Sumer

While the very existence of Atlantis is still being debated, we find the first of the great recordedcivilizations was ancient Sumer.

From Sumer came an amazing and fully evolved civilization that handed down thebasics for all ensuing Western cultures, from written language and law to mathematics, agriculture, andastronomy.

According to conventional history, Sumer grew out of a collection of hunter-gatherer clans who bandedtogether to form the first human civilization within the Tigris-Euphrates Valley about 4000 BC.

About 2400 BC, Sumer was invaded from the west and north by Semitic tribes, and by about 2350 BCwas captive to the warrior king Sargon the Great, who founded the Semite Akkadian Dynasty, whoseempire stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean.

After years of wars and populationdisplacements, the lands of Sumer were united under Hammurabi of Babylon, who’s famous code of lawsmay have been instituted to discipline the mass migrations of people taking place at that time due to warsand geophysical catastrophes.

In fact, it would appear that civilizations such as those of the Akkadians,Phoenicians, Minoans, Assyrians, Babylonians, and even the Egyptians were merely devolved versions ofancient Sumer.

Despite our superficial knowledge of the Sumerians, we have already been able to credit them with manyworld “firsts.” Samuel Noah Kramer, author of History Begins at Sumer and The Sumerians, noted thatthese people developed the wheel, schools, medical science, the first written proverbs, history, the firstbicameral congress, taxation, laws, social reforms, the first cosmogony and cosmology, and the firstmoney (a weighed silver shekel), as well as the first writing system, cuneiform

About five hundredthousand of these clay tablets have now been found, providing invaluable knowledge of ancient Sumer(which is not to be confused with the Biblical Samaria, the name of a mountain, city, and region north ofJerusalem).

“The whole concept of sphericalastronomy, including the 360-degree circle, the zenith, the horizon, the celestial axis, the poles, theecliptic, the equinoxes, etc., all arose suddenly in Sumer,” noted Alan Alford.

An ancient petroglyph found in Africa, a circle containing a cross inside asweeping boomerang shape, resembles the famous winged disc normally associated with Sumer,Babylonia, and Egypt.

Another connection between Africa and Sumer may be found in the names of theirgods, which bear a striking resemblance to the Sumerian overlords.

Genesis10:8-12 relates that Cush was a grandson of Noah and father of the legendary Nimrod, who ruled andbuilt such cities as Babylon, Erech, and Akkad from his base in Sumer, before constructing cities inAssyria, including Nineveh.

Trouble began even as the Anunnaki began to relocate their spaceflight facilities from Sumer—nowmostiy underwater due to the flood—to the Sinai Peninsula at a place that came to be called El Paran(God’s Glorious Place).

Although thoroughly—and strangely—devastated in some prehistoric time, the baked-brick construction of buildings and the preplanned layoutof the city indicated to some researchers an obvious connection with Sumer.

Conventional history states that mighty Sumer simply vanished suddenly, absorbed by the new empiresof Babylon and Assyria, though Sumerian texts tell a much more horrible story.

According to various “lamentations” translated by the Sumerian scholar Samuel Noah Kramer, “On theland [Sumer] fell a calamity, one unknown to man; one that had never been seen before, one which couldnot be withstood.

It caused cities to be desolated, houses to become desolate; stallsto become desolate, the sheepfolds to be emptied … Sumer’s rivers it made flow with water that is bitter;its cultivated fields grow weeds, its pastures grow withered plants … Thus all its gods evacuated Uruk;they kept away from it; they hid in the mountains, they escaped to the distant plains.” This one great stormof radioactive fallout annihilated the world’s first great civilization, leaving the bodies of the population“stacked up in heaps.”

Lesser known is that they were merely hand- me-down cultures based on the religion and technology of the much older civilization of Sumer.

Such connections indicate the ongoing cult worship that began in Sumer and then passed through Egypt and Greece.

The later warlord, Sulla Felix, was known to wear a small golden image of Apollo into battle.In many ways, Roman culture was merely the latest incarnation of Sumer, bringing with it many of theolder centralized religious and political structures.

Turnage, some Bible codes and symbols referred to multiple deities.“These coded references pointed the way toward an understanding that such beings were the gods, or Elohim, of the Bible, whose worship began in Sumer, and who ultimately originated on another world.”