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The tap code table The tap code, sometimes called the knock code, is a way to encode text messages on a letter-by-letter basis in a very simple way. The message is transmitted using a series of tap sounds, hence its name. The tap code has been commonly used by prisoners to communicate with each other. The method of communicating is usually by tapping either the metal bars, pipes, or the walls inside a cell. The tap code is based on a Polybius square using a 5×5 grid of letters representing all the letters of the Latin alphabet, except for K, which is represented by C. The listener only needs to discriminate the timing of the taps to isolate letters. Each letter is communicated by tapping two numbers For example, to specify the letter "B", one taps once, pauses, and then taps twice. Or to communicate the word "water", the cipher would be the following (the pause between each number in a pair is smaller than the pause between letters):
THE FIELD THE QUEST FOR THE SECRET FORCE OF THE UNIVERSE Lynne McTaggart 2001 LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS Page III "Physics may be about to face a revolution similar to that which occurred just a century ago. . . Arthur C. Clarke, 'When Will the Real Space Age Begin?' If an angel was to tell us about his philosophy. . . many of his statements might well sound like 2x2 = 13" Georg Christophe Lichtenburg, Aphorisms
Page 13 "Subatomic particles had no meaning as isolated entities but could only be understood in their realationships. The world at its most basic, existed as a complex web of interdependant relationships, forever indivisible"
FATHER TERAH THERA HEART EARTH HEART THERA TERAH FATHER FATHER TERAH THERA HEART EARTH HEART THERA TERAH FATHER F ATHER TERAH THERA HEART EARTH HEART THERA TERAH ATHER F = 6 = F ATHER TERAH THERA HEART EARTH HEART THERA TERAH ATHER
THE ATLANTIS SECRET A COMPLETE DECODING OF PLATOS LOST CONTINENT Alan F. Alford 2001 Page v ATLANTIS RECONSIDERED "All of these myths, and many others besides, concealed a 'Secret of secrets' that was accepted, unquestioningly, as a true account of the origins of the cosmos and man...." Page v "...Until now, this mainstream breakthrough in comparative religion has found limited application, for, if truth be told, the literature of the Near East is as much of a puzzle to scholars as the literature of the Greeks. Now, however, in the light of my recent deciphering of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian myths, the full import of these parallels may be felt For the first time ever, it becomes possible to understand the Greek myths by literally standing under them. For the first time ever, we can get inside Plato's mind and reconsider the story of Atlantis from an ancient, rather than a modern, perspective. Page 19 (number omitted) Chapter Two CATACLYSMS AND THE GODS Veiled in thick mist, the Muses walk by night,
uttering beautiful voice, singing of Zeus
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Page 20 Zeus took his seat on the golden throne and great Olympus was shaken under his feet.3 Similarly, the Heaven was shaken by the movements of Zeus' wife Hera. Again in the Iliad, we read: Queen Hera was angry. She tossed on her throne and shook the heights of Olympus...4
Men, too, were said to have had supernatural size and strength. In the Odyssey, Homer describes the god-like Otus and Ephialtes as follows: ... those short-lived twins, the god-like Otus and Ephialtes, famed in story, the largest men Earth ever nourished and finer by far than all but the glorious Orion. In their ninth year they were nine cubits across the shoulders and nine fathoms tall. It was this pair that threatened to go to war with the very gods on Olympus in the din and turmoil of battle. It was their ambition to pile Mount Ossa on Olympus and wooded Pelion on Ossa, to make a stairway up to Heaven." Page VII Reading Note 2
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Daily Mail, Friday, June 10, 2016 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS Compiled byCharles Legge Page 64 QUESTION Is Gabriel the lowest ranked angel that appears In the Bible? ANGELIC ranking was a preoccupation of medieval theologians. The first to provide a hierarchy was Pseudo-Dionysius (On The Celestial Hierarchy) in the 5th century. The 13th-century theologian Thomas Aquinas, The Angelic Doctor, was perhaps the most important and influential writer on all things angelic. In his Summa Theologica, he organised the angels into three spheres of three choirs of angels, making nine choirs in total. The choirs are ranked in order of closeness to God. The word 'angel' itself is used both as a generic term to refer to all heavenly beings, and as a specific term to refer to the members of the third sphere, those closest to the physical. The first sphere comprises angels who serve as heavenly counsellors. The highest ranked are: 1. Seraphim, guardians of Heaven, they serve as the caretakers of God's throne and continuously shout his praises. Rosa Levy, London E14.
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THE TUTANKHAMUN PROPHECIES Maurice Cotterell 1 BEHIND THE WALL OF SILENCE Page 190 The holy number of sun-worshippers is 9, the highest number that can be reached before becoming one (10) with the creator. This is why Tutankhamun was entombed in nine layers of coffin. This is why the pyramid skirts of the two statues, guarding the entrance to the Burial Chamber, were triangular (base 3), when the all-seeing eye-skirt of Mereruka contained a pyramid skirt with a base of four sides. The message concealed here is that the 3 should be squared, which equals 9" "The message concealed here is that the 3 should be squared, which equals 9"
TUTANKHAMEN Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt 1963 Page177 "The red oxen had been left behind; now the "Nine Friends" and the two viziers-of the North and South- drew the ropes attached to the bier behind which followed a last high dignitary of the royal procession." Page158 (Chapter 7) 1343 The death of the king and preparations for immortality "Analysis of his mummy shows that Tutankhamen was between eighteen and twenty years old when he died. This allows one to set the approximate date of his coronation in his ninth year, since there is no date mentioned in connexion with him after year 9 which appears on wine jars found in his tomb."
TRANSFORMATION THE BREAKTHROUGH Whitley Strieber 1988 “nine knocks I was shattered, overwhelmed. I remembered their eerie precision-three groups of three”
THE RISE AND FALL OF ANCIENT EGYPT The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra Toby Wilkinson 2010 Page 30 "In total, Atum and his immediate descendants numbered nine deities, three times three expressing the the ancient Egyptian concept of completeness. “nine deities, three times three”
STEPHEN HAWKING Quest For A Theory Of Everything Kitty Ferguson 1992 Page 103 "...The square root of 9 is 3. So we know that the third side” This occurs on the 33rd line down of page 103
TRANSFORMATION THE BREAKTHROUGH Whitley Strieber 1988 Page 128 "Dr Gliedman had given me his essay "Quantum Entanglements: On Atomic Physics and the Nature of Reality," and I had been reading it..." "Page 129 "I returned to Dr. Gliedman's essay. I read the following sentence: "The mind is not the playwright of reality." At that moment there came a knocking on the side of the house. This was a substantial noise, very regular and sharp. The knocks were so exactly spaced that they sounded like they were being produced by a machine. Both cats were riveted with terror. They stared at the wall. The knocks went on, nine of them in three groups of three, followed by a tenth lighter double-knock that communicated an impression of finality. These knocks were coming from just below the line of the roof, at a spot approximately eighteen feet above the gravel driveway. Below the point of origin of the knocks were two open windows. Had anybody been out on the driveway with a ladder I would certainly have heard their movements on the gravel. In addition, to get a ladder to that point they would have activated the movement-sensitive lights. But it was dark beyond the windows. It would be next to impossible to stand on the sharply angled roof that covers the living room of the cabin. While the angle of the roof above the upstairs bedroom is almost flat, this roof is extremely steep. What's more, I would certainly have heard anybody crawling around on the roof. There would have been creaks and groans from the boards, and there is no question but that I would have noticed the sounds, given the profound silence of the country night. I am absolutely dead certain about the reality of the knocks. They were not made by the house settling. Nothing but an intentional act could have produced such loud, evenly spaced sounds. They were not a prank being played by neighbors. In the summer of 1986 I had not yet told my neighbors about the visitors. What's more, the prank explanation was hopelessly impractical. To reach the place from which I heard the knocks..." Page 131 cannot be put down to disease. Such a thing is not a symptom. My cats would not have reacted to something happening in my mind. I am reporting a true event. It was the first definite, physical indication I had while in a state of commpletely normal consciousness that the visitors were part of this world. They were responding to my attempts to develop the relationship and accept my fear by making their physical reality more plain. The stunning event of August 27, 1986, strengthened my wavering resolve to keep the matter where it belongs, which is in question. It is an awfully serious business, and it cannot be removed from question except as we learn more facts. Should we decide to believe something about this that is not true, we will ruin it for ourselves. We will form yet another mythology around the visitors, as I suspect we have been doing throughout our history. The moment after the nine knocks I thought to go outside. I also thought, You're not ready yet. You just go up to bed. The next morning I thought that was exactly what I had done. But there was something wrong. While the knocks were taking place I was unquestionably in a normal state of mind. As soon as I began to move from the chair, though, I feel that I may have entered another state. Unfortunately, I did not remember that something may have happened after the knocks until weeks later. On the morning after, my immediate thought was that I had failed miserably. The visitors had come, had knocked-and I'd just sat there, too scared even to open the door! I therefore don:t know whether I concocted the subsequent memories to make myself feel better, or if they were hidden by a more prosaic screen memory. One day I glanced at the clock on our videotape machine and suddenly remembered seeing it when it said 2:18 A.M. An instant later I recalled that I'd seen it reading that time as I went upstairs on the night of the nine knocks. Page 134 (omitted) TWELVE Fire of the Question "In the days after I heard the nine knocks I was shattered, overwhelmed. I remembered their eerie precision-three groups of three perfectly measured, exactly spaced sounds, each precisely as loud as the one previous. And then there had been a soft double-knock completely different in tone from the others. It had communicated a distinct sense of finality, and seemed by its lightness of tone not to be a part of the group. The nine knocks were a sort of communication. The tenth was punctuation..." Page 135 ""The nine knocks made me struggle even harder to understand. And I did not understand. But I had a few ideas" "It was as if I had discovered an unknown world that has always been around us, that may be an even greater reality..." Page 135 "The nine knocks made me struggle even harder to understand. And I did not understand. But I had a few ideas It was as if I had discovered an unknown world that has always been around us, that may be an even greater reality..."
Daily Mail, Thursday December 17, 2015 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS Compiled by Charles Legge Page 64 QUESTION When we were kids, we used to knock on people's doors and run and hide. We called this Knock Down Ginger. Why? AT LEAST 100 terms have been collected for this activity though the variants are sometimes slight; in Coventry they played Rat-tat-tat, in Solihull Rat-a-tat-tat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amc_7l16LSM Knock Three Times - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock_Three_Times "Knock Three Times" is a popular song credited to Tony Orlando and Dawn. ... The song was released as a single in November 1970, paired with Orlando's other hit song, "Candida" (also written by Toni .... Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics ...
Knock Three Times Hey girl, what ya doin' down there? I can hear your music playin' Oh, my darling, knock three times Oh, my sweetness If you look out your window tonight Read how many times I saw you Oh, my darling, knock three times Oh, my sweetness Oh, I can hear the music playin' Oh, my darling, knock three times Oh, my sweetness
Meter reading Wakefield August 2016 Knock Knock We popped back to read your meter today but unfortunately you weren't home.
THE RISE AND FALL OF ANCIENT EGYPT The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra Toby Wilkinson 2010 Page 30 "In total, Atum and his immediate descendants numbered nine deities, three times three expressing the ancient Egyptian concept of completeness. “nine deities, three times three”
STEPHEN HAWKING Quest For A Theory Of Everything Kitty Ferguson 1992 Page 103 "...The square root of 9 is 3. So we know that the third side” This occurs on the 33rd line down of page 103
TRANSFORMATION THE BREAKTHROUGH Whitley Strieber 1988 Page 134 "In the days after I heard the nine knocks I was shattered, overwhelmed. I remembered their eerie precision-three groups of three perfectly measured, exactly spaced sounds,” “nine knocks” “three groups of three ”
Whitley Strieber 1988 Page 134 “nine knocks I was shattered, overwhelmed. I remembered their eerie precision-three groups of three” Page 135 "The nine knocks made me struggle even harder to understand. And I did not understand. But I had a few ideas It was as if I had discovered an unknown world that has always been around us, that may be an even greater reality..."
Toby Wilkinson 2010 Page 30 "In total, Atum and his immediate descendants numbered nine deities, three times three expressing the ancient Egyptian concept of completeness.
Daily Mail, Thursday, December 24, 2015 By Ben Wilkinson Page 124 Life-saving 999 call by girl of 3 after pregnant mother fell down stairs WHEN pregnant Catherine Bazzard fell downstairs and knocked herself out, she was lucky to have a cool-headed life-saver nearby-her three-year old daughter Emma. The youngster calmly told the emergency operator that Mrs Bazzard had a baby in her tummy and directed paramedics to her house. Yesterday, South Western Ambukance Service released the 11 minute transcript of her call as it gave her a bravery award. Emma found her mother slipping in and out of consciousness at the foot of the stairs after the 27-year old fell while rushing to get her son Harry, five from school. In the recording of the call on November 27, Emma tells the call handler: 'Mummy fell down a stairs and she has got a baby' After she was asked whether the baby is 'asleep' and how old it is. Emma reveals: It's in mummy's tummy. It's very very big. It's coming at Christmas.' Extracts of the call from Emma to 999 call handler Sara Morris: S:You are so clever to ring up E: Mummy said '999' and I did it. "Pre-school worker Mrs Bazzard said: 'I remember Emma bringing me the phone. She couldn't get the nine button to work so I pressed it." "...her mum spent three nights in hospital..." Mrs Bazzard who is married to Ben, 33, a teacher said that had Emma not responded so quickly her son George would have been born dangerously early ... "George was born healthy on December 4th four weeks early Ambulance call handler Sarah Morris said: 'I was amazed to discover that she was only three."
"THE WORD FIRST USED FOR MAN IS LULLU" "THE WORD FIRST USED FOR MAN IS 33333" "THE WORD FIRST USED FOR MAN IS LULLU"
ENUMA ELISH - Babylonian Creation Myth - The continued story www.stenudd.com/myth/enumaelish/enumaelish- The word used for man is lullu, meaning a first, primitive man. The same word is used about the savage Enkidu in the Gilgamesh epic. Since Qingu is found ... I hereby name it Babylon, home of the great gods. The word used in the text is written phonetically, ba-ab-i-li, contrary to tradition, maybe to allow for the etymological explanation of the name as the ‘gate of the gods’.
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Attius Tullius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attius_Tullius Attius Tullius was a political and military leader of the Volsci in the early fifth century BC, who ... in which he and Coriolanus led the Volscian forces. He appears in William Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus under the name of Tullus Aufidius.
Jupiter: Facts About the King of the Roman Gods | Primary Facts primaryfacts.com/3565/jupiter-facts-about-the-king-of-the-roman-gods/ 23 Jan 2014 - Here are some facts about the Ancient Roman God, Jupiter. Jupiter is sometimes known as Jove. He is the King of the Gods, God of the Sky ...
Jupiter - Encyclopedia Mythica www.pantheon.org › Areas › Mythology › Europe › Roman mythology 3 Mar 1997 - Jupiter is the supreme god of the Roman pantheon, called dies pater, "shining father". ... The Romans worshipped him especially as Jupiter Optimus Maximus (all-good, all-powerful). ... His attribute is the lightning bolt and the eagle is both his symbol and his messenger.
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Myths of Greece and Rome: Zeus (Jove, Jupiter) www.sacred-texts.com/cla/mgr/mgr04.htm ZEUS (JOVE, JUPITER). As to the primary origin and significance of Zeus there is happily no doubt. He is the Indo-European sky-god in its two aspects; he is the ...
JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS Thomas Mann PHARAOH'S DREAM Page 914 At On, Amenhotep entered his palace in the temple, district and slept, there dreamlessly the first night, exhausted from ,the journey. The following day he began by sacrificing to Re-Horakhte with bread and beer, wine, birds, and incense. After that he listened to the Vizier of the North, who spoke before him at length, and then, regardless of the headache that had brought on, devoted the rest of the day to the much-desired talks with the priests of the God. These conferences, which at the moment greatly occupied Amenhotep's mind, had been taken up with the subject of the bird Bennu, also / Page 915 / called Offspring of Fire, because it was said that he was motherless, and moreover actually his own father, since dying and beginning were the same for him. For he burned himself up in his nest made of myrrh and came forth from the ashes again as young Bennu. This happened, some authorities said, every five hundred years; happened in fact in the temple of the sun at On, whither the bird, a heron-like eagle, purple and gold, came for the purpose from Arabia or even India. Other authorities asserted that it brought with it an egg made of myrrh, as big as it could carry, wherein it had put its deceased father, that is to say actually itself, and laid it down on the sun-altar. These two assertions might- subsist side by side- after all, there subsists so much side by side, differing things may both be true and only different expressions of the same truth. But what Pharaoh first wanted to know, what he wanted to discuss, was how much time had passed out of the five hundred years which lay between the bird and the egg; how far they were on the one hand from the last appearance and on the other from the next one; in short, at what point of the phoenixyear they stood. The majority opinion of the priests was that it must be somewhere about the rpiddle of the period. They reasoned that if it was still near its beginning, then some memory of the last appearance of Bennu must still exist and that was not the case. But suppose they were near the end of one period and the beginning of the next; then they must reckon on the impending or immediate return of the time-bird. But none of them counted on having the experience in his lifetime so the only remaining possibility was that they were about the middle of the period. Some of the shiny-pates went so far as to suspect that they would always remain in the middle, the mystery of the Bennu bird being precisely this: that the distance between the last appearance of the Phoenix and his next one was always the same, always a middle point. But the mystery was not in itself the important thing to Pharaoh. The burning question to be discussed, which was the object of his visit, and which then he did discuss for a whole halfday with the shiny-pates, was the doctrine that the fire-bird's myrrh egg in which he had shut up the body of his father did not thereby become heavier. For he had made it anyhow as large and heavy as he could possibly carry, and if he was still able to carry it after he had put his father's body in it, then it must follow that the egg had not thereby increased in weight. That was an exciting and enchanting fact of world-wide importance. In young Pharaoh's eyes it was worthy of the most circumstantial exposition. If one added to a body another body and it did not become heavier thereby, that must mean there were immaterial bodies - or differently and better put, incorporeal realities, immaterial as sunlight; or, again differently and still better put, there was the spiritual; and this spiritual was ethereally embodied in the Bennu-father, / Page 916 / whom the myrrh egg received while altering its character thereby in the most exciting and significant way. For the egg was altogether a definitely female kind of thing; only the female among birds laid eggs, and nothing could be more mother-female than the great egg out of which once th~ world came forth. But Bennu the sun-bird, motherless and his own father, made his own egg himself, an egg against the natural order, a masculine egg, a father-egg, and laid it as a manifestation of fatherhood, spirit, and light upon the alabaster table of the sun-divinity. Pharaoh could not talk enough with the sun-calendar men of the temple of Re about this event and its significance for the developing nature of Aton. He discussed deep into the night, he discussed to excess, he wallowed in golden immateriality and father spirit, and when the priests were worn out and their shiny pates nodded, he was still not tired and could not summon resolution to dismiss them - almost as though he were afraid to. stay alone. But at last he did dismiss them, nodding and stumbling to their rest, -and himself sought his bedchamber.
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MYTH AND SYMBOL IN ANCIENT EGYPT R. T. Rundle Clark 1959 Osiris Universalized Page 138 "Another section of Chapter 175 provides a lively dialogue between Osiris and the High God, here called Atum. All the / Page 139 / decisions of the High God previously noticed were accepted without question. The sceptical spirit of the Herakleopolitan Age, however, did not stop at minor figures; it queried the ultimate rightness of the fates determined by God himsel£ After his death Osiris finds himself in a cheerless underworld and remonstrates about his lot: 'Osiris O Atum! What is this desert place into which I have come Atum I have allowed him to dispatch the Great Ones, for he will inherit your throne on the Isle of Fire. This is a direct criticism of the Osirian belief in the survival of the soul in the life of universal nature. Otto has shown recently that the scepticism of the age was expressed in terms of debates; 6 objections were raised with the High God about the seeming injustices of his ordering of the universe. In the present case, Osiris complains that the Underworld to which he has descended has none of the wordly amenities which he had expected. The High God replies that this may be so, but instead there is peace and contentment of mind. The lesson is that the future state is not to be thought of in material terms. 'Whether I live or die I am Osiris,
MYTH AND SYMBOL IN ANCIENT EGYPT R. T. Rundle Clark 1959 THE PHOENIX Page 245 "The Phoenix, known to the Egyptians as the Benu Bird, was one of the primeval forms of the High God. The Shu Texts epitomize the appearance of light and life out of the original darkness and chaos as: / Page 246 / 'that breath of life which emerged fiom the throat of the Benu Bird, the son of Re in whom Atum appeared in the primeval nought, infinity, darkness and nowhere.' One has to imagine a perch extending out of the waters of the Abyss. On it rests a grey heron, the herald of all things to come. It opens its beak and breaks the silence of the primeval night with the call of life and destiny, which 'determines what is and what is not to be'. The Phoenix,therefore, embodies the original Logos, the Word or declaration of destiny which mediates between the divine mind and created things. It is essentially an aspect of God, self created, and not a minor deity. But the heron form is not to be taken too literally; it is a way of expressing one of the basic activities of God rather than a historical or naturalistic figure. It is the first and deepest manifestation of the 'soul' of the High God. Fig. 40. The Phoenix (in Coffin Text 335) (omitted) The Egyptians had two ideas about the origin of life. The first was that it emerged in God out of the Primeval Waters; the other was, that vital essence-Hike-was brought hither from a distant, magical source. The latter was 'the Isle of Fire' -the place of everlasting light beyond the limits of the world, where the gods were born or revived and whence they were sent into the world. The Phoenix is the chief messenger from this inaccessible land of divinity. A Coffin Text makes the victorious soul say: Page 248 'I am that great Benu Bird in Heliopolis, who determines what is and what is not to be.' 'I flew up as the Primeval God and assumed forms
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HOLY BIBLE Scofield References A.D. 30. Page 1117 JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, VERILY, VERILY I SAY UNTO THEE EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN AGAIN HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD
IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS Fragments of an Unknown Teaching Page 217 'A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.'
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Thomas Mann 1875-1955 Page 496 "There is both rhyme and reason in what I say, I have made a dream poem of humanity. I will cling to it. I will be good. I will let death have no mastery over my thoughts. For therein lies goodness and love of humankind, and in nothing else." Page 496 / 497 "Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death . Only love, not reason, gives sweet thoughts. And from love and sweetness alone can form come: form and civilisation, friendly and enlightened, beautiful human intercourse-always in silent recognition of the blood-sacrifice. Ah, yes, it is it is well and truly dreamed. I have taken stock I will keep faith with death in my heart, yet well remember that faith with death and the dead is evil, is hostile to mankind, so soon as we give it power over thought and action. For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
DIAGNOSIS OF MAN “It would indeed be possible to shorten the message of all mystics to those three words of the Vedantist,
JOURNEY = 108 36 9 36 108 = JOURNEY Kenneth Walker 1943 "It would indeed be possible to shorten the message of all mystics to those three words of the Vedantist, Tat Twam Asi, Thou art the That. The description of the ‘That’ alone is variable. To the Platonist, it is the eternal idea;to the Hindu, it is Brahman; to the Buddhist, it is Purusha; and to the Sufi and the Christian, it is God.” Page 157 "The change in the rate of perception that is a feature of higher states of consciousness is beautifully described in a remarkable passage of the Apocryphal Gospels, ‘The Book of James’ Now I, Joseph, was walking, and I walked not. And I looked
Middle Eastern Mythology S. H. Hooke 1963 Hebrew Mythology Page 114 Recent Sumerian studies 5 have shown that the conception of a divine garden and of a state when sickness and death did not exist and wild animals did not prey on one another is to be found in Sumerian mythology. The description of this earthly Paradise is contained in the Sumerian poem which Dr Kramer has called the Epic of Emmerkar The land Dilmun is a pure place, the land Dilmun is a clean place, The land Dilmun is a clean place, the land Dilmun is a bright place, In Dilmun the raven uttered no cry, The kite uttered not the cry of the kite, The lion killed not, The wolf snatched not the lamb, Unknown was the kid-killing dog, Unknown was the grain-devouring boar ..• The sick-eyed says not 'I am sick-eyed', The sick·headed says not 'I am sick-headed', Its (Dilmun's) old woman says not 'I am an old woman', Its old man says not 'I am an old man', Unbathed is the maid, no sparkling water is poured in the city, Who crosses the river (of death?) utters no ... The wailing priests walk not about him, The singer utters no wail, By the side of the city he utters no lament Later, in the Semitic editing of the Sumerian myths, Dilmun became the dwelling of the immortals, where Utnapishtim and his wife were allowed to live after the Flood (p. 49). It l.vas apparently located at the mouth of the Persian Gulf. According to the Sumerian myth the only thing which Dilrnun lacked was fresh water; the god Enki (or Ea) ordered Utu, the sun-god, to 'bring up fresh water from the earth to water the garden. Here we may have the source of the / Page 114 / "mysterious 'ed of which the Yahwist speaks as coming up from the ground to water the garden. In the myth of Enki and Ninhursag it is related that the mother-goddess Ninhursag caused eight plants to grow in the garden of the gods. Enki desired to eat these plants and sent his messenger Isimud to fetch them. Enki ate them one by one, and Ninhursag in her rage pronounced the curse of death upon Enki. As the result of the curse eight of Enki's bodily organs were attacked by disease and he was at the point of death. The great gods were in dismay and Enlil was powerless to help. Ninhursag was induced to return and deal with the situation. She created eight goddesses of healing who proceeded to heal each of the diseased parts of Enki's body. One of these parts was the god's rib, and the goddess who was created to deal with the rib was named Ninti, which means 'the lady of the rib'. But the Sumerian word ti has the double meaning of 'life' as well as 'rib', so that Ninti could also mean 'the lady of life'. We have seen that in the Hebrew myth the woman who was fashioned from Adam's rib was named by him Hawwah, meaning 'Life'. Hence one of the most curious features of the Hebrew myth of Paradise clearly has its origin in this somewhat crude Sumerian myth. Other elements in the Yahwist's form of the Paradise myth have striking parallels in various Akkadian myths. The importance of the possession of knowledge, which is always magical knowledge, is a recurring theme. We have seen that the myth of Adapa and the Gilgamesh Epic are both concerned with the search for immortality and the problem of death and the existence of disease. These and other examples which we have cited will serve to illustrate the point that the Akkadian myths were concerned with the themes which appear in the Yahwist's Paradise story."
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