Planets And Stars Personified (Rev.)

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Zechariah Sitchin’s translations of Babylonian
clay tablets are enjoyable reading – but legends
and myths of immortal gods are too overbearing
to be true – and like bizarre Roman and Greek
legends, unacceptable as literal events

As De Santillana* and Von Dechend* explain
the Babylonian creation myth is a rendition of
precession, basis of the Bible’s Old Testament
stories described in the life of Samson,
a series of absurd events

Precession was an enormous mill grinding out
peace and plenty in a Golden Age, ruled without
war or bloody sacrifice and no inequality of class
by Saturn (called Kronos) who was Lord
of Justice, the Enki of Sumerian days

Sitchin sees Enki as an extraterrestrial with
an enormous life-span, describing origins of
man by the interference of aliens messing
about with animal genetics – adding alien
DNA to life forms evolving on earth

The academics* explain all these characters
were planets and stars personified as effects
of equinoxial precession, amazing immorality
of all being taken literally but in context,
events happening only in the sky

My awareness delights in ancient tales as a way
of conserving such knowledge, even numbers
and figures lose their scary aspect when seen
as concrete event of planets swirling up high,
I need never know a single number

Observing kingship and executive power in planets
and stars, their material appearance an assurance
numbers are just a description of the life we lead,
not life itself, merely a representation of life as
figures in perfect configurations

We are the outline, need never know mathematics
to understand precession and its implications…

“Enuma elish” Babylonian Creation Epic:
Fixed stars represent kingly power, silent,
unmoving, while planets are the executive power.

http://www.believeallthings.com/
4667/hamlets-mill/#ixzz0qGOvODKd

“Hamlet's Mill”
An essay on myth and the frame of time
GIORGIO de SANTILLANA & HERTHA von DECHEND
David R. Godine Publisher Boston 1977
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