The Mesopotamian Tale: An Origin Story

THE MESOPOTAMIAN TALE, compact companion to EVOLUTION DIVERTED, contains the story that's at the heart of that hefty book. The Tale, woven from texts and images unearthed from the ruins of ancient Mesopotamian cities (in present day Iraq), covers the age that began with the remarkable events that led to the birth of our kind?the age that ended as the religion of the olden gods, civilization's first faith, faded out.The Tale confronts the conventional view of the literature of the Mesopotamian peoples by taking their stories of the gods ruling them at face value, that is, by accepting that their lords were self-deified huge flesh and blood humanoid beings who'd come to Earth?not characters in spun tales of anthropomorphized gods existing solely in human imagination. That was the nature of the Greek and Roman gods, formulated after the gods of the Mesopotamian cultures, the living, breathing originals, were gone from Earth.The accounts assembled to form this narrative, when found, were spread over many thousands of artifacts. Piecing together texts separated from each other by time and distance and translated by numerous scholars, was a process based in an intuitive feel for a vital narrative...a narrative that has been obscured by the piecemeal nature of the source texts; by the dramatic, poetic style of those texts; and by the destructive effects of war and weather. The process involved as much art as it did scholarship. This author hopes, nevertheless, that in time experts will confirm that THE MESOPOTAMIAN TALE has been accurately and truthfully abstracted from the vast archaeological findings. In FINDING OUR LONG WAY HOME, the TALE is explored at length, citing source material and relevant science. In contrast, this book's commentary is relatively brief, aiming to show just one thing: how the TALE has the potential to lay bare the roots of humanity's suffering in war, slavery, exploitation, and tyranny. In the stories of the long rule of the Lofty Ones we can discern the origins of the deeply troubled state of our species.

• | Author: Mike Brenner
• | Publisher: Intentions
• | Publication Date: January 02, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 52 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 057863077X
• | ISBN-13: 9780578630779