Topics
Early Sumerian Culture
Nimrod, the Mighty Warrior
Birth of Abram
Ur of the Chaldeas
Terah, the Oracle Priest
Tower of Babel
The Return of Abram to Sumeria
Introduction
The story of Abram is retold millions of times as a favorite
to children all around the world. The drama in the Torah and the Old Testament
is simple. With the addition of the Inter-testament Book of Jasher, the Ebla
Tablets, and the ancient Sumerian tablets, it reveals a “Man of all Seasons”
born to Terah, the High Priest of the Temple of Ur, and he becomes a
contemporary and threatened rival to Nimrod the Mighty Hunter, the builder of
the Tower of Babel in the Land of Sumer, who received his power and authority
by the stolen garments of skins given by the Lord of hosts to Adam.
Here is the origin of ancient Sumer, where Enmeduranki, the
first High Priest was devoted to the service of an extra-terrestrial dynasty of
rulers, known as the Watchers in the Inter-testament Books of Enoch, Jasher and
Jubilees. Here the Sumerian god, Marduk, the son of Enki, became the god of Sumer
and Chaldea. Here was the family of Enki, a brother called Enlil, who caused
the Flood of Noah, and the father Anu, the Ancient and Hidden One. In this
realm of the ancients, the Priesthood of Sumer was given access to the Divine
Celestial Tablets of Anu. Here, in the land of the Annukians, as described in
the books by Sitchen is the origin of the Chaldean Magi and the life of the
High Priest of Ur (Uratu), Terah, who introduces Abram, the son of the Oracle
Sumerian Priest.
A birth party for Abram was opening high drama of the
tension and conflict between this newborn and Nimrod, the ruler of Shinar (Sumer).
During the party an exploding star erupted in the heavens interpreted as an
omen of the demise of Nimrod by the hands of Abram. The babe was sent into
exile, and eventually to the tutelage of Noah and Shem in Ur Casidim, the land
of the Khaldini, or the Ur of the Chaldeas. All the families of Shem were
inhabiting the Mesopotamian valley after the flood. After the fall of the Tower
of Babel, become the Chaldeans, Assyrians, Persians, Lydians and the
Hebrews/Arab Semites.
At the age of fifty, Abram returned to the land of Nimrod.
This was the land that Gilgamesh sought when he obtained the Lapis lazuli
tablets hidden in a Copper tablet box. Here was the land where early writing
came from the records found by Kainan of the Nephilim, children of the
Watchers. Once again, Abram is caught trying the overthrow the priestly
hierarchy, which was his legacy to assume the role of the High Priest. He
burned down the temple of his father, which his brother Nahor died in the
flames. Abram was captured and thrown into a fiery furnace by Nimrod only to
emerge unhurt, but his brother Haran died in the flames. He was then given a
large possession, armed guards and Eliezar his servant by Nimrod, but his days
were numbered in the court of the Nimrodian empire.
Here we see the land of the ancient zodiac calendar and
ancient cosmology, the corruption of the knowledge which led to the attempted
assault on the Elohim, the confounding of the communication skills of the
people of Shinar, the fall of the Tower of Babel by a massive earthquake and
the dispersion of the inhabitants of Shinar across the globe before the
tectonic plates of Pangea separated into the continents of the world as we know
them today. After the Tower of Babel collapse, Nimrod is later known in
scripture as Amraphel, one of the confederations of kings who invaded and
captured Lot, nephew of Abram with the five kings of the Vail of Siddim. The
fate of Nimrod was truly at the hands of Abram.
Abram fled with his family, after told of an assassination
plot by Nimrod, to Harran, and later become king of Damascus. Terah his
father, retired and built a Temple in Harran as a replica of his former Temple
to Marduk. If this all sounds like fantasy, join the Bible Searchers as they
investigate the writings of the ancients as they enhance and collaborate the
story of Abram in the Book of Genesis.
Early Sumerian Culture
Nimrod, son of Cush, son of Ham, the second son of
Noah, has been recognized in Hebrew scripture as a ‘mighty man’. The various
tribal families were spreading across the Mesopotamian delta and were ripe for
a strong leader or ruler to synthesize their tribalistic spirit into a
nationalistic unity. Kish, the city of Cush, is recognized as the first
city-state with Kish as its ruler. It was then, according to ancient Sumerian
tablets that kingship was lowered down from heaven and that civilization was
taught to mankind by the “gods”.
The waters of the Noachian flood were receding, yet great
patches of marshes and lakes spread across the fertile-crescent in which the habitation
of large herds of wildlife and birds dwelt. It was a productive, fertile and
verdant landscape in which the remnants of the mighty pre-diluvia Edenic Rivers,
the Euphrates and the Tigris now traversed the countryside carrying the waters
collected in the steppes and mountains of Armenia to the Persian gulf. This
was no hint of the arid and desert conditions that would grip these areas four
and one-half millenniums later.
The mighty headwaters of the River of Eden
were gone, disappearing in the continental shifting, the undulation of
great continental plates and the grinding, splitting, and separating of the
tectonic plates of Pangea. In a era of a prior age, the land for thousands of
miles around were fed by the mega rivers fed by the erupting head waters of a
giant geyser controlled by the earth-moon tidal gravitational pulls in a
central highland, Eden. The massive uplifting which occurred during the Great
Flood, and the subsequent tectonic shifting of continental plates in the days
of Jared, created a mountain chain in the Armenian highlands, which now become
the source of the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates. These fed the former
riverbeds, now carrying water in the opposite direction from their pre-diluvium
course.
Samuel Kramer, in his book, History Begins at Sumer,
lists the firsts in the Sumerian society. Justice demanded that the
king was required to be ‘righteous’. The Law, as promulgated and instituted by
the king, stated that citizen and king alike were to obey and uphold the tenets
of the law. The Law Code was in essence codes of upright behavior, similar
to the Hebraic law, the Ten Commandments which stated what is right, what
is wrong and thereby should not be done. Though credited to Hammurabi, a
Babylonian ruler 1000 years later, the codified law according to Hammurabi was
in essence not a law of behavior but rather a listing of crimes and the
punishment needed to seek justice, a Law of Codes of Retribution. These laws
were arbitrary and punitive. Rather than reflect a moral society, it was a
legal attempt to arrest the behavior of an amoral and degenerate society.
Judicial administration in early Sumerian culture
came by Judges, Juries, witnesses and contracts. The family, as a unit of
society, instituted laws of contractual marriages, rules and customs for
succession, adoption, and the rights of widows. The Law of Economic activity
initiated an exchange based on contract, rules based on employment, wages and
taxation. Trade laws as depicted in a custom station in Drehem, developed a
hierarchy, which kept meticulous records on trade transactions and
international trade relations.
Wisdom as depicted in the science and arts was the domain
of Enki, the chief scientist, of the Annunnaki and his children. This was
an era depicted by the ancient in whom the “gods” may not be walking with man
as depicted in the pre-diluvium society, but there is direct evidence in all
writings including both Sumerian and Hebrew that the ancient rulers
communicated directly with their “gods”. The Annunnaki according to Sitchen in
his series of books called the Earth Chronicles, possessed a unique object
called ME which was a kind of a computer or data disc which
contained instructions for the sciences, arts, and handicrafts. This object numbered
more than one hundred tablets which included: writing, music,
metalworking, construction, transportation, anatomy, medical treatments, flood
control, and urban decay plus astronomy, mathematics and the calendar. This
object was ‘lowered down from heaven’ or granted to mankind by the ‘gods’
usually through a chosen person or group such as the priesthood.
Enmeduranki was groomed to be the first priest. He
was given the secrets of Anu, Enlil and Enki in the Divine Tablets upon which
the engraved secrets of Heaven and Earth were imprinted. They also taught him
how to make calculations with numbers and showed him now to observe oil and
water (knowledge of medicine given either as an enema (oil) or oral medicine
(water). The Divine or Celestial Tablets contained information
concerning the planets, solar system, and visible constellation of stars
(Zodiac), and earth sciences which included geography, geology, and
mathematics.
The historical picture of the post-diluvium era was enhanced
with the rediscovery of one the earliest historical documents written, the Book
of Jasher, translated in 1840 from Hebrew into English and printed by
the J.H.Parry & Company, Salt Lake City in 1887, later reprinted in 1988 by
Artisan Sales in Thousand Oaks, California. This ancient document is mentioned
twice in the writings of the Judges, Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18. It has
given historical students greater insight into the era which the children of
the House of Noah repopulated the post-diluvium world.
The book was initially called the ‘upright or correct
record’ but since the name of the manuscript was not known, it was called
the Book of Jasher. Written in ancient Hebrew, the translators admit that only
seven or eight root words could be traced to Chaldean origin, negating textual
critics who felt most of Hebrew documents were formulated in the era of the
Babylonian captivity of the Judean people or were renditions of earlier
Sumerian texts.
Nimrod, the Mighty Warrior
The life of Nimrod has been amplified significantly by the
writings of Jasher which inform us that the strength and valor of the mighty
warrior was attributed to the possession of one of the sacred relics of the
House of Noah, the “garments of skins which God had made for Adam and his
wife, when they went out of the garden.” (Book
of Jasher, translated, Artisan Sales, PO Box 1497,Thousand Oaks, CA.,
91360, 1988, p. 15) This sacred relic had been entrusted to the
care by Enoch, then to Methuselah, and then Noah. In the possession of the Noah,
the garments now over 1650 years old, were stolen by Ham, and given in secret
to his eldest son, Cush. When Nimrod was twenty years old, he was given these
garments by Cush at the age of twenty, it states, “God gave him (Nimrod) might
and strength, and he was a mighty hunter in the earth, yea, he was a mighty
hunter in the field, and he hunted the animals and he built altars, and he
offered upon them the animals before the Lord” (Book
of Jasher, ibid. p. 15) With
this apparent divine power, this tribal family with Nimrod as their leader
sought to increase their power and influence over his brethren and cousins,
first subduing the House of Japheth, With four hundred and sixty men of war
including hired mercenaries, he conquered and consolidated the first historical
civilization in the post-diluvium era. Shinar was the first of the
royal cities who were extensively built and became the visible symbol of
the unchallenged reign of Nimrod. His fame spread throughout the land, the
symbol kingship was placed upon his head and the era of the god-kings was
begun. Rather than give credit to the Source of his power, he consolidated the
power and glory unto himself,
“and all nations and tongues heard
of his fame, and they fathered themselves to him, and they bowed down to the
earth, and they brought him offerings, and he became their lord and king, and
they all dwelt with him in the city of Shinar, and Nimrod reigned in the earth
over all the sons of Noah, and they were all under his power and counsel. And
all the earth was of one tongue and words of union, but Nimrod did not go in
the ways of the Lord, and he was more wicked than all the men that were before
him, form the days of the flood until those days.” (Book of Jasher, ibid, p. 16.)
The first world government was formed and the seeds of
world religious and political dominance were instilled in the power of the
priestly hierarchy, and the roots of the Chaldi, the secret wise ones were
installed.
The empire of Nimrod was centralized in the
Mesopotamian valley. “His kingdom in the beginning consisted of Kish, Babel,
Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar. From that land he migrated
to Asshur and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calab, and Resen, a great city
between Nineveh and Caleh.” (Genesis
10:10-11)
The walls of Erech (Uruk) were built on the foundation
of a pre-Flood city. Gilgamesh claimed, from his reading of tablets
engraved on Lapis lazuli and secreted in a “copper tablet box”
loosened with “the ring-bolt made of bronze” that this city was built by the
seven sages or patriarchs of the Cainite prediluviun society and was not the
city of his possessions. (Gardner, John and John
Maier, Gilgamesh, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. New York, 1984 Tablet I, Lines
4-6, 22-25)Birth of Abram
In the height of the military prowess of the Nimrodian
dynasty, the prince of the military hosts was led by the capable leadership of
the Terah, the high priest of Ur, the royal heir to the House of Shem, and
later high priest of Harran. and a leader which the “king and the princes
loved him, and they elevated him very high… and dignified him above all his
princes that were with him. (Book of Jasher
7:49,51. ibid, p. 16)
At the pinnacle of greatness, second in command of the
empire of Sumer, Terah was wed to Amthelo, the daughter of Cornebo. To
this union was born a son, Abram. In celebration of his birth, a great
party was thrown and the guest lists included heads of state(wise men) and
conjurors. The evening of the party, they witnessed an exploding star
which came from the east which caused a vast luminescence and rapidly spread
and covered the whole night time sky on the Mesopotamian delta. This
spectacular celestial scene prompted the wise men, the Magi, to give their
oracular interpretation to Nimrod that Terah's son, Abram would become
powerful and kill all the kings of the earth, an international dynastic coup.
Nimrod, the king of Kish, offered Terah a bribe to
purchase Abram, which included a gold and silver enough to fill Terah’s house,
with the knowledge that Abram would be killed. A three day waiting period was
given for consultation, and during that time, a son of Terah’s servant was
substituted for Abram. The king immediately threw the child down and dashed
the head against a stone, secure in his mind that a future political coup
had been prevented.
Abram was secreted out of the city to a rural cave
hideout with his mother and nurse and there lived 10 years in exile and
isolation. At the onset of puberty, Abram left his family and traveled north
near the site of the Great Ship south of the Ararat Mountains, where Noah and
Shem apparently were living in the same area. There he " learned the
instruction of the Lord and his ways, …and Abram served Noah and Shem his
son for a long time,” (Book of Jasher 9:5, ibid, p. 19.) isolated from the cosmopolitan
center of higher learning of Shinar. Within the foothills of the Armenian
mountains, visible in the distance the peaks of Ararat, and within the
political influence of the tribal mountain people, the Khaldini of Urartu,
Abram received the instruction and wisdom of Yahweh Elohim. This Wisdom passed
from Adam to Methuselah, directly to Noah and then to Abram. The oral
traditions and the tablets of the Book of Adam were studied and learned by the
young man, Abram.
Ur of the Chaldeans (Khaldinis)
David Fasold, his book, The Ark of Noah, while
detailing the archeological finds of a ship remains in Armenia and describing
the path of the drogue stones, or stone anchors depicting the path of this
ancient ship, gives his thoughts on the Armenian connection of Abram. The area
of Armenia lies north of the Mesopotamian valley in the area of Lake Van.
An ancient historian of the Armenian, Moses Khorenatsi, called by some the
“Herodotus of the Armenians” noted that the local tribesmen called
themselves Hai, pronounced by the people in the Lake Van region as Kh(o)ai,
meaning Ram. They recognized themselves as the People of the Ram and their
supreme deity was (K)Hal-di. Thus was derived the land of the original
Khaldini, later corrupted by Greeks in the times of Achaemenian to Chaldea.
(Fasold, David, The Ark of Noah, Wynwood
Press, New York, NY, 1988. p 184)
According to Josephus, Shem, the third son of Noah, had
five sons who colonized the land from the Euphrates delta valley to the Indian
Ocean. The Persians were in descent from Elam, and the Elamites. The
Assyrians came from Asshur who dwelled in Nineveh. Arphaxad
descendants were called the Arphaxadites, now known as the Chaldeans. The
Syrians came from the Aramites, or the son Aram and the Lydians were
in descent from the son, Laud, and his descendants, the Laudites. (Josephus, Flavius, The Complete Works of Josephus,
translated William Whiston A.M., Kregel Publication, Grand Rapids,
Michigan, 49501, 1981, p. 33)
David Fasold, believes that the thirteen B.C.E. Urartu was
in reality the area of the Khaldini and consistent with the claims of descent
from Arphaxad, born twelve years after the flood from an offshoot of Kesed,
reputed son of Nahor (Fasold, Ibid. p. 185) In the Book of Jubilees, it
confirms this idea with a long genealogy
Terah as noted earlier resided in Harran, and was the
oracle high priest of the temple of Harran, copied after the divine city of Nippur.
Tell Harran, recognized as a typical tell in the Mesopotamian valley, located
eighteen kilometers from the modern Syrian border therefore became the focal
center of the Abram story, the area of his roots, in the land of the People of
the Ram from the House of Terah. In Daniels time, the Chaldeans spoke
Syriack (Daniel 2:4 KJV), 
now known as Armenian,
or the language of ancient Syrian. In the Jewish Kabballah, when the
divine visitors announced to Abram that Sarai, his wife was in child, he laughed
and said, “No! Not Sarah! As a child, my Lord, I spent much time jesting with
the young men of the mountains of Urartu. Yes, I played satire with the men of
Ur…” (Fasold, Ibid, p. 186) In Ezekiel’s
day, (Ezekiel 1:3 KJV, Greek spelling)
the land of the Chaldeans was by the river Kebar, or in Ur
Kasdim by the modern Khabor River in upper mesopotamian valley. Therefore Ur
of the Chaldeas was the area above the bifurcation of the Euphrates River in
the area of Padan Aram, near the Khabor River and the Syrian border in the town
of Harran, now known as Tell Harran. The people are known today as Armenians,
who spoke the ancient language of Syriack in the land near the mountains of
Urartu. The linkage of Abram to Ur of Sumeria and Ur in Chaldea which has
puzzled historians and archeologists for years, may reside in the fact that
Abram probably lived and received social notoriety in both the rural and
cosmopolitan region.
now known as Armenian,
or the language of ancient Syrian. In the Jewish Kabballah, when the
divine visitors announced to Abram that Sarai, his wife was in child, he laughed
and said, “No! Not Sarah! As a child, my Lord, I spent much time jesting with
the young men of the mountains of Urartu. Yes, I played satire with the men of
Ur…” (Fasold, Ibid, p. 186) In Ezekiel’s
day, (Ezekiel 1:3 KJV, Greek spelling)
the land of the Chaldeans was by the river Kebar, or in Ur
Kasdim by the modern Khabor River in upper mesopotamian valley. Therefore Ur
of the Chaldeas was the area above the bifurcation of the Euphrates River in
the area of Padan Aram, near the Khabor River and the Syrian border in the town
of Harran, now known as Tell Harran. The people are known today as Armenians,
who spoke the ancient language of Syriack in the land near the mountains of
Urartu. The linkage of Abram to Ur of Sumeria and Ur in Chaldea which has
puzzled historians and archeologists for years, may reside in the fact that
Abram probably lived and received social notoriety in both the rural and
cosmopolitan region.Terah, the Oracle Priest
Terah was a worshipper of Marduk,
the celestial warrior god, Mars. The Tower of Babel
was dedicated to this orbiting celestial proto planet, which returned to an
avenging destructive path to earth about every 52-54 years. Imagine the fear,
respect and terror created by this protoplanet as every two years it made a commentary
pass by over the earth. Each pass by was closer and closer until its nearest
and most destructive orbital visit came on a fifty plus year anniversary. An
entire governmental department of that early Shinar was devoted to scientific
evaluation of this cometary visitor. This department included the conjurors,
which developed a whole system of predictive celestial sciences and the Magi,
wise men, who studied the philosophical, religious, and sociological
implication of these semi-centennial visits. Rituals and religious symbolism was
developed to appease Marduk (Mars) and what better than to fashion images in
stone or wood and use them in effigies to be placed in their homes for worship.
This is the earliest historical depiction of idol worship (Jasher 9:7)
In his urban estate, Terah built twelve large statues,
which resided in his private temple, constructed of stone and wood and no doubt
reflected the highest quality of artistry and craftsmanship in the Shinar
peninsula. Each effigy represented a deity for the month, representing
the calenderic system utilized in Nippur, developed since the Noachian flood
and the catastrophe which forced the earth to a new and further orbit from the
sun increasing the yearly calendar from 290 to 300 days per year to 360 days
per year. The Zodiac system was begun, and Terah came from a long line of
Oracle priests and the first disciples of the Zodiacian secret mysteries.
In the Book of Jasher, it recounts the story of Arphaxad,
who had a son by Rasuja, named Kainan, not to be confused with Kainan, the son
of Ham and father of the Canaanites. This Kainan came under the special
tutelage of his father and learned the art of writing. One day on the
foothills, he uncovered a stone stele with writings which he soon identified
as the writings of the Watchers, the fallen angels, who wrecked such
genetic havoc in the antediluvian world. These writings included the
“astrology of the sun and the moon and the stars and in all the signs of
heaven” (Jubilee 8:3, compare with Book of Enoch
8:1) Kainan hid the writings from the knowledge of Noah but passed
the secret mysteries to his son, Kesed and then to his son, Ur, the
builder of the city of Era of the Chaldeas. It was Ur, who transported this
information to the new mystery religion of the Chaldeas and was the
first to sculpt molten images for worship. The formation of idol worship
was started by Ur, the father of the Chaldeas.
The author of the Book of Jubilee, viewed
behind the super-dimensional aspects of the story, stating, “And the prince
Mastema gave his power to make all this, and through the angels who had
been given under his hand, he sent out his hand to do all wickedness and sin
and all transgression, and to destroy and to murder and to shed blood over the
earth.” (Jubilee 11:5)
The priestly dynasty passed down through the daughter of
Ur, called On, who was the mother of Nahor, the grandfather of Abram.
The traditions were then passed on to Terah and Abram. While
Abram was secreted away from the deadly grasp of Nimrod, he learned the art of
writing and the mysteries and secrets of the heavens from his father. The
oracular mysteries were confined within the dynasty of his family. The power
and social acclaim were his birthright.
Even so, Abram went to live with Noah and Shem who
resided in the foothills of the Armenian mountains and resided there for
thirty nine years. It was stated that “Abram knew the Lord from three years
old” (Jasher 9:6) In his youth he
also pondered the meaning of worship the sun and the moon but came to the
thoughtful conclusion that the Creator God was greater than these. In the
solitude of the Armenian hillside, the true worship of the Creator God and the
family traditions in the family of Adam, preserved and transcribed by Noah
were given to Abram.
At the age of fourteen, a plague of ravens settled in
the hillside and began to eat the grain as it was being sown and cast across
the fields in the springtime. As soon as they cast the grain, the bird would
eat it up and the villagers knew that a disaster harvest was ahead. Wherever
Abram went, he had the magic to dispel the ravens, which flew in great clouds.
By diligently working with his countrymen, he saved the harvest and his fame
went throughout the land. That winter, Abram, designed a novel invention to be
placed on the crook-timber of the plows whereby they would drop seed into
furrows and the ravens could not find the seed to eat. Thus at the age of fifteen,
Abram became the inventor of the seed furrow planter.
During this era the massive building project of the empire
was the Tower of Babel. In the plains of Shinar, the
inhabitants of early Sumer now numbering about six hundred thousands citizens (Jasher 9:23) began the first national work building
program using mortar and brick. The megalithic (giant stones) era of the
antediluvian era was over. The land of Sumer did not have limestone as
quarried in Egypt and so brick, bitumen used, as mortar became the commercial
building material. Their ruler, Nimrod, who gained power and prominence using
the hand wrought garments made by Yahweh Elohim, now began to believe the power
and glory of his reign and thought to assume the role of a national god, an
imperial monarch. It was the national custom to create your god, the first
‘me’ generation. “And the inhabitants of the earth made unto themselves, at
that time, every man his god; gods of wood and stone. (Jasher 9:6)
The arrogance turned to vengeance as the Sumerian war
lords, comforted in the security of their borders turned their attention
thinking they could fight the Elohim who has brought the flood ten
generations prior. Their ruler, now ruling over seven generations of
inhabitants by subjugating his cousins and imposing a military rule, now
sought to fight the ‘gods’ in the heaven in direct assault by building a tower
up to their abode in 
the clouds and using it as a military staging ground.
the clouds and using it as a military staging ground. Tower of Babel
In Genesis, the second time recorded that the Lord God is
translated as a plurality, said, Let us do down there and confuse their
speech…” (Genesis 11:7) This was
amplified by the author of Jasher by stating “to the seventy angels who stood
foremost before him, to those who were near to him, saying, Come let us
descend and confuse their tongues, that one man shall not understand the
language of his neighbor, and they did so unto them.” (Jasher 9:32) It is of interest that
scholars suggest that seventy tribes or nations came out of the Tower of Babel
experience.
Elohim to the ancient writers, though monotheistic in their
understanding of a Supreme God and Creator, also viewed the pantheon of
supernatural beings created by and in the presence and at the service of the
Almighty One, as gods consistent with the Sumerian world view of religious
thought. Yahweh Elohim, the manifestation of the Elohim to mankind, was
viewed by the Hebrew thought as reflective of the One God, yet the
message and visual imagery came many times by emissaries sent by the direct
charge of the Elohim. That they, the angelic beings created in the higher
dimensions who served next to the Creator God, would at times be viewed as God,
was not inconsistent with the postdiluvian Hebrew thought.
The debacle of the ultimate catastrophic collapse of the Tower of
Babel including earthquakes, massive earth fissuring which swallowed up
a third part of the tower, also included a strange phenomenon in which the
population became aphasic to their mother tongue, they could hear, but could
not comprehend, and when they spoke, their language was different. Was it the
role of the angels to carry a new root language to each different family tribe
with impressions of oracular vibrations still unknown to this day? Some
scholars have suggested that language was by mental telepathy and that
the telepathic powers of the brain were diminished so man had to communicate by
oral speech. From Babel, they migrated and settled in new homelands: the Indus
Valley, China, Egypt, the proto-Mediterranean basin and Meso-America.
The empire of Nimrod was dispersed, vast migrations
moved out to all corners of the globe. The early Sumerian empire was subdued,
but the power of Nimrod was not broken. His heart was hardened and his people
consolidated around him. Yet the glory days were over and fading fast. The
world, as envisioned by Hancock, in Footprints of the Gods, had
already been mapped, explored and the cardinal points had been determined. Pangea
was still intact, her subterranean crust fractured by the Noachian flood,
and the continental drift had not yet begun.
The post-Babel empire of Nimrod was significantly
reorganized and whereas before the Babel debacle, Nimrod controlled his empire
by the might of his own sword, he now sought military alliances to maintain
primacy in the military-diplomatic arena. Nimrod’s subjects also renamed
their leader, Nimrod, to Amraphel. According to the author of
Jasher, the title of Amraphel was given because, “at the tower his princes and
men fell through his (Nimrod’s) means” (Jasher
11:6) One of Nimrod/Amraphel’s earliest allies was the king of Elam,
Chedorlaomer, who had subdued the children of Ham who lived in the vail of
Shiddon in the cities of the plains.
The Return of Abram to Sumeria
Still in his youth, at the age of forty nine, as
sexual maturity took longer to achieve in those days, Abram knew it was time to
return to the land of his family. It was the first jubilee (forty-nine years)
of Abram’s life when Nahor, Abram’s grandfather died. A large family
reunion was called in Sumeria. Peleg, the great grandfather of Nahor had
died a year earlier. The name of Peleg meant ‘division’. Upon
his birth, the continents of the earth were split and were divided and upon
his death, the Babel experience caused the massive migration and
division of the children of Noah. The political unrest was settling down
and Nimrod, now called Amraphel with his allies were finishing the
consolidation of the remnant of his post-Babel empire.
Abram, now absent from his fathers house for thirty-nine
years and commencing the celebration of his fiftieth birthday, he returned to
the funerary celebration of his noted grandfather, also revered sage and priest
of the Sumerian cults. It was at this funeral celebration that the religious
reformationist, Abram sought to start a revolt in the Sumerian religious
hierarchy. At his father home, Abram watched and observed the twelve
statues of Terah, noting that by placing food before the altars, the idols were
unable to reciprocate and eat. He confronted his father, who acknowledged that
the religious and political power was so interwoven in the early Sumerian
culture, that to initiate such a reform would be political and personal suicide
for him and his family.
Abram settled down, and married his half-sister, Sara,
while Nahor also married, Milcah, the daughter of Harran, and they both
started their own families. One day, Abram took a hatchet and destroyed
all the idols except the largest central idol in which he placed the hatchet.
He then told his father that when placing the food before the idols they all
reached and grabbed the food before the senior idol was able to reach the food,
so he therefore chopped them up. The fact that Terah did not believe his son,
only highlighted the fact even Terah did not believe the idols were capable of
any animate activity.
This incident was transmitted by Terah to the king, Nimrod,
who had Abram imprisoned after Abram directly implicated the king with
the religious deception, “O foolish, simple and ignorant king, woe unto thee
forever. I thought thou wouldst teach thy servants the upright way, but thou
hast not done this, but hast filled the whole earth with thy sins and the sins
of thy people who have followed thy ways.” (Jasher
XI:56-57) This admonition turned to warning, “if thy wicked
heart will not hearken to my words to cause thee to forsake thy evil ways, and
to serve the eternal God, then wilt thou die in shame in the latter days, thou,
thy people and all who are connected with thee, hearing thy words or walking in
thy evil ways.” (Jasher XI: 60)
Ten days later, Abram with his brother Haran,
now eighty-two years old, were thrown in a fiery furnace. Haran was
implicated by his father, Terah, as the instigator of the initial
deception/ploy of switching the boy Abram for a servant’s son, who was then
earlier killed by the king. As reminiscent in the later incident of Shadrack,
Meshack, and Abednego, Abram was not killed in the fiery inferno, but his
brother was reduced to ashes.
Three days in the fiery inferno, before the Akkadian
multitudes, Abram stayed according to ancient sources. After this, Nimrod
asked “Abram, O servant of the God who is in heaven,”…”come hither before me”. (Ibid XII:32) Abram was sent away in peace
with many gift, gold, silver and pearls including many of the king’s servants
including Oni, and the most faithful one, Eliezar plus three hundred men.
Two years of peace reigned between Abram and Nimrod until
one day Eliezar heard rumors within the court of Nimrod that an
assassination attempt was to be made on Abram’s life. The king had a
prophetic dream that Abram came after him with a sword and when he turned around,
he threw an egg on him, which became a river, which drowned his troops. The
river turned back into an egg from which came forth birds, which came down and
plucked out the eyes of Nimrod as he was escaping from the scene of battle. A
wise man in the court of Nimrod, Anuki, interpreted the dream that
Nimrod/Amrophel and Abram would one day meet on the battlefield in the vale of
Siddim and Abram would destroy not only his troops but the hardened warriors of
his three allies after their victory over the Kings of the Cities of the Valley
of Siddim. The memory of the exploding star fifty two years prior came back
to the king, vowing now to eliminate Abram not only as a rival to the throne
but as an enemy of the empire
Abram realizing that he would not dissuade his father to
destroy the idols decided to appoint himself the vindicator of God’s
justice. One night he arose in the middle of the night and set the
whole temple complex on fire. The fires leapt high engulfing all the idols
and religious icons when his brother ran into the complex trying to save the
idols. The ceilings collapsed and his brother Nahor died in the flames.
His two brothers were now dead and Terah knew that Abram was his only
salvation. Some biblical critics have blamed Abram for the death of his
brothers, Nahor, in the temple inferno, and Harran, earlier in the fiery
furnace and for if he had only tempered his reformationist zeal, and both of
his brother’s life might have been spared.
The exodus from Ur Casidim by Abram and the
family of Terah was one in haste. This fact has puzzled theologians for
centuries, not knowing the threat of assassination on Abram by Nimrod as
depicted in the book of Jasher. With the death of Nahor in the fiery
temple inferno and Haran in the fiery furnaces of Nimrod of
Casidim at the age of eighty two, Abram, along with his family and retinue,
fled again to the house of Noah, who along with Shem had persuaded
Terah to leave Ur Casidim and head towards Canaan. There they settled or
started a new city, Harran, named for Abram’s deceased
brother. It was near the entrance to Canaan and Lebanon yet out of the
political sphere of Nimrod’s saboteurs.
Terah retired away from the cosmopolitan area of Sumer
and went back to the foothills of the Taurus Mountain in northwestern Armenia.
There he built a new estate and temple complex at Harran. Tel Harran,
now identified in the Ebla tablets was a noted town of commerce,
built at the major northern crossroad center between Sumer and western Asia.
The temple complex built in Harran has been reconstructed by archeologists and
noted to be a mirror image of the central Sumerian religious complex to
Nannar/Sin in Ur.
What is of interest in the saga of the dream of Nimrod,
is that the wise man, a Chaldi, who interpreted the dream was called Anuki.
This returns us to the works of Zecharia Sitchin in which the name Annukian
referred to those peoples who initially colonized earth as inhabitants when
they came from the planet, Marduk, and was translated from Sumerian as “Those
who from Heaven to Earth came.” (Sitchen,
Zecharia, When Time Began, Avon Books, The Hearst Corp., NY p. 10)
According to the author of the Book of Jubilees, a tenth of spirits
forms of the antediluvian Nephilim with the Angel Mastema were allowed to
interact not physically but in the spirit with the inhabitants of the
post-flood era. (Jasher 10:8)
At the age of seventy five, Abram is living in the vicinity
of Harran and possibly at this time he assumed kingship at Damascus,
a noted foreigner with an armed retinue. Here we see a family involved in the
political and religious life of Sumeria, a high class family of noble birth
who lived and mingled with the high echelons of Sumerian society. Nicholas
of Damascus, reporting in his fourth book states, 
“Abram reigned
at Damascus, being a foreigner who came with an army out of the land above
Babylon called the land of the Chaldeans. But after a long time he got up,
and removed from the country also with his people, and went into the land the
called the land of Canaan but now the land of Judea” (italics supplied) (Fasold, Ibid. p. 186.)
“Abram reigned
at Damascus, being a foreigner who came with an army out of the land above
Babylon called the land of the Chaldeans. But after a long time he got up,
and removed from the country also with his people, and went into the land the
called the land of Canaan but now the land of Judea” (italics supplied) (Fasold, Ibid. p. 186.)
For fourteen years, Abram lives on the corridor of the
fertile crescent before descending into the land of Shem’s inheritance, Canaan.
On a crystal clear night, he was observing the heavens to predict the rains and
seasonal changes, when the Lord spoke to him.
“Get the out of thy country, and from thy kindred and
from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee; and I will make of thee
a great nation and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou
shalt be a blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that
curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” (Gen 12:1-3)
AB RAM , his Sumerian name meant “Father’s Beloved”. Terah,
his father, not only was the head of the royal hosts of Nimrod, but also high
priest of Ur and accepted in the highest ranks
to performs the
religious ceremonies at Nimmiru.
The Abram as some picture in the Hebrew scriptures was
not a marauding nomad. When arriving in Egypt, he is immediately
taken to the presence of the king of Egypt. From there he engages
in social, scientific and political discourse and negotiates treaties with
dignitaries at high levels. When cohabitating with the Canaanites, we find
Abram careful to avoid local conflicts even with local rights such as water
wells. Here we see a person trained in the fine arts of negotiation and
diplomacy.
Ancient linguists early compared the Hebrew word Ibri
with the word Hapiru which the Egyptian, Assyrian and Babylonians in the
seventeenth and eighteenth century called groups of western Semites who
pillaged and invaded the borders of the civilized city states. They were the
bandits of the era. Yet when we see Abraham becoming involved in the War of
the Kings, he refuses to take any booty for himself, reflecting the high
conduct of a person of his stature.
Here was a family of royal lineage, who claimed
descent from the first born from the House of Shem: Arphaxad, Selah, Eber, Peleg,
Reu, Serug, Nahor, Terah, and Abram. Yet it is to Eber in which the biblical
name Hebrew or Ibri is derived which gives the family of Abraham its
greatest identity. Sitchen claims that the root word means “to cross” and
rather than the Semitic origin we must look to Sumerian linguists for the
meaning. He therefore directs us to look to the biblical suffix i
when applied to a person means “a native of”. Therefore Gileadi meant a
native of Gilead. In the same token, Ibri meant a native of the place called
“Crossing”, which was the Sumerian name for Nippur: NI.IB.RU. To
Sitchen, this was the Original Navel of the Earth, the pre-diluvium center of civilization.
When transferring linguistics from Sumerian to Akkadian/Hebrew, the n
was dropped off. So Abram, the Ibri, was actually Abram of Ni-ib-ri, a
man of Nippurian origin. (Sitchen,
Zechariah, The Wars of Gods and Men, Avon Books, The Hearst Corp. 1350
Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019 p. 294-295)
Nippur was noted in ancient Sumerian society as a
consecrated city, the navel or center of Sumerian religious society. It was
the nerve center where astronomy was utilized and entrusted to the priestly
caste and where the Nippurian calendar originated as soon as the orbits of
the post-diluvium sun, earth, and moon were calculated. Scholars know today
this calendar was synthesized about 4000 BC in the age of Taurus. The Hebrew calendar
was derived from this Nippurian calendar as it based its origin on the
beginning year of 3760 BC (where 1997 is the Jewish year of 5757) The Jewish
sages recount that these are the years that have passed “since counting [of
years] began” (Ibid p.296)
So Abram, turned his sights and the destiny of his family
south, to the land of the Canaanites. A new era in his life was about to
begin. The identity as the son of the Sumerian Oracle Priest would soon evolve
in the life of a Western Potentate, and one who had a special destiny to
fulfill.
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