Pictures of the Serpent or Snake who WALKED and TALKED in the Garden of Eden A later Hebrew recasting of the Mesopotamian gods who bore the Sumerian epithet ushumgal, “great serpent” or “dragon”: Ningishzida/Gishzida, Dumuzi/Tammuz, Inanna/Ishtar, An/Anu, Enlil/Ellil, Enki/Ea and Marduk/Merodach Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld y de la Torre, M. A. Ed. Part One […]
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UNVEILING THE MYTHS – DR. ASHRAF EZZAT 5*+
Many are the stories that were told in the Hebrew Bible, but the one story that is yet to be told is the story of the Hebrew Bible itself. Dr. Ashraf Ezzat The relationship with gods/god has always been one of man’s oldest preoccupations, and still is till this very day. While it’s fair […]
AGAINST THE GRAIN – JAMES SCOTT pdf 5*+
The Sumerian Myth – Eric Smith pdf 5*
Noah’s ark and the flood – Points of similarity between the Babylonian and Noachian flood stories 5*
Religious Tolerance Noah’s ark and the flood Points of similarity between the Babylonian and Noachian flood stories horizontal rule Comparing the stories The Chaldean Flood Tablets from the city of Ur in what is now Southern Iraq contain a story that describes how the Bablylonian god Enlil had been bothered by the incessant noise generated […]
The Bible is Fiction: A Collection of Evidence By Daniel Miessler 5*
Similarities To Other Stories The similarities between the stories and characters in the Bible and those from previous mythologies are both undeniable and well-documented. It is only due to the extreme religious bias that pervades our world today that people rarely get exposed to this information. In this short piece I’ll attempt to show blatant […]
Nanna/Suen/Sin (god) 5*
Possible depiction of the god Nanna, seated on a temple-like throne, on a fragment of the Stele of Ur-Namma at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (object number B16676.14) (ca. 2100 BCE). The stele was excavated at Ur. © Penn Museum. Mesopotamian moon god. He was called Nanna in Sumerian, and Su’en […]
ORIGINAL SIN By ANDREW GOUGH 5*
Original Sin, or the belief that we are laden with wickedness due to Adam and Eve’s defiance of God in the Garden of Eden, is a pillar of most world religions. Infamously, the ‘fall of man’ (as it is often dubbed) came about when the first lady, and her man, succumbed to the temptation of […]
ADAM AND EVE – by Anu Paulose PDF 5*
Creation Stories of the Middle East By Ewa Wasilewska BOOKS TO READ
‘This account of Middle Eastern creation myths is a very detailed in its geographical and historical focus, and impressively wide-ranging in its scope… the painstaking research and critical insight make this a very valuable contribution to the subject.’ – Journal Of Beliefs & Values This comprehensive study of Middle Eastern creation stories explores the region’s […]