Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "The Occult #326: There's Nothing More Believable in Modern Religion than Ancient Religion" video.
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A good reminder of how religion has been reinterpreted, or rewritten is, the story of Adam, or Adapa.
Adapa was casting his net, but was fouled by the wind, so he cursed God. An asks Enki to send him, but Enki warns Adapa to not eat any food that An offers, as it will kill him. Adapa makes the visit, and refuses the food, where An guesses, correctly, and laughs, that his son, Enki had warned him, before sending Adapa back to Eridu. By the way, there was no Eve in the original story, as she originates from a story about Enki, where he is poisoned.
This became the tale of the snake in the garden. The knowledge from the fruit was that man would die one day. It's the curse upon man to realize this, which separates him from beast. However, in Genesis, it is all hidden in metaphor and allegory. The entire Torah is that way.
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@phoenixobrien163 You have to remember that Adam was supposedly the first in Genesis. However, in Mesopotamia, Adapa or Adamu, was the son of Enki, and was a wise man, and supposedly one of seven sages or kings (King of Eridu (Eden)). In their story, Adapa was not blessed with immortality.
However, from all the research that I have done on this, immortality actually came with death, where the soul leaves going back to the creator for eternity, becoming immortal like the creator. An, or Anu, tempted Adapa with the food of life, leading to "immortality." Thus, Enki was telling the truth. Early scholars thought that it just meant the fruit of life, and never thought about the death aspect of it leading to immortality. Later scholars did pick that up.
"That the Paradise narrative (Gen. 2, 3) may have been influenced at least in part (Zimmern) by the Adapa myth seems most probable. We know, certainly, that this myth had reached Egypt as early as the fourteenth century BC, and presumably, also had passed through Palestine." __Cuneiform parallels to the Old Testament
, by Rogers, Robert William (1912)
They mixed this story with the one about Enki, where he eats from a Garden, and is poisoned. I cannot remember the goddess' name involved in the story. To be honest, the old Mesopotamian stories can be quite comical.
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@phoenixobrien163 All those stories would have come to Palestine with Abraham and his children. Abraham was from Ur, which is not far from Eridu.
The stories were passed down by word of mouth for many years, before they were written down. I would say that the two became combined during that time.
Nobody ever asks the question, where did Adam's son's wives come from? Adapa was never the first human, which the Mesopotamians knew well. He was supposedly one of the first seven kings in Mesopotamia.
In the creation story, Enki and a goddess create seven breeding pairs, and the "dark haired" people were born.
Enki's ziggurat still exists, but much has been eroded, and the French military had the gall to use it as a mortar range. There was also an Italian firing range there.
Eridu was once surrounded by water, like a moat, and was fed from Lake Hammar. That's where they still live in reed huts today, and that tribe was who Saddam attacked by cutting off the canal feed water from the Euphrates.
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@phoenixobrien163 I found her, it was Ninshar or Ninsar (Lady Herb), and Ninhursag (the birth goddess, and her mother) was the one that put the kibosh to Enki, for sleeping with Ninshar (his daughter). Ninshar gives birth to Ninkur.
In one account, Ninkur gives birth to Utu, and another, Ninimma, the deification of the female sex organs. That would be the Eve connection.
"'Eve' in Hebrew is 'Ḥawwāh' and is most commonly believed to mean "living one" or 'source of life' as it is phonetically similar to 'ḥāyâ,' 'to live.' from the Semitic root ḥyw."
This supposedly happened at Dilmun.
By the way, the god of Abraham was supposedly Enlil, who told him to leave Ur for Palestine.
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