THE STAR*GATES
by E. Vegh © 2006
The Sumerian Thread: As Above,
So Below
Table of Contents
Somewhere, something incredible
is waiting to be known.
- Carl Sagan
"The Heaven-Earth Bond"
In the sumerian city of Nibru (Nippur),
Enki's brother Enlil held court. He also had a marvellous construction
called the E.KUR, which is depicted in the sumerian text, "Enlil in the
E.KUR." As in the case of Enki's "E.ABZU," the E.KUR was quite an unusual
construct. For example:
He has taken up residence
in Nibru, the lofty bond between heaven and earth. [...]
The front of the city is laden
with terrible fearsomeness and radiance. [...]
Its brickwork is red gold, its foundation
is lapis lazuli. [...]
Its interior is a wide sea which
knows no horizon.[...]
Its fearsomeness and radiance reach
up to heaven, its shadow stretches over all the foreign lands, and its
crenellation reaches up to the midst of heaven.[...][1]
In modern terms, this building has several
surprising features! It is a bond between heaven and earth. It features
a radiant facing or cover, which reaches up to heaven, like some ancient
forcefield. It's made of, or the color of, red gold with a blue foundation.
And for the clincher, the inside of it is a "wide sea which knows no horizon"!
That's certainly an interesting way of describing an Abzu star gate - a
wide sea which knows no horizon. Of course it knows no horizon, afterall,
it's a star gate not the sea!
To further signify its connection
to the Abzu as an underground star gate chamber, consider the following
quote from "Enlil in the E.KUR":
Enlil , holy Urac is favoured
with beauty for you; you are greatly suited for the Abzu, the holy throne
; you refresh yourself in the deep underworld, the holy chamber. [1]
Apparently, the word "Abzu" was used
interchangeably for all the subterranean star gate chambers. In fact, this
very thing is depicted in ancient Egypt! Few realize that the ancient egyptian
city name of "Abydos" is in fact not an egyptian word at all. It's greek.
The egyptian word for it is "Abdju," pronounced "Abzu", as described by
Peter Goodgame in his book, "The Giza Discovery":
One of the first important
cult centers for the invaders of Egypt was a place which came to be known
by the Greeks as "Abydos." However, the Egyptian name is better represented
as "Abedjou" or "Abdju." The sound "dj" is often simply given as "z," such
as in the common rendition for the Step-Pyramid of Djoser as "Zoser." With
this in mind we find that Abydos=Abdju=Abzu, which directly equates with
the cult center of Enki known as the Abzu in Eridu.[2]
As a result of this discovery, the next
logical step was determining where the subterranean star gate chamber was
in ancient Abydos (Abzu), Egypt. And one need not look far to find it.
It's called the "Osirieon" and its archaeological history, since its discovery,
has been shrouded and emersed in controversy (as you can well imagine!).
Afterall, "Abzu" was a sumerian concept and word, and yet here it is in
one of the earliest cult cities of ancient Egypt.
Anyway, we find that Enlil was also
in possession of a star gate and an Abzu chamber to put it in. The name
of his chamber and star gate, however, was not simply Abzu, it was additionally
called the "Dur.Anki", the "Heaven-Earth Bond." It also spread its shadows
across the heavens, across the foreign lands. It also reached up to heaven
from beneath the earth, as is indicated in its name as the "heaven-earth
bond", also known as the bond of the universe (heaven and earth).
The argument that the heaven-earth
bond was simply a reference to the E.KUR being high enough from which to
observe the heavens, is rather weak in the face of the surrounding evidence,
such as the mountain ranges and cliffs in the vicinity of Enlil's E.KUR.
Certainly any nearby mountain would be much closer to "heaven" than a ziggurat
construction. As a result, I find such arguments sorely lacking in validity
in the face of the data regarding the terrain and the geographical setting
of this ancient structure. In short, the heaven-earth bond, is simply that,
a bond of some sort between heaven and earth! In fact, it harkens back
to the opening concept of "As above, so below." Remember, Mt. Sumeru of
the ancient hindu and buddhist texts, which was likely named after the
E.ABZU or E.KUR of Sumer, was a connection between the depths of the Earth
and the heighths of the heavens - clearly indicating it to be some kind
of portal of travel.
So, what, you might ask, happened
to these sumerian star gates? Find out in the next chapter, "The Akkadian
Connection!"
Footnotes
1Enlil
in the E.kur
2 The
Giza Discovery: Part Five, The Spirit World and Civilization-The Egyptian
Connection
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