Two of the ancient cities now being destroyed by
Islamic State lay buried for 2,500 years, it was only 170 years ago that they
began to be dug up and stripped of their treasures. In 1872, in a backroom of
the British Museum, a man called George Smith spent the darkening days of
November bent over a broken clay tablet. Smith's tablet, though, told a story.
A story about a world drowned by a flood, about a man who builds a boat, about
a dove released in search of dry land. Smith realised that he was looking at a
version of Noah's Ark. But the book was not Genesis. It was Gilgamesh, an epic
poem that had first been inscribed into damp clay in about 1800BC, roughly
1,000 years before the composition of the Hebrew Bible. March 22; http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31941827
News about
the story of Assyria comes to us from London at the Aries ingress of the Sun, a chart for which is shown here. Notice
the prominent alignment of the Saturn-Neptune square with the meridian axis.
Saturn is
conjunct the stars of the strong man Hercules.
An Assyrian creation legend tablet (compiled ca. 650 BCE from far older
sources) has for the same stars: Akkdian: Mul
Lugal, Babylonian-Assyrian: Kakkab
Sarru, “Constellation of the King” associated with Gilgamesh – the giant
King. The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient Euphratean myth-hero is told in 11
scattered tablets about a King of Uruk who
was part human, part divine. One of
these stories is about the Great Flood, about a man who builds a boat, about a
dove released in search of dry land, a version of Noah's Ark [1].
Neptune, the
planet often associated with water, is conjunct the stars of the Southern Fish.
The Southern Fish is a separate constellation to Pisces, lying much further to
the South, though in ancient legend it is often referred to as the parent of
the zodiacal pair. The area in which it lies has an heavy emphasis upon
constellations with watery imagery, the goat-fish (Capricorn), the whale
(Cetus), the water-pourer (Aquarius), the fishes (Pisces), and the dolphin
(Delphinus) all located nearby, so that many of it stars are associated with floods or troubles at sea.
Can it be a
coincidence that the story of Gilgamesh and especially the part connected with
the Great Flood is quite elegantly contained in the stars that form the
backdrop to the Saturn-Neptune square?
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