Extraterresterials: Creation Epics (What Do They Imply?!)

In my introductory artilcle: Extraterrestrials: My Personal Journy That Got My Foot Into The Loop, I mentioned that I embarked on a long journey that started with linguistic curiosity about certain words mentioned in the holy books of the three major religion; Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

 

Language, words, sounds - what are these things?: Scholars believe that primitive human language developed greatly over thousands of year. It then branched into thousands of dialects creating a cycle from which evolved independent languages which branched again into dialects. The human language, as a highly organized system of communication, has three elements functioning dependently and inseparably: 1) Individual sounds called PHONEMES, 2) combination of these sounds into meaningful units called MORPHEMES, and 3) combination of these meaningful units into a larger utterance called SYNTAX. Human language also has certain features: A) it has to be aquired, B) it has to be intentionally expressed, C) it must comprise of vocalized syllabic utternace, and D) it must express thoughts on our minds.

Some of the fascinating sounds in the human languages which seems to be a common denominator in so many languages spoken today are the sounds (not letters) "P", "B", and "M".which are parts of the words "Parent" and "Mother". Example: the word "Mother" in English is "Mother", in German "Muter", in Sanskriti "Muter", in Arabic "Um", in French "Mere". And in the ancient Sumerian mythology, Enki  was helped to create the first Adam by a scientist whose nick name was "Mamma". As for "Father", in English and French "Parent", in French "Pere", in Arabic "Ub". It is also worth mentioning that the sound "M" exists in the word "Mumal".  Now, after this little linguistic prologue, let us go back to the main issue which is: Extraterrestrials - Creation Epics - What Do They Imply?! 

Creation stories are so many all over the world. Some are similar in their basics, and some completely different. The most distinguished one is the Sumerian epic of creation (which is similar to the Biblical story of creation) in so many ways. 

THE SUMERIAN: The Sumerian people settled in the land they called Sumer, in a region of the Fertile Crescent that lay along the southern portions of the valley of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers.  The Greeks called the area “Mesopotamia”, meaning “between the rivers”. What occurred there some 6,000 years ago, has been called “the most crucial event in human history.” Literally, seemingly out of nowhere, a highly advanced, thriving culture appeared sometime after 4000 B.C.E. (although some argue that Sumerian may have arrived as early as 8500 B.C.E., or even much, much earlier). What is clear is that the Sumerian developed a highly sophisticated system of irrigation and agriculture, which took full advantage of the waters of the two rivers. They quickly established magnificent cities, advanced governing laws, and a written language.

SUMERIAN LANGUAGE: The Sumerian language itself has been an enigma to linguists and scholars ever since the first tablets of this ancient language were re-discovered in the nineteenth century. It bears no relation, for example to ancient Arabic, Assyrian, Canaanite, Egyptian, Indian, Hebrew, Persian, or Phoenician, nor to any language from contemporaneous African, Asian or European dialects. As might be expected, the Sumerian language did leave a significant heritage. For example, there are significant similarities among various agglutinative languages like Mongolian, Turkic, and Hungarian. In fact, in the process of deciphering Sumerian, the Hungarian (not Indo-European languages) was very useful. See for example HERE,  just one of many sites with information on this topic.

Sumerian Etymological Dictionary: For example in his Sumerian Etymological Dictionary and Comparative Grammar, Kálmán Gosztony, professor of Sumerian philology at the Sorbonne, demonstrated that the grammatical structure of the Hungarian language is the closest to that of the Sumerian language; out of the 53 characteristics of Sumerian grammar, there are 51 matching characteristics in the Hungarian language, 29 in the Turkic languages, 24 in the Caucasian languages, 21 in the Uralic languages, 5 in the Semitic languages, and 4 in the Indo-European languages.

The Sumerian language is the oldest sophisticated form of writing in existence, and dates from at least 3400 B.C.E. These early writings, however, are neither crude nor primitive, and no other source has been identified as to where it might have been developed. As Laurence Gardner has said in Genesis of the Grail Kings, “It appeared in a complete and composite form, as if from another world, in the style known as...

Cuneiform (wedge-shaped): There are now tens of thousands of clay tablets and cylinder-seals containing Sumerian texts describing everything from taxation and administrative records to essays and literature. It is a unique phenomena.

SUMERIAN PEOPLE AND CULTURE: The most intriguing aspect of the Sumerians is their arrival on the scene with all of the attributes of civilization already formulated in what they termed the ME. The Sumerian literature descripes the ME as: “the holy laws of heaven and earth.” In one particular tale, the goddess, Inanna, decides to obtain for her followers the ME from her maternal grandfather, Enki. Inanna (Ishtar) does this by getting him thoroughly drunk, and skirting off with the goods. Enki apparently tries to stop her, but fails. At the same time, however, there is the very real possibility that Enki had determined all along to give Inanna the ME, but went through the pretence in order to avoid the wrath of the other gods and godesses, i.e., the Anunnaki. (those who from heaven descended). Regardless of his true motive, however, the MEs are worthy of mention.

Sumerian Enana and Babylonian Eshtar:Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer, in their book, Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth, describe the ME in the following terms: "...to keep the cosmic entities and cultural phenomena operating continuously and harmoniously without conflict and confusion, they devised the Me -- that set of universal and immutable rules and limits which had to be observed by god and man alike.". The MEs include and/or involve (among other things): 1) kingship and priesthood , 2) the holy measuring rod and line, 3) shepherdship, quiver, dagger and sword, 4) loosening and binding of the hair,5) the art of love making, the art of prostitution, procreation, the art of song, resounding musical instruments, the art of being forthright, the arts of power and treachery, deceit, plundering of cities, and of being slanderous and adorning, the art of kindness, 6) lamentations and rejoicings of the heart, 7) crafts of the wood and copper worker,  crafts of the scribe, builder and leather maker, 8) perceptive ear, power of attention, 9) holy purification rites, 10) fear, dismay, consternation, 11) kindling and putting out of fire, 12) counseling, giving of judgments, making of decisions, 13) assembled family, and 14) the making of beer!

The Sumerian culture also included Sumerian Ethics which were a quantum leap above anything known before, and in many ways, definitively superior to modern day morality.

Fundamental to anything regarding the Sumerians are their gods and goddesses, whom as a group they called the Anunnaki (literally, “those who from heaven to earth came”). As in any later pantheon, the Anunnaki consisted of a number of very different personalities, that clashed with each other often and in an enormous variety of ways. While their very distinct personalities can be used to establish Archetypes, all of the evidence suggests that the Anunnaki were historical figures and not mythological.

ANU (AN), ENLIL, AND ENKI (EA):The Sumerian Family Tree, in fact, distinguishes between those Gods and Goddesses who were born on earth (the new generation) and those born in heaven. The first trinity of gods is: Anu, the father, Enki, the eldest son, and Enlil, the youngest son.

The Sumerian texts also describe the Epic of Creation (of which Genesis is a condensed version), as well as a continuing semi-sibling rivalry between Enki and Enlil, their offspring, and those humans who voluntarily or otherwise began the process of choosing up sides. Sumerian wisdom was also prevalent at an early stage - the so-called father of mankind, Enki, being noted as extremely wise.