Wednesday, 27 May 2009

Marduk

Nibiru, to the Babylonians, was the celestial body or region sometimes associated with the god Marduk ... Wiki

... the Babylonian name of a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon ... Wiki

... The only serious rival to Marduk after ca. 1000 BC was Aššur in Assyria. In the south, Marduk reigned supreme. He is normally referred to as Bel "Lord", also bel rabim "great lord", bêl bêlim "lord of lords", ab-kal ilâni bêl terêti "leader of the gods", aklu bêl terieti "the wise, lord of oracles", muballit mîte "reviver of the dead", etc. ... Wiki

... In Enûma Elish, a civil war between the gods was growing to a climactic battle. The Anunnaki gods gathered together to find one god who could defeat the gods rising against them. Marduk, a very young god, answered the call and was promised the position of head god. ... Wiki

When he killed his enemy, he "wrested from him the Tablets of Destiny, wrongfully his" and assumed his new position. Under his reign humans were created to bear the burdens of life so the gods could be at leisure. ... Wiki

... Marduk, appointed as the celestial champion, slew Tiamat, fastened the tablets of destiny on his own breast, and created a new world order that included humankind. This is a paradoxical creation myth: for the chaos-monster, though slain and dismembered remained the body of the universe and was manifest in her children, the gods and goddess from whom Bel-Marduk received homage. ... The Mystica



Marduk:


Assur:


And of course again i find the tantalizing name Nibiru

... Nibiru (mythology): a celestial object in the Babylonian poem Enuma Elish, associated with the god Marduk, generally accepted to be the planet Jupiter.
Nibiru (Sitchin): A pseudoscientific planetary object with a 3600-year orbit, described by Zecharia Sitchin in his Earth Chronicles series.
The Nibiru collision; the belief held by some (though not by Sitchin himself) that this Nibiru or a similar object is currently on course to hit Earth. ...

Now i could ask all sorts of questions, greatest amongst these i think would be:

On the one hand you have myth, and on the other science, and both seem to follow a similar train, yet both deny the existence of the other .... Where is the link?

We are missing something, some world view that took a whole lot of things for granted, which our wold view does not.

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