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These
Hindu tablets called the Upanishads were recorded thousands of Years before
those of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; yet, they have a Krishna or Christ
that was Crucified long before the Bible and Koran were created. Excerpts
from the Upanishads are shown below:
These
avatars such as Visnu took on the form of a fish when the earth was overwhelmed
by a universal flood. The fish legend first appeared in Brahmanas (the impersonal
world soul) and the Noah's ark theme.
The tortoise
(Kurma) Visnu became a great tortoise, and dived to the bottom of the cosmic
ocean to reclaim the many divine treasures that were lost in the flood including
the Ambrosia (Amrta, the food sometimes the drink of the gods in Greek mythology)
with which Gods preserve their youth.A demon,
Hiranyaksa, cast the earth once more into the depth of the cosmic ocean. Visnu
took the form of an enormous boar killed the demon, and raised the earth on
his tusk.
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Another
demon, Hirauyakasipu, had obtained a boon (blessing) from Brahma ensuring
that he could not he killed by any man or beast. Safeguarded he persecuted
all including his son. Prahlada (his son) called on Visnu for help. Visnu
burst from a pillar of the demons' palace in the form of a half man and half
lion and slew Hirauyakasipu.
A demon
named Bali gained control over the world and commenced a course of asceticism
(self denying) by which his supernatural power so increased that he menaced
even the gods. Visnu appeared before him as a dwarf asking for a blessing
of two strides, when granted the god became a giant and the two strides covered
the earth, heavens and middle air. |
Sumerian Cosmology The Menphite Theology Ifa Creation Myth |
Sumerian
Cosmology 8,000 to 1000 BCE?
From verses scattered throughout hymns and myths, one can compile a picture
of the universe's (anki) creation according to the Sumerians. The primeval
sea (abzu) existed before anything else and within that, the heaven (an) and
the earth (ki) were formed. The boundary
between heaven and earth was a solid (perhaps tin) vault, and the earth was
a flat disk. Within the vault lay the gas-like 'lil', or atmosphere, the brighter
portions therein formed the stars, planets, sun, and moon. (Kramer, The Sumerians
1963: pp. 112-113) Each of the four major Sumerian deities is associated with
one of these regions.
An, god of heaven, may have been the main god of the pantheon prior to 2500
BC, although his importance gradually waned. (Kramer 1963 p. 118) Ki is likely
to be the original name of the earth goddess, whose name more often appears
as Ninhursag (queen of the mountains), Ninmah (the exalted lady), or Nintu
(the lady who gave birth). It seems likely that these two were the progenitors of most of the gods. According to "Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld", in the first
days all needed things were created. Heaven and earth were separated. An took
Heaven, Enlil took the earth, Ereshkigal was carried off to the netherworld
as a prize, and Enki sailed off after her. |
TABLET
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When on high the Heavens had not been named, firm ground below had not been
called by name, nothing but 'Primordial Apsu' the Begetter, (Fresh) Water
and 'Mummu Tiamat', she who bore them all, (Salt Water) their waters commingling
as a single body.
No reed hut had been matted, no marsh- land had appeared, uncalled by name,
their destinies undetermined. Then it
was that the Gods were formed within them. Lahmu ('mud') and Lahamu ('Mrs.
Mud') were brought forth, by name they were called before they had grown in
age and stature.
Anshar ('Upper Firmament') and Kishar ('Lower Firmament') were formed, surpassing
the others. They prolonged the days, added on the years. |
Anu was
their heir, the rival of his fathers; Yes, Anu, Anshar's first-born, was his
equal. He begot in his image Nudimmud ( Ea ).
This Nudimmud was the master
of his fathers; of broad wisdom, understanding, mighty in strength, mightier
by far than his grandfather Anshar. He had no rival among the gods, his brothers.
Ifá Myth
If
we take the Creation Myth of Ifá, Obatala
climbs down the chain from Heaven to Earth. The chain is symbolic of the
double helix which is the form found within genes used to store DNA (Also
known as Hermes Staff, the Staff of Tehuti Or the Caduceus). Top: Yoruba
depiction of Obatala. |
The
Menphite Theology
The
Menphite Theology is an inscription on a stone, now kept in the British Museum.
It contaim the theological, cosmological and philosophical views of the Egyptians.
It is dated 700 B. C., and bears the name of an Egyptian Pharaoh who stated
that he had copied an inscription of his ancestors. This statement is verified
by language and typical arrangement of the text, and therefore assigns the
original date of the Memphite Theology to a very early period of Egyptian
history, i.e. the time when the first Dynasties had made their new capital
at Memphis: the city of the God Ptah, i.e., between 10000 and 35OO B.C. (Intellectual
Adventure of Man by Frankfort, p. 55).
The
Primate of the Gods Ptah, conceived in bis heart, everything that exists and
by His utterance created them all. He
is first to emerge from the primeval waters of Nun in the form of a Primeval
Hill. Closely following the Hill, the God Atom also emerges from the waters
and sits upon Ptah (The Hill). |
There
remain in the waters four pairs of male and female gods
(the Ogdoad, or unity of Eight-Gods), bearing the following names:-
(1) Nun and Naunet, i.e., the Primeval waters and the counter heaven.
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(2) Huh and Hauhet, i.e., the boundless and its opposite.
(3) Kuk and Kauket, i.e., darkness and its opposite.
(4) Amun, i.e., (Amon) and Amaunet, i.e., the hidden and its opposite.
(Egyptian Religion by Frankfort, p. 20; 23. Intellectual Adventure of Ancient
Man by Frankfort, p. 21). |
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