The First Book of Macedon - The Genesis

THE FIRST BOOK OF MACEDON commonly called

GENESIS

The Creation In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.

And the evening and the morning were the first day‌ - The Holy Bible: King James Now since we have arrived to the point we can call the Beginning, it is inevitable to expand our views a bit, by postulating yet another perspective which we as human beings have only recently acquired. In that regard, we cannot omit the most recent archeological achievements in the study of the Mayan culture. Today we have a lot of information to the most controversial abstract concept of our own human existence, Time itself.

And Time is a category that can be easily diverted and distorted in this age to come, which is the Era of Information, which we are living in, at least when it comes to the planetary cycle of the Tzolkin calendar. The Mayans indeed understood time in its tiniest bits. But let us see first how the Greeks1 saw the Time.

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This to an extent would also imply the Hellenized Pelasgians, the Danaans, the Achaeans, the Semitic Dorians, all those who acquired Aegypto-Semitic deities, whose influence can be seen all around the Mediterranean, and even to an extent the Indo-European (pre-Slavic speaking) Macedonians, ever since Alexander I Philhellene, although they were considered as barbarous by the Hellenes themselves.

“In Greek mythology, Chronos (Ancient Greek: Χρόνος) in pre-Socratic philosophical works is said to be the personification of time. His name actually means "time," and is alternatively spelled Khronos (transliteration of the Greek) or Chronus (Latin version). Not to be confused with Cronus, a Titan.

Chronos was imagined as an incorporeal god, serpentine in form, with three heads--that of a man, a bull, and a lion. He and his consort, serpentine Ananke (Inevitability), circled the primal world-egg in their coils and split it apart to form the ordered universe of earth, sea and sky.

He was depicted in Greco-Roman mosaics as a man turning the Zodiac Wheel. Often the figure is named Aeon (Eternal Time), a common alternate name for the god.

Chronos is usually portrayed through an old, wise man with a long, gray beard, such as Father Time.”2 This should give as a clue of what our heavenly father looked like, at least to the ancients. Time is a category we all need desperately to understand in order to be able to see the reality the way it is. And the reality is better understood with our reason; however, we must learn to let intuition drive our senses, while keeping reason open to possibilities governed by the ethics of existence.

Consciousness is what it is all about. The Mayans understood this so they devised a system, or were shown how to, which saw time as evolution of consciousness through stages in regular cycles that can be measured down to the tiniest bit. They had three calendars, and the most important of these calendars is one with a period of 260 days.

The Mayan Calendar

“This 260-day calendar was prevalent across all Mesoamerican societies, and is of great antiquity (almost certainly the oldest of the calendars). It is still used in some regions of Oaxaca, and by the Maya communities of the Guatemalan highlands. The Maya version is commonly known to scholars as the Tzolkin, or Tzolk'in in the revised orthography of the Academia de las Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala. The Tzolk'in is combined with another 365-day calendar (known as the Haab, or Haab’), to form a synchronized cycle lasting for 52 Haabs, called the Calendar Round.

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Smaller cycles of 13 days (the trecena) and 20 days (the veintena) were important components of the Tzolk'in and Haab' cycles, respectively.

A different form of calendar was used to track longer periods of time, and for the inscription of calendar dates (i.e., identifying when one event occurred in relation to others). This form, known as the Long Count, is based upon the number of elapsed days since a mythological startingpoint.”3

The Macedonian Sun

Similarly, it appears that the Macedonians had their own agricultural calendar, which was introduced some time after the time of Alexander the Great, and the Macedonian Calendar4 influenced the entire Near East.

What amazes me is the fact that the Macedonian Calendar too, might have been devised from another sacred calendar, as the Tzol’kin was to the Mayans5, to tell a story that would make even the strongest shiver to the might and glory of their devise.

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“The Macedonian Calendar was a luni-solar calendar. The only difference from the rest of the Greek calendars consisted in the date of the New Year celebration. The Macedonian Calendar started after the first new moon following the autumnal equinox during the month Dios and included 12 months of either 30 or 29 days, with the last decade of either ten or nine days, giving a total of 354 days for one year. To bring the Macedonian year in accordance with the solar tropical year a 13th month had to be periodically inserted into the year. Some of the months from Macedonian Calendar can be found in the calendars of other Doric cities. After Alexander the Great the influence of the Macedonian Calendar extended also to Asia and Egypt.” (Theodossiou, E. et al) This expansion may well have taken place during the calendrical reforms which took place during the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes (Dan. 7:25), which tended to conform to the Syrian (Macedonian) Lunar Calendar beginning in the fall, with the introduction of a 19-year lunar cycle (in which an offering on the behalf of the emperor was to be observed on his monthly birthday celebration, 2 Macc. 6:7). Although certain parts of the practice were revoked after the events of 167 BCE, the 19-year Lunar Calendar continued to be observed (for this discussion see Vanderkam, pp. 113-116).

Now, according to the Tzol’kin, the starting point for all of creation as we know it would be some 16.4 Billion Years Ago (BYA). The Mayans marked this as a starting point for the evolution of consciousness. Their Tzolkin is a mathematically progressive system of cycles that develop following a pattern of 13 intentions and 20 aspects. It all relies on these two numbers.

Let me give you a brief introduction to the Nine Cycles of Consciousness in the Mayan Calendar6.

The first cycles started some 16.4 BYA, and it developed through 13 periods of equal time spans.

Seven days and six nights, just as the Bible says! Surprised? However, these periods developed one in every 1.26 BY. So 13 times 1.26 billion and we get all the time we have been here for, which is ever since some 16.4 BYA. Too many billions for a Mayan mind would you say? Each 5

The creation myths of most Mesoamerican peoples included the idea of successive "ages" or "creations."

According to the Aztec Legend of the Five Suns in the Codex Chimalpopoca , the world will pass through five "suns" ruled by different solar deities. The 4th sun ended when "it rained so hard the sky fell down." Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca changed themselves into trees. As the trees grew, "the sky was pushed up." Then these gods traveled the "White Road," the Milky Way, to meet in the heavens.

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The Mayans build pyramids on either nine- or five-storey platforms. This was closely related to their belief system regarding the Evolution of Consciousness and Time itself. They were obsessed with time as a category.

day and night a certain level of consciousness is established to achieve the fruit of the process in the final day - the seventh - which according to the Bible is the day for resting. Symbolically, this can be seen through the process of growing a plant.

During the first day you have a seed, that is a system of information and you need a platform to plant it in, so you find a soil, and plant the system into, where the favorable environment would cause the first night to arrive. The night is the time we spend in the soil, in the darkness of the unknown world, while the seed starts growing roots and a stem. Then the stem lurks out of the soil, following the light, it turns to the Heavens and it releases its manifestation through duality, two tiny leaves sprout. The second day is over and the roots need to go deeper in search for elements necessary for existence. The night of duality creates more stable foundation for the next day to shine, where the truth is manifested, the trunk comes forth, and during the third night when we clear up all the things that are blocking us from growing further, it is the night when the roots take their furthermost dive into the subconscious of the Self. The fourth day gives the branches in order to gain more light, the truth is manifested to its fullest, and buds start to grow, overnight. Then the fifth day comes and the mechanism for acquiring new consciousness is received. It is the gift of the age. In our minute allegory, this would correspond to the blossoming of flowers on the tree. The mechanism is set in motion, magic strikes and the night brings fertilization. The bees arrive, to spread the pollen and get the tree to give birth to the fruit of life.

The fifth night has been devastating for all those who would not attune to the new cycle of evolution, slowly taking us to the sixth day when the news about the new cycle spread like fire and more and more is gained in energy from the Sun, leaves grow bigger, and the tree is complete. The night falls and the fruits fall down, the seventh day being the feast. We all gather to rest and enjoy the spoils of that cycle.

In the first cycle it was the consciousness of the matter, which was based on action and reaction.

All the chemical processes, all the physical laws that govern our existence as human beings, were set in motion in this cycle. When it achieved its 7th day it was the living cells that came to existence, as the ultimate product of the evolution of consciousness in the first Cellular cycle of the Mayan Tzolkin.

The second cycle started within the first cycle, and to get the starting point one must divide the amount of time passed since the beginning to the 7th day of the first cycle, with the 20 aspects of creation, you do not need to bother, it was some 820 MYA. It was this cycle when the seed of the living matter, the first living cell was set in motion within itself and its environment, was planted in the soil of consciousness, which is now called Mammalian, because its final products were the mammals, after a long evolution of 820 million years, learning through stimulus-response consciousness, day after night, 13 equal stages of 63.4 MY (that is how long the day was at that time). Then if you divide this time with 20 you get the starting point for the next cycle, the familiar. The consciousness now expanded to stimulus-individual response, which meant that those mammals that learned how to develop familiar consciousness based on individual responses survived to be the best candidates for the next evolutionary cycle. Thus the primates reached the status of potential human surrogates, which was a process well explained in the Sumerian tablets. In the Sumerian myths, Tiamat, which was the name of our planet to the Sumerians, was closely related to another planet in our Solar system, which has not been detected yet, however, to the Sumerians it was Nibiru, while to the Babylonians it was Marduk,

both of them supreme deities in the pantheon of the ancient Sumerians and Babylonians. Some interaction must have taken place between these two deities, which caused evolution on our planet to reach its peak - the human beings.

The Enuma-Elish The Sumerian Book of Creation Any lost or damaged parts of the tablets are shown wilh brackets Tablet 6 When Marduk7 heard the speech of the gods He made up his mind to perform miracles. He spoke his utterance to Ea, And communicated to him the plan that he was considering.

“Let me put blood together, and make bones too. Let me set up primeval man: Man shall be his name. Let me create a primeval man.

The work of the gods shall be imposed (on him), and so they shall be at leisure.

Let me change the ways of the gods miraculously, So they are gathered as one yet divided in two.”

Ea answered him and spoke a word to him, Told him his plan for the leisure of the gods.

“Let one who is hostile to them be surrendered (up).

Let him be destroyed, and let people be created (from him).

Let the great gods assemble, Let the culprit be given up, and let them convict him.”

Marduk assembled the great gods.

Gave (them) instructions pleasantly, gave orders.

The gods paid attention to what he said.

The king addressed his words to the Anunnaki8, “Your election of me shall be firm and foremost.

I shall declare the laws, the edicts within my power.

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Marduk (Sumerian spelling in Akkadian: AMAR.UTU "solar calf"; perhaps from MERI.DUG; Biblical Hebrew ‫ מְרֹ ַד ְך‬Merodach; Greek Μαρδοχαῖος, Mardochaios) was the Babylonian name of a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon permanently became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi (18th century BC), started to slowly rise to the position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon, a position he fully acquired by the second half of the second millennium BC. Nibiru, to the Babylonians, was the celestial body or region sometimes associated with the god Marduk.

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The Anunnaki (also transcribed as: Anunnaku, Ananaki) are a group of Sumerian and Akkadian deities related to, and in some cases overlapping with, the Annuna (the 'Fifty Great Gods') and the Igigi (minor gods). The name is variously written "da-nuna", "da-nuna-ke4-ne", or "da-nun-na", meaning something to the effect of 'those of royal blood'[1] or 'princely offspring'[2] or "heaven and earth" (Anu-na-ki) The Annunaki appear in the Babylonian creation myth, Enuma Elish.

Whosoever started the war, And incited Tiamat9, and gathered an army, Let the one who started the war be given up to me, And he shall bear the penalty for his crime, that you may dwell in peace.”

The Igigi, the great gods, answered him.

Their lord Lugal-dimmer-ankia, counselor of the gods, “It was Qingu10 who started the war, He who incited Tiamat and gathered an army!”

They bound him and held him in front of Ea, Imposed the penalty on him and cut off his blood.

He created mankind from his blood.

Imposed the toil of the gods (on man) and released the gods from it.

When Ea the wise had created mankind, Had imposed the toil of the gods on them That deed is impossible to describe, For Nudimmud performed it with the miracles of Marduk.

Then Marduk the king divided the gods, The Anunnaki, all of them, above and below.

He assigned his decrees to Anu to guard, Established three hundred as a guard in the sky; Did the same again when he designed the conventions of earth, And made the six hundred dwell in both heaven and earth.

When he had directed all the decrees.

Had divided lots for the Anunnaki, of heaven and of earth.

The Anunnaki made their voices heard And addressed Marduk their lord, “Now, O Lord, that you have set us free, What are our favours from you?

We would like to make a shrine with its own name.

We would like our night's resting place to be in your private quarters, and to rest there.

Let us found a shrine, a sanctuary there.

Whenever we arrive, let us rest within it.”

When Marduk heard this, His face lit up greatly, like daylight.

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Apparently, the story goes that the Anunnaki (also known as the Nephilim) who come from the planet of Marduk (Nibiru), were gigantic beings, and they settled on Tiamat (Earth) some ages ago, which was part of their plan for both involving into human evolution and providing for their planet. They were searching for gold. However there was a riot among those who worked in the mines, so they had to create a race to work for the giants, while they enjoyed their leisure.

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In Sumerian mythology, Qingu is Tiamat's battle leader. He is eventually killed by Marduk. The legend reveals that the Anunnaki were digging for gold to take it to their planet for a long while, until some of the lowed deities (the Igigi), lead by Qingu, organized an army and rebelled against the king. This tablet reveals the aftermath of the conflict.

“Create Babylon, whose construction you requested!

Lei its mud bricks be moulded, and build high the shrine!”

The Anunnaki began shoveling.

For a whole year they made bricks for it.

When the second year arrived, They had raised the top of Esagila in front of (?) the Abzu; They had built a high ziggurat for the Abzu.

They founded a dwelling for Anu, Enlil11, and Ea12 likewise.

In ascendancy he settled himself in front of them, And his horns' look down at the base of Esharra.

When they had done the work on Esagila, (And) the Anunnaki, all of them, had fashioned their individual shrines, The three hundred Igigi of heaven and the Anunnaki of the Apsu assembled.

The Lord invited the gods his fathers to attend a banquet In the great sanctuary which he and created as his dwelling.

“Indeed. Bab-ili13 (is) your home too!

Sing for joy there, dwell in happiness!”

The great gods sat down there.

And set out the beer mugs; they attended the banquet.

When they had made merry within, They themselves made a taqribtu-offering in splendid Esagila14.

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According to later Babylonian myth, the Anunnaki were the children of Anu and Ki, brother and sister gods, themselves the children of Anshar and Kishar (Skypivot and Earthpivot, the Celestial poles). Anshar and Kishar were the children of Lahm and Lahmu ("the muddy ones"), names given to the gatekeepers of the Abzu temple at Eridu, the site at which the Creation was thought to have occurred. The head of the Anunnaki council was the Great Anu, (rather than being just a sky god, Anu in Sumerian actually means "sky"), of Uruk and the other members were his offspring. His place was taken by Enlil, (En=lord, lil=wind,air), who at some time was thought to have separated heaven and earth. This resulted in an ongoing dispute between Enlil of Nippur and his half brother Enki of Eridu regarding the legitimacy of Enlil's assumption of leadership. Enki, (En=lord, Ki=Earth), in addition to being the God of fresh water, was also God of wisdom and magic, regarded by some as an alchemist. When the Igigi went on strike and refused to continue to work maintaining the universe, on the Shappatu (Hebrew: ‫תבש‬, Eng: Shabbath) Enki created humankind to assume responsibility for the tasks the Gods no longer performed. The Anunnaki were the High Council of the Gods, and Anu's companions. They were distributed through the Earth and the Underworld.

The best known of them were Asaru, Asarualim, Asarualimnunna, Asaruludu, En-Ki (Ea for the Akkadians), Namru, Namtillaku and Tutu.

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Enki (Sumerian: EN.KI(G)) was a deity in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Babylonian mythology, originally chief god of the city of Eridu. He was the deity of crafts (= gašam), water (=a, ab ), intelligence (= gestú (literally = "ear")) and creation (Nudimmud, from dim mud, "to engender", "to shape").The exact meaning of his name is uncertain: the common translation is "Lord of the Earth".

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Babylon (transl.)

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The Ésagila, was a temple dedicated to Marduk, the protector god of Babylon. It lay south of the ziggurat Etemenanki, a memory of which has been perpetuated in Judeo-Christian culture as the Tower of Babel.

In this temple was the cult image inhabited by Marduk, surrounded by cult images of the cities that had fallen under the hegemony of the Babylonian Empire from the 18th century BC; there was also a little lake which was named

All the decrees (and) designs were fixed.

All the gods divided the stations of heaven and earth.

The fifty great gods were present, and The gods fixed the seven destinies for the cult.

The Lord received the bow and set his weapon down in front of them.

The gods his fathers looked at the net which he had made, Looked at the bow, how miraculous her construction, And his fathers praised the deeds that he had done.

Anu raised (the bow) and spoke in the assembly of gods.

He kissed the bow. “May she go far!”

He gave to the bow her names, saying, “May Long and Far be the first, and Victorious the second; Her third name shall be Bowstar, for she shall shine in the sky.”

He fixed her position among the gods her companions.

When Anu had decreed the destiny of the bow, He set down her royal throne. “You are highest of the gods!”

And Anu made her sit in the assembly of gods.

The great gods assembled And made Marduk's destiny highest; they themselves did obeisance.

They swore an oath for themselves.

And swore on water and oil, touched their throats.

Thus they granted that he should exercise the kingship of the gods And confirmed for him mastery of the gods of heaven and earth.

Anshar gave him another name: ASARLUH. “At the mention of his name we shall bow down!

The gods are to pay heed to what he says: His command is to have priority above and below.

The son who avenged us shall be the highest!

His rule shall have priority; let him have no rival!

Let him act as shepherd over the black-headed people15, his creation.

Abzu by the Babylonian priests. This Abzu was a representation of Marduk's father, Enki, who was God of the waters and lived in such Abzu.

The Esagila complex, completed in its final form by Nebuchadrezzar II (604-562 BC) encasing earlier cores, was the center of Babylon. It comprised a large court (ca. 40 by 70 meters), containing a smaller court (ca. 25 x 40 m), and finally the central shrine, consisting of an anteroom and the inner sanctum which contained the statues of Marduk and his consort Sarpanit.

Under the enormous mass of debris that lay over it, Esagila was rediscovered by Robert Koldewey in November 1900, but it did not begin to be seriously examined until 1910. The rising water table has obliterated much of the sun-dried brick and other oldest material. Most of the finds at Babylon reflect the Neo-Babylonian period and later.

Data from the Esagila tablet,[2] copied from older texts in 229 BC, have aided in its reconstruction. The tablet, described by George Smith in 1872, disappeared into private hands before it resurfaced and began to be interpreted.

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The people the Anunnaki created were the first race, most probably the (black-headed) Africans of Gondwana.

Almost all the African tribal legends have a mention of this mythical land. According to the geological historians, in

Let his way be proclaimed in future days, never forgotten.

He shall establish great nindabu-offerings for his fathers.

He shall take care of them, he shall look after their shrines.

He shall let them smell the qutrinnu-offering, and make their chant joyful.

Let him breathe on earth as freely as he always does in heaven.

Let him designate the black-headed people to revere him, That mankind may be mindful of him, and name him as their god.

Let their (interceding) goddess pay attention when he opens his mouth.

Let nindabu-offerings be brought [to] their god (and) their goddess.

Let them never be forgotten! Let them cleave to their god.

Let them keep their country preeminent, and always build shrines.

Though the black-headed people share out the gods, As for us, no matter by which name we call him, he shall be our god.

Come, let us call him by his fifty names!

His ways shall be proclaimed, and his deeds likewise!”

MARDUK Whose father Anu designated him at the moment of his birth, To be in charge of pasturage and watering places, to enrich their stalls, Who overwhelmed the riotous ones with his flood-weapon, And saved the gods his fathers from hardship.

Let THE SON, MAJESTY OF THE GODS be his name!

In his bright light may they walk forever more: The people whom he created, the form of life that breathes.

He imposed the work of the gods (on them) so that they might rest.

Creation and abolition, forgiveness and punishment Such are at his disposal, so let them look to him.

MARUKKA—he is the god who created them.

He pleases the Anunnaki and gives rest to the Igigi.

MARUTUKKU—he is the help of country, city, and his people.

Him shall the people revere forever.

MERSHAKUSHU—fierce yet considerate, furious yet merciful.

Generous is his heart, controlled are his emotions.

LUGAL-DIMMER-ANKIA—his name which we gave him in our assembly.

We made his command higher than the gods his fathers'.

He is indeed BEL of the gods of heaven and earth, all of them, The king at whose instruction the gods are awed above and below.

NARI-LUGAL-DIMMER-ANKIA is a name that we have given him, the Paleozoic period the supercontinent of Gondwana had just formed and was located near the South Pole.

Gondwana, the supercontinent that was assembled during the Pan-African orogeny, was the largest Continent spanning from the Equator to the South Pole. Because of a warmer climate across the earth, much of the continental coasts as well as inland were flooded below shallow seas, a perfect world as it were for the dramatic radiation of new and complex forms of life.

as director of the gods, Who founded our dwellings in heaven and earth out of difficulties, And who shared out the stations for the Igigi and Anunnaki.

At his names may the gods tremble and quake in (their) dwellings.

ASARLUHI (first) is his name which his father Anu gave him, He shall be the light of the gods, strong leader, Who like his name is the protecting spirit of god and country.

He spared our dwellings in the great battle despite difficulties.

Second, they called him Asarluhi as NAMTILA, the god who gives life.

Who restored all the damaged gods as if they were his own creation.

BEL, who revives dead gods with his pure incantation.

Who destroys those who oppose him but... is the enemy.

Asarluhi third as NAMRU, whose name was given (thus), The pure god who purifies our path.

Anshar, Lahmu, and Lahamu called his three names; They pronounced them to the gods their sons, “We have given him each of these three names.

Now you, pronounce his names as we did!”

The gods rejoiced, and obeyed their command.

In Ubshu-ukkinakku they deliberated their counsel.

“Let us elevate the name of the son, the warrior, Our champion who looks after us!”

They sat in their assembly and began to call out the destinies, Pronounced his name in all their rites.

The Sumerian tablets reveal a lot more, and what is even more striking to all of us is that they reveal a race of giants, known as Anunnaki, “the people whom they created, the form of life that breathes. They imposed the work of the gods (on them) so that they might rest.” The Sumerian mythology is very explicit in providing detailed account on certain events that can be related to the Bible to a great extent: “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made… …And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the Tree of Life also in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of knowledge of good and evil.”

- The First Book of Moses: Genesis (King James Bible) This would correspond to the Tribal Cycle in the Mayan Calendar, which started some 2 MYA, with the first “tailless apes”, and the development of the mind as a tool for distinguishing similarities and differences. Consciousness then changed every 160,000 years, over seven long

days and six long nights. This was the time when the tribes were gathering on the grounds of the similarities and differences their primitive minds could distinguish. The first communities were created. Reasoning attached to the familiar consciousness, created the first tribes.

The reason I mentioned all these various viewpoints is not to show the differences and thus confuse the reader, but to point at the similarities that bind all these mythical accounts into a more comprehensive mosaic. The giants from the Sumerian tablets can also be found in the Bible, and the 7 days Creation myth exists in the Mayan Calendar in a much more elaborate form. The Macedonian Sun corresponds to the Mayan 8-division Sky Place, and there is more to come.

The Bible is very ambiguous in the beginning of who actually created the first human beings.

First it mentions one God who created Adam and Eve, and then it refers to the giants as gods, the so called Nephilim. They were the lords in the Garden of Eden, similar to the Anunnaki in Babylon.

The Giants - the Nephilims Nephilim are beings who appear in the Hebrew Bible, specifically in the Book of Genesis, and are also mentioned in other Biblical texts and in some non-canonical Jewish writings. Genesis Chapter 6, verses 1 through 4 describe the origin of the Nephilim: “Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then the LORD said, ‘My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years’.

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.”

The Nephilim16 come from a union between "sons of God" and "daughters of man".

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In Aramaic culture, the term Nephila specifically referred to the constellation of Orion, and thus Nephilim to Orion's semi-divine descendants (cf. Anakim from Anak); the implication being that this also is the origin of the Biblical Nephilim. Some commentators have suggested that the Nephilim were believed to have been fathered by members of a proto-Hebrew pantheon and are a brief glimpse of early Hebrew religion, most of the details of which were later edited out from the Torah (or at least would have been edited out when, as some claim, it was redacted together), and that this passage may have offered monotheistic Hebrews a way to fit semi-divine pagan heroes into their cosmogony. In the Hebrew Bible, there are a number of other words that, like "Nephilim", are sometimes translated as "giants": Emim ("the fearful ones"), Rephaim ("the dead ones"), Anakim ("the [long]-necked ones").

So, if we consider the giants or the Nephilims who were associated to the Anakim, which is very close to the giants from the Sumerian tablets, known as Anunnaki, very similar indeed to the serpentine Ananke (Inevitability), which together with Chronos “circled the primal world-egg in their coils and split it apart to form the ordered universe of earth, sea and sky”, gives an impression of a common event for all these traditions that might be traced down in history.

The Nephilim seem to have had an intercourse with the “daughters of man”, procreating the first race of humans. They multiplied on the face of the land, and they saw women as beautiful, who gave birth to the “mighty men of old, men of renown”. However if we consider the Sumerian tablets, things were not splendid among the Giants. There was a riot first, and then there was a rivalry among the brother deities, Enlil and Enki.

Enki was not perfect, as god of water he had a penchant for beer and as god of semen he had a string of incestuous affairs. In the epic Enki and Ninhursag, he and his consort Ninhursag had a daughter Ninsar. When Ninhursag left him he came upon Ninsar (Lady Greenery) and then had intercourse with her. Ninhursa then gave birth to Ninkurra (Lady Fruitfulness or Lady Pasture).

A second time, he had intercourse with Ninkurra, who gave birth to Uttu (Weaver or Spider).

The weaver is often connected to the woman, the weaver of destiny. In Macedonian, the Cyrillic letter that represents a woman shows a striking similarity to a spider (Ж-as in Жена-woman).

However, let us see what the myth reveals: A third time Enki succumbs to temptation, and attempts seduction of Uttu. Upset about Enki's reputation, Uttu consults Ninhursag, who, upset at the promiscuous nature of her spouse, advises Uttu to avoid the riverbanks. In another version of this myth Ninhursag takes Enki's semen from Uttu's womb and plants it in the earth where seven plants rapidly germinate. With his two-faced servant and steward Isimud, Enki finds the plants and immediately starts consuming their fruit.

Consuming his own semen he falls pregnant (ill with swellings) in his jaw, his teeth, his mouth, his throat, his limbs and his rib. The gods are at a loss to know what to do, as Enki lacks a womb with which to give birth, until Ninhursag's sacred fox fetches the goddess.

Ninhursag relents and takes Enki's Ab (water, or semen) into her body, and gives birth to gods of healing of each part of the body. The last one - Ninti, Sumerian = Lady Rib, is also a pun on Lady Life, a title of Ninhursag herself.

Ninti, is given the title of the mother of all living, and was a title given to the later Hurrian goddess Kheba. This is also the title given to Eve (Hebrew Chavvah), the Aramaic Hawwah, who was supposedly made from the Rib of Adam, in a strange reflection of the Sumerian myth.

“And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every

fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman (Hawwah), because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.�

- The First Book of Moses: Genesis (King James Bible) This reflects the state of bliss that the first race must have enjoyed among their creators, in the Garden of Eden, or the stations of the Nephilims as recorded in the Sumerian tablets. There was a conflict among the gods, though, that reflected on the people. Enki17, who was rebelling against his brother, and who was a shape-shifter, must have appeared as the snake to Eve, and made her try the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Life, an alchemical symbol that has survived in our modern conceptualization of the Creation myth ever since Egyptian times, and is related to Thoth, the Egyptian deity of magic, and the father of civilization.

To my understanding of things, following sheer reason and logic, it seems that the first human race was conceived by another non-human race of giants, since the various accounts do not suggest a symbolical apparition of deities as huge to men only, but they clearly state a giant race that procreated the humans, who were most probably sterile until they tried the fruits of the Tree of Life, in the midst of the garden. This might as well be a secret teaching18 known only to the gods, wherefrom all the knowledge of good and evil - the understanding of duality - derives. The first humans were obviously in a Dreamtime19 consciousness, they were not aware of the 17

Enki was the keeper of the holy powers called Me, the gifts of civilized living. His image of the double-helix snake is reminiscent of the DNA helix.

18 Alchemy has always been considered as the Secret Teaching, the Hermetical knowledge available to the few anointed. Since Enki, the Snake, was a God of magic and alchemy, a connection can be assumed between his offering of the apple from the Tree of Life, 19

Australian Aboriginals believe in two forms of time. Two parallel streams of activity. One is the daily objective activity ... The other is an infinite spiritual cycle called the Dreamtime, more real than reality itself. Whatever happens in the Dreamtime establishes the values, symbols, and laws of Aboriginal society. Some people of unusual spiritual powers have contact with the Dreamtime. The Dreaming, as the Aboriginals prefer to call this state, in modern scholarship often refers to the "time before time", "time outside of time" or "time of the creation of all things", as though it were the past.

Dreaming is also often used to refer to an individual's or group's set of beliefs or spirituality. They believe that every person in an essential way exists eternally in the Dreaming. This eternal part existed before the life of the individual begins, and continues to exist when the life of the individual ends. Both before and after life, it is believed that this spirit-child exists in the Dreaming and is only initiated into life by being born through a mother.

similarities and differences that surrounded their existence, thus were unable to distinguish between the material and spiritual reality; they were simply living a blissful life in paradise.

However, this might have suited Enlil and his gold mining agenda, but according to the Sumerian tablets this was against the Divine plan for the evolution of humanity, and something needed to be done. Human beings were supposed to take that long path of self-losing, selfsearching and self-identifying as such, conscious beings, equal to those who gave them life in the first place. The next stage that unravels in the Bible is as follows: “Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.

And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the Tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done?

And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.�

- The First Book of Moses: Genesis (King James Bible)

This episode reveals the dialogue between Enki, if we place an analogy between the Sumerian and Biblical accounts, and Eve, or Ninti, which caused the evolution of humanity to stem away from its original creators into a self-inductive genealogy. The giants, however, after the human Fall from grace, which seems to be a reminiscence of yet another ancient mythology that has to do with more abstract concepts than what we have tackled so far, did not simply let Adam and Eve live a life in peace outside the garden, but did everything to engrave their toils and guide their evolution by controlling external factors to their existence. In this direction, we can trace the origins of the Deluge, for example in the Sumerian tablets, where the similarity to the Biblical story is amazing.

The Flood - The Arc of the Covenant

According to Sumerian mythology, Enki also assisted humanity to survive the Deluge designed to kill them. In the Legend of Atrahasis20, Enlil, the king of the gods, sets out to eliminate humanity, whose noise of them mating is offensive to his ears. He successively sends drought, famine and plague to eliminate humanity, but Enki thwarts his half-brother's plans by teaching Atrahasis irrigation, granaries and medicine. Humans again proliferate a fourth time. Enraged Enlil, convenes a Council of Deities and gets them to promise not to tell humankind that he plans their total annihilation. Enki, does not tell Atrahasis, but tells of Enlil's plan to the walls of Atrahasis’ (aka Noah) reed hut, thus covertly rescuing the man Atrahasis, or Ziusudra by either instructing him to build some kind of a boat for his family, or by bringing him into the heavens in a magic boat21. After the seven day Deluge, the flood hero, Utnapishtim, Atrahasis or Ziusudra frees a swallow, a raven and a dove in an effort to find if the flood waters have receded.

On the boat landing, a sacrifice is organized to the gods. Enlil is angry his will has been thwarted

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The 18th century BCE Akkadian Atrahasis epic, named after its human hero, contains both a creation myth and a flood account, and is one of three surviving Babylonian flood stories.

21 If anything was ever enshrouded in confusion and mystery, the Arc of the Covenant takes precedence. The Arc has played an indispensable role in man's salvation on this planet which continues to this day.

Firstly, we may encounter two spellings: 'arc' and 'ark' - though 'ark' is well associated with Noah's Ark. Apparently Noah did not escape the Great Flood by means of a boat - Noah's Ark - but through the Arc of the Covenant within the Great Pyramid. There was in fact an incidence of a previous flood in which a boat was built: thus clearly the Noah's Ark story is a partial fabrication to hide the true meaning of the Arc - yet the story was still based on truths so that it would intuitively feel correct to people being deceived.

It is interesting to note that independently, Egyptologists Howard Middleton-Jones and James Michael Wilkie in their first book on the Great Pyramid, 'Giza-Genesis: The Best Kept Secrets', show how the biblical explanation of the Noah's Ark construction is a description of the passageway into the Great Pyramid where they say the Covenant is stored. Furthermore, the well-known chest containing the tools also has been erroneously named the Arc (or Ark) of the Covenant. These tools were used to open the portal bridge of the Arc, of which this bridge portal was only one of its functions. (from The Most Fantastic Technology in the Universe - by Noel Huntley, Ph.D.)

yet again, and Enki is named as the culprit. As the god of what we would call ecology, Enki explains that Enlil is unfair to punish the guiltless Atrahasis for the sins of his fellows, and secures a promise that the gods will not eliminate humankind if they practice birth control and live within the means of the natural world. The threat is made, however, that if humans do not honor their side of the covenant the gods will be free to wreak havoc once again. This is apparently the oldest surviving Middle Eastern Deluge myth.

The giants had obviously interfered with the human evolution to a great extent through a series of events to be recorded in a variety of sources, regardless how obscure the shape by which it reached us, the modern arbitrary witnesses of these long-forgotten incidents. The forbidden tree, the image of the snake, the story of Enki and the Deluge (the Flood), are all obviously elements from our common history as human beings. A connection can visibly be made, but what it really represented to the people who made it possible for us to know about it, remains to be articulated in a way that would gradually reveal the obvious reality behind these ambiguous myths. There was obviously a lot of activity going on in the old world, while here in Europe things were rather silvan and barbaric.

In the meantime, Macedonia was delivering a rather different kind of consciousness. The latest archeology shows a very active civilizational life in the region, as one of the richest with Neolithic cultures, with tribes that seem to have had a very wide cultural exchange, to that extent that even a similar script can be traced in the so called Vinca culture. Adam of Macedonia is a very interesting find that should make us reconsider the history of spirituality in general.