Among the ongoing questions in archaeological and anthropological circles today has been the question revolving around the origins of humankind. On one side of the debate you have the religious camp insisting quite dogmatically that ancient man descended from a singular act of supernatural creation. On the other side – and many times in diametric opposition to the religious camp – is the scientific community that insists humanity ran through a chain of evolutionary stages of ascendancy plateauing in our current state of development. But there is a third distinctive camp of thought that revolves around the alternative theory that humans are a race interrupted, that somewhere in our primordial past we experienced a genetic alteration that was so abrupt and swift as to alter the course of homo sapien development in an indiscernible blip of a moment on the great scale of linear time, breaking ties with the laws of the evolutionary process and natural ascendancy, altogether.
The notion of ancient alien interruption is not a new one, as it’s purveyors such as von Däniken, Drake, Downing, Sagan and Sitchin have been writing and theorizing on the topic for decades. Ever since early humans first gazed up in wonder at the star blanketed night sky, we were intrigued by the seemingly unanswered questions of a mysterious, unattainable universe intrigued by its unexplained mysteries. Early mythologies and legends give the circumstantial evidences of mysterious objects roaring across the heavens. Shards of ancient tablets and shreds of ancient documents describe phenomenal, unexplained manifestations in the skies, and virtually every culture and religion relates visitations from angels, demons, devils, and gods who visited mankind in ancient times. And Mankind, in it’s infancy, described these visitations from the sky in the only terms they could understand. Of course they were deities.
A resulting, even larger question, once you’ve crossed the great chasm that lies between accepted trains of scientific or religious thought, is the question of civilizations buried so far back in the historical record as to modify our current data on the history of the rise of human civilization. The Young Earth Creationists will tell you that the biblical record accounts for an earth history that is a mere 6000-7000 years old. While Science long ago established a vastly older history of human ascension, going back at least 200,000 years for the beginnings of modern man. The recent discovery of ancient temple complexes such as Gobekli Tepe near the village of Karapinar, Turkey, dating back some 12,000 years BCE have turned the established nomenclature of civilized, city-building humanity on it’s ear.
Creation and the First Family
Taking a biblical story and dissecting it to lay bare all the internal organs and skeletal structure is a meticulously important process necessary in an understanding of ancient culture. Simply said, the Bible, for all of its gloriously revered tales of Jehovah God and his interactions with his human creation, spawning three of the world’s major religions, is a source point for understanding the ancient anthropology of humanity. Depending on your view of the veracity of biblical scripture, there is no shadow of doubt that it’s pages reveal stories, accounts, myths, legends and fables that mirror – or are mirrored by – a plethora of cultures in the ancient world. The importance of the bible, if not for faith and practice, is to see it as a book that demonstrates another facet of events as experienced and recounted by ancient mankind.
Accordingly, if you are of Judeo-Christian or Muslim religious heritage, the pages of these religious texts and biblical scripture are Truth. According to certain Christian denominations, “The Bible is the only foundation and authority for faith and practice.” While that may or may not be true, it is clear that when one takes a step back from the text of the bible, removing the sometimes rose-colored glasses of dogma and systematic theology, you can start to read between the lines and see, as it were, the vastness of the world flickering between the slats as you walk along the perimeter fence of one of the world’s most holiest of books.
Most of us grew up learning spiritual stories of the creation of the world. And most of us are familiar with that first couple, Adam and Eve. Through the medium of felt, cut-out story board dioramas in our childhoods, we were taught that God commanded the first man and woman to not eat of a specific fruit of a certain tree in the Garden of Eden, lest they die. And of how, subsequently, Eve was tempted by the serpent to eat of the forbidden Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, thus bringing that fateful bite, the introduction of sin into the world and the fall of all mankind, forever. The Genesis couple was then ushered from paradise and given the command to “be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth with offspring.” Their first two children were Cain and his twin brother Able, the start of a vast a wide spread civilization.
There are many other world cultures that have varying accounts of the creation and the first family, some of which border on that fairy tale sort of scenario, such as gods or great human warriors casting beasts and animals into the skies to create the swath of heavenly constellations. African and Native American accounts of creation share such commonalities such as subterranean humans coming to the surface of the earth and “gods’ from the heavens impregnating their beautiful daughters with quadruplets.
For example, in LaKota accounts of the first human family, Waziya, the Old Man, and his wife Wakanka, came out into the world from underground, gave birth to Ite, a daughter so beautiful, that she captivated the attentions of Tate, the God of the Wind, who married her and fathered quadruplets. In this account, we are told of a character, Iktomi the Trickster, who tempted that first family with promises of great wealth, power and beauty. Iktomi bears great resemblance to the old testiment’s account of Lucifer, who appeared as a “snake,” tempting Eve in the Garden of Eden, promising eternal life and knowledge like that of the gods if she ate of the forbidden tree at the garden’s center. As with the LaKota tale of Waziya, Wakanka and Ite, disobedience and treachery against the God/gods resulted in banishment from paradise for them all. Lucifer and his LaKota counterpart, Iktomi, were cursed and exiled to the earth for all time, while the first families went on to bear children and spread throughout the world.
It is very interesting to note that while Waziya and Wakanka “came out from underground,” that in the Genesis account, Adam was “formed out of the clay of the ground.” The similarities in cultural versions of creation can be clearly seen. All the varied cultural tales of creation have such a vast number of similarities and overlaps, that the touch points create a tangled web of scientific methodology, established more by the cross-overs in the myths of various cultures, rather than the veracity of the individual cultural tale.
In the Genesis account of Adam and Eve, the fall of all Mankind was a direct result of disobedience. People ask, “Why was all of humanity cursed for all time because of a bite of an apple?” It’s because the biting into the fruit by Eve (which, by the way, is never identified as an “apple” in the text), was not the issue. The issue, it is said, was her direct disobedience to a command mandated by the superior “Divine Being.” As a direct result of her violation, and then her luring her husband Adam to share in the disobedience, the Fall of Mankind came hammering down with eternal, historical, devastatingly permanent effect.
But after the events of creation and the fall of mankind in the Garden of Eden, it seems that the story begins to morph into events that could conceivably take on a more solid historical form.
My Brother’s Keeper
According to the Book of Genesis, Adam and Eve gave birth to two sons, naming them Cain and Able.
“1Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man.” 2 Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. 3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD. 4 And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast. [Genesis 4:1-5]
The passage is not clear, even in the Hebrew linguistics, whether Able was born as a second child, years later, or whether, like the African and LaKota creation myths, this was a multiple birth. But Cain and Able, according to the verbiage of the text were most likely twins.
As they story goes, Cain was a “tiller of the ground,” a husbandman who grew vegetables, important to the survival of his family. His twin brother Able, was a sheep herder, raising meat for the same purpose. As they went to worship their creator, Able killed and burned a sheep on the altar as his offering to God. Cain, on the other hand, took of the increase of his labor and offered a share of his vegetables, burning them in sacrifice on the altar in the same fashion as his twin brother. But while Able’s offering was a sweet, acceptable sacrifice to the Creator, Cain’s was not. God rejected Cain’s offerings due to their lack of blood-letting. The sheep, as biblical scholars have said, represented the killing of a living thing that emitted blood. The blood was considered to be Life itself, and the process of sacrifice was meant to be a precursor to the Kinsman Redeemer, the Messiah who would one day come and redeem the fallen race of man by the spilling of his own blood. This symbolic system of sacrifices developed over the millennia and carried into the Tabernacle and Temple worship in Jerusalem. While Cain’s offering was from his heart, it was not what, apparently, was prescribed or necessary to please Jehovah.
It is very interesting that God could come down and communicate with his created beings, but that he did nothing to hinder the upcoming savage murder of Able. He could talk to the future murderer, Cain, but did nothing – as recorded in the passage – to warn Able. While this is a subjective observation, it is noteworthy that there was such an incredible, physical, audial, visual interplay, yet the only thing God did to asuage Cain’s anger prior to the murder was to warn him that he needed to cool his jets and not give sin an opportunity to take hold of him. He said nothing to the unwitting Able.
6 Then the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” [ Genesis 4:6-7 ]
There is only a warning given to not let his emotions run away with him, but then there is harsh judgment from the same Creator who talked with him face-to-face. Consider what it would be like as you proceed through life if the Creator of the Universe interacted with you on a personal basis, telling you to be careful of this or that. Cain must have held a special place in the eyes of God, for we read nothing of the same sort of interaction between God and Able. Cain was warned to not let sin take him over, while Able didn’t hear a word about protecting himself from his brother’s anger. According to this passage, God’s human creation was in such infancy, that the rudiments of committing murder, and then the seeming inability to grasp its consequence tells the tale of a very young civilization with very little experience in dealing with the harsh realities of human interaction such as murder. Yet, for some reason, God kept focusing on Cain.
As the story goes, Cain, in jealousy of his twin brother’s position with God – and in anger over his own rejection by the deity – took his brother out to the field and murdered him.
Cause and Effect: The Consequence of the First Murder
When God asked Cain about the incident, and the whereabouts of Able, Cain uttered that famous question, “I don’t know where he is – am I my brother’s keeper?” As a result, God branded Cain with a mark and banished him from the region of Eden, to wander as an exile the rest of his days. In the meantime, we are told that Adam and Eve bore their third son, Seth, and Eve held him up as a replacement from God for her murdered son.
This is the Genesis account of the aftermath of Cain’s murder of Able, take specific note of the emotions, such as they are recorded, of Cain. Then take note of what God did by way of judgment and how Cain reacted…
10 “The LORD said, ‘What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. 11 Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.’
“ 13 Cain said to the LORD, ‘My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.’
God banishes Cain from the region of Eden and Cain is very concerned that if he is “found by other people,” he will be executed. While there is no civilized system of jurisprudence in place, Cain believes that his life is in danger for killing his brother Able. The questions to ask are: Were there people other than Adam, Eve and Cain already in existence at the time of this murder? Was there already some sort of system of laws and rules in place? Were there courts or leaders who judged people for the breaking of societal laws and mores? Was there even a society? Who would kill Cain if, indeed, only he and his parents were left alive after Able’s murder? This seems to indicate one of two things: there were other descendents of Adam and Eve not mentioned in the passage, or there was a population of people already living and dwelling in the regions outside of Eden who might take Cain’s life. Cain was clearly afraid to leave Eden.
What is blatantly missing from the account is the meticulous detailing of biblical genealogies, and the fact that Cain’s wife is never mentioned as being part of his family tree.
God answers Cain’s concerns that he would be killed should other people find him, this way:
15 “But the LORD said to him, ‘Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.’ Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went out from the LORD’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
So Cain’s punishment for killing his brother was banishment from the region of Eden – remember, Adam and Eve had been ousted from the “garden” of Eden, not the geographical region. So it was probable that the first family never wandered very far from Jehovah’s care and protection. But protection from whom? Another aspect of Cain’s punishment was actually a divine protection placed on him. God marked Cain with some visible tattoo or recognizable mark that would let other people know that he was not to be touched. There would be no “eye for an eye,” nor “tooth for tooth,” nor “blood for blood” in the case of Able’s murder. Cain was merely sent away and marked for protection, so he could live out his days as a wanderer in the world.
17a “Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch.” [ Genesis 4:17a ]
It is at this point that the incidental music of our story comes to a scratching, screeching halt as the needle of seeming contradiction is carelessly torn along the record album of biblical history. If Adam, Eve, Cain and Able were the only four living human beings on earth – well three, if you put a chicken scratch through Able – who was this woman that Cain married, and where did he wander to find her? Theological apologists will tell you that this woman and the inhabitants of her region were none other then descendents of Adam and Eve’s other children, who had migrated away from the Eden region over the course of, obviously, many, many years. They will also purport that Cain and Able, while being the first two sons of that original couple, may have aged hundreds of years before the time of the events of the first murder and banishment, providing an undefined period of time for the branching out and resettlement of an exponentially multiplied tree of Adamic offspring.
17b”Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch. 18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.
19 “Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah. 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock. 21 His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes. 22 Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron. Tubal-Cain’s sister was Naamah.
23 Lamech said to his wives,
“Adah and Zillah, listen to me;
wives of Lamech, hear my words.
I have killed a man for wounding me,
a young man for injuring me.
24 If Cain is avenged seven times,
then Lamech seventy-seven times.”
[ Genesis 4:17b-24 ]
Before we move further, there is a bittersweet, poigniant end to this passage in which we learn that Adam and Eve had a third child, a son whom they named Seth. Eve pronounces him a gift from the Lord to replace her murdered son, Abel. This seems to indicate that she had no other male children between the time of Able’s murder and the birth of Seth.
25 “Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, ‘God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.’” [ Genesis 4:25 ]
Interestingly enough, it is this very same Seth who later dwells in Nod with his older brother, Cain, the murderer of his other older brother, Able.
East of Eden
Other than Adam, Eve, Cain and Able, there are no other members of the Adamic family listed in the Hebrew scripture at the time of Able’s murder. There is no genealogical record, no names given. Nothing. Banished from Eden, Cain left behind the only two other people mentioned in the bible as being on the earth at that time, Adam and Eve. He went out into a world void of inhabitants and civilization, east to the land of Nod. Once there, the passage tells us that he made love to his wife (of course, what else would you do after being banished from the only place on earth), whom he either brought with him from Eden – meaning it was one of his sisters not named in the account of the first family – or a woman he met in his wanderings. She, in turn, bore him a son whom Cain named Enoch.
And there in the Land of Nod, Cain built a city, most likely a wooden enclosure around a few huts, in honor of his new son, and named the city after him, Enoch. Of the subsequent history of this little city we know very little, but of the name of the city we know a very great deal. Without entering into too much detail regarding changes in pronunciation occurring in the course of the development of a language, it seems necessary to point out here that the sound represented by the letter N is often reproduced as an R. The CH sound which terminates the name Enoch may be replaced by a K or G, or a GH sound. These sorts of linguistic changes are very common in ancient tongues, and in relation to biblical city mounds – or tels – the people living around these cites kept the name places fairly intact over the passage of millennia. And this revealed a very important city in antiquity that appeared under the name Uruk and a study of cuneiform soon revealed that this could equally well be pronounced Unuk, which was recognized as identical with the Biblical word, Enoch.2
What is more interesting is that the name Uruk/Unuk became synonymous with the word “city,” and not simply a mere city, but a “city of great historical importance.” The word in it’s raw form actually means, “The First City.”
The writer of the book of genesis is traditionally considered to be Moses, who lived during the mid-1400s BCE. While he was guilty of renaming ancient places with the names that were current in his day, it is obvious that there were also many later scribal changes to his manuscripts. While it is a fact that Moses lived from roughly 1526BCE to 1406 BCE, he mentions the cities of Pithom and Ramses, which didn’t exist until some 200 years later. But he does mention the city built by Cain as being named Enoch/Uruk.
The Land of Nod
“Nod” (נוד) is the Hebrew root of the verb “to wander” (לנדוד) and is obviously an etymological causation intended to explain the wandering, nomadic lifestyle of Cain and his future putative descendants, the Kenites. This sort of play on words is typical of rabbinic writings and suggests that this is a later scribal interpretation, which was more than likely inserted to suggest that Cain’s descendants were “without territory” – in other words, nomadic. Additionally, the Hebrew language did not exist prior to the time of Abraham, who lived some 4000 years after the time of Cain. The language Cain and his descendents would have spoken was probably a Nilotic/Kushitic language closer to Old Arabic (Dedanite).
Mythology + History ÷ Spirituality = Wonder
“Our tiny corner of the universe may have been visited thousands of times in the past few billions of years,” so said Carl Sagan in Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966), coauthored with I. S. Shklovski. “At least one of these visits may have occurred in historical times.”
Sagan, both an astronomer and exobiologist, as well as an established atheist and reasoned skeptic, theorized that Earth may have been visited by various “galactic civilizations” many times during earth’s primordial past. He also insisted that it was not entirely out of the realm of possibility that extraterrestrial artifacts and remnants of visitations and even civilizations may still exist, or even that some kind of alien base is maintained within our solar system to provide continuity for successive expeditions.
This hypothesis coming from as respected a scientist as Carl Sagan acted as a catalyst for many in the Ufological community and field to theorize that humankind may have been the result of alien seeding or extraterrestrial genetic interference. Despite scientific conventional theory regarding the origin of species, there is still no real proof as to how humans got here in the first place. The great Darwinian missing link is still, frankly, missing. So what scientists are doing, in all reality, is simply incorporating exponential leaps of faith to fill in the gaps. In a sense, science is creating a mythology of it’s very own in that it uses the human imagination to fill in the gaps in the theorized sequence of human ascendancy from primates into higher levels of sapiens.
And even the DNA linkages that we once thought existed between apes and humans, has been dramatically reduced in more recent DNA studies, where the once 95% similarity between humans and chimps, has been reduced to a woeful 67% and lower.
While the evidence is only circumstantial, it is beginning to look as if the link to primates is becoming less and less an active, provable theory on the genetic level. The missing link between humans and our primate cousins may very well have been DNA provided by visitors from another world.
The Serpent in the Garden
As mentioned earlier, the Book of Genesis recounts a tale of the temptation of Adam’s wife, Eve in the Garden of Eden. She being the mother of all humanity, was the cause, according the bible, of the fall of mankind, thus breeding into us all a sinful nature that puts us all in need of the “Kinsman Redeemer” so illustrated in the modes and methods of Jewish sacrificial temple worship, and the sacrifice of the Christ for the propitiation and atonement of mankind’s sins. But Eve’s downfall came as a result of her encounter with a serpent. The implication encoded in the Genesis passage may even imply that she had intercourse with the serpent, thus rendering her bite out of a piece of fruit, small bananas.
Have you ever encountered a serpent that walked upright? Spoke in an audible, understandable voice? According to Genesis, the snake that Eve encountered did both of these things. While it is probably safe to say that Eve was not very experienced in the ways of the world, seeing as she was the very first woman, it is also probably very safe to say that she knew the difference between a snake and a man. And according to the scripture, this snake was neither.
1“Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’” [ Genesis 3:1 ]
The Hebrew word used in the Book of Genesis for the word “snake,” is “nachash” (pronounced: naw-kawsh)” meaning “Magician or Enchanter; a Spellbinder; to illuminate, shine.” Jewish Rabbinic interpretation never saw this word as meaning a literal snake. It was to be understood as “a shining being with power to enchant.” This is a far cry from a snake in the grass, and in many interpretations is none other than Lucifer, himself, although the passage itself never actually calls that fact out. It is this being that influences Eve – or beguiled, in a more accurate sense – into eating the fruit of the forbidden tree in the midst of the Garden of Eden.
2“The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” [ Genesis 3:2-3 ]
The Hebrew word for that tree is “ets,” a word that is in very close association with the Hebrew word “toledah,’ both meaning “generations.” It is from these words that we draw the modern eqivolent of “family tree.” Other variations of the word ets is “the wood of a tree as an opening and closing of a door.” In a applicational stretch the same word can apply to the term “portal; opening of one’s mind; enlightenment.”
It is highly suggested that the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, from which Eve is said to have eaten the forbidden fruit, was not a literal tree, at all, but rather, symbolic of the pre-Adamic races that lived in the regions surrounding the Garden of Eden. These races are said to encompass the Atlantean civilization.
The phrase “fruit of the tree” is the Hebrew word periy – fruit: produce of the ground; offspring, children, progeny (of the womb); or figuratively: fruit (of actions). The phrase “eat of it” is the Hebrew word ‘akal (aw-kal’); this word has many uses, among which, one use means to “lay with a woman (sexual intercourse);” and the word “touch” is the Hebrew word naga` (naw-gah’); to touch, ie: to lay the hand upon (for any purpose); euphemism for: to touch, have sex with a woman.
4“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5“For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. 6“When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.”
[ Genesis 3:5-7 ]
This was obviously no ordinary tree, in fact it wasn’t a literal tree at all. Many biblical scholars interpret this as Lucifer himself.
• The phrase “pleasant to the eyes” is the Hebrew word chamad: To desire, to covet, to take pleasure in, to delight in, to be desirable, to delight greatly, to desire greatly, desirableness, preciousness.
• The word “desired” is the Hebrew word ta’avah (tah-av-aw’ – to yearn for; to lust after (used of bodily appetites) a longing; by implication: a delight (subjectively, satisfaction, objectively, a charm): a desire, a wish, longings of one’s heart; lust, an appetite, covetousness (in a bad sense); to covet; to wait longingly.
• “Took” is Hebrew word laqach (law-kakh’); a primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications): to take, to lay hold of, to receive, to marry, to take a wife, to take to or for a person, to procure, to get, to take possession of, to select, to choose, to take in marriage, to receive, to accept.
A very different picture of the Eve’s temptation in the Garden of Eden is beginning to emerge. The parsed passage above is far more than a sinful, disobedient appreciation of fruit. All the references we hear of Eve eating an apple, or depictions in religious art of the Eden couple eating a big piece of fruit is merely coded information and a hiding of what the passage truly speaks about. What really happened in this scene in the Garden of Eden is that Eve, the mother of humanity, lost her virginity to the Serpent, as you can see that she encountered him sexually before ever having sex with her husband, Adam. And further down the passage, the text is implicit that Eve was impregnated by this encounter.
Then she drew her husband into the scenario, and he willingly partook. And Eve also became impregnated by Adam. Eve was now bearing fraternal twins, Cain and Able, one from the seed of Adam, and the other from the seed of the character who is known as the Serpent in the Garden.
The grand sin that was committed in Eden was not mere disobedience in the eating of a forbidden piece of fruit from a forbidden tree in the midst of the garden. It was a sexual sin that created a dual bloodline in the twins conceived in Eve’s womb. According to the subsequent passages in Genesis, we learn that Abel was the blood seed of Adam, but that Cain was the blood seed of the serpent., and that the lineage would be in constant conflict with one another, starting with Cain murdering his twin brother.
The earliest human civilization of which contemporary science has any archaeological record is the Sumerian culture of ancient Mesopotamia, whose sudden onset of culture remained a mystery for many years. A quantum leap in humankind’s intellectual development occurred in Sumer 6,000 years ago when the very first cuneiform writing was developed to record a dramatic astronomical event – the starburst of Vela X, a star that went supernova about 1300 light years away from our solar system. It can still be seen today as a faintly flashing pulsar. Virtually overnight, in evolutionary terms, the Sumerians gave the world written language, the first fundamental character of which was the Sumerian symbol for “star.” George Michanowsky, a specialist in Mesopotamian astronomy, then demonstrated how that first word ever written by a human hand was soon after linked to the symbol for “deity,” communicating the thought, “star god.”
In the blink of an eye, the Sumerians gave humanity the first love song, the first school system, the first directory of pharmaceutical concoctions, a law code, and the first parliament. The roots of the Judeo-Christian religious beliefs grew from the “tree of knowledge,” the Garden of Eden, which tradition places in that same geographical area as Sumer. The origins of Western culture were nursed in Sumer, and it has come to be acknowledged as the cradle of civilization – all due to a supernova.
And it was during this very same period that Berossus, the Babylonian high preist wrote of the coming of the half-fish-half-human Oannes, the beast with reason who appeared in their midst and taught the Sumerians letters, sciences and every kind of art. He taught them how to construct houses, create laws and the arts of agriculture. He taught them everything that would soften their manners and civilize them.
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Cain, the twin brother of Able, was fathered by the serpent character in the Garden of Eden. This event went down in religious mythology as the Fall of Mankind at the hands of Eve’s temptation and “eating of the forbidden fruit.” Cain murdered his twin brother in accordance with the “enmity” that was set between the twin siblings, and after being banished by God from the region of Eden, wandered into the land of Nod, just east of Eden. There he built a city that became known throughout history as “Uruk,” the “First City.”
Cain did not have an encounter with “the Other People,” Cain was “The Other People,” and it is clear that he bequeathed to the inhabitants of Sumer a connectivity to the reptilians from the sea and the dragons from the sky, as represented in the person of Nachash, the serpent in Eden.
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1 Modupe Oduyoye, The Sons of the Gods and the Daughters of Men: An Afro-Asiatic Interpretation of Genesis 1-11, NY, Orbis Books, 1984, p. 21
2 David J. Gibson, The Land of Eden Located, 1964
3 Drake, W. Raymond. Gods and Spacemen in the Ancient West. New York: New American Library, 1974
4 Sitchin, Zecharia. The 12th Planet. New York: Avon, 1978.
5 Von Daniken, Erich. Chariots of the Gods? New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970.
6 Ginsburg, Irwin. First Man, Then Adam! New York: Pocket Books, 1978.