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Eyah asher Eyah’ - `I am (the one) who is called Eyah’ – the name of Ea in its West Semitic (Hebrew) form.
Today millions unknowingly honor Enki/Ea/Ayya, "the trickster god" in his "new guise" as Yahweh/Ehyeh
Ebla provided evidence that it had been a regional superpower, and that its political and economic control and influence covered an extensive area. Commercial treaties were found with states stretching from Ur near the Persian Gulf, to Ashdod and Lachish in the south of Palestine, from Akaba on the Red Sea, to Kanesh in Asia Minor, and with Niniveh and Asshur.
The language of these cuneiform texts was described as "Paleo-Canaean", and shows strong linguistic affinities with later Phoenician, Hebrew, Ugaritic and Aramaean. Thus, Eblaíte is the earliest member of the family of North West Semitic languages from which Hebrew would later arise
Another factor of greatest interest is the appearance in the tablets of theophoric names. The earlier names appear with component elements as "- il", combining names with El, the head of the later Canaanite Pantheon. With the increased contact with Mesopotamia another element began to replace El and "- yh" (corresponding to "Yah" and as Bottero shows, this appears used in places where in a Southern Mesopotamian context the name "Ea" would have been usedthere was a struggle over who controlled the wells upon which the city depended in summer - El or Ea (the new arrival, the divinity of ground water arriving from Southern Mesopotamia)
These names constitute evidence of the arrival of a new southern divinity whose name and attributes slowly henceforth move away from the Southern Mesopotamian identity and context in the subsequent periods in which connection with Southern Mesopotamia was broken (for example the Gutean Period) that followed the collapse of Akkad.
He argues that a memory of the fundamental nature of Yah as a rival of El and his champion Baal Hadad persisted, and thatgrafted onto this theogony was the Hurrian tale of Noah which in turn had used Ea
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Clearly if Yah was disputing the power of El alreadyin Ebla, as Pettinato suggests he was moving significantly away from the conception of Ea held in Mesopotamia
Yah started becoming a Lord of Heaven and a God of Light, far before Persian times
Ebla definitely launched the Canaanite version of Ea/Yah on a different trajectory than the Mesopotamian one
Enki/Ea
Sits upon a throne decorated with pots from which flow two streams of water, indicating he is the source of the earth's streams of freshwater.
Yahweh
Sits upon a throne portrayed as being over a stream of freshwater that leaves the temple in Jerusalem and travels eastward to the Dead Sea, rejuvenating it.
The “Myth” of Adapa
Food conferring immortality, a god denying man immortality, the acquisition of forbidden knowledge.
The story of Genesis
Food conferring immortality, God denying man immortality, the acquisition of forbidden knowledge.
“Enki, the contender...En of cunning, the shrewd one of the land, sage of the gods, gifted in thinking, the En of Eridu, change the speech of their mouths, he having set up contention in it, in the human speech that had been one.”
Yahweh/El
Confounded man's single language because of their hubris in building the Tower of Babel.
Enki/Ea
Warned Ziusudra (or Utnapishtim) of an impending Flood that would destroy the world and all of mankind. Telling him to save himself and the seeds of all living things by building a boat.
Yahweh/El
Warned Noah of an impending Flood that would destroy the world and all of mankind. Telling him to save himself and all the animals by building a boat.
The contention between Yaw and his brother Baal-Hadad is the Ugaritic version of the rivalry between Enki/Ea and his brother Enlil. The heavenly father aspect attributed to Bull-El is their version of Anu ‘God of the Heavens” from Sumerian theology.
the Hebrews generally challenged or refuted Mesopotamian notions, so instead of enumerating these gods and goddesses as personas of Yahweh, they were altogether "dismissed" as idols of wood and stone and not gods at all, there was only one god, Yahweh
Professor Hilprecht (1903) on Enki/Ea, the "god of the earth and sea," being called Ya or Yi (perhaps alluding to Professor Hommel's proposal that Ea is Ya?) and being the moon-god of Haran where Terah and Abraham took up residence after leaving Ur.
"...in the Aramean city Haran, the moon (Yi, Ya, or Sin) was the chief deity, being represented as male. The ancient Babylonian god of the earth and sea in the Semitic-Babylonian texts got the surname Ya, while Sin was received in the pantheon as a deity distinct from Ya- these facts belong to the later syncretism and are evidently due to West Semitic, Arabian influence."
Should it not be the concern of my own father, Enki?" Holy Inana directed her steps to the abzu of Eridug and, because of this, prostrated herself on the ground before him and stretched out her hands to him: "Father Enki, I should be compensated! What's more, someone should pay (?) (1 ms. has instead: make up) for what happened to me! I shall only re-enter my shrine E-ana satisfied after you have handed over that man to me from the abzu." Enki said "All right!" to her. He said "So be it!" to her. With that holy Inana went out from the abzu of Eridug. She stretched herself like a rainbow across the sky and reached thereby as far as the earth. She let the south wind pass across, she let the north wind pass across. From fear, (1 ms. adds: solitary) Cu-kale-tuda tried to make himself as tiny as possible, but the woman had found him among the mountains.
Holy Inana now spoke to Cu-kale-tuda: "How ......? ...... dog ......! ...... ass ......! ...... pig ......!"
Originally posted by Oannes
You almost got it correct. Yahweh is actually En.ki's half brother En.lil. Enki was the "serpent" in the garden. Yahweh ordered the global flood to wipe out mankind. It was Enki who told Noah from behind a reed screen to save his family and two of every creature. En.ki and Nin.hur.sag were the ones who created the Adamu. Read Zecharia Sitchin's The Twelfth Planet. The whole story is laid bare. This is one of my all-time favorite books by any author. Its basically the Bible decoded.
I've always gotten a rotten feeling when I think of Marduk and have been increasingly leaning towards the idea of Marduk being the Christian god. The evidence is there as you've so beautifully laid out. Of course, Marduk being Enki's son and Jesus being Yahweh's son, this makes sense to me. The Christians feel that Jesus and Yahweh are one and the same so, in their terms, Enki and Marduk would be viewed in a very similar light.
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by Cuervo
I've always gotten a rotten feeling when I think of Marduk and have been increasingly leaning towards the idea of Marduk being the Christian god. The evidence is there as you've so beautifully laid out. Of course, Marduk being Enki's son and Jesus being Yahweh's son, this makes sense to me. The Christians feel that Jesus and Yahweh are one and the same so, in their terms, Enki and Marduk would be viewed in a very similar light.
Which one is Enlil and which one is Enki? Are you saying that Jesus was actually Marduk?
Originally posted by Kantzveldt
The earliest myths of Genesis are derivative from the time of a North West Semitic broader pantheon, including El(Anu), Enlil (Baal Hadad), and Enki/Ea/Yah, you will find aspects of all three therefore, as well as their consorts, but it's Yah that becomes pre-dominant and that can only source to Ea
The question then in my opinion, having demonstrated that Enki has established himself as the One and only Supreme Deity of the Bible based religions, through the actions of his chosen people, is what on Earth he's playing at, and why the apparant break away from the rest of the Sumerian Pantheon to go it alone...?