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“2 Enoch” – The Book of the Secrets of Enoch
<p>An entirely different Enoch manuscript has survived in the Slavonic language. This text, dubbed “2 Enoch” and commonly called “the Slavonic Enoch,” was discovered in 1886 by a professor Sokolov in the archives of the Belgrade Public Library. It appears that just as the Ethiopic Enoch (“1 Enoch”) had escaped the sixth-century Church suppression of […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Feb 16, 201550 min read


“1 Enoch” – The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament
<p>The Book of Enoch, a title given to several works that attribute themselves to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah; that is, Enoch son of Jared (Genesis 5:18). (There are also three other characters named Enoch in the Bible: the son of Cain (Gen. 4:17), the son of Midian (Gen. 25:4), and the son of Reuben […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Feb 16, 2015133 min read


“1 Enoch” – The Book of Enoch from the Ethiopic
<p>About the Book of Enoch (also referred to as “Ethiopic Enoch” or “1 Enoch”). The Book of Enoch (also known as 1 Enoch) was once cherished by Jews and Christians alike, this book later fell into disfavor with powerful theologians – precisely because of its controversial statements on the nature and deeds of the fallen […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Feb 16, 2015144 min read


The Myth of Adapa
<p>The Myth of Adapa (also known as Adapa and the Food of Life) is the Mesopotamian story of the Fall of Man in that it explains why human beings are mortal. The god of wisdom, Ea, creates the first man, Adapa, and endows him with great intelligence and wisdom but not with immortality, and when […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Feb 7, 20158 min read


The Tale of Adapa
<p>A Translation of the Mesopotamian Story of Adapa Adapa, the first man, was created by the Mesopotamian God Ea. Below is a translation of an artifact that was translated by Stephanie Dalley in which man is created.</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Feb 7, 20154 min read


Atrahasis: Mesopotamian account of the Great Flood
<p>The Epic of Atrahasis is the fullest Mesopotamian account of the Great Flood, but it offers more. The conditions immediately after the Creation, when the Lower Gods have to work very hard, and complain Revolt of the Lower Gods Negotiations Proposal to create Man, to relieve the Lower Gods from their labor Creation of Man […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Feb 7, 20157 min read


The Atrahasis Epic
<p>The Atrahasis Epic, named after its human hero, is a story from Mesopotamia that includes both a creation and a flood account. It was composed as early as the nineteenth century B.C.E. In its cosmology, heaven is ruled by the god Anu, earth by Enlil, and the freshwater ocean by Enki. Enlil set the lesser […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Feb 7, 201511 min read


Epic of Gilgamesh Addenda – Tablet 12
<p>Scholars disagree about the relation of Tablet XII to the other eleven tablets. The general consensus is that it was an appendage added to the other Gilgamesh stories at a later date. This tablet presents a stark contrast to the earlier eleven in style and content. The appearance of a “resurrected” Enkidu is especially startling. […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Feb 5, 20155 min read


The Sumerian King List – Weld-Blundell Prism
<p>From time immemorial since the Land was founded until the people multiplied, who has ever seen a reign of kingship that would take precedence for ever? Lament of Sumer and Ur (Oxford etcsl 1998 368-70). The Weld-Blundell Prism The term ‘Sumerian King List’ refers to the listings of Sumerian and neighbouring ruling dynasties derived from […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Feb 3, 201510 min read


The Sumerian King List
<p>Sumerian King List The Sumerian King List is an ancient manuscript originally recorded in the Sumerian language, listing kings of Sumer (ancient southern Iraq) from Sumerian and neighboring dynasties, their supposed reign lengths, and the locations of “official” kingship. Kingship was believed to have been handed down by the gods, and could be transferred from […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Feb 3, 20157 min read


Epic of Gilgamesh – Sha naqba īmuru
<p>The Epic of Gilgamesh (Sha naqba īmuru) was written on 12 clay tablets in cuneiform script. It is about the adventures of the historical King of Uruk (somewhere between 2750 and 2500 BCE). This later 12-tablet verse version was found in the library of the 7th-century BCE Assyrian King Ashurbanipal. The Assyrian King Ashurbanipal (reigned […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Jan 31, 2015108 min read


The Myth of Zu
<p>The Myth of Anzû, Bin Šar Dadmē</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Jan 30, 201515 min read


The Erra Epic
<p>akaErra and IshumThe Erra Epic was written in the 8th century B.C.E. by a Babylonian priest named Kabti-Ilani-Marduk Benjamin R. Foster, Distant Days: myths, tales and poetry from Ancient Mesopotamia (Bethesda, MD.: CDL, 1995). This poem describes the god Marduk as turning away from his city, angry with its people, thus leaving it to Erra’s […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Jan 30, 201525 min read
The Earth Chronicles: Time Chart
<p>The following timeline of events was included in the appendices of Book 3 of the Earth Chronicles, The Wars of Gods and Men. It offers an overview of dates Sitchin theorizes significant events in human history took place. I. Events Before the Deluge 450,000 years agoOn Nibiru, a distant member of our solar system, life […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Jan 29, 20156 min read
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