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a longer life-span? Given the scenario which I have outlined so ceded by 40 periods of suffering by the rank-and-file gods: far, this would make sense. The Old Testament suggests that this was indeed the case, with Adam living 930 years. The Sumerian For 10 periods they suffered the toil; Kings Lists go even further, listing reigns lasting thousands of fered the toil; years (although some of these "kings" may well have been gods). ry suffered the toil; It almost goes without saying that both of these sources of data for 40 periods they suffered the toil. have been traditionally disregarded due to their perceived impos- sibility. However, with the insight gained from modern genetics, It was then, after these 40 periods, that the rank-and-file gods we can now study this data scientifically. staged a rebellion which ended with an ingenious solution. The The first thing that strikes us about the longevity recorded in the god Enki offered to genetically-engineer a slave worker to relieve Bible is that the data must be significantly understated. The Old the toil of the rank-and-file gods. Testament carefully preserves the ancestral line of Adam through The above "40 periods", combined with the biblical "120 peri- to Noah in its records of the ages at which each father begot a son. ods", provide the basis of a chronology for dating the creation of These years, including allowance for Noah's age at the time of the | Homo sapiens to approximately 80 periods before the Flood. Flood, add up to 1,656, suggesting that mankind was created But how long were these "periods"? Zecharia Sitchin conclud- 1,656 years before the Flood. In addition, the Bible similarly ed that the period was 3,600 years, based on a sacred number of records the ancestral line after the Flood from Noah to Abraham, the Sumerians. He was attracted to this possibility by Babylonian amounting to a period of 292 years. texts which listed various kings ruling for a total of 432,000 years Whether we use 2123 BC for the date of Abraham's birth or any (120 "sars" of 3,600 years each) before the Flood. Using a Flood other commonly accepted date, these numbers simply do not stack date of 11,000 BC, Sitchin thus dated the arrival of the gods to up, for they suggest that the Flood took place in 2415 BC and man — 443,000 BC and the creation of man to 299,000 BC."* was created in 4071 BC. The scientific evidence of advanced But did Zecharia Sitchin get it right? The Babylonian data is in civilisation in 3800 BC and Homo sapiens 200,000 years ago—in fact contradicted by a much earlier and more reliable Sumerian addition to the lack of any archaeological evidence of a Flood Kings List which listed only 67 sars before the Flood, not 120.'° I circa 4000 BC—suggests that the have invested considerable biblical data is fundamentally under- time trying to prove Sitchin's stated. . . chronology, based on a sar of It seems to me that the biblical If man was made In the genetic 3,600 years, but have con- editors, lacking the knowledge of image of the Anunnaki who lived cluded that it cannot be rec- genetic science, were uncomfortable onciled with any degree of with the original life-spans from more than 200,000 years, then certainty. On the contrary, I which they drew the biblical data. In A AA have achieved an amazing my recently published book, Gods of did man, too, originally have reconciliation to both the Old y yP . the New Millennium, I have recon- a longer life-span? Testament and the Sumerian structed the patriarchal life-spans by Kings List using an alterna- reversing the earlier editorial divi- tive sar of 2,160 years. sions. It is my conclusion that the This new chronology was pre-Flood life-spans were divided by a prompted by a simple but convenient factor of 100. Thus, Adam lived for 93,000 years. stunning mathematical breakthrough relating to the Sumerian mathematical system. Unlike our decimal numbering system MATHEMATICAL PROOF OF MAN'S LONGEVITY which uses units rising by a factor of 10 each time, the Sumerian Amazingly, it is possible to offer a chronological proof of my system was sexagesimal or quasi base 60. The units of this, the longevity theory, based on ancient texts which date the arrival of — world's first mathematical system, rather strangely alternated by the Anunnaki and the creation of mankind relative to the Flood. factors of 10, then 6, then 10 and so on. The place-digits thus The date of the arrival of the gods is given by the mysterious ascended as follows: 1, 10, 60, 600, 3,600, 36,000, 216,000, verse in Genesis 6, in which the Lord says: 2,160,000, 12,960,000. The last number, which was highly sym- bolic to the Sumerians, represented exactly 500 times 25,920 My spirit will not contend with man for ever, for he is mortal; years, the latter period representing the precessional cycle which his days will be a hundred and twenty years. is caused by the Earth's wobble. The preceding units represented 100 and 1,000 multiplied by the precessional period of 2,160 This statement is made by the Lord shortly before the Flood and years (25,920 divided by the sacred number 12). The number in the context of wishing to destroy mankind utterly. According 2,160 thus played an equally important role to the number 3,600. to the Book of Genesis, Noah then proceeded to live for 950 years Many scientists have been mystified by the astronomical rather than the supposedly allotted 120. If, however, the original | knowledge encoded in the Sumerian mathematical system. But verse is translated literally, we find the past tense being used here is something equally amazing. If we write the precessional rather than the future tense. Thus, "his days were a hundred and number 2,160 in quasi base 60 Sumerian numerals, it appears as twenty years". follows: For 10 periods they suffered the toil; for 20 periods they suffered the toil; for 30 periods they suffered the toil; for 40 periods they suffered the toil. If man was made in the genetic image of the Anunnaki who lived wee tL AANA AAA... — more than 200,000 years, then did man, too, originally have a longer life-span? MATHEMATICAL PROOF OF MAN'S LONGEVITY Amazingly, it is possible to offer a chronological proof of my longevity theory, based on ancient texts which date the arrival of the Anunnaki and the creation of mankind relative to the Flood. The date of the arrival of the gods is given by the mysterious verse in Genesis 6, in which the Lord says: My spirit will not contend with man for ever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years. This statement is made by the Lord shortly before the Flood and in the context of wishing to destroy mankind utterly. According to the Book of Genesis, Noah then proceeded to live for 950 years rather than the supposedly allotted 120. If, however, the original verse is translated literally, we find the past tense being used rather than the future tense. Thus, "his days were a hundred and twenty years". In 1976, Zecharia Sitchin concluded that this count of "years" meant "periods" and should be applied not to mankind but to the deity." The Bible was thus recording the periods that the Lord had been on Earth. As for the date of mankind's creation, this is supplied by an Akkadian text, entitled "When the Gods like Men Bore the Work". This text states that the creation of man was pre- UNITS: 3,600 N/A 600 10 64 * NEXUS ceded by 40 periods of suffering by the rank-and-file gods: Continued on page 89 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1997