Ur, Sumeria
Mesopotamia, 4,500-year-old Royal cemetery,18ft down,Ur(biblical Ur of Chaldees, birthplace of Abraham, son of wealthy sheikh Terah, discovered by archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley. Bears some resemblance to the photo of the faerie Queen Titania.
From the Royal tombs at Ur dating about 3,000 BC. come some very beautiful things - the famous gold dagger of Ur, a weapon whose blade is gold, its hilt of lapis lazuli decorated with gold studs, and its sheath of gold filigree work. With it was another object scarcely less remarkable, a cone shaped container of gold, ornamented with a spiral pattern and containing a set of little toilet instruments, tweezers, lancet, and pencil also of gold. The royal graves all have a harp. The most magnificent yet found has a sounding-box bordered with a broad edging of mosaic in red, white and blue. The two uprights were encrusted with white shell and lapis lazuli and red stone arranged in zones separated with wide gold bands. Shell plaques engraved with animal scenes adorned the front, and above these projected a splendid head of a bearded bull wrought in heavy gold, with a lapis lazuli beard.
Queen Shubad on her deathbed wore an ornate headdress made of a long gold hair ribbon covered by beaded wreaths with gold pendants, heavy earrings of gold and a golden Spanish type comb with five points ending in lapis centred flowers of gold. By the side of the body lay a second headdress. On a diadem made of soft white leather had been sewn thousands of minute lapis lazuli beads, and against this background of solid blue were set a row of exquisitely fashioned gold animals, stags, gazelles, bulls and goats, with between them clusters of pomegranates, three fruit hanging together shielded by their leaves.
Queen Shubad on her deathbed wore an ornate headdress made of a long gold hair ribbon covered by beaded wreaths with gold pendants, heavy earrings of gold and a golden Spanish type comb with five points ending in lapis centred flowers of gold. By the side of the body lay a second headdress. On a diadem made of soft white leather had been sewn thousands of minute lapis lazuli beads, and against this background of solid blue were set a row of exquisitely fashioned gold animals, stags, gazelles, bulls and goats, with between them clusters of pomegranates, three fruit hanging together shielded by their leaves.
Puabi (Akkadian: ("Word of my father"), also called Shubad in Sumerian, was an important personage in the Sumerian city of Ur, during the First Dynasty of Ur (c.2600 BCE). Commonly labeled as a "queen", her status is somewhat in dispute. Several cylinder seals in her tomb identify her by the title "nin" or "eresh", a Sumerian word which can denote a queen or a priestess. The fact that Puabi, herself a Semitic Akkadian, was an important figure among Sumerians, indicates a high degree of cultural exchange and influence between the ancient Sumerians and their Semitic neighbors.
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Dragon Queen Shub-Ad: Gateway Ancestor
More than 7,000 years ago, the fertile Mesopotamian plain between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers teamed with life. The first settlements of small villages, some coalescing into towns, were built by the Ubaidians, the nomadic tribes from Al-Ubaid site. These settlements, later known as the Sumerian civilization, gradually developed into sophisticated city-states, namely Uruk, Kish, Umma, Lagash, Larsa, Nippur and Ur, the most celebrated of all. During the centuries that followed, the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites, Chaldeans, Israelites, Pheonicians, and Elamites (Persians) established their kingdoms in the region – the foundation for future civilizations, on which many cultures succeeded.
Until the mid-19th century the existence of the Sumerians was merely not suspected. The first major excavations leading to the discovery of Sumer were conducted in 1842-1854 at the Assyrian library of King Ashurbanipal at Nineveh. During the late 19th century, a series of excavations was undertaken at Lagash and Nippur. In the late 1920's and early 1930's, during almost 20 years of immense excavation 18 feet below the ground level, the joint British-American team led by the archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley – assisted by Sir Max Mallowan and his wife, the mystery novelist Agatha Christie – made sensational discoveries at the city of Ur (biblical, Ur of the Chaldees, the birthplace of Patriarch Abraham, the son of the wealthy shekh Terah).
The archaeological finds included: a massive pyramidal and amazingly well-preserved temple – a ziggurat, known today as Tall al-Mukayyar, c. 2,100 B.C.; the Royal Cemetery at Ur, filled with valuable jewelry and gold artifacts, including several musical instruments; flood strata – a deposit of silt measuring 11 feet in depth, the evidence of the Nuh's Flood from the times of Noah, c. 4,000-3,000 B.C.
The 4,500-year-old cemetery at Ur was in use for almost five hundred years. The most renown of the burials, described by Woolley as "Royal Tombs", dated from the Early Dynastic-III period, c. 2,600-2,500 B.C. Among the 1,800 graves of "common folk", containing the remains of nearly 2,000 people, there were sixteen "royal tombs" with the remains of many attendants, suggesting human sacrifices, probably carried out among willing participants. Musicians, soldiers, courtiers, and servants had accompanied their kings and queens into the afterlife. Some of the most beautiful artifacts of Sumerian art were found mostly at the "royal tombs". The luxurious contents included richly adorned headdresses, ritual gold daggers, cups made of gold and silver, alabaster bowls, gold vessels, thousand of small beads of lapis lazuli, personal ornaments, gold pins and amulets, rings and necklaces, solid gold bull's heads on tops of embellished wooden harps and lyres, mosaic panels, cuneiform tablets, sledges and chariots, helmets and spears, horses and oxen, a gold statuette of a ram caught in a thicket (recalling Abraham's ram sacrifice), and offerings of food.
The treasures recovered from the Royal Cemetery at Ur were subsequently divided among the University Museum of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the British Museum in London and the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad.
Catalogued as "private grave" PG-800, the remains of Lady Pu-abi, known also as "Queen Shub-Ad" were found. Her name was identified by the inscription on a lapis lazuli cylinder seal that laid on her shoulder.
Until the mid-19th century the existence of the Sumerians was merely not suspected. The first major excavations leading to the discovery of Sumer were conducted in 1842-1854 at the Assyrian library of King Ashurbanipal at Nineveh. During the late 19th century, a series of excavations was undertaken at Lagash and Nippur. In the late 1920's and early 1930's, during almost 20 years of immense excavation 18 feet below the ground level, the joint British-American team led by the archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley – assisted by Sir Max Mallowan and his wife, the mystery novelist Agatha Christie – made sensational discoveries at the city of Ur (biblical, Ur of the Chaldees, the birthplace of Patriarch Abraham, the son of the wealthy shekh Terah).
The archaeological finds included: a massive pyramidal and amazingly well-preserved temple – a ziggurat, known today as Tall al-Mukayyar, c. 2,100 B.C.; the Royal Cemetery at Ur, filled with valuable jewelry and gold artifacts, including several musical instruments; flood strata – a deposit of silt measuring 11 feet in depth, the evidence of the Nuh's Flood from the times of Noah, c. 4,000-3,000 B.C.
The 4,500-year-old cemetery at Ur was in use for almost five hundred years. The most renown of the burials, described by Woolley as "Royal Tombs", dated from the Early Dynastic-III period, c. 2,600-2,500 B.C. Among the 1,800 graves of "common folk", containing the remains of nearly 2,000 people, there were sixteen "royal tombs" with the remains of many attendants, suggesting human sacrifices, probably carried out among willing participants. Musicians, soldiers, courtiers, and servants had accompanied their kings and queens into the afterlife. Some of the most beautiful artifacts of Sumerian art were found mostly at the "royal tombs". The luxurious contents included richly adorned headdresses, ritual gold daggers, cups made of gold and silver, alabaster bowls, gold vessels, thousand of small beads of lapis lazuli, personal ornaments, gold pins and amulets, rings and necklaces, solid gold bull's heads on tops of embellished wooden harps and lyres, mosaic panels, cuneiform tablets, sledges and chariots, helmets and spears, horses and oxen, a gold statuette of a ram caught in a thicket (recalling Abraham's ram sacrifice), and offerings of food.
The treasures recovered from the Royal Cemetery at Ur were subsequently divided among the University Museum of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the British Museum in London and the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad.
Catalogued as "private grave" PG-800, the remains of Lady Pu-abi, known also as "Queen Shub-Ad" were found. Her name was identified by the inscription on a lapis lazuli cylinder seal that laid on her shoulder.
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 Earth Mother, Sky Father, Iona Miller, 24x36, 1993
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Pu-abi's "death pit" contained the remains of more than a dozen ladies-in-waiting in "full regalia". The approach to the burial chamber had been "guarded" by five men with copper daggers. The harpist "seated" at the corner still accompanied his/her "divine" queen to the next world. Close by, the remnants of two wooden frames with many separate parts were found. The modern reproduction became a challenge for Woolley. He reconstructed the object, but was never happy with the result. Actually, this particular restoration suffered from the problem that the frames, appeared to be that of a harp and a lyre, long buried together, were restored as one musical instrument. Later on, a separation was achieved in form of two instruments: the harp, decorated with a bull's head, and with a pattern of gold on the sound-box, and the lyre with rectangular sound-box, and with the golden bull's head on its top. In the late 1960s, a new silvery lyre was reconstructed from the many pieces still left. The wooden parts and the strings on the instruments are modern, but the lapis lazuli, shell and limestone mosaic, set in bitumen are ancient. The gold bull's head (but not the horns) on one of the lyres are ancient, and the restored horns on the other lyre have been made of ivory. All three instruments are eleven-stringed ones, but the shape of the sound-boxes, along with the length of the strings distinct them. The strings of the harp, fastened on the wooden beam, pointed upward with gold rings (or tuning pegs) are of diminishing lengths, while the strings of the lyres are relatively equal in length. These three instruments, the masterpieces of Sumerian art, dated c. 2,600-2,350 B.C., known as the Harp from Ur, the Queen's Lyre, and the Silver Lyre, are now preserved at the British Museum.
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Silver Lyre.
Sumerian, 2,600-2,350 B.C. (Restored)
British Museum, London.
Sumerian, 2,600-2,350 B.C. (Restored)
British Museum, London.
Catalogued as "private grave" PG-789, in the so-called "King's Grave", close to the sanctuary of Queen Pu-abi, the remains of King "Lugal" Abargi, dated c. 2,685 B.C., were found. Even though this tomb had been robbed in antiquity, its "death pit" remained intact. The entrance was "guarded" by six soldiers wearing copper helmets and carrying spears. A dozen men armed with their weapons laid close to the bodies of richly adorned women, supposedly singers and a harpist. Close to their heads the remnants of two musical instruments were found. They may be associated with the ceremonial burial of the king. Their music and songs accompanied their beloved king to the Underworld. One of the most beautiful restorations of a musical instrument from Ur, is the Great Lyre, founded in the "King's Grave" with its original and well-preserved inlaid plaque, and a gold bull's head with curls of hair, beard and eyes of lapis lazuli. The lyre’s wooden structure has been reconstructed from the detailed measurement made by pouring the plaster into the impression left by the disintegrated wood. The eleven strings fastened on the rectangular sound-box are modern. The front of the sound-box is decorated with the mosaic plaque, trapezoidal in shape and set in bitumen. In one of four scenes, depicting mythological creatures, a seated animal – onager or bear – plays a similar lyre. Curiously, the strings of the lyre are being plucked with the fingers (instead of hoofs) by an animal having a human hand.
The Great Lyre, dated c. 2,750 B.C., regarded as a treasure of the ancient world had been recreated by Leonard Woolley, and is now on exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia.
The Great Lyre, dated c. 2,750 B.C., regarded as a treasure of the ancient world had been recreated by Leonard Woolley, and is now on exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia.
Great Lyre.
Sumerian, 2,750 B.C. (Restored).
University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
Sumerian, 2,750 B.C. (Restored).
University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
Catalogued as "private grave" PG-1273, and referred by Woolley as the "Great death pit", contained a large number of skeletons laid in rows, side by side, as if asleep. The musicians, fully armed soldiers, and court ladies-in-waiting, elegantly dressed in silk with gold embroidery would follow their "divine" master into his grave. In this gigantic "death pit", suggesting a mass suicide, probably caused by despair (because the king was gone, or the city was destroyed once again, or because of orgies or a ritual sacrifice or ceremonial drinking of a drug or a poisonous liquid), the mystery of the Sumerians were discovered. It seems that they believed in continuation of life after death, described by many as – "a dark abode of miserable shadows where eternity was spent in a wretched existence" – even though their "gods" offered no explanation of any such existence. As the grave was dug out, two more musical instruments were uncovered. They laid on top of each other, and had been crushed together by the weight of the earth layer. Eventually, during the process of restoration they had been separated. The rectangular sound-box with mother-of-pearl inlay was decorated with a solid gold bull's head, wearing solid gold beard (no lapis lazuli) and solid gold horns. These two instruments known as the Queen's Golden Harp and the Lyre of Queen Shub-Ad, c. 2,600 B.C. were included in the Mesopotamian Archaeological Collection of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad.
Catalogued as "private grave" PG-779, the largest tomb at the cemetery contained an object, covered with inlaid little beads of lapis lazuli and small carved figures, which Woolley called "The Standard of Ur." It was found laying in the corner of a burial chamber above a head of a man. When found, the original wooden frame was decayed, and two mosaic panels, set in the bitumen, were broken. Its original function is not known. Woolley envisaged that it had been carried on a pole as a standard. Another suggestion is that the hollow box formed a part of a musical instrument. It was decorated on its four sides with inlaid mosaic scenes representing all social classes at war and peace. At the top of the "peace" panel, a singer and a harpist playing the vertical harp (also known as a lyre harp or a lyre like those found in many "royal" tombs) entertained the king. The Standard of Ur, c. 2,650-2,400 B.C., is one of the most informative Sumerian objects of art that were discovered at Ur. The present restoration is but a best guess as to how it originally appeared. It is now preserved at the British Museum in London.
In April 2003, after a 48-hour long rampage and plunder at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, many priceless artifacts of Mesopotamian culture were stolen, badly damaged or disappeared, perhaps forever. Among the lost treasures are Sumerian harps and lyres. Some elements of the musical instruments, like silver plating and inlays of gems, ivory and mother-of-pearl have been stripped off. The solid gold head of a bull was stolen. Fortunately, thanks to the museum practices and the archaeologists' foresight, hundreds of relics from the ancient Sumeria have been distributed worldwide following excavation by the British-American team.
Finally, after more then forty eight centuries, the world received not only a glimpse to the past, but many exact replicas of the best golden objects, including several harps and lyres. The man to whom we owe all of this is Sir Leonard Woolley (1880-1960).
Sir Leonard Woolley with the triangularframe of an excavated Sumerian harp, 1920s. (Plaster cast.)
Such a frame is an archetype for the more developed mediaeval and modern framed harps.
Such a frame is an archetype for the more developed mediaeval and modern framed harps.
Note : Some historical sources (not to mention media, newspapers and popular magazines) do not make a clear distinction between harp and lyre. The lyres founded at the Royal Cemetery at Ur have been misinterpreted as a harp. Due to common use of rectangular sound-boxes, identical Sumerian instruments, with two arms connecting a crossbar, were called harp or lyre, depending on the discoverer's preference. It resulted in having lyre – a smaller instrument – being called "harp", and lesser forms of harp being called lyres. The main element which distinguishes these two instruments (if not the shape of the sound-box or the frame) are the strings: diminishing in length in harp, and almost equal in length in the lyre. Most Sumerian lyres had eleven strings, and it is assumed that each string produced a different sound, thus suggesting that Sumerian music for the lyre was more complicated than its contemporary Egyptian music, written for four-stringed lyre. The large Sumerian lyres would have sounded somewhat like a stringed deep tone bass, and would have produced a voluminous sound, as powerful as a bull's bellowing, apparently in a human imitation of a bull's "voice". It is worthy to add, that the oldest musical instrument in Sumeria was indeed the harp, dated from Uruk period, c. 4,000-3,200 B.C. It was a small harp made of cranium and horns of a Sacred Bull, which Gilgamesh, the King of Uruk (biblical Erech; modern Warka) heroically slew at the City wall's precinct of the Isthar temple. He then "clothed" the harp with gold and horns and dedicated it in memory of his father Lugalbandu, the third king of Erech after the great flood, worshipped for over a thousand years.
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Post Scriptum (July 1, 2003) In mid-May 2003, Professor John M. Russell, Chairman of Critical Studies Department, Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, participated in a UNESCO visit to the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. In an e-mail message of June 19, 2003, he informed me that he has seen the Harp of Ur displayed on the table, along with other broken objects. Although badly smashed, the instrument appeared to be restorable. Also the golden bull's head was reportedly safe. Professor Russell expects, as we all do so, that one day the harp will be restored to an almost "good as new" condition. (LOA) (Quoted with Professor Russell's permission)
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Post Scriptum (July 1, 2003) In mid-May 2003, Professor John M. Russell, Chairman of Critical Studies Department, Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, participated in a UNESCO visit to the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. In an e-mail message of June 19, 2003, he informed me that he has seen the Harp of Ur displayed on the table, along with other broken objects. Although badly smashed, the instrument appeared to be restorable. Also the golden bull's head was reportedly safe. Professor Russell expects, as we all do so, that one day the harp will be restored to an almost "good as new" condition. (LOA) (Quoted with Professor Russell's permission)
Post Scriptum 2 (July 7, 2003)
On July 6, 2003, a TV program on the recovered artifacts that belong to Iraq Museum in Baghdad was aired by The National Geographic. The Harp of Ur was shown being in a miserable condition, broken into three separate parts: the two vertical arms and the resonating box. The resonating box and the frame, both decorated with mother of pearl-inlaid mosaic, are badly smashed and large parts of the mosaic missing. This TV program reported the sensational discovery made on June 12, 2003, at the site of Iraq's Central Bank in Baghdad. In the destroyed bank building, in underground vaults, flooded with sewer waters and hidden behind double walls, a US recovery team and Iraqi officials unexpectedly found in wooden cases the so called Nimrud Treasure, i.e. the fabled collection of golden jewelry that was unearthed in the 1980s by an Iraqi archeological expedition in the Assyrian royal tombs in Nimrud. The Nimrud Treasure had been shown publically only once soon after it was found. Then it mysteriously disappeared in the hands of Saddam Hussein's officials. This treasure was being sought after since the fall of the Saddam's regime.
And now, amongst the Nimrud Treasure, the golden bull's head that once adorned the Harp of Ur was found intact.
Even more surprising was the realization that this bull's head remained hidden in the vault since 1991, i.e. the first Gulf War, and that since then no one had reported its disappearance from Iraq Museum. It is anybody's guess if the motives behind hiding these most treasured ancient Sumerian artifacts were to make them safe, or to eventually appropriate them, similarly as it was recently done to huge monetary funds from the same bank.
On July 4, 2003, the Nimrud Treasure and the golden bull's head were shown to a selected group of experts and guests. It is planned that the Treasure will be publically exhibited at Iraq Museum in November 2003. (LOA)
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Anunnaki DNA Test
Update on genetic testing of Queen Shubad/Lady Pubai
Nov. 2010, Lloyd Pye
As many of you know, Zecharia Sitchin's dying wish was that the skeleton of Queen Shubad/Lady Pubai would be tested by geneticists to determine if her mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) could be recovered and compared to normal human mtDNA. Zecharia was convinced that Pubai descended directly from Anunnaki goddesses, and if that were true then her mtDNA would be of only those and not of humans.
On my recent trip to England, I went to the Natural History Museum in London to meet with Dr. Margaret Clegg, the museum official in charge of overseeing all human remains. She was mentioned in Zecharia's last book, "There Were Giants Upon The Earth," as the person he had been dealing with, so I undertook to determine what the Museum would require to allow for invasive and destructive DNA testing of a small portion of Puabi's bones.
Dr. Clegg agreeably provided me with a list of the Museum's protocols, which are strict and thorough, but all of which can be met with sufficient rigor on the part of the Sitchin family trust that is charged with trying to carry out his last wish. Now the trust is moving forward to meet those protocols, and I would urge everyone reading this to refrain from pestering Dr. Clegg about the matter. At present she can do no more than she has done, nor can I. Now it's up to others to carry the process forward from this point.
Nov. 2010, Lloyd Pye
As many of you know, Zecharia Sitchin's dying wish was that the skeleton of Queen Shubad/Lady Pubai would be tested by geneticists to determine if her mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) could be recovered and compared to normal human mtDNA. Zecharia was convinced that Pubai descended directly from Anunnaki goddesses, and if that were true then her mtDNA would be of only those and not of humans.
On my recent trip to England, I went to the Natural History Museum in London to meet with Dr. Margaret Clegg, the museum official in charge of overseeing all human remains. She was mentioned in Zecharia's last book, "There Were Giants Upon The Earth," as the person he had been dealing with, so I undertook to determine what the Museum would require to allow for invasive and destructive DNA testing of a small portion of Puabi's bones.
Dr. Clegg agreeably provided me with a list of the Museum's protocols, which are strict and thorough, but all of which can be met with sufficient rigor on the part of the Sitchin family trust that is charged with trying to carry out his last wish. Now the trust is moving forward to meet those protocols, and I would urge everyone reading this to refrain from pestering Dr. Clegg about the matter. At present she can do no more than she has done, nor can I. Now it's up to others to carry the process forward from this point.
Annunaki were seven judges of hell (nether world), children of the god Anu, who also sat before the throne
of Ereshkigal (the wife of Nergal), she was the daughter of Demeter, Greek Persephone, Roman Proserpine,
Gnostic Kore in other mythology. The Annunaki are regarded by some as the Sumerian ‘fates,’ where they
waited at the gates of hell to judge the newly-arrived souls. The "Fates" were associated with Ursa Major, or
the Pleiades (seven sisters) who were similar to the seven Hathors. Ananke the satellite of Jupiter that is 14th
in distance from the planet [Greek Ananke, mother of Adrasteia (alias Nemesis a goddess of destiny, Egyptian
Shait), distributor of rewards and punishments, by Jupiter, from ananke, necessity]. Adrasteia and Ida were
Nymphs and daughters of the Cretan king, who cared for Zeus in a cave when he was a baby.
Ziggurat of Anu (Lord of the Great Above) at Uruk (Erech) is crowned by a "white temple" of the Jamdat Nasr
period, probably built shortly before 3000 B.C. They were designed to elevate the mind and heart to supernal
contemplation and provide a scale of descent for the gods to come down to earth. Erech (Heb. ‘erekh) was a
city of ancient Babylonia founded by Nimrod, the Babylonian form of the name is Uruk. The modern site is
called Warka and is located near the Euphrates River, forty miles NW of Ur. Erech was the home of Gilgamesh,
the hero of the great Akkadian epic. Archaeologists have found that this city was one of the oldest of
Babylonia, founded before 4000 B.C. One of the earliest dynasties of the Sumerians ruled from Erech, it
boasted the first ziggurat, or temple tower, and began the use of clay cylinder seals.
Ur-Nammu the restored stele of Ur-Nammu from Ur, c. 2060-1955 B.C., shows the Ur-Nammu Law Code
was produced by the founder of the third dynasty or Ur and builder of the best preserved ziggurat in
Mesopotamia. He ruled from 2112 to 2095 B.C. Twenty-nine laws are extant, which leads to the Hammurabi
Code in 1728 to 1686 with 282 laws after receiving them from the god Shamash. The ziggurat at Choga
Zambil, southeast of Susa, was built c. 1280 B.C. in honor of the otherwise Elamite god In-Shushinak (Iskur,
Addad, Haddad, Rimmon, Rammon, Adonis, Baal in the Bible).
The strongest body of archaeological evidence, combined with the biblical account, favors the ruins of
Etemenanki (Sumerian name, "House of the Foundation of Heaven and Earth") as the likely spot for the Tower
of Babel. This is located in the country of Iraq, in the city of Babylon, fifty miles south of today’s Baghdad. It
was once believed to be Birs Nimrud in Borsippa or modern Es-sahen.
Anu’s father was Anshar (Sumerian god of the celestial world who was born of the serpents Lakhmu and
Lakhamu), as the sky and male principle. Since Anshar mated with his sister Kishar (Anu’s mother, she
became the earth and female principle), thus they produced the great gods. Anshar organized the gods in their
fight against Tiamat but did no fighting himself.
In human form with water gushing from his shoulders or from a vase he carried (The zodiac image of
Aquarius). Ea, "House of the water," with his divine word was creator of mankind from clay with the help of the
Sumerian goddess Aruru (see the Akkadian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh and the wild man Enkidu). Ea
was also patron of all arts, and the chief god of the Mesopotamian city of Eridu. EA=Earth.
In ancient times the year began with the entrance of the Sun into the constellation of Aries, March 21, and ended in February, the name "Anno" (Medieval Latin : anno, in the year) was given in honor of Oannes, identified with Janus (Roman god of gates and doorways, depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions or past wisdom and future
knowledge), who taught the Chaldeans science and the arts and warned them of the Flood. In Palestine
Oannes was under the name Dagon.
Anu’s wife was Antu, and their children were the Annunaki.
Despite Anu’s indifference to men he had a fine temple at Uruk with an unusual twin towered ziggurat dating
from 3000 B.C. As time went on Anu’s authority waned as the result of the success of the gods like Enlil. Anu
as Enlil or Elil God of earth (nature) and wind (air and hurricanes, floods), child of An (heaven) and Ki (earth)
whom he separated.
One of Anu’s sons was Gibil, alias Nusku (Nunska) who was an Assyrian fire god as in one of the four
elements. Gibil was called governor of gods and men. His special task was to sit in judgment over the souls of
men who in their lives had been unjust judges.
One of Anu’s daughters was Gulu the ancient name for the Earth Mother goddess, who was a consort of
Ninurta (derived from Ningursu, was the son of Enlil and the god of war, who in Sumer and Akkad was the god
of the constellation known as Orion). The name "Orion" is believed to have originated in the Euphrates area of
ancient Akkad, and is derived from the Akkadian "Uru-Anna" (light of heaven). There is that connection to
Anu again. Over time, the language corrupted to "Aryan," which is what the ancient Persians called
themselves, and which became the modern idiom, "Iran."
In Hebrew the word for Orion is Kesiyl, kes-eel'; from Heb. kasal, kaw-sal', a primary root, properly to be fat,
fig. silly, be foolish, but also any notable constellation, specially Orion (as if a burly one); other sources claim
the Heb. Chesil, Kesil, as Orion means "A Strong One" or "A Hero," and is mentioned in Job 9:9 (Which
maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south).
Ancient Arabs knew the constellation of Orion as Al Jauzah and later Al Jabbar (meaning "the giant" or
"great"). Arab astronomer Al Babadur said the constellation was originally called the "Strong One," but
another, Scaliger, affirmed the name was a corruption of the Arab "Al Shuja" (the Snake). In the early
astronomical works of Bayer and Chilmead, that word was translated as "Asugia" -- the "madman." Under the
star names of Hydra, the Sea Serpent: there is other information that refers to the name -- Minchir al Sugia
which means "Tearing To Shreds of the Deceiver." Under the star names of Lepus is Nihal which is
adapted from the Arabic for "the camels slaking their thirst." The name originally applied to the stars.
In the twentieth century Sir Leonard Wooley discovered at the mount of al’Ubaid near Ur and ancient temple
dedicated by A-anni-pad-da, (king of Ur, son of Mes-anni-pad-da, who was the founder of the third dynasty
after the Flood in the Sumerian lists of sovereigns) to the goddess Nin-Kharsag. The first of the divine kings
was Dungi, the son of the goddess Ninsun.
Damkina or Damgalnunna; alias Ninka, goddess wife of Ea -- Sumerian god of sweet waters. As Ninlil wife
of Enlil; as Ninki wife of Enki (Ea). The temple of Ninmah, goddess of the underworld, was built by Ashurbanipal
near the Ishtar gate.
of Ereshkigal (the wife of Nergal), she was the daughter of Demeter, Greek Persephone, Roman Proserpine,
Gnostic Kore in other mythology. The Annunaki are regarded by some as the Sumerian ‘fates,’ where they
waited at the gates of hell to judge the newly-arrived souls. The "Fates" were associated with Ursa Major, or
the Pleiades (seven sisters) who were similar to the seven Hathors. Ananke the satellite of Jupiter that is 14th
in distance from the planet [Greek Ananke, mother of Adrasteia (alias Nemesis a goddess of destiny, Egyptian
Shait), distributor of rewards and punishments, by Jupiter, from ananke, necessity]. Adrasteia and Ida were
Nymphs and daughters of the Cretan king, who cared for Zeus in a cave when he was a baby.
Ziggurat of Anu (Lord of the Great Above) at Uruk (Erech) is crowned by a "white temple" of the Jamdat Nasr
period, probably built shortly before 3000 B.C. They were designed to elevate the mind and heart to supernal
contemplation and provide a scale of descent for the gods to come down to earth. Erech (Heb. ‘erekh) was a
city of ancient Babylonia founded by Nimrod, the Babylonian form of the name is Uruk. The modern site is
called Warka and is located near the Euphrates River, forty miles NW of Ur. Erech was the home of Gilgamesh,
the hero of the great Akkadian epic. Archaeologists have found that this city was one of the oldest of
Babylonia, founded before 4000 B.C. One of the earliest dynasties of the Sumerians ruled from Erech, it
boasted the first ziggurat, or temple tower, and began the use of clay cylinder seals.
Ur-Nammu the restored stele of Ur-Nammu from Ur, c. 2060-1955 B.C., shows the Ur-Nammu Law Code
was produced by the founder of the third dynasty or Ur and builder of the best preserved ziggurat in
Mesopotamia. He ruled from 2112 to 2095 B.C. Twenty-nine laws are extant, which leads to the Hammurabi
Code in 1728 to 1686 with 282 laws after receiving them from the god Shamash. The ziggurat at Choga
Zambil, southeast of Susa, was built c. 1280 B.C. in honor of the otherwise Elamite god In-Shushinak (Iskur,
Addad, Haddad, Rimmon, Rammon, Adonis, Baal in the Bible).
The strongest body of archaeological evidence, combined with the biblical account, favors the ruins of
Etemenanki (Sumerian name, "House of the Foundation of Heaven and Earth") as the likely spot for the Tower
of Babel. This is located in the country of Iraq, in the city of Babylon, fifty miles south of today’s Baghdad. It
was once believed to be Birs Nimrud in Borsippa or modern Es-sahen.
Anu’s father was Anshar (Sumerian god of the celestial world who was born of the serpents Lakhmu and
Lakhamu), as the sky and male principle. Since Anshar mated with his sister Kishar (Anu’s mother, she
became the earth and female principle), thus they produced the great gods. Anshar organized the gods in their
fight against Tiamat but did no fighting himself.
In human form with water gushing from his shoulders or from a vase he carried (The zodiac image of
Aquarius). Ea, "House of the water," with his divine word was creator of mankind from clay with the help of the
Sumerian goddess Aruru (see the Akkadian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh and the wild man Enkidu). Ea
was also patron of all arts, and the chief god of the Mesopotamian city of Eridu. EA=Earth.
In ancient times the year began with the entrance of the Sun into the constellation of Aries, March 21, and ended in February, the name "Anno" (Medieval Latin : anno, in the year) was given in honor of Oannes, identified with Janus (Roman god of gates and doorways, depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions or past wisdom and future
knowledge), who taught the Chaldeans science and the arts and warned them of the Flood. In Palestine
Oannes was under the name Dagon.
Anu’s wife was Antu, and their children were the Annunaki.
Despite Anu’s indifference to men he had a fine temple at Uruk with an unusual twin towered ziggurat dating
from 3000 B.C. As time went on Anu’s authority waned as the result of the success of the gods like Enlil. Anu
as Enlil or Elil God of earth (nature) and wind (air and hurricanes, floods), child of An (heaven) and Ki (earth)
whom he separated.
One of Anu’s sons was Gibil, alias Nusku (Nunska) who was an Assyrian fire god as in one of the four
elements. Gibil was called governor of gods and men. His special task was to sit in judgment over the souls of
men who in their lives had been unjust judges.
One of Anu’s daughters was Gulu the ancient name for the Earth Mother goddess, who was a consort of
Ninurta (derived from Ningursu, was the son of Enlil and the god of war, who in Sumer and Akkad was the god
of the constellation known as Orion). The name "Orion" is believed to have originated in the Euphrates area of
ancient Akkad, and is derived from the Akkadian "Uru-Anna" (light of heaven). There is that connection to
Anu again. Over time, the language corrupted to "Aryan," which is what the ancient Persians called
themselves, and which became the modern idiom, "Iran."
In Hebrew the word for Orion is Kesiyl, kes-eel'; from Heb. kasal, kaw-sal', a primary root, properly to be fat,
fig. silly, be foolish, but also any notable constellation, specially Orion (as if a burly one); other sources claim
the Heb. Chesil, Kesil, as Orion means "A Strong One" or "A Hero," and is mentioned in Job 9:9 (Which
maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south).
Ancient Arabs knew the constellation of Orion as Al Jauzah and later Al Jabbar (meaning "the giant" or
"great"). Arab astronomer Al Babadur said the constellation was originally called the "Strong One," but
another, Scaliger, affirmed the name was a corruption of the Arab "Al Shuja" (the Snake). In the early
astronomical works of Bayer and Chilmead, that word was translated as "Asugia" -- the "madman." Under the
star names of Hydra, the Sea Serpent: there is other information that refers to the name -- Minchir al Sugia
which means "Tearing To Shreds of the Deceiver." Under the star names of Lepus is Nihal which is
adapted from the Arabic for "the camels slaking their thirst." The name originally applied to the stars.
In the twentieth century Sir Leonard Wooley discovered at the mount of al’Ubaid near Ur and ancient temple
dedicated by A-anni-pad-da, (king of Ur, son of Mes-anni-pad-da, who was the founder of the third dynasty
after the Flood in the Sumerian lists of sovereigns) to the goddess Nin-Kharsag. The first of the divine kings
was Dungi, the son of the goddess Ninsun.
Damkina or Damgalnunna; alias Ninka, goddess wife of Ea -- Sumerian god of sweet waters. As Ninlil wife
of Enlil; as Ninki wife of Enki (Ea). The temple of Ninmah, goddess of the underworld, was built by Ashurbanipal
near the Ishtar gate.
The caduceus is one of the most ancient of symbols. You might best know this symbol as the DNA structure and healing used by the medical profession. Since ancient Mesopotamia the caduceus presented two serpents intertwined (the central nervous system) around a staff (the spinal column) with the wings (the "swan") on either side (the two hemispheres of the brain, with the circle in the center representing the pineal gland, or the central sun and psychic center within). It also symbolized the kundalini energy.
This was originally the symbol for the Anunnaki-Sirian creator god, EA, or EN.KI (who has become an Archetype), was the chief of the magicians, "the one who knows," and infamous for being the serpent of the Garden of Eden who created lifeforms in test tubes half a million years ago with his half-sister Ninharsag, at the suggestion of his son, Marduk, to create humans to be the workers for the gods. (The symbol is also based upon the winged globe for the planet Nibiru, the symbol of the royal Anunnaki family.)
Biblical writers called the healing serpent Nehushtan. The Hebrew word for serpent is "nahash." The root of the word are the Hebrew letters Nun, Het and Shin, which means "to guess." This was translated into other languages as "satan," which some say mean "enemy," or "adversary."
Enki’s identity, as Lord of Earth or In Earth (EN.KI), also known as EA ("whose house is water") is reflected in other names, as well:
The name EARTH also comes from EA/Enki. Actually, the name "earth" can be traced to Enki (a.k.a. EA), and "human" is related to Ninharsag/Ninhursag, who was Hathor (the House of Horus): HU (Horus) is also a transliteration of the ancient Sumerian EA (Grimms’ law of interchangeable letters and sounds). If we use Hebrew, HU means "she."
India, the "nagas" were the serpent gods and goddesses. In the Americas there was Quetzlcoatl (or Thoth). The entire world has worshipped the serpent for its wisdom, but ironically, it was not really about snakes at all - unless you feel you have to "guess" what a snake is up to! Why was the snake chosen? For its cleverness, ability to survive in the harshest of environments, and again, its shape resembling the flow of energy up the spine - to the crown chakra, and the third eye. The snake sheds its skin and is reborn. The snake is clever. And perhaps because it naturally instilled a bit of caution or awe in people. Was Enki really a snake? Not literally. He has many different appearances.
The serpent always represents spiritual wisdom, life and healing. The first symbols of serpents were attributed to Enki and then Ninhursag. However, the story of the serpent becoming an evil symbol began with the wars between Enki and his brother, Enlil (later known by the name "Allah"). These conflicts began at birth and had to do with birthright to the royal throne of the Nibiruan civilization in which their father, Anu, was the leader and father to Enki and Enlil. There was a time when Anu felt Enki (due to his wisdom and magical abilities) was the only savior of the Anunnaki people (" Enuma Elish").
This story later was reflected in Cain and Abel, and all the stories throughout your times of brothers competing for power, favoritism and inheritance. Enlil’s anger with Enki caused him to twist the truth around to make the serpent evil, which later became what you know as the story in the Bible. What you think of as being Satan is not that at all, but THE REVERSE!
Although there was love between Enki and Enlil, they often did not see eye to eye on many issues, especially when it came to supporting human beings. Enlil never had patience or compassion for people, and on several occasions, Sodom and Gomorrah as one example, he literally nuked them out of existence. He attempted this again during the time of the Great Flood but Enki (and those who supported him) took swift action to alert the Noahs around the planet of the forthcoming dangers. Some of the Anunnaki outraged with Enki for doing so but saw they had little choice in finally carrying out the rescue. Anu supported saving humanity.
In the Garden of Eden situation, Enlil was furious that Enki permitted humans to have access to knowledge, the mixing of the Anunnaki with human genes, thereby becoming more "godly," and equal to the Anunnaki. To strike back at Enki, and in the attempt to regain his power over humans, Enlil vowed to tarnish Enki’s reputation by spreading the idea that the serpent of wisdom was evil. Enlil tried to wipe out knowledge of the DNA coding Enki gave humans, and of what the Anunnaki used in order to have longevity (gold).
However, Enlil was not completely successful because most of Enki’s plan had worked. For centuries afterwards, humans attempted to duplicate the concoction of gold the gods used to maintain their youth and health, and those with the knowledge were able to manufacture substitutes for a while. But, much also had to do with the DNA content of the individual.
The more pure Anunnaki DNA, the better chance one had of having longevity, etc. Then, combine the DNA with spiritual awakening to the body, blood, and spirit with nutritional supplements, and each human will know who they are - gardeners, and caretakers of the Earth, not owners. Humans are here to maintain beauty, harmony and balance that was first given to us after the Earth was created. We are not to be interested only in ourselves.
Why did Adam eat from the Tree of Knowledge and not from the Tree of Life? Without getting into complex detail, Enki told me simply:
"With the Tree of Knowledge humans had the chance to figure out everything on their own in time, to be equal to the Anunnaki. Had they eaten only from the Tree of Life, they would live but not have been more the wiser."
The Garden of Eden, by the way, was a literal place, but also a genetic metaphor.
Enki knew had Adam (Adapa) eaten from the other tree, it would not ensure wisdom or spiritual evolution. Instead, it would more likely result in primitive human living for eons without evolution. The story of this translated from the ancient Babylonian texts is very interesting with Adapa’s confusion over whom to believe, which to eat. It resulted in him eating "the wrong" thing, but actually it was the right thing, in terms of DNA, which would eventually bring our spirituality back from whence it faltered, and remind people to tend to the Earth, which was not created by extraterrestrials, but by God.
The battle between the brothers continued into the time of the pyramid wars and Exodus. The staff with the caduceus was also one of Moses’ tools. The serpent, for the Hebrews represented salvation and wisdom. Moses’s copper serpent staff, often utilized by his brother, Aaron, was made famous for performing miracles. Another connection between the staff and the serpents occurred during the Exodus when the staff was seen to transform into snakes. Aaron was high priest and had been trained in magic.
He and Moses received instructions from a collective of that main Anunnaki family (who taught Moses the alphabet). Isn’t it interesting that during the Exodus, the name Jehovah, YHWH, took over and the name Adonai began to disappear? This was at the time when Enki departed the Earth and Marduk became the leader of Enki’s family. Enlil’s family was given the Sinai (taken away from Ninharsag) and Enlil’s son, Sin, was its new ruler. His symbol is the crescent moon (which became the symbol for Islam).
Luckily, the heritage of the caduceus lived on. In some versions the staff is capped with a solar disk or even a crescent moon. Nisaba, one of Enki’s daughters, also held a similar staff topped with an "ankh." For some, the staff symbolized Hermes/Mercury. Throughout time different civilizations in India, the Americas, Greece, Egypt, including the great mystery schools and secret societies have renamed and used it. In Christianity the archangel Michael was associated with this staff. The sirens became the staff for two serpents they held in their hands. This staff was considered to be so powerful it was able to raise up the dead.
The symbol of the caduceus was later transferred to one of Enki’s counterparts, Ningishzida (Thoth), the healing god, and then to others of his family because it was a code for the bloodline of Enki’s heritage. From this symbol of the serpent the power was transferred to the symbol of the dragon, who continued to hold the knowledge. The dragon could "divine." This is one reason why we say we and you are of "divine" heritage. You will see a version of the caduceus as the winged solar disk in Ancient Egypt, which incorporated the knowledge of one’s divinity and eternal soul, in the third eye chakra, along with the traditional knowledge of what it stood for.
Therefore, you will see this symbol above arches and entrances into temples and royal structures to remind those who enter who they really are. And this means not only the DNA connection to the Anunnaki, but the divine soul-being as coming from the Source, itself. The symbol of the winged Isis represents the original female mother goddess, Ninharsag, and blood connection in birthing humans who mated with "the gods," those who fly as a free spirit.
When you see the caduceus, know you are triggering your own genetic memory and seeing your heritage. Each one of you holds within you the DNA, in varying degrees, the wisdom from the Anunnaki and the Source. Since Enki and Ninhursag, there have been other off-planet beings who added in their own DNA to the human species.
So, you are all a mixture - and all one family from the One God. Within you is the consciousness with which you can liberate yourselves through SELF-knowledge and return to the garden.
This was originally the symbol for the Anunnaki-Sirian creator god, EA, or EN.KI (who has become an Archetype), was the chief of the magicians, "the one who knows," and infamous for being the serpent of the Garden of Eden who created lifeforms in test tubes half a million years ago with his half-sister Ninharsag, at the suggestion of his son, Marduk, to create humans to be the workers for the gods. (The symbol is also based upon the winged globe for the planet Nibiru, the symbol of the royal Anunnaki family.)
Biblical writers called the healing serpent Nehushtan. The Hebrew word for serpent is "nahash." The root of the word are the Hebrew letters Nun, Het and Shin, which means "to guess." This was translated into other languages as "satan," which some say mean "enemy," or "adversary."
Enki’s identity, as Lord of Earth or In Earth (EN.KI), also known as EA ("whose house is water") is reflected in other names, as well:
- Adonai
Ptah
Aton
Aten
Adom
Adam
Amen - (Linguistic paleontology is a marvelous and vast area for proving these connections.)
The name EARTH also comes from EA/Enki. Actually, the name "earth" can be traced to Enki (a.k.a. EA), and "human" is related to Ninharsag/Ninhursag, who was Hathor (the House of Horus): HU (Horus) is also a transliteration of the ancient Sumerian EA (Grimms’ law of interchangeable letters and sounds). If we use Hebrew, HU means "she."
India, the "nagas" were the serpent gods and goddesses. In the Americas there was Quetzlcoatl (or Thoth). The entire world has worshipped the serpent for its wisdom, but ironically, it was not really about snakes at all - unless you feel you have to "guess" what a snake is up to! Why was the snake chosen? For its cleverness, ability to survive in the harshest of environments, and again, its shape resembling the flow of energy up the spine - to the crown chakra, and the third eye. The snake sheds its skin and is reborn. The snake is clever. And perhaps because it naturally instilled a bit of caution or awe in people. Was Enki really a snake? Not literally. He has many different appearances.
The serpent always represents spiritual wisdom, life and healing. The first symbols of serpents were attributed to Enki and then Ninhursag. However, the story of the serpent becoming an evil symbol began with the wars between Enki and his brother, Enlil (later known by the name "Allah"). These conflicts began at birth and had to do with birthright to the royal throne of the Nibiruan civilization in which their father, Anu, was the leader and father to Enki and Enlil. There was a time when Anu felt Enki (due to his wisdom and magical abilities) was the only savior of the Anunnaki people (" Enuma Elish").
This story later was reflected in Cain and Abel, and all the stories throughout your times of brothers competing for power, favoritism and inheritance. Enlil’s anger with Enki caused him to twist the truth around to make the serpent evil, which later became what you know as the story in the Bible. What you think of as being Satan is not that at all, but THE REVERSE!
Although there was love between Enki and Enlil, they often did not see eye to eye on many issues, especially when it came to supporting human beings. Enlil never had patience or compassion for people, and on several occasions, Sodom and Gomorrah as one example, he literally nuked them out of existence. He attempted this again during the time of the Great Flood but Enki (and those who supported him) took swift action to alert the Noahs around the planet of the forthcoming dangers. Some of the Anunnaki outraged with Enki for doing so but saw they had little choice in finally carrying out the rescue. Anu supported saving humanity.
In the Garden of Eden situation, Enlil was furious that Enki permitted humans to have access to knowledge, the mixing of the Anunnaki with human genes, thereby becoming more "godly," and equal to the Anunnaki. To strike back at Enki, and in the attempt to regain his power over humans, Enlil vowed to tarnish Enki’s reputation by spreading the idea that the serpent of wisdom was evil. Enlil tried to wipe out knowledge of the DNA coding Enki gave humans, and of what the Anunnaki used in order to have longevity (gold).
However, Enlil was not completely successful because most of Enki’s plan had worked. For centuries afterwards, humans attempted to duplicate the concoction of gold the gods used to maintain their youth and health, and those with the knowledge were able to manufacture substitutes for a while. But, much also had to do with the DNA content of the individual.
The more pure Anunnaki DNA, the better chance one had of having longevity, etc. Then, combine the DNA with spiritual awakening to the body, blood, and spirit with nutritional supplements, and each human will know who they are - gardeners, and caretakers of the Earth, not owners. Humans are here to maintain beauty, harmony and balance that was first given to us after the Earth was created. We are not to be interested only in ourselves.
Why did Adam eat from the Tree of Knowledge and not from the Tree of Life? Without getting into complex detail, Enki told me simply:
"With the Tree of Knowledge humans had the chance to figure out everything on their own in time, to be equal to the Anunnaki. Had they eaten only from the Tree of Life, they would live but not have been more the wiser."
The Garden of Eden, by the way, was a literal place, but also a genetic metaphor.
Enki knew had Adam (Adapa) eaten from the other tree, it would not ensure wisdom or spiritual evolution. Instead, it would more likely result in primitive human living for eons without evolution. The story of this translated from the ancient Babylonian texts is very interesting with Adapa’s confusion over whom to believe, which to eat. It resulted in him eating "the wrong" thing, but actually it was the right thing, in terms of DNA, which would eventually bring our spirituality back from whence it faltered, and remind people to tend to the Earth, which was not created by extraterrestrials, but by God.
The battle between the brothers continued into the time of the pyramid wars and Exodus. The staff with the caduceus was also one of Moses’ tools. The serpent, for the Hebrews represented salvation and wisdom. Moses’s copper serpent staff, often utilized by his brother, Aaron, was made famous for performing miracles. Another connection between the staff and the serpents occurred during the Exodus when the staff was seen to transform into snakes. Aaron was high priest and had been trained in magic.
He and Moses received instructions from a collective of that main Anunnaki family (who taught Moses the alphabet). Isn’t it interesting that during the Exodus, the name Jehovah, YHWH, took over and the name Adonai began to disappear? This was at the time when Enki departed the Earth and Marduk became the leader of Enki’s family. Enlil’s family was given the Sinai (taken away from Ninharsag) and Enlil’s son, Sin, was its new ruler. His symbol is the crescent moon (which became the symbol for Islam).
Luckily, the heritage of the caduceus lived on. In some versions the staff is capped with a solar disk or even a crescent moon. Nisaba, one of Enki’s daughters, also held a similar staff topped with an "ankh." For some, the staff symbolized Hermes/Mercury. Throughout time different civilizations in India, the Americas, Greece, Egypt, including the great mystery schools and secret societies have renamed and used it. In Christianity the archangel Michael was associated with this staff. The sirens became the staff for two serpents they held in their hands. This staff was considered to be so powerful it was able to raise up the dead.
The symbol of the caduceus was later transferred to one of Enki’s counterparts, Ningishzida (Thoth), the healing god, and then to others of his family because it was a code for the bloodline of Enki’s heritage. From this symbol of the serpent the power was transferred to the symbol of the dragon, who continued to hold the knowledge. The dragon could "divine." This is one reason why we say we and you are of "divine" heritage. You will see a version of the caduceus as the winged solar disk in Ancient Egypt, which incorporated the knowledge of one’s divinity and eternal soul, in the third eye chakra, along with the traditional knowledge of what it stood for.
Therefore, you will see this symbol above arches and entrances into temples and royal structures to remind those who enter who they really are. And this means not only the DNA connection to the Anunnaki, but the divine soul-being as coming from the Source, itself. The symbol of the winged Isis represents the original female mother goddess, Ninharsag, and blood connection in birthing humans who mated with "the gods," those who fly as a free spirit.
When you see the caduceus, know you are triggering your own genetic memory and seeing your heritage. Each one of you holds within you the DNA, in varying degrees, the wisdom from the Anunnaki and the Source. Since Enki and Ninhursag, there have been other off-planet beings who added in their own DNA to the human species.
So, you are all a mixture - and all one family from the One God. Within you is the consciousness with which you can liberate yourselves through SELF-knowledge and return to the garden.
The clay tablets tell us of the Elohim/Anunnaki who were extraterrestrial beings that came to our planet from the star "Sirius". They genetically manipulated indigenous beings (which they called beasts) creating the human race. In the tales were father-god, An/Anu, his two sons Enki/Ea and Enlil/Ilu-kur-gal, the primary male beings featured in the story of the creation of the Adama/Adam & Eve. Enki was very impressed with, and felt compasion towards, the products of this genetic work, namely "us", whereas Enlil was of the mind that the beings were only worthy of servitude. The ancient Sumerian gods, and their feuding acts, have been found in later religious myths with the same basic stories, however, the names Ea, Enki, Enlil, Anu etc, were changed to Ahura Mazda, Jehova, Lord, Ahriman, Baal, Adon, Etc. Biblical myths of Jacob and Esau, feuding over over birthright, are similar to accounts in the Sumerian tales of Enki and Enlil. The Anunnaki, as a whole, were compelled to allot for themselves the status of gods over the lowly humans. The archetypal feuding brothers can be stereotyped and categorized by their respective attributes, Enki is also called Adonai (the "Lord"), and his (divine) attributes are compassion, wisdom and fertility (sexuality), Enlil is called El Shaddai, The lofty Mountan (YHWH), and "Jehova", he was a storm-god (the bringer of vengeance and wrath) jealous and controlling. Therefore "The Lord" and "Jehova" are not one in the same, but two different beings.
It was Enki and his sister Ninhursag who performed the genetic manipulation which resulted in the Adama (the ancient name for the first human, Adam and Eve). Humanity was conditioned to be in the service of the gods, but Enki had another plan, which set off a continual series of events, which most adversarial myths, concerning the war over the humans, between Enki and Enlil, were fashioned. Enki desired to feed the humans the fruit of the tree of Knowledge. This he knew was the thing which would open the eyes of man, and multi-dimensionalize his consciousness. This did not go over well with the Anunnaki, and Enki was commanded not to allow us this fruit. It was Enlil that attempted to scare the humans into not eating the fruit by telling them that, if they ate it, they would die. Enki went against the wishes of the high council and was able to convice them to eat the fruit anyway. When the gods saw what he had done, they condemned the act, and insisted that the corrupted humans be exiled from the land of paradise. Enki was man's preserver and compatriot, Enlil was the bringer of woes and doom.
It was also Enki that saved humanity from the flood, which was brought on by Enlil. Enlil also destroyed Sodom and Gommorrah, which contrary to current precepts, were great citys of freedom and learning, not deserving of the jealous and controlling Enlil's destructive rage. Enlil is also purported to have destroyed Babylon, confounded the languages (after the tower of Babel incident), and wreaked havoc upon the city of Ur. It is extremely important to understand these original stories, as they were written in the Sumerian tablets, and compare them to the 4000 year lated adaptations in the Bible.
Ea/Enki, was the good guy. It was him who fed man of the tree of knowledge. So why the need to flip this story completely upside down and condemn him as the evil one? In the Bible the word translated as "serpent" is "nahash" (NHSH) which literally means to decipher, or to find out. All throughout ancient times the serpent was known as the bringer of knowledge (hence, the euphemism "be ye wise as serpents") and were the precipitators of enlightenment. It is this precise thing that compels us to look further into the possibility that the good-guy is the one that is condemned throughout religious writings, for teaching freedom and knowledge. The freedoms of plant useage/taking for enlightenment, freedom of sexuality, and even the freedom to not be subservient to those oppressive gods who condemn these things as evil. In the cuneiform symbolism it is the caduseus (the snake coiled around the staff) which is the representation for Enki, in fact is is his personal emblem. After Enki fed the humans of the tree, and was then effectively exiled, those who remained under the control of Enlil and the Annunaki were then clamped-down-upon, in a heavier way. It was Enlil that was worshipped through fear and in later cultures named Jehova. Enlil, that old extraterrestrial who adamantly opposed the education, freedom, and enlightenment of humanity in every ancient Sumerian myth. A full set of laws would be adopted, the other humans were instructed not to associate with Enki/Ea or the exiled. So humanity received the first commandments.
The name Enki means "Archetype", which is precisely what he was -- archetype of post-Sumerian gods. Turning to our anthropomorphising of the mushroom theme, we find more interesting connections. Even beyond the above discussed fruit-of-the-tree-story. Enki AND his sister Ninhursag were the creators of the Adama. The red of the mushroom cap, as well as the juice, are anthropomorphised as blood, and figuratively related to as fire. The cap is also considered the female genital organ, as was the cup (like the Holy Grail) from ancient times. While the mushroom stem is the phallus. Anthropomorphically the mushroom is androgenous, in one sense, being one entity yet having both male and female sexual organs visible. In another sense it is two separate beings, joined together, in the act of creation, albeit only the sexual organs are visible. Enki is the stem, Ninhursag the cap, the two joining in accord to produce the Adama, anthropomorphism of the mushroom into the two elementary archetypal creators.
Further evidence is the substance fed to the faithful of Enlil and Ninhursag known as "Star-Fire". This supplemental nourisment was produced from the lunar essence, or blood (from the womb), of the goddess Ninhursag. It is also called "the gold of the gods" and even "the red gold". After the epic Anunnaki's abandonment of humanity, brought about by the fall of Babylon, when Enlil sabotaged the city, confounded the languages, and alloed the city to be laid waste. Some myths tell us; when the Anunnaki withdrew, "like birds taking flight", they took with them the 'Star-fire', or at least the knowledge of what the 'Star-fire" was. The priestly caste which remained, now under seige, needed again, to take the knowledge underground. Much as the later alchemists, the knowledge of putting the gold to-the-fire to create the alchemical gold, the secret of enlightenment, kept the process a secret.
It was Enki and his sister Ninhursag who performed the genetic manipulation which resulted in the Adama (the ancient name for the first human, Adam and Eve). Humanity was conditioned to be in the service of the gods, but Enki had another plan, which set off a continual series of events, which most adversarial myths, concerning the war over the humans, between Enki and Enlil, were fashioned. Enki desired to feed the humans the fruit of the tree of Knowledge. This he knew was the thing which would open the eyes of man, and multi-dimensionalize his consciousness. This did not go over well with the Anunnaki, and Enki was commanded not to allow us this fruit. It was Enlil that attempted to scare the humans into not eating the fruit by telling them that, if they ate it, they would die. Enki went against the wishes of the high council and was able to convice them to eat the fruit anyway. When the gods saw what he had done, they condemned the act, and insisted that the corrupted humans be exiled from the land of paradise. Enki was man's preserver and compatriot, Enlil was the bringer of woes and doom.
It was also Enki that saved humanity from the flood, which was brought on by Enlil. Enlil also destroyed Sodom and Gommorrah, which contrary to current precepts, were great citys of freedom and learning, not deserving of the jealous and controlling Enlil's destructive rage. Enlil is also purported to have destroyed Babylon, confounded the languages (after the tower of Babel incident), and wreaked havoc upon the city of Ur. It is extremely important to understand these original stories, as they were written in the Sumerian tablets, and compare them to the 4000 year lated adaptations in the Bible.
Ea/Enki, was the good guy. It was him who fed man of the tree of knowledge. So why the need to flip this story completely upside down and condemn him as the evil one? In the Bible the word translated as "serpent" is "nahash" (NHSH) which literally means to decipher, or to find out. All throughout ancient times the serpent was known as the bringer of knowledge (hence, the euphemism "be ye wise as serpents") and were the precipitators of enlightenment. It is this precise thing that compels us to look further into the possibility that the good-guy is the one that is condemned throughout religious writings, for teaching freedom and knowledge. The freedoms of plant useage/taking for enlightenment, freedom of sexuality, and even the freedom to not be subservient to those oppressive gods who condemn these things as evil. In the cuneiform symbolism it is the caduseus (the snake coiled around the staff) which is the representation for Enki, in fact is is his personal emblem. After Enki fed the humans of the tree, and was then effectively exiled, those who remained under the control of Enlil and the Annunaki were then clamped-down-upon, in a heavier way. It was Enlil that was worshipped through fear and in later cultures named Jehova. Enlil, that old extraterrestrial who adamantly opposed the education, freedom, and enlightenment of humanity in every ancient Sumerian myth. A full set of laws would be adopted, the other humans were instructed not to associate with Enki/Ea or the exiled. So humanity received the first commandments.
The name Enki means "Archetype", which is precisely what he was -- archetype of post-Sumerian gods. Turning to our anthropomorphising of the mushroom theme, we find more interesting connections. Even beyond the above discussed fruit-of-the-tree-story. Enki AND his sister Ninhursag were the creators of the Adama. The red of the mushroom cap, as well as the juice, are anthropomorphised as blood, and figuratively related to as fire. The cap is also considered the female genital organ, as was the cup (like the Holy Grail) from ancient times. While the mushroom stem is the phallus. Anthropomorphically the mushroom is androgenous, in one sense, being one entity yet having both male and female sexual organs visible. In another sense it is two separate beings, joined together, in the act of creation, albeit only the sexual organs are visible. Enki is the stem, Ninhursag the cap, the two joining in accord to produce the Adama, anthropomorphism of the mushroom into the two elementary archetypal creators.
Further evidence is the substance fed to the faithful of Enlil and Ninhursag known as "Star-Fire". This supplemental nourisment was produced from the lunar essence, or blood (from the womb), of the goddess Ninhursag. It is also called "the gold of the gods" and even "the red gold". After the epic Anunnaki's abandonment of humanity, brought about by the fall of Babylon, when Enlil sabotaged the city, confounded the languages, and alloed the city to be laid waste. Some myths tell us; when the Anunnaki withdrew, "like birds taking flight", they took with them the 'Star-fire', or at least the knowledge of what the 'Star-fire" was. The priestly caste which remained, now under seige, needed again, to take the knowledge underground. Much as the later alchemists, the knowledge of putting the gold to-the-fire to create the alchemical gold, the secret of enlightenment, kept the process a secret.
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