NORTH SEA On Sept. 28, 2001, it was reported that archaeologists in Scotland had
discovered evidence of a massive tidal wave that swept across the North Sea c. 5800 BC. This tidal wave, they say,
killed thousands and caused widespread destruction on the northern coasts of Europe. This event, they think, severed
the British Isles from Europe. The North Sea event is the same date as the break-through of the Bosphous
and the flooding of the Black Sea. In our reconstruction of the dates of Genesis (see below), these two upheavals
correspond to time of the destruction of the Tower of Babel and the flight from Ur of the Chaldees by Abraham's family.
In the Babylonian King's Lists, this is 3600 years, or one Saros cycle, after the Flood--a Nibiru 'orbital' cycle.
'Nibiru' means the "prophet-planet" and is the ancient name for Mercury ("Nebo Ur") in the Neo-Babylonian empire, called
"Adad" in Assyria. The Gilgamesh Epic described how Adad assaulted the earth during the Deluge. On a 3600-year
cycle between close approaches to the earth, Nibiru/Adad/ Mercury would have made another disastrous encounter around 5900
BC. So the dates of the North Sea calamity and the Black Sea flood and the revised chronology for the
Tower of Babel destruction all occur at the same time the errant Nibiru/Mercury returned to threaten the earth.
If these events all occurred at once, the implication is that the earth suffered a planet-wide devastation from an extra-terrestial source,
namely the planet Mercury, in c. 5900 BC. AMAZON DELUGE The January 13th, 2001, SCIENCE NEWS reported a
new study of the Amazon River in Brazil, showing that a huge flood of water poured out of the Amazon basin into the
Atlantic ocean precisely at the time of Plato's sinking of Atlantis, the same date we have determined was the Deluge
of Noah in Genesis when the Sabbatical cycle is used (as will be explained below). British scientist Mark
A. Maslin and colleague Stephen J. Burns of the University of Berne in Switzerland presented their discoveries in the
journal SCIENCE [Dec 22, 2000]. Prior to the Amazon's gushing c. 11,800-11,700 years ago [Plato's date: 11,600 BP;
ours: 11,549 BP] by their dating, it had discharged barely half the flow it now bears out to the Atlantic for roughly
a thousand years prior to its flooding. Then, "for a century or so," there was a doubling of the flow, as they found
in a sediment core showing "a brief yet substantial spike" in the data. This "substantial spike" coincided with the
sudden melting of the Andean ice sheet, but it was far more than can be explained by the melting alone: A sudden,
short burst of increase rain occurred at the same time, they concluded. AFRICAN CLIMATE CYCLES MATCH REVISED GENESIS
Lawrence H. Robbins of Michigan State University and his team have documented fishing technology in use in Africa as early
as 20,000 BP. Climatic changes across the African continent show that wet conditions prevailed from 22,500-to-19,200
BP, matching our "wet" estimate based on the revised Genesis of 23,140-to-17,740 BP. They then have a "dry" period
from 19,200-to-17,500 BP; we date this as 17,740-to-16,948 BP. These numbers may not seem the same at first glance, but
C-14 dates at this distance into the past have a 1000-yr error range. Charting the whole data set reveals how
similar the results really are: _____________________________________________________________________________ 1000yrs.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Flood Babel Drought of Joseph _____________________________________________________________________________
As you can see from the above comparison, the differences are well within the range of error for C-14 data and do not actually
conflict even without allowing for C-14 errors. A "SCHOCHING" DISCOVERY Dr. Robert Schoch's new geological
studies of Egyptian monuments are likely to revolutionize our understanding of ancient history. His team has
found evidence of weathering upon "core structures" INSIDE the ancient masonry of the Great Pyramid and of many other early
Egyptian edifices. What he has found proves that many of the structures we now see in Egypt were constructed
on top of other, more ancient structures which had lain exposed to the elements for THOUSANDS OF YEARS prior to their
being covered up by the pyramids of the Old Kingdom. This implies a radical revision of the history of Egypt.
It means an advanced Egyptian culture--the one that originally LOCATED these old structures,
that aligned them with great precision to "true north," and that positioned them around
hundreds of square miles of Egyptian desert to mirror the astrological sign of Orion--had existed THOUSANDS
OF YEARS BEFORE THE OLD KINGDOM, which Egyptologists date to 2500 BC. Ancient Sumerian civilation's
earliest written tablets [which are nothing but agricultural commodity tokens] date to 3300 BC. The new findings
by Schoch push the high culture of Egypt back to AT LEAST 5000-7000 BC--vastly older than Sumer. This earlier Egytian
culture literally leaves the supposedly "ancient" civilization of Sumer in the dust... The true date
of Egypt may be far older, Schoch says. He indicates that the civilation that laid out these grand monuments so precisely would
have alread had a long devleopment time before planning this huge complex of pyramids. Moreover, he feels his weathering
estimates could be underestimating the time involved. There is yet another reason for dating this early
Egyptian culture older even than Schoch suspects. Several scholars over the past fifty years have argued that
the date for the Egyptian Old Kingdom--from which Schoch's dates are extended back in time--could be off by centuries,
or even millennia. We ourselves have suggested the date of the Old Kingdom may be too "young" by 1500-2000
years. In 1983, carbon-14 studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza showed it to be 200-1200 years older than its supposed date
of construction during the Old Kingdom. That meant it might have been built as early as 3750 BC. But since
Egyptologists reject tree- ring dating (because it pushes their already faulty dates even further out of alignment),
the tree-ring adjusted date of the Great Pyramid may be older than 4000 BC. Adjusting Dr. Schoch's recent
weathering measurements from the base structure inside the Pyramid--by adding at least another 1500 years to its age--we
obtain a total date range of 8500-6500 BC for the original construction and LOCATING of the Great Pyramid. So it
was apparently sited by the Egyptian civilization mentioned in Plato's discussion of Atlantis, where Egypt is "re-founded"
1000 years after the sinking of Atlantis in 9600 BC. We now can tie Plato's history to solid rock in Egypt, with
a major part of his story being confirmed: There truly was an advanced Egyptian civilization founded around 8500 BC. Climatologist Dr.
Cesare Emiliani confirmed in 1973 that Plato's flood date was sound. Emiliani discovered evidence in sea-core sediments
for a sudden global sea-level rise of c.325 feet around 9600 BC(+/-70yrs)--Plato's date for the sinking of Atlantis.
Emiliani's data proves that, if Atlantis were real, then it would indeed have been flooded by the ocean at the very time
Plato stated. Plato either relied on genuine history or he made an astonishingly lucky guess: Within a century of
the exact date over a period of nearly 10,000 years: 99% perfect. Not only do we now have the dating of
Atlantis becoming more credible, but so is our c. 4000 BC+ dating for the Old Kingdom. In the summer of
1999, German climatologists confirmed that Egypt and the Middle East had endured a sudden great drought and famine in
the 4500-4000 BC time period. This date ties in perfectly with the new tree-ring calibrated carbon-14 date of the Great
Pyramid and, accordingly, its Old Kingdom great famine in the days of the man who is credited with the Pyramid's design,
Imhotep. All this brings us to Manetho, whose chronology of Egypt(c.280 BC) Egyptologists have claimed
to use. But Manetho says "70 kings ruled for 70 DAYS" after the Old Kingdom. Egyptologists have ignored this period
in Manetho's history as if it never happened. Their excuse for ignoring these 70 kings is that Manetho only accords
them "70 DAYS." But in the ancient world a "DAY" could be a person's life, and the phrase "70 DAYS" could
mean "70 GENERATIONS." Therefore, it signifies a potentially vast time in which "70 kings" ruled. Using various
ways of calculating a typical king's rule, the period of these "70 kings" might extend anywhere from 1000 to 3000 years.
Thus, Manetho's kings list implies that the Old Kingdom flourished some 1000-3000 years or so EARLIER than the 2500
BC epoch now assumed. No wonder the carbon dates don't fit! And Dr. Schoch's findings push the preceding age
in Egypt back another 3000 years.
THE "LONG" CHRONOLOGY OF GENESIS None of this comes as a surprise to those
of us who have argued for the "Sabbatical Cycle" reading of Genesis. Although many people have assumed Genesis
"years" are 360-day years, the Hebrew word rendered "year" literally means "cycle of time"
and is translated in the KJV as "day" or "month" or "year" or "generation" or "age" or whatever cycle might
be implied. In Genesis, one cycle mentioned repeatedly is the 7-year Sabbatical Cycle. If we apply this to
the Genesis chronology, the Biblical version of events lines up perfectly with the expanse of ancient history uncovered
by Schoch and the other scientists. Plato's date for Atlantis sinking and the geologic evidence for a sudden
rise in global sea-level match the Deluge of Noah perfectly. The new evidence for the rise of ancient Egypt matches what
Genesis says about Egypt's founding after the Flood and what Plato said. We have Joseph's great famine matching
perfectly with the one found by German scientists in 1999. Even the pre-flood era lines
up beautifully with carbon-14 dating of the rise of modern man, the first use of agriculture, early art and invention,
and other details that match Genesis exactly. At a stroke the Bible and ancient history fall into alignment
with the evidence of science and archaeology. We have been arguing for the revision of ancient history for over
two decades, especially as it is related to the dating of Genesis. [The number of new confirmations of our reconstruction
is amazing, and we will have more to say on this in the days and months to come.]
NEW EUROPEAN DNA EVIDENCE On November 10, 2000, the journal
SCIENCE published a study by 13 scientists from Stanford University in California and Europe claiming that
y-chromosome DNA from 1,007 men living in 25 locales in Europe "confirms" the idea that modern man entered Europe 40,000
years ago BP, hunting and gathering, retreated before the glaciers 24,000 BP, revived 16,000 BP "after the ice-age,"
and were joined by an influx of "farmers" from the Mideast about 8,000 BP. Although the study may at first seem impressive,
it is largely nonsense. DNA cannot tell anything about the hunting or farming activities of either peoples or individuals.
It can tell us about cattle or crops only if the DNA comes from cattle or crops and not from
human beings. The absurd attempt to identify 16,000 BP with the end of the last ice-age cannot go
unchallenged. All the global and oceanic data show that this was the COLDEST period of the ice-age, not a warm epoch.
Moreover, the introduction of "Mideast DNA" is historically known to have taken place between 1,000 and 3,500 years ago--a
fact that is so firmly established as to be beyond dispute. The Phoenicians and Jewish people--to say nothing
of Arabic invasions--arrived in Europe during the past 3,500 years in large numbers. The study says one-fifth of
the DNA comes from the Mideast, which is in excellent agreement with the record of history. To ignore this well-documented
influx as if it had never occurred, while substituting an unknown and undocumented influx 8,000 years ago, is extremely
suspect. It is likely that the average of this DNA is a bit older than 2,000 years. A more obvious
explanation for the DNA results is that the "clock" being used to "date" the DNA shifts is in error by a factor of roughly four-fold.
Such "clocks" are based upon two unproven assumptions: 1) That the rate of mutation remains the same.
This assumes there are no outside factors, such as exposure to radiation or toxins,
that affect mutations of DNA. This is certainly false. 2) That the time between generations is constant
and averages some fixed period, such as 20 or 30 years. This assumes a cultural
consistency that is most unlikely. It also ignores the effects of gene deterioration
in the semen of older men, which could have a significant impact upon mutation/generation
rates. It is obvious that the "clock" being used can be off by substantial amounts of time under various
assumptions about mutation rates and the number of years between generations. For example, if one assumes that mutations
occur every 50 generations and that 20 years elapse between each generation, then mutations occur every 1,000 years.
On the other hand, if mutations occur every 25 generations and only 13 years elapse between generations, then mutations
occur every 325 years. The second "clock" is more than three times as fast as the first. Hence, the date of
an event in the genetic history of the first clock will be assumed to have occurred over three times farther back in time
than if one were to use the second genetic clock. So it would not be at all surprising if the "clock" used
in this new study were to prove too slow, yielding dates far too old. But we are not without a way to calibrate
this clock. As we have noted, the Jewish and Phoenician immigrations into Europe are well-established and dated by
history. Using this solid ground, we can identify the Mideast DNA in the study with a c.2,200(+/-1200 yrs)BP influx
of known size and chronological range. If correct, then the dates in the study MIGHT be uniformly "old" by a factor
of about 100:27. Based upon this assumption, we can "recalibrate" the clock and the dates as follows: ______________________________________________________________________ STANFORD
DATES: AS RECALIBRATED: REVISED EVENT LIST: ______________________________________________________________________ 40,000
BP 10,800 BP End of last Ice Age
(post-Deluge)
"First major influx into Europe" ______________________________________________________________________ 24,000 BP
6,480 BP Great Famine of Joseph
"Retreat into three warm enclaves" ______________________________________________________________________ 16,000 BP
4,320 BP Revival of European settlements
"Resettlement of Europe" ______________________________________________________________________ 8,000 BP
2,160 BP Average era of known Mideast influx
"New DNA strain from Mideast" ______________________________________________________________________ As
we can easily see, this recalibrated timetable fits beautifully into the known record of European settlement since the
ice-age, while the proposed Stanford "clock" creates major conflicts with the dating of the ice-age and historical migrations.
The Stanford model fails to explain the "absence" of Jewish, Arabic, and Phoenician (ie Roman) and other known recent
DNA contributions in European genes. These modern Mideast DNA contributions should be prominent in the Stanford data,
or certainly easy to detect, yet their model supposedly found no trace of a recent influx. It is as if the Jews
had no diaspora and the Arabs had never invaded Europe. The Roman claim of Phoenician ancestry would be false,
and all those old European ports with Phoenician names must be figments of everyone's imagination. Yet
if we simply accept the obvious fact that the DNA evidence for a Mideast influx into Europe matches the known history of
Europe, we have no problem dating this DNA to fairly "recent" times, that is, to the period from the Exodus era down
to the Arab invasions. Once that adjustment is made, all the other DNA dates quickly fall into place.
The ice-age ends where it should. The retreat from parts of Europe matches the sudden climatic shift of Joseph's
famine which German scientists have now confirmed. The resettlement of Europe also ties in nicely with such events
as the creation of Stonehenge. And all of these dates agree precisely with the long chronology of Genesis.
The time is approaching when we shall be able to reconstruct a reasonably detailed history of the past 25,000 years.
We are seeing a major transformation of our understanding of the so-called stone age and its absurd "cave-man" imagery.
We now know these people wore real clothing, built houses and towns, engaged in agriculture, made vessels to sail the
sea in, played music, painted, and probably had language. They were, after all, our parents... ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________
PRELIMINARY CHART OF THE NEW CHRONOLOGY
(Copyright 2000, by Hage Productions) ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Date
Event Citation
Scientific Status ______________________________________________________________________ 24,000 BP Pre-Adamic
Flooding (Gen 1:2,6-7,9-10) CONFIRMED*1
ADAM'S ANCESTORS AT PETRA (Gen 2:15,24;3:23) ______________________________________________________________________ 23,000
BP Adam & Eve appear (Gen 2-3)
CONFIRMED*2 AGE OF ADAM & SETH ______________________________________________________________________ 18,000
BP Famine of Cain (Gen 4, Jasher 2:7, EL*3) CONFIRMED*3
AGE OF CAIN & THE FALLEN ONES ______________________________________________________________________ 12,000 BP
Giants Rule (Gen 6, Josephus) CONFIRMED*4 ______________________________________________________________________ 11,600
BP Deluge/Atlantis Sinks (Gen 6-8, Plato*5) CONFIRMED*5
THE GREAT FLOOD ______________________________________________________________________ 10,550 BP Egypt Re-founded
(Gen 10, Plato*6) CONFIRMED*6 AGE OF NOAH ______________________________________________________________________ 8,000
BP Tower of Babel, Sodom (Gen 11-19) CONFIRMED*7 (6,000
BC) AGE OF DIVISION OF THE EARTH ______________________________________________________________________ 6,500
BP Israelites into Egypt (Gen 41-47) CONFIRMED*8
FAMINE OF JOSEPH/IMHOTEP ______________________________________________________________________ 6,300 BP
Joseph's Tomb (Gen 50)
CONFIRMED*9 SUMER/EGYPTIAN 1ST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD [70
KINGS] ______________________________________________________________________ 3,500 BP Exodus
(Ex 12) CONFIRMED*10
MOSES & JOSHUA: END OF MIDDLE KINGDOM (Beginning
of great Mideast dispersions) ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 1*Milankovitch
Cycles of planetary orbital changes and earth tilt show a climatic change c.24,000 BP (Before Present). 2*Mitochondrial
DNA divergence studies show that if two people began the human race, their DNA began to be passed down c.23,000
BP.
SEE LINK FOR 11 COMMANDMENT THOU SHALL READ BARBARA WALTERS EXCLUSIVE ILLUMINATI 2003 INTERVIEW http://librarysophiajohnsubjectorder.tripod.com/id68.html 3*Earliest Egyptian grains C-14 dated to c.18,000 BP, in the Fayyum, the
very time and place cited in Egyptian literature as when Osiris came to Egypt and taught them to plant grain for
the first time at at time when the Egyptians had descended into cannibalism due to a severed famine.
Data from U. Mich. (see above story) confirms that Africa was in a drought cycle at this time. 4*Skeletons of
humans all over the world average a full 10" taller in the pre-9600 BC period than in the post-8500 BC era.
Some individual skeletons are even larger. Josephus and ancient pagan authors agreed with Genesis
6 that giants or "Titans" had ruled before the Flood. 5*The revised Biblical Flood date (based upon using Sabbatical cycles
of 7 years each) matches perfectly with Plato's "TIMAEUS" dialogue, in which the Flood came "9000 years" before
Solon (c.600 BC). Data from Amazon study, Emiliani, and ice-cores match flood to 11,700 BP. 6*New DNA studies
place a sudden influx of modern man into Europe at 40,000 years BP, but we believe this date will eventually be
seen to be four times too old, and will confirm the c.10,000 BP post-flood descriptions of Plato &
the Bible & archaeological signs of farming. 7*Bob Ballard & National Geographic have found evidence of massive
rise in level of Black Sea about this time, implying geological upheavals. 5500 BC known to be sudden
increase in rainfall in Turkey and Africa. Sept 28, 2001: Scottish archaeologists document vast tidal wave hit
Scotland and northern Europe; Britian becomes an island; c. 5800 BC. 8*New DNA studies say that mankind suddenly retreated
into 3 areas of Europe at this time [as adjusted, see above], signifying huge climate changes. German
scientists find vast drought swept Mideast 6,000 BP. Thera volcano in massive eruption at this date. Arctic Ocean
ice-free. 9*Studies of Old Kingdom at Sakarra show proof of 7-year famine and the prior knowledge of Imhotep(Joseph),
massive grain storage. Text at Elephantine in Ptolemaic times claims same thing. 10*Velikovsky produced
extensive documentation of plagues of Exodus in several books. Confirmation of unstable orbits of Mars and
Mercury published in July, 1994. Further confirmation in 1999. Mars water data {2001-2002) prove it must
have been in different orbit fairly recently.
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THIS IS A TRUE STORY
OF
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AND
THE MOTHER'S OF DARKNESS
ON
THIS DAY JANUARY 29, 2004 1:00 PM
MICHAEL RAYMOND MORAN
THE COUSIN
OF
SOPHIA OF WISDOM III
CAROLINE E. KENNEDY - CAROLINA KENNEDIA
VISITED ME AT MY APT IN ALAMEDA, CA AND TOLD ME THINGS HE COULD OF NOT
KNOWN THAT WERE IN MY APT SUCH AS THE PICTURES OF HERA AND ZEUS -
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I FEEL THAT JFK,JR OR LAWRENCE AS JFK,JR
AND
SHARI BROBECK
HAVE BEEN HAVING AN AFFAIR AND HE PAYS HER 5,000.00 EVERY 5 MINUTES FOR
BLOW JOBS AND SHE MAKES ABOUT 300,000.00 A DAY DOING THIS AND HAS THE ABILITY WITH THE HELP OF A CHARGER TO ASCEND AND DESCEND
FOR HIS PLEASURE WHEN HE WANTS IT
SHE BELIEVE SHE IS THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HERE IS WHY
SHARI WAS HELPING ME MOVE FROM MY HOUSE ON TARRYTON WHERE I WAS JUDGING
SPIRITS BECAUSE MY HOUSE WAS ON A MAGNET LAY LINE AND SHE SAW HIM IN MY BEDROOM AND HE WAS A SHADOW PERSON AND GOT SCARED
AND RAN DOWN THE HALL TO MY OFFICE AND LEFT
THEN SHARI AND MY MOTHER TEAMED UP TO TAKE ME TO A PARANORMAL DOCTOR BECAUSE
THEY THOUGHT I WAS GOING CRAZY AND WANTED ME TO LEAVE MY HOUSE AND THIS MADE LAWRENCE - JFK,JR REALLY MAD AND HE MADE HER
SMALL AND TRIED TO PUT HER IN THE CONTAINER OF EVIL IN MY BODY BUT SHE GOT OUT AND STOLE MY ABILITIES TO ASCEND AND DESCEND
RODUCTS INTERNATIONAL
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I HAVE POWER PICTURES OF ANCIENT SYMBOLS HANGING IN A ROOM THAT COULD NOT
HAVE BEEN SEEN WHEN YOU FIRST WALK IN
AND
WE HAVE NOT SPOKEN IN MANY YEARS HE LIVES IN LOS ANGELES
I ASKED HIM TO FOLLOW ME AND SHOWED HIM WHAT HE WAS ENVISIONING
SOPHIA OF WISDOM III - CAROLINE E. KENNEDY - CAROLINA KENNEDIA
I FEEL THAT JFK,JR OR LAWRENCE AS JFK,JR
AND
SHARI BROBECK
HAVE BEEN HAVING AN AFFAIR AND HE PAYS HER 5,000.00 EVERY 5 MINUTES FOR
BLOW JOBS AND SHE MAKES ABOUT 300,000.00 A DAY DOING THIS AND HAS THE ABILITY WITH THE HELP OF A CHARGER TO ASCEND AND DESCEND
FOR HIS PLEASURE WHEN HE WANTS IT
SHE BELIEVE SHE IS THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HERE IS WHY
SHARI WAS HELPING ME MOVE FROM MY HOUSE ON TARRYTON WHERE I WAS JUDGING
SPIRITS BECAUSE MY HOUSE WAS ON A MAGNET LAY LINE AND SHE SAW HIM IN MY BEDROOM AND HE WAS A SHADOW PERSON AND GOT SCARED
AND RAN DOWN THE HALL TO MY OFFICE AND LEFT
THEN SHARI AND MY MOTHER TEAMED UP TO TAKE ME TO A PARANORMAL DOCTOR BECAUSE
THEY THOUGHT I WAS GOING CRAZY AND WANTED ME TO LEAVE MY HOUSE AND THIS MADE LAWRENCE - JFK,JR REALLY MAD AND HE MADE HER
SMALL AND TRIED TO PUT HER IN THE CONTAINER OF EVIL IN MY BODY BUT SHE GOT OUT AND STOLE MY ABILITIES TO ASCEND AND DESCEND
RODUCTS INTERNATIONAL
CRIVELLI ITALIAN SALSA PRODUCTS INTERNATIONAL
I HAVE POWER PICTURES OF ANCIENT SYMBOLS HANGING IN A ROOM THAT COULD NOT
HAVE BEEN SEEN WHEN YOU FIRST WALK IN
AND
WE HAVE NOT SPOKEN IN MANY YEARS HE LIVES IN LOS ANGELES
I ASKED HIM TO FOLLOW ME AND SHOWED HIM WHAT HE WAS ENVISIONING
SOPHIA OF WISDOM III
SOPHIA OF WISDOM III
OF WIDSOM III - CAROLINE E. KENNEDY - CAROLINA KENNEDIA
"Impossible Dream"
To dream the impossible dream To
fight the unbeatable foe To bear with unbearable sorrow And to run where the brave dare not go To right the unrightable
wrong And to love pure and chaste from afar To try when your arms are too weary To reach the unreachable star This
is my quest To follow that star No matter how hopeless No matter how far To fight for the right Without question
or pause To be willing to march, march into hell For that heavenly cause And I know If I'll only be true To
this glorious quest That my heart Will lie peaceful and calm When I'm laid to my rest And the world will be better
for this That one man, scorned and covered with scars, Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach
the unreachable, the unreachable, The unreachable star And I'll always dream The impossible dream Yes, and
I'll reach The unreachable star
This is the first english translation of Dr. Annette Zgoll’s german, academic
translation of Nin-me-sara found at the beginning of her book, "Der Rechtsfall der En-hedu-Ana im Lied Nin-me-sara"(1997), "En-Hedu-Ana's Lawsuit in the poem Nin-me-sara". It is a combined effort between myself and Tatjana
Dorsch, who has very accessibly translated the whole book for me. It is the most recent, updated translation of Enheduana’s
most famous poem since Dr. William Hallo’s grounbreaking translation, "The Exaltation of Inanna" in 1968. Dr. Zgoll has generously given of her time and corrected it and allowed me to post it here.
1. Queen of all the ME, too numerous to count, rising forth as resplendent light [1]
2. Woman [2], most driven, clothed in frightening radiance, loved by An and Uras,
3. An's nugig [3], you are above all the great SUHkese-breastplates,
4. You, who love the right aga-crown [4], who is suited for the en-priest-hood,
5. empowered
with all of its all seven ME --
6. my queen! You are the guardian of the great ME!
7. You have uplifted the
ME, you have held the Me in your hand.
8 You have gathered the ME, you have clasped the ME to your chest.
9
Like a dragon you cast venom upon the enemy land.
10 In the regions where you thundered like Iskur, Asnan no longer
exists because of you
11 Flooding waters surge down on such an enemy land
12 You are the supreme one in Heaven
and Earth, you are their Inana!
[1] This
can also connote through homophone and homonym: "Queen of the countless battles, (as) a raging storm rising"
[2] Or we can read the sign of 'munus-zi' as 'zirru': “female”( bird). This is a title
of Ningal, that is of Enheduanna. - Dr. Joan Westenholz has identified zirru as a title of the goddess Ningal, used
by Enheduanna in her article, “Enheduanna, En-Priestess, Hen of Nanna,Spouse of Nanna”. In this article she deduces
that Enheduanna is endowed with this title of zirru to convey that she is the human embodiment of Ningal.
[3] nugig is a title of Inanna in the context of the exercise of power or the broadening of power,
important in the context of legitimization of rulers. -One of Dr. Zgoll’s theories is that Enheduanna herself,
as en-priestess of Nanna in Ur, is endowed with the power to legitimate a king’s rule.
[4] I.e., Inanna loves the aga-crown/cap (object). It can also be read as: the aga-crown/cap (subject)
loves Inanna, whereby then the aga metonomycal stands for Nanna, compare chapter 3.4.-- The attribute “right”
is the same word as in line 2 “driven” , it can be understood here also as a replacement for ‘thirst for
creating’. (dictionary definition of metonymy- one word is put for another that it
suggests; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good food; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm
heart, that is, warm affections)
13 Unceasing raging fire, you shower down upon the land of Sumer
14 Queen, whom An gave
the ME, you ride atop a beast
15 Authorized by the fate-determining word of An, you utter words.[5]
16
The great rites are yours-- who else could fathom their meaning?
17 Destroyer of enemy lands- you empowered
the storm
18. Beloved of Enlil, you let terror reign over the land of Sumer
19. You stood prepared, waiting
to fulfill the orders of An
20. My Queen! All enemy lands bow down at the sound of your roar!
21. Under
your fearsome radiance, your terrible glare and storm, the people
22. turned their steps toward you in mute dread
23.
-- of all the ME, you had grasped the most terrible and deeply stirring--
24. Mankind [6] opened the gateway of
tears, on your account [7]
25. They must walk the path to the house of all the great laments, on your account.[8]
[5] Or: “Who, authorized through the fate-determining mouth of An, says
words”.
[6] In reference to nam-lu-ulu (mankind, men) line 21.
[7] literally: “to you” (or
because of you)
[8] literally: “to you” (or because of you)
26. Because of you [9], all [10] had been ripped away even before the battle.
27. My Queen!
With your strength a tooth can even crush flint [11]!
28. Like an invasive storm you barge in.
29. With the
howling storm you howl.
30. With Iskur you thunder.
31. With raging thunderstorm you do exhaust,
32.
while your own foot has never yet tired.
33. With the harp of laments one [12] strikes up a song of lamentation
34.
My Queen! The Anuna, the great gods,
35. Like terrified [13] bats, fluttered away from you to the top of the mounds
of ruins.
36. They could not withstand your devastating glance [14].
37. They cannot stand up against the fright
on your brow.
39. Your hostile heart has become too violent to
pacify!
40. Queen, has your soul [16] really been satisfied? Queen, is your heart really now filled with joy?
41.
Your rage does not cool, great daughter of Suen! [17]
42. Queen, greater than the enemy land-- who would dare take
away any of your territory? [18]
43 You take the ‘mountain range’ [19] into your territory: its Asnan
is no longer.[20]
44 Fire was set against its great gate. [21]
45 Blood flowed in its river for you, its
people had to drink it for you. [22]
46 Their troops, all gathered together, [23] had to surrender themselves to
you.
47 Even their elite troups, united together, had to be struck down for you.
48 Even their strong men-
all of them, had to stand before you [24]
49 In the town’s places of pleasure, a storm rages.
50 They
hunt down their best men as captives for you.
[15] Literally
‘cool’ with connotation ‘refresh’.
[16] Literally also “liver”, “stomach’.
[17]
Another translation possibility: “Rage (glowing) and not cooling, great daugher of Suen!”
[18] Literally:
“your earth”.
[19] Compare chapter 3.6.2.
[20] Some texts: “When you.... the ‘mountain
ranges’” LaC: “you looked angrily upon the enemy land , ....”; UnH “When you looked angrily
at the enemy land”.
[21] UrB: “in ihre (their, her, your) great temple”.
[22] 2 text segments:
“they have nothing to drink”.
[23] Other translation possibility, also in the following lines” “in
their fear”.
[24] NiW: “stood in front of you”.
51. The city, which would not say “This land is yours!” [25]
52. where the people
did not say “He is your loving father!”--
53. He has spoken your fate-determining word [26]: the territory
is restored beneath your foot.
54. Then care [27] disappears from within, from their stall.
55. That woman
there - she no longer speaks of love with her spouse.
56. At night she no longer holds counsel with him.
57.
She no longer reveals her innermost self to him , which holds the hope of future life[28].
58. Aggressive wild
cow, great daughter of Suen,
59. Queen, greater than heaven- who would dare take any of your territories away from
you?
[25] NiMM and LaB: “The enemy city, which
has not said “To you”
[26] Variant: “ spoken from your fate-determining word”.
[27]
Another word variant yielded the translation: “from the mother love”. Literal translation: “Then... the
foot is slipped”.
[28] Literally: “the fate-determining thing of her insides”.
60 The Great queen (NIN.GAL) of queens, born for the rightful [29] ME,
61 born of a fate-laden
body, you are even greater than your own mother,
62 full of wisdom, foresight, queen over all lands,
63.
who allows existence to many, I now strike up your fate-determining song!
64 All powerful divinity, suitable for
the ME, that which you have said magnificently is the most powerful! [31]
65. Of unfathomable heart [32], oh highly
driven woman [33], of radiant heart, your ME [34], I will list for you now!
66. Into my fate-determining Gipar [35],
I had entered for you.
67. I, the en-priestess, I, En-hedu-Ana [36].
68. While I carried the basket, I struck
up the song of jubilation,
69. as though I had not lived there [38], they offered the death sacrifice. [37]
70.
I came close to the light, there the light became scorching to me.
71. I came close to the shadow, there it was
veiled by a storm.
72. My sweet mouth became venomous [39].
73. That with which I gave delight, turned to dust.
[29] See the opening of line 4: the adjective “right”
also comprises the connotation of true powerfulness.
[30] The goddess Ningal. Literally: “as her own mother”.
[31]
Simultaneously valid to the version: ”What you have spoken in as great a manner, is the ‘most powerful’.”,
i.e. “No one can become more praised than you”.
[32] By the use of “heart” the connotation
of “Anger” from the context of line 38-41is not to be overlooked.
[33] NiRR: ‘zirru’, “(bird)woman”;
this version is also possible in the parallel text. It is a title of Ningal, that is, Enheduanna; compare with chapter
6.1.
[34]NiRR: “the fate-deciding ME.” LaB, UnC: ”the rightful ME”.
[35] A part of the
temple complex of the moongod in Ur, which encompasses the residence of the en-Priestess and the shrine of Ningal.
[36]
The name means translated “En,Ornament of An”. Compare to chapter 4.5.
[37] UrB, UrG, LaB, write euphemistically
instead “the beautiful place”. NiRR: “One of them has set down my meal (for the gods)”. NiA: “.....one
of them offered, on his account as if I had never lived there.”
[38] Literally: “Haven’t I not
lived there?”
[39] This version is in Text NiC and Text NiHHH, all other texts have one of the homophonic
expressions. NiRR writes “bitter”.
74. My fate with Suen and Lugal-Ane,
75. report it to An! May An resolve it for me!
76.
Report it to An immediately. An will resolve it for us!
77 "The Lady will tear away the destiny of Lugal-Ane.
78.
At her feet lie hostile land and flood.
79. She is truly mighty- she will make the town tremble before her.
80.
Go (before the court), so that she will be calm in her heart for me!"[40]
81. En-hedu-Ana am I, I will now
say a prayer to you.
82. My tears, like sweet beer
83. I now shed them freely for you, fate-determining Inana,
"Your judgement!" I will say to you. [41]
84. As for ASimbabbar, concern yourself not!
85. While changing
the purfication rites of the fate-determining An, he [42:Lugalane] altered everything for him,
86. he tore away
the Eana from An!
87. He showed no awe for the most venerable God (AN)!
88. This house, whose abundance he [43:AN]
was not sated with, whose beauty he had not tasted,
89. he [44:Lugalane] turned this house into a despised home
for him!
90. All the while, upon entering, as if he were the companion, he approached me with envy! [45]
91.
My driven, divine, wild cow! You must drive away this 'someone', you must seize this 'someone'!
92. In this
place where life is made possible-- what am I?
93. This rebellious territory, despised by your Nanna: An should
force them to surrender!
94. This city-- An should strike it down!
95. Enlil should curse it!
96. The
mother shall not soothe her crying child!
[40] In other
texts: "so that she calms her heart for me."
97. Queen! The laments which were struck up over the land, [46]
98. your ship of wailing should
be left behind in the enemy land! [47]
99. And because of my fate-determining song -- must I die? [48]
100.
I-- my Nanna has cared not for me [49].
101. In the rebellious land, they completely and utterly destroyed me.
102.
ASimbabbar most certainly has not passed a final judgement upon me!
103. Has he spoken it-- does it mean anything?
Has he not spoken it-- does it mean anything?
104. After he stood there in triumph, he expelled me from the
temple.
105. He made me fly like a swallow from the window- my life was consumed --[50]
106. and so I must
go to the thorny undergrowth of the enemy land.
107. He tore the rightful aga-crown [51] of en-ship from me.
108.
Handing me a dagger, he said, "This is now your ornament!" [52]
109. One and only Queen, beloved of An,
110.
Mighty is your fate-determining heart, for my sake, may it be turned to its place! [53]
111. Beloved wife of Usumgal-Ana
[54],
112. From the base to the zenith of heaven, you are the great Queen (NIN.GAL),
113. the Anuna have
submitted to you.
114. From birth you were the smaller queen,
115. the Anuna, all the great gods-- how you
have surpassed them!
116. The Anuna kiss the ground before you with their lips.
117. My own trial is not yet
over, but a stranger sentence surrounds me as though it were my sentence.
[46] Or: "the lamentations, which were established".
[47] LaB: "should be approached".
[48]
LaB: "they will die".
[49] UrB: "has not decided [my] verdict".
[50] NiU, NiDD: "He consumed my life."
[51]
UnB: "the right garment".
[52] 2nd Version: "This will be pushed against you (like horns of a bull)”.
[53]
This turn (idiom) is a regular formula of the heart-soothing of the gods, which in this context agrees with the similar
sounding: "may it be ... turned to its territories".
[54] NiRR:"The beloved wife of An [has...], beloved [ ] of
Ama[-sumgal-Ana]".
118. To the radiant bed [55], I did not stretch out my hand.
119. Nor did I reveal the words
of Ningal to that 'someone' [56].
120. The radiant en -priestess of Nanna am I.
121. My Queen, beloved of An
[57], may your heart be calmed for me.
122. It shall be known, it shall be known: Nanna has proclaimed no decree, "It
is yours" is what he has said!
123. That you are as high as heaven, shall be known!
124. That you are as wide
as the earth, shall be known!
125. That you anhilate rebelling territiories [58], shall be known!
125a. That
you roar against the enemy lands, shall be known!
126. That you crush the leaders, shall be known!
127. That
you devour corpses like a predator, shall be known!
128. That your glance is terrible, shall be known!
129.
That you raise your terrible glance, shall be known!
130. That your glance is sparkling, shall be known!
131.
That you are unshakable and unyielding, shall be known!
132. That you always stand triumphant, shall be known!
133.
That Nanna has not proclaimed (the decree), that he has said, "It is yours",
134. my Queen- it has made you greater,
you have become the greatest!
135. My Queen, beloved of An, I will announce all of your wrath![59]
136.
I have heaped the coals, prepared the purification rites,
137. The Esdam-ku [60] stands ready for you- will
not your heart calm down for me? [61]
138. Since the heart was full, too full, great Queen, I birthed it for you.
[62]
139. What was said to you at midnight,
140. the cult singer shall repeat it to you at midday:
141.
"Because of your captive spouse, because of your captive protégé,
142. your anger has grown large, your heart
has not calmed down."
[55] NiDD:"In my radiant bed".
[56]
UrB:"I will not say anything to him".
[57] NiA, UnB: "You are the beloved queen of An"
[58] UrA, LaC: kur.
[59]
NiYY:"before your throne".
[60] The name of the Inana-temple in Girsu/Lagas; beside it is also professed a place
in various Inana-temples.
[61] Other texts:"May your heart be calmed/refreshed for me!"
[62] The meaning is
first of all the text of NMS itself; for a broader translation compare with Chapter 7.2.
143 The Queen, the strong one, the ruler over the gathering of the 'en' [63],
144 she did
accept her prayer and sacrifice [64] .
145 The heart of fate-determining Inana has turned to its place.
146
The light was sweet for her, delight was spread over her, full of abundant beauty was she.
147 As the light of
the rising moon (NANNA), she too was clothed in enchantment.
148 Nanna came out [65] to rightfully gaze (at her)
in awe,
149 (he and) her mother Ningal blessed her,
150 and then the gate post said unto her "Be hailed!"
151
What each said to the nugig is exalted.
152 Destroyer of enemy lands, endowed with the ME from An,
153 My
Queen, draped in enchantment, (to you) Inana be glory!
[63]
'en' is a title for priests and rulers.
[64] In Sumerian this is only one lexeme. (=word)
[65] Another
possible translation: (he) "led her out".
I have added a few explanations
of her research in italics beneath some of the footnotes. For those unfamiliar with the Sumerian terms, Dr. Zgoll’s
literary paraphrase will be most helpful and I will be posting it in the near futur. I have also taken the liberty
in presenting the long lines of the poem as shorter pairs of lines whenever possible, to facilitate reading the poem. ---------------------------------------
