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Chapter 7
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___Chapter 7 :_

___Flood Myths and the Epos of Gilgamesh_
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___In the first 6 chapters of my book we have read the story of
Adam to the time of Abram in the Bible and other "holy" books. We
made the conclusions that there must be more information regarding
the "early" history of our Earth in other scrolls, tablets, myths
and legends from all over the world._
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_And of course there are many stories written in clay, on stone
papyrus and in other ways as will see in this chapter and part 2 of
my book._
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_In this chapter and in chapter 8 and 9 I will prove that :_
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_1. The story of Noah and the Flood in the Bible is based on the
Sumerian/Babylonian Gilgamesh epos and not the other way around,
the story of Gilgamesh is much older then the first written books
of the Bible. (maybe 5,000 years ore more)_
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_2. The God Anu is the same God as the God "EL" in the Bible, the
most High God. (the God of Shem, Melchizedek)_
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_3. The God Enlil is the same God as "JA'EL" in the Bible, second
in rank after ANU. (the God who was responsible for the Flood)_
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_4. The God Enki (Ea, Nudimmud) is the same God as "The Lord God"
or Yahweh (YHWH) in the Bible, third in rank after ANU and ENLIL.
(the God of Noah, Abraham and Jacob, and later the God of Moses and
the people of Israel._
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___But first we will read more stories all over the world regarding
the Flood, and we will read together some of them :_
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_I will use the most important ones, if you like to see more Flood
myths and legends go to :
[24]http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/titania.htm_
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_for more Myths and Legends go to
[25]http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/myth.html_
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_Nearly all of these stories contains the same aspects of why the
Flood came to the world._
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_It seemed that every culture has its own version of a Great Flood;
many of these tales contained similarities, namely :_
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_Humans are guilty of transgression._
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_A God sends a flood as punishment._
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_Instructions are sent to an individual to build a craft._
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_The instructions include ensuring the survival of all species._
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_The flood destroys the old race._
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_After the flood, a new, less sinful race emerges to repopulate the
earth. _
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_In several Flood stories is spoken about a new race, created after
the flood. (I will come back on this subject later)._
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___The Sumerian Flood story_

_The Sumerian flood story is preserved on a six-columned tablet
from Nippur (B 10637), only the lower third of which is preserved.
The complete original would probably have had 260 lines. The tablet
can be dated by its script to the late 17th century BC. The story
inscribed on the tablet deals with the creation of humans and
animals, the antediluvian cities and their rulers, and the flood.
This clay tablet, now known as the Nippur Tablet, is displayed in
the exhibition.
_
[Nippur Tablet]

In the episodes preserved, Enki (Ea, Nudimmud) reveals the gods'
plan to destroy the human race with a flood to Ziusudra and urges
him to heed his advice. The wind and storms come and with them the
flood, which lasts for seven days and seven nights before the sun
returns. Ziusudra emerges from his boat and offers sacrifices. Enki
mollifies the gods, and An (Anu) and Enlil grant Ziusudra life like
the God's.
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___Babylonian_

___With thanks to [26]Morgana's Observatory. for use of some flood
stories._
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_Three times (every 1200 years), the Gods became distressed by the
disturbance from human overpopulation. The Gods dealt with the
problem first by plague, then by famine. Both times, the God Enki
advised humans to bribe the God causing the problem. The third
time, Enlil advised the Gods to destroy all humans with a flood,
but Enki had Atrahasis build an ark and so escape. Also on the boat
were cattle, wild animals and birds, and the family of Atrahasis.
After seeing the suffering caused by the flood, the Gods regretted
their action, and Enki established barren women and stillbirth to
avoid the problem in the future._
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_Hebrew_

___Based on the Babylonian story with the difference that the flood
was a harsh punishment for humanity's sinfulness. Noah was 600
years old when it began to rain for what ended up being 40 days and
40 nights. After the end of 150 days, the waters were abated. The
ark rested in the seventh month upon the mountains of Ararat.
Waters decreased until the 10th month, on the first day of the 10th
month; tops of mountains were also seen. At the end of 40 days,
Noah opened the windows of the ark. First, he sent a raven, which
went to and fro. He then sent a dove, which returned and hadn't
found land. After seven more days, another dove was loosed; it
returned that evening with an olive leaf. The next week, the dove
didn't return. After a year and 10 days from the start of the
flood, every creature emerged from the ark. Noah sacrificed some
clean animals and birds to God, and God, pleased with this,
promised never again to destroy all living creatures._
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_Chaldean_

___Xisuthrus was warned of a coming flood by the God Chronos, who
ordered Xisuthrus to write a history and to build a vessel (5
stadia by 2 stadia) for his relations, friends, and two of every
type of animal. After the flood began to subside, he sent out some
birds, all of which returned. Upon trying again, the birds
returned, their feet covered in mud. On the third trial, the birds
didn't return. The people disembarked and offered sacrifices to the
Gods. Xisuthrus, his wife, daughter, and the pilot of the ark were
eventually transported to live with the Gods._
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_Zoroastrian_

___Ahura Mazda warned Yima that destruction in the form of floods,
subsequent to the melting of the snow, was threatening the sinful
world and gave him instructions for building a vara in which
specimens of small and large cattle, humans, dogs, birds, fires,
plants and foods were to be deposited in pairs._
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_Hindu_

___Manu, the first human, saved a small fish from the jaws of a
larger fish. After hearing the smaller one beg for protection, Manu
kept the fish safe, transferring it to larger and larger containers
as it grew, finally returning it to the ocean. _
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_Because of this kindness, the fish returned to warn Manu about an
imminent flood and told him to build a boat, stocking it with
samples of every species. After the flood waters rose, Manu tied a
rope to the fish's horn. The fish led him to a mountain and told
Manu to fasten the ship's rope to a tree so that it would not
drift. He stayed on the mountain (known as Manu's Descent) while
the flood swept away all living creatures. Manu alone survived._
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_Greco-Roman_

___Zeus decided to punish humanity for its evil ways. Other Gods
grieved at the destruction because there would be no beings to
worship them. Zeus promised a new stock, a race of miraculous
origin. He was going to use thunderbolts when he remembered one of
Fate's decrees: that a time would come when sea and earth and dome
of the sky would blaze up, and the massive structure of the
universe would collapse in ruins. With Poseidon's help, he caused
storm and earthquake to flood every part of the land except the
summit of Mount Parnassus. When Zeus crushed the hanging clouds in
his hand, there was a loud crash, and sheets of rain fell from
heaven. The rivers began rushing to the sea. When Neptune struck
the earth with his trident, the rivers raced across the plains. Sea
and earth could no longer be distinguished; all was sea without any
shores, covering every living being except for one fortunate
couple, Deucalion and Pyrrha. Earlier, Deucalion and Pyrrha had
consulted Themis at her oracular shrine. She warned of a future
flood, and they prepared by acquiring a boat. In time, their boat
ran aground on the summit of Mount Parnassus. (Note: This is the
mountain at Delphi, "navel of the earth" and home of the great
oracle.)_
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_Recognizing their piety, Zeus allowed them to live and withdrew
the waters. It was then that Deucalion and Pyrrha remembered the
other oracle given by Themis: to repopulate the world by throwing
"behind you the bones of your great mother." Pyrrha didn't want to
injure her mother's ghost by disturbing her bones. Prometheus
soothed her fears. "Oracles are righteous and never advise guilty
action..." They decided that the "bones" were stones in the body of
the earth ("Great Mother"). They threw the stones, which became
humans; men of the stones thrown by Deucalion; women, of those cast
by Pyrrha. Animals were produced by earth of its own volition.
According to Plato: "Many great deluges have taken place during the
nine thousand years."_
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_Aztec_

___In the Valley of Mexico there lived a pious man named Tapi.
Creator told him to build a boat to live in, to take his wife and a
pair of every animal that existed. Neighbors thought he was crazy.
As soon as he finished, it began to rain. The valley flooded; men
and animals went to mountains, but they were submerged. The rain
ended, waters receded, etc. Tapi realized that the flood waters had
receded after having sent a dove that did not return. Tapi
rejoiced._
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_Yakima_

___In early times, many people had gone to war with other tribes,
but there were still some good people. One of the good men heard
from the Land Above that a big water was coming. He told the other
good people and decided they would make a dugout boat from the
largest cedar they could find. Soon after the canoe was finished,
the flood came, filling the valleys and covering the mountains. The
bad people were drowned; the good people were saved in the boat. We
don't know how long the flood stayed. The canoe can still be seen
where it came down on Toppenish Ridge. The earth will be destroyed
by another flood if people do wrong a second time._
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_Andaman_

___The Andaman Islanders talk of their Supreme Being, Puluga, who
lives in the sky. It was Puluga who created the world and man.
However, when man began to forget his creator, Puluga became
annoyed and sent a flood which covered the whole earth and wiped
out the race. Four people escaped and so Puluga had mercy on them._
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_Scandinavian_

___Oden, Vili, and Ve fought and slew the great ice giant Ymir, and
icy water from his wounds drowned most of the Rime Giants. The
giant Bergelmir escaped, with his wife and children, on a boat.
Ymir's body became the world we live on._
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_Celtic_

___Heaven and Earth were great giants, and Heaven lay upon the
Earth so that their children were crowded in the darkness between
them. One of their sons led his brothers in cutting up Heaven into
many pieces. From his skull they made the firmament. His spilling
blood caused a great flood which killed all humans except a single
pair, who were saved in a ship made by a beneficent Titan. The
waters settled in hollows to become the oceans._
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_Toltec_

___One of the Tezcatlipocas (sons of the original dual God)
transformed himself into the Sun and created the first humans to
show up his brothers. The other Gods, angry at his audacity, had
Quetzalcoatl destroy the people, which he did with a flood. The
people became fish._
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_You can see for yourself that most of the stories are similar and
that in some stories we again hear of Giants, Fruit and Snakes and
most important nearly all stories mention the creation of a new
race (shortly before, during and after the flood)._
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___So let us have a closer look to the "real" history of mankind,
thousands of years older then the Holy Books._
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_Here is one :_
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_The Epos of Gilgamesh_

___The fullest surviving version, from which the summary here is
taken, is derived from twelve stone tablets, in the Acadian
language, found in the ruins of the library of Ashurbanipal, king
of Assyria 669-633 B.C., at Nineveh. The library was destroyed by
the Persians in 612 BC_
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_The theory of science today is that this epos is written about
2700 BC, "Gilgamesh" was an historical king of Uruk in Babylon, on
the River Euphrates in modern Iraq; he lived about 2700 B.C." (as I
mentioned previously the story of Gilgamesh is much older than
Scientists believe today, in accordance with he Sumerian king list
Gilgamesh lived about 8,800 BCE., see later chapter 10)_
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_When we read this epos we will see that it is written after the
Flood because Gilgamesh visited Utnapishtim, (NOAH of the Bible).
So the Flood must have took place at least 10,000 years ago._
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_We will read the whole Epos because there is more important
information regarding Earth's history and the Gods who were
worshipped at the time._
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_Here is the story of GILGAMESH_

___Tablet 1_
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_The one who saw all [Sha nagba imuru] I will declare to the world,
The one who knew all I will tell about [line missing] He saw the
great Mystery, he knew the Hidden: He recovered the knowledge of
all the times before the Flood. He journeyed beyond the distant, he
journeyed beyond exhaustion, And then carved his story on stone.
[naru : stone tablets ] This great hero who had all knowledge
[nemequ ], Gilgamesh, built the great city of Uruk; the tablet
invites us to look around and view the greatness of this city, its
high walls, its masonwork, and here at the base of its gates, as
the foundation of the city walls, a stone of lapis lazuli on which
is carved Gilgamesh's account of his exploits, the story you are
about to hear. The account begins:_
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_Gilgamesh, two-thirds god and one-third human, is the greatest
king on earth and the strongest super-human that ever existed;
however, he is young and oppresses his people harshly. The people
call out to the sky-god Anu, the chief god of the city, to help
them. In response, Anu creates a wild man, Enkidu, out in the harsh
and wild forests surrounding Gilgamesh's lands. This brute, Enkidu,
has the strength of dozens of wild animals; he is to serve as the
subhuman rival to the superhuman Gilgamesh. A trapper's son, while
checking on traps in the forest, discovers Enkidu running naked
with the wild animals; he rushes to his father with the news. The
father advises him to go into the city and take one of the temple
harlots, Shamhat, with him to the forest; when she sees Enkidu, she
is to offer herself sexually to the wild man If he submits to her,
the trapper says, he will lose his strength and his wildness.
Shamhat meets Enkidu at the watering-hole where all the wild
animals gather; she offers herself to him and he submits, instantly
losing his strength and wildness, but he gains understanding and
knowledge. He laments for his lost state, but the harlot offers to
take him into the city where all the joys of civilization shine in
their resplendence; she offers to show him Gilgamesh, the only man
worthy of Enkidu's friendship. Gilgamesh meanwhile has two dreams;
in the first a meteorite falls to earth which is so great that
Gilgamesh can neither lift it nor turn it. The people gather and
celebrate around the meteorite, and Gilgamesh embraces it as he
would a wife, but his mother, the goddess Rimat-Ninsun, forces him
to compete with the meteorite. In the second, Gilgamesh dreams that
an axe appears at his door, so great that he can neither lift it
nor turn it. The people gather and celebrate around the axe, and
Gilgamesh embraces it as he would a wife, but his mother, again,
forces him to compete with the axe. Gilgamesh asks his mother what
these dreams might mean; she tells him a man of great force and
strength will come into Uruk. Gilgamesh will embrace this man as he
would a wife, and this man will help Gilgamesh perform great deeds._
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_Gilgamesh was a Giant and a child of the Sons of God, the Goddess
Rimat-Ninsun and the Children of men (his father was Lugalbanda),
because of that he was two-third God and one-third human._
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_Enkidu had to have been a Giant because he was very strong
otherwise he could not fought with Gilgamesh, Enkidu, the subhuman
was created to serve Gilgamesh the superhuman, Enkidu was naked and
lived before between the animals as a wild beast._
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_Shamat "the harlot" was a child of Cain, see also the story in
Genesis 6 about the daughters of men._
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_Tablet 2_
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_Enkidu is gradually introduced to civilization by living for a
time with a group of shepherds, who teach him how to tend flocks,
how to eat, how to speak properly, and how to wear clothes. Enkidu
then enters the city of Uruk during a great celebration. Gilgamesh,
as the king, claims the right to have sexual intercourse first with
every new bride on the day of her wedding; as Enkidu enters the
city, Gilgamesh is about to claim that right. Infuriated at this
abuse, Enkidu stands in front of the door of the marital chamber
and blocks Gilgamesh's way. They fight furiously until Gilgamesh
wins the upper hand; Enkidu concedes Gilgamesh's superiority and
the two embrace and become devoted friends. Both Enkidu and
Gilgamesh gradually weaken and grow lazy living in the city, so
Gilgamesh proposes a great adventure: they are to journey to the
great Cedar Forest and cut down all the cedar trees. To do this,
they will need to kill the Guardian of the Cedar Forest, the great
demon, Humbaba the Terrible. Enkidu knows about Humbaba from his
days running wild in the forest; he tries in vain to convince
Gilgamesh not to undertake this folly._
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_You can imagine that Gilgamesh must have had many children by
sleeping with many brides before their marriage, he even claims
that right by Enkidu and Enkidu was furious at this abuse he fights
with Gilgamesh._
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_Humbaba was a demon and Enkidu knows him as a terrible creature of
great strength._
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_Tablet 3_
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_[Most of tablet three doesn't exist]_
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_The elders of the city protest Gilgamesh's endeavor, but agree
reluctantly. They place the life of the king in the hands of
Enkidu, whom they insist shall take the forward position in the
battle with Humbaba. Gilgamesh's mother laments her son's fate in a
prayer to the sun-god, Shamash, asking that god why he put a
restless heart in the breast of her son. Shamash promises her that
he will watch out for Gilgamesh's life. Ramat-Ninsun, too, commands
Enkidu to guard the life of the king and to take the forward
position in the battle with Humbaba. In panic, Enkidu again tries
to convince Gilgamesh not to undertake this journey, but Gilgamesh
is confident of success._
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_Shamash also belonged to the Gods (Elohim), because he is
mentioned as the Sun-God, Ramat-Ninsun also belonged to The Gods
(Elohim) because she has the power over Enkidu._
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_Al these Gods we will meet in chapter 8._
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_Tablet 4_
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_Tablet four tells the story of the journey to the cedar forest._
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_On each day of the six day journey, Gilgamesh prays to Shamash; in
response to these prayers, Shamash sends Gilgamesh oracular dreams
during the night. These dreams are all ominous: The first is not
preserved. In the second, Gilgamesh dreams that he wrestles a great
bull that splits the ground with his breath. Enkidu interprets the
dream for Gilgamesh; the dream means that Shamash, the bull, will
protect Gilgamesh. In the third, Gilgamesh dreams: The skies roared
with thunder and the earth heaved, Then came darkness and a
stillness like death. Lightening smashed the ground and fires
blazed out; Death flooded from the skies. When the heat died and
the fires went out, The plains had turned to ash._
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_Is it possible that this story is based on a fight with atomic
bombs ? (thunder, darkness, stillness, death, fire and ash). Is
this an eye witness of an ancient atomic attach ?._
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_Enkidu's interpretation is missing here, but like the other
dreams, it is assumed he puts a positive spin on the dream. The
fourth dream is missing, but Enkidu again tells Gilgamesh that the
dream portends success in the upcoming battle. The fifth dream is
also missing. At the entrance to the Cedar Forest, Gilgamesh begins
to quake with fear; he prays to Shamash, reminding him that he had
promised his mother Ninsun that he would be safe._
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_Shamash calls down from heaven, ordering him to enter the forest
because Humbaba is not wearing all his armour. The demon Humbaba
wears seven coats of armour, but now he is only wearing one so he
is particularly vulnerable. Enkidu loses his courage and turns
back; Gilgamesh falls on him and they have a great fight. Hearing
the crash of their fighting, Humbaba comes stalking out of the
Cedar Forest to challenge the intruders. A large part of the tablet
is missing here. On the one part of the tablet still remaining,
Gilgamesh convinces Enkidu that they should stand together against
the demon._
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_Shamash CALL down from heaven ?, what do they main by this ?.
Humbaba is not wearing all his armour ?, what kind of armour was
it, maybe a gun or a bomb, a tank, a spaceship ?._
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_Tablet 5_
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_Gilgamesh and Enkidu enter the gloriously beautiful Cedar Forest
and begin to cut down the trees. Hearing the sound, Humbaba comes
roaring up to them and warns them off. Enkidu shouts at Humbaba
that the two of them are much stronger than the demon, but Humbaba,
who knows Gilgamesh is a king, taunts the king for taking orders
from a nobody like Enkidu. Turning his face into a hideous mask,
Humbaba begins to threaten the pair, and Gilgamesh runs and hides.
Enkidu shouts at Gilgamesh, inspiring him with courage, and
Gilgamesh appears from hiding and the two begin their epic battle
with Humbaba. Shamash intrudes on the battle, helping the pair, and
Humbaba is defeated. On his knees, with Gilgamesh's sword at his
throat, Humbaba begs for his life and offers Gilgamesh all the
tress in the forest and his eternal servitude. While Gilgamesh is
thinking this over, Enkidu intervenes, telling Gilgamesh to kill
Humbaba before any of the gods arrive and stop him from doing so.
Should he kill Humbaba, he will achieve widespread fame for all the
times to come. Gilgamesh, with a great sweep of his sword, removes
Humbaba's head. But before he dies, Humbaba screams out a curse on
Enkidu: "Of you two, may Enkidu not live the longer, may Enkidu not
find any peace in this world!" Gilgamesh and Enkidu cut down the
cedar forest and in particular the tallest of the cedar trees to
make a great cedar gate for the city of Uruk. They build a raft out
of the cedar and float down the Euphrates river to their city._
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_So, Humbaba taunts Gilgamesh for taking order from a "nobody" like
Enkidu and Shamash, the Sun-God) intrudes in the battle to help
Gilgamesh._
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_Humbaba "Turning his face into a hideous mask" What kind of mask
was it, a space helmet ?, is there a link with the story of king
David and Goliath in the Bible ?._
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_And Enkidu tells Gilgamesh to kill Humbaba before the Gods arrive
and stop him. In part 2 (chapter 8 and 9) we will see who these
Gods were (the creators of Demons)._
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_Tablet 6_
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_After these events, Gilgamesh, his fame widespread and his frame
resplendent in his wealthy clothes, attracts the sexual attention
of the goddess Ishtar, who comes to Gilgamesh and offers to become
his lover. Gilgamesh refuses with insults, listing all the mortal
lovers that Ishtar has had and recounting the dire fates they all
met with at her hands. Deeply insulted, Ishtar returns to heaven
and begs her father, the sky-god Anu, to let her have the Bull of
Heaven to wreak vengeance on Gilgamesh and his city: Father, let me
have the Bull of Heaven To kill Gilgamesh and his city. For if you
do not grant me the Bull of Heaven, I will pull down the Gates of
Hell itself, Crush the doorposts and flatten the door, And I will
let the dead leave And let the dead roam the earth And they shall
eat the living. The dead will overwhelm all the living! Anu
reluctantly gives in, and the Bull of Heaven is sent down into
Uruk. Each time the bull breathes, its breath is so powerful that
enormous abysses are opened up in the earth and hundreds of people
fall through to their deaths. Working together again, Gilgamesh and
Enkidu slay the mighty bull. Ishtar is enraged, but Enkidu begins
to insult her, saying that she is next, that he and Gilgamesh will
kill her next, and he rips one of the thighs off the bull and hurls
it into her face._
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_Ishtar (Inana) belonged to the Gods of the younger generation and
because of that she had more power then Gilgamesh who is from the
4th generation the Children of men and the Sons of Gods, Ishtar had
mortal lovers, she was a grand-daughter of Anu the Sky-God, the
Chief God of Uruk. (see chapter 8)_
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_The Bull of Heaven was a very powerful weapon, but what kind ?,
maybe a neutron bomb an atomic bomb ?, ( its breath is so powerful
that enormous abysses are opened up in the earth and hundreds of
people fall through to their deaths. (Was this the fall after a
nuclear explosion ?.)_
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_In part 2 of my book I will prove that there were many "nuclear"
wars in ancient times._
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_Tablet 7_
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_Enkidu falls ill after having a set of ominous dreams; he finds
out from the priests that he has been singled out for vengeance by
the gods. The Chief Gods have met and have decided that someone
should be punished for the killing of Humbaba and the killing of
the Bull of Heaven, so of the two heroes, they decide Enkidu should
pay the penalty. Enraged at the injustice of the decision, Enkidu
curses the great Cedar Gate built from the wood of the Cedar
Forest, and he curses the temple harlot, Shamhat, and the trapper,
for introducing him to civilization. Shamash reminds him that, even
though his life has been short, he has enjoyed the fruits of
civilization and known great happiness. Enkidu then blesses the
harlot and the trapper. In a dream, a great demon comes to take
Enkidu and drags him to Hell, a House of Dust where all the dead
end up; as he is dying, he describes Hell: The house where the dead
dwell in total darkness, Where they drink dirt and eat stone, Where
they wear feathers like birds, Where no light ever invades their
everlasting darkness, Where the door and the lock of Hell is coated
with thick dust. When I entered the House of Dust, On every side
the crowns of kings were heaped, On every side the voices of the
kings who wore those crowns, Who now only served food to the gods
Anu and Enlil, Candy, meat, and water poured from skins. I saw
sitting in this House of Dust a priest and a servant, I also saw a
priest of purification and a priest of ecstasy, I saw all the
priests of the great gods. There sat Etana and Sumukan, There sat
Ereshkigal, the queen of Hell, Beletseri, the scribe of Hell,
sitting before her. Beletseri held a tablet and read it to
Ereshkigal. She slowly raised her head when she noticed me She
pointed at me: "Who has sent this man?" Enkidu commends himself to
Gilgamesh, and after suffering terribly for twelve days, he finally
dies._
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_Enkidu falls ill. Was it from the "breath" of the Bull of Heaven,
was it radio activity ?._
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_The Chief Gods decided that Enkidu should pay for the dead of
Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven, Why ?. Enkidu was from a lower rank
than Gilgamesh, a subhuman, created by Anu, the Sky-God and
Gilgamesh was more important for the Gods than Enkidu because he
was 2/3 God and 1/3 human, a child of the Sons of God._
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_Enkidu is angry to the temple "harlot" Sham-hat for bringing him
to "civilization"._
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_And the "many" kings in Hell served food for the Gods Anu and
Enlil ?._
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_All Gods mentioned in this tablet we will see back in part 2 of
this book (chapter 8 and 9) and we will see who they really are._
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_Tablet 8_
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_Gilgamesh is torn apart by the death of his friend, and utters a
long lament, ordering all of creation to never fall silent in
mourning his dead friend. Most of this tablet is missing, but the
second half seems to be a description of the monument he builds for
Enkidu._
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_Tablet 9_
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_Gilgamesh allows his life to fall apart; he does not bathe, does
not shave, does not take care of himself, not so much out of grief
for his friend, but because he now realizes that he too must die
and the thought sends him into a panic. He decides that he can't
live unless granted eternal life; he decides to undertake the most
perilous journey of all: the journey to Utnapishtim and his wife,
the only mortals on whom the gods had granted eternal life.
Utnapishtim is the Far-Away, living at the mouth of all rivers, at
the ends of the world. Utnapishtim was the great king of the world
before the Flood and, with his wife, was the only mortal preserved
by the gods during the Flood. After an ominous dream, Gilgamesh
sets out. He arrives at Mount Mashu, which guards the rising and
the setting of the sun, and encounters two large scorpions who
guard the way past Mount Mashu. They try to convince him that his
journey is futile and fraught with danger, but still they allow him
to pass. Past Mount Mashu is the land of Night, where no light ever
appears. Gilgamesh journeys eleven leagues before the light begins
to glimmer, after twelve leagues he has emerged into day. He enters
into a brilliant garden of gems, where every tree bears precious
stones._
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_Gilgamesh was also infected with "radio activity" because of the
fight with the weapons of Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven._
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_Utnapishtim and his wife were immortal and belonged to the 5th
generation (The Children of God, the Seth line)._
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_Utnapishtim is the Far-Away, living at the mouth of all rivers, at
the ends of the world. Utnapishtim was the great king of the world
before the Flood and, with his wife, were the only mortal preserved
by the Gods during the Flood._
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_The term "the Far-Away" is also used for Noah in [27]The Writings
of Abram._
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_In the Bible we can read :_
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_Gn:6:13: And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come
before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Gn:6:14: Make thee an
ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt
pitch it within and without with pitch. _
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_Utnapishtim is Noah from the Bible as we will see in the following
Tablets._
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_Tablet 10_
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_Gilgamesh comes to a tavern by the ocean shore; the tavern is kept
by Siduri. Frightened by Gilgamesh's ragged appearance, Siduri
locks the tavern door and refuses to let Gilgamesh in. Gilgamesh
proves his identity and asks Siduri how to find Utnapishtim. Like
the giant scorpions, she tells him that his journey is futile and
fraught with dangers. However, she directs him to Urshanabi, the
ferryman, who works for Utnapishtim. Gilgamesh approaches Urshanabi
with great arrogance and violence and in the process destroys the
"stone things" that are somehow critical for the journey to
Utnapishtim. When Gilgamesh demands to be taken to Utnapishtim, the
ferryman tells him that it is now impossible, since the "stone
things" have been destroyed. Nevertheless, he advises Gilgamesh to
cut several trees down to serve as punting poles; the waters they
are to cross are the Waters of Death, should any mortal touch the
waters, that man will instantly die. With the punting poles,
Gilgamesh can push the boat and never touch the dangerous waters.
After a long and dangerous journey, Gilgamesh arrives at a shore
and encounters another man. He tells this man that he is looking
for Utnapishtim and the secret of eternal life; the old man advises
Gilgamesh that death is a necessary fact because of the will of the
gods; all human effort is only temporary, not permanent._
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_Siduri was frightened by the ragged appearance of Gilgamesh, so he
looked "ill", his skin was altered because of "radio activity"._
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_Could the stone things have been a kind of "transporter" like the
one in the science fiction film Star trek ?._
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_The Flood in the Epos of Gilgamesh_

___The Biblical flood story (Genesis 5: 28-9:17) was likely
derived, directly or indirectly, from the Gilgamesh version. And
the story of the flood was carried down in later Jewish, Christian,
and even Muslim traditions, where it occurs in the Koran (Sura 11:
25-48)._
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_In the eleventh tablet of the Semitic Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh
is a flood story that is the source for the Noah story. The Gods
resolved to cleanse the earth of an overpopulated humanity, but
Utnapishtim was warned by the God Ea in a dream. He and some
craftsmen built a huge (seven decks encompassing one acre in area)
ark. Utnapishtim then loaded it with his family, the craftsmen, and
"the seed of all living creatures." The waters rose up, and a storm
continued for six days and six nights._
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_The Gods repented and wept upon seeing the global destruction of
living beings and stilled the flood on the seventh day. The waters
covered everything but the top of the mountain Nisur, where the
boat landed. A dove was loosed, but it returned, having found no
place to rest. A swallow was sent, but it too returned. Seven days
later, after having loosed a raven that did not return to the ark,
the people began to emerge. Utnapishtim made a sacrifice to the
Gods. He and his wife were given immortality and lived at the end
of the earth._
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_The story of the flood in the Gilgamesh Epic (Tablet XI), known
from first millennium copies, is probably derived from Atrahasis.
In seeking to learn the secrets of eternal life, Gilgamesh, king of
Uruk, seeks out Utnapishtim, the only human to have lived forever.
In telling Gilgamesh how he achieved eternal life, Utnapishtim
relates a secret story of the flood. The story opens in Shuruppak,
where the great Gods decide to wipe out the human race with a
flood, but Ea (Akkadian and Babylonian name of the Sumerian god
Enki) reveals the plans to Utnapishtim, and tells him to build a
great boat. Utnapishtim does as he is told and loads all his
possessions, including silver and gold, his family, domesticated
and wild animals, and craftsmen onto the boat. The storm comes; the
gods cower and weep at its destructive force. The storm rages for
six days and six nights; on the seventh day it subsides. The seas
calm and, as Utnapishtim observed, all mankind had returned to clay
and the landscape was leveled. Eventually, mountains appear and
Utnapishtim's boat comes to rest on Mount Nisr, where it holds fast
for six days. On the seventh day, Utnapishtim comes out and sends
out a dove and then a swallow, both of which return, having found
no place to rest. On the third day, he sends out a raven, which
does not return. Utnapishtim then offers sacrifices, which attract
the gods, but when Enlil sees the boat he becomes furious that a
human had survived. Ea calms him, and Enlil then boards the boat
and makes Utnapishtim and his wife like the Gods, living forever._
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_Tablet 11 of the Gilgamesh epos_

___Tablet 11_
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_At this point, Gilgamesh realizes that he is talking to
Utnapishtim, the Far-Away; he hadn't expected an immortal human to
be ordinary and aged. He asks Utnapishtim how he received
immortality, and Utnapishtim tells him the great secret hidden from
humans: In the time before the Flood, there was a city, Shuruppak,
on the banks of the Euphrates. There, the counsel of the gods held
a secret meeting; they all resolved to destroy the world in a great
flood. All the gods were under oath not to reveal this secret to
any living thing, but Ea (one of the gods that created humanity)
came to Utnapishtim's house and told the secret to the walls of
Utnapishtim's house, thus not technically violating his oath to the
rest of the gods. He advised the walls of Utnapishtim's house to
build a great boat, its length as great as its breadth, to cover
the boat, and to bring all living things into the boat. Utnapishtim
gets straight to work and finishes the great boat by the new year.
Utnapishtim then loads the boat with gold, silver, and all the
living things of the earth, and launches the boat. Ea orders him
into the boat and commands him to close the door behind him._
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_It seams to be that Utnapishtim went immortal when he was already
old in humans perspective._
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_EA was the same as "The Lord God" from the bible because he was
one of the Gods who created humanity and decided for the survival
of Utnapishtim._
__
_In the Bible we can read exactly the same story (written down by
Moses thousands of years later as these tablets), the only
difference is the during of the Flood (7 days or 40 days)._
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_In the Bible we can read :_
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_Gn:6:19: And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort
shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they
shall be male and female. Gn:6:21: And take thou unto thee of all
food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall
be for food for thee, and for them. Gn:6:21: And take thou unto
thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee;
and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. Gn:7:4: For yet
seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days
and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will
I destroy from off the face of the earth. Gn:7:10: And it came to
pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the
earth. Gn:7:11: In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the
second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were
all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of
heaven were opened. Gn:7:12: And the rain was upon the earth forty
days and forty nights. Gn:7:16: And they that went in, went in male
and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord
shut him in. _
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_We read further in tablet 11_
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_The black clouds arrive, with the thunder god Adad rumbling within
them; the earth splits like an earthenware pot, and all the light
turns to darkness. The Flood is so great that even the gods are
frightened: The gods shook like beaten dogs, hiding in the far
corners of heaven, Ishtar screamed and wailed: "The days of old
have turned to stone: We have decided evil things in our Assembly!
Why did we decide those evil things in our Assembly? Why did we
decide to destroy our people? We have only just now created our
beloved humans; We now destroy them in the sea!" All the gods wept
and wailed along with her, All the gods sat trembling, and wept._
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_Why were even the Gods were frightened of the Flood ?._
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_Ishtar, the grand-daughter of Anu (EL in the Bible) the chief-god
and sky-god, regrets together with other Gods that they made evil
human, nevertheless they are said that human are being destroyed._
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_We read further in tablet 11_
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_The Flood lasts for seven days and seven nights, and finally light
returns to the earth. Utnapishtim opens a window and the entire
earth has been turned into a flat ocean; all humans have been
turned to stone. Utnapishtim then falls to his knees and weeps.
Utnapishtim's boat comes to rest on the top of Mount Nimush; the
boat lodges firmly on the mountain peak just below the surface of
the ocean and remains there for seven days._
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_In the Bible we can read :_
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_Gn:7:17: And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the
waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the
earth. Gn:7:19: And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the
earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven,
were covered. Gn:7:24: And the waters prevailed upon the earth an
hundred and fifty days. Gn:8:3: And the waters returned from off
the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty
days the waters were abated. Gn:8:4: And the ark rested in the
seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the
mountains of Ararat. _
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_We read further in tablet 11_
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_On the seventh day: I [Utnapishtim] released a dove from the boat,
It flew off, but circled around and returned, For it could find no
perch. I then released a swallow from the boat, It flew off, but
circled around and returned, For it could find no perch. I then
released a raven from the boat, It flew off, and the waters had
receded: It eats, it scratches the ground, but it does not circle
around and return._
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_In the Bible we can read :_
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_Gn:8:6: And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah
opened the window of the ark which he had made: Gn:8:7: And he sent
forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were
dried up from off the earth. Gn:8:8: Also he sent forth a dove from
him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the
ground; Gn:8:9: But the dove found no rest for the sole of her
foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were
on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and
took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. Gn:8:10: And he
stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out
of the ark; Gn:8:11: And the dove came in to him in the evening;
and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew
that the waters were abated from off the earth. Gn:8:12: And he
stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which
returned not again unto him any more. _
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_We read further in tablet 11_
__
_I then sent out all the living things in every direction and
sacrificed a sheep on that very spot. The gods smell the odor of
the sacrifice and begin to gather around Utnapishtim. Enlil, who
had originally proposed to destroy all humans, then arrives,
furious that one of the humans had survived, since they had agreed
to wipe out all humans. He accuses Ea of treachery, but Ea
convinces Enlil to be merciful. _
__
_ENLIL (JA'EL) was a higher God in rank then EA (YAHWEH in the
Bible) because Enlil accuses EA about the survival of Utnapishtim
and his wife._
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_We read further in tablet 11_
__
_Enlil then seizes Utnapishtim and his wife and blesses them: At
one time Utnapishtim was mortal. At this time let him be a god and
immortal; Let him live in the far away at the source of all the
rivers. At the end of his story,_
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_In the Bible we can read :_
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_Gn:8:20: And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of
every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt
offerings on the altar. Gn:8:21: And the Lord smelled a sweet
savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the
ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart
is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every
thing living, as I have done. Gn:9:1: And God blessed Noah and his
sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish
the earth. _
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_We read further in tablet 11_
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_Utnapishtim offers Gilgamesh a chance at immortality. If Gilgamesh
can stay awake for six days and seven nights, he, too, will become
immortal. Gilgamesh accepts these conditions and sits down on the
shore; the instant he sits down he falls asleep. Utnapishtim tells
his wife that all men are liars, that Gilgamesh will deny having
fallen asleep, so he asks his wife to bake a loaf of bread every
day and lay the loaf at Gilgamesh's feet. Gilgamesh sleeps without
ever waking up for six days and seven nights, at which point
Utnapishtim wakes him up. Startled, Gilgamesh says, "I only just
dozed off for half a second here." Utnapishtim points out the
loaves of bread, showing their states of decay from the most
recent, fresh bread, to the oldest, moldy, stale bread that had
been laid at his feet on the very first day. Gilgamesh is
distraught: O woe! What do I do now, where do I go now? Death has
devoured my body, Death dwells in my body, Wherever I go, wherever
I look, there stands Death! Utnapishtim's wife convinces the old
man to have mercy on him; he offers Gilgamesh in place of
immortality a secret plant that will make Gilgamesh young again.
The plant is at the bottom of the ocean surrounding the Far-Away;
Gilgamesh ties stones to his feet, sinks to the bottom, and plucks
the magic plant. But he doesn't use it because he doesn't trust it;
rather he decides to take it back to Uruk and test it out on an old
man first, to make sure it works._
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_Utnapishtim (a God himself) knows that all men are liars, and
proves that to his wife and after 6 days Gilgamesh lies to
Utnapishtim and even Gilgamesh don't trust Utnapishtim because he
will test it first on an old man in his city Uruk to be sure it
works._
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_We read further in tablet 11_
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_Urshanabi takes him across the Waters of Death. Several leagues
inland, Gilgamesh and Urshanabi stop to eat and sleep; while
they're sleeping, a snake slithers up and eats the magic plant
(which is why snakes shed their skin) and crawls away. Gilgamesh
awakens to find the plant gone; he falls to his knees and weeps:
For whom have I labored? For whom have I journeyed? For whom have I
suffered? I have gained absolutely nothing for myself, I have only
profited the snake, the ground lion!_
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_This story sounds familiar when we read Genesis 3._
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_See also the story of the tree in the garden of Eden in genesis 3,
it seams to bee the same story but in another context._
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_We read further in tablet 11_
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_The tale ends with Gilgamesh, at the end of his journey standing
before the gates of Uruk, inviting Urshanabi to look around and
view the greatness of this city, its high walls, its mason work,
and here at the base of its gates, as the foundation of the city
walls, a stone of lapis lazuli on which is carved Gilgamesh's
account of his exploits._
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_As I mentioned in this and in chapter 6 the story of Gilgamesh
(tablet 11) is likely the same as the story in the Bible. The last
story was taken from the Sumerians and not the other way around._
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___Final conclusions chapter 7_
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_1. Not the Bible but the clay tables found in the ruins of
Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, Mesopotamia tells the first story of
ancient times._
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_2. Moses wrote the Pentateuch after he had read these tablets or
copies of these tables in the libraries of Egypt._
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_3. We found the names of several Gods, in the Bible named Elohim
and Bene Elohim, the most important were :_
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_Anu "The Chief God" The God Anu is the same God as the God "EL" in
the Bible, the Highest God._
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_Enlil is the same God as "JA'EL" in the Bible, second in rank
after ANU._
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_Ea (Nudimmud, Enki) is the same God as "The Lord God" and "YAHWEH"
(YHWH) in the Bible, third in rank after ANU and ENLIL._
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_Ramat-Ninsum the Goddess, mother of Gilgamesh_
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_Shamash the "Sun God"_
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_Ishtar the Goddess of "love and war"_
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_Adad the "Thunder God"_
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_In part 2 of my book, chapter 8, 9 and 10 we will become familiar
with the Gods of the Sumerians and Babylonians. We shall find the
Gods in the Bible with different names but they are really the same
Gods the Sumerians worshipped in ancient times._
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___For further use I made a Creature table (this table will be used
in my whole book :_
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_The CREATURE table_

___The GOD'S : ELOHIM_
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_Creature 1_
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_The ANGELS : Heavenly and Arch Angels, Seraphim, Watchers_
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_Creature 2_
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_The Fallen Angels : the Devil, Adam and Eve, Watchers "Giants"_
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_Creature 3_
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_The Children of the Devil and Watchers : the Cain line "Giants"_
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_Creature 4_
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_The Children of God : the SETH line "Giants"_
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_Creature 5_
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_The Demy GOD'S : also Giants (chapter 5, 6 and 7)_
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_Creature 6_
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_DEMONS and MONSTERS : the creations of the GIANTS, Nephilim (chapter
4 and 5)_
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_Creature 7_
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_HOMO SAPIENS (the creation after the flood (chapter 5 and 6)_
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_Creature 8_
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