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Originally posted by jhn7537
When scholars decipher an ancient (dead) language how do they know if their work is correct?
Originally posted by undo
We need a study guide on how to distinguish time periods, particularly when it comes to Sumer. Assyrian things are not Sumerian, although you may see echoes of Sumer in it, it isn't "Sumerian."
Sitchin’s knowledge about language allowed him to translate the content of texts 6000 years old and come to the conclusion that the known passages of Genesis in the Old Testament, like many other times in the Bible passages are actually collected Sumerian texts, the original source.
Originally posted by Byrd
Drawing up such a thing is possible, but a better option might be for folks to compile for me a list of resources on major civilizations, including links to websites with timelines and links to websites with discussions of language, cultural artifacts, and common symbols. I can "sticky" it at the top of this section.
Originally posted by TeslaandLyne
subject review:
www.google.com...
The Lost Book of Enki (audio book)
Sitchin’s knowledge about language allowed him to translate the content of texts 6000 years old and come to the conclusion that the known passages of Genesis in the Old Testament, like many other times in the Bible passages are actually collected Sumerian texts, the original source.
From the last link.
Texts were not copied but tell the same story independently as Velikovsky has
delineated.
Talk about glorifying one's own work.
The Dragon tradition of the Orient is definitely from the traumatic period identified
by Velikovsky, even if he never did, we can best assume so based on the unknown
objects that appeared in the heavens.
Originally posted by Awen24
I agree with so many others here. As a Christian, I'll have a slightly different perspective on it than most of you, but I think that the evidence for worldwide cross-cultural influence is staggering. I really do. There's quite clearly a shared knowledge and experience that underpins a number of the ancient cultures that we've previously taken for granted...
and I do think that our planet has a "forgotten history". It's there, if you look hard enough, if you read and research and listen to what's being spoken of on the fringes of the mainstream... but not something that most people are willing to invest time and effort in... yet.
It's incredibly interesting stuff.
The characteristic of this catastrophe was its influence upon the mental, or mnemonic, capacity of the peoples. The description of it, as told by many tribes and peoples, if it contains authentic features, arouses the surmise that the earth underwent an electromagnetic disturbance, and that the human race experienced something that in modern terms seems like a consequence of a deep electrical shock.
In the rabbinical concept of the seven earths, molded one out of another in successive catastrophes, the generation which built the Tower of Babel inhabited the fourth earth; but it goes on to the fifth earth where the men become oblivious of their origin and home17) those who built the Tower of Babel are told to forget their language. This generation is called “the people who lost their memory.” The earth which they inhabited was “the fifth earth, that of oblivion (Neshiah)(18)
To each of the planets is ascribed a world age, and the ages of the other planets—Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, and Mars—are well discernible; the dominion of Mercury must be looked for in one of the world ages, and one of the world cataclysms was apparently ascribed to this lesser planet.(1) Mercury was a feared god long before Mars (Nergal) became one. As the name of Mount Sinai refers to Sin, the Moon, so the name of Mount Nebo in Moab where Moses died(2) was called already in that early time by the name of the planet Mercury. Later in the seventh and sixth centuries before the present era, this god was much venerated, especially by the Chaldeans and other peoples of Mesopotamia, as the names of Nabopolassar and his son Nebuchadnezzar prove.(3) In earlier times Mercury was known to the Sumerians as Enki.(4)