Starting with the Sumerians, the first known great civilization from 8,000-6,000 years ago that spawned the Babylonians, Persians, and Assyrians, through ALL subsequent advanced civilizations and non-advanced indigenous cultures, including the American Indians of North America, the Mayan and Incan empires of South America, the Aborigines of Australia, ancient Chinese and Hindu text scriptures from the far east, the Egyptians, the Dogons of Africa, the Greek and Roman Gods of "mythology", and, of course, the Hebrew accounts in the Bible, every culture has asserted that heavenly beings or “gods” had created mankind “in their own image”. This, I believe, is a far too common account to have been a coincidence. Many theories abound as to the meaning behind this belief which has spanned virtually all our known history.
One theory comes from by far the oldest texts known concerning the origins of the universe, our planet, and our species itself, the Sumerian tablets.
Zecharia Sitchin, (July 11, 1920 – October 9, 2010), one of the world’s foremost experts in ancient language and culture, translated the Sumerian texts, uncovering an incredible account which seems to have influenced the majority of the “down-line” civilizations I mentioned above. Despite most main stream scholars’ opinion that they constituted nothing more than elaborate myths, the Sumerians themselves asserted that these accounts were, in fact, history. Sitchin ascribed to this belief, not only in reference to the Sumerian accounts, but also that of many others, including the Vedic texts from ancient India.
In short, the Sumerian accounts state that “gods” from another planet Nibiru, which is proposed to orbit our Sun every 3,600 years, arrived on Earth some 450,000 years ago and created humans by genetic engineering of the DNA of native species on earth at the time with DNA from their own makeup, possibly beginning with the great apes, then fine tuning the DNA to produce hominids such as the Neanderthals, concluding with the creation of modern humans.
Sound far fetched? Maybe. Strangely enough, there may be evidence to suggest that this theory holds water in some ways.
I’ll be getting more into the details of this in later posts, as well as some other possibilities that have been bantered about by various scholars. Before I do, I want to address, up front, something which I KNOW some of you are wondering about. What, if anything, I am postulating about my attitude of or belief in God? Does this mean that I don’t believe that God created the Universe or the world? Does this mean I don’t believe in God at all?
The answer to the last question is that it doesn’t affect, at all, my faith or my attitude towards God, Whom I DO believe in. I, as a free soul, reserve the right to believe that there IS indeed a loving and all encompassing God, which, as HE said, is Love itself. The details of my faith we’ll leave for another time.
Any true quest for the truth requires that preconceptions must at times be abandoned and that all stones be overturned, as I have said previously. Together, we’ll search for what really IS, and time will tell where that leads us.
Until next time…May you be at peace!
Zecharia Sitchin, (July 11, 1920 – October 9, 2010), one of the world’s foremost experts in ancient language and culture, translated the Sumerian texts, uncovering an incredible account which seems to have influenced the majority of the “down-line” civilizations I mentioned above. Despite most main stream scholars’ opinion that they constituted nothing more than elaborate myths, the Sumerians themselves asserted that these accounts were, in fact, history. Sitchin ascribed to this belief, not only in reference to the Sumerian accounts, but also that of many others, including the Vedic texts from ancient India.
In short, the Sumerian accounts state that “gods” from another planet Nibiru, which is proposed to orbit our Sun every 3,600 years, arrived on Earth some 450,000 years ago and created humans by genetic engineering of the DNA of native species on earth at the time with DNA from their own makeup, possibly beginning with the great apes, then fine tuning the DNA to produce hominids such as the Neanderthals, concluding with the creation of modern humans.
Sound far fetched? Maybe. Strangely enough, there may be evidence to suggest that this theory holds water in some ways.
I’ll be getting more into the details of this in later posts, as well as some other possibilities that have been bantered about by various scholars. Before I do, I want to address, up front, something which I KNOW some of you are wondering about. What, if anything, I am postulating about my attitude of or belief in God? Does this mean that I don’t believe that God created the Universe or the world? Does this mean I don’t believe in God at all?
The answer to the last question is that it doesn’t affect, at all, my faith or my attitude towards God, Whom I DO believe in. I, as a free soul, reserve the right to believe that there IS indeed a loving and all encompassing God, which, as HE said, is Love itself. The details of my faith we’ll leave for another time.
Any true quest for the truth requires that preconceptions must at times be abandoned and that all stones be overturned, as I have said previously. Together, we’ll search for what really IS, and time will tell where that leads us.
Until next time…May you be at peace!
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