Genetic Engineering By Enki and Ninti

Were the Nefilim, at first, simply producing “human mules” to suit their requirements?

A rock carving found in the mountains of southern Elam depicts Enki seated holding a “laboratory” flask from which liquids are flowing.

Ninti, in a pose that indicates that she was a co-worker rather than a spouse, is seated next to him. She is the Mother Goddess or Goddess of Birth.

The two are flanked by lesser goddesses—reminiscent of the birth goddesses of the Creation tales.

Facing them are row upon row of human beings who all look alike—like products from the same mold. (Fig. 157)

The Sumerian tale also tell of Enki and Ninti initially creating imperfect males and females.

After Enki produced a “perfect model”—Adapa/Adam, “mass production” techniques began.

It implies that Man could not procreate on his own.

The inability of hybrids to procreate, it has been discovered recently, stems from a deficiency in the reproductive cells.

While all cells contain only one set of the hereditary chromosomes, Man and other mammals are able to reproduce because their sex cells (the male sperm, the female ovum) contain two sets each.

But this unique feature is lacking in hybrids. Attempts are now being made through genetic engineering to provide hybrids with such a double set of chromosomes in their reproductive cells, making them sexually “normal.”

Was that what “The Serpent” accomplished for Mankind?

The biblical tale reveals many traces of its Sumerian origin, including the presence of other deities: “The Adam has become as one of us.”

The Deity and the Serpent—stood for Enlil and Enki.

Their antagonism originated in the transfer to Enlil of the command of Earth, although Enki had been the true pioneer.

While Enlil stayed at the comfortable Mission Control Center at Nippur, Enki was sent to organize the mining operations in the Lower World.

The mutiny by Enki was directed at Enlil and his son Ninurta.

It was Enki who suggested, and undertook, the creation of Primitive Workers; Enlil had to use force to obtain some of these wonderful creatures.

As the Sumerian texts recorded the course of human events, Enki as a rule emerges as Mankind’s protagonist, Enlil as its strict discipliner if not outright antagonist.

The role of a deity wishing to keep the new humans sexually suppressed, and of a deity willing and capable of bestowing on Mankind the fruit of “knowing,” fit Enlil and Enki perfectly.

Once more, Sumerian and biblical plays on words come to our aid. The biblical term for “Serpent” is nahash, which does mean “snake.”

But the word comes from the root NHSH, which means “to decipher, to find out”; so that nahash could also mean “he who can decipher, he who finds things out,” an epithet befitting Enki, the chief scientist, the God of Knowledge of the Nefilim.

Drawing parallels between the Mesopotamian tale of Adapa (who obtained “knowing” but failed to obtain eternal life) and the fate of Adam, S. Langdon (Semitic Mythology) reproduced a depiction unearthed in Mesopotamia that strongly suggests the biblical tale: a serpent entwined on a tree, pointing at its fruit.

The celestial symbols are significant: High above is the Planet of Crossing, which stood for Anu; near the serpent is the Moon’s crescent, which stood for Enki. (Fig. 158)

Most pertinent to our findings is the fact that in the Mesopotamian texts, the god who eventually granted “knowledge” to Adapa was none other than Enki:

A pictorial tale engraved on a cylinder seal found in Mari may well be an ancient illustration of the Mesopotamian version of the tale in Genesis. The engraving shows a great god seated on high ground rising from watery waves—an obvious depiction of Enki. Water-spouting serpents protrude from each side of this “throne.”

Flanking this central figure are two treelike gods. The one on the right, whose branches have penis-shaped ends, holds up a bowl that presumably contains the Fruit of Life. The one on the left, whose branches have vagina-shaped ends, offers fruit-bearing branches, representing the Tree of “Knowing”—the god-given gift of procreation.

Standing to the side is another Great God; we suggest that he was Enlil. His anger at Enki is obvious. (Fig. 159)

We shall never know what caused this “conflict in the Garden of Eden.” But whatever Enki’s motives were, he did succeed in perfecting the Primitive Worker and in creating Homo sapiens, who could have his own offspring.

After Man’s acquisition of “knowing,” the Old Testament ceases to refer to him as “the Adam,” and adopts as its subject Adam, a specific person, the first patriarch of the line of people with whom the Bible was concerned. But this coming of age of Mankind also marked a schism between God and Man.

The parting of the ways, with Man no longer a dumb serf of the gods but a person tending for himself, is ascribed in the Book of Genesis not to a decision by Man himself but to the imposition of a punishment by the Deity: lest the Earthling also acquire the ability to escape mortality, he shall be cast out of the Garden of Eden.