contrast to the Christian or even the Babylonian creation myths which still remain full of constant
symbolism, vagueness and metaphor, the earlier Sumerian version of the story can be viewed as
an almost scientific account of a series of well documented events that happened in a very
specific timeline.
It has now been universally agreed by both scholars and Theologians alike that the biblical
story of creation does indeed have its basis in the Babylonian ‘Enuma Elish’ which itself is
undoubtedly an abbreviated versions of the much earlier Sumerian texts. This can be easily
confirmed as a great many parallels that can be seen in the Sumerian account when it’s compared
to the Babylonian and Christian creation stories. It appears obvious that both of the latter accounts
were heavily influenced by the much longer and more detailed Sumerian story.
The Sumerian account of the creation of the earth and the rise of man, as controversial as it
may be, is strangely enough, the only tale that adequately provides a scientific explanation that is
plausible for not just the earth and mankind, but for many other puzzling aspects of our solar
system too. I’d say that’s quite a reasonable achievement for 6000 year old cuniform and
hieroglyphic texts carved into tablets and Stele’s (fig.118).
Fig.118A vividly detailed interpretation of these Sumerian texts was done by the brilliant, though
controversial scholar and archeologist, Zechariah Sitchin who then published his findings in a
Masterwork he aptly named ‘The Earth Chronicles’. The astounding work consists of a series of
6 books of detailed translations and interpretations to date.
Sitchin is a respected archeologist who worked for several decades on Sumerian translations
and archeological sites. His books are intelligently presented, meticulously researched, highly
informative and extremely well documented works, containing details on almost every aspect of
the texts and I highly recommend reading them.
It dawned on Sitchin that since the Babylonian tale has its roots in the Sumerian account it, a
better understanding of the texts may be achieved if one was to interpret the Babylonian