Slave Species of god

by Michael Tellinger

  Sumerian gods.

  AN or ANU in Babylonian, Akkadian, Assyrian. Great father of the gods. The god of the sky, creator of heaven and Earth – God above all. His pictographic symbol was a star which also stood for An, Heaven, divine being or god. Anu dwells virtually exclusively in the celestial heaven, from where he controls all worldly activities. Only seldom does he venture down to Earth and when he does it is for a special occasion. He meets the assembly of other gods in his heavenly abode to settle disputes; he gives advice or reaches major decisions. The other gods have to ask permission to enter Anu's abode, but there are stories of mortal humans being taken up to Anu, almost always in search of immortality. The Tree of Life and Tree of Truth were in Anu's heavenly palace being guarded by vigilant gods named after each tree.

  ENLIL: First son of Anu. The second most powerful deity. His name meant ‘Lord of the airspace’. He is the god who controls all of the Earth. The god of Earth, wind and storms. The principal ‘god of Heaven and Earth’ because he descended to Earth from the heavenly abode. The master of men's fates. Enlil sent the flood which destroyed all mankind except Ziusudra and his family. Sumerians said that “in heaven he is the prince, on Earth he is the chief”. He made Earth quake. He was on Earth long before it was settled by man. He first raped his young virgin concubine by the name of SUD, before tracking her down later and marrying her. He bestowed the new name on her: NINLIL, which meant ‘lady of the airspace’. He had a son, who became his heir, with his half-sister NINHURSAG. Their son NINURTA was portrayed as a “heroic son of Enlil who went forth with net and rays of light”.

  ENKI: Second son of Anu, also known as EA, which meant ‘house-water’. Also a ‘god of Heaven and Earth’. Master engineer, god of water and lord of the salt water who loved sailing. He built ships that sailed far and wide, and he also brought back riches like gold to Sumer. Supreme god of magic and wisdom and mining. Patron of the arts who was also an oracle. Prince of the Earth. He built his house at ERIDU. He mated with Ninhursag (Lady of the mountainhead) who was his half-sister but could not produce a male heir. He created the plants and gave men agriculture. He constantly struggled against his brother Enlil. He was the architect of Adam and the one who warned Ziusudra or ‘Noah’ about the impending calamity.

  ERESHKIGAL: Goddess of the underworld or ‘lower world’, and consort of Nergal. Some consider her a dark side or aspect of Ishtar. When Ishtar descended into the underworld to save Tammuz, Ereshkigal tricked her into leaving some part of her clothing or insignias at each of the underworld's seven gates as she passed through them. Standing naked at the seventh gate, Ishtar threw herself on Ereshkigal; but she was powerless like Samson without his hair. Ereshkigal confined Ishtar in the underworld until the wily Ea contrived her release with a trick.

  ISHTAR: Sumerian – INANNA; Egyptian – ASTARTE; Roman – VENUS; Greek – APHRODITE. She was the greatest of all the mother goddesses of the Mesopotamians. Goddess of love and fertility, goddess of sex, goddess of the moon, goddess of war. Lady of heaven, lady of sorrow and battles. The great lover, the great mother. The human-hero-god Gilgamesh spurned her which ensured his death. Her star is Venus and the lion is her cult animal. Ishtar's love is all-consuming and even deadly. Ishtar's worship involved phallic symbols, sacred whores and painted priests in women's clothing. Many temples were built in her honour, which were minded by priestesses who performed sexual rites in her honour. Such as the one at Uruk.

  MARDUK: Also known as RA and AMUN. The great god of Babylon, King of Kings, Guardian of the Law, the Great Sorcerer, the Great Healer, slayer of Tiamat. Marduk represents ‘order fighting against chaos’ which is the conflict from which all Creation emerges. Defeating Tiamat, Marduk brought order and life to the world. When the tablets of destiny were seized from Kingu, Marduk fastened them to his own breast, and so brought control of the Earth under the divine authority of the gods. The stela of Hammurabi shows Marduk on his throne with a horned headdress, giving Hammurabi his ring and sceptre. The Amorites saw Marduk as a god of spring and sunlight, of herbs and trees.

  NEBO: Also NABU, the son of Marduk. God of writing and speech, speaker for the gods. Nebo maintains records of men's deeds and produces them for judgment after death. His symbol is the stylus.

  NERGAL: God of the underworld, mass destruction and plague, consort of Ereshkigal. Thrown out of heaven, he stormed the underworld with fourteen demons until Ereshkigal consented to marry him.

  NINHURSAG: Also MAAT ‘lady mountain.’ An Earth mother. She moulded the first man out of clay and brought him to life with the blood of Kingu.

  SHAMASH: Also UTU, son of the moon god Sin, brother and husband to Ishtar. The great god of justice. In Sumer, a god of divination. The enemy of darkness and all the evil darkness brings.

  SIN: Also NANNAR, the moon god. Wise and secretive, the enemy of all evil spirits. An old man with a long beard who flies through the sky in his sailboat every night.

  TAMMUZ: Also DUMUZI, God of the harvest. The god who dies and rises again. The love of Ishtar killed him, and Ishtar fought Ereshkigal in the underworld to bring him back.

  Mayan gods and goddesses.

  The ancient Mayans had a complex pantheon of deities whom they worshipped and during the later periods of their civilisation they even offered human sacrifices to their gods. The Mayan rulers were believed to be descendants of the gods and their blood was the ideal sacrifice, either through personal bloodletting or the sacrifice of captives. Their religious rituals were elaborate and imposing, and they hosted frequent festivals to honour their gods, with special honours to the deified national heroes Itzamna and Kukulcan. The whole country was dotted with temples, usually great stepped pyramids. Every god had a special feast day set aside especially for them. The mild approach towards sacred rituals of the Mayas was in strong contrast to the bloody ritual of the Aztecs who succeeded them into a new, more brutal epoch of Humankind. Human sacrifice was forbidden by Kukulcan (their primary deity) and crept in only in later years. It was never a prominent feature, except at Chichen-Itza where it at least became customary, on occasion of some great national crisis, to sacrifice hundreds of voluntary victims of their own race, frequently virgins, by drowning them in one of the subterranean rock wells after which the bodies were drawn out and buried.

  Mayan creational mythology refers to deities from other realms who came to Earth to seed the planet. The Popol Vuh is the most sacred book of the Mayas and many people see the story of the Popol Vuh as the story of extraterrestrial gods who came down to Earth and made man in his own image. When they first made man he was too perfect, with a lifespan as long as theirs, he could see far and wide and was as perceptive as they were. They realised that they had made a mistake, and created a competitor who was as wise as the gods themselves. They proceeded to destroy man and started over again, creating present-day man who lives shorter lifetimes, is not as smart, and is here to act as a slave-servant to the gods.

  One part of this story tells us of the gods' first attempt to create humans, only succeeding after several attempts, ‘he’ created the “True People” by constructing them with maize.

  “They came together in darkness to think and reflect. This is how they came to decide on the right material for the creation of man. ... Then our Makers Tepew and Q'uk'umatz began discussing the creation of our first mother and father.” This story is identical to that in the Sumerian tablets 10,000 miles across the Atlantic. How is that possible? Unless the same gods had a hand in all this activity? In another part of the Popol Vuh, it talks about how mankind had been created as a servant of the gods.

  “Let us make him who shall nourish and sustain us…We have already tried with our first creations, our first creatures; but we could not make them praise and venerate us. So then, let us try to make obedient, respectful beings who will nourish and sustain us.”

  These various references took me by complete surprise when I first stumbled upon them. It is virtually identical to the theory which I had formula
ted before setting out to write this book. But I had not laid eyes on the Popol Vuh or its meaning until I began researching this chapter. It was a great personal discovery to see that others long before me had already had such outlandish ideas.

  The Mayan culture is filled with legends of visiting gods from outer space. Kukulcan, who was also later known as Quetzalcoatl, ‘the Great Feathered Serpent’, was a god who brought the teaching of peace to this part of the world and appeared as a white god with a beard. The drawings of him look almost identical to the drawings of the deity known as Ea or Enki in the ancient Sumerian teachings. It is therefore very interesting to compare Quetzalcoatl to the Sumerian god Enki. The behaviour and resemblance is uncanny. Sumerian Enki tried to show Adam and Eve the secrets of life in the garden of Eden, and was banished after which he was referred to as the 'Devil’s snake', serpent, Satan, and every other vile name in an attempt to discredit him and make it extremely undesirable for human slaves to associate with him. But scholars have pointed out that his ‘serpent’ name may have been confused in a translation from the original Hebrew word Nanash, meaning ‘snake’, but its root is NHSH, which means ‘to find out or to decipher’. These comparisons between the Mayan and Sumer cultures are incredible. Is it possible that they are merely coincidences across the Atlantic some 11,000 years ago? It seems that after Ea or Enki was demoted by his father Anu as a result of his benevolent actions towards humans, he travelled the world and started his own settlements of human civilisations. After all, it was Ea who crafted the creation of the ‘Adamu’ according to the Sumerians.

  The Mayan god Quetzalcoatl is depicted as a flying serpent, which makes perfect sense to those who can put the two together. He would fly in from afar to help elevate his newly-chosen society, but he was soon followed by other relatives, gods with ulterior motives. They would not allow him to share their knowledge with the primitive slave species. Clashes between gods is the stuff of which the Mayan mythology was made of, just like in all the other parts of the world. They were a dynasty with infinite personal disagreements and humans were unfortunately just the accidental bystanders who were dispensable. The Guatemalans differ in their opinions and their acceptance of the Popol Vuh as the true story of creation. Their affinity for the document varies depending on their religious upbringing and beliefs. Although the tale has parallels with many other creation stories, including Genesis, some Guatemalan Catholics classify the Popol Vuh as an ‘artefact of history’, but not theology. This is fascinating! If they regard it as an historic event, it must have actually taken place! It can therefore not be regarded as mythology. And yet most historians classify it as such.

  This interaction with gods around the world leads us right back to the notion that as advanced as the Nefilim or Anunnaki may have been in space travel and genetics, they were certainly not the complete ‘genetic beings’. Their violent behaviour is a clear indication of an imperfect genome which we undoubtedly inherited from them. Here are the events in the Garden of Eden, when ‘Nahash’ the snake, tries to educate Adam and Eve but is caught in the act by god… in this case his brother Enlil, who was of higher rank. Note the physical interaction and the fact that ‘god’ did not know about the eating of the apple. He was just walking through the garden when he overheard Adam's interaction with the ‘snake’. Is that possible? That god would not know all things, taking a stroll in the shade of the trees on a hot day? Having to call Adam's name to ask where they were hiding and to drag a confession out of Adam? Here is the extract from Genesis for your own consideration. Also remember that the word ‘tree’ is a symbolic metaphor and not necessarily an actual tree.

  Genesis 3:1 -13. The Fall of Man.

  “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?’ The woman said to the serpent, ‘We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but 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.’. ‘You will not surely die,’ the serpent said to the woman. ‘For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’ 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. 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. Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man, ‘Where are you?’ He answered, ‘I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.’And he said, ‘Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?’ The man said, ‘The woman you put here with me - she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’ Then the LORD God said to the woman, ‘What is this you have done?’ The woman said, ‘The serpent deceived me, and I ate.’”

  So now that we have a slightly broader view of the activities in the Garden of Eden, a look at the Mayan gods will help us recognize the behaviour of the ‘good god’ Quetzalcoatl, who was possibly also the human-loving Enki, the Sumerian god who created Humankind as the slave species. I'd like to remind you at this point that the term ‘Underworld’ was most likely derived from the original Sumerian name given to the southern hemisphere where Enki discovered all the gold. It was called the ‘Lower World’ as opposed to ‘Upper World’ where the other gods lived, in Sumer. With time, the subtle change to ‘Underworld’ became associated with a ‘dark and horrid’ world deep in the caverns of Earth, where the devil dwelled. Also known as Hell. So when mythological stories talk about the ‘Underworld’, it should be seen as Southern Africa, or Abzu, as the Sumerians called it. And not necessarily Hell!

  List of Mayan gods.

  Kukulcan or Quetzalcoatl - Winged God -Feather Serpent:

  The Mayans called him Kukulcan - The wind god, was also known as the ‘Feathered Serpent’. The latter cultures called him Quetzalcoatl. His pyramid was the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacán, the most spectacular of all the central American pyramids. Quetzalcoatl was tracked to Egypt, Sumer, then later to Mesoamerica and Peru. Quetzalcoatl is also the Aztec name for the Feathered-Serpent deity of ancient Mesoamerica, one of the main gods of many Mexican and Central American civilisations. The name ‘Quetzalcoatl’ literally means divine-bird snake or serpent with feathers of the Quetzal, which implies something divine or precious in the Nahuatl language. The Feathered Serpent deity was a central figure in art and religion in most of Mesoamerica until the Spanish invasion. All the other Mesoamerican civilisations have worshipped the Feathered Serpent - the Olmec, the Mixtec, the Toltec, and the Aztec. In some latter cultures the worship of Quetzalcoatl sometimes included human sacrifices, although in some traditions Quetzalcoatl was said to oppose human sacrifice. His significance and attributes varied somewhat between civilisations and through history. Quetzalcoatl was often considered the god of the morning star under the title Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, which means literally ‘the lord of the star of the dawn’. He was known as the giver of maize corn to mankind and the inventor of books and the calendar. Sometime as a symbol of death and resurrection. Quetzalcoatl was also the patron of the priests. All the characteristics fit the profile of the god Enki in Sumer.

  Most Mesoamerican civilisations believe that the world exists in cycles. Our current time is considered the fifth world, the previous four having been destroyed by flood, fire and other disasters. Quetzalcoatl went to the underworld, Mictlan, and created the fifth-world mankind from the bones of the previous races, using his own blood to imbue the bones with new life. You will see in the last chapter when we look at Sumerian tablets, how incredibly similar this story is to that of Enki, while creating t
he first human ‘Adamu’. It is simply too close to be coincidental. Quetzalcoatl was a god of such importance and power that nearly every aspect of everyday life seemed to be touched by him. As a legend, he would signal the end of mortal kingship.