God, The Extraterrestrial
"So, who was YHVH?
Was He one of them? Was He an extraterrestrial?

"....The question and its implied answer, indeed, arise inevitably. That the biblical creation narrative with which the Book of Genesis begins draws upon the Mesopotamian Enuma elish is beyond dispute. That the biblical Eden is a rendering of the Sumerian E.DIN is almost self-evident. That the tale of the Deluge and Noah and the Ark is based on the Akkadian Atra-Hasis texts and the early Sumerian Deluge tale in the Epic of Gilgamesh, is certain. That the plural "us" in the creation of The Adam segments reflects the Sumerian and Akkadian record of the discussions by the leaders of the Anunnaki that led to the genetic engineering that brought Homo sapiens about, should be obvious.

"In the Mesopotamian versions it is Enki, the Chief Scientist, who sugest the genetic engineering to create the Earthling to serve as a Primitive Worker, and it had to be Enki whom the Bible quotes as saying "Let us make the Adam in our likeness and after our image." An epithet of Enki was NU.DIM.MUD, "He who fashions;" the Egyptians likewise called Enki Ptah - "The Developer," "He who fashions things," and depicted him as fashioning Man out of clay, as a potter. "The Fashioner of the Adam," the Prophets repeatedly called YHVH ("fashioner" not "creator"!) and comparing YHVH to a potter fashioning Man of clay was a frequent biblical simile.

"As the master biologist, Enki's emblem was that of the Entwined Serpents, representing the double-helixed DNA .... One of Enki's Sumerian epithets was BUZUR, it meant both "He who solves secrets" and "he of the mines," for the knowledge of mineralogy was considered knowledge of Earth's secrets, the secrets of its dark depths.

"The biblical tale of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden - the tale of the second genetic manipulation - assigns to the serpent the role of triggering their acquisition of "knowing" (the biblical term for sexual procreation). The Hebrew term for serpent is Nahash; and interestingly, the same word also means soothsayer, "he who solves secrets" - the very same second meaning of Enki's epithet. Moreover, the term stems from the same root as the Hebrew word for the mineral copper, Nehoshet. It was a Nahash Nahoshet, a copper serpent, that Moses fashioned and held up to stop and epidemic.... and our analysis leaves no alternative but to conclude that what he had made to summon divine intervention was an emblem of Enki.

"....Pertinent to this aspect might have been the fact that when Yahweh turned the shepherd's crook that Moses held into a magical staff, the first miracle performed with it was to turn it into a serpent. Was Yahweh, then, one and the same as Enki?

"The combination of biology with mineralogy, and with the ability to solve secrets reflected Enki's status as the god of knowledge and sciences, of the Earth's hidden metals, he was the one who set the mining operations in southeastern Africa.... "It is Yahweh who giveth wisdom, out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding," Proverbs asserted (2:6), and it was He who granted wisdom beyond comparison to Solomon, as Enki had given the Wise Adapa. "The gold is mine and the silver is mine," Yahweh announced (Haggai 2:8); "I shall give the treasures of the darkness and the hidden riches of the secret places," Yahweh promised to Cyrus (Isaiah 45:3).

"The clearest congruence between the Mesopotamian and biblical narratives is found in the story of the Deluge. In the Mesopotamian versions it is Enki who goes out of his way to warn his faithful follower Ziusudra/Utnapishtim of the coming catastrophe.... In the Bible all that is done by Yahweh.

"This aspect of the similarities between Enki and Yahweh becomes more emphatic - and in one respect perhaps even embarrassingly so for the monotheistic Bible - when we reach a passage in the Book of Proverbs (30:4) in which the unsurpassed greatness of Yahweh is brought out by rhetorical questions....

Again Mr. Sitchin asks,

"....Was Yahweh, then, Enki in a biblical-Hebrew garb?

"Were it so simple . . . If we examine closely the tale of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we will find that while it is the Nahash -
Enki's serpent guise as knower of biological secrets - who triggers the acquisition by Adam and Eve of the sexual "knowing" that enables them to have offspring, he is not Yahweh but an antagonistic of Yahweh (as Enki was of Enlil). In the Sumerian texts it was Enlil who forced Enki to transfer some of the newly fashioned Primitive Workers (created to work in the gold mines of the Apsu) to the E.DIN in Mesopotamia, to engage in farming and shepherding. In the Bible, it is Yahweh who "took the Adam and placed him in the garden of Eden to tend it and to maintain it." It is Yahweh, not the serpent, who is depicted as the master of Eden who talks to Adam and Eve, discovers what they had done, and expels them. In all this, the Bible equates Yahweh not with Enki but with Enlil.

"Indeed, in the very tale - the tale of the Deluge - where the identification with Enki appears the clearest, confusion in fact shows up. The roles are switched, and all of a sudden Yahweh plays the role not of Enki but of his rival Enlil. In the Mesopotamian original texts, it is Enlil who is unhappy with the way Mankind has turned out, who seeks its destruction by the approaching calamity and who makes the other Anunnaki leaders swear to keep all that a secret from Mankind. In the biblical version (chapter 6 of Genesis), it is Yahweh who voices his unhappiness with Mankind and makes the decision to wipe Mankind off the face of the Earth. In the tale's conclussion, as Ziusudra/Utnapishtim offers sacrifices on Mount Ararat, it is Enlil who is attracted by the pleasant smell of roasting meat and (with some persuasion) accepts the survival of Mankind, forgives Enki and blesses Ziusudra and his wife. In Genesis, it is to Yahweh that Noah builds an altar and sacrifices animals on it, and it was Yahweh "who smelled the pleasant aroma."

"So was Yahweh Enlil, after all?

"A strong case can be made for such an identification. It there had been a "first among equals" as far as the two half brothers, sons of Anu, were concerned, the first was Enlil.... it was EN.LIL ("Lord of the Command") who took over as chief of the Anunnaki on Earth. It was a situation that corresponds to the statement in Psalms 97:9: "For thou, O Yahweh, art supreme over the whole Earth; most supreme art thou over all the Elohim." The elevation of Enlil to this status is described in the Atra-Hasis Epic in the introductory verses, prior to the mutiny of the gold-mining Anunnaki....

"....After Anu, the ruler of Nibiru, returned to Nibiru after visiting Earth, it was Enlil who summoned and presided over the council of the Great Anunnaki whenever major decisions had to be made....

"....The monotheistic Bible lapses several times into describing Yahweh in like manner, chairing an assembly of lesser deities, usually called Bney-elim - "sons of gods...." "The Lord stands in the assembly of the gods, among the Elohim he judges," we read in Psalm 82:1. "Give unto Yahweh o sons of gods, give unto Yahweh glory and might," Psalms 29:1 stated.... The requirement that even the "sons of the gods" bow to the Lord paralleled the description of the status of Enlil as the Commander in Chief: "The Anunnaki humble themselves before him, the Igigi bow down willingly before him; they stand by faithfully for the instructions."