[THE SUMERIAN HOMELAND: THE FLOODED PERSIAN GULF BASIN . Or, Sumerian civilization did not emerge out of nothing.The Sumerian homeland was flooded by sea.] Noone has found the homeland of the Sumerians because their homeland was flooded by sea. Sumerians had their origin in the flooded Persian Gulf trade centre and continental shelf. --------------------------------------- DILMUN: THE SUMERIAN EDEN. The biblical Eden was a stone age trade centre where people came traded and exchanged knowledge. The Sumerian Eden is called Dilmun. Some authors connect Dilmun with the island of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. The island of Bahrain might be all that remains of the Sumerian Eden. Bahrain is covered with ancient graves. Bahrain is possibly connected with an ancient serpent cult. Perhaps Bahrain was only a small part of Eden. Eden was probably much larger, because the Persian Gulf was dry land thousands of years ago. -------------- [GILGAMESH and the PLANT OF IMMORTALITY] In the Sumerian Epic Of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh is told about a plant that gives immortality.The plant lies at the bottom of the sea. Gilgamesh retrieves the plant,but at the last moment it is snatched away by a serpent.So Gilgamesh loses the chance to become immortal. This is a variation of the biblical of Garden of Eden story where there exists a "tree of life" and where Adam and Eve are tricked by the serpent. Thus they lose their chance at immortality. However,in the Sumerian version, Eden has been flooded by sea. So the "tree of life" is beneath the sea. --------------- [EANNA(OANNES) THE FISH-MAN WHO BROUGHT WISDOM TO SUMER.] ... Oannes, half fish, half man, who came ashore in Babylonia at a time when men still lived like the wild beasts. Oannes taught them the essentials of civilization: writing, the arts, law, agriculture, surveying, and architecture. The name Oannes must have been derived from the cuneiform U'anna (Sumerian) or Umanna (Akkadian), a second name of the mythical figure Adapa, the bringer of civilization. [http://www.britannica.com/place/Mesopotamia-historical-region-Asia] The story of Eanna/Adapa is the knowledge of Sumerian ancestors rising out of the flood and coming to Sumer. [Or to give a bibilical parallel , it is like the knowledge of Noah surviving the flood, rising out of the sea. The knowledge of a world that once existed but was destroyed by flood. Noah survives and brings that advanced culture/proto-civilization/ancient knowledge to the world that exists after the flood.] The ancestors of Sumerians were in Eden, but Eden is flooded. So the ancestors figuratively rise out of the sea in the form of Eanna/Adapa. Eden was a place of knowledge where Sumerian civilization probably developed, but it was destroyed by flood when the sea inundated the Persian Gulf Basin. Before the flooding by sea level rise, the Persian Gulf was dry land. [Note the Sumerians had their own flood story which is older than the bible flood account. i.e. The story of Ziusruda of Shuruppak. Perhaps Zisudra and Eanna/Oannes were closely connected stories in ancient Sumer.] ---------------- [THE MYSTERY OF ENKI THE EARTH GOD (WHO IS ALSO GOD OF THE SEA)]. The name Eanna is probably connected to the Sumerian God Enki(Ea). In Sumerian Enki means "Lord Earth" , but Ea means "house of water". Enki is the god who saves humanity from the flood. Enki is also the god of knowledge/craft/intelligence. It is possible that Enki is the god of Eden when it was dry land. So the Sumerians existed in Eden when it was dry land. So Enki is also a god of knowledge because Sumerian knowledge was developing in Eden over thousands of years. Eden was a stone age trade centre where people came,traded items, and exchanged knowledge. But when Eden flooded, then Enki also became god of the sea, because Eden was lost beneath the waves. Enki is associated with the Goat and Fish, or Goat-Fish creature which modern people would recognise as Capricorn in Astrology. Enki(Ea) is perhaps known as Dagan or Dagon in other cultures connected to Canaan and the Philistines. Dagon is a fish-man. --------------- [SUMERIAN CIVILIZATION DID NOT APPEAR OUT OF NOWHERE:EDEN WAS PROBABLY A STONE AGE TRADE CENTRE. Trade centres were probably cosmopolitan: different races came to trade there.] Sumerian civilization did not appear out of thin air. Sumerians were developing civilization over thousands of years in the Persian Gulf trade centre. Then it became flooded by sea. The Persian Gulf Trade centre is the biblical Eden. The Sumerians came from Eden. Eden was bordered by Havilah. Havilah was an African kingdom in Arabia where there were gold mines(Genesis 2:12,Genesis 10:7) Perhaps Havilah Africans controlled the Eden Trade Centre (Persian Gulf Basin). The biblical story of Nimrod suggests that Africans originally controlled the area around the Persian Gulf.(Genesis Chapter 10). [Nimrod itself can be considered an African kingdom, on the borders of Eden and Havilah. The Nimrod Kingdom later became Sumer(Shinar).] Were Sumerians the offspring of Havilah Africans and other nations that came to trade in Eden ? =============================================================================== Sources: 1. Jeffrey I. Rose(2010),New Light on Human Prehistory in the Arabo-Persian Gulf Oasis,Volume 51,Number 6,Current Anthropology:University of Chicago Press Journals http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/657397 2. Time Life's Lost Civilizations: Mesopotamia-Return to Eden 3. Encyclopaedia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/place/Mesopotamia-historical-region-Asia 4. W.B.F. Ryan & W.C. Pitman III et al (1997) An abrupt drowning of the Black Sea shelf:Marine Geology,v.138,p.119-126 5. Horizon: Noah's Flood ,(BBC documentary),December 16 1996 Related News Stories,Websites: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/09/ancient_dilmun_garden_eden_gulf_lost_civilisation/ http://www.beyonddubai.net/the-flood-myth.html ============================================== return to main page: http://sumerdecoded.com/index_.htm