How I Became A God: Step 2

As told by the writing on the clay tablets, the Creation story is like a fantastic science fiction tale, and the second step in becoming a god not only involves knowing it, but also how it relates to the Bible. There are a lot of aspects to it which are unclear, but as far as we know to be true, the Sumerians where the first to use a written language, and signed off each tablet saying so--that they were taught to write by their creators and were only retelling what they had been told.

According to them an aristocracy of twelve “gods” ruled over some lesser gods, and they all splashed down for a mining operation about a half billion years ago. They wanted precious metals and minerals to take back to their home planet. As it turns out, the captain and chief science officer were brothers. Enlil was captain in charge, and Enki was the chief science officer. Their names, attributes, and aspects of their stories have altered over the centuries so that through time they became known as Zeus and Poseidon, and later as Yahweh and Lucifer. Enlil outranked Enki, just like Zeus outranked Poseidon, and Yahweh outranked Lucifer. At some point there was a decision to create a worker. They took DNA from one of the hominids running around then, mixed in some of their own, and created us--humans.

According to the clay tablets the first male and female, the Adam and Eve, were given a portion of the Garden to watch over each day, and each day at a certain hour the lesser gods, or angels, would leave them alone to go up and hang out with Enlil. Then one day Enki stayed behind to talk with Eve.

    "Is it true Enlil said you shall not taste of every tree in the Garden?"

    "We can eat of others, but of the tree in the middle of the Garden, our lord said we shall not taste or we will die."

    "You will not die, your lord knows that on the day you taste of it you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."

    Later that evening, Enlil is down to take a stroll in the Garden, calls out, and Adam and Eve hide. He asks why they’re hiding and they say they’re ashamed because they went against his command. Enlil says that because they can now distinguish between good and evil, they must be banished from the Garden because, as he tells the others: “For behold, if they eat of the Tree of Life, they will live and endure forever.” Watching them leave, Enlil says, “Behold, they are now alone in the world as we are alone in the heavens.”

Sometime after we had gone out from the Garden and began to multiply, like it says on the clay tablets, and like it says in the Bible, some of them started getting it on with us. That was when Enlil ruled the experiment was over, and as they knew of coming Earth changes, they decided not to tell us. There was a huge argument about it, but in the end they all swore they wouldn’t tell what was coming--except Enki. He figured he’d give us a shot to survive. He found the most righteous guy around at the time--the guy who came to be known as Noah--and told him to stand behind some reeds and listen. Enki then went on to talk about a coming flood, and how a big boat needed to be built and some animals gotten aboard. From there the rest is history.

Sometimes important elements of plot occur off stage. In our narrative, there had to have been a discussion between Enlil and Adam and Eve about the Tree of Knowledge at some point prior, where the command was issued for them to not taste the fruit from a certain tree. The question then raised is, why would the Enlil character create a worker, tell it not to eat something, then leave it alone with that thing each day? In other words, if we look at things objectively, Enlil had no business placing the workers in proximity to something that would alter their consciousness if he didn’t want it altered; and to compound that negligence is the injustice of punishing Adam and Eve when they had no intention of going against the command to begin with--it was only after they were persuaded by Enki that they did it. In addition to all that, the narrative shows it was Enlil who lies and Enki who tells the truth: eating of the tree did not kill them, it only upset Enlil with the fear of his creation becoming like him.

So, what to take away from all this? The first thing is that the Creation story was told to us by the Sumerians--the ones every other civilization pointed to as the first writers--and that they themselves say they were taught to write by the ones who told them the story. Unless you believe those later civilizations lied about where they learned how to write, or that the Sumerians lied and made up a story about where they learned, you realize the scientific record shows that humans really were taught how to write at some point. In other words, that means we really are not alone in the universe, that there really are other sapient beings in it along with us. The advent of writing and a Creation story still familiar to half the population on Earth is proof. If we didn’t have fired, clay tablets detailing such things, we might be able to explain away the Creation story as a myth built up over the centuries. But we can’t, because the tablets exist, and the writing and notations on them say specific things which refute the notion that it’s all a figment of our collective imagination.

So we have to ask: is the Enlil/Zeus/Yahweh sapience superior to ours? If left to our own devices, would we not one day reach a mastery of gene manipulation and modification? Of course we would. That means sapience is sapience--the ability to know--and it doesn’t matter if you have blue skin, bleed yellow, and live a thousand years, or if you have human skin, bleed red and live a hundred years--sapience is the ability to know and create and we humans have it. Even the creators themselves remarked, “Look, they’re alone on Earth just like we’re alone in the cosmos.”