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Originally posted by mikromarius
One important thing: Were the Sumerians Ba'alists? What is their name for Lord?
Blessings,
Mikromarius
Originally posted by Illmatic67
Originally posted by mikromarius
One important thing: Were the Sumerians Ba'alists? What is their name for Lord?
Blessings,
Mikromarius
Which one?
Originally posted by Tyriffic
Lillith, also known as the Shedim in the Old Testament, is known in babylonian literature as a female night demon. The Shedim were demons (perhaps, the Black Ones) to whom Israel's neighbors offered sacrifice, even their own sons and daughters(Deut. 32;17,Ps. 106:37).
Lillith makes one appearance in the Old Testament in a list of real animals.
Originally posted by Lilith
hi
i sincerly believe that the sumerian accounts are older than the biblical ones. For a start, the biblical versions are all smaller, condensed accounts.
Also, the fact that in the sumerian accounts many gods, some with conflicting ideas, played a part means the tales make more sense than in the bible - where all references to gods have been altered to 'god' and thus the god now represented in it changes his mind an awful lot ...An example being the great flood/deluge where although god decides to wipe out mankind he still saves noah and enough animals to be able to procreate .... in the sumerian account - what i believe to be the original - the gods agree to not inform humans about the flood but enki descretly informs the equivilent of noah so that he and his family can survive , and therefore goes against the other gods decision...
Originally posted by FreeMason
And mikromarius, also, Genesis does not explain the creation of the heaven and earth as by one god..but as by many as it says "We shall create them in our image".
It can be argued that Genesis and Gilgamesh, coming from the exact same origin is actually the same age, but only if one would agree neither is older than the other.
I'd probably follow the latter, as the peoples follow the same lineage, just moved to different localities, and the Hebrews placed an emphasis on worshiping one God greater than all other Gods, rather than paying much heed to the others.
And so the stories began to differ, and of course Sumer society ends in a literal "wind of death" (that was their last record of their time line, then their civilization abruptly ends ), while Hebrew society endured and so from genesis comes the whole rest of the Bible. Completed around 116AD