Long ago when gods still walked among
mortal kind, there was an eagle who lived peacefully alongside a
serpent inside a great tree. Never did the two have any quarrel with
the other. Both reared their young in separate parts of the tree,
until one day, while the serpent was out hunting for food, the eagle
decided to gobble up its neighbor's children. On returning to its
nest, the serpent was horrified to finds its babies gone and so laid
down and cried. The god Shamash saw the snake's plight, and
suggested to it a plan of action. It was to hide inside the carcass
of an ox, and there wait until the eagle came to feed.
This the serpent did, and on the
arrival of the great bird it wrought a most terrible revenge. First
it caught the eagle, then it broke its 'heel'. Then it plucked out
its feathers and finally it threw the bird into a deep pit.
Meanwhile, down on the plains, Etana,
the king of Kish, was sad. His queen had borne him no child, and he
did not wish to die without an heir. There seemed but one answer to
this problem. He had heard that there existed among the mountains
'the plant of birth', which could make barren women fertile. If only
he could find a way to ask the gods of heaven where he might obtain
this great drug. In desperation, he cried, and the god Shamash heard
his calls, and provided an answer. Etana must befriend and rescue
the eagle from the pit, and then enlist its help in finding 'the
plant of birth'. This Etana duly did, and once the bird had been
given its freedom, it flew over the mountains in search of 'the plant
of birth'. Unfortunately it was unsuccessful in its quest and so
suggested that they visit Ishtar, The Mistress of Birth, who would
provide an answer.
The eagle then said to Etana: 'Be
glad, my friend. Let me bear thee to the highest heaven. Lay thy
breast on mine and thine arms on my wings, and let my body be as thy
body.” Etana agreed to this plan, and the couple climbed together
towards the heaven of Anu. They soared higher and higher into the
sky, as the earth gradually grew smaller and smaller. Finally they
reached the gate of heaven and, after bowing down together, entered
inside.
As told in the book “From The Ashes
Of Angels”
by Andrew Collins.
But there is another story still, of the
war between the Serpent and the Eagle (or Vulture) – a much older
story still - that I have pieced together as we (my nameless
research partner and I) formulated our theory that may get us into trouble
– or at the very least label us insane and we loose are credibility
with the world. That theory was born around the same time we took a
deeper look into the Sumarian story of Enki and Enlil – no the
serpent and the eagle is not those two but the serpent we can say is
Enki – the Eagle represent another of the Angel clan of Annunaki...
and that is where the whole theory – Which we call “The Creation
Game Theory”, get's all F*cked up.
Yeah - I said Angel Clan - this is about tribes - not ancient spacemen.
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