And why?
And who won? Who lost?
And who were the “good guys” and the “bad guys”? And why were they good? Or conversely, bad, beyond the obvious evil of deliberately blowing up a planet or two — or worse, a star - and flooding a couple of others with oceans of water and debris?
We can no longer ask the physicists — or for that matter, the geneticists or biologists — to lead the way here. At best they can provide us corroborating evidence or unique insights into the ancient story of this war. But beyond answering certain specific things one encounters in the ancient texts that tell this story, these sciences and technologies can show us only that intelligent life is able to be behind these things and to fight such a war, and that the story need not be merely metaphors for an accidental cosmic game of billiards in which mankind is stuck helplessly on the balls.
To ask the questions at all is to turn to the ancients and their texts for the answers.
6.
CONCLUSIONS TO PART ONE
“The clamour has deafened me and I feel stupefied. The twang of the Gandiva, like repeated thunderclaps, and your lightning bolt arrows have rent my heart. I am consumed by fear. It appears as if the earth is shifting before my eyes and I am losing my vitality. ”
The Mahabharata 253
“In their shining armor the fighters appeared like two planets colliding. ”
The Mahabharata254
We are now in a position to summarize some very suggestive connections.
1. There were two planetary explosions within our solar system, and these two events form the basic framework around which to fasten any chronology distilled from the ancient texts relating the cosmic war;
a. The first of these was the explosion of a larger body, some 65,000,000 years ago, that accounts for the formation of the K/T boundary in the geological records, and coinciding with the demise of the dinosaurs and the rise of mammalian life;
(1) As was seen, Van Flandern was led to the adoption of two explosions on the basis of the lack of a planetary geological layer, such as the K/T boundary, occurring in rock strata ca. 3,200,000 years ago;
(2) As I suggested, however, the explosion ca. 3,200,000 years ago may have occurred when the Earth was at its farthest point from the exploding body, and hence any shock wave would have been considerably dissipated.
b. The second of these was the explosion of a smaller body ca. 3,200,000 years ago.
2. According to Van Flandern, these two explosions at 3,200,000 and 65,000,000 years ago were the explosions of a smaller “moon-sized” body and a larger Saturn-sized planet, respectively;
a. This planet Saturn-sized body was in all likelihood a solid and water-bearing planet. This planet may have been the planet referred to in the ancient Babylonian epic, the Enuma Elish, as Tiamat.
b. As a water-bearing planet, this body might have been a life-sustaining planet, and possibly home to intelligent human-like or humanoid life as well.
c. If it was home to intelligent life, it was speculated that this creature would have had much larger physiologies and skeletal structure compared to modern homo sapiens sapiens. In short, these creatures would have been giants. Given the interaction between the “gods” and mankind that so many Mesopotamian texts and traditions — including the biblical — attest to, and their resulting offspring in “giants,” one method of loosely corroborating the existence of such life on the now missing and exploded planet, and its interaction with the earth, would be the discovery of giant humanoid fossilized remains, or acceptable testimony to the same.
d. As was seen in chapter four, there does exist a whole set of data, both of written testimony, plus fossilized or mummified remains, that attests to the existence of much-larger-than normal humans or human-like creatures.
(1) As noted, many of these testimonies report peculiar features, such as sexedigitism and double dentition;
(2) Many of these ancient testimonies record the aggressive and cannibalistic tendencies of these creatures.
3. Plasma physicist Anthony Peratt argues that some ancient petroglyphs — some dating to over 20,000 years ago — demonstrate remarkable accuracy in the depiction of standard plasma instabilities, and reasons that ancients must have witnessed such instabilities on a massive celestial scale thousands of years ago.
a. In arguing this point of view, Peratt poses the problem of the existence of intelligent observers of such events.
b. Peratt and other plasma cosmologists maintain that under certain conditions any celestial system such as the solar system is not electrically neutral, and that enormous discharges can occur between differently polarized planetary bodies, causing enormous scarring and searing of the planets’ surfaces.
(1) In this respect, the Hygenius Rille on the Moon, and
(2) The channels on Jupiter’s moon Europa, and
(3) The Valles Marineris were all cited as typical large scale planetary features that display the same features of “plasma drilling” caused on surfaces in the laboratory.
(4) As was also demonstrated, the Martian scarring in particular may be planetary confirmation of the mythological motif of the scarred warrior, given Mars’ association within so many disparate mythologies with war, and given the planetary scarring referred to above.
4. It was suggested in chapter two that this plasma physics might itself be weaponized, and thereby account for the ancient myths of the divine weapon as a “lightning” bolt. In this respect, the similarity of ancient art works depicting these divine weapons with modern plasma instabilities was demonstrated.
a. An entirely different use of plasmas for communications - in the form of a galaxy-spanning grid of stars and pulsars - was proposed by Paul LaViolette. La Violette points to the anomalous behavior of pulsars and the lack of a good physics model to explain not only their behavior, but their non-random clustering in an exact geometry of one radian from the center of the galaxy as viewed from Earth. This non-randomness argues strongly that they may be the technological products of a highly advanced, galaxy-spanning civilization.
b. However, LaViolette also observes that there is a weapons application of this technology, related specifically to the scalar physics phenomena of beam splitting and mixing through an interferometric “grating” or template, and the use of a phase conjugate mirror. This implies that weapons drawing upon the very energy of entire stars or even star systems can be stimulated and accessed by the phenomenon of phase conjugation. This fact, coupled with the galaxy-wide “grid” of LaViolette’s “pulsar network” would imply that any warfare using such weapons would draw upon and affect that entire grid. It would be, in short, a truly cosmic war.
c. The link to scalar physics implies a deeper physics, one of longitudinal waves in the medium itself, as LaViolette himself suggested, citing the work of Lt. Col. Tom Bearden. Such waves could conceivably be used as propulsion, or also used to “surf” large scale celestial objects such as comets or asteroids on collision courses with planets, or used to explode a celestial body such as a planet or star by means of acoustic loading and cavitation to the point that such bodies lose core stability and explode. LaViolette himself proposes that some stars were deliberately exploded by his putative galactic civilization as components in his galactic grid.
5. Finally, the examination of catastrophism showed that it was in contradiction to the type of dense punning found in most ancient myths and motifs. Such symbols, it was argued, were best viewed not as symbols indicating one level of meaning, but several levels, each interlocking, but not identifiable with, the other, in a complex of associations. Among these associations, we discovered a formula
Mountains ≈ planets ≈ gods,
where “≈” means “is closely associated with but not identical to”, that will now become a crucial complex of symbols in Part Two.
PART TWO:
THE QUESTIONS: WHO FOUGHT? WHY WERE THEY FIGHTING? WHO WON? WHO LOST? WHAT HAPPENED?
“WE ARE THE LOST ONES
>
From a Time before Time
From a Land beyond the Stars
From the Age when ANU walked the earth
In company of Bright Angels.
We have survived the first War
Between the Powers of the Gods
And have seen the wrath of the Ancient Ones
Dark Angels
Vent upon the Earth.
WE ARE FROM A RACE BEYOND THE
WANDERERS OF NIGHT.
We have survived the Age when ABSU ruled the Earth
And the Power destroyed our generations....
And TIAMAT has promised us nevermore to attack
With water and with wind....
Know that our years are the years of War
And our days are measured as battles. ”
From the Magan Text of the Babylonian Necronomicon,
“Simon,” ed., The Necronomicon, (Avon), pp. 159-160.
7.
REVOLT AND WAR IN THE PANTHEON: A LOT OF WHO, A LITTLE WHY, SOME WHAT, AND A HINT OF WHEN
‘We incline to the opinion that experiences of a far distant past lie at the heart of the Edfu myth of creation. ”
E. A. E. Reymond255
“Was it possible therefore that the world once possessed an understanding of sound that was lost and never recovered?”
Andrew Collins256
“For years Keely attempted to find a way to by-passing the personal association of the apparatus to its operator but in this he failed again and again. ”
Andrew Collins257
What sparked this horrendous War in the Pantheon, protracted for seemingly endless millennia, and fought with such horrific technologies?
It is a peculiarity that among the three main legacy civilizations of the ancient world, the Sumerian, the Egyptian, and the Vedic, that each of them maintains that it was fought in part to recover stolen technology, the very technology with which the war was fought. Additionally, there is unusual corroboration of the main outlines of this story from across the oceans in the Americas.
A. The Sumerian Version
As is to be expected, the Mesopotamian tradition is rich with details concerning the revolt in the Pantheon, the war, and the motivations for it. These motivations may be broadly classified into two types, the “Mankind Motivation,” and the “Technological Motivation.” In this chapter, our focus is on the first motivation. The technological motivation will be discussed in the next chapter.
There are three main texts that tell the story of who was involved in the revolt, why they were involved, what happened, and that give an indication of when it happened. These are the Atrahasis Epic, the legend of Erra/Nergal and Ishum, and the well-known Sumerian Kings List. In this section we shall be concerned with the first two, reserving our comments on the Sumerian Kings List for a later section of this chapter.
1. The Atrahasis Epic
The oldest clay tablets containing the Flood Epic of Atrahasis “can be dated around 1700 BC.”258 The entire focus of the epic is on the relation of mankind, called the “Igigi” in the text, and the gods, a relationship that leads ultimately to the gods’ extermination of mankind whom they had helped create.
The story begins with an overview of the plot that will be unfolded in more detail as the myth proceeds:
When the gods instead of man
Did the work, bore the loads,
The gods’ load was too great,
The work too hard, the trouble too much.
The great Anunnaki made the Igigi
Carry the workload sevenfold.
Anu their father was king,
Their counselor warrior Ellil,
Their chamberlain was Ninurta,
Their canal-controller Ennugi,
They took the box [of lots]....,
Cast the lots; the gods made the division.
Anu went up to the sky,
[And Ellil(?)] took the earth for his people (?)... 259
They were counting the years of loads.
For 3,600 years they bore the excess,
Hard work night and day.
They groaned and blamed each other,
Grumbled over the masses of excavated soil;
“Let us confront our [ ] the chamberlain,
And get him to relieve us of our hard work!
Come, let us carry [the Lord (?)],
The counselor of gods, the warrior, from his dwelling...”260
As these passages make clear, the “gods” were near open revolt due to the exorbitant workload laid on them, and they demand to see the “chamberlain.”
A little later on in the text, the revolt or strike threatens to become open war:
“Every single one of us gods declared war!
We have put [a stop] to the digging.
The load is excessive, it is killing us!
Our work is too hard, the trouble too much!
So every single one of us gods
Has agreed to complain to Ellil.”261
As Zechariah Sitchin has often pointed out, in the face of this situation, the gods decided to ease their workload by creating an intelligent “worker,” mankind:
Ea made his voice heard
And spoke to the gods his brothers...
...
“There is [ ]
Belet-ili the womb goddess is present -
Let her create primeval man
So that he may bear the yoke [( )],
So that he may bear the yoke, [the work of Ellil],
Let man bear the load of the gods!”262
Mankind’s “purpose in life was to relieve the gods of hard labour,”263 he was, in short, created to be a slave.
A little later on, the exact, and grizzly, methods of the creation of mankind are described in detail:
Enki made his voice heard,
And spoke to the great gods,
“On the first, seventh, and fifteenth of the month
I shall make a purification by washing.
Then one god should be slaughtered.
And the gods can be purified by immersion.
Nintu shall mix clay
With his flesh and his blood.
Then a god and a man
Will be mixed together in clay.
Let us hear the drumbeat forever after,
Let a ghost come into existence from the god’s flesh,
Let her proclaim it as his living sign,
And let the ghost exist so as not to forget (the slain god).”
They answered “Yes!” in the assembly,
The great Anunnaki who assign the fates.264
The decision made, the “gods” then proceed to the task of slaughtering one of their own and creating “primeval man.”
On the first, seventh, and fifteenth of the month
He made a purification by washing.
Ilawela who had intelligence,
They slaughtered in their assembly.
Nintu mixed clay
With his flesh and blood.
They heard the drumbeat forever after.265
This gives a crucial insight into the “morality” of the Annunaki, who are clearly not above murdering one of their own to lighten the workload of the rest.
But the passage is obviously pregnant with much more significance. As Assyriologist Stephanie Dalley observes:
This account of man’s creation may be compared with that in the Epic of Creation, in which Marduk used the blood of Qingu, the evil leader of the enemy gods whom he had slain, to create mankind with the help of Ea; clay is not mentioned, and no birth-goddess takes part, but the purpose of man’s creation is again to toil on the gods’ behalf.
...
The account in Genesis describes God using earth (adamah) to create the first man (Adam), animating him with the breath of life.266
The ancient Mesopotamian account of the creation of man, in other words, appears generally of a piece with the biblical account in so far as common clay or dirt is mingled with the “life” of God
or the “gods”: in the case of the Hebrew version, with the “breath of life,” and in the Atrahasis, the blood of life.
But here the resemblance stops. Beyond the obvious moral differences between the two accounts, the Mesopotamian version of mankind’s creation also hints at something else: mankind is a chimera, a hybrid, engineered by mingling the “gods” with an already existing “man:” “Nintu shall mix clay With his flesh and his blood. / Then a god and a man / Will be mixed together in clay.” Zechariah Sitchin believes that this is an indicator of a sophisticated “paleoscience” of a very different sort: advanced genetic engineering and manipulation.
For the theologically inclined, these observations suggest a method of reconciliation between the Mesopotamian and the Biblical traditions, for if there was an already existing human or human-like creature from which “primeval” worker-man was engineered, as the Atrahasis suggests, then the biblical account in Genesis would appear to be referring to this creature, while its subsequent mention of the creation of a hybrid race brought about by the intermarriage of the Nephilim and the daughters of men in Genesis 6 would then be the hybrid race referred to here as the creation of man by the gods in the Atrahasis. More on this point in a subsequent chapter.
That this is a plausible reconciliation is borne out by what immediately follows in the Mesopotamian epic:
Far-sighted Enki and wise Mami
Went into the room of fate.
The womb-goddesses were assembled.
He trod the clay in her presence;
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