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	Sumerian Creation
		According to the Sumerians creation has to be accomplished by the mating of the gods.
		The moon (Nanna) was created by the union of Enlil and the goddess Ninlil.
		The myth calls Nammu "she who gave birth to heaven and earth", but there is no reason to assume that she alone created them.
	www.geocities.com /garyweb65/creation1.html (1258 words)

	Creation (theology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Creation is a doctrinal position in many religions and philosophical belief systems which maintains that a single God, or a group of gods or deities is responsible for creating the universe.
		The first living being created in each universe is called 'Brahma' and is given the task of creating a diversity of life and environments within that particular universe.
		Then they planned the creation, and the growth of the trees and the thickets and the birth of life and the creation of man. Thus it was arranged in the darkness and in the night by the Heart of Heaven who is called Huracán.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Creation_(theology) (1707 words)

	Mesopotamian mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sumerians practiced a polytheistic religion, with anthropomorphic gods or goddesses representing forces or presences in the world, much as in the later Greek mythology.
		For example, the Biblical account of the creation of man as well as Noah's flood narrative resemble the Sumerian tales very closely though fragments of the Sumerian myths were written many centuries earlier than the Tanakh (Old Testament) and the Bible.
		Ninlil, goddess of creation (Sumerian) - at the E'kur Temple - Nippur
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sumerian_mythology (1219 words)

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		Sumerian was used as the language of religion and scholarship by later civilizations, much as Latin was used in Europe during the Middle Ages.
		Sumerian myths are not 'readable' or 'enjoyable' in the same sense that Greek and Hebrew myths are.
		Most Creation myths begin with as 'paradoxical unity of everything, evaluated either as chaos or as Paradise' and the world as we know it does not really come into being until this is changed.
	mv.lycaeum.org /M2/sumeria.html (3823 words)

	CREATION STORIES
		The order of creation in Genesis 1 is: heaven and earth, light, vault of heaven (i.e., separation of earthly and heavenly waters), seas and dry land, plants, sun and stars, fish and birds, land animals, and last humans.
		In Genesis 1 God creates by simple command: "And God said, let there be light, and there was light." In Genesis 2 God manufactures his creations from dirt or earth, walks in the garden in the cool of the evening, and cannot find the humans when they are hiding.
		In the Sumerian story, Enki, the water god, and Ninhursag, the mother goddess, are supposed to have created the first man from clay, which they mixed with the blood of a rebellious god.
	www.cesame-nm.org /Viewpoint/contributions/bible/CREATIONSTORIES.html (1298 words)

	Ge, Ouranos, and the Greek Creation Myth: Contrasts and Comparisons: an article by Jeff Day
		Again, we might suspect that the Greek creation myth was borrowed from either Anatolia or the Levant in either the Mycenaean Age or the Dark Age, but we cannot discount the possibility that it was adopted from the pre-Hellenic population (the "Leleges" or "Pelasgians" of Greek myth).
		For instance, the creation myth of the Polynesians includes a unified father heaven and mother earth producing seventy deities before they were separated by the wind-god.
		However, the survival of this creation myth with so many shared elements across this vast region, surviving major changes in cultures and population shifts through the millennia attests to its centrality and durability in the original religion of the base population in this vast region.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /archive/etrus3.html (1817 words)

	Dilmun - Creation - Aliens - Middle East - Crystalinks
		It was the home of the Sumerian king who was the origin of the myth of Noah, the immortal survivor of the Great Flood, a story retold in the Qu'ran and the Bible.
		After the Sumerians, the Babylonians, Assyrians, even the Greeks, settled on the islands, because of their strategic importance in the movement of merchandise, north and south, east and west, by sea and by the land routes to which the seas gave access.
		Creation is all about one 'god', or consciousness, creating stories, grid programs, that recycle in the loops of 'time'.
	www.crystalinks.com /dilmun.html (4174 words)

	Apollonius.Net - Boulay Chapter 2
		Sumerian "tibira" is derived from the same proto-Sumerian substrata word as Hebrew "tubal," which means "metal worker." This relationship is seen in Genesis wherein Tubal-Cain, the son of the Patriarch Lamech, is credited with the invention of metals: "Tubal-Cain, who forged the various implements of copper and iron."
		One of the Sumerian myths states that this city was built for the got Utu, one of the circle of seven great gods who decreed the fates.
		In the Sumerian creation myth which deals with the formation of the universe, the Abzu is called the "primeval one" and the "begetter" of the planets of our solar system.
	www.apollonius.net /boulay02e.html (2669 words)

	Sumerianlegacy
		The Sumerians invented the wheel, the plough, irrigation, sailing boats, the keel, potter’s wheel and were the first to build stone arcs and multi-storeys buildings.
		The story of how man was created from dirt (clay?) and brought to life through a breath of air through the nose as told in Gen 2,7, is a copy of the far older Sumerian creation myth.
		The creation of these eight plants involves an intricate process with births of three generations of goddesses, and the story emphasises that these births are all happening without the slightest pain or discomfort.
	www.bandoli.no /sumerianlegacy.htm (2035 words)

	Sumerian Mythology FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Enlil creates the herdsman deity Enten and the agricultural deity Emesh.
		Enlil and Enki, at Enki's urging, create farms and fields for the grain goddess Ashnan and the cattle goddess Lahar.
		Inanna is rescued by the intervention of Enki.
	home.comcast.net /~chris.s/sumer-faq.html (10387 words)

	Sumerian Myths
		The Sumerians developed one of the earliest civilizations on earth (3500-1750 B.C.), but the existence of such a people and civilization was not even suspected until the middle of the 19th century.
		The Sumerians developed a form of writing called cuneiform around 3000 BC This script began as pictographic writing but eventually developed into a "purely phonetic system of writing in which each sign stood for one or more syllables" (Wolkstein and Kramer 125).
		The gods then decide to have a feast to celebrate their new creation, and Enki and Ninmah begin to drink beer and start "to feel good inside." Ninmah boasts that she, as the goddess of birth and gestation, is the one who determines whether "the build of men" (Harps 158) turns out well or misshapen.
	faculty.gvsu.edu /websterm/SumerianMyth.htm (4314 words)

	THANK YOU, MR. SERPENT
		One is that god was so disgusted by the first creation that She ripped it up and went back to the drawing board to create it again, only to have Adam and Eve trash it this time.
		Other details of the Adam and Eve myth are absurd: A land of perfection without disease or death or violence or sex; a tree that dispenses knowledge like a beer keg; and the biologically impossible idea that a species can be created from just one mating couple.
		Of course, we were not "created." We evolved through random genetic changes and the survival of those ancestors most suited for changes in the environments of their region.
	nosha.secularhumanism.net /essays/sierichs3.html (5213 words)

	Fisher Kings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		It is the intermediate force existing in all creation, which creates and to destroys.
		En.ki is the Sumerian Poseidon, the Chaldean Ea, the Babylonian Oannes, the Celtic Merlin, the Palestinian Dag, the Greek Dagon, The Irish Dagda and the Cretan Baal, who carries a trident like Poseidon and the Hindu Vishnu.
		In the Sumerian creation myth which deals with the formation of the universe, the Abzu is called the primeval one and the begetter of our planets in our solar system.
	www.crosscircle.com /fisher_kings.htm (2311 words)

	Evolution or creation? - Forums4Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		All these religions stemmed from Sumerian religion, the only thing is in Sumeria, it wasn't religion, it was considered normal and obvious, they kept meticulous records of the activities their gods got up to, because they lived umong them.
		The Egyptians are descendant form the sumerians, just like the Akkadian, Babylonian and any other culture that originated in that region, their dscriptings and writings tell as much, and most of their knowledge of construction and laws were direct copies.
		There are 9 planets, including Pluto, as the Sumerians considered it a planet so will I in reference to their charts, they also take into account that pluto is NOT the last planet in the system, as it's orbit moves between the 2 others.
	www.f4g.net /vb/showthread.php?t=19498 (3282 words)

	Hungarian Creation Myth
		In the Finnish myth the diving duck lays the eggs on the lap of the
		In the matriarchal branch of these people the myth is changed to originate life instead from the eternal material of Numa, the Universal Heavenly Sea goddes, rather than from a patriarchal Cosmic Mountain.
		This name is also found in the Ugrian's Numi Torem (the heavenly creator), which is male however and is in the heights of heaven rather than in the depths of the material sea goddess.
	www.stavacademy.co.uk /mimir/hungariancreation.htm (840 words)

	Dr. Paul LaViolette
		He is the first to discover that certain ancient creation myths and esoteric lores metaphorically encode an advanced science of cosmogenesis.
		He is also the first to discover that this same advanced creation science is metaphorically encoded in certain ancient creation myths from various parts of the world.
		Furthermore, in the area of archeology and archaeoastronomy, Dr. LaViolette is the first to discover and decode a scientifically advanced time-capsule message concealed in the lore of the zodiac and which utilizes a cryptographic key-and-check mechanism to facilitate cross-cultural transmission of its encoded knowledge.
	www.earthchangestv.com /tvguests/biolaviolette.htm (1324 words)

	Are the Extraterrestrials Who First Came to Earth Still Here?
		In a nutshell, the Sitchen version of the Sumerian creation myth states that a race of aliens by the name of the Anunnaki came to earth about 150,000 years ago.
		The Sumerian creation myth goes on to say that the lower caste/class workers became antagonistic and displayed displeasure over the physical workload demanded of them.
		The Gnostics, Michael Harner and Castaneda examples all sound like the ancient creation myth of the Babylonians that state all life on this planet is the by product of the life force of a sleeping (i.e.
	www.halexandria.org /dward816.htm (3727 words)

	Creation stories of many countries and Guam. The Legend of Chaifi - Volcano Spirit of Guam. Rudy Villaverde
		The moon was born from his mind, the sun from his eye, the wind from his breath, the sky from his head, earth from his feet and the atmosphere from his belly button.
		He created the imhullu-wind (evil wind), the tempest, the whirlwind, The Four Winds, the Seven Winds, the tornado, the unfaceable facing wind.
		Continue Odin, Vili, and Ve created the world in spherical form, and a body of water surrounded the earth.They designated part of the world as Jotunheim for the race known as the frost and rock giants.
	roland.web.gu /fire.htm (4246 words)

	Myth-Religion
		• God’s creation of the Universe begins with a proto-earth that is submerged in a flood of water.
		This is identical to the Egyptian myth of creation.
		Although this is portrayed as a historic event, it closely follows an incident in the Sumerian creation myth.
	www.eridu.co.uk /Author/myth_religion/judaism.html (854 words)

	CREATION-1
		Ura is a reading of the Sumerian sign IB, which, with this reading, is thought to mean "storm, garment"; but one of its archaic sign-forms seems to indicate the semantically related concept (‘wrapping around') in ‘whirl, eddy, tornado, or fish-trap'.
		Though Jacobsen equates Ura with Ki, the earth, I rather believe this name captures a Sumerian designation for the circular motion (analogous to that of the Northern Circumpolar Regions before the appearance of stars) in the primeval ocean that was the active component of the first entity.
		We can, I think, even discover the corresponding Sumerian name of the passive component: Nam-mu, "a goddess who was considered, in some traditions, to have given birth to An (heaven) and Ki (earth)" (Black and Green 1992, p.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/2803/proto-religion/creation-1.htm (1380 words)

	Norse Myth of Creation
		The world was created from the pieces of the vanquished giant—the sky was molded from his skull, the seas from his blood, and the earth from his body.
		Subsequent to their creation, men and the gods are markedly pitted against evil forces in Norse fable.
		This is an archetypal form of creation, most noticeably present in the Egyptian myths, where Atum, the crafter of the universe, masturbated to create his brothers and sisters.
	www.laits.utexas.edu /doherty/plan2/amycreation.html (951 words)

	html\worldview
		According to the Sumerian vision of the creation, the world was fashioned by a son of An and Ninhursag called Enki, the god of wisdom who ruled over the fresh waters of the earth.
		Variations of this myth continued down to the time of the Hebrews and the Monarchy and were drawn on especially by the post-Exile writers who altered its form to fit their own religious vision.
		In the Babylonian creation epic, the Enuma Elish, Marduk creates the earth and the sky that covers it from the body of the goddess Tiamat, whom he killed by sending Imhullu, the Wind, down her throat, piercing her distended belly with an arrow, and finally smashing her skull.
	cc.usu.edu /~fath6/worldview.html (5471 words)

	AskWhy! Marduk and Monotheism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Each of the Sumerian city states had their own god, and the set of them became the Sumerian pantheon when the country was united.
		The Canaanites were getting more and more influential, and with the myth of the creation by Marduk, they took the chance to identify their new king of the gods with fifty preceding gods, by claiming they were simply names of Marduk.
		The creation epic was recounted, punctuated by hymns and prayers, rather as the Christian nativity is narrated as readings from the gospels, with carols and prayers in churches at Christmas.
	www.askwhy.co.uk /judaism/0235Marduk.html (10227 words)

	Saint Mary's Press: Touching the Hearts of Teens; Catholic Publisher
		After each class of animals is created, we keep hearing the phrase "according to its kind," "according to its kind," "according to its kind." Then, all of a sudden, the first man and woman are created "in the image of God." You hear that there is something different.
		I think the creation of the woman from a rib is a carrying-over of a pun from an ancient myth.
		We read later, in Genesis 3:20, after they had eaten from the tree, that "[t]he man called his wife Eve, because she became the mother of all the living." Remember, according to the Sumerian myth, the woman of the rib is the woman of life--or of all living things.
	www.smp.org /resourcepage.cfm?article=129 (3412 words)

	Epic of Creation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Sumerian version of how the world began and includes to some degree the formation of the other members of the solar system.
		But there is also the distinction between the cosmic creation and the earthly ones.
		In the Sumerian version -- which is decidedly less ego-earth-centric -- all of the other planets may be considered to have been described in various stages of grouping themselves into the current arrangement.
	www.halexandria.org /dward179.htm (777 words)

	The Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Creation Myth
		A similar earlier version in ancient Sumerian has Anu, Enil and Ninurta as the heroes, suggesting that this version was adapted to justify the religious practices in the cult of Marduk in Babylon.
		Rather than opting for either extreme of complete dependence or no contact whatever, it is best to see the Genesis narratives as freely using the metaphors and symbolism drawn from a common cultural pool to assert their own theology about God (see Speaking the Language of Canaan).
		Since this is a myth about the natural world, the "stations" that Marduk establishes for the gods correspond to the celestial luminaries that figured in Babylonian astrology.
	www.cresourcei.org /enumaelish.html (8218 words)

	Babylon Creation Myth
		Drawing some new light on the ancients, Henry Layard found within the ruins of the library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, texts that were not unlike the Genesis creation in the Bible.
		However, it is generally accepted that the Enuma Elish was written during the time of the Sumerians, well before the book of Genesis.
		Thus the comparison must be made that the seven days of creation found in the Bible borrowed its theme from the Babylonians, who had borrowed it from the Sumerians.
	www.dreamscape.com /morgana/babylon.htm (2503 words)

	Paul LaViolette's Accomplishments in Archaeoastronomy and Mythology
		Aided by his background in general system theory and physics, he was able to successfully decipher the lost science said to be encoded in the lores of the Tarot and astrology.
		Also he has discovered the scientific meanings of ancient Egyptian symbols such as the ankh, djed pillar, tyet, and aker sphinx; and of the Hindu symbol of Shiva Nataraja.
		He found that this cipher describes the Galactic and solar cause of the legendary global catastrophe that decimated civilization at the end of the last ice age and that gave rise to numerous myths about the darkening of the luminaries, burning of the Earth, and occurrence of a great flood.
	www.etheric.com /LaViolette/mythology.html (676 words)

	Divine Manna - Gospel Of Thomas
		All these many stories and myths pertaining to gods and goddesses were in reality pertaining to the manifestation of the laws and divine powers throughout all of Creation.
		This includes the idea of the pre-existent Word that is the creator of the universe -- which when understood in this light, is as much a concealed doctrine of the Pagans, as is the biblical teaching that one must be born again.
		In order to create an institutional religion under Pagan Rome, the fourth century Emperor Constantine murdered all the original Ebionite Disciples of Jesus (see The Death Of The Religion of Jesus), as well as the Spiritual Christians who were called Gnostics.
	gospelofthomas.nazirene.org (12031 words)

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