The Bible
and Enuma Elish ("When in the heights") both open with
the creation of heaven and earth. The difference between these
two texts lies in the mind of the creator(s), the authors, and
their dramatic method of telling the story. The ancient texts
from which the Bible draws its origins appear to define a deity
who created heaven, earth and all on earth, including mankind.
The Babylonian text appears to be taken from much earlier Sumerian
versions and gives heroes identities to "beings" that
we now know are our present day planets. Keeping the latter interpretation
in mind, we find a perfect rendition of the creation of our solar
system. Except in this grand drama, the creators are also the
created.
The Babylonians
tell us that originally the Apsu (the sun), Mummu (Mercury) and
Tiamat (out of which would come Earth) existed alone. Out of the
primordial elements were next created Lahmu (Mars) and Lahamu
(Venus). "Before they had grown in age and in stature to
an appointed size", Anshar (Saturn) and Kishar (Jupiter)
were formed. The "years multiplied" and Anu (Uranus)
and Nudimmud (Neptune) are born. And finally, Gaga (Pluto) appears
in the text, although the Sumerians place this small planet next
to Saturn as an "emissary".
The epic goes
on to tell us that after much time another "god" was
created, Marduk, whose orbit was counter to that of the counterclockwise
solar system. Its orbit took it far outside the familiar orbiting
planets and then back through past Neptune, then Uranus; Saturn
and Jupiter. The immense gravitational pull of the latter two
planets pulled Marduk into an unavoidable collision with Tiamat.
Originally,
Marduk not collide with Tiamat; rather one of Marduk's satellites
provided the first strike. Though this assault did not shatter
Tiamat, the satellites surrounding her were "shattered, her
host broken up". It was during the next orbit that Marduk
actually hit Tiamat, splitting it in two. Immediately, one of
Marduk's satellites crashed into one of the severed halves sending
it into an orbit where no planet had gone before, creating Earth.
The other half, broken into many pieces, became the "hammered
bracelet", the asteroid belt.
On September
26, 2000, NASA Science News ran an article regarding the square-shaped
craters on asteroid Eros, "a telltale sign of mysterious
goings-on in the asteroid belt long ago". Since squares are
not found naturally in nature, these craters are a sign that something
else impacted Eros in its infancy. Quoting from that article:
"Scientists
believe that billions of years ago, when the solar system was
young and planets were newly-forming, Eros circled the Sun in
an orbit between Mars and Jupiter. . . . Was Eros once part of
a moon-sized planet between Mars and Jupiter, or has it always
been an isolated space rock?
"If continued
mapping confirms that faults and ridges extend from one end of
Eros to the other, . . . consider it to be strong evidence that
Eros is a piece of something that was once much larger. If all
of the rocks in the modern-day asteroid belt were assembled, they
would form a small planet about 1500 km in diameter -- roughly
half the size of Earth's moon. Such a body might have existed
in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter billions of years ago, before
it shattered as a result of collisions with other planetoids."
Eros could
easily be confirmation of the accuracy and detailed reporting
of creation in the Enuma Elish as told to the Sumerians by the
Nefilim. Slowly, our present science is "discovering"
what our ancestors knew thousands of years ago.
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