“This Is Not a Myth, Part 1”: A Review of Enuma Elish: The Original Text With Brief Commentary by Ken Goudsward

 

“This Is Not a Myth, Part 1”: A Review of Enuma Elish: The Original Text With Brief Commentary by Ken Goudsward (Dimensionfold Publishing, 2021). ISBN: 978-1-989940-39-6

Several weeks ago, I wrote a review of The Atrahasis Epic, which is actually the sequel to Enuma Elish. Although there are subtle differences in how certain peoples and events are portrayed between the two creation stories, there is an overall coherent picture of ancient exopolitics, computer engineering, and impressive biotech.

Some background to start us off. Enuma Elish, which comes to us from Mesopotamia, is also called The Seven Tablets of Creation and is translated as “When on High.” Goudsward, an accomplished systems analyst and researcher (and author in his own right), uses a translation by W. G. Lambert as his basis for his groundbreaking commentary.

Goudsward gives us all the tools we need to engage with and understand this complicated work. He gives us a cast of characters at the onset and a summary of the piece at its conclusion. Each of the seven tablets has its own chapter, with commentary by Goudsward interspersed. Omissions and unreadable text are marked clearly with […]. I found some of these to be of interest, which I will talk about later.

Enuma Elish truly begins at the beginning of the beginning, in a “primordial state before creation.” Determined to change this condition are Apsu and Tiamat—two names that should be familiar to those who have engaged with other Mesopotamian creation works.

Similar to The Atrahasis Epic, there are “little g” gods throughout this story (think of them as highly advanced off-world intelligences) who are impressively organized and, like the gods of Olympus, very much “human.” As their creations grow in power, it is not long before Apsu decides that he and Tiamat must destroy their children. It will come as no surprise that “momma grizzly” Tiamat resists. While Apsu is making his decision despite his partner’s protestations, his probable great-grandson, Ea, springs into action to foil his great-grandad’s familicidal plans.

It is at this point in the commentary that Goudsward postulates—with ample evidence—that names like Apsu (and Israel) start out as individuals and become geographical names in creation works and Holy Scripture.

We now meet the main character of Enuma Elish—Marduk, who is given a multitude of titles as the story progresses. He is Ea’s son. In alignment with the biblical stories of the offspring of angels and humans called the Nephilim, Marduk is a two-headed giant (biotechnically engineered).

Biotech is the name of the game for now, as a character called Mother Hubur creates myriad monsters—the Hydra, the Dragon, the Hairy Hero (the seed of Iron John?), the Savage Dog, Scorpion-man, and so forth. There are twelve of these creatures in total. Considering there are also Fish-man and Bull-man, Goudsward believes that these are the signs of the Zodiac, used to partition the sky for ease of geo-location. Interestingly, and counter to the sequel, the Annunaki here are “a collective term for … these twelve segments of sky,” their name deriving from “an” (sky) and “Ki” (Earth).

Table II describes the choosing of sides, and alliances shifting as the key characters formulate their plans and put them into action. We also encounter a “storm chariot.” In a later tablet, it is a “fearful chariot.” As Goudsward reminds us, religious texts are rife with references to powerful airborne vehicles. Erich von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods?, which is credited (rightly or wrongly) as kicking off the Ancient Aliens movement, takes its name from these aero-machines.

Journeying further into the tablets, two things are striking. One… the gods drink beer, which “made them feel good.” Two… Marduk is a computer programming whiz, designing and working automated sensor arrays, predictive algorithms, and virtual reality video simulations. He may also have nuclear capability. The likelihood of nuclear events on Earth in the ancient past, especially in the Middle East and India, is growing—with both ancient text interpretations and physical evidence in support.

By Tablet V, we are seeing some of the work of Zecharia Sitchin—references to Nibiru (meaning a crossing point or a spot marking an equinox) and the ways of Ea and Enlil as off-axis sections of the cosmic grid. Marduk, having readied his work for distribution (proof of concept in modern venture-capitalist terms), shares it with his uncles and grandfather. A good bit of this tablet is missing or unreadable. Looking at some of the partial text, I have to wonder if it was on purpose… The Igigi, who are prominent in The Atrahasis Epic as malcontent canal builders, are portrayed in Enuma Elish as a “parliament or senate.” (If only our politicians would experience that kind of downfall…)

Having risen to the top of the hi-tech mountain (or descended deep into the [silicon] valley), Marduk is rewarded by an appointment to the position of vizier. His accoutrements of office include “a crown of terror as a royal aura.” Sounds like active wear for the current Global Elite.

Tablet VI introduces the Lullu—the human substitute for malcontent off-world workers. The Atrahasis Epic tells us a lot more about how Ea and a partner made them (using biotech) and put them to use. We do get some intimations here that the Lullu were a slave class, which resonates with Sitchin and his theories on the Anunnaki. Considering Ea and Marduk’s computer programming capabilities, there are also echoes of the Matrix. All of this matters, folks. From Eugenics to Transhumanism, there are parallels here we would be idiotic to ignore.

So impressed are the gods with Marduk’s prowess that the rest of Tablet VI and all of Tablet VII are nothing but a laundry list of his 200-plus titles and epithets.

It is interesting to me, as I already mentioned, where some of the text is missing. There are two instances in Tablet VII where text is missing following or just preceding the word “weapons.” There is a lot of missing text in the areas concerning tech. Did ancients or archaeologists destroy some of this intentionally to protect their hi-tech secrets? What else along these lines might gatekeepers and guardians have consciously omitted from translations of Enuma Elish and The Atrahasis Epic through destruction and scrambling of tablet fragments?

These are important questions. The Global Elite want to become (G/g)ods themselves (Homo Deus in the words of Yuval Harari) and suppress the slave-class Lullu (us). They currently control the biotech, AI, and computer programming industries (with money from the Company) and a select few are more than ready to assume the 200-plus titles of Marduk on their mission to becoming overlords in an Age of Digital Feudalism.  

If you want to prepare for the future, it is best to study the past. Ken Goudsward has given us a valuable history lesson. Will you heed it?