DIFFERENT CIVILIZATION'S INTERPRETATIONS
The mysteries or religion spread like a virus throughout the world giving men the hope of everlasting life and other ways to bypass the will of The Most High, usually through sun worship, but also often including the idolatry of serpents and/or ravens.
After the tower of Babel incident humanity spoke many different languages and settled into their own regions to rule as they saw fit, so the various civilizations that formed all told the same story of creation and the events leading to civilization from their perspectives. The building of large ziggurats and pyramids became a staple of nearly every early civilization as well as sun worship and stories of a large deluge (flood) which only a few survived and often included animals. The separation of humanity after the tower did not erase the understandings of humanity’s origins, it merely distorted it as would a message passed between too many people.
Ancient Sumer
The gods had decided to destroy mankind. The god Enlil warned the priest-king Ziusudra ("Long of Life") of the coming flood by speaking to a wall while Ziusudra listened at the side. He was instructed to build a great ship and carry beasts and birds upon it. Violent winds came, and a flood of rain covered the earth for seven days and nights. Then Ziusudra opened a window in the large boat, allowing sunlight to enter, and he prostrated himself before the sun-god Utu. After landing, he sacrificed a sheep and an ox and bowed before Anu and Enlil. For protecting the animals and the seed of mankind, he was granted eternal life and taken to the country of Dilmun, where the sun rises. [Hammerly-Dupuy, p. 56; Heidel, pp. 102-106]
Mistrayim (Egypt)
People have become rebellious. Atum said he will destroy all he made and return the earth to the Primordial Water which was its original state. Atum will remain, in the form of a serpent, with Osiris. [Faulkner, plate 30] (Unfortunately the version of the papyrus with the flood story is damaged and unclear. See also Budge, p. ccii.)
Babylonian
Three times (every 1200 years), the gods were distressed by the disturbance from human overpopulation. The gods dealt with the problem first by plague, then by famine. Both times, the god Enki advised men to bribe the god causing the problem. The third time, Enlil advised the gods to destroy all humans with a flood, but Enki had Atrahasis build an ark to escape. Also on the boat were cattle, wild animals and birds, and Atrahasis' family. When the storm came, Atrahasis sealed the door with bitumen and cut the boat's rope. The storm god Adad raged, turning the day black. After the seven-day flood, the gods regretted their action. Atrahasis made an offering to them, at which the gods gathered like flies, and Enki established barren women and stillbirth to avoid the problem in the future. [Dalley, pp. 23-35]
Assyrian
The gods, led by Enlil, agreed to cleanse the earth of an overpopulated humanity, but Utnapishtim was warned by the god Ea in a dream. He and some craftsmen built a large boat (one acre in area, seven decks) in a week. He then loaded it with his family, the craftsmen, and "the seed of all living creatures." The waters of the abyss rose up, and it stormed for six days. Even the gods were frightened by the flood's fury. Upon seeing all the people killed, the gods repented and wept. The waters covered everything but the top of the mountain Nisur, where the boat landed. Seven days later, Utnapishtim released a dove, but it returned finding nowhere else to land. He next returned a sparrow, which also returned, and then a raven, which did not return. Thus he knew the waters had receded enough for the people to emerge. Utnapishtim made a sacrifice to the gods. He and his wife were given immortality and lived at the end of the earth. [Sandars, chpt. 5]
Sharur destroyed Asag, demon of sickness and disease, by flooding his abode. In the process, "The primeval waters of Kur rose to the surface, and as a result of their violence no fresh waters could reach the fields and gardens." [Kramer, p. 105]
Altaic (central Asia)
Tengys (Sea) was once lord over the earth. Nama, a good man, lived during his rule with three sons, Sozun-uul, Sar-uul, and Balyks. Ülgen commanded Nama to build an ark (kerep), but Nama's sight was failing, so he left the building to his sons. The ark was built on a mountain, and from it were hung eight 80-fathom cables with which to gauge water depth. Nama entered the ark with his family and the various animals and birds which had been driven there by the rising waters. Seven days later, the cables gave way from the earth, showing that the flood had risen 80 fathoms. Seven days later, Nama told his eldest son to open the window and look around, and the son saw only the summits of mountains. His father ordered him to look again later, and he saw only water and sky. At last the ark stopped in a group of eight mountains. On successive days, Nama released a raven, a crow, and a rook, none of which returned. On the fourth day, he sent out a dove, which returned with a birch twig and told why the other birds hadn't returned; they had found carcasses of a deer, dog, and horse respectively, and had stayed to feed on them. In anger, Nama cursed them to behave thus to the end of the world. When Nama became very old, his wife exhorted him to kill all the men and animals he had saved so that they, transferred to the other world and thus would be under his power. Nama didn't know what to do so Sozun-uul, who didn't dare to oppose his mother openly, told his father a story about seeing a blue-black cow devouring a human so only the legs were visible. Nama understood the fable and cleft his wife in two with his sword. Finally, Nama went to heaven, taking with him Sozun-uul and changing him into a constellation of five stars. [Holmberg, pp. 364-365]
Loucheux (Dindjie) (a Tinneh tribe, Alaska)
A man called the Mariner (Etroetchokren) was the first person to build a canoe. One day, he rocked it side to side, causing waves which flooded the earth and floundering the canoe. He scrambled into a giant hollow straw that floated past, caulked up the ends, and floated safely until the flood dried. He landed on a high mountain, called the Place of the Old Man today, near Fort MacPherson in the Rockies. The Mariner straddled a rapid stretch of the Yukon River and, dipping with his hands, drew out dead bodies of men as they floated past, but he found none living. The only living thing he saw was a raven high on a rock, gorged with food and fast asleep. The Mariner climbed to the raven, grabbed it, and stuck it in his sack. The raven begged not to be cast down, saying the man would find no other surviving men without the raven's help. The man dropped the bag anyway, and the bird was dashed to pieces. But though the man searched far and wide, he could find nothing else living except a loach and a pike sunning themselves on the mud. He went back to the raven, reassembled its bones, and blew on them to restore the flesh and return the raven to life. They returned to the beach, and the raven told the man to bore a hole in the belly of the pike, while it did the same to the loach. A crowd of men emerged from the hole in the pike, and women came out of the loach. [Frazer, pp. 315-316]
Michoacan (Mexico)
When the flood waters began to rise, a man named Tezpi entered into a great vessel, taking with him his wife and children and diverse seeds and animals. When the waters abated, the man sent out a vulture, but the bird found plenty of corpses to eat and didn't return. Other birds also flew away and didn't return. Finally, he sent out a hummingbird, which returned with a green bough in its beak. [Gaster, p. 122]
Maya (southern Mexico and Guatemala)
The Puzob, an industrious dwarf people, were the first inhabitants of the earth. God destroyed them with a flood because of their carelessness in their observation of custom. They heard that a terrible storm was coming, so they put some stones in a pond and sat on them, but the dwarfs were all destroyed. Jesucristo sent down four angels to investigate what was happening on earth. They removed their clothes and bathed, whereupon they became doves. Some other angels were sent down; they were turned into buzzards when they ate the dead. [Horcasitas, p. 194]
In the first period of the world lived the Saiyamkoob, "the Adjusters," a dwarf race which built cities now in ruins. They worked in darkness, as the sun had not yet appeared. When it did, they turned to stone, and their images can be found in the ruins. Food for the workers was lowered by rope from the sky, but the rope was cut, the blood ran out of it, and the earth and sky separated. This period ended with water over the earth. The Tsolob, "the Offenders," lived in the second period. These, too were destroyed by a flood. The Maya reigned during the third period, but their period was also ended by flood. The fourth and present age is peopled by a mixture of all previous races. [Alexander, 1920, p. 153]
After people were created, the sky fell upon the earth, and the waters followed them. The world was destroyed. The four Bacab gods managed to escape and now hold up the four corners of the sky. [Horcasitas, p. 191]
All of the early civilizations told stories of a deluge and men surviving with their families in an ark or boat of some kind.
After the tower of Babel incident humanity spoke many different languages and settled into their own regions to rule as they saw fit, so the various civilizations that formed all told the same story of creation and the events leading to civilization from their perspectives. The building of large ziggurats and pyramids became a staple of nearly every early civilization as well as sun worship and stories of a large deluge (flood) which only a few survived and often included animals. The separation of humanity after the tower did not erase the understandings of humanity’s origins, it merely distorted it as would a message passed between too many people.
Ancient Sumer
The gods had decided to destroy mankind. The god Enlil warned the priest-king Ziusudra ("Long of Life") of the coming flood by speaking to a wall while Ziusudra listened at the side. He was instructed to build a great ship and carry beasts and birds upon it. Violent winds came, and a flood of rain covered the earth for seven days and nights. Then Ziusudra opened a window in the large boat, allowing sunlight to enter, and he prostrated himself before the sun-god Utu. After landing, he sacrificed a sheep and an ox and bowed before Anu and Enlil. For protecting the animals and the seed of mankind, he was granted eternal life and taken to the country of Dilmun, where the sun rises. [Hammerly-Dupuy, p. 56; Heidel, pp. 102-106]
Mistrayim (Egypt)
People have become rebellious. Atum said he will destroy all he made and return the earth to the Primordial Water which was its original state. Atum will remain, in the form of a serpent, with Osiris. [Faulkner, plate 30] (Unfortunately the version of the papyrus with the flood story is damaged and unclear. See also Budge, p. ccii.)
Babylonian
Three times (every 1200 years), the gods were distressed by the disturbance from human overpopulation. The gods dealt with the problem first by plague, then by famine. Both times, the god Enki advised men to bribe the god causing the problem. The third time, Enlil advised the gods to destroy all humans with a flood, but Enki had Atrahasis build an ark to escape. Also on the boat were cattle, wild animals and birds, and Atrahasis' family. When the storm came, Atrahasis sealed the door with bitumen and cut the boat's rope. The storm god Adad raged, turning the day black. After the seven-day flood, the gods regretted their action. Atrahasis made an offering to them, at which the gods gathered like flies, and Enki established barren women and stillbirth to avoid the problem in the future. [Dalley, pp. 23-35]
Assyrian
The gods, led by Enlil, agreed to cleanse the earth of an overpopulated humanity, but Utnapishtim was warned by the god Ea in a dream. He and some craftsmen built a large boat (one acre in area, seven decks) in a week. He then loaded it with his family, the craftsmen, and "the seed of all living creatures." The waters of the abyss rose up, and it stormed for six days. Even the gods were frightened by the flood's fury. Upon seeing all the people killed, the gods repented and wept. The waters covered everything but the top of the mountain Nisur, where the boat landed. Seven days later, Utnapishtim released a dove, but it returned finding nowhere else to land. He next returned a sparrow, which also returned, and then a raven, which did not return. Thus he knew the waters had receded enough for the people to emerge. Utnapishtim made a sacrifice to the gods. He and his wife were given immortality and lived at the end of the earth. [Sandars, chpt. 5]
Sharur destroyed Asag, demon of sickness and disease, by flooding his abode. In the process, "The primeval waters of Kur rose to the surface, and as a result of their violence no fresh waters could reach the fields and gardens." [Kramer, p. 105]
Altaic (central Asia)
Tengys (Sea) was once lord over the earth. Nama, a good man, lived during his rule with three sons, Sozun-uul, Sar-uul, and Balyks. Ülgen commanded Nama to build an ark (kerep), but Nama's sight was failing, so he left the building to his sons. The ark was built on a mountain, and from it were hung eight 80-fathom cables with which to gauge water depth. Nama entered the ark with his family and the various animals and birds which had been driven there by the rising waters. Seven days later, the cables gave way from the earth, showing that the flood had risen 80 fathoms. Seven days later, Nama told his eldest son to open the window and look around, and the son saw only the summits of mountains. His father ordered him to look again later, and he saw only water and sky. At last the ark stopped in a group of eight mountains. On successive days, Nama released a raven, a crow, and a rook, none of which returned. On the fourth day, he sent out a dove, which returned with a birch twig and told why the other birds hadn't returned; they had found carcasses of a deer, dog, and horse respectively, and had stayed to feed on them. In anger, Nama cursed them to behave thus to the end of the world. When Nama became very old, his wife exhorted him to kill all the men and animals he had saved so that they, transferred to the other world and thus would be under his power. Nama didn't know what to do so Sozun-uul, who didn't dare to oppose his mother openly, told his father a story about seeing a blue-black cow devouring a human so only the legs were visible. Nama understood the fable and cleft his wife in two with his sword. Finally, Nama went to heaven, taking with him Sozun-uul and changing him into a constellation of five stars. [Holmberg, pp. 364-365]
Loucheux (Dindjie) (a Tinneh tribe, Alaska)
A man called the Mariner (Etroetchokren) was the first person to build a canoe. One day, he rocked it side to side, causing waves which flooded the earth and floundering the canoe. He scrambled into a giant hollow straw that floated past, caulked up the ends, and floated safely until the flood dried. He landed on a high mountain, called the Place of the Old Man today, near Fort MacPherson in the Rockies. The Mariner straddled a rapid stretch of the Yukon River and, dipping with his hands, drew out dead bodies of men as they floated past, but he found none living. The only living thing he saw was a raven high on a rock, gorged with food and fast asleep. The Mariner climbed to the raven, grabbed it, and stuck it in his sack. The raven begged not to be cast down, saying the man would find no other surviving men without the raven's help. The man dropped the bag anyway, and the bird was dashed to pieces. But though the man searched far and wide, he could find nothing else living except a loach and a pike sunning themselves on the mud. He went back to the raven, reassembled its bones, and blew on them to restore the flesh and return the raven to life. They returned to the beach, and the raven told the man to bore a hole in the belly of the pike, while it did the same to the loach. A crowd of men emerged from the hole in the pike, and women came out of the loach. [Frazer, pp. 315-316]
Michoacan (Mexico)
When the flood waters began to rise, a man named Tezpi entered into a great vessel, taking with him his wife and children and diverse seeds and animals. When the waters abated, the man sent out a vulture, but the bird found plenty of corpses to eat and didn't return. Other birds also flew away and didn't return. Finally, he sent out a hummingbird, which returned with a green bough in its beak. [Gaster, p. 122]
Maya (southern Mexico and Guatemala)
The Puzob, an industrious dwarf people, were the first inhabitants of the earth. God destroyed them with a flood because of their carelessness in their observation of custom. They heard that a terrible storm was coming, so they put some stones in a pond and sat on them, but the dwarfs were all destroyed. Jesucristo sent down four angels to investigate what was happening on earth. They removed their clothes and bathed, whereupon they became doves. Some other angels were sent down; they were turned into buzzards when they ate the dead. [Horcasitas, p. 194]
In the first period of the world lived the Saiyamkoob, "the Adjusters," a dwarf race which built cities now in ruins. They worked in darkness, as the sun had not yet appeared. When it did, they turned to stone, and their images can be found in the ruins. Food for the workers was lowered by rope from the sky, but the rope was cut, the blood ran out of it, and the earth and sky separated. This period ended with water over the earth. The Tsolob, "the Offenders," lived in the second period. These, too were destroyed by a flood. The Maya reigned during the third period, but their period was also ended by flood. The fourth and present age is peopled by a mixture of all previous races. [Alexander, 1920, p. 153]
After people were created, the sky fell upon the earth, and the waters followed them. The world was destroyed. The four Bacab gods managed to escape and now hold up the four corners of the sky. [Horcasitas, p. 191]
All of the early civilizations told stories of a deluge and men surviving with their families in an ark or boat of some kind.
THE START OF SECRET SOCIETIES
The actual demise of Nimrod and Semiramis is a topic of contention amongst scholars and historians alike, with many oral traditions woven in as well. Titus Flavius Josephus, the famous historian and scholar who was half Yahudim and was born in 37 CE (4 years after the death of the Messiah) claimed that Nimrod, was beheaded by Shem, the son of Noahk, this is supported in midrash and in addition it is alleged that Shem then cut Nimrod's body into pieces and sent the pieces to the pagan temples erected in his kingdom, to discourage his priests and followers that their immoral sexual behavior, child sacrifices, and pagan deity worship would ensure that they would meet a similar judgment.
This did not have the desired effect and caused the priests to act in secret instead. A Palestinian historian Kitto noted that this ended the days where "their altars smoke with human blood," (The Bible history of the Holy Land 1850). These priests used the pieces of Nimrod as relics to their clandestine gatherings which took place in hidden groves and/or secret shrines which became the first secret mystery cults. Due to Shem’s intervention, they were unable to practice orgies in public and for fear of Shem, they performed their immoral practices hidden and usually at night. These hidden gatherings were initiated with secret rites and symbols that only a select few inside the cult knew and they were sworn by oath to never disclose the secrets to the masses. This was the origin of all secret societies, the Illuminated Ones, those who knew the true purpose of their organizations and is one of the key reasons that many consider Nimrod to be the founder of Freemasonry, because the builders who were not destroyed at the tower established a new identity after his death in order to carry out his will, but now in secret.
The priests of the mysteries praised Nimrod and Semiramis as Marduk and Astarte, they functioned as the centerpiece in a complex worship system where the deity’s true names and identities were held from the masses. The very few people at the top of this pyramid-power structure knew the truth, so they controlled the relationships with people and their worship and charged money for this service. Various pseudonyms were applied to them over the ages and often reflected an aspect or personification of the gods. BEL/BAAL meaning Lord, became the name(s) foremost instituted to the masses during the time of Ancient Sumer, which is estimated at least 6000 years ago. The land of Mistrayim (Egypt) had variations of this spread to their land as well as every other major early civilization such as the Kena'anites (Canaanites), Pheonicians, Assyrians, and much later the Greeks. Everyone is telling the same twisted story in many different languages, but they all mean the same thing; BAAL-zebub (lord of the flies) is still today understood to be just another name for Satan or the messenger of Elohim that rebelled against the creator and caused others to rebel.
This did not have the desired effect and caused the priests to act in secret instead. A Palestinian historian Kitto noted that this ended the days where "their altars smoke with human blood," (The Bible history of the Holy Land 1850). These priests used the pieces of Nimrod as relics to their clandestine gatherings which took place in hidden groves and/or secret shrines which became the first secret mystery cults. Due to Shem’s intervention, they were unable to practice orgies in public and for fear of Shem, they performed their immoral practices hidden and usually at night. These hidden gatherings were initiated with secret rites and symbols that only a select few inside the cult knew and they were sworn by oath to never disclose the secrets to the masses. This was the origin of all secret societies, the Illuminated Ones, those who knew the true purpose of their organizations and is one of the key reasons that many consider Nimrod to be the founder of Freemasonry, because the builders who were not destroyed at the tower established a new identity after his death in order to carry out his will, but now in secret.
The priests of the mysteries praised Nimrod and Semiramis as Marduk and Astarte, they functioned as the centerpiece in a complex worship system where the deity’s true names and identities were held from the masses. The very few people at the top of this pyramid-power structure knew the truth, so they controlled the relationships with people and their worship and charged money for this service. Various pseudonyms were applied to them over the ages and often reflected an aspect or personification of the gods. BEL/BAAL meaning Lord, became the name(s) foremost instituted to the masses during the time of Ancient Sumer, which is estimated at least 6000 years ago. The land of Mistrayim (Egypt) had variations of this spread to their land as well as every other major early civilization such as the Kena'anites (Canaanites), Pheonicians, Assyrians, and much later the Greeks. Everyone is telling the same twisted story in many different languages, but they all mean the same thing; BAAL-zebub (lord of the flies) is still today understood to be just another name for Satan or the messenger of Elohim that rebelled against the creator and caused others to rebel.
