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quoted. I cannot resist quoting it again in this connection, because of its astonishing contents:
“It is said that those ones were created and shaped, they had no father, they had no mother, yet they were called men. They were not born of woman, they were not produced by creators and Shapers, nor by Alom and Caholom, only by a miracle, by magic were they created and shaped . . .”
A cuneiform tablet from Nippur, the town in Central Babylonia which was the seat of the Sumerian god Enlil in the third millennium B.C., has this account of the origin of man:
“In those days, in the creation chamber of the gods, in their house Duku were Lahar and Ashman formed . . .”
Here it might be objected that the parallels between the text of the
Popol Vuh
and the cuneiform inscription from Nippur are somewhat far-fetched, for it is about 8,000 miles as the crow flies from Central America, the homeland of the Mayas, to the fertile crescent between the Euphrates and the Tigris, the home of the Sumerians! But this is no carefully selected parallel from two cultural entities widely separated in space and time. It is well known that the Old Testament, especially the Pentateuch, contains a good many Sumerian concepts. What is not so well known is that the Old Testament and the
Popol Vuh
also have just as many obvious features in common, and even more hidden ones. Let sceptics compare the following passages:
“And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.” (Genesis 11:1.)
“There they saw the rising of the sun. They had a single language. They prayed to neither wood nor stone . . .” (
Popol Vuh
.)
“And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea: and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
“And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.” (Exodus 14:21-22.)
“They hardly noticed how they crossed the sea. They traversed it as if there had been no sea; they crossed it on stones. Round stones rose from the sand and they walked across on the rows of stones. The place was called shifting sand; those who crossed the sea that divided itself gave it the name. That is how they came over.” (
Popol Vuh
.)
“. . . This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you . . .” (Genesis 9:12.)
“This will succor ye when ye call upon me. This is the sign of the covenant. But now I have to go, with a heavy heart . . .” (
Popol Vuh
.)
“Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace . . .
“He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.” (Daniel 3:21 and 25.)
“Then those men went into the fire, into a fire house. Within it all was red hot, but they were not consumed by fire. Smooth of body and fair of face they appeared in the twilight. The people in the places they had passed through had wished them dead. But that did not come to pass. Then consternation seized those from Xibalba.” (
Popol Vuh
.)
The reader is entitled to ask what this detour taking in a Sumerian cuneiform inscription, the Old Testament and the
Popol Vuh
has to do with my tunnel builders. I am trying to produce arguments for my conviction that in the very beginning
there was only one source of the origin of homo sapiens,
namely the spacemen who first made the mutation. Only much later, when peoples and races had settled in other parts of the globe, were
new
experiments in
new
places introduced into the first primordial tradition. But the
core
of the act of creation, namely that the gods created the first men in their own image, is preserved in all the
“It is said that those ones were created and shaped, they had no father, they had no mother, yet they were called men. They were not born of woman, they were not produced by creators and Shapers, nor by Alom and Caholom, only by a miracle, by magic were they created and shaped . . .”
A cuneiform tablet from Nippur, the town in Central Babylonia which was the seat of the Sumerian god Enlil in the third millennium B.C., has this account of the origin of man:
“In those days, in the creation chamber of the gods, in their house Duku were Lahar and Ashman formed . . .”
Here it might be objected that the parallels between the text of the
Popol Vuh
and the cuneiform inscription from Nippur are somewhat far-fetched, for it is about 8,000 miles as the crow flies from Central America, the homeland of the Mayas, to the fertile crescent between the Euphrates and the Tigris, the home of the Sumerians! But this is no carefully selected parallel from two cultural entities widely separated in space and time. It is well known that the Old Testament, especially the Pentateuch, contains a good many Sumerian concepts. What is not so well known is that the Old Testament and the
Popol Vuh
also have just as many obvious features in common, and even more hidden ones. Let sceptics compare the following passages:
“And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.” (Genesis 11:1.)
“There they saw the rising of the sun. They had a single language. They prayed to neither wood nor stone . . .” (
Popol Vuh
.)
“And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea: and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
“And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.” (Exodus 14:21-22.)
“They hardly noticed how they crossed the sea. They traversed it as if there had been no sea; they crossed it on stones. Round stones rose from the sand and they walked across on the rows of stones. The place was called shifting sand; those who crossed the sea that divided itself gave it the name. That is how they came over.” (
Popol Vuh
.)
“. . . This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you . . .” (Genesis 9:12.)
“This will succor ye when ye call upon me. This is the sign of the covenant. But now I have to go, with a heavy heart . . .” (
Popol Vuh
.)
“Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace . . .
“He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.” (Daniel 3:21 and 25.)
“Then those men went into the fire, into a fire house. Within it all was red hot, but they were not consumed by fire. Smooth of body and fair of face they appeared in the twilight. The people in the places they had passed through had wished them dead. But that did not come to pass. Then consternation seized those from Xibalba.” (
Popol Vuh
.)
The reader is entitled to ask what this detour taking in a Sumerian cuneiform inscription, the Old Testament and the
Popol Vuh
has to do with my tunnel builders. I am trying to produce arguments for my conviction that in the very beginning
there was only one source of the origin of homo sapiens,
namely the spacemen who first made the mutation. Only much later, when peoples and races had settled in other parts of the globe, were
new
experiments in
new
places introduced into the first primordial tradition. But the
core
of the act of creation, namely that the gods created the first men in their own image, is preserved in all the
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