by Alan Alford
from
NewDawnMagazine Website
Alan Alford, the author of
Gods of
the New Millennium (Hodder &
Stoughton 1997) is one of the world’s foremost advocates of
Interventionism — the theory that mankind was genetically created by
flesh-and-blood "gods". In this article, originally published in
Sightings Magazine (UK), he expands on the work of
Zecharia Sitchin
to present an account of what happened in the Garden of Eden.
The Biblical tale of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is based on
actual events which happened nearly 200,000 years ago. A comparison
of ancient texts with the latest breakthroughs in genetic science
reveals amazingly consistent details, which enable us to finally
solve the mystery of mankind’s origins. The shocking conclusion is
that man was a genetic hybrid, created and manipulated not by God,
but by flesh-and-blood, walking, talking ‘gods’.
Man The Slave
A religious belief in One God has dominated the thinking of western
society for more than a thousand years, leading to considerable
difficulties with the concept of flesh-and-blood ‘gods’. However,
such an idea did not present any problems to the world’s first known
civilization —
the Sumerians — who lived alongside these divine
rulers and depicted them as human-like beings. The Sumerian scribes
and their Akkadian successors inscribed clay tablets with a wealth
of information about the gods. One such text, commonly known by the
name of its hero,
Atra-Hasis, describes the background to the
creation of man, when the gods themselves were involved in the
painstaking extraction of minerals from Earth:
When the gods, as men, bore the work and suffered the toil — the
toil of the gods was great, the work was heavy, the distress was
much.
Conditions were so severe that, after 40 periods of hardship, the
gods rebelled against their leader Enlil. A council of the gods was
then called, at which the god Ea (alias Enki) provided the solution:
While the Birth Goddess is present, let her create a Primitive
Worker, let him bear the yoke, let him carry the toil of the gods!
The ensuing passages of the Atra-Hasis describe what appears to a
modern-day reader as a cloning process, in which the goddess
Nin-ti
(‘Lady Life’) made fourteen pieces of ‘clay’ and impregnated
fourteen ‘birth goddesses’. The first slaves comprised seven males
and seven females, referred to as LU.LU — a term indicating a
genetic mixture between the primitive hominid Homo erectus and the
gods themselves. The event can be dated to around 200,000 years ago
when the large-brained Homo sapiens suddenly appeared on this
planet.
The Meaning of Eden
The Biblical Garden of Eden is not a mythological place but a real
location. In order to understand what happened there, it is
necessary to appreciate that the word Eden is derived from the
Sumerian term E.DIN. Whilst the first syllable ‘E’ meant ‘Home’, the
second syllable was an abbreviation of DIN.GIR, commonly translated
as ‘the gods’. Eden or E.DIN was therefore the ‘Abode of the Gods’.
Ancient texts describe more than one abode of the gods, with the
Earth being divided geographically between two rival groups, headed
by the brothers Enlil and Enki respectively. Whilst the
Enkiites
inhabited the African continent, the Enlilites occupied Asia and
particularly the fertile lands of Mesopotamia. We are thus dealing
with both a western Eden and an eastern Eden.
It was in the western Eden, also known as the Abzu or Lower World,
that Enki and Ninti created the LU.LU slave, a detail which is
confirmed by finds of the oldest Homo sapiens fossils in Africa. It
was in these mineral-rich lands that man was put to work in the
dangerous process of extracting minerals from deep underground.
A text known as
The Myth of the Pickaxe explains what happened next.
In the eastern Eden, Enki’s brother and rival, Enlil, was besieged
by his underlings, who complained that the slaves were being
unfairly monopolized in the Lower World. Enlil, described in the
following text as ‘the Lord’, reacted accordingly:
The Lord called forth the AL.ANI, gave its orders. He set the earth
splitter as a crown upon its head, and drove it into the
Place-Where-Flesh-Sprouted-Forth. In the hole was a head of a man;
from the ground, people were breaking through towards Enlil. He eyed
the Black-headed Ones in steadfast fashion.
This raid on the Black-headed slaves is also mentioned briefly in
the Old Testament, Genesis 2:7-8, where man rather curiously had
already been formed when he was ‘put’ in the Garden of Eden by
‘God'.
The Serpent God
The Book of Genesis tale of Adam and Eve is nowadays regarded as a
symbolic myth, but several clues suggest that it drew upon an
earlier account of a real event. The first clue is that God himself
is described as one of the walking talking gods. The second clue is
the presence of the Serpent — a well-known symbol for the ancient
Egyptian gods, and particularly Enki himself, the genetic scientist
who had created man. It is no coincidence that the modern symbol of
medicine is a serpent entwined around a staff.
The third clue lies in the outcome of the Serpent’s intervention.
Adam and Eve’s embarrassment at being naked, along with Biblical
references to the acquisition of ‘knowledge’, clearly suggest that
they were the first human pair to become sexually aware. The Old
Testament suggests that this change was caused by the consumption of
a ‘fruit’. This is a significant detail because, according to the
scenario outlined so far, man was created by the gods as a hybrid
creature, and hybrids are nearly always born sterile. The tale of
sexual knowledge being granted in the Garden of Eden therefore
carries a distinct ring of truth.
How exactly did a ‘fruit’ bestow sexual knowledge on Adam and Eve?
As mentioned earlier, the Serpent god was Enki, the genetic
scientist of the gods, and the ‘fruit’ with which he tempted Eve
would thus seem to symbolize a deliberate genetic intervention by
him. However, in order to confirm our suspicions, we must first
address the questions of motive and opportunity, and we must produce
a solid scientific hypothesis on how such a genetic change could
have been introduced. The background provided so far provides all
but one of the clues we need to reconstruct the event. The missing
piece which solves the puzzle is the mysterious ‘Tree of Life’ in
the Garden of Eden.
The Tree of Life
According to the Book of Genesis, Adam and Eve were free to eat from
a ‘Tree of Life’ up until the moment they became sexually aware.
Only then did the Lord God say:
The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He
must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the
tree of life and eat, and live for ever.
Why the sudden change of mind? Why was it that this god, identified
earlier as Enlil, originally wanted man to eat the fruit and live
forever, but then decided to withdraw it from Adam and Eve? Why did
it suddenly become necessary for him to expel them and safeguard the
Tree of Life with a ‘flaming sword’? The answer is amazingly simple.
Originally mankind was designed as a slave workforce which could be
easily controlled, and his sterility was an essential control
mechanism. However, with the granting of sexual knowledge to Adam
and Eve, man acquired the means to independent reproduction. The
longevity offered by the Tree of Life thus changed from an asset to
a liability, creating a serious risk of an out-of-control population
explosion.
Is it really possible that consumption of a ‘fruit’ could have
delayed Adam and Eve’s ageing process? Genetic scientists have
recently discovered that ageing is caused by genetic mutations, and
that one of the prime causes of these errors is excess oxygen in the
cells. This oxygen, known as ‘free radicals’ causes damage to our
cells in the same way that it causes cars to rust and butter to go
rancid. Scientists are now investigating the possibility of using a
cocktail of drugs to form a protective barrier around the cells, and
so extend the human life span. Such a drug could well lie behind the
symbolism of the legendary fruit of the Tree of Life.
Anti-ageing drugs, however, were only one method used by the ancient
gods to maximize their life spans. As explained in my book
Gods of
the New Millennium, the primary factor behind the alleged
immortality of the gods was almost certainly a genetic inheritance,
as evidenced by the male gods’ obsession with marrying their
half-sisters. Such a genetic longevity is indeed being sought in the
laboratory today. Scientists at the
Geron Corporation in America are
confident that they can prolong the life of human cells by
manipulating the telomeres on the end of the chromosomes.
Furthermore, a genome which was artificially enhanced in this way
would make perfect sense for a species which was attempting to
overcome the time barriers to inter-stellar travel.
Adam and Eve
According to the Old Testament, Adam lived for 930 years, but this
amazing life span pales into insignificance compared to the reigns
of thousands of years recorded in
the Sumerian Kings Lists. These
periods once seemed incredible, but are now scientifically
plausible, based on the assumption that man was indeed created in
the gods' image, genetically-speaking. Today’s average life span of
three score years and ten is the inevitable result of the
reproductive orgy and genetic mutations which followed the events in
Eden.
Let us now return to the crucial question of how and why the god
Enki genetically reprogrammed the human race. Enki’s motive presents
us with no problem, other than denting our proud human heritage, for
it would seem that his gift of sexual knowledge was simply a
spiteful trick on his brother Enlil. Following the raid on the slave
camps, mentioned earlier, we can safely surmise that Enki was more
than a little upset with his brother, and was awaiting a suitable
opportunity for revenge.
How was it that Enki, the Serpent god, turned up in the Garden of
Eden? The plausible answer is that Enlil’s raid into Africa captured
an insufficient number of male workers. Without the cloning
technology and the females that were created to act as surrogate
mothers, Enlil was powerless to expand his newly acquired labour
force. It was thus inevitable that he would have to seek Enki’s help
in setting up a fully independent medical centre.
What happened next? The most likely scenario is that Enki brought
two female LU.LUs to the eastern Eden and offered to demonstrate the
necessary procedures by carrying out the first cloning operations.
Let us assume that one male and one female embryo were implanted
into the two females with Enlil blissfully unaware that these
embryos had been genetically altered by Enki. The birth of Adam and
Eve would thus have appeared perfectly normal, and they would have
happily spent their childhood days playing in ‘the Garden’ (or more
likely a secure wing of the hospital facility). Then one day the sex
genes kicked in (as they do) and the two pubescent children suddenly
realized that they were naked. When Enlil saw them hiding with
embarrassment, he immediately realized the genetic trick which had
been played on him, and the rest is history — the serpent was cursed
and the blameless Adam and Eve were expelled.
Conclusions
Modern genetic science has revolutionized our understanding of the
Book of Genesis and other ancient texts. The alleged intervention by
so-called gods is now supported by a scientifically plausible
scenario, which involves two different Edens and two separate
genetic creations. It is hardly surprising that the editors of the
Bible were extremely confused, and their confusion has handed the
Darwinists a walkover victory in the debate on mankind’s origins.
But, whilst these mainstream scientists hunt in vain for mankind’s
‘missing links’, interventionist scientists are engaged in a
different search which has shattering implications for the new
millennium — a search for mankind’s ‘missing gods’.
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