Sitchin's Religion ?

Author: * Anu UtNapishtim - 3 Posts on this thread out of 86 Posts sitewide.
Date: Sep 25, 2002 - 00:07

Sitchin's Religion ?

Perhaps it (Sitchinism) may be considered more religion than science. I never thought of it that way. And I am not real well read in all the Sitchinisms, alleged or actual, although I posted pages with his book reviews and offered side notes that may usually agree with his line of thinking. Sitchin states that he was a Jewish scholar who questioned his own religion and did not get answers, being told to accept the dogma on blind faith. So he searched for them himself. He is still searching, and I assume, so are we all. Well, not all, since some current religious sects believe themselves to already have the one and only set of correct and infallible answers. Some choose the lesser evil of not knowing rather than the alternative of knowing an untruth. But it is always good to know something about the not knowing. And so we keep searching, and keep the dialogues open.

At the time of the current flood story, religious leaders and rulers may have been the same people (something to be learned) with different gods in each town. Sitchin has his theory that the gods (god-kings, whatever) merely used the humans to their own ends, etc. and maintained their power due to technological supremacy. And I am sure that, as people moved to new locations, they suddenly found themselves to be known as infidels or heretics in their new homelands. Or maybe they failed to fall in line with the changing of the gods, which often happened.

I don't believe that Sitchin looks down on anyone who does not agree with him. Nor do I. Nor does the character of Anu that I am trying to represent. I would prefer to agree to disagree, while trying to understand the (many) other viewpoints and possibilities. My character would like to be merely an observer. But I am willing to assume any character for the sake of a good story.

Babylonians are not the only ones with flood myths and creation myths. And it is amazing sometimes to see the similarities in myths from distant continents. Whether the Black Sea flood was "THE" flood of the Genesis stories or if there even was a universal flood are still matters of speculation. For the sake of the story of the moment, we may need to define the social, political, economic, (religious?) environment so that we can all stay in the same context. Or have a parallel reality. Maybe one reality might impinge on the other as ideas are shared, maybe not.

Sitchen's Noah received his instructions to build the boat from another reality, which was a dream, or the reed wall he thought was talking to him. Enki was forbidden by Enlil and the council to have any direct contact with the humans or to warn them of the impending disaster. But that is another story . . .

Keep searching.

Bright Blessings,
Anu

Note: This message was delayed due to browser problems. The MSIE keeps crashing on my machine since I installed Opera, Mozilla and Netscape 7. One of them messed up the MSIE 6. If anyone sent me a gram in the last day or so, it went to neverland.

Apiladey, I wrote this before I read your previous, and I think we are on the same frequency. I like the monster fish idea. Maybe the whole planet earth is a boat in the vacuum of space and a hugh fish swallowed us then hiccuped us back up, causing the flood. Or maybe we are still in its stomach and the sun is just one of its organs.

On with the show . . .