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.An exorcism text from the time of the thirddynasty of Ur speaks of the anunna eridu ninnubi ("the fifty Anunnaki of the city Eridu").This stronglysuggests that the group of Nefilim who founded Eridu under the command of Enki numbered fifty.Could it be that fifty was the number of Nefilim in each landing party?It is, we believe, quite conceivable that the Nefilim arrived on Earth in groups of fifty.As the visits toEarth became regular, coinciding with the opportune launching times from the Twelfth Planet, moreNefilim would arrive.Each time, some of the earlier arrivals would ascend in an Earth module andrejoin the spaceship for a trip home.But, each time, more Nefilim would stay on Earth, and the numberof Twelfth Planet astronauts who stayed to colonize Earth grew from the initial landing party of fifty tothe "600 who on Earth settled."How did the Nefilim expect to achieve their mission - to mine on Earth its desired minerals, and ship theingots back to the Twelfth Planet - with such a small number of hands?Undoubtedly, they relied on their scientific knowledge.It was there that Enki's full value becomes clear- the reason for his, rather than Enlil's, being the first to land, the reason for his assignment to the Abzu.A famous seal now on exhibit at the Louvre Museum shows Ea with his familiar flowing waters, exceptthat the waters seem to emanate from, or be filtered through, a series of laboratory flasks.Such anancient interpretation of Ea's association with waters raises the possibility that the original hope of theNefilim was to obtain their minerals from the sea.The oceans' waters do contain vast quantities of goldand other vital minerals, but so greatly diluted that highly sophisticated and cheap techniques are neededto justify such "water mining." It is also known that the sea beds contain immense quantities of mineralsin the form of plum-sized nodules - available if only one could reach deep down and scoop them up.The ancient texts refer repeatedly to a type of ship used by the gods called elippu tebiti ("sunken ship" -what we now call a submarine).We have seen the "fish-men" that were assigned to Ea.Is this evidenceof efforts to dive to the depths of the oceans and retrieve their mineral riches? The Land of the Mines,we have noted, was earlier called A.RA.LI.- "place of the waters of the shiny lodes." This could mean aland where gold could be river-panned; it could also refer to efforts to obtain gold from the seas.If these were the plans of the Nefilim, they apparently came to naught.For, soon after they hadestablished their first settlements, the few hundred Anunnaki were given an unexpected and mostarduous task: to go down into the depths of the African soil and mine the needed minerals there.Depictions that have been found on cylinder seals show gods at what appear to be mine entrances ormine shafts; one shows Ea in a land where Gibil is aboveground and another god toils underground, onhis hands and knees.In later times, Babylonian and Assyrian texts disclose, men - young and old - were sentenced to hardlabor in the mines of the Lower World.Working in darkness and eating dust as food, they were doomednever to return to their homeland.This is why the Sumerian epithet for the land - KUR.NU.GI.A -acquired the interpretation "land of no return"; its literal meaning was "land where gods-who-work, indeep tunnels pile up [the ores]." For the time when the Nefilim settled Earth, all the ancient sourcesattest, was a time when Man was not yet on Earth; and in the absence of Mankind, the few Anunnakihad to toil in the mines.Ishtar, on her descent to the Lower World, described the toiling Anunnaki aseating food mixed with clay and drinking water fouled with dust.Against this background, we can fully understand a long epic text named (after its opening verse, as wasthe custom), "When the gods, like men, bore the work."Piecing together many fragments of both Babylonian and Assyrian versions, W.G.Lambert and A.R.Millard (Atra-Hasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood) were able to present a continuous text.Theyreached the conclusion that it was based on earlier Sumerian versions, and possibly on even earlier oraltraditions about the arrival of the gods on Earth, the creation of Man, and his destruction by the Deluge.While many of the verses hold only literary value to their translators, we find them highly significant,for they corroborate our findings and conclusions in the preceding chapters.They also explain thecircumstances that led to the mutiny of the Anunnaki.The story begins in the time when only the gods lived on Earth:When the gods, like men,bore the work and suffered the toil -the toil of the gods was great,the work was heavy,the distress was much.At that time, the epic relates, the chief deities had already divided the commands among themselves.Anu, father of the Anunnaki, was their Heavenly King;Their Lord Chancellor was the warrior Enlil.Their Chief Officer was Ninurta,And their Sheriff was Ennugi.The gods had clasped hands together,Had cast lots and divided.Anu had gone up to heaven,[Left] the earth to his subjects.The seas, enclosed as with a loop,They had given to Enki, the prince.Seven cities were established, and the text refers to seven Anunnaki who were city commanders.Discipline must have been strict, for the text tells us "The seven Great Anunnaki were making the lessergods suffer the work."Of all their chores, it seems, digging was the most common, the most arduous, and the most abhorred.The lesser gods dug up the river beds to make them navigable; they dug canals for irrigation; and theydug in the Apsu to bring up the minerals of Earth.Though they undoubtedly had some sophisticatedtools - the texts spoke of the "silver axe which shines as the day," even underground - the work was tooexacting.For a long time - for forty "periods," to be exact - the Anunnaki "suffered the toil"; and thenthey cried: No more!They were complaining, backbiting, Grumbling in the excavations.The occasion for the mutiny appears to have been a visit by Enlil to the mining area.Seizing theopportunity, the Anunnaki said to one another:Let us confront our.the Chief Officer, That he may relieve us of our heavy work.The king of thegods, the hero Enlil, Let us unnerve him in his dwelling!A leader or organizer of the mutiny was soon found.He was the "chief officer of old time," who musthave held a grudge against the current chief officer [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]