DECODING THE DELUGE AND FINDING THE PATH FOR CIVILIZATION Volume III Of Three Volumes By David Huttner Version 24 Cover by A. Watson, Chen W. and D. Huttner Copyright 2017, by David Robert Huttner I hereby donate this digital version of this book to the public domain. You may copy and distribute it, provided you don’t do so for profit or make a version using other media (e.g. a printed or cinematic version). For anyone other than me to sell this book at a profit is to commit the tort of wrongful enrichment, to violate my rights and the rights of whomever it is sold to. I also welcome translations of the work into other languages and will authorize the translations of translators who are competent and willing to donate digital versions. Please email your comments, questions and suggestions to me, David Huttner, at [email protected]. Other Works of David Huttner, soon to be Available Autographed and in Hardcopy at http://www.DavidHuttnerBooks.com , Include: Decoding the Deluge and finding the path for civilization, Vols 1&2 Irish Mythology passageway to prehistory Stage II of the Nonviolent Rainbow Revolution Making the Subjective and Objective Worlds One Just Say No to Latent Homosexual Crusades Social Harmony as Measured by Music (a lecture) The First Christmas (a short play) Spy I Loved secrets to the rise of the Peoples Republic of China Selected Works of David Huttner Volumes 1 and 2 Heaven Sent Converting the World to English TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR THIS VOLUME 3 36. DIGGING UP THE SUMERIAN GARDEN 03 37. THE POLYNESIANS, EASTER ISLAND AND THE PROPHETS OF CARGO 36 CONCLUSION 78 APPENDIXES A. THE ROMAN SATURNALIA: A SECOND SIN RITE 126 B. OLD WINE--AUSTRALIAN BOTTLES 130 C. OSIRIS IN THE UNDERWORLD: EGYPT IN A NUTSHELL 176 D. STONEHENGE AND OTHER ROCK MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD 209 E. THE COMMON CORE TO THE WORLD’S EARLIEST “HEROIC” LITERATURES 255 F. IMAN WILKENS FINDS TROY BUT FAILS TO UNDERSTAND RELIGION 293 G. ATLANTIS, THE FINAL THEORY 328 H. UNCOVERING THE FIRST AMERICANS 351 LIST OF WORKS REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT 373 2 CHAPTER 36: DIGGING UP THE SUMERIAN GARDEN There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. --Alfred Tennyson In Chapter 35, we saw an Aztec myth about falling out of the garden due to picking blossoms from the tree of life, a crime that clearly equated with exterminating our parent species in the Species War. You’ve got to be wondering if Genesis 3 (Adam and Eve falling from the garden due to Eve picking from and Adam eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil) has the same meaning or (alternatively) relates to taboo sex as has been assumed by Freud and most modern men. A more thorough understanding of Mesopotamian mythology will provide the answer. Appendix D will give us absolute certainty of that answer. We’ll then have a better understanding of our own, modern religion. ISHTAR AND TAMMUZ Recall Professor Langdon’s description of Ishtar on v1-361 and the probability that she was once a witch. Langdon adds us that she was also known as Quadishtu, the ordinary Babylonian word for harlot. She was priestess of the temple prostitutes. (See Langdon: 30.) So, the witches, such as Gullveig (Chapter 21 ， v2-15), Toci (Chapter 35 ， v2-372) and Ishtar, were women who consorted with men of both subspecies. After the Species War victory, these collaborators would have been burned alive. During the Species War, they would have been always pregnant, thus their later association with fertility and nature per se . We can surmise that this group of highly charged, ambivalent, Species War victims became the “Earth Mothers,” “Great Mothers” or “Mother goddesses.” In the pages ahead, Sumerian data that verify this. These witch/Mother goddesses were thought to have had a special reason for migrating annually with the greenery to and from the underworld. It was thought that Ishtar and other Mother Goddess witches went regularly to the underworld to continue enjoying sexual relations with the Homo erecti . That’s why the first kings --who, as Graves informed us (in Chapter 5 ， v1-133), were the above-ground, magical lovers of the Mother Goddess --were dispatched and replaced at the first sign of any loss of virility. The first kings had to be as sexually satisfying as the Homo erectus gods if the Earth Mother and the vegetation were to return in full and on schedule. 3 In pagan times, prostitutes were fixtures in most of the temples for similar reasons. The temples were houses for gods who happened to be on earth. After the defeat of the totem monsters (Species War victory) and the enthronement of Marduk and during Marduk’s ordering and creation of the world, a passage of the Babylonian Creation Epic reads: After King Marduk had issued the laws of the totality of the gods, And for the Anunnaki of Heaven and Earth had decreed their laws, The Anunnaki opened their mouths, saying unto Marduk, their lord: ‘O divine light, lord who has brought about our deliverance, What shall be our sign of deliverance before thee? Come let us make a shrine, whose name is called, “Thy chamber, lo it is our place of repose by night”; Come let us repose therein. Come, we will found a shrine as an abode for thee. On the day when we shall arrive we will repose therein.’ --Langdon: 307 Prostitutes were assigned to the temples to (mysteriously and in magical rituals) ingratiate any gods who might be traveling through the area. The Homo erecti were thus assured that Homo sapiens had improved their attitudes and were deserving of divine beneficence. In their spare time and to make a living, the girls engaged in more concrete activities. A bronze model of a pagan temple, unearthed in Yunnan and on display in a Kunming, China park, confirms this primitive thinking. The women outside are depicted in sexually inviting positions. The roof depicts a large serpent, a welcome sign for the Homo erectus spirits flying overhead that this temple is for them. (Naturally I had to point all this out because Chinese people no longer prostitute themselves and couldn’t make heads or tails of it.) With the advent of modern times (trade, near-neighbor alienation and monogamy per Chapter 7) temple prostitutes and tales about the amours of the Earth Mother/Witches had to go. Prostitution and polygamy became abominations to all modern men who --for reasons necessary but unknown to themselves --had, in their public aspect , ceased to be libertines. Paganism’s bacchanalian depiction of afterlife and the resurrection was left intact; but all traces of prostitution and polygamy became unacceptable within proper society. So, at this time, our straight-laced, monogamous ancestors rewrote these myths to give the Earth Mothers a new motive for going to the underworld. The new motive reacted to the general tendency of rebellion to the new misery, to the 4 forced monogamy to which modern people have yet to fully adapt, to the psychic impotence they have yet to conquer. In the new versions, Ishtar was said to have married her own son; and it was understood that, as punishment for this violation of taboo, Ishtar or Tammuz had to seasonally serve time in Hell. Fortunately, you don’t have to rely completely on psychoanalysis and the logical development of my theories to know the nature of Ishtar’s original underworld visits. The original myths would have included material that made great dramatic and burlesque acts in pagan pageants. Even the sanitized version of Ishtar and Tammuz preserved some of this for its entertainment value. For example, when Ishtar, goddess of love and war, arrives at the gate of Hell, wanting to conquer a realm instead of merely individuals, she says, O watchman, open thy gate. Open thy gate, I will enter. If thou openest not the gate that I enter, I will break the door and shatter the lock. I will break the threshold and shatter the doors. I will cause the dead to arise that they consume the living. The dead shall be more numerous than the living. --Langdon: 330 Langdon reminds us that she made the same threat to Anu, father of the gods, in Gilgamesh when begging him to punish Gilgamesh for his rejection of her. It was understood that she had considerable influence with the Anunnaki ( Homo erectus underworld gods). Yet it is Ishtar’s “sister,” Ereshkigal, who is the reigning queen of Hell. That Ereshkigal is a Homo erectus unable to compete with the beautiful witch Ishtar is a safe bet based upon Ereshkigal’s description (footnote 133, on v1-322). So, Ereshkigal, wanting to avoid humiliation, consents reluctantly to Ishtar’s admission. Ishtar then undergoes the customary admissions procedure: at each gate of hell, she is stripped of a portion of her raiment until she passes through the seven th and final gate clad only in her birthday suit. Ishtar fails in this post-modern, renovated myth, to displace her sister Ereshkigal as the queen of Hell. Ereshkigal imprisons her immediately. Her prolonged imprisonment causes the vegetation to fail, the water to dry up and men and animals to become infertile. In desperation, the male gods work for her deliverance. Ea (Enki) forms an image with his mind and creates the beautiful eunuch Asu-su-namir . (“His coming forth is brilliant.” Ishtar was also the patroness of eunuchs who served in temples.) Ea then sends Papsukkal, the gods’ messenger, to Ereshkigal with this eunuch as a gift after instructing the eunuch: 5 May Ereshkigal see thee and rejoice at thy presence.