I'm going to be writing a bunch of stuff here regarding the Bible, and Sumerian text. I am no way shape or form trying to discredit the bible or any other religious text. But I think it is important to understand WHERE the Bible came from, and the fact that it was translated in the 6th Century, and it was either changed on purpose, OR by mistake. We are humans and we as humans make mistakes.
With that being said. Like I said in my first part. I want to know where we came from, and the Bible maybe a good starting point, but given that there are clear and blatant translation errors in it, how much of it can we take as pure truth?
So how many stories did the Bible barrow to make the Bible more of a whole book? Well in my last post, I showed you some examples of stories borrowed from Sumerian Text/Tablets that the Bible borrowed and made its own.
I am going to go a little further into the "rabbit" hole today to see what else we can come up with.
So in my last post we just read about Ninti creating life from mixing clay, blood, you can see the person in the middle holding like a test tube, and on the wall to the left, flasks. There were some stories in there, where some of their experiments didn't work. Thats where you got the like half animal/human hybrids. So there were quite a few failures before Adam was successfully "created". Ninti is depicted on the right, holding up the first human created. The tree to the right is the 9 leaves of the 9 birth months.
Now the Prelude to the flood.
Genesis 6
1 Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,
2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
Now in Hebrew to translate Paragraph 2, Hebrew says its "sons of the Gods" (bene ha elohim) Elohim means God's or deity. But they intentionally mistranslated the Bible so you cannot say of the Gods.
3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.…
Nephilim where the Giants. Again intentionally mistranslated Hebrew version says "Bene ha elohim", Sons of the Gods.
So there is quite a bit of intentional changes here so the Bible could prove a single God, or deity. This was all done on purpose, because then there is a single leader. So hi-jacking stories from other books, intentionally changing them to fit into your narrative. Sumerian tablets and texts had multiple God characters. How do you take the creator God, the Mother Goddess, The God of Wars, Birth, and you put them into one character, its simply not that easy. That's why there are these mistakes. But thats what the Bible did, especially in the first few chapters of Genesis in the borrowed material.
In the Bible Genesis 6:5
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Here is from Gilgamesh XI, this is post flood.
The gods smelt the fragrance,
The gods smelt the pleasant fragrance,
Above it also talks about how Nintu was crying, talking about giving birth to humans that were drowning, and how they were her own people. Also states the Gods of the anunnaki were weeping with her. They were watching this happen from above.
Back to the Bible.
Gensis 8:21
The LORD smelled the soothing aroma
Now the Biblical god isn't suppose to enjoy the smell of meat being cooked or flesh, or food. He is suppose to be a none physical creator of the ENTIRE universe. A god of such immense nature that he should be beyond food, cooking, smelling..... I guess the line was just too good, they HAD to use it.
The line is exactly the same.
Some of the stuff they simply did not keep.. Like the Female gods, were turned into male gods in the biblical story. But some things they simply could not get rid of, they had to keep it there.
These are my thoughts today. Please let me know if there is something I should look into, or if you have any questions, or thoughts, or maybe you want to hear my thoughts and objective opinions.
Thanks,
