SEE SITCHIN’S EARTH CHRONICLES, ETC.:
(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)
(gods in blue)
To his north, in the mining regions, Gibil (“The One of Fire”) was installed, having been taught by his father the secrets of metalworking.
“In its ponds Gibil, the purifier, relentlessly did his work …”
“Gibil made his hoe (al) raise its head towards the heavens —
he caused the hoe (al), sacred indeed, to be refined with fire …”
Some of Dumuzi’s brothers, not Marduk / Ra, blessed the nuptials as well. It’s not clear if Enki responded favorably. Dumuzi’s brothers hid for in the bedroom,
“a bed of gold, adorned with lapis lazuli, …”
a precious, blue-hued gem,
“which Gibil had refined for her in the abode of Nergal …”
“inlaid with lapis lazuli, which Gibil has purified for you in the Iri-gal shrine …”
The Enlilite’s first reaction…was to accuse her of giving aid and comfort to the “demons”.” Ninhursag denied the accusation:
“My House is pure, …”
she answered. But a god whose identity is unclear challenged her sarcastically:
“Is the House which is loftier and brightest of all– …”
the Great Pyramid—also “pure”?
“Of that I cannot speak …”
Ninhursag answered;
“its brilliance Gibil is soldiering …”
…verses in the Babylonian text…have a direct parallel in the biblical tale of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah:
“But when the son of Marduk
in the land of the coast was,
He-of-the-Evil-Wind (Erra)
with heat the plain-land burnt …”
“He (Nabu) the great sea entered,
Sat upon a throne which was not his
(Because) Ezida, the legitimate abode, was overrun …”
Enki stood by his firstborn son:
“Now that Prince Marduk has arisen,
now that the people for the second time have raised his image,
why does Erra continue his opposition? …”
Finally, loosing his patience, Enki shouted at Nergal to get out of his presence. Leaving in a huff, Nergal returned to his domain. “Consulting with himself,” he decided to unleash the awesome weapons:
“The lands I will destroy, to a deep dust-heap make them;
the cities I will upheaval, to desolation turn them;
the mountains I will flatten, their animals make disappear;
the seas I will agitate, that which teems in them I will decimate;
the people I will make vanish, their souls shall turn to vapor;
none shall be spared. …”
We learn from a text…that it was Gibil, whose domain in Africa adjoined that of Nergal, who alerted Marduk to the destructive scheme hatched by Nergal…It was then that Gibil “these words to Marduk did speak” in regard to the
“seven awesome weapons which Anu created..
The wickedness of those seven against thee is being laid, …”
he informed Marduk. Marduk inquired of Gibil where the awesome weapons were kept. “O Gibil,,” he said, “those seven—where were they born, where were they created?” To which Gibil revealed that they were hidden underground:
“Those seven, in the mountain they abide,
in a cavity inside the earth they dwell.
From this place with a brilliance they will rush forth,
From Earth to Heaven, clad with terror …”
But where exactly is this place? Marduk asked again and again; and all Gibil could say was that “even the wise gods, to them it is unknown.”
Now Marduk rushed to his father Enki with the frightening report.
“To his father Enki’s house he (Marduk) entered …”
Enki was lying on the couch in the chamber to which he retired for the night. “My father” Marduk said,
“Gibil this word hath spoken to me:
of the coming of the seven (weapons) he has found out …”
Telling his father the bad news, he urged his all-knowing father:
“Their place to search out, do hasten thou! …”
Enki spoke out strongly against the idea, urging steps to stop Nergal, for the use of the weapons, he pointed out,
“the lands will make desolate, the people will make perish. …”
