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case, with those of the kingly line living for hundreds of years. Haran in the Kingdom of Mari. But Haran was not just the name And in this regard there is no reason to be over-sceptical about the of a flourishing city; it was the name of Abraham's brother (the great ages of the early patriarchs as given in the Book of Genesis. father of Lot). Existing documents (discovered in 1934) also In addition to the Star Fire ritual, the Bloodline Kings were also _reveal that other cities in Mesopotamia were similarly named in said to have been nourished with the Milk of the Goddess, and it accordance with Abraham's forebears—cities such as Terah would appear that this 'milk' contained an enzyme that was itself (Abraham's father), Nahor (Terah's father), Serug (Nahor's father), conducive to active longevity. Today's genetic researchers call and Peleg (Serug's grandfather). this enzyme telomerase. As recently reported in the journal Quite apparently, in line with all the Sumerian evidence which Science [vol. 279, 16 January 1998], corporate studies and those supports the kingly line from Cain, these lately discovered reports of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have confirm that the immediate family of Abraham (in the succession determined that telomerase has unique anti-ageing properties. after Noah) were also great commissioners of the region in gener- Healthy body cells are programmed to divide many times dur- al. Clearly, the Patriarchs represented no ordinary family but con- ing a lifetime, but this process of division and replication is finite, stituted a very powerful dynasty. But why would such a long- g P P: YP nasty y g so that a non-dividing state is ultimately achieved. This is a cru- standing heritage of prominence and renown come to an abrupt cial factor of ageing. The division potential is controlled by caps end and force Abraham out of Mesopotamia into Canaan? at the end of DNA strands (rather like the plastic tips on The answer is to be found in clay tablets which can be dated to shoelaces). These caps are the telom - about 1960 BC. They detail that, at that eres. As each cell divides, a piece of time, everything changed in the hither- telomere is lost, and the dividing to sacred land of Sumer when invaders process ceases when the telomeres came in from all sides: Akkadians have shortened to an optimum and crit- Cl | h P . h from the north, Amorites from Syria, ical length. There is then no new cell ear y; t e atriarc $s and Elamites from Persia. The text replication, and all that follows is dete- represented no ordinary continues h , Al rioration. P . en they overthrew, when order Laboratory experiments with tissue family but constituted they destroyed; Then like a deluge samples have now shown that applica- ver wertul n all things together consumed. tion of the genetic enzyme telomerase “We y po al dy asty Whereunto, oh Sumer! Did they can prevent telomere shortening upon change thee? The Sacred cell division and replication. Hence, Dynasty from the Temple they body cells can continue to divide way exiled. beyond their naturally restricted pro- It was at this stage of Sumerian his- gramming (just as do cancer cells which tory that the empire fell and Abraham can achieve immortality through being rich in telomerase). was forced to flee northward from the city of Ur. Telomerase is not usually expressed in normal body tissue; but apart from being present in malignant tumours, it is also apparent B ut what had happened to the Anunnaki, the Grand in reproductive cells. It seems, therefore, that somewhere within Assembly of Gods who had established everything? The our DNA structure is the genetic ability to produce this anti-age- text continues: ing enzyme, but that the potential has somehow been switched off Ur is destroyed, bitter is its lament. The country's blood now and probably exists within those aspects of our DNA which scien- fills its holes like hot bronze in a mould. Bodies dissolve like tists currently refer to as ‘junk’. fat in the sun. Our temple is destroyed. Smoke lies on our olika a cheaud Tha wade hava ahandanod uo Lika Clearly, the Patriarchs represented no ordinary family but constituted Assembly of Gods who had established everything? The text continues: Ur is destroyed, bitter is its lament. The country's blood now fills its holes like hot bronze in a mould. Bodies dissolve like fat in the sun. Our temple is destroyed. Smoke lies on our cities like a shroud. The gods have abandoned us like migrating birds. In historical terms, this total collapse of the Sumerian empire follows the founding of Babylon by King Ur-Baba in about 2000 BC. Indeed, the story of the Tower of Babel and the resultant wrath of Jehovah precisely fits the time-frame of the Sumerians’ own abandonment by the Anunnaki. The story in Genesis relates that the people, who were hitherto said by Jehovah to be "very good", were severely punished because of a strange transgression which had not previously been ruled upon. The apparent transgression was that they all spoke the same language, and the unique language which they all spoke was, of course, Sumerian—the first written language on Earth. For a reason which is not made clear in the Bible, the Genesis text explains that Jehovah was not happy about the Tower of Babel and so he "did come down, and did confound the language of all the Earth". The Sumerian historical documents tell much the same story, except that the confounding of language is far better explained by the hordes of foreign invaders who came into the region. It tran- spires that this invasion was the direct result of friction among the Anunnaki, for at Anu's retirement from the Grand Assembly his eldest son Enlil-Jehovah assumed the presidency. He proclaimed B ut what had happened to the Anunnaki, the Grand Noah and his sons, Jehovah issued the edict which forbade the ingesting of blood—at least this was the time-frame applied to the edict by the Old Testament compilers in the sixth century BC. It is unlikely, however, that this was the correct time-frame, for at that time Enlil-Jehovah would have had no such final authority over Enki and the Grand Assembly of the Anunnaki. Nevertheless it is apparent that, from that time, the given ages of the patriarchal strain begin to diminish quite considerably, so that from the days of Abraham and Isaac we are presented, in the main, with rather more normal life-spans. In contrast, though, the life-spans of the Sumerian Kings in descent from Cain and Etana continued at a generally high level. What we do know beyond doubt is that whatever the realities of the edict and its chronology, a major change in the Star Fire prac- tice became necessary in about 1960 BC. This was when the Bible tells us that Abraham and his family moved northward from Ur of the Chaldees (the capital of Sumer) to Haran before turning westward into Canaan. Contemporary historical texts record that at that time Ur was sacked by the King of nearby Elam soon after 2000 BC and, although the city was rebuilt, the power centre moved north to [I the canonical Bible we are told that, during the lifetimes of NEXUS - 35 a very powerful dynasty. 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