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Por:
J. N. Robles Olarte
Sumerians: Who Were They
The Sudden Civilization? (II)
The Sudden Civilization? (II)
Por: Walter W. Baucum
“In
mythology, Mars, the god of war, had two fierce horses, Phoebos (fear) and
Deimos (terror), to pull his chariot, the planet Mars, a legend possibly drawn
from ancient knowledge that Mars had two moons. But in the centuries between
ancient and modern civilization, the moons of Mars were forgotten until Ashap
Hall saw them by telescopic observation in 1877 and appropriately named them
after the war god’s two horses. [Jonathan Swift, in Gulliver’s Travels (1726),
wrote that Mars had two moons and correctly gave their dimensions and distance
from the planet.]
“The
ancient references, which are really astronomical data disguised as legends, to
the two moons of Mars, the multiple moons of Jupiter, the five disappearing and
reappearing moons of Uranus, the nine moons of Saturn, and even the horns of
Venus, suggest that astronomers of former cultures were capable of using
artificial sight amplification that was probably a form of telescope.
“The
modern telescope was not invented until 1609, but ground-glass artifacts found
at different archaeological sites seem to indicate that the ancients were able
to manufacture an optical lens.”[6]
As
mentioned, they fashioned the first zodiac [called “the Shining Herd”] as
direction points for maps, dividing the heavens into twelve distinct houses.
Early on, the pagan Babylonian priesthood turned this zodiac into a religious
thing, forcing the people to worship the stars instead of the true CREATOR.
Today,
we ask why a primitive people barely out of the Stone Age would conceivably
need such astronomical knowledge, much less know how to calculate the spherical
planet movements in ecliptic orbits around a relatively stationary sun.
Not
only did they seem to know about Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, but also they
described Uranus and Neptune as “watery twins” with “blue-green” color. When
Zecharia Sitchin reported this in 1976, every astronomer on earth believed his
account was utter nonsense. Then, in 1986, when the Voyager satellite passed
Uranus to photograph it for the first time, it was, indeed, found to be watery
[its surface was a kind of slushy ice] and it was colored blue-green. “Three
years later, in 1989, Voyager reached Neptune, the ‘twin’ of Uranus. A few
months earlier, Sitchin had written an article detailing precisely what Voyager
would find, based on the Sumerian texts. He submitted it to magazines around
the world, several of who published it; however, none in the heavily co-opted
U.S. dared to. Surely enough, Voyager found Neptune was just as the Sumerians
had claimed: a blue-green ball of slushy ice!”[7]
Also,
the Sumerian “Epic of Creation” has obvious parallels to the Hebrew
Scriptures’ Book of Genesis. Called Enuma Elish, it is an allegory
that relates a complex, thrilling tale of battles raging between fearsome
“gods” in heaven.
What
can we make of this? Both Pye and Sitchin seem to believe in things [and gods]
taken point blank from the Sumerian writings, and who take them quite more
literally than most people have done. Without going into more detail about
these translations, Sitchin basically believes in another planet in our solar
system, so far not discovered by modern science, that comes around only once in
every 3,600 years. Their inhabitants came to earth and, by gene-splicing and
genetic manipulation of themselves with Neanderthals [or Homo erectus], created
modern man for the purpose of slave labor.
On
one of its passes through our solar system, it destroyed a planet between Mars
and Jupiter, causing part of it to zing toward an orbit around Earth to become
our moon, and the rest to become known as the asteroid belt. These very likely
could have been literal cosmic events embellished profusely by literary-minded
people who over time kept the knowledge alive with imaginative additions.
According
to their writings, it was these other-planet people [Nibiru was the planet’s
name] who taught the early Sumerians all that is listed above. A better
explanation, though, and one which a number of Biblical scholars ascribe
to, is that the CREATOR Himself taught mankind all these things, making
pre-Flood peoples much more knowledgeable and advanced than we ever have given
them credit for. If such be the case, Shem, who was 98 years old when the Flood
came, started this Sumerian civilization probably prior to the Flood and
continued it for centuries after it. This would explain the “sudden
civilization” in that area of the world after the waters receded. Before Babel,
when the languages were confounded, all of these children of Shem, Ham, and
Japheth would have been living virtually together. Shem’s lineage retained this
knowledge, while the other two sons of Noah rejected or perverted it.
A
definite split between the people of the CREATOR [Seth’s side] and Cain’s
people is shown in pre-Flood Biblical literature. Many believe that Ham
married a woman who had been indoctrinated with the Cain side of believers, and
that she seduced Ham into the same belief. For it was on Ham’s side that
Nimrod, the arch rebel (called the “mighty hunter before[8] the CREATOR” in the KJV)
injected this false belief system onto the world that he conquered.
Sumerian
Migrations
Sumerians
appeared full-blown, their only precursor being a very primitive agrarian
society called the ‘Ubaids. ‘Ubaids were a village-based society of farmers.
They exhibited very few of the hallmarks of the very advanced Sumerians who
provided all subsequent civilizations with over 100 “firsts” ascribed to every
superior society.
Perhaps
some of these earlier groups could have been from Cain’s side. Seth’s side,
down through the Flood and afterward, would have been obedient to the Almighty
and taught by Him, whereas Cain’s side would have lacked that privilege. This
would explain the Sumerians’ prowess in astronomy, math, engineering,
navigation, law, etc. However, Cain’s descendants knew that the best way to
capture people’s minds was by “religion.”
Today’s
world religions that characterize the original “anti-Creator” way of life
historically have kept the people not only “enslaved,” but also in most cases
more primitive than their counterparts. Wherever these enlightened Sumerians
traveled to, the people [they met] were brought up to a higher level of
affluence and civilization. This later became an Israelite [trait] as they too
traveled to different parts of the globe.
Gen
22:15-18 “The angel of the ETERNAL called to Abraham a second time from heaven,
and said, ‘By Myself I swear, the ETERNAL declares: Because you have done this
and have not withheld your son, your favored one, I will bestow My blessing
upon you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the
sands on the seashore; and your descendants shall seize the gates of their
foes. All the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your
descendants, because you have obeyed My command’” [italics added].
One
example to illustrate this point is that since many Sumerian cultural items
have been found in Greece, we can assume that some of the Sumerians migrated
there, perhaps early on during the time that Nimrod was establishing his world
empire. Berlitz mentions, “An encrusted and fused metallic object containing
wheels, found by divers in 1900 on the sea bottom near Antikythera in the
Mediterranean Sea, was relegated to the Athens Museum, where it was tentatively
qualified as a child’s toy because of the wheels. Upon re-examination and a
series of chemical baths under the direction of Derek DeSolla Price, the author
and archaeologist, the wheels proved to be gears, and the object, according to
what could be read on the metal, turned out to be a ‘star computer’ to shoot
the sun, moon, and stars [to determine their positions]. The use of such a
technical aid, the only one yet found, implies a much greater knowledge of
navigation and archaeology among Cretan and early Greek sea captains than was
previously suspected. They would have had the ability to sail by night out of
sight of land and perhaps past the Pillars of Hercules to the far islands of
the Atlantic Sea.”[9]
Also,
the Sumerian Phalanx[10] was imported to Greece. Centuries
later, Philip of Macedonia perfected it, and his son Alexander marched through
the Persian Empire with it. Evidence exists that Alexander’s empire was an
Israelite empire.
The
people of Sumer traveled far and wide in search of raw materials and luxury
imports. Life without trade was impossible. They carried their political,
religious, and other cultural ideas with them. Their advanced knowledge allowed
them to be established in positions of rule and authority wherever they went.
This
corroborates too the early nautical position that Shem’s lineage carried on. It
will be shown that Danite Phoenicians, the Sea Peoples, the Israelite Empire
under Kings David and Solomon, the Greeks, the Libyans, the Carthaginians, and
the Celts continued this tradition. Today, the Israelite Tribes of the United
States and Great Britain are still nautical powers.
Both
sides at various times spread throughout the world, apparently Cain’s side
(carried on by Nimrod’s Babylonians) going first in most cases and Seth’s side
(Shem’s “Sumerians”) following. We have example after example of a “ruling
hierarchy” moving into these backward areas and pulling up the people to a
higher standard of civilization.
Since
Shem lived 98 years before the Flood, he could have taken his side to a very
advanced degree of civilization afterwards, bringing Sumeria’s influence to
these other post-Flood people. The Hebrew Scriptures contend that Noah’s
Flood was worldwide. Whether the false religion was started by Cain and then
carried across the Flood by Noah’s son Ham, to be continued by Cush, Nimrod,
and Semiramis, or whether it began with Nimrod and his wife is inconsequential.
Alexander Hislop says that Noah’s son Cush (Nimrod’s father) started it. Two
chief “religions,” Nimrod’s and Shem’s, were extant in the ancient world [and
still are today].
Conquest
and Sumerian Displacement
At
one time in history, the Tribe of Ham led by Nimrod, conquered the Sumerian
(Shem-ite) cities in Mesopotamia. His probably was the first world empire.
Ancient
Irish records tell about a Ninus who came to Britain, but who left and allowed
the land to lie uninhabited for three or four centuries, until other people
began to trickle in. Ninus, or the Nimrod of the Hebrew Scriptures, also
probably caused a mass migration of Shem-ites out of the land of Sumeria,
especially those who refused to go along with the pagan religion imposed on the
populace by him and his mother-wife, Semiramis. Some of these displaced people
went to present-day Palestine and some to other parts of the world, such as
Peru and Mexico.
Nimrod
brought with his empire this anti-Creator’s way of life, which undoubtedly
caused his own demise, for history recounts how Shem, a “preacher of
righteousness” who had gone to live where Jerusalem is today, had to chase him
down and kill him. Tradition says he was killed on a Friday in Egypt, which was
part of his empire at that time. Nimrod’s wife-mother, Semiramis (they were
called Isis and Osiris in Egypt), claimed he was resurrected the following
Sunday and lives today in spirit form. To commemorate his death, a forty-days’
period of mourning was instituted by his wife/mother. Another name for him was
Bacchus, meaning, “the Lamented one.” Among the Phoenicians, Bacchos meant
“weeping.” As the women wept for Tammuz (Ezekiel 8:14), so did they for
Bacchus. Hislop reveals that this is where the “weeping for Tammuz” came,
Tammuz being another name of Nimrod. This season of “weeping” is believed by
some to be our modern days “Lent.”[11]
Sumerians: Who Were They
The Sudden Civilization? (III)
The Sudden Civilization? (III)
Por: Walter W. Baucum
Proof
exists also that Shem was the Scriptural Melchizedek, an ancient man so
old that he was thought to be without mother or father. He had gone to live in
Salem, which later came to be known as Jerusalem. Abraham gave a tenth
of the spoils of war to him after the battle with the Kings (Genesis 14:14-16).
Biblical chronology (Hislop, p. 6) says that 1987 BCE is when Nimrod was killed,
his body cut in pieces, and these pieces sent to the major nations of the world
as a warning against apostasy. Shem died 1846 BCE and Abraham was born 1996
BCE.
When
Nimrod began his kingdom and apostasy, he and his mother-wife Semiramis early
began insinuating their false religion, and warfare, into and onto that great
Sumerian civilization. Many “Semites” fled to various parts of the world,
bringing their advanced knowledge and skills with them. Old Shem himself moved
to and dwelt in Salem. He is known in Scripture as Melchizedek, and
Salem is Jerusalem, which means “city of peace.” It was the same area
that the patriarch Abram later migrated to, he and his progeny being known as
“shepherd kings” (see chapter on Hyksos).
These
Sumerians (Shem-ites) were so far advanced that some authors, including Jean
Hunt, claim they were from Atlantis. The analogy fits. Shem’s great pre-flood
civilization, with its cities and science, was sunk (beneath the Flood), and
Ham, probably jealous of his brother Shem, began to take over immediately
post-Flood after its sudden reappearance. Of Ham’s four sons (Cush, Canaan,
Mizraim, Phut), Cush begat this Nimrod, the “mighty hunter before (against) the
ETERNAL.” Genesis 10:10 says, “And the beginning of his (Nimrod’s) kingdom was
Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh.”
Now a
beginning naturally implies something to succeed, and in verse 11 we find it.
“Out of that land he [Asshur] went forth, being made strong [or when he had
been made strong], and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah.” This
exactly agrees with the statement in the ancient history of Justin;
‘Ninus
strengthened the greatness of his acquired dominion by continued possession.
Having subdued, therefore, his neighbors, when, by an accession of forces being
still further strengthened, he went forth against other tribes, and every new
victory paved the way for another, he subdued all the peoples of the East.’
“Thus,
then, Nimrod, or Ninus, was the builder of Nineveh; and the origin of the name
of that city, as ‘the habitation of Ninus,’ is accounted for, and light is
thereby, at the same time, cast on the fact that the name of the chief part of
the ruins of Nineveh is Nimroud at this day.
“‘Ninus,
king of the Assyrians,’ says Trogus Pompeius, epitomized by Justin, first of
all changed the contented moderation of the ancient manners, incited by a new
passion, the desire of conquest. He was the first who carried on war against
his neighbors, and he conquered all nations from Assyria to Libya, as they were
yet unacquainted with the arts of war.”[12]
Note
that the word “Assyrians” has wide latitude of meaning among the classic
authors, encompassing Babylonians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians.
Hislop
believed that Babylon could not properly have existed as a city till Nimrod, by
establishing his power there, made it the foundation and starting point of his
greatness. Although the Hebrew Scriptures say that the beginning of his
kingdom was Babylon, our understanding is that the Babel builders, when their
speech was confounded, were scattered abroad on the face of the earth, and they
therefore deserted both the city and the tower which they had commenced to
build. Nimrod’s father, Cush, a son of Ham, the son of Noah, is credited with
starting the building of Babel, as he also is credited with starting the great
apostasy that Nimrod continued.[13]
Sumerian
Influence and Empire Building
Proof
exists that the Sumerians were the first of the “empire” builders that passed
through the lineage of Shem and Abraham, and which Israel inherited and
continued, right up to the present in which the United States and the British
Commonwealth countries (Israelite Tribes grown into nations) continued. Whether
Sumeria was an empire, or just an advanced “civilization,” its influence was
worldwide. Jean Hunt makes some interesting comments:
“Joseph
Campbell wrote an exhaustive study of mythology in four volumes, under the
umbrella-title, The Masks of G-d. In these volumes, he examined the oral
and written literature, and history, art, archaeological data, and
anthropological information on living primitive groups. The first volume was
printed in 1959, the last in 1968; Campbell therefore did not have the benefit
of the definitive dating which began appearing in the mid-1970s. He commented
on an odd ‘truncation,’ not explainable by the data available at that time: the
major reservoirs of information began in Sumer (Italics added), about 4000
BCE, and spread out swiftly into Africa, Europe, India, China, and North and
South America within a 2000-year period. Campbell remarked on this sudden
‘mushrooming’ of literacy, astronomy, mathematics, formalized religion, and the
invention of the wheel with no then-known ‘bed,’ other than the microlithic
flints of the Capsian ‘Mesolithic’ culture.
“The
new dating information, which places a highly sophisticated, technologically
advanced civilization in Western Europe, moving outward and spreading its
culture, partly closes the gap; the continuity of their religion, in
particular, is suggested by practices involving a priesthood, hero themes,
puberty rites, names of gods, rites and rituals, and other elements, especially
when exactly similar details are found in widely separated geographical areas
and culture groups.”[14]
Just
how far did Shem’s empire extend, and how far did his influence spread?
Claiming no absolute certainty, we see Sumerian examples of language, building
structures, and other examples all around the world. Even religious and
mythological similarities abound.
Considering
the similarities of language, culture, and religion, from the Indus Valley to
the Middle East, Jean Hunt[15] says:
“The
Sumerians...in their ancient traditions remembered that the civilization of
their country and the art of writing had come from the East. The Babylonian
priest Berossus, while writing the history of Mesopotamia in the third century
BCE, carefully collected all the ancient traditions of the land...he avers that
in very early times there was no civilization in the land and that its people
were like brutes...some people came from the east by sea and taught them civilization
and the art of writing.”
Note
that “coming by sea” could mean coming across the Flood waters, probable
indication being that Shem’s kingdom had risen before the Flood and continued
after it. Remember that Shem was almost 100 years old at the time of the
Deluge. “Shem” means “the Appointed One” his pre-eminence was divinely destined
to him, of the three sons of Noah.
Regarding
skeletal findings and other evidence of relationship between (Minoan Crete) and
the people in India, Sumer, and Egypt, Hunt (still quoting Heras) says,
“...Skull
measurements have shown that it would be difficult to choose between the
primitive Indian or Egyptian series as the group to which the Sumerians are
closer. It is acknowledged moreover that Egypt received the main elements of
its civilization from the lands of Mesopotamia where an older civilization was
already in existence (Italics added). The first Pre-dynastic Culture forms
the foundation of the later Egyptian development and was no doubt due in the
main to the native Hamitic population of North Africa carrying on the tradition
of the higher type of culture that had been introduced into the Nile valley by
the Badarian people (of Sumer). It underwent a still further development at a
later period owing to the appearance in Egypt of the new type of civilization
known as the second Pre-dynastic Culture (which is described as Semitic from
Palestine).
“Poisson
acknowledges that the cult of Osiris (Nimrod and the pagan religion) owes its
origin to the Asiatic current, just as the cult of Set (Seth, the son of Adam
and representing the true ‘religion’) is due to another race; the fight between
these two gods personifies the fight of the two races. There is evidence of
specific contact between Egypt and Sumerian culture during the period of the
rise and establishment of the Egyptian kingdom.”[16]
If
not a world empire by military conquest, the Sumerian civilization was, at the
very least, a worldwide “empire” with its cultural and scientific influences.
A
Closer Look at “Semites”
Today
the word “Semitic” is used to refer to Jews, but how accurate is this? The word
is a derivation of the name Shem, one of three sons of Noah who came across the
Flood. Shem’s sons were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram (Genesis 10:22).
The Patriarch Abraham traced his lineage through Heber from Arphaxad, being
called in Scripture “The first Hebrew” from Heber, and undoubtedly retaining
the same language, the original language, intact through the confusing of
tongues at the Tower of Babel.
Abraham’s
son Isaac had two sons, Esau and Jacob. Jacob’s name was changed to Israel, and
one of his sons, Judah, became the Jews, the so-called “Semites” of today.
However, all the tribes-turned-nations claiming descent from Noah’s son Shem
could make the same claim. Elam and Asshur founded the nations of Elam and
Assyria, well-known historical nations. The descendants of Aram became the
Aramaean people whose name was attached to a Semitic language called Aramaic.
Abraham
had many other descendants who also can be called Semites. This included
Ishmael, his son by his Egyptian concubine-wife Hagar, who married an Egyptian
woman and gave rise to the Arab race. Arabs, then, are Semites. Another wife of
Abraham was Keturah. The majority of Semites in the world are not Jews. The
term “Jew” itself can be used in both a racial and religious sense. One can
thereby be a Jew in religion but not necessarily in race or nationality.
The
modern nation of “Israel” is very much a misnomer. Its true name of “Judah”
would be much more appropriate, since the Jews comprised just one Tribe of
Israel. After the split at Solomon’s death, the northern ten Tribes came to be
called “Israel.” The southern kingdom was composed of the Tribes of Judah (the
“Jews”), Levi (the Levitical Priesthood), and a small part of Benjamin. It is
these three Tribes that the world calls “Israel” today.
Sumerians: Who Were They
The Sudden Civilization? (IV)
The Sudden Civilization? (IV)
Por Walter W. Baucum
Other
Sumerian Influences
How
much did the Sumerians influence language around the world? We find evidence of
the language from almost every continent. Below is a list of Akkadian loan
words in Eskimo, as well as Egyptian and Berber-Polynesian words.
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Esk. tigu, take.
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Akkad. digu, fetch.
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Esk. keroa, lamenting.
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Akkad. killu, lamenting.
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Esk. kelu, inferior.
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Akkad. galalu, small,
insignificant.
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Esk. kollu, basket.
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Akkad. xaru, receptacle.
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Esk. karao, cry out.
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Akkad. qalu, call. Egypt, karuai, a call, a cry.
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Esk. alukta, sack.
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Egypt. karekta, basket.
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Esk. pelekta, cut out.
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Egypt. perekh. Akkad. Paraku, split, separate.
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Esk. ukarua, soft soil.
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Egypt. kheru, swamp.
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Esk. pok, container.
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Poly. poha, basket.
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Esk. kopah, half.
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Poly. kapa, half.
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Esk. ublar, morning.
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Berb. ibaribar, dawnrise.
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Esk. putuk, hole.
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Poly. poutag, steep.
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“...There
are many hybridized Egypto-Berber-Polynesian languages, and in any one of them,
some Akkadian words are likely to turn up. And, of course, it is entirely possible
that Eskimo derives these loan words from two or more independent culture
contacts.”[17]
Trans-oceanic
contacts and migrations are part of the traditions of many nations, including
“Native” American cultures. “In (Nez Perce) Chief Joseph’s medicine pouch was
found a 1 inch square ceramic tablet inscribed with cuneiform, which was
deciphered by a cuneiform specialist as a receipt for a lamb or calf to be used
in an offering in the Persian Gulf in about 2042 BCE.”[18]
Flavin
comments considerably on the influence of writing by use of ancient calendar
signs. “There is,” he said (quoting Dr. Hugh A. Moran’s The Alphabet and the
Ancient Calendar Signs), “...a vast body of evidence suggesting the
Chinese system of writing and the alphabet were both inspired by an ancient
twenty-eight sectioned lunar zodiac, or calendar, which Moran believed was Chaldean
in origin.”[19] (Be reminded that the original
calendar in the Hebrew Scriptures given by CREATOR to His followers was
lunar based, not solar.)
Flavin,
continuing, says, “Moran rightly made much of the fact that the Chinese lunar
zodiac contains ‘the ox’ and is followed by ‘woman, daughter,’ and the Hebrew
alphabet that begins with Aleph or ‘the bull’ also is followed by Beth or ‘a
daughter.’ Another noteworthy correspondence is the meander M, the 13th letter
of the alphabet and meaning waters in Semitic, matching the 13th
constellation from the ox, which may represent the crossing of the ecliptic by
the Milky Way, or the River of heaven. It was unfortunately beyond Moran to
offer a theoretical mechanism whereby the lunar zodiacs diffused over such
great distances, though he believed it was through the Sumero-Babylonians”
(Italics added).
Although
Moran failed to demonstrate adequately why the calendar signs served as the structural
basis for written characters in Asia, the Near East, and Europe, the day names
of the Mayan calendar convinced him the lunar zodiac, even in the New World,
was culturally significant and served as the basis for the hieroglyphic writing
system of the Maya.
Flavin
further says, “Professor Cyrus H. Gordon was one of the first scholars to
publish accessible information on the importance of the cuneiform alphabet from
the Bronze Age kingdom of Ugarit, located by modern boundaries in western
Syria. The Ugarit cuneiform alphabet is among the earliest and best understood
examples of the alphabet...the mechanism Prof. Gordon offered for the
distribution of lunar zodiacs and the diffusion of the alphabet was an
ancient global network of mariners sharing basic elements of a common culture
(Italics added).
“In
1965, publishing in the same journal as Vander Waerden had sixteen years
previously, Willy Hartner detailed his conclusions of a zodiacal constellation
tradition which was fixed before c. 4000 BCE...Hartner admits the earliest
constellation names are Sumerian.”[20]
Early
Sumerians might have influenced Japan too. There are “...strong parallels
between the ancient cultures of Japan and the Near East in areas involving
mythology and religion. For example, the name Sumer in ancient cuneiform texts
was written as Ki – En – Gi (-RA), which means ‘The Land of Rushes.’ Until
W.W.II, the Japanese called Japan ‘the country of abundant water rushes and
rice plains.’ Rushes are a species of rice, and their presence would indicate a
fertile environment for rice culture. The symbolism of rushes might have
developed as part of primitive agriculture, becoming an archetypal association
which also involved its use for thatched roofing, boats, baskets, floor
coverings, etc. in ancient times. The mythic Sumerian hero Gilgamesh survived
the great flood in a ship built of rushes.”[21]
Cylinder
Stones found in the Kenu area of Japan had engravings on them that reminded the
author of the Sumerian myth of Inanna, queen of the sky and rich harvests. He
also saw a surprising parallel between the Sumerian myth of Inanna and the
Mysterious Festival enacted at Kasukawa Village. The word “Kasukawa” itself
“...reminds us of rushes. ‘Kasu’ means sweet fermented rice grounds used for
sake brewing and ‘kawa’ means river.”
Similar
beliefs, of course, could have been held by different peoples, both before and
after the confusion of tongues at Babel. After that event, much mixing and
mingling of ideas, innovations, and literature would have been evident. Rather
than Sumerians themselves going to these different places, perhaps just their
ideas, myths, and other influences could have made the journeys as the people
spread out. The greater weight of evidence, though, points to these Sumerian
people as being great navigators and world travelers who created the “zodiac”
as compass points and who undoubtedly visited and colonized other parts of the
earth, bringing their advanced ideas with them.
Sumerian
Fashion Influence
A
brief look at fashions, shows further Sumerian influence. An interesting
comparison of fashions of those of Dilmun and Sumer was done by Ali Akbar Habib
Bushiri, the Director of the Bahrain Research and Service Centre.
The
cultures of Dilmun and Sumer shared a common fashion, which was interesting
because Dilmun seemed to copy the fashions of Sumer rather than its closer Indus
Valley fashions. “By 2400 BCE, the Dilmun culture started to change from
Sumerian to Akkadian fashions. This period marked the decline of Sumer. Why did
not the Dilmun culture develop its own independent fashions like the Sumer and
Indus Valley civilizations [had done]? They were without doubt independently
developed, but why were their fashions of Sumerian or Mesopotamian origin?”
His
study found no noticeable differences between Dilmun and Sumerian fashions. He
believes it very probable that the Dilmun culture was of Sumerian origin, thus
showing one more argument that Sumeria settled in, or carried its influence to,
many parts of the world.
Not
surprisingly, the author found that all the hair and hat styles found carved on
Dilmun seals are of Sumerian origin, with a few examples of the Accadian style,
and that being after the decline of Sumer as a cultural power.
The
hair and hat styles were the same. “The Sumerian men were either clean-shaven
or wore long beards and had long hair parted in the middle...(which) was then
plaited into a pigtail and wound around the head. They often wore an elaborate
headdress consisting of hair-ribbons, beads, and pendants.
“One
noticeable difference between Dilmun and Sumerian styles was that the men of
Dilmun wore (the same) trimmed beards, but shaved their upper lips. Their hair
was rolled into a bean at the back and held by a fillet.”
The
Sumerian men’s beards were used also by the Akkadians in the style of Sargon
the Great, meaning that the beards were long, thick-shaped, and triangular,
with their width decreasing as they went down. The other Sumerian style, as
mentioned, was clean-shaven. This style was without moustache or beard, and
with no hair on the head. It was used frequently with the Kodia hat, or the
Amamah.
Bushiri’s
conclusion: “There are no different Dilmunian and Sumerian fashions. The origin
of Dilmun fashions is totally Sumerian, showing a strong Sumerian social
influence.”[22]
Conclusion
A
myriad of evidence shows the Sumerians to have been a worldwide empire, with
their influence found in many nations on the earth. “The ancient
Hebrew-Israelites were descended from Shem, from whom came the Sumerians in
Mesopotamia, founders of early civilization.”[23]
Later
we will find that these Israelites carried on the Sumerian’s cultural and
empire-building traditions, down through, and by right of, the Covenant Promise
to Abraham, establishing empires and spreading the same culture to all corners
of the globe.
Footnotes
[1] Fagan, Brian M., People of the
Earth, pp. 329, 343.
[2] Pye, Lloyd, Everything You Know
Is Wrong, p. 192.
[3] Berlitz, Charles, Atlantis the Eighth
Continent, pp. 128-129.
[4] Pye, p. 195.
[5] Ibid., pp. 195-196.
[6] Berlitz, p. 124.
[7] Pye, p. 198.
[8] The English word “before” in Gen
10:9 is defined in Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament
by H.W.F. Gesenius (numbers H6437 and H6440) as “C) before, in front of
manifest loathing in their countenances. D-2) before as taking the lead,
chiefly used of a general or leader... to meet anyone frequently with a hostile
sense. G-1) to the face, before the face” or today “in your face.” Therefore, a
better reading of Gen 10:9 (KJV) is “a mighty hunter in place of the
CREATOR.”
[9] Berlitz, p. 128. It also could have
been an invention of Israelites, since some later colonized Greece.
[10] A military formation of infantry
carrying overlapping shields and long spears.
[11] Hislop, Alexander, The Two
Babylons, p. 21.
[12] Ibid., pp. 6, 25, 26. Hislop is
quoting Justin, Hist. Rom. Script., Vol. II, p. 615.
[13] Ibid., p. 23.
[14] Hunt, Jean, Tracking the Flood
Survivors, p. 259.
[15] Hunt is quoting H. Heras’, Studies
in Proto-Indo-Mediterranean Culture, Bombay Indian Historical Research
Institute, Bombay, India, 1953.
[16] Ibid., pp. 164-165.
[17] Ibid., p. 165.
[18] Dexter, Warren, “Correspondence,” Epigraphic
Society Occasional Papers, (ESOP), 1998, p. 14.
[19] Flavin, Richard D., “The Karanovo
Zodiac and Old European Linear,” ESOP, 1998, p. 86.
[20] Ibid., pp. 89-92.
[21] Fududa, Hideko, “From Japan to the
Ancient Orient: a Consideration of Kenu District Rock Inscriptions,” ESOP,
1998, p. 100.
[22] Bushiri, Ali Akbar Habib, “Dilmun
Fashion in the Third Millennium B.C.,” ESOP, 1986, p. 199-203.
[23] Davidy, Lost Israelite Identity,
p. 9.
LO QUE NUESTRO CREADOR
TIENE PREVISTO PARA ÉSTA SOCIEDAD
Cuando
observamos a
nuestro alrededor, y constatamos que lo que está sucediendo en el mundo es como una repetición cíclica de
la historia humana con caracteres cada vez más trágicos, no podemos concluir
que nuestros actos no hayan tenido mucho que ver con los resultados que nos
agobian. Toda causa genera un efecto, y todo autor o Creador tiene un límite de
paciencia con lo que crea, y más aún si esto creado no sigue lo estipulado por
el creador. A nivel familiar, son los padres quienes deben poner las pautas o
reglas en sus hogares, y no lo inverso como hoy día lo podemos constatar. Es así como ésta humanidad nuestra, la creada
por Aquél
Ser Supremo, ha llevado a que Éste haya tomado una determinación con
respecto a Su creación y nos manifieste, con todo el dolor y pena que ello
significa para Él, las siguientes
palabras, “He aquí que Yo vaciaré la tierra y la dejaré desierta, y trastornaré
su faz, y dispersaré sus habitantes. Y sucederá que así como haré con el
pueblo, así le sucederá al sacerdote; como al siervo ,así le sucederá al amo;
como a la criada, así a su señora; como al comprador, así al vendedor; como al
que presta, así al que toma prestado, como al acreedor, así al deudor” (Isaías
24: 1, 2)
Hemos llegado a un punto tal que los valores morales y
éticos de tiempos pasados han dejado ser para convertirse en unos de valores relativos.
Cada quien ha impuestos sus valores, y cada quien actúa como mejor
le parece, siempre y cuando llene sus aspiraciones egoístas y narcisistas. No
existe respeto alguno por lo establecido por nuestros padres en el pasado. Y al
hablar de esto me refiero específicamente a la conducta que el pueblo Hebreo
guardó por muchos siglos con respecto a las enseñanzas que guardaron,
practicaron y vivieron para tener una relación de familia sana y perfecta con
su Hacedor y Soberano Único! Ese Ser
Supremo, el Altísimo de Israel, Creador
Absoluto de todo, ha tenido la
paciencia suficiente como para tenérselas que ver con una creación soberbia,
desobediente y mala. Y es así como ha
dejado constancia de su malestar en uno de los libros inspirados por él a uno
de Sus profetas, Isaías, escogido para tal efecto.
¿Qué es lo que a diario leemos y vemos en la prensa, en la
radio y televisión? ¿No es el decaimiento moral de las naciones y sus pueblos
por la loca carrera del más obtener al precio más degradante al que haya podido
caer el ser humano?. Como Creador de nuestro género humano, que conoce nuestros
corazones, Él lo visionó y lo dejo por
escrito como una advertencia para todos nosotros, en diferentes partes de Sus
Escrituras. Es así como bien podemos leer éstas palabras proféticas que nos
dicen, “Y la tierra se profanará bajo sus habitantes, porque han de traspasar
Mis Leyes, violarán Mis Estatutos, y han de quebrantar Mi Pacto Eterno. La
tierra será enteramente vaciada, y completamente saqueada, porque el Creador ha
manifestado tales palabras. La tierra se pone de luto y se marchita, el mundo
desfallece y se marchita; desfallece la gente encumbrada de la tierra. por ello
es que la maldición ha devorado la tierra, y los que habitan en ella serán
castigados: por ello son abrasados sus habitantes, y pocos son los hombres que
han de quedar en ella.”” (Isaías 24:5, 3, 2, 6).
Sí, todo lo anterior ha estado sucediendo en este inicio del
siglo 21, pero ya antes en el siglo 20
se venido dando éstos efectos de nuestro mal actuar. Pero,
¿cuál es o ha sido la razón de todo ello? Todo lo anterior tiene una sola
razón: la de habernos alejado del Pacto que hicieron nuestros padres con el
Creador, y el de seguir fielmente Sus instrucciones consignadas en Su Manual Instructivo, las SAGRADAS ESCRITURAS.
A pesar de todo ello Él es UNO amoroso, paciente y
misericordioso, siempre dispuesto a perdonar; pero también sabe cuál es nuestra
naturaleza humana, una ya indispuesta por nuestra enemiga Heylel contra Él, también su creador. Es así como nos sigue indicando cual será
nuestro destino si seguimos en lo mismo, desobedeciéndolo: “Espanto y hoyo y lazo contra tí,
¡oh habitante de la atierra! Sucederá
que quien huyere de la voz que espanta, caerá en el hoyo, y el que subiese de
en medio del hoyo, quedará preso en el lazo: porque las ventanas desde lo alto
estarán abiertas y bambolearan los cimientos de la tierra. ¡Completamente se quebrantará la tierra! ¡Del
todo será despedazada la tierra ¡ ¡Enteramente será sacudida la tierra! Como un borracho se tambaleará, se columpiará
de acá para allá, como una choza, y pesará sobre ella sus transgresiones, y
caerá y no volverá a levantarse. Y acontecerá
que en AQUÉL DÍA, día terrible éste, que el Eterno Creador castigará al ejército angelical rebelde en lo
alto de los cielos, y a los reyes de la tierra sobre la tierra; y serán
juntados como se juntan presos en calabozo, y estarán encerrados en la cárcel
y, después de muchos días, serán DESTRUÍDOS aquéllos como éstos últimos. La luna se abochornará, y el sol se
avergonzará, por cuanto el Eterno, el Creador de Sus Ejércitos Angelicales,
reinará en el Monte de Sión, en Jerusalém, y delante de Sus ancianos,
GLORIOSAMENTE:”” (Isaías 24:17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22,23)
Después de todo ello vendrá, y será una realidad, el
restablecimiento de TODAS LAS COSAS, a través de la manos del Rey
David y el Profeta Elías, traídos a la vida eterna para dar inicio al MARAVILLOSO MUNDO DE MAÑANA!
