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Nibiru's Deadly         Wound                      

     The parts of the story that coincide with the Bible so far on web pages 1 and 2 are 1) the the primeval earth was "without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of  the watery deep" (Eluma Elish and Genesis I:2). 2) In  the second part of Genesis 1:2 in the King James Version we read  "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters,"-- but we're not told what the "Spirit of God" actually did to those waters, if anything.  In the TANAKH (Jewish Bible -- Engish 1985 The Jewish Publication Society) the whole of verse 2 reads "--the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the water ---"  However, in Eluma Elish we read: "The North Wind, his helper, from his side he summoned, To thrust away the severed head the Wind he commanded, in the void to place it.  Nibiru's Wind upon Tiamat then hovered,  sweeping upon her gushing waters." The Bible story, in both KJV and Jewish versions, leave us guessing as to how God accomplishes what he decides to do. He speaks a command, and it is done.  In Eluma Elish, Nibiru's helpers, her moons and gravitational pull accomplish the conquest of Tiamat. Then Nibiru finishes the job with a forceful "wind" into her "belly" followed by an arrow to finish the job.

      3) Turning next to the creation of a firmament, both Eluma Elish and the Bible feature this event, but the Bible leaves us guessing what a firmament really is, while Eluma Elish is quite definite about not only what it is, (the "Hammered Bracelet", the asteroid belt) but also what it's purpose is: "The hinder part's fate Nibiru then considered: As an everlasting trophy of the battle he wished it to be, A constant reminder in the heavens, the Place of the Battle to enshrine. With his mace the hinder part  he smashed to bits and pieces," In the Bible, that the "firmament separated the waters that were over the firmament (meaning the watery planets such as Neptune and Uranus) from the "waters that were below the firmament "(closer to the sun) which in this case were on earth, --  was copied from the Babylonian document with no explanation of what the firmament was, leaving thousands of years of Bible readers guessing it was some sort of plastic bubble through which water poured as rain when "God opened the windows of heaven" (multiple texts throughout the Bible).

     In the Bible we assume that, although it is not spelled out in so many words, that the making of a "firmament" prepared the way for the dry  land to appear.  Which happened in the Bible account on the next day, the "Third Day."  Genesis 1:9 "And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good." The author or authors of Eluma Elish, in their account elaborate a little more but say about the same thing. "He addressed words to Apsu, (the sun} to him thus saying: With your warming rays, to the wounds give healing! Let the broken part new life be given, in your family as a daughter to be, Let the waters to one place be gathered, let firm land appear! By Firm Land let her be called, Ki henceforth her name to be!" An important difference is that Nibiru asks the sun to play a part in drying up part of the earth once the waters have moved to a proper place, but in the Bible this cannot be done because the sun has not been created yet, and won't be created until the "Fourth Day".

      4) Now  comes an important variation in the Bible account that defies logic and varies completely with Eluma Elish.  In spite of a lack of proper time, less than 24 hours left, and an earth that was wet a few hours earlier, and no sun to stimulate growth of plants by photosynthesis, and very little time left (less than 24 hours), all the vegetation kinds of grasses, plants, and even trees appear because God commands it to happen.  Genesis 1:11 "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yeilding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.  13 And the evening and the morning were the third day."   The author or authors of Eluma Elish are not in such a rush to claim that both dry earth and all the vegetation on it were created in one twenty-four hour day.  Before the "Celestial Battle" Nibiru had nothing even comparable to an earth "day".  Once the collisions of the moons and all these other forceful "acts", some of them no doubt symbolic occurred, Nibiru was captured by the sun's (Apsu) gravity, it's course was slowed, and became an orbit, like the rest of the planets of the solar system.   But it was a very long orbit, and it took 3600 years for Nibiru to return to earth's vicinity.   Then, and not until then does Nibiru make it's speech to the sun (Apsu) asking for the sun's help in healing the wounded earth.   There was life on Nibiru before the collision, and now Nibiru assumes that earth has been "seeded" by similar life.  And Nibiru assumes as his prayer or speech to Apsu continues, that the sun (Apsu) will cause these seeds to grow.  

     "He (Nibiru) paused and hesitated; then to the Firmament, the Place of the Battle, slowly he returned. Passing again in Apsu's region, of the Sun's missing spouse he thought with remorse. He gazed  upon Tiamat's wounded half,  to her Upper Part  he gave attention. The waters of life, her bounty, from the wounds were still pouring, Her golden veins Apsu's rays were reflecting.

     "The Seed of Life, his Creator's legacy, Nibiru then remembered. When he trod on Tiamat, when he split her asunder, to her the seed he surely imparted!  "He addressed words to Apsu, to him thus saying: With your warming rays, to the wounds give healing! Let the broken part new life be given, in your family as a daughter to be, Let the waters to one place be gathered, let firm land appear! By Firm Land let her be called, Ki henceforth her name to be!

    "Apsu to the words of Nibiru gave heed: Let the Earth join my family, Ki, Firm Land of the Below, let Earth her name henceforth be! By her turning let there day and night be; in the days my healing rays to her I shall provide.

     Summery: What is said to occur in part of a 24 hour day in the Bible with no participation by God (and who else was there to participate?) except to command it to be so, takes at least 3600 years of earth-time to accomplish in Eluma Elish, with the earth now rotating, with proper seasons, and plants growing and adapting to this new environment.

     This Eluma Elish  story was written for Babylonians, not Jews and Christians, and perhaps they were not so gullible in those days.

How New Gods can Create

(and destroy) by a "Word"

      There's no problem, once one decides to give credit to a particular "God" for everything we now see in the heavens (night sky) and on earth, to say that all this is "so" because our God wished for it to be so.  Indeed, if the desired result is unity, not chaos, in the religious life of your particular region on earth, it becomes necessary to make some changes in the existing documents your new religion uses to convince its worshippers that they are worshipping the right God.   This was as true in the days that Eluma Elish was written in Babylon as it was much later when the Bible was composed.

      Eluma Elish DOES NOT, as these documents were found in the library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh describe the hero of this Celestial Battle as Nibiru, but instead names this hero as Marduk, the major god of Babylon when Eluma Elish was written.   Zechariah Sitchin, when he set out to write The Lost Book of Enki, has changed Marduk back to Nibiru wherever Marduk is found in this story, because he knows that when these events happened, perhaps  4 billion years ago, Marduk was not physically present to perform the acts the story gives him credit for performing.  The planet Nibiru was indeed present, and Sitchin assumes Tiamat also was present, the primordial much larger planet of which earth was a part.   And so he has substituted "Nibiru" the true symbolic "hero" for Marduk, considered a god in Babylon beginning about 2000 BC.  About 3 billion 800 million years later.

      The authors of the Jewish Bible, the TANAKH, knew what Marduk had commanded his scribes to do to this original story, and felt free to do the same with their version of the story.   Their God was not Marduk but Yahweh (Jehovah) and it was absolutely counter-productive for them to be encouraging Israel and Judah's population to be worshipping Marduk as the Creator of Earth.   So it is Yahweh (Jehovah) who speaks (utters a command) and the waters instantly obey his voice and are gathered together into one place.   These authors had reason to want to honor the creation of the sun, moon, and stars on the "Fourth Day" of "Creation Week" so their story gets a little "crowded" on the "Third Day".    But then, they might not even have known that it took 3600 years for Nibiru to complete each orbit around the sun.  Seven times 3600 is  25,100 earth years, perhaps a more reasonable period of time to accomplish what Genesis 1 and 2:1-3 claims was accomplished in seven literal 24-hour days, but even then, scientists consider this to be but a moment of time in a world at least 4 billion years old.

       5) Although none of these Jewish authors ever got to see, even in dreams and visions, the "Hammered Bracelet", the asteroid belt, they had faith enough in the Babylonian Eluma Elish  and other Babylonian and Assyrian, and Sumerian historical and religious literature to assume that perhaps there was such a phenomenon (which there is, of course, we now have to calculate how to avoid collisions between our space probes and this army of rocks out there in space) they felt it was safest to include this part of the Eluma Elish story unchanged (except for substituting Yahweh - Jehovah for Marduk) in the cutting of Tiamat (as Rahab) to pieces.  To form the asteroid belt.

     Psalms 89:10  rewrite: "Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou has scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm."       And in Isaiah 51:9 "Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old.  Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?"

      Acts 1 through 3 are not so much historical as religious, and were intended to be performed as a "play" (thus, Acts 1 through 4) honoring Marduk, the chief god of Babylon when this play was written.   These acts are not of so much interest to me, so I'll not present them here.