2. The Sumerian Tower of Babel
But Nimrod is also
associated with...Enki. In the Sumerian
version of the Tower of Babel, known as Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, composed ca. 2000
BC and thus in all likelihood older than the Genesis version of the
story, the “whole world, the people as one, to Enlil in one tongue
gave voice.”563 Then enters a
peculiar character, En, or Enki:
Then did the contender - the en (lord)Enki, en of hegal,The contender - the master
The contender - the king
The contender - the en
The contender - the master
The contender - the king
The one with the unfailing words,
En of cunning, the shrewd one of the land,
Sage of the gods, gifted in thinking,
The en of Eridu,
Change the speech of their mouths,
He having set up contention in it,
In the human speech that had been one.564
Nimrod in the
Sumerian version of the story is represented by the character
Enmerkar. Now note that in the Hebrew, with is a consonantal
alphabet, the name Nimrod would be represented n-m-r-d. In
Sumerian, the character Enmerkar is simply Enmer, to which the
suffix “kar,” meaning “hunter”, has been added. Enmer would be
consonantally represented as n-m-r.565
The parallels do not
stop there.
The Sumerian Kings
List, to which reference has already been made in this book, states
that Enmerkar also constructed Uruk. In Genesis, the center of
Nimrod’s kingdom was Babel or Babylon and Erech, which is another
name for Uruk. Here too there is reason to believe the Biblical
text, given its antiquity, might not refer to Babel or Babylon, but
to Eridu, the cult headquarters for Enki. This headquarters was
known as the “nun-ki” or “mighty place,” a title that was only
bestowed on Babylon some one thousand years later with the temple
to Marduk that was dedicated there, where it was known as the
“bab-ilu”, its Akkadian name. “In other words, Bab-ilu equates to Nun.ki, and the original Nun.ki was located not in
Babylon, but in Eridu.”566 Archaeology would
appear to support this idea, since there is an impressive ziggurat
that was unearthed in the 1940s at the ancient site of Eridu. More
importantly, the excavators discovered that at the hightest point
of this massive ziggurat, the entire settlement was entirely and
suddenly abandoned.567
This surely seems as
far from Egypt, Giza, and Osiris as one can get.
However, the picture
is not quite that simple, for the name Osiris itself was
hieroglyphically written as the sigil for a throne, followed by
that of an eye, but the order was
subsequently reversed. The Egyptian form of Orisis, Ausar, is a cognate of the Mesopotamian
Ashur, and implies someone who
possesses his throne. Other meanings are “The seat that creates”
and “The seat of the eye,” and “the Mighty one.,,568 The connections
with the “Sound Eye” of the Edfu texts and with the title of Nimrod
in Genesis are now apparent. The revisionist scholar David Rohl
explains this constellation of symbols — Osiris, Nimrod,
Eridu-Babel, and the Tower of Babel — this way:
It appears that we are dealing here with a single historical character who established the first empire on Earth and who was deified by many nations under four main groupings:(1) Early Sumerian Enmer, later Mesopotamian Ninurta, ...biblical Nimrod, Greek Ninus;(2) Old Babylonian Marduk, biblical Merodach, later simply known as Bel of Baal(“Lord”);(3) Late Sumerian Asar-luhi...Assyrian Ashur, Egyptian Asar (Osiris);(4) Sumerian Dumuzi, biblical Tammuz, Phoenician Adonis, Greek Dionysius, Roman Bacchus...569
If this
identification proves true, then the connection of the Tower of
Babel not only with Eridu but also with Giza, which I first
speculated upon in my Giza Death Star
Destroyed,570 appears even more
solid, for now the connections are between Osiris, Nimrod, and
Osiris’ resting place in the “Rostau” or Underworld of
Giza.
We are in the
presence, once again, of the richly punning, multilayered levels of
meaning of the Unified Intention of Symbol, for there are now
numerous connections between Giza, the wars of the Gods, Mars, the
Tower of Babel moment, and mankind itself. And as the previous
chapters have also detailed, we are likewise in the presence of
texts that preserve a dim, though still very discernible pattern of
the technology that was associated with those wars and indeed, in
some accounts, was their cause. And there is one more connection
that must now be mentioned. Enki, in the Greek tradition, is one
and the same as Chronos, or
Saturn.571 So again, one
encounters that peculiar association of Mars and Saturn in this
cosmic conflict, an association first observed by De Santillana and
Von Dechind.
At this juncture,
after many chapters and pages of analysis of texts and of science,
with some linguistic and etymological excursions along the way, we
are in the presence of a complex of intricately interlocking
symbols and motifs all in aid of the exposition of a very simple
theme: a cosmic war, fought on many worlds, with advanced
technology, a technology involving stones, Tablets of Destinies,
mountains, and “sound-eyes.” The worlds with which we are concerned
are indicated by the “gods” hitherto discussed, and their
associated planets:
We have but to look
for anomalous features of artificiality, and of warfare, on these
planets or their associated satellites, for external confirmation
of the war hypothesis, for a prima facie case has already been made
that there was once a physics sufficient to weaponize to explode a
planet in an act of war, and moreover, a physics whose outlines are
clearly visible, though a dim memory, in the ancient
texts.
A “catalogue of
clues” is now in order, by way of the exposition of certain
chronological features of the scenario alluded to throughout this
work, and by way of an exposition of the timing of the fall of one
of the most sinister, malevolent, and genocidal and “globalcidal”
figures of all in this cosmic drama of war, subterfuge, and
extremes of technology: Lucifer, Ra the “sun-god” and
“light-bearer.”