CHAPTER 1

Mythology: Bronze Age

During the period from 120,000 to 24,000 BCE, Neanderthalslived on the earth. The Neanderthals possessed traits far moresimilar to animals than humans. According to archaeologicalrecords, the Neanderthals disappeared during the Stone Ageand were replaced by modern humans, who first appearedin Ethiopia as archaic Homo sapiens. These early humansnursed the elderly and practiced ritual burials. Beyond theimmediate requirements of procuring food, making coveringsfor the body, and building shelters, the culture included thepractice of specific rites relating to death and burial. Thereis no established record of any major spiritual activities orrevelations during the Stone Age.

The first record of holistic visions received by human beingsrecorded in caves around 4,000 BCE during the early BronzeAge. Within the ancient sacred scriptures, such revelationsindicate there was a form of communication between divinepowers and human beings. The information was transcribed inan abstract form and passed on from one generation to anotheruntil a much later date. There is no doubt that the sacredknowledge received as part of these revelations graduallychanged as it was transferred from one cult to another. Thisinformation was largely used in the form of prayers, oblations,sacrifices (personal, and of other living things), plus the buildingof temples and shrines to honor the Creator and its divinepowers.

Mesopotamian Region

One of the oldest available sacred texts of such holistic visionsis clay tablets. In the tablets, such script was recorded incuneiform around 2,600 BCE when the first highly evolvedhuman beings experienced holistic visions describing theformation of earth. The cuneiform script described the originof life on the planet in detail. These seven tablets, called EnumaElish, describe how human-like beings appeared on earth andultimately became the rulers of this planet. These people weredifferent from common human beings; they were immortaland had divine or mystical powers of creation.

The Sumerians, who prevailed within the Mesopotamianregion during that era, discovered the information. Thisinformation led to the development of the first availablewritten mythology. This mythology is referred to as the "Epicof Gilgamesh of Babylonia." A copy of this historic documentended up in the library at Nineveh in the seventh century BCE.Archeologists uncovered it in the 1800s, and now it resides inthe British Museum.

These seven tablets describe—with some accuracy—apower struggle, a civil war of sorts, among different divinepowers that caused a catastrophic cosmic environment thatbrought into balance the supreme power of causation. This hasbeen discovered by modern-day science through technologicaladvancement—the origin of our universal system, the formationand alignment of planetary systems, the different stages of theearth's stabilization, and the origin of life on earth.

The ancient epic describes two kinds of primeval watersthat prevailed on the planet: fresh flowing waters (rivers) anda body of stagnant water (oceans). The fresh flowing watercoming from the ground was named Apsu, and the stagnantwater or salty water of the oceans on the earth was namedTiamat. The divine power prevailing on the planet, describedas wind, was called Ea. The wind power not only madetremendous noise or babel, but it also caused floods, storms,hurricanes, and tornados, which they named Mummu.

The wind, in combination with its related...