Updated -- 29 August 2011
Laurence Gardner is his excellent book, Genesis of the Grail Kings [Bantam Books, New York, 1999] asks the reason for Genesis 9:4: “But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.” Why, for example, would Jehovah oppose the intake of blood, while allowing his worshipers to eat flesh (which ultimately, of course, contains a certain amount of blood)? What would be the appeal of eating blood, if not due to some religious or philosophical belief? Better yet, why bother to specifically dictate a law -- early in Genesis -- that forbid the practice?
One possible answer involves the apparent longevity of the Anunnaki race. Their long lives were consistently and explicitly related to the ingestion of blood. The very idea of taking in blood was, of course, carried forward in everything from the blood sacrifices of the Aztecs to the American Indian eating of the blood of the American Buffalo. There were often reasons for each of these practices, but not necessarily convincing ones. More likely is the rationale that these later practices were rituals gone astray, once the real reason for the practice was lost to the practitioners.
From the viewpoint of ancient civilizations, primarily Sumerian and Egyptian, a substance called Star Fire was considered to be nothing less than the life-giving extract from the divine menstrual blood of the Goddess. In its original form, Star Fire was the lunar (menstrual) essence of one of the fourteen birth Goddesses. But even in the mundane, menstruum contains the most valuable endocrinal secretions of the pineal and pituitary glands. The Oxford English Dictionary even goes so far as to describe the menstrual action as “an alchemical parallel with the transmutation into gold.” [emphasis added]
The latter really has to grab your attention! To make the point, an earlier dictionary (prior to certain meanings being edited out of the text), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines menstruum as: “A solvent, especially one used in extracting and preparing drugs. [Middle English, from Medieval Latin menstruum, solvent, originally ‘menstrual blood’ (alchemists regarded the gold-transmuting solvent as similar to menstrual blood, which they believed transformed sperm in the womb into an embryo)].”
In ancient Egypt and other parts of the Mediterranean, menstruum was ritually collected from priestesses, known as the Scarlet Women. These women were known in the original as “beloved ones”, and via various translations, as “whores”. (But these women were never considered to be prostitutes or adulteresses -- the contrary interpretation being a contrived strategy of the Roman Church in their bid to denigrate the Scarlet Women.)
Originally, the earliest patriarchs were apparently weaned on the menstrual blood of the Goddesses (aka Scarlet Women), in order to ensure their longevity and abilities. But then, at the time of the flood, things changed. The edict of Genesis 9:4 came into play. But like most such edicts, it’s always good to know the source -- and thus hints of perhaps the why of such an edict being issued. [pardon the pun]
The Genesis 9:4 edict to abstain from blood came from Jehovah, aka the Sumerian Enlil. This is the same god of vengeance who deceived Adam and Eve by forbidding to them the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, the same god who was willing to let the human race drown in the Flood and Deluge (and who Biblically, was the instigator of both), and in general, the god who demonstrated a distinct dislike and/or disregard for human beings. If Enlil forbade the intake of blood, it was likely an attempt on his part to deny Noah and his descendants something that might be to their distinct benefit.
Note for example that the lifetimes of The Adam's Family took a quantum leap in shorter lifetimes, beginning with Noah. This was when the Star Fire, the “blood thereof”, became a restricted substance.
If the Star Fire was the key element in the long lives of the patriarchal line from Adam to Noah, and to a lesser extent from Noah to Abraham -- then the variations in their long lives should be understood. The Sumerian king lists also showed a notable difference in the lifetimes of kings between the pre-Flood and post-Flood periods. This is because they were also the recipients of the Star Fire. The same applies to the same individuals with different names from different cultures. Keep in mind that kingship was perceived as being “lowered from heaven”, i.e. of Anunnaki origin, and it is without question that they differed necessarily and in essence from other men -- the fundamental difference being the royal access to Star Fire.
It is also worth noting that the lifetimes of the pre-flood Sumerian kings were substantially longer than the patriarchal line from Adam to Noah. And yet, there is evidence to suggest that the patriarchs and Sumerian kings were one and the same. Certainly, Abraham hailed from the Sumerian city of Ur (of the Chaldees). His family was in all aspects, Sumerian. The point is that the Biblical life times of almost a thousand years for the Adam’s Family may be understating the case. According to Zecharia Sitchin, their lifetimes may have been more on the order of tens of thousands of years, or even more! Sitchin also extends the dating of the Flood and Deluge back to 11,500 B.C.E. (vice the more traditional date of circa 4000 B.C.E.). The effect of this is that even Noah’s descendants up until the time of Abraham were living hundreds, if not thousands, of years!
Unquestionably, the time of Noah and the Flood saw a drastic change in patriarchal life times. This would suggest a gradual, quantum style reduction in the availability of the Star Fire to Noah’s descendants. A quick review of The Adam's Family, for example, shows that while Noah kept up the family tradition by making it to 950 years of age, his son, Shem managed only 600 years, while the next three generations (Arphaxad Salah, and Eber) all lived less than half of Noah’s time. These three also outlived, according to the Biblical account, all of the next five generations! The next six generations were living half the time of their immediate ancestors, and one fourth that of Noah. This is not typical genetics! It suggests, instead, a step wise reduction in proper nourishment, specifically, a denial of the life giving properties of the Goddess menstrual blood, the Star Fire.
Around 2000 B.C.E., another major shift in the Star Fire practice was instituted. This time corresponds to the beginning of the fall of the Sumerian Civilization, when the overthrow of their city forced Terah, his son Abraham, and their families to migrate from Ur to Haran. Very significantly, the Anunnaki departed as well! According to a Sumerian text: “The gods have abandoned us like migrating birds. Smoke lies on our cities like a shroud.”
With the Anunnaki no longer in residence in Sumeria, with Marduk of Babylonia being established as the supreme Anunnaki deity on Earth, Enlil and his gang were stepping away from the overt control of the human race. And with their departure, came the departure of one of the fringe benefits they had previously provided: The Star Fire. After human generations of weaning the patriarchs off the Star Fire, suddenly our guys were forced to go cold Turkey.
But being entrepreneurs, they were not to be denied entirely. Since the Anunnaki Star Fire was no longer available, a substitute would have to be found. The new “improved” product thereafter came from the master craftsmen, the metallurgists of Tubal-cain. It was called the ORME.
In fact, for the purposes of longevity, the ORME might have become an alternative to the Star Fire even earlier, perhaps as early as the time of Noah -- which would also explain the decrease in life times. At the earlier dates, the Star Fire may have been used in conjunction with the ORME. But in the later ages, the original nectar of the gods was no longer available, and an artificial life-sweetener was necessary.
The ORME is also connected with Superconductivity and other physical phenomenon, including potentially Levitation. The latter is particularly important in that Mount Horeb may have been an ORME production facility, and the White Powder of Gold generated there being used to move into place the massive stones of The Great Pyramids of Giza. A particular relevant discussion is a discussion by Barry Carter and others now located at Halexandria Forums. (7/20/08)
A particular relevant discussion is a discussion by Barry Carter and others now located at Halexandria Forums. (7/20/08)
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