Ancient
Sumerian Translation: The Creation Of Man
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Ancient
Sumerian Translation: The Creation of Man
Sumerian Mythology,
by Samuel Noah Kramer
Among the oldest known conceptions of
the creation of man are those of the Hebrews and the Babylonians; the former is
narrated in the book of Genesis, the latter forms part of the Babylonian ”Epic
of Creation.” According to the Biblical story, or at least according to one of
its versions, man was fashioned from clay for the purpose of ruling over all
the animals. In the Babylonian myth, man was made of the blood of one of the more troublesome of the
gods who was killed for that purpose; he was created primarily in order to
serve the gods and free them from the need of working for their bread. According
to our Sumerian poem, which antedates both the Hebrew and the Babylonian
versions by more than a millennium, man was fashioned of clay as in the
Biblical version. The purpose for which he was created, however, was to free
the gods from laboring for their sustenance, as in the Babylonian version.
The poem begins with what may be a description of the
difficulties of the gods in procuring their bread…
”O my son, rise from thy bed,
from thy . . . work what is wise,
Fashion servants of the gods, may they produce
their . . ,”
Enki gives the matter thought, leads forth ’the host of ”good and
princely fashioners” and says to his mother, Nammu, the primeval
sea:
O my
mother, the creature whose name thou hoist uttered, it
exists,
Bind upon it the . . . of the
gods;
Mix the heart
of the clay that is over the abyss,
The good and princely fashioners will thicken the clay,
Thou, do thou bring the limbs into existence;
Ninmah (the earth-mother goddess) will work above
thee,
. . . (goddesses of birth) will stand by thee at thy fashioning;
O my mother, decree thou its (the new-born’s)
fate,
Ninmah will bind upon it the .
. . of the gods,
. . . as man . . .
After Ninmah had
created the six types of man, Enki decides
to do some creating of his own. The manner in which he goes about it is not
clear, but whatever it is that he does, the resulting creature is a failure; it
is weak and feeble in body and spirit. Enki is now
anxious that Ninmah help this forlorn creature; he therefore
addresses her as follows:
”Of him whom thy hand has
fashioned, I have decreed the fate,
Have given him bread to eat;
Do thou decree the fate of him whom my hand has
fashioned,
Do thou give him bread to eat.”
Ninmah tries to be good to the creature but to no avail. She talks
to him but he fails to answer. She gives him bread to eat but he does not reach
out for it. He can neither sit nor stand, nor bend the knees. A long
conversation between Enki and Ninmah then follows, but the tablets are so badly
broken at this point that it is impossible to make out the sense of the
contents. Finally Ninmah seems to utter a curse against Enki because of the sick, lifeless creature which
he produced, a curse which Enki seems to
accept as his due.
In addition to the creation poem
outlined above, a detailed description of the purpose for which mankind was
created is given in the introduction to the myth ”Cattle and Grain”; it runs as
follows. After the Anunnaki, the heaven-gods, had been born, but before the
creation of Lahar, the cattle-god, and Ashnan, the
grain-goddess, there existed neither cattle nor grain. The gods therefore ”knew
not” the eating of bread nor the dressing of garments. The cattle-god Lahar and the grain-goddess Ashnan were then created in the creation chamber
of heaven, but still the gods remained unsated. It was then that man ”was given
breath,” for the sake of the welfare of the sheepfolds and ”good things” of the
gods. This introduction reads as follows:
After on the mountain of
heaven and earth,
An (the heaven-god) had caused the Anunnaki (his
followers) to be born
Because the name Ashnan (the grain-goddess) had
not been born, had not been fashioned,
Because Uttu (the goddess of plants) had not been
fashioned,
Because to Uttu no temenos had been set up,
There was no ewe, no lamb was dropped,
There was no goat, no kid was dropped,
The ewe did not give birth to its two lambs,
The goat did not give birth to its three kids.
Because the name of Ashnan,
the wise, and Lahar (the cattle-god),
The Anunnaki, the great gods, did not know,
The . . . grain of thirty days did not exist,
The . . . grain of forty days did not exist,
The small grains, the grain of the mountain, the
grain of the pure living creatures did not exist.
Because Uttu had not been
born, because the crown (of vegetation?) had not been raised,
Because the lord . . . had not been born,
Because Sumugan, the god of the plain, had not
come forth,
Like mankind when first created,
They (the Anunnaki knew not the eating of bread,
Knew not the dressing of garments,
Ate plants with their mouth like sheep,
Drank water from the ditch.
In those days, in the creation
chamber of the gods,
In their house Dulkug, Lahar and Ashnan were
fashioned;
The produce of Lahar and Ashnan,
The Anunnaki of the Dulkug eat, but remain
unsated;
In their pure sheepfolds milk, . . ., and good
things,
The Anunnaki of the Dulkug drink, but remain
unsated;
For the sake of the good things in their pure
sheepfolds,
Man was given breath.
The creation of man concludes our study of Sumerian
cosmogony, of the theories and concepts evolved by the Sumerians to explain the
origin of the universe and the existence of gods and men. It cannot be
sufficiently stressed that the Sumerian cosmogonic concepts, early as they are,
are by no means primitive. They reflect the mature thought and reason of the
thinking Sumerian as he contemplated the forces of nature and the character of
his own existence. When these concepts are analyzed; when the theological cloak
and polytheistic trappings are removed (although this is by no means always
possible at present because of the limited character of our material as well as
of our understanding and interpretation of its contents), the Sumerian creation
concepts indicate a keenly observing mentality as well as an ability to draw
and formulate pertinent conclusions from the data observed. Thus rationally
expressed, the Sumerian cosmogonic concepts may be summarized as follows:
1. First was the primeval sea; it is not unlikely that it
was conceived by the Sumerian as eternal and uncreated.
2. The primeval sea engendered a united heaven and earth.
3. Heaven and earth were conceived as solid elements.
Between them, however, and from them, came the gaseous element air, whose main
characteristic is that of expansion. Heaven and earth were thus separated by
the expanding element air.
4. Air, being lighter and far less dense than either heaven
or earth, succeeded in producing the moon, which may have been conceived by the
Sumerians as made of the same stuff as air. The sun was conceived as born of
the moon; that is, it emanated and developed from the moon just as the latter
emanated and developed from air.
5. After heaven and earth had been separated, plant, animal,
and human life became possible on earth; all life seems to have been conceived
as resulting from a union of air, earth, and water; the sun, too, was probably
involved. Unfortunately in this matter of production and reproduction of plant
and animal life on earth, our extant material is very difficult to penetrate.
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NOTE:
I just typed this up ’cause thought someone may find it
interesting. This is translated from ancient Sumerian texts and I can’t vouch
for it’s linguistic accuracy. If there’s typos and stuff…
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responses to Ancient
Sumerian Translation: The Creation of Man
1.
InLikeFlint said
on July 4,
2012
Great info! And good work
typing it up. 
The “primeval sea” is close to
a concept in physics that was tossed aside back in the early 1930′s. It
was when the great Physicist, Paul Dirac, created his relativistic equation for
the hydrogen atom and it’s single electron. The complete solution had 4 root solutions.
It was later figured out that the first 2 solutions described the electron and
positron. Thus, Dirac had predicted the positron’s existence before it was
discovered in real life. The other 2 solutions were the exact same as the first
2, but the energy state was negative instead of positive and they existed in
imaginary space (in dimensions defined with the square root of a negative
number.)
At the time these negative
energy solutions were ignored and later re-normalized out of the standard model
of particle physics. But, in essence they described a realm populated with an
infinite number of electrons and positrons cooled below absolute zero (having
negative energy.) They are combined in pairs into negative energy “positronium”
and orbit fiercely around one another. Since they’re cooled so low, they form a
superconducter-like material or Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC.) BEC’s have a
single quantum wave function, unlike normal accumulations of matter.
If you take the full Dirac
equation and not ignore any of the 4 root solutions, then the thing that is
described by the two negative energy solutions is called, “The Dirac Sea of
Negative Energy.” If some interaction occurs in the sea, the BEC wants to
readjust instantly and get rid of any imbalances, so the imbalance “freezes”
out of the sea and into solid matter in normal space.
So, there’s your creation myth
mimicking physics. lol
In fact, this theory can
describe all matter as different combinations of positive and negative energy
positrons and electrons. The forces of the universe then are all
electromagnetic waves and they ride the BEC like it was the aether that was
originally proposed long ago as the material that “waved” to produce the
wavelengths of all electromagnetic vibrations. An accumulation of charged mass
in normal space causes the electron-positron pairs in negative energy space to
line up around it in patterns similar to a magnetic field and they go to
infinity. So, there’s your electromagnetic force.
In addition to the
electromagnetic field alignments in the Dirac Sea around dipoles there are also
alignments that form around all matter. They create a much weaker force with a
lot less alignments than the alignments created by charged matter and the
resulting force is therefore gravity-like in strength. So, there’s your
gravitational force.
So,
quite a bit about the Sumerian creation myth can be applied to this model of
reality. Pretty neat, huh? 
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ifree said on July 5,
2012
Wow
awesome comment. I love all this :3 Thanks for taking the time to write this
up.
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ifree said on July 5,
2012
“BEC’s have a single quantum
wave function, unlike normal accumulations of matter.”
“Tao produced Unity; Unity produced Duality; Duality produced
Trinity; and Trinity produced all existing objects. These myriad objects leave
darkness behind them and embrace the light, being harmonised by the breath of
Vacancy.” – Lao Tzu
“If some interaction occurs in
the sea, the BEC wants to readjust instantly and get rid of any imbalances, so
the imbalance “freezes” out of the sea and into solid matter in normal space.”
That’s so interesting. I was
clicking around Paul Dirac’s wiki-page and came across this:
“Instanton: The first such
solutions were discovered in the case of four-dimensional Euclidean space
compactified to the four-dimensional sphere, and turned out to be localized in
space-time…”
I’m not a physicist but my
intuition tells me that the inter-relationship of time & space is one of
the more interesting things about these phenomena. How would time-space operate
within the Dirac Sea… what type of relativistic system would be able to map
that Sea… and would it be possible to interact with that Sea (send / receive
information). %P
Anyway
thanks for posting… it’s all so interesting :> but way over my head.
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InLikeFlint said
on July 5,
2012
The Tao concepts are not far
from the ideas of the Dirac/Hotson* theory.
The Dirac Sea functions as a
single entity in this theory. The particles that freeze out of the sea to
maintain the BEC’s balance are most probably unbound neutrons, which each decay
with a 15 minute half-life into a proton and an electron. If the neutron gets
bound in the nucleus of an atom before that, the neutron can remain stable and
not decay.
The three particles, proton,
neutron and electron are the Trinity. The positron and electron are the two
entities that make up each of the above three and are the Duality. Finally,
there’s the Dirac Sea/BEC as a single wave function/single entity and of course
the electron itself, which is the Unity aspect of Tao.
As far as the Dirac Sea and how
to map it, I think it is a timeless realm since it is not a space/time like the
normal vacuum we experience. In fact, the Dirac Sea/BEC could be considered an
ultra-dense medium that is chock-full of positrons and electrons shoulder to
shoulder, so to speak. We can’t see them since they’re composed of negative
energy and in dimensions perpendicular to our normal ones. Our “normal
particles” float like ice on the sea of this negative energy, however.
I’m sure that the sea/vacuum is
producing all kinds of interactions with our normal realm. It is the “aether”
that some physicists think they proved doesn’t exist way back in the early 20th
century. It waves to produce the electromagnetic effects of our realm and
positive and negative energy electrons and positrons are continually raising or
lowering in energy state to appear and disappear (to us) in and out of the sea.
The Dirac Sea could be the
realm where the power comes from for so-called zero point and cold fusion
devices. It could be the place where ufo-like craft appear and disappear in and
out of, for instance. Lots of possibilities open up here if we take all the
Dirac solutions as the true description of the Universe.
I’m still trying to wrap my
head around many of these concepts, but so far it is a much simpler and elegant
way of thinking about things than anything else I’ve studied.
(*D.L.
Hotson expanded upon Dirac’s theories in a paper published in two parts. Click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2.)
2.
Andrew said on July 4,
2012
I love
this stuff, good post.