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Summary of Universal History from the Beginning of the Earth to the Last of the Patriarchs. III THE KINGDOM OF ABRAHAM
Let’s assume that after the Flood the repopulation of the Ancient Middle East spaced along a bunch of
centuries. Projecting to the Sumerian King List to the Flood' survivors we observe the behavior of their families
in constant growth from the natural tribal society to the formation of the first kingdoms; the King List shows us that during the process of recovery men followed the pattern of natural behavior without any
deviation from the law. The everywhere peoples' behavior is this: Families form a tribe, tribes
gather around their chief-patriarchs, this patriarchal body elect a king,.
This is the behavior we see strictly applied to the first ten names of the
Sumerian King List:
After the
Flood had swept over, and the kingship had descended from heaven, the kingship
was in Kis.
In Kis, Gisur became king; he ruled
for 1,200 years.
Kullassina-bel ruled for 900 years.
Nan-GIS-lisma ruled for 1,200 years.
En-dara-ana ruled for 420 years, 3
months, and 3½ days.
Babum ruled for 300 years.
Pu'annum ruled for 840 years.
Kalibum ruled for 900 years.
Kalumum ruled for 840 years.
Zuqaqip ruled for 900 years.
Atab ruled for 600 years.
We observe that there is no royal succession at all. A chief is
succeeded by another chief, according to the necessity of the circumstances and
the imperious observance of the social reality, which, being human a social
species, implies a certain inner organization, meaning a State Structure around
whose pillars move on from generation to generation. As a matter of fact we
may assume this same process of foundation
for the Cities before the Fall, talking about Çatalhöyük, Harappa,
etc. The expansion of their generations and time and space and the organization
which followed gave way to the Vision of the Kingdom of Man, with a King
elected by the “God of the gods” Himself. That what the Chief-Patriarch was to be for a City formed by many Tribes Tribes, that
the King was supposed to be for the Civilization of the Cities. Unluckily enough the original process did not reach its end, and where there was to be found Peace and Freedom people met Civil War, fact represented by the biblical fratricide. Then, when after the
Flood the families began to grow and the clans became part of the same and
unique tribe, the original process began again, and after a time gone a King was elected, always
subjected to the power of the body of the electors. This process will keep on throughout space and time all around the Earth. And this is the process to observe again during the
re-foundation of Ur III. In this special occasion we see how the Patriarchs of
the different Tribes, the grand-father
of Abraham in the lot, did gather around the flag of one military chief, Utu-khegal of Uruk, under which banner the coalition destroyed the Guti King, Tirigan. Soon after the victory
Utu-khegal' son, Ur-Nammu, revoked the Counsel of Electors, and had himself proclaimed king; and
to round the circle his grand-son Shulgi raised himself to divinity, causing,
without any doubt, the decision of Abraham to leave the city of Ur. Mixing the personality of Abraham and the asumption of divinity by the grand son of Utu-khegal, we may feel at ease watching the revolution already going on in the city of Ur, the princes already counting on the heir of the House of Noah to lead
the coup d’état against the family of Utu-khegal.
But to get back to the main line, we see working the same mental scheme past beyond the first ten kings of the List: Atab ruled for 600 years.
Masda, son of Atab,
ruled for 840 years.
Arwi'um, son of Masda, ruled for 720 years.
Atab broke the body of electors
and had himself proclaimed absolute king, this way passing the crown on his son, Masda. Masda made his best to
keep the power of the patriarchs of Kis on his hand,
and could pass it on to his own son, Arwium.
But Arwium could not follow his father’s
war path, and a coup d’etat against him raised Etana to the Throne of Kis. And yet, as it always come to pass, the leader of
the rebels became at his turn the new
tyrant, and Etana managed to pass on the throne to
his own scion, Balih.
But Balih could not fight back the opposition to his
rule and was dethroned by the house of Enme-Nuna.
Balih, son of Etana,
ruled for 400 years.
Enme-nuna ruled for 660 years.
Melem-Kis, son of Enme-nuna,
ruled for 900 years.
Barsal-nuna, son of Enme-nuna,
ruled for 1,200 years.
Samug, son of Barsal-nuna,
ruled for 140 years.
Tizkar, son of Samug,
ruled for 305 years.
We see coming back the struggle for Power which caused the Fall, the murder of Abell, and, finally, the destruction of the Adam's Kingdom. It is obvious, once assumed the historicity
of the Flood, that the experience of the Destruction of the First Kingdom of
Man was in the minds of the survivors and, though the impossibility of the
existence out of the human society was
given, no matter the necessity of the circumstances they had to try to keep out
of the way the same Future their
ancestors had tasted. But the play being already written, the thirst for Power
was running deep in the blood of men, and the longer the distance from the
Flood the stronger the hunger for absolute Power.
The house of Enme-Nuna managed to get fat
during five generations, tough, as we see from the numbers, the decline of the
House was already going on, and ended at the feet of the Chief Ilku'u, who was followed by the Chief Ilta-sadum,
who as his turn was followed by the Military Chief Enmen-baragesi “who destroyed Elam’s weapons, became king, and he ruled for 900 years”.
Enmen-baragesi was
followed in the throne by his son Agga, who was
dethroned by Utu, Chief of Eanna City. A circumstance this that open our eyes to the fact that during the centuries inmediate after the Flood - which took place some time around the middle of the Fourth Millennium - all over the Land of the Four Regions the people followed a same
pattern of behavior.
But what is important to us it is to see how Men, doomed by the Fall,
did re-open the Pandora Box of War for Power, which supreme first act ended
leading Eanna against Kish, which at its turn had
destroyed “Elam’s weapons”. One
entire Millennium had needed the families to re-populated the Middle East and
“fall” in the Old Trap of the Devil: Power for War.
THE KINGDOM OF URUK-BABEL
We may infer from the List, when it
says: “In Eanna, Mes-ki'ag-gaser,
son of Utu, became lord and king; he ruled for 324
years”, that this Utu was a Chief Leader to the likeness of Utu-Khegal, that Chief Leader of the Coalition of
Patriarchs who joined forces to destroy the Gutiam Yoke, among whom was found the grand father of Abraham; and this is why Meskiaggser “became lord and king”, in the same way that
Ur-Nammu became lord and king after the Victory of his father Utu-Khegal.
What the List means with “Mes-ki'ag-gaser entered the sea and disappeared” it is a mystery to us, but if we allow
ourselves to connect the founder of Uruk, Enmerkar, with Nimrod, son of Noah, scion of a House very much connected with the
science of ship building, the “words” can be taken as a connection between the
descendants of Noah and the History of Eanna. Using the logic it is not in vain to admit
that if the survivors of the Flood managed to make their way back and, having
no tools at all to begin with, step by
step they rebuilt the Lost Kingdom, so much for those survivors which escaped the
disaster with all their civilized appanage and, consequently, had no problem at
all to build for themselves a city wherever they love the place. It is to imagine that being the Bearers of
the Knowledge of the Cause of the Fall of Adam-Alulim Kingdom, the Powerful Clan of Noah grew afar from their neighbors and, only
when the time and the space made the
contact a fact, the Descendants of Noah decided at last to take for themselves
what belonged to them, the throne.
What Elam’s weapon was nobody
knows but it seem probable that the
movement of expansion of Kish and Elam, being Kish north of Eanna,
and Elam South of it, once trapped between the kings the Eannians,
if Eanna the City of the descendants of Noah, helped
the northerners against the southerners to finally blow them both and become
the supreme power. Utu, father of Meskiagger,
given that he was a descendant of Noah, retiring into the sea comes at hand as
the way the Chronicles had to connect Utu with the
House of the Mythycal Utanapishtim.
Again the List opens a bridge
between the Biblical List of the Patriarchs and the List of the Sumerian Kings
at the feet of the Walls of Uruk. More than nothing
else by the tendency of the sons of Noah to accept no king. Excepting the weird
case of the disappearance of the Sailor King, phenomenon profited by Enmerkar, whose power anyway, considering that he was
Nimrod, the Hunter King, no one could have resisted, immediately after his
death we observe the coming of the “divine Lugal Banda”, whose rule of 1200 years, he having being followed by the Fisherman King, who
ruled only for one hundred years, show us that the Shepherd was no King but
Chief, and his Rule was based not on his Arm but on his Wisdom.
The divine Lugal Banda having being followed
by the divine Fisherman Dumuzi, another Chief,
it is clear from the coup d’état occasioned by the legendary Gilgamesh, an usurper not of the line of the sons
of Noah, whose throne only by murder and oppression in the line of the tyrants
and most cruel despots could maintain, and by the terror to his memory his sons
sat in the throne for a while. The List is clear:
The
divine Lugal-banda, the shepherd, ruled for 1200
years.
The
divine Dumuzi, the fisherman, whose city was Ku'ara, ruled for 100.
Gilgames, whose father was an invisible being, the
lord of Kulaba, ruled for 126 years
Ur-Nungal, son of the divine Gilgames,
ruled for 30 years.
Udul-kalama, son of Ur-Nungal,
ruled for 15 years.
La-baser ruled for 9 years.
La-Baser, whoever was he, dethroned
the line of Gilgames, and a new period of Chiefs
followed.
La-baser ruled for 9 years.
Ennun-dara-ana ruled for 8 years.
Meshe, the smith, ruled for 36 years.
Melem-ana ruled for 6 years.
Lugal-ki-GIN ruled
for 36 years.
The connection between “the
divines Lugal Banda and Dumulzi”
and the Wisdom, allow us to compare the Power of this two “divines” with a Period of Priest-Rule, and it is significant enough
to open our eyes to the influence of the House of Noah and the descendants of
Set upon the Period in which took place the famous episode of the Confusion of Tongues in the root of the end
of the Kingdom of Uruk.
UNIVERSAL CIVIL WAR
As a matter of fact the Fall of Uruk-Babel,
this is to say, the Fall of the new-try of men for the universal kingdom, made by
all under the rule of the Divines, gave way to a definitive status of Civil War between the cities and inside the
cities.
They tried to conquer the gods, to reach from them Immortality, to
conquer the Heart of Heaven and gain the End of the War between the gods and
men. But the Day was not at hand, and the wisdom of the divines Lugal Banda and Dumulzi, the builder of the Tower of Babel, were not high enough to match the Wisdom
of the Builder of Earth and Heavens.
The rupture of the dream caused the disruption of the power of Uruk and with the fall of a central government the struggle
of individuals for power became the
rule.
Then Uruk was defeated and the kingship was taken to Ur.
In Ur, Mesanepada became king; he ruled for 80 years.
Meskiag-Nuna, son of Mesanepada,
became king; he ruled for 36 year.
Elulu ruled for 25 years.
Balulu ruled for 36 years.
Four
kings ruled for 177 years…
Here and there, whether in Ur, Awan, Kis, Amazi, Adab,
Mari or Aksak, we observe the golden rule of the
struggle for power, without other goal that power for itself. Justice,
freedom, equality, fraternity, and ideals alike blow the trumpets or beat the drums
of war. Slavery, murder, tyranny, the best man the worst human; and only he who reaches
the throne become the new divine ruler. Fratricide, civil war, parricide, nothing
stops the hunger for absolute power. The gods had forget about men, they only
listened to the bloodiest of humans. Eat human meat, eat your children,
serve your daughter to the gods, kill them all, no mercy to no one, Power is
the only real ting to live and to die for. Whether Zizi the Fuller, Ku-Baba
the Woman Tavern-Keeper, Ur-Zababa, Lugalzagesi or Sargon, all and every one of them had only
and but one rule: Murder, oppression, slavery, human sacrifice, mercy not even
for the dead. The more blood the more happy the gods.
The Bearers of the Knowledge of the Cause of the War between gods and
men, the sons of Noah, after the Fall of Babel, when the God of gods had turned
his back on them, returned to the silence and the shadows. Only God knew the
Day of the Coming of the Avenger, the Scourge of the Devil, the son of Man.
Sargon I the Great, (2335-2279), the
builder of Akkad, the creator of a new central government, passed away too. His
work, much inferior to the divines’, did not stand its ground when the winds of Hell raged with fury, spreading
chaos everywhere. The last of the kings of Akkad cried like a woman for the
throne he did not preserve like a man, but where was the man to stand on his
feet before the Devil?
Finally the Barbarians of the day, the Gutian hordes, descending from the northern mountains, beast coming up from the seas
of Asia, razed to the ground the pride of that Millennia the Third.
Then who was king? Who was not king?
Irgigi was king, Nanum was king, Imi was king, Elulu was
king; those four kings ruled 3 years. (2193-2190)
Dudu ruled for 21 years. (2190-2169)
Su-Durul, son of Dudu, ruled for 15 years. (2169-2154)
Eleven kings ruled for 181 years.
Akkaf fell, Uruk too, the
Barbarians buried the pride and the glory of Nimrod and Sargon. Notwithstanding
as the tide comes and goes, so the Gutians. From the
last king of Urur, Ur-Utu (2130-2124), to the first
king of UR III, Ur-Nammu (2113-2095), a
single decade, more or less, had gone by. But for what it is transcendental for
us, the tide brought back to the stage of History the House of Noah.
HISTORY OF ABRAHAM
Ur Nammu
ascended the throne following the same pattern of conduct already seen. The
father, Utu-Khegal won the fight against the Gutian and the son profited of it to become king. How the coalition under this Utu Khegal was formed, after the
destruction of a central government and the disruption of the people into
powerful clans, it is not a very high movement to be recreated. As in any other universal invasion of barbarian with
only a purpose in mind, pillage and booty, also then the disintegration of the central
government reduced the society to its
very nucleus, the clan, the most powerful family chief in it becoming the
Patriarch, the talking head in the name of all the families of the clan. In a
society like the Four Regions where animal breeding was the source of power, the
Clans, now in a wandering destiny, had to defend all by themselves. A Clan was
a society in itself, where the Patriarch was the richest man and the most
powerful warrior. The more animals a Clan had the more warriors it could put on
the battlefield. And as those were times of anarchy and chaos a Clan was open to the remnants of
another Clan already destroyed by the
barbarians, or by any inter-clans enmity, under the rule of feudal law. The
time of the Gutian reign, though very destructive
indeed, show us that they came to have fun but never to settle down. The Gutian did not have a regular army, neither an Imperator.
They were the Vikings of the day, they arrive, they destroy, they take the booty,
and they leave, and everybody happy. The work of pulling down cities from old was
not a children gamea yet, and their blood was spilt also. Once the work was done there was
no space for them to cultivate friendship. If a Coalition of Clans was formed
barely could the Gutian wandering bands have the day. And this is what, given the situation of the Four
Region after the destruction of the Central Government, it came to happen.
The
Clans of Ur, the lords of the day, formed the Coalition born to crash the Gutian. Among those clans was one man, one Patriarch, of
the Line of Noah, Terah, the grandfather of Abraham.
The Coalition of the Clans of the Plain chose as military leader Utu Khegal, and under his command the Ururtian Clans won the day. The independence was won. They swept
the Region of Barbarians, made Ur the site of the New Central Government, a Government
ruled by the Counsel of the Patriarchs, a real body of Electors.
But
as the List says and the pattern of behavior till now on let us imagine, the sons of the Chiefs, once peace and freedom reestablished,
they would fight for Power, each looking for himself.
Ur became the city of Terah, Terah brought forth Najor. In the days of Najor the son of Utu Khegal, Ur Nammu, (2113-2095), smashed all opposition and had himself proclaimed king. Abram was born already and was destined to be the Chief of the Clan of the sons of Noah. The Clans of the Independence had been overpowered by the party of Nammu, we may say, and had give way, for the moment. But with the deification of Shulgi (2095-2047) the call for revolution could not be restained longer . Shulgi went beyond all measure. He proclaimed himself
a god. No man in this world, who adored to be free and alive, may live such a madness and do
nothing against it. The rebellion of the Clans of Ur, the son of Najor among them, because the absolute kingship of the house of Ur-Nammu, was a flame in a bottle increasing its destructive
power by the oppression under which it was kept. Indeed, inferring from the continuity of the line after Abraham was gone, and because the revolution Shulgi provoked was aborted, under the command of God chosing exile to civil war, that continuity speaks volumes about the power of the son of Najor; we will not deceive ourselves when believing the son of Najor had the last word, and all the eyes of the Clans of Ur, opposed to
such a madness, the adoration of the son of Nammu, were indeed upon Abram.
This is the more easy to understand when reminding ourselves that the Clan of Najor, under the rule of his son, Abraham, could put on the battle field enough warriors to face one king, two kings, three kings, for kings, and let’s give him one more to bring sweat on his muscles, five kings and still he was fresh as a morning rose. We see, in the records of the Social Life of UR III that Power was based in the number of head-cattle a man had. The king was, or was supposed to be, the larger cattle breeder in the region. To project the foundation of those days' Power according to the modern days it is to take the reader for a fool. We are talking about days of Iron and Fire. There was no other Law other than the rule of Passion. Man wants something, man takes it. There was no police, not regular army. "Take it, but be sure you are the stronger", was,so to say, the motto. Nammu wanted the throne, to count himself the stronger Nammu had to put all by himself, on the field, a certain number of warriors, at least enough men to destroy the Clans one by one. Politics would arrange the lack of numbers. To face them all the Clans together, and smash the opposition to his enthronement, Nammu had to seed division among the Clans, and justify his imperium to come in the neccessity of a central government strong enough to rebuild, and keep, Order and Law. Nammu could not dream the creation of a regular army at the expenses of the different clans of Ur. As much the kingdom was a tradition among the peoples of Mesopotamia so much the history of revolution against absolute monarchy. To pass the crown from father to son was to dismember the body of electors upon whose free-will the Kingdom of Ur was re-built. And though we're not talking about dukes, counts and similar feudal lords, a Patriarch was a feudal lord, a Patriarc was the head of a multitude of family clans, all of them families linked to him by divine ancestors and gods. The power was in the Alliance of the Patriarchs, and Nammu had run over this body of Patriarchs, when passing the crown to Shulg, his son, in the name of Politics. Shulgi took them the Patriarchs beyond any limit they could take. Shulgi want them to kneel and adore him like a god. We can see the blood of the son of Najor on fire. The son of Noah, Abram, servant of the God of gods, kneeling before a man! No way! The blood of the other heirs of the Patriarchs of Ur III were on fire too. Every one of them had an army, every one of them was a power in itself. Indeed Shulgi could destroy them one by one, but he could never dream with winning the day against a coalition of princes led by the son of Najor. Abram, the Bearer of the Truth about
the Fall of Man, No way he was going to kneel, No way he was going
to surrender himself. He would never kneel.
The coup d’etat, if we want to call it so, was on the way. It implied civil war. A man don’t take all alone such a step of self-deification; and when it does it, there is a powerful party of interest backing his madness. The opposition to Shulgi's deificationhad to decide for exile and wandering in the open, living like savages, barbarians without home and country, or for raising in arms and fight for their day. The opposition to the deification of Shulgi
was strong. And Shulgi was ready to fight too. Blood would be spilt. What were the
son of Najor' last words?
Abram was a grown-up man, a warrior like his father
and his grand father, a chief of souls ready to die for God and family. He was,
as the heir of the Clan of Najor and Terah, the head of a host, Abram was mouth and
eyes of his people. One single word of Abram and a body of warriors would stand the ground to
death against no matter who. Abram was the key-stone of the Revolution. With
his Clan the number of warrior to oppose the deification of Shulgi would crash
the king’s party. Without Abram the revolution would be doomed. He knew it, and everybody
knew Abram would never kneel before a man or a god; Abram would enter hell if he
had to and give war to the devil in his own house, but he would never live
under the rule of a mad man, whether man or god.
The hopes were high and the raising was ready, just a
word of the son of Najor...
Then it came to happen that... God called Abram and asked
him to leave Ur, share the life of the savages and wander like a barbarian
without home and country, to bear being called a coward, his name a stigma in the lips of those who were born by
his side and had played with him a child for love and friendship.
And out he went. The king of Ur breathed deeply. Without the
son of Najor the revolution was dead.
The rebels breathed heavily, There he goes, they said,
Abraham the Coward: Let him share the life of the savages and the existence of the barbarians.
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