single historical character who established the first empire on Earth and who was deified by many nations under four main groupings:
(1) Early Sumerian Enmer, later Mesopotamian Ninurta, ...biblical Nimrod, Greek Ninus;
(2) Old Babylonian Marduk, biblical Merodach, later simply known as Bel of Baal(“Lord”);
(3) Late Sumerian Asar-luhi...Assyrian Ashur, Egyptian Asar (Osiris);
(4) Sumerian Dumuzi, biblical Tammuz, Phoenician Adonis, Greek Dionysius, Roman Bacchus...569
If this identification proves true, then the connection of the Tower of Babel not only with Eridu but also with Giza, which I first speculated upon in my Giza Death Star Destroyed,570 appears even more solid, for now the connections are between Osiris, Nimrod, and Osiris’ resting place in the “Rostau” or Underworld of Giza.
We are in the presence, once again, of the richly punning, multilayered levels of meaning of the Unified Intention of Symbol, for there are now numerous connections between Giza, the wars of the Gods, Mars, the Tower of Babel moment, and mankind itself. And as the previous chapters have also detailed, we are likewise in the presence of texts that preserve a dim, though still very discernible pattern of the technology that was associated with those wars and indeed, in some accounts, was their cause. And there is one more connection that must now be mentioned. Enki, in the Greek tradition, is one and the same as Chronos, or Saturn.571 So again, one encounters that peculiar association of Mars and Saturn in this cosmic conflict, an association first observed by De Santillana and Von Dechind.
At this juncture, after many chapters and pages of analysis of texts and of science, with some linguistic and etymological excursions along the way, we are in the presence of a complex of intricately interlocking symbols and motifs all in aid of the exposition of a very simple theme: a cosmic war, fought on many worlds, with advanced technology, a technology involving stones, Tablets of Destinies, mountains, and “sound-eyes.” The worlds with which we are concerned are indicated by the “gods” hitherto discussed, and their associated planets:
We have but to look for anomalous features of artificiality, and of warfare, on these planets or their associated satellites, for external confirmation of the war hypothesis, for a prima facie case has already been made that there was once a physics sufficient to weaponize to explode a planet in an act of war, and moreover, a physics whose outlines are clearly visible, though a dim memory, in the ancient texts.
A “catalogue of clues” is now in order, by way of the exposition of certain chronological features of the scenario alluded to throughout this work, and by way of an exposition of the timing of the fall of one of the most sinister, malevolent, and genocidal and “globalcidal” figures of all in this cosmic drama of war, subterfuge, and extremes of technology: Lucifer, Ra the “sun-god” and “light-bearer.”
12.
A CATALOGUE OF CLUES: A REVIEW OF THE WAR
“Logic suggests (and I believe the facts bear this out) that there have been not one but two rebellions against God: One that occurred before the Genesis account of the formation of the earth and another that caused the fall of mankind... ”
Stephen Quayle572
The chronological framework of the cosmic war has been alluded to throughout this work, but it is now time to explore it further, in conjunction with new clues not only into the war’s participants, but also in conjunction with its phases and locations. In the process, a “catalogue of clues” will be assembled that will guide the quest for external confirming evidences in the next part of this book.
A. Primordial Revolts and Wars: Sumer, Edfu, and the Genesis “Gap” Theory
As was seen in previous chapters, there are two “primordial revolts and wars,” that referred to in the Edfu texts from Egypt, and that referred to in the Enuma Elish and other texts from Mesopotamia. There is a third major tradition from that world that must now be examined, for it moves between Mesopotamia and Egypt throughout its history, and that is the Hebrew tradition of the Old Testament and other writings.
But its movement within this mytho-cultural matrix is scarcely appreciated for what it is: a variation on the broad theme of the cosmic war. The subject is, of course, the Fall of Lucifer. Unfortunately however, both “believers” and “skeptics” know this only in basic “Sunday school” version and thus only in its broad outlines, but neither of these two polarities tends to view the angelic revolt and fall against this broader mythological and cultural context, and some would be positively disinclined to do so, for ill-conceived “theological” reasons. Nonetheless, it is important to do so, since the Fall of Lucifer provides yet a third corroboration of the idea of a primordial revolt and war in the pantheon.
This event is usually best examined in conjunction with another theory, the so-called “gap” theory of creation, for in this theory, the Fall of Lucifer is usually understood to have occurred prior to the creation of mankind.573 A hint of the possibility of a pre-existent civilization on the earth prior to the creation of mankind may be found in Jeremiah 4:23-26:
23 I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
The fact that this passage uses the same phrase, “without form and void” to describe conditions suggests that the time frame involved is that described in Genesis 1:1. Yet, as Stephen Quayle points out, there are three indicators that, while the time-frame of Genesis 1:1 is more or less in mind, there is also a civilization in existence:
• Birds were present. This suggests that the previous creation had elements similar to today’s...
• The pre-Adamic land was “fruitful” and the
refore had vegetation that supplied abundant food.
• There were ancient cities that pre-dated Adam, which were “broken down” by God’s wrath.574
In other words, the Old Testament itself strongly suggests the idea of a pre-cursor, pre-human civilization on the earth. Moreover, it strongly hints that the reason for its collapse was some sort of war.
But what of Genesis itself?
The usual translation of Genesis 1:1 has always been “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” But as many biblical scholars have not tired of pointing out, the Hebrew language’s verb system and other peculiarities of its grammar would also permit the translation When God began to create the heavens and the earth,” and then the second verse would immediately follow, “the earth was without form, and void...” and so on. This way of translating the verse, and viewing it in conjunction with the passage from Jeremiah quoted above, led to the formation by some theologians and commentators of the “Gap Theory.” This theory holds that there was an initial creation by God, that Lucifer and his hosts subsequently fell, and corrupted this original creation. In some versions of the theory, Lucifer and his hosts fell almost immediately after the initial creation, a view that would corroborate the Edfu texts’ notion of a primordial fall, a fall and conflict that occurs just as the transmutative aether is being fashioned by the gods into a recognizable world.
In any case, the Gap Theory holds that after this angelic fall, the “war in heaven” between Lucifer and his fallen angels, and Michael the Archangel and the heavenly hosts, occurred, wreaking havoc on creation itself. Thus, a “second creation” was brought about by God, this time not out of nothingness, but rather to “repair” the damage, so to speak, caused by that war. Like the Sumerian tradition, this war even has Lucifer and his hosts falling to the earth from the sky.
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