The Planets

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Their waters were mingled together… Gods were formed in their midst: God LAHMU and god LAHAMU were brought forth; By name they were called.

Etymologically, the names of these 2 planets stem from the root LHM (“to make war”).

The ancients gave us the tradition that:

Mars was the God of War
Venus the Goddess of both Love and War.

LAHMU and LAHAMU are male and female names, respectively.*

Superphysics Note

In Cartesian Physics, the Lahmu is the negative charge, Lahamu is the positive charge

God ANSHAR and god KISHAR were formed, surpassing them [in size]. As lengthened the days and multiplied the years, God ANU became their son—of his ancestors a rival. Then Anshar’s first-born, Anu, as his equal and in his image begot NUDIMMUD.

The two, which I think are Saturn and Jupiter, were majestic planets:

AN.SHAR (“prince, foremost of the heavens”)
KI.SHAR (“foremost of the firm lands”).

They overtook in size the first pair, “surpassing them” in stature.

After some time, a third pair of planets was brought forth.

First came ANU, smaller than Anshar and Kishar (“their son”), but larger than the first planets (“of his ancestors a rival” in size).

Then Anu, in turn, begot a twin planet, “his equal and in his image.”

The Babylonian version calls it NUDIMMUD, an epithet of Ea/Enki.

I think these are Uranus and Neptune.

Anu was “Anshar’s first-born.” This means it had later children.

Anshar then sent out his emissary GAGA on various missions to the other planets.

Gaga appears in function and stature equal to Apsu’s emissary Mummu.

I think this brings to mind the similarities between Mercury and Pluto.

Gaga, then, was Pluto.

But the Sumerians placed Pluto on their celestial map not beyond Neptune, but next to Saturn, whose “emissary,” or satellite, it was. (Fig. 105)

As Act I of the “Epic of Creation” came to an end, there was a solar system made up of the Sun and 9 planets:

Name	Stitchin Body	Superphysics Body	Description
Apsu	Sun	1st Element	“one who existed from the beginning.”
Mummu	MERCURY	4th Element	counselor and emissary of Apsu.
Lahamu	VENUS	Positive Charge	“lady of battles”
Lahmu	MARS	Negative Charge	“deity of war”
Tiamat	?	3rd Element	“maiden who gave life.”
Kishar	JUPITER	Jupiter	“foremost of firm lands.”
Anshar	SATURN	Saturn	“foremost of the heavens.”
Gaga	PLUTO	?	counselor and emissary of Anshar.
Anu	URANUS	Uranus	“he of the heavens.”
Nudimmud (Ea)	NEPTUNE	Neptune	“artful creator.”

The Earth and the Moon are yet to be created, products of the forthcoming cosmic collision.

The planets were gravitating toward each other. They were converging on Tiamat, disturbing and endangering the primordial bodies.

The divine brothers banded together; They disturbed Tiamat as they surged back and forth. They were troubling the “belly” of Tiamat By their antics in the dwellings of heaven. Apsu could not lessen their clamor; Tiamat was speechless at their ways. Their doings were loathsome… Troublesome were their ways.

These are references to erratic orbits which interfered with Tiamat’s orbit.

Though it was Tiamat that was principally endangered, Apsu, too, found the planets’ ways “loathsome.”

He announced his intention to “destroy, wreck their ways.” He huddled with Mummu, conferred with him in secret.

But “whatever they had plotted between them” was overheard by the gods, and the plot to destroy them left them speechless.

The only one who did not lose his wits was Ea.

He devised a ploy to “pour sleep on Apsu.”

When the other celestial gods liked the plan, Ea “drew a faithful map of the universe” and cast a divine spell upon the primeval waters of the solar system.

What was this “spell” or force exerted by “Ea” (the planet Neptune)—then the outermost planet—as it orbited the Sun and circled all the other planets?

Did its own orbit around the Sun affect the Sun’s magnetism and thus its radioactive outpourings? Or did Neptune itself emit, upon its creation, some vast radiations of energy?

Whatever the effects were, the epic likened them to a “pouring of sleep”—a calming effect—upon Apsu (the Sun).

Even “Mummu, the Counsellor, was powerless to stir.”

Ea moved quickly to rob Apsu of his creative role.

Quenching, it seems, the immense outpourings of primeval matter from the Sun, Ea/Neptune “pulled off Apsu’s tiara, removed his cloak of aura.”

Apsu was “vanquished.”

Mummu could no longer roam about. He was “bound and left behind,” a lifeless planet by his master’s side.

By depriving the Sun of its creativity—stopping the process of emitting more energy and matter to form additional planets—the gods brought temporary peace to the solar system.

The victory was further signified by changing the meaning and location of the Apsu. This epithet was henceforth to be applied to the “Abode of Ea.”

Any additional planets could henceforth come only from the new Apsu—from “the Deep”—the far reaches of space that the outermost planet faced.