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	Epic of Gilgamesh - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was based on earlier Sumerian legends of Gilgamesh.
		The most complete version of the epic was preserved on eleven clay tablets in the collection of the 7th century BC Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.
		Translations for several legends of Gilgamesh in the Sumerian language can be found in Black, J.A., Cunningham, G., Fluckiger-Hawker, E, Robson, E., and Zólyomi, G., The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/), Oxford 1998-.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Epic_of_Gilgamesh (542 words)

	The origin of the Sumerians and the great flood
		Many early northern Sumerian cities attest to their origin and early presence in the north, and are recorded in early Sumerian legends, such as the legend of "En-Merkar and the lord of Aratta".
		Sumerian tradition claimed that the recorded longest and shortest days to be such a large variation, that it doesn't agree with the locality of southern Mesopotamia, but is instead near to the Black Sea in latitude.
		The Sumerian god Enki, was the protector of man, the magician of the gods, the guardian spirit of springs and underground waters, and hence the headwater of rivers.
	users.cwnet.com /millenia/Sumer-origins.htm (12385 words)

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		His garment is Sumerian or Semitic rather than Egyptian, and the mixture of human and bird elements in the figure, though not precisely paralleled at this early period, is not out of harmony resemblance between the early Babylonian and Egyptian civilizations, see Sayce, The Archaeology of the Cuneiform Inscriptions, chap, iv, pp.
		The fragments belong to separate copies of the Sumerian dynastic record, and it happens that the extant portions of their text in some places cover the same period and are duplicates of one another.
		The Sumerians themselves had no difficulty in picturing two of their dynastic rulers as each reigning for two Â· ners ' (1,200 years), and it would not be unlikely that ' sars ' were dis tributed among still earlier rulers ; the numbers were easily written.
	djvued.libs.uga.edu /text/lbeh.txt (18104 words)

	Merovingian Mythos: Its Symbolic Significance and its Roots in the Ancient Kingdom of Atlantis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Sumerian legends are very clear: man was made to "bear the yoke of the gods." Man was separate from the gods, like a domesticated animal, and there was a great cultural taboo amongst the gods against sharing any of their sacred information with humanity, even things such as writing and mathematics.
		Legend has it that these beings taught mankind their secrets, including the above-mentioned arts of civilization, as well as a secret spiritual doctrine that only certain elect humans (their blood descendants) would be allowed to possess.
		That the Merovingian bloodline came from elsewhere is clear because of the legend that surrounds their founder, King Merovee, who is said to have been the spawn of a "Quinotaur," a giant fish or a sea monster, who raped his mother when she went out to swim in the ocean.
	www.21stcenturyradio.com /merovingian-twyman.htm (4565 words)

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		Sumerians were broad headed people, physically and linguistically different from all surrounding tribes that existed before or after them.
		Gilgamesh was king of the Sumerian city of Uruk in the first quarter of the third millennium BC.
		Sumerian texts describe telling Utnapishtam that he is capable, by his Nefilim heritage, of abilities that he has never used.
	www.viewzone.com /origins33.html (1222 words)

	ANU01
		It was from the legends of the Anunnaki that certain of the 'legends' of the Old Testament of the Hebrew / Judeo-Christian Bible were derived.
		Although many Biblical scholars refuse to acknowledge the connection, the ties between the Sumerian legends and those of the Judeo-Christians are undeniable.
		The legends of Sumer embody the earliest instance of the creation legends, and as such, are each of our ancestral history.
	www.motherbedford.com /ANU01.htm (646 words)

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		Though the resemblance of early Sumerian tradition to that of the Hebrews is striking, it furnishes a still closer parallel to the summaries preserved from the history of Berossus.
		His garment is Sumerian or Semitic rather than Egyptian, and the mixture of human and bird elements in the figure, though not precisely paralleled at this early period, is not out of harmony with Mesopotamian or Susan tradition.
		The Sumerians themselves had no difficulty in picturing two of their dynastic rulers as each reigning for two "ners" (1,200 years), and it would not be unlikely that "sars" were distributed among still earlier rulers; the numbers were easily written.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext00/beheb10.txt (19325 words)

	Epic of Gilgamesh
		The most complete version of the epic was preserved in the collection of the 7th century BC Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.
		However, the Mesopotamian legend indicates that the god Ea went so far as to suggest that Utnapishtim should deceive his contemporaries so as to keep them in the dark with regard to the coming catastrophe.
		Translations for several legends of Gilgamesh in the Sumerian language can be found in Black, J.A., Cunningham, G., Fluckiger-Hawker, E, Robson, E., and Zólyomi, G., The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature ()," class="external">http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/), Oxford 1998-.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/e/ep/epic_of_gilgamesh.html (1093 words)

	Did A Cosmic Catastrophe Inspire The Beginning Of Religion?
		The Sumerians instigated a revolution in fields as diverse as agriculture, commerce, maths, architecture and metallurgy, and they developed remarkably sophisticated forms of government along with the earliest known social institutions, such as schools and courts of law.
		One of the central themes of the Sumerian creation legends was the seeding of the Earth by fragments of a disintegrating heavenly 'mountain'.
		It suggests, on the contrary, that the Sumerians were referring to the collapse of a celestial mountain, i.e.
	www.rense.com /general/christp2.htm (3392 words)

	The Legend of the Stag
		The Hungarian Legend of the Wondrous Stag is one of the oldest legends of the nation.
		The Remnants of the Hun Legend of the Stag
		In the Sumerian legends of the antediluvian kings, the legend of Etana is prominent.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /stag.htm (2316 words)

	THE SERPENT AS DIVINITY
		This old Sumerian serpent-god, whose other name is Ningizzida, is the ultimate archetype of the lord of the watery abyss from which mortal life arises and to which it returns.
		Quetzalcoatl legends seem to have spring from Tula, and traveled to the holy city of Cholula, and then in 987 CE they sailed across the Gulf of Mexico to the land of the Maya.
		Legends said that since the Great God came from the East, when he left he sailed East, amd it was from the East he would return.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/5789/serpent.htm (18704 words)

	The Aetheric Texts
		Sumerian is written in cuneiform and is the oldest known written human language.
		Types of Sumerian texts known include personal letters, business letters and transactions, receipts, lexical lists, laws, hymns and prayers, magical incantations, and scientific texts including mathematics, astronomy, and medicine.
		Lönnrot's aim was to arrange the mythological and other poems into a single volume, comparable to the Icelandic Edda, and tell of the past heroes as Homer did in the Iliad and the Odyssey.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /phoenix999/Texts.htm (2420 words)

	Genesis merely a rip-off of other ANE lit
		Like most of the ancient Near Eastern peoples, the Sumerians were profoundly superstitious, and their great sense of inferiority virtually demanded that the course of events in the cosmos should be governed by decisions that came from superhuman beings.
		The deities venerated by the Sumerians were originally the forces of nature as experienced personally; thus the metaphysical force that activated history had a distinctively elemental character to it and partook of reality in this special manner.
		The Sumerians began the Mesopotamian tradition of writing history against a cosmic background, presenting in their narratives what can best be described as a world view.
	christian-thinktank.com /gilgymess.html (7761 words)

	Myths and Legends - frames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sumerian Mythology FAQ This page contains a description of the pantheon and cosmology of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq over 4000 years ago.
		The SsangYong Legend - the legend of the twin dragons.
		Legend Cards are for sale here, you can also find examples of their pictures and excerpts of the legends.
	home.comcast.net /~chris.s/myth.html (11969 words)

	Archaeology, The Bible and The Post-Flood Origins of Chinese History.
		The Bible, the ancient Sumerians and the Chinese all cite a chronology of ten rulers whose last member was the hero of a Great Flood epoch.
		Miao legends mention an original "golden age" lost to mankind through disobedience, a great flood and the subsequent dispersal of the human family throughout the world.
		Within the legends of Yu are hints of two personalities: a flood hero and a migration leader.
	www.creationism.org /csshs/v06n2p04.htm (1967 words)

	BlackSea
		The team had examined the description of the flood as recited in the Sumerian epic Gilgamesh, and had determined that there was in fact a possible explanation for the ancient accounts.
		The Sumerian culture was colorfully rich in legend and myth.
		The Sumerian culture either grew from the Ubaidian, or was adapted by later immigrants from the Ubaidian.
	www.biblemysteries.com /library/blacksea.htm (3119 words)

	Origin: XBN - 0080 - C:NEW_AGE2 To: ALL Date: 11/14/93 Re: PT 1/3: THE WAY 1-5 A friend as
		They are you, modern man. This tale of creation as told by the Sumerians is in the Elish, or as you call it, Genesis.
		The Sumerian called these people the Annunaki and their leaders are the Elohim.
		The Elohim are what the Sumerian called Gods, and these are the humans who came from the Collective.
	www.skepticfiles.org /mys5/theway1.htm (1045 words)

	The great flood legends - ancient misreadings of the fossil record? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The cognate languages for Sumerian are, interestingly enough Saami (found in Northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia), an ancient non-Han written language found in China, and the ONLY American Indian language to be successfully linked to an Old World language.
		Legends develop from people attempting to make sense of their shared experiences, of the stories that have been passed down thru generations.
		Actually, the Sumerians and their Saami relatives might well have been among the few human beings to survive the melting of Antarctica.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1157313/posts (4691 words)

	G21 DAY ONE - New York Triptych(Part 3 of 3)
		So across history, we listen to the voices of the great Sumerian legend cities, like Uruk, city of Gilgamesh, and though we can only wonder if this curious, indefatiqueable hero is the reflection of a real king, we cannot question the vitality of those cities which produced his legend.
		If we look closely at our legends, they are songs of our great cities and the personalities which the songs of those cities produced.
		Somewhere in Gilgamesh's legend, as he matures, after the lost of his great friend Enkidu to the fate of all men, Gilgamesh learns that Knowledge itself is the higher goal, not eternal life, but knowledge of the self and universe....
	www.g21.net /do43b.htm (538 words)

	Mystic Encyclopedia
		The American Indians have a creation legend that says they came out of caves underground while the 'reptile people' were banished to underground.
		He believes that giants came from that planet to ours and were called Annunaki in the Sumerian legends, and that they will visit again when the planet comes close to earth again.
		This is one possible source of the legend of Atlantis being destroyed.
	www.sacred-texts.com /ufo/mystic-e.htm (5586 words)

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		As an example, the first generation Sumerian Goddess is called Tiamat, or as her other name, The Deep Water.
		Your legends say that the spirit of Christ will come again and lead you to the new age of enlightenment.
		In most, she is the "Great Mother." The Sumerian text from which the Hebrew version of Genesis was derived, goes into this act of creation in great detail.
	www.anomalies.net /archive/way-archive-non-sorted/way_1-7.txt (19140 words)

	Epic of Gilgamesh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The most complete version of the epic was preserved on eleven clay tablets in the collection of the 7th century BCE Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.
		The earliest Sumerian (Sumer is one of the oldest civilizations, originating in the Mesopotamian river valley) versions of the texts date from as early as the third dynasty of Ur (2100 BCE-2000 BCE), or to about 400 years after the supposed reign of the historical Gilgamesh.
		A twelfth tablet sometimes appended to the remainder of the epic represents a sequel to the original eleven continuing the epic added at a later date.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/E/Epic-of-Gilgamesh.htm (876 words)

	Is this Mask from an Alien Face? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Again, as with all information from anonymous source, each reader must decide if the material present could be further support and evidence of UFOs and in this case, Alien Contact by humanity in the past as demonstrated by the mask you see above.
		For some reason, when I see this mask, I keep thinking of the Fish Gods talked about in Sumerian/Abyssian legends...
		What the viewer sees in the image is a picture of a wooden "MASK:" The actual wooden "Mask" was leaked to one of our sources in 1994 by an agent of Gorden Liddy's.
	www.v-j-enterprises.com /themask.html (291 words)

	Here there be Dragons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		(Apep momentarily triumphs during an eclipse) The Sumerian legends are filled with the dragon, Kur, committing some great wrong against the gods and one of the deities appearing to vanquish him.
		Dragons are common in British legend, we see them most noticeably with St George and in King Arthur.
		Chinese legends tells us that dragons originated in China and lost toes as they spread further afield.
	myths.allinfoabout.com /feature128.html (882 words)

	NIBIRU, PLANET X, ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS, NASA, MARS, EARTH
		Is it not possible that there are other forces at work on our solar system besides the nine planets we know of?
		The Sumerian descriptions of Our Solar System are being confirmed with modern advances in science.
		This article will show actual diagrams from the Sumerian times and how the accuracy for describing the planets is overwhelming!
	xfacts.com /x1.htm (265 words)

	Myths and Legends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aside from the General, Gothic Horror, Early Fantasy, and Medieval sections, these links are organized by region and language group, with those groups which produced written accounts of their myths and legends earlier, generally appearing closer to the beginning.
		David Brown, Kathy Martin, Jean Rusting, Doris Dale and others have assembled a collection of links and bibliographic refferences to a number of
		Ancient Chinese Civilization includes the legend of Shen-nung's instruction to man of the art of agriculture.
	home.comcast.net /~chris.s/mythold.html (12163 words)

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