The Egyptian hieroglyphic for neter (god) is a mining pick
axe. The images of the underworld (Tuat, Gehanna, Jahannum)
as a hot, tortuous place beneath the earth is rooted in the thousands
of years the Jinn (Anunnaki) gods spent in the mines digging for
gold. The “underworld” appears to be both a specific
and general name for important gold-bearing places lower in latitude
than Sumer and Egypt. The Underworld might also refer to Antartica,
which, as evidenced by the Piri Reis maps, was once green land not
covered by the glacial sheet of ice.
The Abzu of Enki was in Southern Africa where evidence of advanced,
technological civilizations remains and where gold mining operations
occurred at least 100,000 years ago. There were large Anunnaki gold
mining operations also in South America where, according to Sitchen,
Tehuti (Thoth/Ningishzidda) set up shop after being kicked out of
Egypt by Marduk/Ra. In the Americas Tehuti was called Quetzalcoatl,
the Feathered Serpent. The Anannuki had to work hard at mining and
other planetary construction projects which they didn’t enjoy
one bit.
Some modern writers, among them Egyptian Moustafa Gadella, posit
that King Solomon was really Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III and that King
David was Twtmosis III (Twt-mos-is). Outside of Semitic religious
texts, no evidence exists of any kings in Palestine names David or
Solomon. If they existed, surrounded as they are by Syria,
Egypt, Babylon, Persian and Arabia, one would expect to find treaties
or records of war or trade with them. No such evidence has been
found. Either they are fictional characters or they existed in a
different time and/or place than we imagine.
Readers may be surprised to know that there is no independent, non-semetic
religious evidence for many events and people in Bible and Quran
including: Jesus, Moses, the Exodus, David, Solomon or Abraham. They
point out that Sulayman (Solomon) means peace and that the hotep
part of Amenhotep means peace. The root letters of Dawud (David)
are DWD which are, etymologically, the same as the Kamitic (ancient
Egyptian) TWT, the main part of Twtmosis. Gadalla also shows that
there is no record or corroboration for any of David’s campaigns,
but there is ample evidence for Amenhotep making those campaigns.
An event like the alleged Exodus – where the “leader
of the free world” (Pharaoh) was supposedly drowned to death
- would be thoroughly recorded by Egyptians, Syrians, Babylonians,
Iranians and just about everyone else. Yet no civilization corroborates
the semitic story of a mass Hebrew exodus from Egypt. Something like
the parting of the Red Sea would’ve gotten people’s attention.
Scholars take great pains to try to match “known” (actually,
assumed) dates with alleged Biblical events. The problem is
two-fold. First, no-one really knows the dates when any of the
known events occurred such as the reigns of Pharaohs, the various
famines, wars or deaths. That is because those cultures didn’t
use 1521 BC as their dating system and scholars have failed to unearth
the ancient dating system. Farther back in time the ancients may
have counted in sars, not years, and Sitchen says a sar is equivalent
to 3,600 earth years. Secondly, Christionized scholars are locked into
a 6,000 year paradigm because a Catholic priest claimed to have calculated
the creation of Adam back to a day in September 4000 BC. So they
try to squeeze all of human history into very narrow dates. Instead
of a paltry 6,000 years, the Sumerian Kings List covers 241,200 years
of civilization before the Flood.
Persian culture – far more ancient than Hebrew civilization
- claims ten kings named Sulayman. In all likelihood, the
Biblical Sulayman was derived from them.
Many Biblical angels and characters were taken out of the African
Canaanites’ religion. But instead of using the Canaanite
history as their research base, many researchers use the bible, the
Talmud and Haggadah. If used at all, these should be supplementary
texts. The Old Testament was put together by Ezra and his subordinates
after the Jewish Exile in Babylon. Just as later messianic
Jews used “Babylon” as a code word for Rome (see Revelation),
earlier Jews used “Egypt” as a code for the nation they
felt was oppressing them, Babylon. In Babylon the Jews lost much
of their culture, religion, language and texts. Ten whole tribes
disappeared.
Upon their release from captivity they had to re-create their scriptures
based upon competing stories (Eloahist and Yahvist), fragments of
history, and no real knowledge of the former language. The Bible
compilers, in some cases, just mashed together the two sects’ traditions
which is why there are two opposing creation stories in Genesis.
In Genesis chapter 1 “male and female” are created by
the Elohim. But in the very next chapter “there was no
man to till the ground” so Yahweh has to make one, cut his
rib out and makes a wife who gets tempted by a snake.
The bible should not be used as an authoritative historical source
of information. It can, however, supplement other research.
To be continued ……
Amir is a student of many ancient spiritual
traditions including Egyptian, Sumerian, Yogic and Taoist systems.
He is a novelist and social commentator and has studied the Quran
since 1969. After
teaching himself to read Arabic in 1976 he was surprised to find
that many passages of the Quran corroborated the theories exposed
by scholars who held that earth had once been colonized by ancient
astronauts.
His web page address is http://arirfatir.tripod.com He can be reached
at amirfatir@go.com
