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And all was written and preserved on clay tablets and stored in the ark of the covenant, for future generations - which has now been, and is being revealed (re-discovered), and finally translated into English, in recent years,
For all with 'eyes' to see and 'ears' to hear - to take in and make of it whatever you will.
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When the Lord God Yahweh, according to the Bible, granted the (Ten) Commandments to His 'chosen' people, He at first inscribed -- in His own hand -- two stone tablets, . . . .
That He gave to Moses on Mount Sinai.
When Moses threw down and broke that first set of tablets, in response to the 'golden calf incident', (Exodus 32:19)
The 'replacement set' was re-written by -- Moses this time -- on new tablets, on both their sides, when he stayed on the Mount forty days and forty nights, recording the dictated words of the Lord.
Remember? (check Exodus 34:4, 34:28)
Here is an excellent documentation of how the 'rest' of the ensuing story and 'dictates of the Lord' came to be written down, mostly in-tact and preserved on clay tablets, to this very day.
Believe it or not :) . . . . .
Enjoy.
Bob
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It is now known that the Shumerian (or Sumerian) civilization had blossomed in what is now Iraq almost a millennium (one thousand years) before the beginning of the Pharaonic age (5000 years ago in Egypt), both to be followed later by the civilization of the Indus Valley in the Indian subcontinent.
It is now also known that the Sumerians were the first to write down the annals and tales of gods and men, from which all other peoples, including the Hebrews, obtained the tales of Creation, of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel;
And of the wars and loves of the gods, as reflected in the writings and recollections of the Greeks, Hittites, Canaanites, Persians, and Indo-Europeans.
As all these olden writings attest, their 'sources' were even 'earlier texts' - some found, many lost.
The volume of such early writings is staggering!!
Not thousands, but -- "tens of thousands" -- of clay tablets have been discovered in the ruins of the ancient Near East.
Many deal with or record aspects of daily life, such as trade or workers' wages and nuptial contracts.
Others, found mostly in palace libraries, constitute Royal Annals; still others, discovered in the ruins of temple libraries or of scribal schools, constitute a group of canonized texts, a secret literature, that were written down in the Sumerian language and then
translated to Akkadian (the first Semitic language) and then other ancient languages.
And even in those early writings - going back almost 6000 years - references are made to even earlier 'lost' "books" (texts inscribed on stone tablets).
Among the incredible finds, - to say fortunate does not fully convey the miracle, - in the ruins of ancient cities and their libraries are,
Clay prisms inscribed with the very information about the "ten pre-Diluvial rulers" and their -- 432,000 years' total reign -- to which Berossus (the 4th-3rd-century BC Babylonian priest and chronicler) had referred.
Known as the "Sumerian King Lists" (and on display in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England), their several versions leave no doubt that their Sumerian compilers had access to some earlier common or canonized textual material.
Coupled with other equally early texts, discovered in various states of preservation, they strongly suggest that the original recorder of the Arrival (of the 'gods' of antiquity), as well as of preceding events, and certainly of following events, had to be one of those leaders, a key participant, an eyewitness.
One who had been an eyewitness to all those events, indeed a key participant in them, was the leader who had splashed down with the first group of 'astronauts'.
At that time his epithet (nick-name) was E.A., "He Whose Home Is Water."
He experienced the disappointment of having command of Earth Mission given to his half brother and rival EN.LIL ("Lord of the Command"), a humiliating title, mitigated by granting him the title EN.KI, "Lord of Earth."
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Enki (EA) -- was the creator of humankind: the serpent and 'evil snake', from the biblical 'Garden of Eden', fame.
Sumerian Enki tried to show Adam and Eve 'the secrets of life' in the garden of Eden, and was also banished with them, after which he was referred to as the 'Devil’s snake', serpent, Satan.
Enlil -- El Elyon of the Canaanites, (El Shaddai to Abraham) who, five generations later, became 'Jehovah' of the 'Jews'.
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Relegated away from the cities of the gods and their spaceport in the E.DIN ("Eden") to supervise the mining of gold in the AB.ZU (southeastern Africa), it was Ea/Enki - a great scientist - who came across the 'hominids' who inhabited those parts.
And so when the Anunnaki toiling in the gold mines mutinied and said, "No more!" it was Enki who realized that the needed manpower could be obtained by 'jumping the gun on evolution' through 'genetic engineering';
And thus did 'the Adam' or Adamu, (literally, "He of the Earth," Earthling) come into being.
As a 'hybrid', (sterile clone), 'the Adam' could not procreate;
The events echoed in the biblical tale of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, record the 'second genetic manipulation' by Enki that added the 'extra chromosomal genes' needed for sexual procreation.
And when Mankind, proliferating, did not turn out the way it had been envisaged, it was he, Enki, who defied his brother Enlil's plan to let Mankind perish in the great Deluge - the events whose hero has been called Noah in the Bible, and Ziusudra, in the earlier original Sumerian text.
The firstborn son of father Anu, (ruler of "Nibiru"), Ea/Enki was well versed in his planet's ('Nibiru') and its inhabitants' past.
Enki, an accomplished scientist, bequeathed the most important aspects of the advanced knowledge of the Anunnaki, especially to his two sons,
Marduk and Ningishzidda,
(Who, as Egyptian gods, were known there as:) --
Ra and Thoth, respectively.
But Enki was also instrumental in sharing with Mankind certain aspects of such advanced knowledge, by teaching to selected individuals the "secrets of the gods."
In at least two instances, such initiates wrote down (as they were instructed to do) those divine teachings as Mankind's heritage.
One, called Adapa, and probably a son of Enki by a human female, is known to have written a book titled 'Writings Regarding Time' - one of the earliest 'lost' books.
The other, called Enmeduranki, was in all probability the prototype of the biblical Enoch, the one who was taken up to 'heaven' after he had entrusted to his sons the book of divine secrets, and of which a version has possibly survived in the extra-biblical 'Book of Enoch'.
Though the firstborn of Anu, Enki was not destined to be his father's successor on the throne of Nibiru.
Complex rules of succession, which reflected the convoluted history of the Nibiruans, gave that privilege to Enki's half brother, Enlil.
In the effort to resolve the bitter conflict, both Enki and Enlil ended up on a mission to an alien planet - Earth - whose gold was needed to create a shield for preserving Nibiru's dwindling atmosphere.
It was against that background, made even more complex by the presence on Earth of their half-sister Ninharsag (the Chief Medical Officer of the Anunnaki), that Enki decided to defy Enlil's plan to have Mankind perish in the great Deluge.
The conflict carried on between the two half-brothers' sons, even among their grandchildren; the fact that all of them, and especially those born on Earth, faced the 'loss of longevity' that Nibiru's 'extended orbital period', provided added personal agonies and sharpened ambitions.
It all came to a climax in the last century of the third millennium B.C. when Marduk, Enki's firstborn by his official spouse, claimed that he and not Enlil's firstborn son, Ninurta, should 'inherit the Earth'.
The bitter conflict that included a series of wars, led in the end to the use of 'nuclear weapons'; the ensuing though unintended result was . . .
The demise of the Sumerian civilization!
The initiation of chosen individuals into the "secrets of the gods" had marked the beginning of Priesthood, the lineages of mediators between the gods and the people, the transmitters of the Divine Words to the mortal Earthlings.
[P.S. It has now also been fairly well established that, the Anunnaki 'gods' were NOT immortal, as well -- according to researcher Laurence Gardner in his book, "Genesis of the Grail Kings".]
Oracles-interpretations of divine utterances were commingled with the observation of the heavens for omens.
And as Mankind was increasingly drawn to 'take sides' in the godly conflicts, -- "Prophecy" began to play a role.
Indeed, the term to denote such spokesmen of the gods who proclaimed what was to come, Nabih, was the epithet for Marduk's firstborn son, Nabu, who had tried, on behalf of his exiled father (Enki), to convince Mankind that the heavenly signs bespoke the coming 'supremacy' of Marduk.
These developments sharpened the realization that one must distinguish between Fate and Destiny.
The proclamations of Enlil, sometimes even of Anu, that used to be unquestioned were now subjected to the scrutiny of the difference between NAM - a 'Destiny', like the planetary orbits, whose course had been determined and was unchangeable - and NAM.TAR, literally, a destiny that could be bent, broken, changed, which was 'Fate'.
Reviewing and recalling the sequence of events, and the apparent parallelism between what had happened on Nibiru and what took place on Earth,
Enki and Enlil began to ponder philosophically what indeed was destined and could not have been avoided, and what was just fated as a consequence of right or wrong decisions and free choice.
Fate could not be predicted;
Destiny could be foreseen -
especially if all, as the planetary orbits, was cyclical;
If what was shall again be, if the First Things shall also be the Last Things.
The climactic event of the nuclear desolation sharpened soul-searching among the leaders of the Anunnaki, and raised the need to explain to the devastated human masses why it came to pass this way.
Was it destined or was it just the result of an Anunnaki-made fate? Was anyone responsible, is there someone accountable?
In the Councils of the Anunnaki on the eve of the calamity, it was Enki who stood alone in opposition to the use of the 'forbidden (nuclear) weapon'.
It was thus important for Enki to explain to the suffering remnants that, that turning point in the saga of extraterrestrials, who had meant well, but ended as destroyers, had come to pass.
And who but Ea/Enki, who was the first to come and an eyewitness to it all, was most qualified to tell the Past, so that the Future could be divined?
And the best way to tell it all was as a first-person report by Enki himself.
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That he had recorded his autobiography is certain, for a long text (stretching over at least twelve tablets) discovered in the library Nippur, quotes Enki as saying:
When I approached Earth, there was much flooding.
When I neared its green meadows, heaps and mounds were piled up at my command.
In a pure place I built my house, an appropriate name I gave it.
The long text continues to describe how Ea/Enki then assigned tasks to his lieutenants, putting their Mission to Earth in motion.
Numerous other texts that relate varied aspects of Enki's role in the ensuing developments, serve to complete Enki's tale;
They include a cosmogony, an Epic of Creation, at whose core lay Enki's own text, which scholars call 'The Eridu Genesis'.
They include detailed descriptions of the fashioning of the Adam.
They describe how other Anunnaki, male and female, came to Enki in his city Eridu (just south of Ur, Abraham's home town in Sumer - in the SE part of present day Iraq), to obtain from him the ME - a kind of data-disc that encoded all aspects of civilization;
And they include texts of Enki's private life and personal problems, such as the tale of his attempts to attain a son by his half sister Ninharsag, his promiscuous affairs with both goddesses and the 'Daughters of Man', and the unforeseen consequences thereof.
The 'Atra Hasis' clay-tablet text, throws light on Anu's efforts to prevent a flare-up of the Enki-Enlil rivalries by dividing Earth's domains between them;
And texts recording the events preceding the great Deluge render almost verbatim the debates in the Council of the Gods about the fate of Mankind and Enki's subterfuge,
Known as 'the tale of Noah and the ark'- a tale known only from the Bible -- until one of its original Mesopotamian versions was found in the tablets of, "the Epic of Gilgamesh".
Sumerian and Akkadian clay tablets; Babylonian and Assyrian temple libraries; Egyptian, Hittite, and Canaanite "myths"; and the biblical narratives, are . . . . .
The main body of 'written-down memories' of the affairs of gods and men.
For the first time ever, this dispersed and fragmented material, has been assembled and used by Zecharia Sitchin, to re-create the eyewitness account of Enki - the autobiographical memoirs and insightful prophecies of an extraterrestrial 'god'.
Presented as a text, dictated by Enki to a chosen scribe, a 'Book of Witnessing' to be unsealed at an appropriate time,
It brings to mind Yahweh's instructions to the Prophet Isaiah (seventh century B.C. -- Isaiah 30:8) :
"Now come,
Write it on a sealed tablet, as a book engrave it;
Let it be a witnessing until the last day, a testimony for all time."
Isaiah 30:8
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In dealing with the past, Enki himself perceived the future. The notion that the Anunnaki, exercising free will, were masters of their own fates (as well as the fate of Mankind) gave way, in the end, to a realization that
It was Destiny that, when all was said and done, determined the course of events; and therefore - as the Hebrew Prophets had recognized - the First Things shall be the Last Things.
The record of events dictated by Enki thus becomes a foundation for Prophecy, and the Past becomes the Future.
ATTESTATION
The words of Endubsar, master scribe, son of Eridu city, servant of the lord Enki, great god. . . . . . .
In the seventh year after the 'Great (nuclear) Calamity', in the second month, on the seventeenth day, I was summoned by my master the Lord Enki, great god, benevolent fashioner of Mankind, omnipotent and merciful.
I was among the remnants of Eridu who had escaped to the arid steppe just as the 'Evil Wind' was nearing the city. And I wandered off into the wilderness to seek withered twigs for firewood.
And I looked up and to and behold, a 'Whirlwind' came out of the south.
There was a reddish brilliance about it and it made no sound.
And as it reached the ground, four straight feet spread out from its belly and the brilliance disappeared. And I threw myself to the ground and prostrated myself, for I knew that it was a 'divine vision'.
And when I lifted my eyes, there were two divine emissaries standing near me. And they had the faces of men, and their garments were sparkling like burnished brass.
And they called me by name and spoke to me, saying:
You are summoned by the great god the lord Enki.
Fear not, for you are blessed.
And we are here to take you aloft, and carry you unto his retreat in the Land of Magan (modern day, Oman - south of Iran), on the island amidst the River of Magan, where the sluices are.
And as they spoke, the Whirlwind lifted itself as a fiery chariot and was gone.
And they took me by my hands, each one grasping me by one hand.
And they lifted me and carried me swiftly between the Earth and the heavens, as the eagle soars.
And I could see the land and the waters, and the plains and the mountains. And they let me down on the island at the gateway of the great god's abode.
And the moment they let go of my hands, a brilliance as I had never seen before, engulfed and overwhelmed me, and I collapsed on the ground as though voided of the spirit of life.
My life senses returned to me, as if awakened from the deepest sleep, by the sound of the calling of my name.
I was in some kind of an enclosure. It was dark but there was also an aura.
Then my name was called again, by the deepest of voices.
And although I could hear it, I could not tell whence the voice came, nor could I see whoever it was that spoke. And I said, Here I am.
Then the voice said to me: Endubsar, offspring of Adapa, I have chosen you to be my scribe, that you write down my words on the tablets.
And all at once there appeared a glowing in one part of the enclosure.
And I saw a place arranged like a scribal workplace: a scribe's table and a scribe's stool, and there were finely-shaped stones upon the table.
But I saw no clay tablets nor containers of wet clay. And there lay upon the table only one stylus, and it glistened in the glowing as no reed stylus ever did.
And the voice spoke up again, saying: Endubsar, son of Eridu city, my faithful servant. I am your lord Enki, I have summoned you to write down my words, for I am much distraught by what has befallen Mankind by the 'Great (nuclear) Calamity'.
It is my wish to record the true course of the events, to let gods and men alike know that my hands are clean.
Not since the 'Great Deluge' had such a calamity befallen the Earth, and the gods, and the Earthlings.
But the Great Deluge was destined to happen, not so the 'great (nuclear) calamity'. This one, seven years ago, need not have happened.
It could have been prevented, and I, Enki, did all I could to prevent it; alas, I failed.
And was it fate or was it destiny? In the future shall it be judged, for at the end of days a Day of judgment there shall be.
On that day the Earth shall quake and the rivers shall change course, and there shall be darkness at noon, and a fire in the heavens in the night, the day of the returning celestial god will it be.
And who shall survive and who would perish, who shall be rewarded and who will be punished, gods and men alike, on that day shall it be discovered;
for what shall come to pass by what had passed shall be determined; and what was 'destined' shall in a cycle be repeated, and what was 'fated' and only by the heart's will, occurring for good or ill, shall for judgment come.
The voice fell silent; then the great lord spoke up again, saying:
It is for this reason that I will tell the true account of the Beginnings and of the Prior Times and of the Olden Times, for in the past the future lies hidden.
For forty days and forty nights shall I speak, and you will write; forty shall be the count of the days and the nights of your task here, for forty is 'my sacred number' among the gods.
For forty days and forty nights you shall neither eat nor drink;
Only this once of bread and water you shall partake, and it shall sustain you for the duration of your task.
And the voice paused, and all at once there appeared a glowing in another part of the enclosure. And I saw a table and upon it a plate and a cup. And I rose up thereto, and there was bread on the plate and water in the cup.
And the voice of the great lord Enki spoke up again, saying:
Endubsar, eat the bread and drink the water, and be sustained for forty days and forty nights.
And I did as directed. And thereafter the voice directed me to sit myself at the scribal table, and the glowing there intensified.
I could see neither door nor aperture where I was, yet the glowing was as strong as the midday sun.
And the voice said: Endubsar the scribe, what do you see?
And I looked and saw the glowing rayed upon the table and the stones and the stylus, and I said: I see stone tablets, and their hue is blue as pure as the sky.
And I see a stylus as I have never seen before, its stem unlike any reed and its tip shaped like an eagle's talon (claw).
And the voice said: These are the tablets upon which you shall inscribe my words. By my wish they have been cut of the finest lapis lazuli, each with two smooth faces provided.
And the stylus you see is a god's handiwork, its handle made of electrum (alloy of gold and silver used by the ancients), and its tip of divine crystal.
It shall firmly fit in your hand and what you shall engrave with it shall be as easy as marking upon wet clay.
In two columns you shall inscribe the front face, in two columns you shall inscribe the back of each stone tablet.
Do not deviate from my words and utterances!
And there was a pausing, and I touched one of the stones, and the surface thereof felt like a smooth skin, soft to the touch. And I picked up the holy stylus, and it felt like a feather in my hand.
And then the great god Enki began to speak, and 1 began to write down his words, exactly as he had spoken them. At times his voice was strong, at times almost a whisper.
At times there was joy or pride in his voice, at times pain or agony. And as one tablet was inscribed on all its faces, I took another to continue.
And when the final words were spoken, the great god paused and I could hear a great sigh. And he said:
Endubsar my servant, for forty days and forty nights you have faithfully recorded my words. Your task here is completed.
Now take hold of another tablet, and on it you shall write your own attestation, and at the end thereof as a witness, mark it with your seal, and take the tablet and put it together with the other tablets in the 'divine chest';
For at a designated time chosen ones shall come hither and they shall find the chest and the tablets, and they shall learn all that I have dictated to you;
And that true account of the Beginnings and the Prior Times and the Olden Times and the Great Calamity shall henceforth be known as,
The Words of the Lord Enki.
And it shall be a Book of Witnessing of the past, and a Book of Foretelling the future, for the future in the past lies, and the first things shall also be the last things.
And there was a pause, and I took the tablets, and put them one by one in their correct order in the chest. And the chest was made of 'acacia wood' and it was inlaid with 'gold on the outside'.
And the voice of my lord said:
Now close the chest's cover and fasten its lock. And I did as directed.
And there was another pause, and my lord Enki said:
And as for you, Endubsar, with a great god you have spoken, and though 'you have not seen me', in my presence you have been.
Therefore you are blessed, and my spokesman to the people you shall be. You shall admonish them to be righteous, for in that lies a good and long life.
And you shall comfort them, for in seventy years the cities will be rebuilt and the crops shall sprout again.
There will be peace, but there will also be wars.
New nations will become mighty, kingdoms shall rise and fall.
The olden gods shall step aside and new gods shall decree the fates.
But at the 'end of days' destiny shall prevail, and of that future it is foretold in my words about the past.
Of all that, Endubsar, to the people you shall tell.
And there was a pause and a silence. And I, Endubsar, bowed to the ground and said:
But how will I know what to say?
And the voice of the lord Enki said:
The signs will be in the heavens, and the words to utter shall come to you in dreams and in visions. And after you there will be other chosen prophets.
And in the end there will be a New Earth and a New Heaven, and,
For prophets there will be no more need.
And then there was silence, and the auras were extinguished, and the spirit left me.
And when I regained my senses, I was in the fields outside Eridu.
Seal of Endubsar, master scribe.
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The Words Of Lord Enki (Lord of the Earth and Waters)
Here is a Summary of the First Tablet:
Lamentation over the 'desolation of Sumer'
How the gods fled their cities as the 'nuclear cloud' spread
The debates in the council of the gods
The fateful decision to unleash the 'Weapons of Terror'
The origin of the gods and the awesome weapons on Nibiru
Nibiru's north-south wars, unification, and dynastic rules
Nibiru's place in the solar system
A dwindling atmosphere causes climate changes
Efforts to obtain gold to shield the atmosphere, fail
Alalu, a usurper, uses nuclear weapons to stir volcanic gases
Anu, a dynastic heir, deposes Alalu
Alalu steals a spacecraft and escapes from Nibiru
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Above excerpt taken from "The Lost Book of Enki" by Zechiria Sitchin
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