8. The View From Prindle’s Head
3. Unintended Consequences.
2.
The Jews (continuation)
by
R.E. Prindle
Gilgamesh & Enkidu, Cain &
Abel
The Biblical
book of Genesis could not have been written independently of Mesopotamian
histories and accounts. It was true of
the Great Flood for instance and it is also true of the story of Cain and
Abel. The original can be found in the
myth or legend of Gilgamesh, that great story.
The original
inhabitants of the Two Rivers were not Semites although the Semites displaced
the original inhabitants. Their racial
background however is not known, nor can their language be fitted into a known
group. The story of Gilgamesh takes
place at an early period between the Flood in the Age of Leo and perhaps some
date in Taurus. At the time the hills
and mountains were clothed in dense forests under the protection of the wind
god, Humbaba. So, desiccation had not
advanced to the point that irrigation was necessary. The weather patterns had not shifted too far
from the Age of Virgo, or the ending of the Ice Age. Cities were already in existence of which
Gilgamesh was the human Lord.
As the story
opens the Semites are entering the land.
They are quite primitive, totally uncivilized. They are so primitive that they can still
talk to the animals in the Universal language.
The shepherd, Enkidu, is hanging around the outskirts. Taking pity on him or perhaps, curiosity, a
temple prostitute is sent out to seduce Enkidu and bring him into civilization,
the city. She succeeds, but as Enkidu is
in a complete state of nature, that is naked, she tears her garment in two,
keeping half for herself and clothing Enkidu with the other. Thus, as it were, Enkidu appears as half man,
half woman. The detail perhaps means
that Enkidu as half man was inferior to Gilgamesh, the whole man. Thus the legend of the arrival of the
Semites.
Enkidu
challenges Gilgamesh to a wrestling match on the temple patio. They are both equal in strength but civilized
Gilgamesh has science on his side while Enkidu is an undisciplined
brawler. Gilgamesh throws a couple
scientific moves on him astounding Enkidu, astonishing him into
admiration. Enkidu then begins his role
as Robin to Gilgamesh’s Batman.
Thus, the
Semites, perhaps welcomed as immigrants, grew until they became the masters in
real life. In the story Enkidu dies, casting Gilgamesh into a deep
depression wondering why his companion had to die. He then begins his search for eternal life.
The proto-Jews
took the story and changed it into the classic two brothers story, so popular in
Western literature. Cain being the elder
brother or Gilgamesh and Abel being the younger brother or Enkidu.
Enkidu and
Abel are both shepherds. Cain is a
farmer, as indeed Mesopotamians were.
God demands tribute from the two brothers, coming down from heaven to
appear in person.
Abel, we
know, presented God- Shamash- with flesh and Cain offered vegetal matter. God was no vegetarian, bad choice Cain, but
was no gentleman either. Instead of
graciously accepting what both brothers offered he spurned Cain with his foot
and said to Abel: You are my chosen son. Hence the Jews became the Chosen People.
Cain was not
going to suffer in silence, so he called Abel out into the field, whether this
was cultivated or not we don’t know but I prefer to think it was. Instead of winning a wrestling match Cain murdered
Abel, perhaps burying his body beneath the radishes, or maybe onions, to
fertilize his veggies and perhaps conceal the smell of blood. Details are sketchy here.
Well, you
know, murder will out. God, who usually,
we are told, sees everything, even evil thoughts, missed the duel in the radish
patch, but having spies everywhere he soon learned of it. Learning of it he brands Cain’s forehead with
a big M for murderer and makes him a homeless wanderer despised by everyone.
In real
life, the Priests tired or arguing the 1700 year earlier date of a created
world set the troops on the Jews and chased them out of the country much as
happened in Egypt a few centuries on, a mere variation on the script. Thus, in real life, instead of Cain, the Jews
became the homeless wanderers despised by everyone.
Psychologically
then the Jews, as a group, unable to endure the reality of the situation merely
turned the results around. Freud was certainly
quick enough to see this although I am unaware that he mentioned it.
As The Twig Is Bent, The Tree Will
Incline
As we go
along, we will see manifold patterns appearing that will be evident in worldwide
Jewish activities today because it is a psychological truism that as the twig
is bent the tree will incline. That is
that if a thought is impressed on the mind of a youth, he will grow to realize
it. Repetition ad infinitum. This perfectly represents Jewish history so
that all their history follows from this primary incident. A group culture was created in Mesopotamia
that would characterize Jewish culture through the Ages.
Having
determined that Saturn, or God, was eternal, the Jews at the same time rejected the Astral religion which doesn’t reappear
in Jewish writings until the three wise kings from the orient followed a star
to Jesus’s cradle in Bethlehem. This is
for the reason that Jesus’s birth coincides with the ending of the Age of Aries
and the dawn of the Age of Pisces. Thus,
Jesus becomes a fisher of men. The
Zodiacal calendar is reestablished.
Jesus was
not intended to be the archetype of Pisces and Mary, his mother, much less the
female archetype. Perhaps Mary Magdalen
was but lost out and was turned into a prostitute perhaps then disqualifying
her. The archetypal roles were to have
been , taken in the Greek archetypes, by the gods Dionysus and Artemis. In Roman terms Bacchus and Diana although
Bacchus doesn’t exactly correspond to Dionysus but they were both associated
with the vine and wine.
You will
have noticed that at the last supper Jesus held up his bread and said this is
my body and a tumbler of wine saying this is my blood, thus uniting him with
Dionysus. So, while God chose flesh in
the Cain and Abel offerings, Jesus opted for Cain and the fruits of
agriculture. This is a true revolution
within Judaism.
As I said,
Jesus was not the intended archetype but he was a compromise candidate between
the gentiles or Aryans and the Jews who were becoming as numerous as the grains
of sand. Mary, Jesus’s mother, was
unsuitable as the female archetype. A
mother cannot be a wife, as Hera was to Zeus, thus the situation was conflicted. In other legends Jesus was married to Mary
Magdalen and had a son and that makes much more sense.
Continued in
9. The View From Prindle’s Head, 3 Unintended
Consequences, 3. The Jews.
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