| Indra is the creator in RV 2.12.2, “(2) He who fixed fast and firm the earth that staggered, and set at rest the agitated mountains, Who measured out the air's wide middle region and gave the heaven support, He, men, is Indra. (3) Who slew the Dragon, freed the Seven Rivers, and drove the kine forth from the cave of Vala, Begat the fire between two stones, the spoiler in warriors’ battle, He, O men, is Indra”. And there are clear references to Indra’s creative acts after the slaying of Vtra: “(4) Then heaven and earth he sundered and supported: wrapped even in these he struck the Beast with terror. So Indra forced the Engulfer to disgorgement, and slew the Dānava, panting against him.” - (RV 5.29.4), and : “(3) The Bays, the booty-seeking car I harness: my prayers have reached him who accepts them gladly Indra, when he had slain resistless foemen, forced with his might the two world-halves asunder.” - (RV 7.23.3) Continuing with Enuma Elish: 140.) And he bade them not to let her waters come forth 141.) He passed through the heavens, he surveyed the regions (thereof) 142.) And over against the Deep, he set the dwelling of Nudimmud. 143.) And the lord measured the structure of the Deep, 144.) And he founded E-shara, a mansion like unto it. 145.) The mansion E-shara which he created as heaven 146.) He caused Anu, Bel, and Ea in their districts to inhabit. Tablet 5 1.) He (i.e. Marduk) made the stations for the great gods; 2.) The stars, their images, as the stars of the zodiac, he fixed. 3.) He ordered the year and into sections he divided it; 4.) For the twelve months he fixed three stars. 5.) After he had … the days of the year … images, 6.) He founded the station of Nibir, to determine their bounds (Did Sitchen obtain the title “Nibiru” here? The “stations” do not appear to be planets, but titles of houses of the zodiac.) Tablet 6 1.) When Marduk heard the words of the gods, 2.) His heart prompted him, and he devised [a cunning plan]. 3.) He opened his mouth and unto Ea [he spake] 4.) [That which] he conceived in his heart he imparted [unto him] 5.) “My blood will I take and bone will I [fashion] 6.) “I will make man, that man may … 7.) ‘I will create man who shall inhabit [the earth],” 8.) “That the service of the gods may be established, that that [their] shrines [may be built]. |
We are entering a stage where we can start to see the mythology of Tantalus and Prometheus, aka, Lucifer emerging. Marduk takes the “glory” of the gods and establishes mankind with shrines for worshipping. Let’s imagine for the time being, the possibility that the shrine to the gods is the sacrificial altar that the sacred food, the mushroom is placed upon. That would be a shrine and altar to the gods, would it not? (The Address of the gods to Marduk forms the subject of the seventh tablet. He is being exalted.) Tablet 7 27.) Who had mercy upon the captive gods,” 28.) “Who removed the yoke from upon the gods his enemies,” 29.) “For their forgiveness did he create mankind,” 129. Let a man rejoice in Marduk, the Lord of the gods, 130.) That he may cause his land to be fruitful, and that he himself may have prosperity! 135. Wide is his heart, broad is his compassion; Melammu is translated as “Mantle of Radiance” and was both bestowed upon Marduk when he set out to battle Tiamat and by Tiamat upon the eleven monsters she spawned in the Enuma Elish to combat the younger generation of noisy gods that disturbed her. Medieval alchemists had a name for the concept of this light, which they associated as the light in the depths of darkness. The light they write of, Melammu, is called the “Sun in the Earth,” the earthly, invisible sun is called “black sun” and “fire of hell.” (97) From another source entirely, Jeffrey J. Niehaus, in God at Sinai, we read of Melammu: “Mesopotamian kings claimed to have a divine aura or melammu that endowed life, inspired awe, and cast all foes into utter confusion. “Like the Holy Spirit, the melammu could be endowed, and it could be taken away. The Enuma Elish, the Babylonian Creation tablets, dating from the early second millennium, include an example of its endowment. The sea dragon goddess Tiamat prepared terrible serpents/dragons to aid her in battle. Once she had created them, ‘she made them bear an awesome radiance [melammu], she made them [thus] like gods.’ “The melammu could also be taken away, just as the Holy Spirit was taken away from King Saul.” (98) One example comes from the Law of Hammurabi, king of Babylon (1792-1750 BC). At the end of the code, Hammurabi invokes curses on any subsequent king who alters the law in any way. Among the curses we find this one: “May Anu [the sky god] take the awesome radiance [melammu] of kingship away from him.” (99) (97) https://cultofnyarzir.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/mesopotamian-melammu-the-armor-of-amaterasu-omikami/ (98) 1Sa 16:14; cf. Ps 51:12 (99) God at Sinai, Covenant and Teophany in the Bible and Ancient Near East, Jeffrey J. Niehaus, page 351 |