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corn, garlands of flowers and grapes. like ceres, she mourns for her lost daughter persephone for three months of the year and so is another icon for those who are feeling sorrow or loss and for maternal sacrifice. but she can be invoked for all matters of abundance, for reaping the benefits of earlier work or effort, for all mothering rituals and as a protectress of animals. innana innana was a sumerian goddess, known as the queen of heaven, who evolved into the babylonian goddess ishtar. innana was goddess of beauty, abundance, fertility and passion, famed for her loveliness and her lapis lazuli necklaces. she was the first goddess of the morning and evening stars, a legacy that has passed to aphrodite and venus. like many of the mother goddess icons, she descended into the underworld a

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

shop, whose constant encouragement and eternal kvetching was material to the completion of this work. and, finally, to the demon perdurabo, without whose help the presentation of this book would have been impossible. blessed be! table of contents introduction introductory essay prefatory notes chart of comparisons supplementary material to 777 notes on pronunciation the spells (translated) common sumerian words and phrases in english a word concerning the original manuscript banishings bibliography& suggested reading list the necronomicon the testimony of the mad arab of the zonei and their attributes the book of entrance, and of the walking the incantations of the gates the conjuration of the fire god the conjuration of the watcher the maklu text the book of calling the book of fifty name

ake the seeming ranting of the arab at face value for what they are: a warning, a weapon, and a wisdom. with these three we enter the new age of the crowned and conquering child, horus, not in a slouch towards bethlehem, but born within us at the moment we conquer the lurking fear in our own souls. new york, n.y. december, 1979 "our work is therefore historically authentic; the rediscovery of the sumerian tradition- aleister crowley introduction in the mid- 1920's, roughly two blocks from where the warlock shop once stood, in brooklyn heights, lived a quiet, reclusive man, an author of short stories, who eventually divorced his wife of two years and returned to his boyhood home in rhode island, where he lived with his two aunts. born on august 20, 1890, howard phillips lovecraft would come

uage which has been closely allied to that of the aryan race, having in fact many words identical to that of sanskrit (and, it is said, to chinese. for no one knows where the sumerians came from, and they vanished just as mysteriously as they appeared, after the assyrian invasions which decimated their culture, yet providing the assyrians with much of their mythology and religion; so much so that sumerian became the official language of the state church, much as latin is today of the roman catholic church. they had a list of their kings before the flood, which even they carefully chronicled, as did many another ancient civilisation around the world. it is believed that they had a sophisticated system of astronomy (and astrology) as well as an equally religious rituale. magick, as well in h

ty of his pantheon, cthulhu, a sea monster who lies "not dead, but dreaming" below the world; an ancient one and supposed enemy of mankind and the intelligent race. cthulhu is accompanied by an assortment of other grotesqueries, such as azathot and shub niggurath. it is of extreme importance to occult scholars that many of these deities had actual counterparts, at least in name, to deities of the sumerian tradition, that same tradition that the magus aleister crowley deemed it so necessary to "rediscover. the underworld in ancient sumer was known by many names, among them absu or "abyss, sometimes as nar mattaru, the great underworld ocean, and also as cutha or kutu as it is called in the enuma elish (the creation epic of the sumerians. the phonetic similarity between cutha and kutu and ch

aleister crowley deemed it so necessary to "rediscover. the underworld in ancient sumer was known by many names, among them absu or "abyss, sometimes as nar mattaru, the great underworld ocean, and also as cutha or kutu as it is called in the enuma elish (the creation epic of the sumerians. the phonetic similarity between cutha and kutu and chthonic, as well as cthulhu, is striking. judging by a sumerian grammar at hand, the word kutulu or cuthalu (lovecraft's's cthulhu sumerianised) would mean "the man of kutu (cutha; the man of the underworld; satan or shaitan, as he is known to the yezidis (whom crowley considered to be the remnants of the sumerian tradition. the list of similarities, both between lovecraft's creations and the sumerian gods, as well as between lovecraft's mythos and cr

ew examples should suffice. although a list is appended hereto containing various entities and concepts of lovecraft, crowley, and sumeria cross-referenced, it will do to show how the editor found relationships to be valid and even startling. azatot is frequently mentioned in the grim pages of the cthulhu mythos, and appears in the necronomicon as azag-thoth, a combination of two words, the first sumerian and the second coptic, which gives us a clue as to its identity. azag in sumerian means "enchanter" or "magician; thoth in coptic is the name given to the egyptian god of magick and wisdom, tahuti, who was evoked by both the golden dawn and by crowley himself (and known to the greeks as hermes, from whence we get "hermetic. azag-thoth is, therefore, a lord of magicians, but of the "black"

ptic is the name given to the egyptian god of magick and wisdom, tahuti, who was evoked by both the golden dawn and by crowley himself (and known to the greeks as hermes, from whence we get "hermetic. azag-thoth is, therefore, a lord of magicians, but of the "black" magicians, or the sorcerers of the "other side. there is a seeming reference to shub niggurath in the necronomicon, in the name of a sumerian deity, the "answerer of prayers, called ishnigarrab. the word "shub" is to be found in the sumerian language in reference to the rite of exorcism, one of which is called nam shub and means "the throwing. it is, however, as yet unclear as to what the combination shub ishnigarrab (shub niggurath) might actually mean. there was a battle between the forces of "light" and "darkness (so-called)

onomicon and identified as the vanquisher of death, for she descended into the underworld and defeated her sister, the goddess of the abyss, queen ereshkigal (possibly another name for tiamat. interestingly enough, the myth has many parallels with the christian concept of christ's death and resurrection, among which the crucifixion (inanna was impaled on a stake as a corpse, the three days in the sumerian hades, and the eventual resurrection are outstanding examples of how sumerian mythology previewed the christian religion by perhaps as many as three thousand years- a fact that beautifully illustrates the cosmic and eternal nature of this myth. therefore, the goddess of the witches has two distinct forms: the ancient one, goddess of the dragon-like telluric power which is raised in magick

the dragon-like telluric power which is raised in magickal rituals, and the elder goddess, defeater of death, who brings the promise of resurrection and rejuvenation to her followers those who must reside for a time after death and between incarnations in what is called the "summerland. sumer-land? another hallmark of the craft of the wise is evident within the necronomicon, as well as in general sumerian literature, and that is the arrangement of the cross-quarter days, which make up half of the craft's official pagan holidays. these occur on the eves of february 2nd, may 1st, august 1st, and november 1st, and are called candlemas, beltane, lammas and samhain (or hallows, respectively. the name lammas has a curious origin in the dunes at sumer. it is not less than the name of one of the f

s not less than the name of one of the four mythological beasts of the astrological fixed signs, lamas being the name of the half-lion, half-man guardian of leo (the sign governing most of august, when the feast of lammas takes place, and ustur being that of aquarius (february, sed that of taurus (may) and nattig that of scorpio (november. i do not believe that this is a fantastic assumption, the sumerian origin of the feast of lammas. indeed, it seems just as valid as the ideas of idries shah concerning craft etymology as presented in his book, the sufis. it is also not far-fetched to assume that these four beasts were known to the entire region of the middle east, as they appear on the sphinx in egypt, and have become the symbols of the four evangelists of the christian new testament- an

ligious historians concerning the ancient mysteries! probable the most inconsistent concept the sumerians possesses with reference to the craft is the naming of the goddess as a deity, not of the moon (as the craft would have it, but of the planet venus. the moon was governed by a male divinity, nanna (like inanna but minus the initial 'i, and was considered the father of the gods by the earliest sumerian religion. it should be noted, however, that all of the planetary deities, termed "the zoned ones" or zonei in greek, and indeed all of the sumerian deities, had both male and female manifestations, showing that the sumerians definitely recognised a yin-yang composition if the universe (the "male moon" idea is, the editor is given to understand, common to so-called aryan mythologies. there

e particularly aware, and which they depicted constantly in their carvings and statues. the purpose of this iconography was to ward off the spiritual- and psychic- circumstances which would precipitate a plague, or some other evil "evil to destroy evil" although the ancient people of the world were conscious of an entity we might call the :author of all evil, the devil or satan, as evident in the sumerian creation epic and the rumoured existences of the cult of set of the egyptians, the more pressing concern was usually the exorcism of tiamat, she exists, somehow, just as the abyss exists and is perhaps indispensable to human life if we think of her as typifying the female quality of energy. although marduk was responsible for halving the monster from the sea, the sumerian tradition has it

t the monster is not dead, but dreaming, asleep below the surface of the earth, strong, potent, dangerous, and very real. her powers can be tapped by the knowledgeable "who are skilful to rouse leviathan" although the christian religion has gone to great lengths to prove that the devil is inferior to god and exists solely for his purpose, as the tempter of man- surely a dubious raison d'etre- the sumerian tradition acknowledges that the person of "evil" is actually the oldest, most ancient of the gods. whereas christianity states that lucifer was a rebel in heaven, and fell from god's grace to ignominy below, the original story was that marduk was the rebel, and severed the body of the ancient of ancient ones to create the cosmos in other words, the precise reverse of the judeo-christian d

shop, whose constant encouragement and eternal kvetching was material to the completion of this work. and, finally, to the demon perdurabo, without whose help the presentation of this book would have been impossible. blessed be! table of contents introduction introductory essay prefatory notes chart of comparisons supplementary material to 777 notes on pronunciation the spells (translated) common sumerian words and phrases in english a word concerning the original manuscript banishings bibliography& suggested reading list the necronomicon the testimony of the mad arab of the zonei and their attributes the book of entrance, and of the walking the incantations of the gates the conjuration of the fire god the conjuration of the watcher the maklu text the book of calling the book of fifty name

which came first, the chicken or the egg. for instance, in the magan text, the final verses read though from the chaldean oracles of zoroaster "stoop not down, therefore, into the darkly shining world" which might have been of greek origin and not zoroastrian. it is a question for scholars. the etymology of certain words is a game that has fascinated both the editor and perhaps a score or more of sumerian researches of the past. the sumerian origin of many of the words and place-names we use today provides us with an insight into our own origins. for instance, the sumerian word for the temple is bar, from which we get our word "barrier, or so it is said by waddell. this makes sense in the context with the erecting and maintaining of barriers against the hostile forces outside. the etymolog

l we read that the word aum was known to the sumerians, in almost the same sense that it was, and is, known to the hindus. it is a sacred word, and pertains to the lord of magicians, enki. further, the greek spelling of enki was ea, by which he is most commonly known in the european texts which treat of sumeriology. in the greek alphabet, ea would appear as ha. q.e.d: aum.ha betrays the essential sumerian character of that book. after the initial testimony, we come to the chapter entitles "of the zonei and their attributes, zonei is, of course a greek word and refers to the planetary, or heavenly bodies; for they are "zoned, i.e, having set courses and spheres. they are also known as such in the chaldean oracles. the 'spirits' or bodies that exist beyond the zonei are called the azonei, me

ts, is unknown to the editor. whatever the case may be, the zonei seem to include the seven philosophical planets, i.e, including the sun and moon as planetary bodies, along with mercury, venus, mars, jupiter and saturn. each has their own seal and their own number. kenneth grant, author of aleister crowley and the hidden god, may be interested to know (or may already know) that the number of the sumerian goddess of venus, hence of love and war, is fifteen. in many of the ancient tablets of that period, she is actually referred to as "the fifteen, as a shortcut to spelling out the whole name in cuneiform, was assume. grant made much of "the goddess fifteen" in his study of crowley's system as related to tantricism, without mentioning the name by which this goddess is quite well-known, or e

what other initiates in similar systems have expressed in the vague abstractions of the truly illuminated, likening the experience to an lsd trip. the "incantations of the gates" follow, and are probably meant to accompany the preceding chapter, being prayers proper to each of the celestial gates. the "conjuration of the fire god" follows this, and resembles the others in its mixture of greek and sumerian phrases. it should be noted here that wherever a sumerian phrases. it should be noted here that wherever a sumerian phrase appears in the original ms. we have kept it as it is, untranslated, as we expect the mad arab would have wanted it. quite possibly, even he did not know the exact meaning of much of the conjurations in the old tongue, but viewed it as a 'barbarous' tongue' which must

noted here that wherever a sumerian phrase appears in the original ms. we have kept it as it is, untranslated, as we expect the mad arab would have wanted it. quite possibly, even he did not know the exact meaning of much of the conjurations in the old tongue, but viewed it as a 'barbarous' tongue' which must be preserved because of its essential power. indeed, with the publication of this book, sumerian may become as popular among magicians as the strange, angelic language of enochian, discovered by dr. dee in elizabeth england. in greek, in the original ms, a common incantation would look something like this (using roman characters for the greek 'o kakos theos 'o kakos daimon 'o daimon pneuma tou ouranou thumethere! pneuma tes ges thumethate (o wicked god o wicked demon o demon spirit o

- after much the same fashion that the chief of police of amity slays the great white shark in benchley's novel jaws, blowing an evil wind (the oxygen tank) into her mouth and sending in an arrow (bullet) in after it to explode her. surely, the two or three most box-office successful films of the past few years, jaws, the exoricst and, perhaps, the godfather, are an indication that the essence of sumerian mythology is making itself felt in a very real way in this, the latter half of the twentieth century? after the long and poetic magan text, comes the urillia text which might be lovecraft's r'lyeh text, and is subtitled "abominations. it has more specifically to do with the worship of the serpent, and the nature of the cults that participate in the concelebration of sin. again, more conju

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corn, garlands of flowers and grapes. like ceres, she mourns for her lost daughter persephone for three months of the year and so is another icon for those who are feeling sorrow or loss and for maternal sacrifice. but she can be invoked for all matters of abundance, for reaping the benefits of earlier work or effort, for all mothering rituals and as a protectress of animals. innana innana was a sumerian goddess, known as the queen of heaven, who evolved into the babylonian goddess ishtar. innana was goddess of beauty, abundance, fertility and passion, famed for her loveliness and her lapis lazuli necklaces. she was the first goddess of the morning and evening stars, a legacy that has passed to aphrodite and venus. like many of the mother goddess icons, she descended into the underworld a

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

rces. 3760 bc the assyrian calendar begins with the first recorded year of the "beginning of civilization (shooraya d'mdeetanayoota) as seen through the eyes of the ancient bet-nahranaye (mesopotamians. these ancient inhabitants of assyria, babylon, and sumer believed that civilization was a "gift from the gods" and it was marked from the time "kingship was lowered from heaven" 3200 bc writing in sumerian tablets 3100 bce pyramid texts [egy. 2953-2838 chinese emperor fu hsi, produced first w.v. of i ching 2700 bce the great pyramid of khufu is built in accordance with astronomical factors. 2494-2345 pyramid texts [egy. 2340 bc first imperial dynasty of egypt 2300 bc astarte, one of the ancient forms of the universal great goddess, was worshipped by the iranians in her form as anahita. her

ent sogdiana, chorasmia, and bactria (yarshater: 1987..pg 685. indo-aryans crossed the caucasus mountains and established the kingdom of mitanni on the nw frontier of the kassite kingdom (james:1963..aryan migration into anatolia around 2000 bc.(lincoln: 1981..pg 181) harran founded as a merchant outpost of ur, situated on the major trade route across northern mesopotamia. the name comes from the sumerian and akkadian "harran-u, meaning "journey "caravan, or "crossroad. 2000-1900 abraham, b. in ur, according to bible lived to age of 175. 1857 bc birth of shenrab in the 1st wood male mouse year, the son of king gyal tokar and queen zanga ringum (wangyal: 1993..pg 30) 1800 enuma elish, bablyonian creation myth. 1700 bc 17th and 15th centuries bc..asherah was their mother goddess. the consort

DARK GODS

erous to sanity. partially manifest when nemicu vibrated. gaubni: related to 2nd path. often called the great demon repulsive smell and appearance. may manifest when nythra vibrated. sapanur: form along the 11th. path. the sudden fire of destruction. a primal atavism of human origin not related to dark gods. darkat: goddess, associated with lunar aspects. the name is traditionally regarded as pre-sumerian in origin of the myth of lilitu/lilith the female counterpart of dagon, remembered as one of the dark gods from their last manifestation on earth. associated with the 10th. and 8th. paths. the dark gods according to tradition, the dark gods are actual entities which exist in the acausal universe. according to our spatial, causal perception, these beings may be regarded as `timeless and ch

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cending from the sky (rev 22:10) and y'shua returning 'with the clouds (rev 1:7. was y'shua a member of a positive extraterrestrial race who became incarnate to help humanity get out of prison? it is certainly a possibility. the native american tribe, the iroquois, have a legend of an iroquois maiden marrying the chief of the sky people. the geologist, christian o'brien, suggested that hebrew and sumerian texts refer to a race of beings known as the 'shining ones, a term he connects with the hebrew word, elohim. it is no coincidence that the devas from the sanskrit and the angels of christianity are also 'shining ones. the incas of peru referred to 'shining ones' too. o'brien says that it was the beings known as the elohim which created modern humanity from early human forms through geneti

the beings known as the elohim which created modern humanity from early human forms through genetic manipulation. he adds that some of them, the 'watchers' in the book of enoch, mated with humans and he believes that the alleged founders of the semitic race, shemjaza and yahweh, were among the extraterrestrial 'watchers' and 'shining ones'.12 an israeli scholar, zecharia sitchin, used the ancient sumerian and babylonian writings to support his belief that modern humans were created by ets called the nefilim.13 ufo abductees today have also spoken of communications with ets who described how they created the bodies of the present human race and manipulated our dna; there are many references by abductees to having sex with extraterrestrials while on a spacecraft. not all of these stories wil

id belt was said to be part of the remnants of melchedek. according to the stories of the contactees in the survey, about 5,000 of the melchedekan 'elite' escaped and landed on the earth in the place we know as sumer, now iraq. the melchedekan race were described as .wait for it .blond haired and blue eyed. the "aryan 'master race' described by adolf hitler. these were the 'gods' described in the sumerian tablets, this story goes, and as time passed they used their advanced knowledge of genetics to create a new race of earth people- the white race we see today. this was symbolised by the story of adam and eve and forbidding them to eat from the tree of knowledge was symbolic of the plan to keep the earth races ignorant of who they really were. in effect, a slave race was created and this h

uld- be another expression of fourth dimensional beings operating on our frequency. it is certainly true that sumer was the origin of so much that was to shape human culture and existence. the christian belief in a son of god and a lamb of god dying so our sins could be forgiven can be found in sumer, babylon, and egypt. the idea of a lamb dying to forgive the sins of humanity originates from the sumerian belief that if you literally sacrificed a lamb on the altar, it would remove the sins of the people involved. while i was writing this book, i saw a picture in a newspaper of an orthodox jew today, still waving a chicken around the head of a young girl, in the belief that the chicken would absorb her 'sins. virgin mothers of 'saviour' figures abound throughout the ancient world and, indee

ture in a newspaper of an orthodox jew today, still waving a chicken around the head of a young girl, in the belief that the chicken would absorb her 'sins. virgin mothers of 'saviour' figures abound throughout the ancient world and, indeed, can be found in the beliefs of the native peoples of north, south, and central america. the bible story of the garden of eden is mirrored in the much earlier sumerian story of the garden of edinnu, and even the idea of the sabbath can be found in the sumerian day of rest, the sabattu. the jewish peoples were held in captivity in babylon and, when they were freed by the persians, they took many of the babylonian stories and beliefs back to palestine. these found their way into the old testament of the bible and through that into the new testament. today

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verbally through the earlier generations. such a point could take hundreds, even thousands, of years after the global geological destruction. so it was after the cataclysms of our ancient past. conventional "history" says that the "cradle" of civilisation was sumer, in the land between the rivers tigris and euphrates in what we now call iraq and once known as mesopotamia("between two rivers. the sumerian period is estimated to have spanned the millennia between 4000 and 2000bc. historians say that other, independent, civilisations of great advancement also suddenly appeared in the same period in egypt and the indus valley in what is now the indian continent. but they are wrong on both counts, i would suggest. sumer was not the start of what is called civilised society on this planet. it w

f venus, many of velikovsky's earlier descriptions were proved correct, including what appeared to be a comet-like tail. mariner's pictures of mars also supported some of his theories. he pointed out that ancient peoples depicted venus as a very bright object trailing smoke following a very different orbit and trajectory than we see today. the chinese, toltecs, and mayans recorded this. the early sumerian astronomical accounts did not include venus, but the later chaldeans in the same region did so. they described it as a "bright torch in heaven" that "illuminates like the sun" and "fills the entire heavens" one of the major problems that people have in encompassing ideas about the planet's past is that they judge possibility on their present experience, which is a tiny, tiny, fraction of

rth and when these "blow" on a vast scale, the land above is destroyed. he says these gas belts ran under both lemuria/mu and atlantis. what caused the cataclysms is open to debate, but that they did happen is a statement of fact. a similar theme can be found in the tens of thousands of ancient clay tablets discovered in mesopotamia in the mid-19th century. these tell the stories and myths of the sumerian culture that emerged after one of these cataclysms that sank what was left of atlantis. sumer dates from around 4000bc, but civilisations existed in that region, as james churchward documents, for tens of thousands of years before sumer emerged. central to these sumerian accounts were the "gods" the sumerians called the anunna("sons of an. their later semitic names were an.unnak.ki("those

ral to these sumerian accounts were the "gods" the sumerians called the anunna("sons of an. their later semitic names were an.unnak.ki("those who from heaven to earth came) and din.gir("the righteous ones of the blazing rockets. they are best known as the anunnaki and so i shall use that designer history 25 term in the book. the anunnaki, as we shall see, were a reptilian race from the stars. the sumerian tablets describe, according to the author and translator, zechariah sitchin, a collision between the moons of a planet they called nibiru and one orbiting between the present jupiter and mars.54 the debris from this stupendous collision, sitchin's translations say, created what the sumerians called "the great band bracelet- the asteroid belt. the sumerian accounts differ in detail, but ag

ces would have been black, with the pigmentation necessary to cope with the fiercer rays of the sun. ancient skeletons found near stonehenge and along the west coast of france have 26 children of the matrix the nasal and spinal traits of many female africans.59 ancient artefacts, statues, and artistic depictions around the world also suggest there was an advanced black race of the negro type. the sumerian tablets describe how the anunnaki "gods" left the planet to escape the devastation, even indicating that they had caused it.60 the only ones to survive the catastrophe were the extraterrestrials with the technology and foresight, perhaps prior warning, who left before the stuff hit the fan, and the people who sheltered deep underground or in the mountain ranges above the flood water which

ight. according to ancient accounts, supported by much other evidence, when the earth had settled down after the cataclysm, or cataclysms, the survivors began to return from the high mountains north of sumer in turkey and iran into the plains of mesopotamia. it was in the turkish mountains, on mount ararat, that the symbolic noah's ark came to rest when the waters receded, the bible claims.62 the sumerian tablets also relate how the anunnaki "gods" returned to rebuild and restore their devastated heartlands, and the civilisation that emerged from this is known to history as sumer. i think, however, that many parts of the sumerian tablets are actually referring to events on lemuria and atlantis. some researchers suggest that remains of the anunnaki's preflood cities can be found today under

nded the atlantean mystery school. according to robert temple in the sirius mystery (destiny books, vermont, usa, 1998, the dogon tribe in mali, africa, claim that beings from sirius visited their ancestors and gave them knowledge of the universe. he says that they describe the sirians as amphibious and "serpent-featured- a recurring theme as you will see. temple suggests that the anunnaki of the sumerian tablets could be these beings from sirius. he further proposes that the body of the sphinx is that of a dog and not a lion, thus symbolising the dog star, sirius,9 and some researchers also suggest that the face of the sphinx is that of a woman, not a pharaoh. the egyptians certainly depicted their lion bodies very differently to that of the sphinx and the dog is a common symbol in ancien

sothis and satis, again the three stars of sirius perhaps because they are associated with goddesses, and sottis was the greek term for sirius. the symbol of the dog or wolf is often found in cults that worship the serpent or reptilians. credo mutwa, the zulu shaman, says that their legends call sirius the "star of the wolf. the leader of the reptilian "gods" known as the anunnaki is named in the sumerian tablets as an (later anu. he was represented by the jackal or dog. associated with sirius in egyptian belief was orion and, interestingly, modern ufo researchers figure 2: the inverted pentagram, the classic symbol of satanism, and, apparently, a symbol for sirius. ruled by the gods 35 connect the reptilians with both sirius and orion. isis (sirius) was the companion of osiris (orion) in

hree sirius stars; and the triangle symbolised water in pythagorean code;26 the eye was a symbol of osiris in egyptian myth. the bow and arrow is another symbol used by the ancients for sirius and they knew it as the "bow star. the egyptian word meaning bowman also referred to a "heavy star metal- sirius b- and their word for heavy star metal was close to the words meaning dwarf and weight.27 the sumerian account called the epic of gilamesh tells of a star that is so heavy it cannot be lifted (sirius b. this star was associated with an or anu, the leader of the anunnaki. the chief egyptian god, osiris, was also called an. in sumerian accounts, an, the jackal-dog-headed god, had a daughter, the goddess bau, the goddess of the dog. it has been suggested that bau is the origin of the term "bo

ted (sirius b. this star was associated with an or anu, the leader of the anunnaki. the chief egyptian god, osiris, was also called an. in sumerian accounts, an, the jackal-dog-headed god, had a daughter, the goddess bau, the goddess of the dog. it has been suggested that bau is the origin of the term "bow wow" for a dog's bark.28 it certainly bears no resemblance to the sound a dog makes. in the sumerian epic, gilamesh is given 50 companions, which could be symbolic of the 50 years it takes for sirius b to orbit sirius. what's for sure, the ancients perceived sirius and sirius b as very important to their lives. the dogon are said to call these amphibious beings from sirius, the nommo or "masters of the water. the accounts of this extraterrestrial race are widely supported by ancient repo

, and many widespread african tribes, there are stories of the nommo, who resemble the king of the water people in our legend. they are said to be intelligent beings who have visited the earth several times. they are usually described as somewhat like human beings, but with skins like reptiles. i have heard them described as a cross between a little demon and a dolphin."36 the translations of the sumerian tablets by zecharia sitchin claim that the anunnaki came from a planet called nibiru, which, he says, has a vast elliptical orbit that takes it way out beyond pluto and back between mars and jupiter every 3,600 years. the idea of nibiru referring to a planet has never felt right to me. a massive comet, maybe. but either way there is a fundamental connection between the reptilian anunnaki

n tablets by zecharia sitchin claim that the anunnaki came from a planet called nibiru, which, he says, has a vast elliptical orbit that takes it way out beyond pluto and back between mars and jupiter every 3,600 years. the idea of nibiru referring to a planet has never felt right to me. a massive comet, maybe. but either way there is a fundamental connection between the reptilian anunnaki of the sumerian tablets and sirius-orion. researcher mark amaru pinkham says in his book, the return of the serpents of wisdom (adventures unlimited, illinois, usa, 1997, that the symbol of the sirians in atlantis was a triangle, sometimes with an eye in the middle.37 this pyramid with the capstone missing and/or the all-seeing eye is an ancient symbol used by the llluminati and can be found today on the

ataclysm. sir laurence gardner is the current front man of the ancient imperial royal dragon court and order, which was originally created in egypt about 2000bc to support the agenda of the so-called "dragon kings" or reptilian bloodlines. gardner says that sumaire in the old irish language means dragon. he writes "it is also reckoned that the subsequent culture of the region, phonetically called sumerian (pronounced "shumerian) was actually sidhemurian("shee-murian. in fact, the case for this is now considerable, since the early ring lords of scythia (the tuatha de danaan king-tribe) were actually called the sumaire."61 another researcher, frans kamp in the netherlands, tells me that sumer means "land of the dragon" in the language of the scandinavian vikings. the founders of sumer were t

just sit there. will rogers he survivors of the deluge and the upheavals re-emerged from the mountains and underground shelters and began to rebuild a shattered world. we are perhaps talking of around 7,000 years ago when atlantis was finally destroyed, although there are differing opinions on the precise timescale. some ancient accounts say that the extraterrestrial "gods (the "anunnaki" of the sumerian tablets) left the planet in their flying craft during the cataclysm and returned when it was over. wherever the surviving bloodlines and descendants of the mystery school initiates of atlantis and lemuria resettled, advanced civilisations began to reappear. egypt, china and the indus valley in india were among them, but the most significant became known as sumer between the euphrates and

in that context throughout this book. the very name aryan comes from the word "arri, meaning noble one. the il luminat i refer to their bloodlines as royal and noble, hence nobility and aristocracy or ari-stock-racy. the name sum-arian is, therefore, very appropriate. the sumer empire l.a.waddell's br i ll iant research really begins with the foundation of sumer around 4000bc. he was an expert in sumerian and egyptian hieroglyphics and the sanskrit language of the indus valley. a rare gift indeed, and this allowed him to travel these regions, reading the ancient accounts and the stories on the temples and monuments to show without question that sumer, egypt, and the indus valley were parts of one empire based on sumer (figure 10. it should be emphasised, however, that before the cataclysm

also went back long before the sumer empire. sumer, too, had lemurian/atlantean origins. waddell's work is documented in detail in hisbook, egyptian civilisation, atlantis revisited 49 figure 10: official history claims that the three highly advanced cultures of sumer, egypt and the indus valley developed independently. l.a. waddell shows that they were all part of the empire ruled from sumer its sumerian origin and real chronology (available from hidden mysteries through the david icke website. he discovered from the time lines and the descriptions of the leaders and their genealogy that the rulers of these three cultures were the same people under different names. it is the different names that have obscured the truth to a large extent. historians have taken different names to mean diffe

o a large extent. historians have taken different names to mean different people. not true. the endless "gods" in the various cultures also turn out to be different names for the same deities. once you understand this, wading into the past becomes a lot less complicated. the advantage that waddell had over conventional egyptologists and "historians (apart from an open mind) was that he could read sumerian and could therefore decipher inscriptions in egypt, which they could not understand. he could see that early egyptian hieroglyphics were those used by their ruling culture in sumer. it was only later that they evolved into an egyptian system developed more locally. it is the latter that egyptologists have been decoding. the earlier sumerian hieroglyphics in egypt flummoxed them. but not w

me period called variously, manis, manj, and manja. 50 children of the matrix the reason becomes obvious- it was the same fellah. even the title given to him was the same or very similar in all three places. in egypt he was known as manjthe- warrior; in sumer he was manis-the-warrior; and in the indus valley he was called manja-the-shooter.2 his father, sargon the great, is a semitic name for the sumerian-mesopotamian emperor, king gin, gani, or guni. he was called in the later babylonian texts, the "king of the four quarters of the world, because they knew (babylon was also a mesopotamian culture) that the sumerian empire was enormous. the incas of south america used this term "four quarters, also. in the indian epics, sargon's son, manja, was called "the royal eye of gopta and of the fou

als of europe, full of pagan symbolism on ancient pagan sacred sites, they used the "gothic" style of architecture. the symbolism of the "eye of gopta" may relate to the widely used illuminati symbol, the all-seeing eye or eye: horus, which you will find at the top of the pyramid on the us dollar bill and on the reverse of the great seal of the united states. the same symbols used by this ancient sumerian dynasty are still used by the illuminati today, because they are the same bloodlines and are working with the same knowledge, hidden away since ancient times within the mystery school and secret society networks. and the reptilian "gods" of atlantis and lemuria seeded these bloodlines. waddell shows in his work, makers of civilisation (luzac and company, 1929, that sargon's sumer-centred

their belief system, not least its focus on the worship of the sun. where did christianity, judaism, islam, hinduism, buddhism, and others like zoroasterism, etc, etc, all emerge from? the middle and near east, the vast region ruled from sumer at one time and still dominated by that knowledge base and belief system in the thousands of years that followed sumer's atlantis revisited 51 demise. the sumerian story of king sargon is a classic case. they said that his mother floated him in a basket of rushes on the river and he was found by a member of the sumerian royal family who brought him up as their own.8 the hebrews, or rather their manipulating priests, the levites, later stole this ancient story from the sumerian accounts and used it in the fable of their invented character known as mo

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henry layard as heexcavated the site of nineveh, the capital of assyria. this was located near the presentiraqi town of mosul. other finds have followed in this region which was once calledmesopotamia. the original source of this knowledge was not the assyrians, but thesumerians who lived in the same area from, it is estimated, 4,000 to 2,000 bc. i willrefer to the clay tablets, therefore, as the sumerian texts or tablets. they are one of thegreatest historical finds imaginable and yet 150 years after they were discovered theyare still ignored by conventional history and education. why? because they demolishthe official version of events. the most famous translator of these tablets is the scholarand author zecharia sitchin, who can read sumerian, aramaic, hebrew and othermiddle and near ea

e they demolishthe official version of events. the most famous translator of these tablets is the scholarand author zecharia sitchin, who can read sumerian, aramaic, hebrew and othermiddle and near eastern languages.2 he has extensively researched and translated thesumerian tablets and has no doubt that they are describing extraterrestrials. someresearchers say that he used a later version of the sumerian language to translate anearlier one and, therefore, some of his translations may not be 100% accurate. i thinkhis themes are correct, indeed other accounts and evidence supports this, but ipersonally doubt some of the detail. i think that a number of sitchins interpretations areextremely questionable, while i agree with the overall thesis. according to his5translations (and others) thetex

r and mars and then out into far space beyondpluto. modern science has identified a body it calls planet x which has been locatedbeyond pluto and is believed to be part of this solar system. but an elliptical orbitwould be incredibly unstable and difficult to sustain. scientists i trust believe thatsitchin is mistaken in his nibiru theory, though his main themes about the anunnaki arecorrect. the sumerian tablets, from sitchins translations, describe how, during theearly formation of the solar system, nibiru caused the near destruction of a planet thatonce existed between jupiter and mars. the sumerians called it tiamat, a planet theynicknamed the watery monster. they say that it was debris from tiamats collisionwith a nibiru moon which created the great band bracelet- the asteroid belt wh

confirmed in the last 150 years since some of these planets have been found. thetablets describe the nature and colour of neptune and uranus in ways that have onlybeen confirmed in the last few years! whats more, the modern experts did not expectthose planets to look as they did, yet the sumerians knew thousands of years bc whatour advanced science has only just discovered.most stunning about the sumerian tablets is the way they describe the creation ofhomo sapiens. sitchin says the anunnaki came to the earth an estimated 450,000 yearsago to mine gold in what is now africa. the main mining centre was in todayszimbabwe, an area the sumerians called ab.zu (deep deposit, he claims. studies bythe anglo-american corporation have found extensive evidence of gold mining inafrica at least 60,000 y

k. the tablets describe how thegenes of the annunaki and those of the native humans were combined in a test tube tocreate the updated human capable of doing the tasks the anunnaki required. the ideaof test tube babies would have sounded ridiculous when the tablets were found in 1850,but that is precisely what scientists are now able to do. again and again modernresearch supports the themes of the sumerian tablets. for instance, there was a suddenand so far unexplained upgrade of the human physical form around 200,000 years ago.official science is silent on the cause of this and mutters terms like the missing link.but some unavoidable facts need to be addressed. suddenly the previous physical formknown as homo erectus became what we now call homo sapiens. from the start the newhomo sapiens

w is supported by the evidence ofhomo erectus which appears to have emerged in africa about 1.5 million years ago. forwell in excess of a million years their physical form seems to have remained the same,but then, out of nowhere, came the dramatic change to homo sapiens. about 35,000years ago came another sudden upgrade and the emergence of homo sapiens sapiens,the physical form we see today. the sumerian tablets name the two people involved inthe creation of the slave race. they were the chief scientist called enki, lord of the7earth (ki=earth) and ninkharsag, also known as ninti (lady life) because of herexpertise in medicine. she was later referred to as mammi, from which comes mamaand mother. ninkharsag is symbolised in mesopotamian depictions by a tool used to cutthe umbilical cord. i

ancient times.the tablets say that enki and ninkharsag eventually found the right mix which becamethe first homo sapiens, a being the sumerians called a lu.lu (one who has beenmixed. this is the biblical adam. lu.lu was a genetic hybrid, the fusing of homoerectus with the genes of the gods to create a slave, a human worker bee, some200,000-300,000 years ago. a female version was also created. the sumerian name forhuman was lu, the root meaning of which is worker or servant, and it was also used toimply domesticated animals. this is what the human race has been ever since. theanunnaki have been overtly and now covertly ruling the planet for thousands of years.the mistranslation of the bible and symbolic language taken literally has devastated theoriginal meaning and given us a fantasy story

ling the planet for thousands of years.the mistranslation of the bible and symbolic language taken literally has devastated theoriginal meaning and given us a fantasy story. genesis and exodus were written by thehebrew priestly class, the levites, after they were taken to babylon from around 586bc. babylon was in the former lands of sumer and so the babylonians, and thereforethe levites, knew the sumerian stories and accounts. it was from these recordsoverwhelmingly, that the levites compiled genesis and exodus. the source is obvious.the sumerian tablets speak of e.din (the abode of the righteous ones. thisconnects with the sumerian name for their gods, din.gir (the righteous ones of therockets. so the sumerians spoke of edin and genesis speaks of the garden of eden.this was a centre for t

ts. it was from these recordsoverwhelmingly, that the levites compiled genesis and exodus. the source is obvious.the sumerian tablets speak of e.din (the abode of the righteous ones. thisconnects with the sumerian name for their gods, din.gir (the righteous ones of therockets. so the sumerians spoke of edin and genesis speaks of the garden of eden.this was a centre for the gods, the anunnaki. the sumerian tablets speak of king8sargon the elder being found as a baby floating in a basket on the river and brought upby a royal family. exodus speaks of moses being found as a baby floating in a basketon the river by a royal princess and how he was brought up by the egyptian royalfamily. the list of such coincidences goes on and on.the old testament is a classic example of the religious recycling

peaks of moses being found as a baby floating in a basketon the river by a royal princess and how he was brought up by the egyptian royalfamily. the list of such coincidences goes on and on.the old testament is a classic example of the religious recycling which has spawnedall the religions. so when you are looking for the original meaning of genesis and thestory of adam you have to go back to the sumerian accounts to see how the story hasbeen doctored. genesis says that god (the gods) created the first man, adam, out ofdust from the ground and then used a rib of adam to create eve, the first woman.zecharia sitchin points out that the translation of dust from the ground comes from thehebrew word tit (sorry mother) and this itself is derived from the sumerian term, ti.it,which means that whi

m, out ofdust from the ground and then used a rib of adam to create eve, the first woman.zecharia sitchin points out that the translation of dust from the ground comes from thehebrew word tit (sorry mother) and this itself is derived from the sumerian term, ti.it,which means that which is with life. adam was not created from dust from the ground,but from that which is with life- living cells. the sumerian term, ti, means both rib andlife and again the translators made the wrong choice. eve (she who has life) was notcreated from a rib, but from that which has life- living cells. the human egg for thecreation of the lulu/adam came from a female in abzu, africa, according to thesumerians, and modern fossil finds and anthropological research suggests that homosapiens did indeed come out of afr

estor between 150,000 and 300,000 years ago.7 another study of 150american women from genetic lines going back to europe, africa and the middle east,together with aborigines from australia and new guinea, concluded that they had thesame female ancestor who lived in africa between 140,000 and 290,000 years ago.8personally i think the human race was seeded by many sources; not just the annunaki.the sumerian tablets and later akkadian stories give the names and hierarchy ofthe anunnaki. they call the father of the gods, an, a word that means heaven.our father who art in heaven? an, or anu to the akkadians, stayed mostly inheaven with his wife, antu, and he made only rare visits to the planet they callede.ri.du (home in the faraway built, a word which evolved into earth. or at leastthat is the

rare visits to the planet they callede.ri.du (home in the faraway built, a word which evolved into earth. or at leastthat is the zecharia sitchin translation. the descriptions could also imply that anustayed mostly in the high mountains of the near east where the garden of eden,the place of the gods, is reckoned on good evidence to have been, and he made onlyrare visits to the plains of sumer. a sumerian city was called eridu. anu sent twosons to develop and rule the earth, the tablets say. they were enki, the guy theysay created homo sapiens, and his half-brother enlil. these two would later becomegreat rivals for ultimate control of the planet. enki, the first born of anu, was9subordinate to enlil because of the anunnakis obsession with genetic purity. enlilsmother was the half sister t

anu, was9subordinate to enlil because of the anunnakis obsession with genetic purity. enlilsmother was the half sister to anu and this union passed on the male genes moreefficiently than enkis birth via another mother. later the tablets describe how theanunnaki created bloodlines to rule humanity on their behalf and these, i suggest, arethe families still in control of the world to this day. the sumerian tablets describe howkingship was granted to humanity by the anunnaki and it was originally known as anu-ship after an or anu, the ruler of the gods. the brotherhood families are obsessedwith bloodlines and genetic inheritance and they interbreed without regard for love. theroyal families (family) and aristocracy of europe and the so-called easternestablishment families in the united state

ilies are obsessedwith bloodlines and genetic inheritance and they interbreed without regard for love. theroyal families (family) and aristocracy of europe and the so-called easternestablishment families in the united states are obvious examples of this. they are ofthe same tribe and genetically related. this is why the brotherhood families havealways been obsessed with interbreeding, just as the sumerian tablets describe theanunnaki. they are not interbreeding through snobbery, but to hold a genetic structurewhich gives them certain abilities, especially the ability to shape-shift and manifest inother forms. ill come to this in more detail shortly.the tablets describe how humans were given the ability to procreate by enki andthis led to an explosion in the human population which threatene

nerally accepted by researchers of the anunnaki that enki is on humanitys side,but it seems to me that both groups desire dominance over this planet, and that is theirreal motivatation. as zecharia sitchin documents in his translations, and readers of theindian holy books, the v edas, will confirm, there were many accounts of the godsgoing to war with each other as they battled for supremacy. the sumerian accountsdescribe how the sons of the annunaki gods were most involved in these wars. thesewere the offspring of enki and enlil, the half-brothers who became fierce rivals, andtheir sons played out that battle in a high-tech conflict, the tablets say. one battle theyappeared to have been involved in was the biblical destruction of sodom andgomorrah. these cities were probably located at th

a high-tech conflict, the tablets say. one battle theyappeared to have been involved in was the biblical destruction of sodom andgomorrah. these cities were probably located at the southern end of the dead seawhere, today, radiation readings are much higher than normal. this was when,according to the bible, lots wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt. afterreferring to the original sumerian, zecharia sitchin says that the true translation of thatpassage should read that lots wife was turned into a pillar of vapour which, onbalance, is rather more likely!all over the world in every native culture you will find stories of a great flood and thesumerian tablets are no different. sitchin says they tell how the anunnaki left the planetin flying craft, as an enormous surge of water

e centre of earthquake and volcanic activity in the area of the atlanticocean where plato apparently placed atlantis. 12with the questions of when and why. these upheavals have obviously involved the solarsystem as a whole because every planet shows evidence of some cataclysmic eventswhich have affected either its surface, atmosphere, speed and angle of orbit or rotation.i think the themes of the sumerian tablets are correct, but i doubt some of their detail,not least because of the vast period that passed between 450,000 years ago when theanunnaki are said to have arrived, and the time, only a few thousand years ago, whenthese accounts were written down. there was certainly an enormous cataclysm on theearth around 11,000 bc which destroyed the advanced civilisations of the high-techgolden

ly, though not spiritually, advanced race or races of extraterrestrial origin.on that subject, i must now introduce an added dimension to this story which willstretch your credulity to breaking point.17 sources1t. w. doane, bible myths, and their parallels in other religions (health research, p0 box850, pomeroy, wa, usa 99347, first published 1882, p 10.2the information about the anunnaki and the sumerian t ablets comes from the zecharia sitchinseries of books collectively known as the earth chronicles. individually they are called the12th planet, the stairway to heaven, the wars of gods and men, the lost realms, andwhen time began. another sitchin work is genesis revisited. they are published by avonbooks, 1350 avenue of the americas, new york.3genesis revisited, p 22.4ibid, p 161.5ibid

hols and peter moon, pyramids of montauk (sky books, new y ork, 1995, p125.35 ibid, p 129.19chapter twodon t mention the reptilesare you ready for this? i wish i didnt have to introduce the following informationbecause it complicates the story and opens me up to mass ridicule. but stuff it. if that iswhere the evidence takes me, that is where i shall go every time.i dont think the anunnaki of the sumerian tablets and the white martians proposedin brian desboroughs scenario are the same people, although there may well be agenetic connection between them. putting together the mass of evidence, views,research and opinions, that i have read or heard almost daily these past years, i feel theanunnaki are a race from a reptile genetic stream. in ufo research these have becomeknown as reptilians

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pirit azael which began revealing to him the rituals contained in the demonic bible. he performed the rituals and experienced the crossing of the gates in extremely vivid and symbolic dreams. in 1989, at the age of 19, he began working for the atmospheric environment service of environment canada. over the next few years his library grew extensively as he studied cabalistic magic, enochian magic, sumerian/babylonian magic, celtic magic, norse magic, egyptian magic, witchcraft, voodoo, and satanism. he sought out the lavey church of satan but, at the time, the church of satan was no longer active. he instead became involved in several other satanic organizations: the embassy of s.a.t.a.n, the temple of set, the order of the left-hand-path, the temple of pan-shaitan, and the order of the nin

d the planetary spheres. come forth, cronus, and manifest thyself. come forth, cronus, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice, then say) i have crossed the sanguine sphere. planetary demonic spirits once the magician has crossed the planetary spheres, he may wish to invoke demonic spirits associated with each of these spheres. the 50 names of marduk, listed in the necronomicon and refered to in sumerian and babylonian mythology, are an example of spirits associated with the jovial sphere. i have invoked these spirits using the formula given in this book. the first name is marduk the lord of lords, master of magicians. his name should not be called except when no other will do, and it is the most terrible responsibility to do so. the word of his calling is dugga. this is his seal: the sec

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lture of the mesopotamian valley was particularly rich in demon lore. demons were usually the spirits of natural forces such as fire, plagues, droughts, infant crib death, and diseases, and often took the form of fantastically-shaped creatures made up of a conglomeration of parts from dangerous or dreaded living things such as scorpions, serpents, lions, hawks, and so on. for example, pazuzu, the sumerian demon who attained celebrity status after his cameo appearance in the horror film the exorcist, is a demon of disease who has four wings, the clawed feet of a hawk, and a snarling lion-like face. the mesopotamians viewed themselves as under constant attack from demons on all sides. their only recourse was to fight against them with magic. they placed special bowls inscribed with potent wo

aced special bowls inscribed with potent word charms upside down under the foundations of their houses to catch demons and prevent them from entering the houses through the ground. they also made amulets with avertive verses against specific demons, such as those that might threaten the life of women during childbirth. during their period of babylonian captivity, the ancient hebrews absorbed many sumerian demons into their own folklore, and over time these were transmuted into uniquely jewish demons, such as lilith, the demon who strangles children in their cribs and visits solitary men in their beds to provoke nocturnal emissions. lilith began her life as a class of babylonian demon known as the lilitu. in addition to the direct personification of the forces of nature, demons were formed

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they suggested what he came to call the exploded planet hypothesis. the gods were not extraterrestrial beings, they were meteors that rained down as meteorites. the egyptian deities were the personifications of celestial powers, such as ra, the sun god. the ancient mythological references to the gods descending referred to the coming of fragments of the exploded planet. he also concluded that the sumerian myths also referred to the exploded planet. this exploded planet hypothesis became the subject of alford s second book, the phoenix solution (1998. the phoenix solution alienated alford from sitchin s readers, though he has insisted that he did not depart from his commitment to the idea of the ancient intervention of extraterrestrials in human affairs, only that the gods mentioned in the

s readers, though he has insisted that he did not depart from his commitment to the idea of the ancient intervention of extraterrestrials in human affairs, only that the gods mentioned in the ancient mythological literature of the middle east do not provide the support that sitchin proposed. that alienation was deepened in his third book, when the gods came down (2000, which concentrated upon the sumerian texts and further expounded upon the exploded-planet theory. sitchin asked alford not to criticize him directly, and alford has followed that request, though the implicit destructive critique of sitchin s ideas are not lost on anyone who reads alford s books. alford has an extensive internet site at http/ www.eridu.co.uk/ericu. sources: alford, alan f. gods of the new millennium. 1996. re

edia.com. babylonia. http/ www.encyclopedia.com. june 26, 2000. ferry, david. gilgamesh: a new rendering into english verse. new york: farrar, straus and giroux, 1992. jastrow, morris. aspects of religious belief and practice in babylonia& assyria. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1911. kramer, samuel n. from the tablets of sumer. falcon s wing, 1956. gilgamesh and the huluppu-tree: a reconstructed sumerian text. chicago: university of chicago press, 1938. lenormant, francois. chaldean magic: its origin& development. london: samuel bagster [1877. spence, lewis. myths and legends of babylonia& assyria. london, 1916. reprint, detroit: gale research, 1975. thierens, a. e. astrology in mesopotamian culture. leiden: e. j. brill, 1935. bach, edward (1886.1936) british physician who developed an un

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everal books, but her loosely organized network died soon after her death in 1983. sitchin, zecharia zecharia sitchin, an author of books offering an alternative history of the extraterrestrial origins of ancient humanity, was born in the 1920s in baku, russia. soon after his birth his family moved to palestine, where he grew up. he learned a variety of near eastern languages including hebrew and sumerian. he moved to england for college and attended both the london school of economics and the university of london, from which he graduated with a degree in economics. he returned to palestine, where he became a journalist. during world war ii (1939.45) he served in the british army. he moved to the united states in the mid-1950s. in the 1970s, sitchin s lifelong interest in the archeology of

marily the babylonian epic known as enuma elish, he hypothesized the existence of another planet in our solar system, which he named nibiru, that travels an eliptical orbit that brings it into the area between the orbits of jupiter and mars every 3,600 years. the planet is inhabited by a humanoid race called the anunnaki, who created homo sapiens. a war in the heavens, as described in the ancient sumerian chronicles and the bible, sitchin believes, accounts for the ancients knowledge of information that had only become available to modern science in recent centuries, especially the existence of the outer planets, neptune, uranus, and pluto. he believes that the anunnaki first arrived on earth almost half a million years ago, their arrival motivated by the problem of an eroding atmosphere

and the accounts of mysterious events in the bible. after leaving school, he took various jobs in hotels, and this seasonal work left him with spare time that he spent in traveling and reading. he visited south america, russia and egypt, seeing firsthand many of the monuments of the ancient past. in his reading, he was particularly impressed by the biblical account of ezekiel s fiery wheel and by sumerian accounts of the coming of the sun god in the ancient epic of gilgamesh. von daniken began to evolve a theory of sky-borne gods in vehicles resembling accounts of flying saucers, built around the religious legends and myths of ancient civilizations. with the advent of american and soviet space travel, such theories became much more plausible to many people. in 1961, von daniken started pub

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

ar system. though unknown to astronomers, nibiru, on an elliptical orbit, circles our sun every 3,600 years. according to sitchin, nibiru will be in our immediate planetary space in the near fu- 24 anthon ture and will be detected between mars and jupiter. when that happens, the anunnaki will make their presence known by appearing on earth. si t c h i n s ideas are based on his reading of ancient sumerian documents. in his view they confirm that the anunnaki a su m e rian term created humans in their image, via genetic engineering with the dna of nat i ve anthropoids, after their arrival some f o u r- h u n d red thousand five- h u n d red ye a r s a g o. these original earthlings we re created so that they could work as slaves in the anunn a k i s terrestrial gold mines; the extraterre st

messages in the form of updates and perspectives to the people of earth for the purpose of education, support and enlightenment; supporting the work of other groups and individuals involved in the ascension of earth and its people( the greater nibiruan council section, 2000. the concept of nibirua comes from the writings of ancient-astronaut theorist zecharia sitchin, from his reading of ancient sumerian literature. sitchin, however, believes nibirua to be an inhabited but undetected planet in our solar system. its people, who have an extraordinarily advanced technology, created the human race in their image using genetic engineering. nibirua orbits earth every thirty-six hundred years. in sitchin s assessment, the planet is due to pass between mars and jupiter in the near future, and the

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

rst book of the torah (called torah b reshith) says that abraham came from ur of the chaldees. what were the history, ethnic composition, and cultural and religious milieus from which abraham came? how was his faith influenced by the cosmologies of the sumerians, egyptians, and canaanites? was 8- f e the original hebrew alphabet developed before abraham s time as a way to alphabetically represent sumerian cuneiform glyphs? or, did it originate in the mystical manual on the hebrew letters ascribed to him, called the sefer yetzirah (book of formation? as the vehicle for a fresh expression of the universal mystical spirituality promoted directly in the face of widespread idol worship, how did abraham and the israelite tribes practice their religion? the life of the early israelites would have

ai, as the original and most ancient hebrew (see hebrew-english transliteration facing page 11. sinatic hebrew is in fact the oldest known alphabet, suddenly appearing about the time of abraham (circa 1850 bce. the original sinatic hebrew became virtually extinct after the decimation of lachish circa 701 bce. the sinatic alphabet could have evolved as an alphabetic representation of the twentysix sumerian cuneiform ciphers, the world s oldest known nonalphabetic language.2 by the time the current torah was redacted, the original sinatic hebrew alphabet had long been extinct. after hundreds 04' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% of years of religious and cultural repression under the assyrians, babylonians, and romans, the original biblical hebrew had faded from the memories of the jews. as a solution, the

orm tablets at tell mardikh in northwestern syria. extensive evidence led to the conclusion that the site was the ruins of the ancient city of ebla. the tablets, dating back to the middle of the third millennium bce, were the city s royal archives. in deciphering the tablets, professor pettisate (also of the university of rome) concluded that the language was old canaanite, even though written in sumerian cuneiform. he found the language to be closer in vocabulary and grammar to biblical hebrew than any other canaanite dialect, including ugaritic. ebla was destroyed by the akkadians circa 1600bce. the reader is referred to david rohl s controversial book a test of time: the bible from myth to history, century, london, 1995. more recently, archeologists uncovered the ancient city of nabada

h, p.96-97. 5 on an interesting side note, in old egyptian hieroglyphics, a verb root was made future tense by the addition of the glyphs equivalent to the letters yod heh. the ancient hebrew pastoral nomads had considerable contact with successive egyptian dynasties. based on the antiquity of the active trade routes, this contact could have dated back well before the time of abraham to the early sumerian and canaanite dynasties. 6 torah b reshith 4:26. 7 torah b reshith 12:8. 8 torah b reshith 26:25. 9 torah shmoth 20:2. 10 torah shmoth 15:26, and many other places. 11 torah doverim 6:4. 12 isaiah 21:11. 13 torah shmoth 3:4. 14 the vast face name od (eternity) is composed of the letters ayin dalet. in the sinatic hebrew alphabet, the letter ayin is a circle, and the letter dalet is a tria

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

hey explain this interesting notion in these words: the egyptians believed that matter had always existed; to them it was illogical to think of a god making something out of absolutely nothing. their view was that the world began when order came out of chaos, and that ever since there has been a battle between the forces of organization and disorder this chaotic state was called nun, and like the sumerian description, all was a dark, sunless watery abyss with a power, a creative force within it that commanded order to begin. this latent power which was within the substance of the chaos did not know it existed; it was a probability, a potential that was intertwined within the randomness of disorder.21 it will be noticed that the beliefs described here are in harmony with fd from the templar

ngs to say on this matter that are worth repeating: the egyptians believed that matter had always existed; to them it was illogical to think of a god making something out of absolutely nothing. their view was that the world began when order came out of chaos, and that ever since there has been a battle between the forces of organization and disorder this chaotic state was called nun, and like the sumerian descriptions, all was a dark, sunless watery abyss with a power, a creative force within it that commanded order to begin. this latent power which was within the substance of the chaos did not know it existed; it was a probability, a potential that was intertwined within the randomness of disorder.59 there is a striking similarity between the myths of ancient egypt and modern materialist

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

ted to other lands after the assyrian captivity they re-established many of the gnostic traditions. hence, the druids and those of the celtic faith probably had more in common with the original israelite gnosis that modern judaism and christianity. we can see how the struggle between various divergent traditions has been edited into the old testament, joseph s coat of many colours, for example, a sumerian symbol of a qadesh priest became a simple piece of clothing. baal has been demonised to become the enemy of the people of israel yet we know that the early priests of israel actually accepted baal as part of their faith and there are other examples too numerous to mention. in some sense the creation story and other tales in the old testament echo this re-writing of history, while they cer

text and homosexuals and the gender variant were turned into the most evil of all criminals. of course, this was a simple way for the apostate scribes to write themselves into history and the original priestclass out! the gnostic handbook page 111 there are so many examples of the qadesh class hidden within the old testament, the "coat of many colours" for example, was a ritual garment worn by a sumerian gender-variant priest, in the bible the coat survives but the context does not. it seems clear for example that the story of sodom and gomorrah was actually a tale re-moulded by the scribes to suggest a battle between two religious traditions that of the town of sodom or qadesh and the warrior cult of yahweh. there are many other biblical examples, certainly the homo-erotic relationship b

pastors and qadesh priesthood are members of the pneumatic priesthood and are nonreproductive, whether they be heterosexual or homosexual in orientation. members of the qadesh priesthood are usually homosexual. the gnostic tradition: a brief history of the church it is difficult to encapsulate the history of the gnostic tradition. however, it is fair to say that it began in the time of the great sumerian and egyptian kingdoms and was passed down, at first in oral form (cf.kabbalah" passed by mouth) through esoteric brotherhoods. in the west this knowledge was passed onto the initiate (jesus) in the essene sect, after his death his followers passed on the secret teachings. this new order centred around ormus (46 a.d) and continued through the knights templars, the eleutherians, the church

GOETIA LUCIFERIAN

e black sun rises, i become in this emerald stone i am the imagination, the seed of fallen angel in darkness exists my light my will gives birth to the kingdom of incubi and succubi, the nourish their desires in the blood of the moon, lilitu az drakul so it is done! tools of art the circle the circle is an old boundary which was used back from the eldest days of magical practice, specifically the sumerian word zisurru, which is the circle drawn in flour. the flour itself is known as qemu, such aspects of primal sorcery have survived to the present age in various cultures, in voudon practices and even thelemic magick, sabbatic and luciferian witchcraft. the flour circle is not by any means a must, one may create an ourabouris levianthanic boundary which is symbolic of the self encircled, th

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

, civilization took off spontaneously and independently in the americas. since 3000 bc in the old world (and about 1500 bc in the new) civilization has steadily evolved in the direction of ever more refined, complex and productive forms. in consequence, and particularly by comparison with ourselves, all ancient civilizations (and all their works) are to be understood as essentially primitive (the sumerian astronomers regarded the heavens with unscientific awe, and even the pyramids of egypt were built by technological primitives. the evidence of the piri reis map appears to contradict all this. piri reis and his sources in his day, piri reis was a well-known figure; his historical identity is firmly established. an admiral in the navy of the ottoman turks, he was involved, often on the win

nore the possibility of immigration to both regions from some hypothetical and as yet undiscovered area [however] a third party whose cultural achievements were passed on independently to egypt and mesopotamia would best explain the common features and fundamental differences between the two civilizations.11 among other things, this theory sheds light on the mysterious fact that the egyptians and sumerian people of mesopotamia appear to have worshipped virtually identical lunar deities who were among the oldest in their respective pantheons (thoth in the case of the egyptians, sin in the case of the sumerians).12 according to the eminent egyptologist sir e.a. wallis budge, the similarity between the two gods is too close to be accidental. it would be wrong to say that the egyptians borrowe

, 1978, p. 134. the ancient egyptian pyramid texts, e. g. utts. 20, 21. 22 robert bauval and adrian gilbert, the orion mystery, wm. heinemann, london, 1994, pp. 208-10, 270. 23 the gods and symbols of ancient mexico and the maya, pp. 40, 177. 24 maya history and religion, p. 175. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 147 take the case of oannes, for example. oannes is the greek rendering of the sumerian uan, the name of the amphibious being, described in part ii, believed to have brought the arts and skills of civilization to mesopotamia.25 legends dating back at least 5000 years relate that uan lived under the sea, emerging from the waters of the persian gulf every morning to civilize and tutor mankind.26 is it a coincidence that uaana, in the mayan language, means he who has his reside

scribed in part ii, believed to have brought the arts and skills of civilization to mesopotamia.25 legends dating back at least 5000 years relate that uan lived under the sea, emerging from the waters of the persian gulf every morning to civilize and tutor mankind.26 is it a coincidence that uaana, in the mayan language, means he who has his residence in water ?27 let us also consider tiamat, the sumerian goddess of the oceans and of the forces of primitive chaos, always shown as a ravening monster. in mesopotamian tradition, tiamat turned against the other deities and unleashed a holocaust of destruction before she was eventually destroyed by the celestial hero marduk: she opened her mouth, tiamat, to swallow him. he drove in the evil wind so that she could not close her lips. the terribl

92, pp. 163-4. 26 gods, demons and symbols of ancient mesopotamia, p. 41. 27 mysteries of the mexican pyramids, p. 169; the god-kings and the titans, p. 234. 28 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, pp. 53-4. 29 ibid, p. 54. 30 ibid. see also gods, demons and symbols of ancient mesopotamia, p. 177. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 148 mountains .31 are the peculiar parallels between the sumerian and mexican myths pure coincidence or could both have been marked by the cultural fingerprints of a lost civilization? if so, the faces of the heroes of that ancestral culture may indeed have been carved in stone and passed down as heirlooms through thousands of years, sometimes in full view, sometimes buried, until they were dug up for the last time by archaeologists in our era and given

d strifes, they have done evil, they have created hostilities, they have made slaughter, they have caused trouble and oppression [therefore] i am going to blot out everything which i have made. this earth shall enter into the watery abyss by means of a raging flood, and will become even as it was in primeval time.44 on the trail of a mystery with the words of thoth we have come full circle to the sumerian and biblical floods. the earth was filled with violence, says genesis: and god looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. and god said unto noah, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold i will destroy them with the earth. 45 like the flood of deucalion, the flood of

e shall limit our inquiry to universal myths. we have already examined one group of myths in detail (the traditions of flood and cataclysm set out in part iv) and we have seen that they possess a range of intriguing characteristics: 1 there is no doubt that they are immensely old. take the mesopotamian flood story, versions of which have been found inscribed on tablets from the earliest strata of sumerian history, around 3000 bc. these tablets, handed down from the dawn of the recorded past, leave no room for doubt that the tradition of a worlddestroying flood was ancient even then, and therefore originated long before the dawn. we cannot say how long. the fact remains that no scholar has ever been able to establish a date for the creation of any myth, let alone for these venerable and wid

HEKAS

'a winding sheet. a cerecloth or funeral vestment was the garment used by the aforementioned sect in their rituals; this was indicative of the symbolic interconnection of life and death. sgian-dhu- the scottish knife- speculatively analogous to the skan-do-la, the mandaean ritual knife. sabbat- the witches' rite- stemming from az-sabbat, meaning' the forceful occasion' and from the sa-ba-tu- the sumerian lunar rite of the goddess inanna; this term by means of linguistic confluence equates with the semitic sabbath. note also that the ahl-i-haq, the people of truth- a middle-eastern tribal group, preserve a rite called the sabz which means 'the making green of things; they also sacrifice a cockerel at dawn to mark the liminal edge of night: a custom which has become a glyph of a certain arc

INFERNAL UNION

girls were warned against using mirrors too much and falling into liliths trap. charms were created to protect against the threat of succubus attacks (lilith is in the qlippothic sphere, lust) and infants from being killed by lilith or her children. her earlier origins are somewhat vague though she appears to have always been related somewhat to being a goddess/spirit of the night/air whether in sumerian/assyrian/babylonian or cainanite mythology. lilith is the queen of demons and the wife of samael, from whom came the succubi. she is the infernal moon and queen of the infernal sabbat. she does have a lighter side as well, that of being a protectress to mothers and children. her nature is that of feminine fertility,seduction ,the cycles of the moon, and perhaps one of the reasons she is c

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

some important event or the enthronement of the ruler currently in power. the situation would be hope8 table 1. periods in mesopotamian history. if both assyria and babylonia are mentioned then the dominating power is written in bold; italic indicates foreign rule. brackets include some renowned rulers and their time of ruling. of course, it would be possible to further specify much, e.g. the neo-sumerian period can be subdivided into three, but for our purposes this table is sufficient. sumerian period 3500.2300 bc akkadian period (sargon i, 2275.2219) 2275.2094 neo-sumerian period (sumerian renaissance, 2094.1939) 2094.1750 old babylonian (hammurabi 1728.1686/ old assyrian period 1850.1531 middle babylonian/ middle assyrian period 1531.1000 neo-babylonian/ neo-assyrian period (assurbanip

within a big interval; the beginning of akkadian dynasty is fixed fairly certainly. the possible error of the assyrian dating from the beginning of 15th c bc onwards is 10 years, from 1180 bc onwards 1.2 years, and the dates are quite certain from 900 bc on; babylonian dates are completely fixed from 747 bc onwards (soden 1991. 9 writing was invented by sumerians ca 3200 bc. cuneiform1 tablets of sumerian period give us very interesting material but unfortunately no astronomical or astrological texts. though some texts have been thought to originate from former periods, they have been only found in later copies, making dating extremely difficult. the oldest existing texts about stars, one astrological and one astronomical, both come from the old babylonian period. analysis of religious tex

period. analysis of religious texts has led some scientists to suppose semitic or even west-semitic origin for the concept connecting stars and earthly phenomena, because akkadians (the term is hereby used to denote linguistically close semitic peoples. babylonians, assyrians and their predecessors) take a much more personal approach to gods than sumerians. on the other hand, the akkadian use of sumerian names of constellations, stars, and planets weighs against this theory; however, such names could issue from the period when semites had not yet accustomed enough to using the sumerian-invented cuneiform script for their own language, so sumerian was used for writing. it is possible that some sumerograms concerning stars have never been pronounced in sumerian, but only in akkadian. later

his theory; however, such names could issue from the period when semites had not yet accustomed enough to using the sumerian-invented cuneiform script for their own language, so sumerian was used for writing. it is possible that some sumerograms concerning stars have never been pronounced in sumerian, but only in akkadian. later on, the symbols remained in use because of their shortness: e.g. the sumerian name for the scales is rin2, which corresponds to akkadian zi-ba-nh-tu(m, so it can be written as a sumerogram with one sign instead of four signs for akkadian. as another matter, the interpretation of such different names can be difficult, but in this case it seems that in both languages, in the first place scales were meant, as sumerian gi.rin2 and akkadian gi rinnu both mean primarily

ordinary scales. an epithet of the scales constellation, gstar of justice of .ama h (reiner 1995: 4) can be considered indirect proof. scales are a symbol of justice. also in greece, virgo. which lies besides scales. was connected to dike, goddess of justice.2 in any case, to talk about planet names, we have to start from the babylonians, not sumerians, though we have to consider the influence of sumerian language and writing. the term akkadian is used as a common name for the related semitic languages babylonian and assyrian which can also be considered dialects of the akkadian language. as most contemporary scientists consider the cuneiform script to have originally been used for sumerian language, and the sumerian language has no typological relatives whatsoever (despite several claims

considered dialects of the akkadian language. as most contemporary scientists consider the cuneiform script to have originally been used for sumerian language, and the sumerian language has no typological relatives whatsoever (despite several claims by pseudo-sci10 entists, it must have been very hard to adjust it for use by akkadians. the difficulties can be seen in the heavy use of sumerograms. sumerian signs which were pronounced in akkadian, making the structure (and reading) of the originally mostly phonetic (and mostly syllabic) script much more difficult and, by parts, ideogrammatic. also, although already in sumerian different signs could correspond to the same phonetic value (and vice versa, akkadian tradition added several new values. and last, but not least, throughout the appro

. also, although already in sumerian different signs could correspond to the same phonetic value (and vice versa, akkadian tradition added several new values. and last, but not least, throughout the approximately two millennia of akkadian use, many new gsumerian h compounds were included into cuneiform script, several of them reconstructed by semites in times when there were no native speakers of sumerian any more. so the same sign can in akkadian denote a phonetic value that originated in sumerian, its sumerian meaning, or an akkadian phonetic value. signs which denoted a sumerian meaning were generally pronounced as akkadian words with the same meaning. and in late periods (esp. in hittite and aramaic cuneiform) a sumerian sign could be followed by a phonetic complementary, meaning to sh

sumerian, its sumerian meaning, or an akkadian phonetic value. signs which denoted a sumerian meaning were generally pronounced as akkadian words with the same meaning. and in late periods (esp. in hittite and aramaic cuneiform) a sumerian sign could be followed by a phonetic complementary, meaning to show the phonetic ending (e.g. case and number) of the akkadian word that was written with that sumerian sign. thus the akkadian cuneiform writing includes many sumerian anachronisms in addition to the akkadian language having abundant sumerian loans (borger 1981 1.4; 46. 52. a special class of signs is determinatives. signs/words denoting the (non-grammatical) class of the following noun and in modern transliterations written in superscript, e.g. gi. ewooden/tree f, dingir egod/goddess/myth

erian loans (borger 1981 1.4; 46. 52. a special class of signs is determinatives. signs/words denoting the (non-grammatical) class of the following noun and in modern transliterations written in superscript, e.g. gi. ewooden/tree f, dingir egod/goddess/mythological creature f (in transliterations commonly shortened to d, id3 eriver f, uru etown f, mu. esnake f etc. originally, these were ordinary sumerian nouns, but as determinatives they were probably not pronounced (caplice& snell 1988: 4.9. here we have a special interest in determinatives denoting stars, constellations, planets, and other gheavenly phenomena h. generally, mul sumerian estar f, akkadian kakkabu was used for all of these (figure 1. in transliteration, different cuneiform signs with the same phonetic value are marked with

1. in transliteration, different cuneiform signs with the same phonetic value are marked with different subscript. e.g. gu estring, cord f, and gu4 eoxen, bull f; these originally denoted frequency of the sign. many scientists follow the assyriological tradition, using accent marks for the indices 2 and 3, so gu2= gu ethroat f, and gu3= gu evoice f. 11 figure 1. some determinatives in cuneiform. sumerian dingir (akkadian ilu) means egod/goddess f; mul, akkadian kakkabu, means estar f. dingir has come from a pictogram depicting a star, and if we look close at mul, we see it consists of three dingirs. similar sounding ul or ul means estar f and is often used as a determinative. in late astrological texts three more determinatives are used for stars: te, ab2 and gan2, now written by assyriol

ods tended to vary by city states, but of the great seven an was universally the god of heaven, enlil. the god of air and earth, and enki. the god of water and wisdom; less important were utu. the sun god, nanna. the moon god, inanna. the goddess of love and war, and ninhursag, the mother of gods (kramer 1977: 122.130; 146.152. the name and status of the main god depended on who had the power. in sumerian times, the greatest god was an, whose son was enki. in the old babylonian period, of course, the city god of babylon, marduk became the main god and was also to be son of enki and grandson of an. as an was more like a deus otiosus, marduk as an acting god started to be identified with the acting main god enlil, whose son, god of war ninurta was identified with marduk fs son, multifunction

and identities of other gods. maybe the best way to bring some order into this mayhem is that of the finnish assyriologist simo parpola, who has reconstructed the assyrian tree of life: in every circle of the tree of life there are both a god fs name and its according magical number (parpola 1998: 281.285. however, we can console ourselves that it was difficult to understand relationships between sumerian and akkadian gods already in their times. even in the most exact-to-be bilinguals, concepts about the beginning of the world among sumerians and akkadians differ (clifford 1998: 67. figure 4. the constellations of hydra and leo as depicted on an astrological tablet of the seleucid era, the eight-pointed star on the left is named dsag.me.gar. jupiter (vat 7847; bottom side. lion (leo) is d

into subzodiacs on this tablet, while these subzodiacs are connected to different towns, plants, trees and stones (postgate 1997: 219. 14 as we can see later, every planet could be connected to several gods; in table 3 are presented the strongest interconnections (based mainly on the akkadian material, because. except for the sun, the moon, and venus. we do not know about the state of matters in sumerian period; thus these three are also the only ones that have numerical counterparts in the assyrian tree of life. table 2. main gods of mesopotamia, the planets connected to them, and their portfolios by akkadian tradition. saturn is hard to interpret, as it is connected to ninurta, but this leads us through nabu straight to mercury. at first sight, the composition of such a table does not s

these three are also the only ones that have numerical counterparts in the assyrian tree of life. table 2. main gods of mesopotamia, the planets connected to them, and their portfolios by akkadian tradition. saturn is hard to interpret, as it is connected to ninurta, but this leads us through nabu straight to mercury. at first sight, the composition of such a table does not seem to be very hard. sumerian nanna and akkadian sin are the moongod, utu or .ama. is the sungod without a hint of doubt. with the rest, however, there are problems. for an estonian, the concept of stars as a heavenly writing. akkadian .i ir .ame or .i ir bur me. sounds quite homely. esarhaddon, a megalomanic assyrian king, said all the stars to be letters in which his name is written (rainer 1995: 9. subsequently, su

ference to the belief that the moon regenerates itself after each waning. gamong the astral deities, the moon-god was considered to be the most gentle and reliable, intimately connected with the fertility and fruitfulness of man and beast h (leick 1998: 152.153. and moon fs moving is really clear and simple to observe. in akkadian, the most widespread form of writing the moongod fs name was dsin (sumerian dnanna(r; dnanna is a rare sumerogram. dsin itself was originally written en.zu elord of wisdom f (later also written as dzu.en, with the earlier reading dsu fen soon shortened to dsin. though the moongod fs name can some18 times be written as dnanna-suen, this form was not used to denote the celestial body. there is also a variant dzu, which has shortened from zu.en. nanna was usually wr

the moon could be mentioned by their own names: the new moon from the first to fifth day was called ud.sar da-nu-u, on 6th-10th day the half moon was ka-li-tu de-a, full moon of 11th-15th day was aga ta.-ri -ti ethe tiara of the full moon f (gossmann 1950: 133, etc. figure 6. widespread ways of writing emoon f in cuneiform: d30, den.zu and mulgal. all these were read alike: sin. the sun the sun, sumerian utu and akkadian .ama, stays in texts always on the second place, he is the eldest son of the moongod, and brother of i.tar. in akkad, the astral goddess aya was considered to be the wife of .ama. in the assyrian period .ama. and sin had a 19 common temple in assur (black& green 1998: 184. ecliptic, of course, is the way of .ama. esundisk f is written by a sumerogram a..me, akkadian .am.u

in had a 19 common temple in assur (black& green 1998: 184. ecliptic, of course, is the way of .ama. esundisk f is written by a sumerogram a..me, akkadian .am.u. sun as the god of justice or just judgement is symbolized in the assyrian tree of life by the number 20 (5 in cabala, that resides directly below the number that symbolizes the moon in the pillar of justice in tree of life (parpola 1998. sumerian utu has never been as popular as semitic .ama, warrior and god of justice with a cosmic importance, glord of heaven and earth h. the extent of .ama. fs popularity can be observed from the great number of people named after him, from cylinder seals, and the considerable number of hymns and prayers dedicated to his honor. some of these hymns have a poetic structure imitating the movement of

a-ma. was used. in horoscopes, the sun is usually either 20 or dutu. here we have to bear in mind that utu is the same sign as ud, which denotes ebright f, eshining f, ewhite f, and, of course, ethe sun f. utu (ud) and babbar being two words written by the same sign explains the parallel use of the forms mul3babbar and dutu in the late period (brown 2000: 56. also, it should be mentioned that the sumerian babbar eshining f, ebright f suits to characterize all brighter planets. anyway, in the case of jupiter babbar/ud has come into use from abbreviating ud.al.tar (see below. less common names for the sun are dgi..nu or dgi..nu11 (borger 1981:123. the name gi.-nu elamp f, elight f( etool f+ elight f, efire f, elamp f (halloran 1999) and is not connected with utu/.ama. the version gi.-nu is p

ul.pa.e3.(a) elord of the bright dawn f (meaning jupiter in the east) shows a possibility to classify the names of jupiter by its place on the firmament. it may appear that mulsag.me.gar means ejupiter in culmination f while mulud.al.tar means ejupiter in the west f. d.ulpae refers to the god .ulpae (also .ulpa fe) ebrilliant youth f (black& green 1998: 173) or elord of the shining dawn f. in the sumerian period he belonged among smaller underworld gods (dealing also with war and wild beasts, changing later into a vizier of marduk (the title sukkal has been also translated as eherald f or elieutenant f. in any case, connection with jupiter seems to originate from earlier times (brown 2000: 65. figure 8. the most popular ways of writing ejupiter f in cuneiform: mul2.babbar, mulsag.me.gar, m

nt as to how to read the signs. rochberg suggests it to be read dili-bat, reiner has proposed dele-bat (according to the greek transcription delephat (rochberg 1998: 28; reiner 1995: 7. in any case, dil-bat is predominant (see e.g. reiner 1998. other gods have been related to venus as one of the most popular celestial bodies, but these do not always appear in the names of the planet. e.g. nanaya, sumerian goddess of physical love, semitic goddess aya and west semitic a.tarte. an important appellation dnin.an.na is actually nin-ana, elady of heaven f, the earlier form of sumerian war and love goddess inanna fs name (ninurta was often called inurta in assyria) likewise, du.dar/di.-tar marks the semitic goddess i.tar (neo-assyrian iss r) who corresponds to inanna. there are also similar-sound

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or the weather, or finding a person or a lost object, or guiding the wandering spirits of the dead to the realm of the dead. in the ancient western world there were a number of myths that recounted descent into the underworld of an heroic or divine being, who aimed to rescue a beloved one or to obtain immortality and wisdom. in one of the most ancient accounts of a journey to the underworld, the sumerian goddess inanna (in the akkadian civilization she was called ishtar) experienced a descent into the underworld where she underwent a sort of initiation process of death and rebirth. during the journey, the goddess went through seven gates, gradually taking off all of her clothes and ornaments. at the end of the journey, the goddess died and the vegetation on earth immediately wilted. when

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e one becomes cloudy in the waters of wicca, the pure source must be revealed. to better explain the luciferian path in the terms of which is offered in luciferian witchcraft, liber hvhi and book of the witch moon, an assessment of the basic tools, god forms and models of belief are given here: apep the serpent-demon of chaos and the abyssic waters of the tuat. apep is the early embodiment of the sumerian tiamat or the sevenheaded dragon of the apocalypse. in early persian manifestation, ahriman and the archdaevas. in egyptian lore, apep is by cipher and study nothing more than set revealed, his primal draconian aspect of self. apep embodies the very essence of set and may even be considered associated with his shadow or demonic form. in the tenth and eleventh sections of the tuat set-heh

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know very well that not a shred of geological or meteorological evidence supports the idea that the entire surface of our 4 evolution and religious creation myths planet could have been under water as recently as a few thousand years ago. even though we have not seen or heard this ourselves, we suspect that id supporters may also know that genesis in all likelihood evolved derived from the older sumerian epic of gilgamesh, which already incorporated a great flood and the survival of just two human beings who later repopulated earth. likewise, no serious scientist today believes that the whole universe was created in exactly six days and that this creation took place 6,000 years in the past. further, no archaeologist accepts the biblical account that animal husbandry was invented by (or pr

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ahriman. the term khrafstra is a general word for noxious beasts, attributed to the druj or demons of the dragon ahriman. such imagery is used in the work of the black order of the dragon, a secret guild of witches and sorcerers who develop a left hand path initiatory guild based on (among others) persian sorcery and so-called black magick centered around the dragons ahriman and tiamat, who is of sumerian origin. the botd which is headed by a triad of witches called coven maleficia of the order of phosphorus have worked in vampyric areas of dreaming sorcery for some years. in the botd the initiate works through the symbolism of the transformation of the vampyre to the werewolf to the dragon in a dreaming centered development of what could be called luciferian witchcraft. the ritual contain

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s her fleshing ground. just as with any pagan goddess or god, lilith is not entirely of dark nature, being known as a protectress of mothers and children. the sacred bird of lilith was the owl, one may 60 60 seek to invoke, or identify with the goddess lilith through the dream assumption of the owl form. such experiments should prove insightful. liliths name was suspected to have derived from the sumerian babylonian belitilli. one rather interesting connection is that one of the 17 names of lilith is actually kali. kali kali is the black destroyer as well as nurturing mother. often represented as a black demonic goddess, kali stands atop her husband, shiva, holding in her hands blades dripping with blood, and upon her neck a necklace of human skulls. kali is black because all that transpir

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ed groups had their biology studied and exper-iments were continued for centuries. along with their supersensory skills, thenephilim also possessed great knowledge of biology, crystallography, organic comput-ing, and robotics, etc. such sciences were common in pre-diluvian epochs and are notdiscoveries of our silicon age. many scholars have pondered why it is that certainancient cultures like the sumerian, indo-aryan and egyptian have alphabets, mathe-matical concepts, and symbolic cosmologies, all just appearing fully formed withoutrecord of the normal antecedent and cumulatory stratifications that must attend theseachievements. here are some examples of the quandaries that beset the scholars andacademes. sir leonard woolley in his ur of the chaldees wrote: there is nothing to show to wha

xt, silappadikaran, describes a lost continent in the pacific and indian ocean that it calls kumai nadu or kumari kandam, which means the dragon land of the immortal serpents.their rebellion and departure affronted their creators who, from that time onward,would consider their first born avowed adversaries. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation27 chapter 5the race of adam in a late sumerian mythit is declared that men were created to relieve the gods of the oner-ous task of tilling their fields. men were to do that work for them and provide them with foodthrough sacrifice (joseph campbell, occidental mythology)the serpent masters deduced that the first time round they had made a fundamentalmistake. they had given their progeny the same intellectual capacities that they them

curious yet undeniablesimilarities, mainly because contingents of the samepeople were spreading the knowledge to these differentlocalessame people, similar paradigms and symbol-ism. commensurate with this comes the ambiguoussymbols of the snake, the serpent, and the dragon. prehistoric artatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation57 i shall reverse the world lished what are known as the sumerian and babylonian civilizations, as well as all thehigh profile empires to come. and it is upon the foundations of these dynasties andcultures that the post-diluvian or historical periods rest. the horrendous events that areassociated with these belligerent nations aptly testify to who was behind them. andsince it was these brotherhoods that began recording history, they commissioned theacco

hysical phenomena. let us look now beyondthe masque to see what lies at the origin of these specific occult sciences and why the profu-sion of occultism among the european aristocratic intelligentsia at this time. the living macroscope86atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation enochian magic is named after the old testament prophet, enoch. but the name actuallygoes further back to the sumerian enki, one of the original annunaki. it is more than signif-icant that dee chose this name for his divination.sir john dee was actually successful in his enterprise. he succeeded in opening hisportal and entering into dialogue with oversouls from another dimension. this was notthe first time in earth history that this had been attempted, nor would it be the last.every time it occurs the co

rys orbit is not circular.v enus orbits very slowly for its size and in opposite direction.mars is also slow and extremely erratic.uranus has a tilted axis.pluto has an eccentric orbit.chiron, exists between saturn and uranus, broke off from the former.roche limitthe roche limit exists around earth as a protective gravitational field. alien bodies and space debriswill normally disintegrate in it. sumerian cosmologyapsu sunea neptuneanu uranusmommu mercurylahamu v enuslahmu marstiama t same as electra (planet of our system, utterly destroyed)kishar jupiteranshar saturngaga chironkingu the satellite of tiamat, caught and dragged by marduk. it disintegrated in earths roche limit and caused monumental destruction (see p. 254.)enlil, phaeton, marduk, pallas athene like lucifer, the transgressor

those gods who abusedthem the most (p. 9)we have been lead to believe that the entity that the old testament describes as a mass-murderer andheinous leader is the god of the universe. we have been lead to think that the slaughter of humanbeings in the name of god is a divine act (p. 11)religion was created to insure that humans would never experience the true god (p. 12)the atra hasisthis is the sumerian text that contains the content that was rewritten as the story of genesis, one thou-sand years later (p. 13)jehovahwhile it is easy for most people to believe that zeus was not god, most of the same people will gaspwith shock at the mere suggestion that jehovah (yahweh) was not god (p. 14)julian jaynesjulian jaynes, author of the origin of consciousness and the breakdown of the bicameral

e than 30,000 written documents from all over the world tell of a group of advanced beings whoeither came to earth or who were already living on earth (p. 35)appendix b: book abstracts210atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation flying serpents and dragons by r. a. boulaysons of anan was the chief of the strange beings that helped in the establishment of civilization. the babylonianand sumerian records speak of these beings as the repulsive ones and also as abominations (see p.11-12)jerome on genesisthe most difficult and the most obscure of the sacred books; genesis contains many secrets as wordsand each word contains several others (p. 25)underground dwellings of the serpentsthe ancient city of beersheba.has many underground rooms and tunnels dating back to the fourthmillennia

me of abraham, nor even in the time of moses it occurred much later, in the time of samuel the judge, when the children of israel did put away baal and ashtoreth, and served the lord only (1 samuel 7:4 (p. 25)elohimconsidered in some texts to be foreign rulers and judges (see p. 25)abrahamwhen abraham migrated to canaan in about 1900 b.c, he arrived neither as a jew, nor as a canaan-ite, but as a sumerian (p. 25)hebrew and israelitethe name hebrew derives from the patriarch eber (heber/abhar, six generations before abraham.the term israelite comes from the renaming of abrahams grandson jacob, who became known asisrael (p. 26)long kept records the opening verses of genesis were composed in the sixth century b.c, roughly 1,400 years afterthe time of abraham, 2,000 years after noah and 3,500

late as thetime of jesus there was no complete book in circulation or existence (see p. 28)first compilationthe first set of amalgamated books to be generally approved as the hebrew bible appeared after the fallof jerusalem to the roman general titus in ad 70, and it was compiled in an endeavor to restore faith injudaism at a time of social turmoil (p. 28)eriduthe most important and sacred of the sumerian cities. the seat of the kings before the flood. enuma elishthe original genesis story. the hebrews became exposed to it during their captivity in babylon.while the babylonian enuma elish pre-dates the genesis account by more than 1,000 years, it was itselfbased on far more ancient records, and the earliest sumerian creation story discovered to date is morethan a 1000 years older than the

hen christianity.appendix b: book abstracts214atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the corrupted dogma of the religions then became established as history and because the contriveddogma (the new approved history) was so different from the original, the early first-hand records werelabeled mythology (p. 60)mardukthe great babylonian god was the son of goddess damkina, by way of the sumerian annunaki king,enki (see p. 63)enki and enlilsumerian annunaki, the sons of anu, the supreme father, who was the son of anshar and kishar. theywere the brother and sister of mummu, who was the son of the primal pair tiamat and apsu (see p. 62)enki and nin-khursag (wife and half-sister)it is they who hold the key to the story of adam the original story that was adapted for the genesisaccoun

naan from egypt. the book of exodus furtherexplains how god told moses that he was the very same god who spoke to abraham, except that abra-ham had called him el shaddai (el of the mountain) because he did not know the divine name of jeho-vah (exodus 6:3. the jehovah of the jews (el elyon of the canaanites) was, therefore, synonymouswith enlil of the annunaki, son of the great anu (p. 64)sumaire (sumerian)an old irish word meaning serpent or dragon.adamthe definition applied to both the male and the female (see p. 74)adam born from claythis comes from a mistranslation of the word tit, which meant potters clay, or in hebrew meant mud.it actually was a mistranslation of sumerian ti-it, meaning giving all life, or the ovum of the female.so when it is said that the semen of enki merged with mu

as jehovahwho removed the israelites from their homeland, sending them into seventy years of captivity by kingnebuchadnezzar ii and his five babylonian successors down to king balshazzer (545 539 b.c (p.118)babylons declineas the centuries progressed, babylon fell to various other invadersthe written legacy of theannunaki was, henceforth, confined to an underworld darkness, and all the tablets of sumerian andakkadian record that had been available to the hostage jews of the sixth century b.c, were destined tobe forgotten beneath the wasteland (p. 119)appendix b: book abstracts218atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation gardner continuesand so it has been for the better part of 2,000 years that the old testament was the sole record of themesopotamian patriarchal era. there was n

enetic manipulation gardner continuesand so it has been for the better part of 2,000 years that the old testament was the sole record of themesopotamian patriarchal era. there was no way for anyone to know if it was fact or fictionit wastaken on board for history.in the light of these latter day discoveries, we are now far wiser than our parents and forbearers, for wenow know and have at hand the sumerian and akkadian documentation which enabled the captivityjews to compile their ancestral story. what we know is that their biblical account was not an accuratetranscript of ancient records, but a strategically compiled set of documents which distort the annals ofthe original scribes in order to establish a new cultural and religious doctrine. this was the doctrine ofthe one godjehovaha doctr

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eminine demonic archetypes of the path of luciferian witchcraft, namely samael and lilith. in the auspices of the vampyric path, it is ahriman (the black dragon) and tiamat (the red dragon. while tiamat in this aspect is the primordial form of lilith, she appears black from the wisdom of endless time. it is that samael, lilith and leviathan are joined in primal union hence tiamat is the collected sumerian adversary. she is the mother of darkness, dragons and vampirism. vampirism is a concept which begins in the subconscious. it is a power which hungers, that which seeks to consume all. it has no concern for rules or for the spiritual laws it is the essence of the law of the talon. this very hunger is related to az or lilith, symbolically tiamat, it is the hunger for continued existence in

nal taboos and gain knowledge and power from this averse way, thus expand power accordingly. lilith [hebrew] the goddess of witchcraft, magick and sorcery. lilith was the first wife of adam who refused to be submission and joined with the shadows and demonic spirits in the deserts. lilith was also said to be the spiritual mother of cain by her mate, samael (shaitan) the dragon. lilith appeared in sumerian times as a goddess of the beasts of the wild, as well as sorcery and night-fornication. lilith was said to have many forms, from beautiful women to half human and the bottom half animal, to half woman and half flame. lilith is also the mother of demons and a vampyric spirit which is a primal manifestation of the zoroastrian and manichaean az and jeh. lilith may also be related to the indi

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he various tales of inundation are even more alarming. most people who are even remotely familiar with atlantis will know that it was consumed by a flood. in the norse tradition of sweden and norway, a flood with poured forth from the bleeding god ymir consumed the whole of humanity, save a man named bergelmir and his wife who survived the flood using a hollowed-out tree trunk as a vessel. in the sumerian/babylonian accounts (2500bc, allegedly, a man named utnapishtim is warned by the god ea that another god enlil intends to flood the earth. utnapishtim then built a massive boat, and loaded his wife and 2 of every creature aboard. as the flood began to subside, utnapishtim released a dove, as noah did, to see if there was dry land nearby. and like noah from the bible, the boat finally rest

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were as stupid as old testament jews. when a book is the only book that by chance is preserved and by design transmitted throughout fifteen centuries, it may well become the book. the bible is one of the most brutish, most cruel, most fanatic cultural records extant. its religious fables are either naive or fatuous. it has neither the loftiness of the pyramid texts nor the human compassion of the sumerian. ft has neither the subtlety of the chinese classics nor the psychological depth of the hindu. but it was the only book the west knew for centuries and look at the record of the west during those centuries! indeed "unite by thine art so that all disappear. unite not destroy. unite together under the banner of an enlightened humanity, free of all the ignorant idiocy of national, cultural o

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thology a fresh, new creation will arise. the flood just as many mythologies look forward to the destruction of this world in a catastrophe, such as the norse cataclysm called ragnarok, so many record a time, within this creation, when the gods grew angry with humankind, and attempted to destroy them with a flood. the biblical story of the deluge is one of many such accounts, and owes much to the sumerian/babylonian account in the epic of gilgamesh, in which the noah figure is named utnapishtim (see p. 19. the ancient greeks told how zeus tried to destroy mankind with a flood, but prometheus (see p. 24) warned deucalion and pyrrha. manu was saved from the hindu deluge vishnu in the form his fish avatar, matsya (see p. 110. flood myths can be found in peru and in china, among the australian

world according to the zulus, it was all a mistake. the great one sent the chameleon, unwabu, to tell people they would live forever, but he lingered, and was passed by intulo the lizard, with the message that all people must die. there are also stories of heroes who tried to conquer death maui, gilgamesh, the mayan hero twins (see pp. 100 1. in his search for the secret of everlasting life, the sumerian hero gilgamesh crosses the ocean of death in search of utnapishtim, the sole survivor of the great flood. but utnapishtim tells him: there is no permanence. do we build a house to stand for ever, do we seal a contract to hold for all time? do brothers divide an inheritance to keep for ever, does the flood-time of rivers endure? it is only the nymph of the dragonfly who sheds her larva and

death. at the suggestion of the sun god shamesh, gilgamesh and enkidu traveled into the faraway forest where they found and killed him. by doing so they incurred the anger of the gods, especially enlil, the chief god, lord of earth and air. gilgamesh. struck humbaba with a thrust of the sword to the neck, and enkidu his comrade struck the second blow the epic of gilgamesh the epic of gilgamesh 19 sumerian statue of the goddess ishtar i will proclaim to the world the deeds of gilgamesh. the man to whom all things were known. he was wise. knew secret things, he brought us a tale of the days before the flood. he went on a long journey, was weary, worn-out with labor, returning he rested, he engraved on a stone the whole story. prologue to the epic of gilgamesh ferryman of the gods urshanabi t

goddess ishtar, who descended to the underworld to rescue him from death. he is essentially a fertility god, associated with the miracle of the harvest. his death and rebirth were celebrated each spring and autumn and the spectacle of women weeping for tammuz is mentioned in the bible (ezekiel 8:14. like adonis, he was killed by a boar and while he is in the underworld all vegetation withers. the sumerian innanna s journey to hell is an early version of ishtar and tammuz, under the names innanna and dumuzi, and records an early song for the lost god: who is your sister? i am she. who is your mother? i am she. day dawns the same for you and me. this is the same day we shall see. cupid and psyche 34 cupid and psyche the story of cupid and psyche is a roman one in which venus (greek aphrodite

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with their natural principles. the "wrath of the gods" was feared by the state in mesopotamia, as it was never in egypt (which was ruled by a god-king. the mesopotamian king sought the "right ruling" of his community, in accordance with the akkadian principle of shulmu (later adopted by the hebrews as shalom. a term meaning not just "peace" but the community well-being that engenders peace. early sumerian law was based on the principles of lex talionis("an eye for an eye, semi-private administration of justice, inequality before the law (higher classes were more protected, but when found guilty were subject to more severe punishments, and the drawing of little distinction between deliberate and accidental crime. sumerian science was comparable to egyptian, but significantly inferior in med

combinations of the squares, or perhaps deities from the cthulhu mythos? there are plenty of possibilities for an inventive mind to rehabilitate the golden dawn enochian teachings. one aspect of enochiana that hardly anybody at all seems to have touched upon are its planetary correspondences and deities, as set down in dee's heptarchia mystica. i did at one point loosely integrate these with the sumerian zone from the simon "version" of the necronomicon. it was a tradition in the church of satan to always include an appropriate enochian key in a ritual working, and magus lavey codified each key in the satanic bible according to its application in either operative or illustrative magic. this is a tradition i have adhered to since enochiana interests me so much (and because, through work, i

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ls, saints, devils and demons may be traced back largely to the spirits of the previous aeon of pagan magick. the hebrew term for angel is mal akh, meaning messenger. the word angel itself comes through the sanskrit angeres, persian angeres, to the greek angelos. such pre-christian roots are apparent even in their names, which commonly end with the singular el, meaning shining one. the word is of sumerian origin, and is related to the akkadian ilu, babylonian ellu, old welsh ellu, old irish aillil, anglo- saxon aelf, and english elf. even our classical image of the angel, a beautiful human with bird wings, has its origin in pagan imagery. in the 8th century, when the foundations of church doctrine were being laid, the visual artists were no less influenced by their heritage than the writer

he focal points in earlier times of the dragon power running through the earth. gabri-el jibril, an alternative version of the name, dictated the koran to mohammed and is considered the angel of truth. gabri-el is described as possessing 140 pairs of wings and in judeo-christian lore is the angel of annunciation, resurrection, mercy, revelation and death. the root of the name gabri-el lies in the sumerian word gbr, meaning gubernator or governer. the name may also be translated as divine husband, and in luke 1:26 it is gabriel who places the child within the womb of mary. the ruler of the cherubim and the governor of eden, said to sit on the left side of god, some theologians have made a case for gabri-el being female. if such is so she is the only female angel of the higher echelons known

who transgressed their position and attacked moses at horeb. it was kezef who was imprisoned by aaron. khil (grimorium verum. occasions great earthquakes. kimaris, cimejes, cimeies (goetia, 66th spirit. rules over all spirits of africa. a marquis commanding 20 legions, appearing as a valiant warrior on a black horse. teaches grammar, logic, rhetoric. discovers things lost or hidden. kiskil-lilla (sumerian, lillu meaning night. female night demon who dwelled in the haluppa tree of inanna, which was later felled by gilgamesh. see lilith. kobal. manager of the infernal theatre who tempts men to pretence and fraud. lahash once led 184 spirits to prevent the prayers of moses from reaching god, and was thus expelled from the presence. leraikha, leraje, leraie (goetia, 14th spirit. marquis comman

about the circle. makes men cunning in arts and sciences, especially rhetoric. restores lost dignities and honours. possibly from the ancient babylonian god of writing, logic, and history nabium, who is mentioned in the old testament as nabu. naphula, vapula (goetia, 60th spirit. duke commanding 36 legions. appears as a winged lion. teaches handicrafts, philosophy, and other sciences. ningiszida (sumerian, lord of the tree. horned serpent who, according to akkadian incantations, watches over the demons exiled to the underworld. olam ha-qlippoth (aramaic, world of shells. the other side of the qabballa. olivier. once an archangel, who now tempts mortals to be cruel to the poor. oriax, orias (goetia, 59th spirit. marquis commanding 30 legions. appears as a man with serpent tail, holding two

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lent of satan sammael (hebrew "venom of god" samnu- central asian devil sedit- american indian devil sekhmet- egyptian goddess of vengeance set- egyptian devil shaitan- arabic name for satan shiva (hindu) the destroyer supay- inca god of the underworld t'an-mo- chinese counterpart to the devil, covetousness, desire tchort- russian name for satan "black god" tezcatlipoca- aztec god of hell thamuz- sumerian god who later was relegated to devildom thoth- egyptian god of magic tunrida- scandanavian female devil typhon- greek personification of satan yaotzin- aztec god of hell yen-lo-wang- chinese ruler of hell the devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a might

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ious beliefs. coven: a group of neo-pagans, such as wiccans. alternately referred to as circles, groves, kindreds, garths, hearths, and other terms. covenant: in religion, a covenant refers to an agreement between god or a messenger of god and his followers. creed: a statement of belief or basic principles. crucifixion: the suffering and death by nailing or binding a person to a cross. cuneiform: sumerian writing, so-called because of its wedge-shaped marks. daevas: ancient persian deities. dao: the path or way; the rhythmic balance and natural, flowing patterns of the universe. de: political power that is the result of a ruler s virtue and honesty. deity: a god or goddess. dharma: righteousness in one s religious and personal life. diaspora: the scattering of the jews throughout the world

ice as it is in modern religions. rather, religion was a fact of life for everyone. each person had favorite gods or goddesses to whom they prayed and sacrificed. words to know anthropomorphism: attributing human shape or form to nonhuman things, such as the gods. astrology: the study of the movement of the planets and stars in relation to one another in order to predict future events. cuneiform: sumerian writing, so-called because of its wedge-shaped marks. deity: a god or goddess. maat: divine order and justice; a central concept in the religion of ancient egypt. monotheism: belief in one supreme being. pantheon: a collection of deities. polytheism: belief in many gods. pyramid: a stone tomb constructed to house a deceased pharaoh of egypt. theocracy: a form of government in which god or

urth millennium bce. religion in sumer the first center of civilization was in the south, in what was called sumer. there, farming villages became a series of a dozen powerful city-states, including ur, uruk, lagash, umma, eridu, and nippur. at times they were in competition with each other, and at other times they banded together to fight common enemies. the earliest written records of the first sumerian societies also date from about this time (c. 4,000 bce. it is significant that these records, written in the form of clay tablets, were about the operation of temples. thus, already by the time of the first real towns and cities in human history, mesopotamian religion had already become well organized. various clay tablets have been found with details of the religion, as well as sacred ve

ex in ur, for instance, honored the moon god sin (also called nanna by the sumerians. the city of uruk had both a temple to inanna and a ziggurat dedicated to anu. the complexes were managed by specialist priests, who were the only people allowed to worship the deities. the akkadians the development of religion in mesopotamia followed the movement of peoples in the region. historians say that the sumerian civilization lasted from about 3500 to about 2000 bce. sargon the great (reigned c. 2334 c. 2279 bce, the king of akkad, a territory to the north of sumer, created the first great empire in mesopotamia by conquering sumer. sargon brought many of his own akkadian gods into sumer with his armies. he did not, however, engineer the destruction of the sumerian gods. instead, a unique mixture o

lization lasted from about 3500 to about 2000 bce. sargon the great (reigned c. 2334 c. 2279 bce, the king of akkad, a territory to the north of sumer, created the first great empire in mesopotamia by conquering sumer. sargon brought many of his own akkadian gods into sumer with his armies. he did not, however, engineer the destruction of the sumerian gods. instead, a unique mixture of gods, part sumerian and part akkadian, formed a new pantheon. the akkadians did, however, make one important change in sumerian culture. king sargon and his successors took on tasks formerly divided between two different types of leaders: the en, a permanent religious and social administrator, and the lugal, a temporary leader in times of war. strong rulers such as sargon, however, merged these functions int

f leaders: the en, a permanent religious and social administrator, and the lugal, a temporary leader in times of war. strong rulers such as sargon, however, merged these functions into one, taking power away from the priestly class. naram-sin, who ruled from about 2254 to 2218 bce, took this trend to an extreme and proclaimed himself a living god. in general the akkadians incorporated elements of sumerian religion. the original sumerian pantheon of gods was never destroyed but instead 40 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia was added to and further refined. through successive rulers, including hammurabi (1792 1769 bce) and a host of others, the religious system continued. there may have been new rulers, but the gods were eternal. the names of the gods changed

troyed but instead 40 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia was added to and further refined. through successive rulers, including hammurabi (1792 1769 bce) and a host of others, the religious system continued. there may have been new rulers, but the gods were eternal. the names of the gods changed, however, as did the emphasis of religion. for example, nanna was the sumerian god of the moon. in akkadian, the language of sargon and his people, nanna was called sin or suen. inanna, mistress of heaven, became ishtar in akkadian. the direction of religion also changed over time. the early sumerians believed that humanity, after it was created, was given a divine spark by the god enlil. this not only made people the servants of the gods during their lifetimes, but

e who came from high mountain regions brought gods of thunder and lightning. ancient egyptian gods were often depicted in human form, although they could appear with the head of an animal. among the central deities were horus (left, with the head of a falcon, osiris, and isis. adam woolfitt/ corbis. 46 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia the three chief gods in the sumerian pantheon were an, the sky god, enlil, the god of weather and storms, and enki, god of wisdom and the abzu. other important deities included the mother goddess, ninhursag; nanna, god of the moon who helped travelers find their way; utu, sun god and the watchful eye of justice; and inanna, the goddess of love and war and the one who guaranteed the kingship. inanna in particular had a strong

god and the watchful eye of justice; and inanna, the goddess of love and war and the one who guaranteed the kingship. inanna in particular had a strong and lasting influence on mesopotamian culture. she was featured in many fertility rites, but was also called upon in time of war. over the course of time, with movements of new people into the area, the names of the gods changed. for instance, the sumerian goddess innana received the akkadian name of ishtar, just as nanna later became sin and enki became ea. beliefs in ancient egypt egyptians believed that the world was brought into being by atum or ra, whose descendants were osiris, set, and isis. these, however, were just a fraction of the gods worshipped by egyptians. some estimates put the total number as high as one or two thousand dif

holy command of an! the great rites are yours: who can fathom them? destroyer of foreign lands, you confer strength on the storm. beloved of enlil, you have made awesome terror weight upon the land. you stand at the service of an s commands. the exaltation of inana (inana b: translation. in black, j. a, cunningham, g, fluckiger-hawker, e, robson, e, and zo lyomi, g. the electronic text corpus of sumerian literature (http//www-etcsl. orient.ox.ac.uk, oxford, england, 1998. hymn to ra homage to thee, o thou glorious being, thou who art dowered [with all sovereignty (power. o tem-heru-khuti (tem-haramkhis, when thou risest in the horizon of heaven a cry of joy goeth forth to thee from all people. o thou beautiful being, thou dost renew thyself in thy season in the form of the disk, within th

ation of numbers occurs in ancient mesopotamia. before about 3,000 bce numbers were recorded using tokens that symbolized the items counted. but after 3,000 bce these tokens were replaced by marks representing quantities. by 2,000 bce the sumerians had developed a complete system of mathematics. similar wedge-shaped marks, called cuneiform by archaeologists and historians, formed the basis of the sumerian system of writing, which remained in use for thousands of years. thousands of mathematical and economic tablets have been recovered from this time period. there are multiplication tables, tables of squares, square roots, and other mathematical figurings. there are also lists of problems for teachers to set and solutions given by students. the mesopotamians used algebraic equations to solv

egyptian book of the dead. parts translated by e.a. wallis budge and allen and faulkner. touregypt.net. http//www.touregypt.net/bkofdead.htm (accessed may 17, 2006. egyptology online. http//www.egyptologyonline.com (accessed on may 17, 2006. the exaltation of inana( inana b: translation. in black, j. a, cunningham, g, fluckiger-hawker, e, robson, e, and zo lyomi, g. the electronic text corpus of sumerian literature, oxford, england, 1998. http//www-etcsl. orient.ox.ac.uk (accessed on may 17, 2006. hymn to ra. internet ancient history sourcebook. http//www.fordham.edu/ halsall/ancient/ra-ani.html (accessed on may 17, 2006. life in ancient egypt. carnegie museum of natural history. http//www. carnegiemnh.org/exhibits/egypt/guide.htm (accessed on may 17, 2006. mesopotamian religion and magic

story to consider. please write to editors, world religions: biographies, u x l, 27500 drake road, farmington hills, michigan 48331-3535; call toll-free 800-877-4253; send faxes to 248-699-8097; or send e-mail via http//www.gale.com. world religions: biographies xi reader s guide this page intentionally left blank timeline of events c. 2300 c. 2260 bce life span of enheduanna. the daughter of the sumerian ruler sargon of akkad, enheduanna is made high priestess to the sumerian moon god, nanna, beginning a tradition that will last for the next five hundred years among the princesses of the kings of the middle eastern region of mesopotamia. enheduanna also establishes the religious cult of inanna, the daughter of the moon god. c. 2050 c. 1950 bce life span of abraham, a central figure in thr

: c. 2260 bce mesopotamia mesopotamian princess; priestess; poet the day was favorable for her, she was clothed sumptuously/ she was garbed in womanly beauty/ like the light of the rising moon/ how she was sumptuously attired. enheduanna is often referred to by historians as the first female poet and is even considered by some to be the first known author in all of literature. the daughter of the sumerian king sargon i of akkad (ruled c. 2334 c. 2279 bce, enheduanna was a high priestess to the sumerian moon god, nanna. as a priestess, enheduanna was regarded as having near-divine power herself. she chose nanna s daughter, inanna, a fertility goddess and the goddess of war, to be her personal goddess and protector. enheduanna established the religious cult of inanna and helped to spread bel

of these were the sky god, an; the storm god and earth god, enlil; and the water god, ea, who was sometimes also called the god of wisdom. these were followed in importance by a second threesome composed of the moon god, nanna; the sun god, utu; and the goddess of fertility and war, inanna. the temple complex in the city of ur honored nanna. uruk, one of the leading cultural centers of the early sumerian period, had temples to inanna and an. priests managed the running of the temples. ordinary citizens did not take part in the worship of the statues built to represent the various deities (gods and goddesses. enheduanna is depicted making offerings to inanna. university of pennsylvania museum( image 166665. enheduanna 122 world religions: biographies sumer was conquered around 2330 bce by

the rule sargon i, the father of enheduanna and the leader of the akkadians. sargon became the first semitic king of mesopotamia and the first ruler ever to conquer and hold an empire. his realm stretched from the mediterranean sea to the persian gulf. the empire lasted some 160 years, and sargon himself ruled for fiftyfive of those years. little is known of sargon s early life. according to one sumerian legend, he was born near the banks of the euphrates river to a high priestess who found it necessary to hide her baby. she set him afloat in a reed basket that was later found by a gardener named akki, who raised the baby as his own. the goddess inanna took a liking to the boy and protected him. before long he became a cupbearer to the king of kish, a city in the north of sumer, and then

re long he became a cupbearer to the king of kish, a city in the north of sumer, and then later king himself. he founded the city of akkad, which archaeologists (people who study the remains of past human life) believe was located near the modern-day city of baghdad, iraq. sargon fought many battles during his reign. some accounts total his victories at thirty-four, including the victory over the sumerian king that united akkad and sumer. the akkadians introduced many new gods when they conquered sumer, but they did not forbid the sumerians from continuing to worship their former gods. sargon did take power away from the priest class by combining the offices of the ensi, the chief civil and religious leader, and the lugal, the temporary leader taken on in time of war. the new position was

est class by combining the offices of the ensi, the chief civil and religious leader, and the lugal, the temporary leader taken on in time of war. the new position was known as ensi. by incorporating these functions, sargon fused the temporary civil leader with the permanent religious leader, and thereby reduced the political strength of the priests. in general, the akkadians combined elements of sumerian religion with their own rather than rejecting it. sargon appointed his firstborn daughter as the en, or priestess, to the sumerian god nanna in the city of ur. this may have been done to encourage the sumerian people to think of sargon less as a foreign invader and more as a rightful ruler chosen by the gods. nanna, the moon god, was the firstborn of enlil and ninlil, the goddess of earth

tly due to enheduanna s focus on the goddess that inanna became the most important deity in mesopotamia for more than five hundred years. inanna was the daughter of nanna, the moon god, and the twin sister of utu, the sun god. she was represented in the heavens by the planet venus. in fact, astronomers (scientists who study the planets and the stars) named a continent on that planet after her. in sumerian the name inanna means great lady of an, with an being the god of heaven. when she first began to be worshipped by the sumerians, inanna symbolized the life force and was the goddess of both sexuality and fertility. when displeased, she could destroy crops and make women unable to bear children. among the assyrians and akkadians to the north, she was worshipped as the goddess of war and th

were also responsible for composing hymns, songs, and poetry honoring the deities. some of the historical knowledge of enheduanna comes through the hymns she composed to inanna. these hymns were later transcribed in cuneiform, wedge-shaped writing carved with a pointed stick on clay tablets. more than one hundred such tablets are believed to be the work of enheduanna because they were written in sumerian. her father, sargon, typically wrote in akkadian. at least six different compositions have been attributed to enheduanna from the tablets, the most well-known and completely translated of which is the exaltation of inanna. historians and archaeologists have given these hymns sumerian titles taken from their first lines. therefore the exaltation of inanna is also sometimes called nin-me-sa

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ng the inscription, aberamentho.25 this name also appears as a name of jesus in a formula-like phrase repeated three times in the untitled treatise (book iv) at the end of codex askewianus "jesus who is aberamentho (chs. 136, 139, 141).26 noting that aberamentho is a name of seth-typhon in a spell in the demotic leiden papyrus, and that the same spell also calls him by the name of ereshkigal, the sumerian goddess of the underworld,27 f.c. burkitt proposed that jesus' title, aberamentho, identified him as rhadamanthus, because nradamanyu! in aeolic is spelled as bradamanyu "if the medial d between the two a's was dropped or misread, something very much like aberamentho is the result (church and gnosis [cambridge 1932] 83. but this explanation is not sustainable. it may be said that "rhadama

TEXE MARRS CODEX MAGICA SECRET SIGNS MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS AND HIDDEN CODES OF THE ILLUMINATI

nd commander henry c. clausen, 33, who was appointed in 1942 by president roosevelt to head up the commission to investigate the pearl harbor attack, writes that the footsteps of the order go deep, and its symbols are thousands of years old "they arose in ancient ages" clausen states "the signs, symbols, and inscriptions come to us from across long, drifting centuries and will be found in ancient sumerian clay tablet libraries of the cities of lir, lagash, and others of the first 20 codex magica true urban civilization. this, occurred about 600 years before egypt was civilized."17 in other words, clausen is telling his masonic readers that their signs and symbols came from babylon. the holy bible warns that the ancient mystery religion of wicked babylon will bounce back into demonic preval

..the same symbol is found in the most ancient religions and some of their analogies to masonic symbolism are peculiar" mackey revealingly says that the hand is deemed important "as that symbol of mystical intelligence by which one mason knows another in the dark as well as in the light" he goes on to discuss the use of the hand in such ancient mystery religions as mithraism and in worship of the sumerian, assyrian, and babylonian gods. he notes that the tradition of the red seal attached to important documents is a throwback to the ancient use of the bloody hand as a way of authenticating documents. examples of grips and handshakes i have included in this section of codex magica drawings of a number of masonic handshakes taken from official masonic publications and from other objective so

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er, and it has come to be acknowledged as the cradle of civilization all because of a starburst. astronomers recognize that the nearest and brightest supernova that has ever been witnessed by humankind was vela x, now a faintly flashing pulsar about 1,300 light-years from our solar system. george michanowsky, a specialist in mesopotamian astronomy, saw how the first and most fundamental symbol of sumerian script was one which represented star. he went on to show how the very first word ever written by a human hand soon became linked with the symbol for deity, thus communicating star god. michanowsky saw the deathblaze of vela x to have been such a dramatic sky show that it became a profound cultural organizing principle that forced human knowledge to take a giant leap forward. but was ther

gave the sumerians insight into letters and sciences and every kind of art. he taught them to construct houses, to found temples, to compile laws, and explained to them the principles of geometrical knowledge. he made them distinguish the seeds of the earth, and showed them how to collect fruits. in short, he instructed them in everything that could tend to soften their manners and humanize them. sumerian astronomers became so accurate in their science that their measurements on the rotation of the moon is off only 0.4 from modern, computerized figures. one pictograph depicts the planets revolving around the sun something that copernicus and kepler postulated only 500 years ago. at the height of the greek civilization, the highest known number was 10,000. after that sum, the greek mathemat

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

emotions, the senses, the intellect, and the imagination. to carry out these duties, the ego relies on discrimination, reason, and certain defense mechanisms that often conflict with other aspects of the psyche, sometimes posing obstacles to growth and healing. archetypes of the ego include all deities who have "walked between the worlds" of life and death (conscious and subconscious, such as the sumerian inanna and the egyptian osiris. 4. the field of consciousness, whch contains the ego, is the incessant flow of observable images, feelings, thoughts, sensations, and impulses. archetypes of this region include several groups of deities with a variety of attributions: wisdom (enki, thoth, hermes; love (hathor, aphrodite; war (horns, ares; pleasure (bes, pan; etc. 5. the higher unconscious

7 7. the lower unconscious contains fundamental drives, primitive urges, inferior dreams, and complexes. this is the personal unconscious which is the storehouse of hidden memories, repressed psychic content, and the shadow personality. this part of the psyche is accessed by working with hypnosis, trance, and imagery. archetypes of the lower unconscious include all underworld deities, such as the sumerian goddess ereshkigal and the greek divinities hades and persephone. if we were to add anything to assagioli's model it would be the body, or manifest psyche, which must be considered in a holistic psychology. mind and body are interrelated extensions of one another. just as physical discomfort can affect the mind, the mind, through focused visualization, can affect the body. archetypes of t

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uage which has been closely allied to that of the aryan race, having in fact many words identical to that of sanskrit (and, it is said, to chinese. for no one knows where the sumerians came from, and they vanished just as mysteriously as they appeared, after the assyrian invasions which decimated their culture, yet providing the assyrians with much of their mythology and religion; so much so that sumerian became the official language of the state church, much as latin is today of the roman catholic church. they had a list of their kings before the flood, which even they carefully chronicled, as did many another ancient civilisation around the world. it is believed that they had a sophisticated system of astronomy (and astrology) as well as an equally religious rituale. magick, as well in h

ty of his pantheon, cthulhu, a sea monster who lies "not dead, but dreaming" below the world; an ancient one and supposed enemy of mankind and the intelligent race. cthulhu is accompanied by an assortment of other grotesqueries, such as azathot and shub niggurath. it is of extreme importance to occult scholars that many of these deities had actual counterparts, at least in name, to deities of the sumerian tradition, that same tradition that the magus aleister crowley deemed it so necessary to "rediscover. the underworld in ancient sumer was known by many names, among them absu or "abyss, sometimes as nar mattaru, the great underworld ocean, and also as cutha or kutu as it is called in the enuma elish (the creation epic of the sumerians. the phonetic similarity between cutha and kutu and ch

aleister crowley deemed it so necessary to "rediscover. the underworld in ancient sumer was known by many names, among them absu or "abyss, sometimes as nar mattaru, the great underworld ocean, and also as cutha or kutu as it is called in the enuma elish (the creation epic of the sumerians. the phonetic similarity between cutha and kutu and chthonic, as well as cthulhu, is striking. judging by a sumerian grammar at hand, the word kutulu or cuthalu (lovecraft's's cthulhu sumerianised) would mean "the man of kutu (cutha; the man of the underworld; satan or shaitan, as he is known to the yezidis (whom crowley considered to be the remnants of the sumerian tradition. the list of similarities, both between lovecraft's creations and the sumerian gods, as well as between lovecraft's mythos and cr

ew examples should suffice. although a list is appended hereto containing various entities and concepts of lovecraft, crowley, and sumeria cross-referenced, it will do to show how the editor found relationships to be valid and even startling. azatot is frequently mentioned in the grim pages of the cthulhu mythos, and appears in the necronomicon as azag-thoth, a combination of two words, the first sumerian and the second coptic, which gives us a clue as to its identity. azag in sumerian means "enchanter" or "magician; thoth in coptic is the name given to the egyptian god of magick and wisdom, tahuti, who was evoked by both the golden dawn and by crowley himself (and known to the greeks as hermes, from whence we get "hermetic. azag-thoth is, therefore, a lord of magicians, but of the "black"

ptic is the name given to the egyptian god of magick and wisdom, tahuti, who was evoked by both the golden dawn and by crowley himself (and known to the greeks as hermes, from whence we get "hermetic. azag-thoth is, therefore, a lord of magicians, but of the "black" magicians, or the sorcerers of the "other side. there is a seeming reference to shub niggurath in the necronomicon, in the name of a sumerian deity, the "answerer of prayers, called ishnigarrab. the word "shub" is to be found in the sumerian language in reference to the rite of exorcism, one of which is called nam shub and means "the throwing. it is, however, as yet unclear as to what the combination shub ishnigarrab (shub niggurath) might actually mean. there was a battle between the forces of "light" and "darkness (so-called)

onomicon and identified as the vanquisher of death, for she descended into the underworld and defeated her sister, the goddess of the abyss, queen ereshkigal (possibly another name for tiamat. interestingly enough, the myth has many parallels with the christian concept of christ's death and resurrection, among which the crucifixion (inanna was impaled on a stake as a corpse, the three days in the sumerian hades, and the eventual resurrection are outstanding examples of how sumerian mythology previewed the christian religion by perhaps as many as three thousand years- a fact that beautifully illustrates the cosmic and eternal nature of this myth. therefore, the goddess of the witches has two distinct forms: the ancient one, goddess of the dragon-like telluric power which is raised in magick

the dragon-like telluric power which is raised in magickal rituals, and the elder goddess, defeater of death, who brings the promise of resurrection and rejuvenation to her followers those who must reside for a time after death and between incarnations in what is called the "summerland. sumer-land? another hallmark of the craft of the wise is evident within the necronomicon, as well as in general sumerian literature, and that is the arrangement of the cross-quarter days, which make up half of the craft's official pagan holidays. these occur on the eves of february 2nd, may 1st, august 1st, and november 1st, and are called candlemas, beltane, lammas and samhain (or hallows, respectively. the name lammas has a curious origin in the dunes at sumer. it is not less than the name of one of the f

s not less than the name of one of the four mythological beasts of the astrological fixed signs, lamas being the name of the half-lion, half-man guardian of leo (the sign governing most of august, when the feast of lammas takes place, and ustur being that of aquarius (february, sed that of taurus (may) and nattig that of scorpio (november. i do not believe that this is a fantastic assumption, the sumerian origin of the feast of lammas. indeed, it seems just as valid as the ideas of idries shah concerning craft etymology as presented in his book, the sufis. it is also not far-fetched to assume that these four beasts were known to the entire region of the middle east, as they appear on the sphinx in egypt, and have become the symbols of the four evangelists of the christian new testament- an

ligious historians concerning the ancient mysteries! probable the most inconsistent concept the sumerians possesses with reference to the craft is the naming of the goddess as a deity, not of the moon (as the craft would have it, but of the planet venus. the moon was governed by a male divinity, nanna (like inanna but minus the initial 'i, and was considered the father of the gods by the earliest sumerian religion. it should be noted, however, that all of the planetary deities, termed "the zoned ones" or zonei in greek, and indeed all of the sumerian deities, had both male and female manifestations, showing that the sumerians definitely recognised a yin-yang composition if the universe (the "male moon" idea is, the editor is given to understand, common to so-called aryan mythologies. there

e particularly aware, and which they depicted constantly in their carvings and statues. the purpose of this iconography was to ward off the spiritual- and psychic- circumstances which would precipitate a plague, or some other evil "evil to destroy evil" although the ancient people of the world were conscious of an entity we might call the :author of all evil, the devil or satan, as evident in the sumerian creation epic and the rumoured existences of the cult of set of the egyptians, the more pressing concern was usually the exorcism of tiamat, she exists, somehow, just as the abyss exists and is perhaps indispensable to human life if we think of her as typifying the female quality of energy. although marduk was responsible for halving the monster from the sea, the sumerian tradition has it

t the monster is not dead, but dreaming, asleep below the surface of the earth, strong, potent, dangerous, and very real. her powers can be tapped by the knowledgeable "who are skilful to rouse leviathan" although the christian religion has gone to great lengths to prove that the devil is inferior to god and exists solely for his purpose, as the tempter of man- surely a dubious raison d'etre- the sumerian tradition acknowledges that the person of "evil" is actually the oldest, most ancient of the gods. whereas christianity states that lucifer was a rebel in heaven, and fell from god's grace to ignominy below, the original story was that marduk was the rebel, and severed the body of the ancient of ancient ones to create the cosmos in other words, the precise reverse of the judeo-christian d

which came first, the chicken or the egg. for instance, in the magan text, the final verses read though from the chaldean oracles of zoroaster "stoop not down, therefore, into the darkly shining world" which might have been of greek origin and not zoroastrian. it is a question for scholars. the etymology of certain words is a game that has fascinated both the editor and perhaps a score or more of sumerian researches of the past. the sumerian origin of many of the words and place-names we use today provides us with an insight into our own origins. for instance, the sumerian word for the temple is bar, from which we get our word "barrier, or so it is said by waddell. this makes sense in the context with the erecting and maintaining of barriers against the hostile forces outside. the etymolog

l we read that the word aum was known to the sumerians, in almost the same sense that it was, and is, known to the hindus. it is a sacred word, and pertains to the lord of magicians, enki. further, the greek spelling of enki was ea, by which he is most commonly known in the european texts which treat of sumeriology. in the greek alphabet, ea would appear as ha. q.e.d: aum.ha betrays the essential sumerian character of that book. after the initial testimony, we come to the chapter entitles "of the zonei and their attributes, zonei is, of course a greek word and refers to the planetary, or heavenly bodies; for they are "zoned, i.e, having set courses and spheres. they are also known as such in the chaldean oracles. the 'spirits' or bodies that exist beyond the zonei are called the azonei, me

ts, is unknown to the editor. whatever the case may be, the zonei seem to include the seven philosophical planets, i.e, including the sun and moon as planetary bodies, along with mercury, venus, mars, jupiter and saturn. each has their own seal and their own number. kenneth grant, author of aleister crowley and the hidden god, may be interested to know (or may already know) that the number of the sumerian goddess of venus, hence of love and war, is fifteen. in many of the ancient tablets of that period, she is actually referred to as "the fifteen, as a shortcut to spelling out the whole name in cuneiform, was assume. grant made much of "the goddess fifteen" in his study of crowley's system as related to tantricism, without mentioning the name by which this goddess is quite well-known, or e

what other initiates in similar systems have expressed in the vague abstractions of the truly illuminated, likening the experience to an lsd trip. the "incantations of the gates" follow, and are probably meant to accompany the preceding chapter, being prayers proper to each of the celestial gates. the "conjuration of the fire god" follows this, and resembles the others in its mixture of greek and sumerian phrases. it should be noted here that wherever a sumerian phrases. it should be noted here that wherever a sumerian phrase appears in the original ms. we have kept it as it is, untranslated, as we expect the mad arab would have wanted it. quite possibly, even he did not know the exact meaning of much of the conjurations in the old tongue, but viewed it as a 'barbarous' tongue' which must

noted here that wherever a sumerian phrase appears in the original ms. we have kept it as it is, untranslated, as we expect the mad arab would have wanted it. quite possibly, even he did not know the exact meaning of much of the conjurations in the old tongue, but viewed it as a 'barbarous' tongue' which must be preserved because of its essential power. indeed, with the publication of this book, sumerian may become as popular among magicians as the strange, angelic language of enochian, discovered by dr. dee in elizabeth england. in greek, in the original ms, a common incantation would look something like this (using roman characters for the greek 'o kakos theos 'o kakos daimon 'o daimon pneuma tou ouranou thumethere! pneuma tes ges thumethate (o wicked god o wicked demon o demon spirit o

- after much the same fashion that the chief of police of amity slays the great white shark in benchley's novel jaws, blowing an evil wind (the oxygen tank) into her mouth and sending in an arrow (bullet) in after it to explode her. surely, the two or three most box-office successful films of the past few years, jaws, the exoricst and, perhaps, the godfather, are an indication that the essence of sumerian mythology is making itself felt in a very real way in this, the latter half of the twentieth century? after the long and poetic magan text, comes the urillia text which might be lovecraft's r'lyeh text, and is subtitled "abominations. it has more specifically to do with the worship of the serpent, and the nature of the cults that participate in the concelebration of sin. again, more conju

om england who had established a covenstead of sorts in new york. in that story, published in weird tales in 1936, the cult leader is closely identified with chthonic forces, is described as "notorious, and linked to the strange fate that befell the protagonist, edward derby) supplementary material to 777 the chart that follows is based on research presently available to the editor with regard to sumerian and assyro-babylonian religions. entries in parentheses refer to the state of correspondences before the advert of the elder gods, the race of marduk; that is, it reflects the nature of the cosmos before the fall of marduk from heaven (names of zodiacal constellations are after budge's renderings) table vii [a.c] table xxv [s] 0. anu (tiamat) 1. sphere of the primum mobile enlil (absu) 2

umunpaddu 22. libra zibanitum (ravening dog) 23. water badur 24. scorpio akrabu (scorpion-man) 25. sagittarius pa-bil-sag (hurricane) 26. capricorn suxur mash (fish-man) 27. mars mastabarru 28. aquarius gula (horned beast) 29. pisces dilgan u rikis nuni (weapon) 30. sun shamash 30. fire ag 30. saturn kaimanu 30 (bis) earth kia 30 (bis) spirit zi notes on pronunciation we cannot be absolutely how sumerian and akkadian were spoken; but many useful guidelines are available to the student, including the transliterated tablets found all over mesopotamia. basically, we can offer the following principles which should prove of value in reciting the foreign language instructions: vowels a as in "father" e as in "whey" i as in "antique" o as in "boat (but rarely found) u as in "zulu" consonants mos

anguage instructions: vowels a as in "father" e as in "whey" i as in "antique" o as in "boat (but rarely found) u as in "zulu" consonants most are basically the same as in english. the sumerians did not have an alphabet as we know it, but they had developed a syllabary, very much like the japanese "kana" script of today. in phonetic transliterations, the english spelling sought to approximate the sumerian pronunciation. however, there are a few sounds which english does not possess, and which have been put into phonetic variations. important examples below: x as in the german "ach" ch (same as above) q as in "like" k (same as above) sh as in "shall" ss as in, perhaps "lasso; a hissing "s" common to arabic languages z as in "lots; a hard "ts" sound, not quite as in "zoo" remember, in the tr

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e was affected. when her parents came home they expressed concern because her eyes were glassy and her right eye seemed to have a cast. the sample pill proved to be a sulfa drug normally prescribed for infections of the urinary tract" the possible significance of the "sulfa" drugs will become apparent later on in these 'files. case file #9: from: robin collyns [article source/title uncertain..old sumerian, babylonian, egyptian, and greek legends refer to the "serpent" deities who were believed to have once resided in the "underworld. the garden of eden in this context takes on additional interest and significance, possibly of paramount importance. pristine legends from australia and the pacific islands offer innumerable references to serpent deities/beings who were anciently associated wit

it. below is the mechanism or rather the connection between reptilian, satanism and blooddrinking/sacrifices, etc. very interesting. show this to your kids or potential satanists who think it is only a fad or game. icke wrote "the black magic rituals we know as satanism are the modern expression of the rituals and human sacrifice in ancient babylon and the brotherhood infiltrated societies of the sumerian, phoenician, hittite, egyptian, canaanite and akkadian, peoples, among many others across the world. it has been a seamless procession through history of the same rituals to the same deities and this remains of fundamental importance to the initiates of the brotherhood today. my use of the term satanism has nothing to do with the christian version of satan. i use it only to describe a sys

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