Noah's Ark (1846), a painting by the American folk painter Edward Hicks Genesis 6 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them,that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair; and they took for themselves wives of all whom they chose...There were giants on the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men who were of old, men of renown. Genesis 7 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,there went in two by two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female as God had commanded Noah. Genesis 8 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. Also he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; And Noah built an altar unto the Lord, and took of every clean beast and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled a sweet savor; and the Lord said in His heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake, for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” Genesis 9 I do set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud. And I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. “执政”与“掌权” 的外显- 暴君 Tyrant, 自人类历史以来就存在着。然而其所欲加于人的辖制,却因基督一次的死而失效。 | “吉爾伽美什的故事” 这部连死海古卷都有记录的最古老史诗,与旧约的第一本书“创世纪”相似之处: THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH The story begins by introducing Gilgamesh, king of Uruk. Gilgamesh, two-thirds god and one-third man, is a 18 feet tall giant and a seething tower of testosterone. None of the women were safe from him and all men were his slaves. The oppressing for the young women of Uruk takes the form of a droit de seigneur — or “lord’s right” — to sleep with newly married brides on their wedding night. Tragedy struck when Enkidu died and Gilgamesh experienced grief for the first time. Not just grief and loss, but also the realisation that one day death would come to him too. Fearful of his own death, he decides to seek Utnapishtim (“the Faraway”), and learn the secret of eternal life. Among the few survivors of the Great Flood, Utnapishtim and his wife are the only humans to have been granted immortality by the gods. Gilgamesh observes that Utnapishtim seems no different from himself, and asks him how he obtained his immortality. Utnapishtim explains that the gods decided to send a great flood. To save Utnapishtim the god Ea told him to build a boat. He gave him precise dimensions, and it was sealed with pitch and bitumen. His entire family went aboard, together with his craftsmen and “all the animals of the field”. A violent storm then arose which caused the terrified gods to retreat to the heavens. Ishtar lamented the wholesale destruction of humanity, and the other gods wept beside her. The storm lasted six days and nights, after which “all the human beings turned to clay”. Utnapishtim weeps when he sees the destruction. His boat lodges on a mountain, and he releases a dove, a swallow, and a raven. When the raven fails to return, he opens the ark and frees its inhabitants. Utnapishtim offers a sacrifice to the gods, who smell the sweet savor and gather around. Ishtar vows that just as she will never forget the brilliant necklace that hangs around her neck, she will always remember this time... This account matches the flood story that concludes the Epic of Atrahasis (see also Gilgamesh flood myth). http://truedemocracyparty.net/2012/07/the-epic-of-gilgamesh-nimrod-second-oldest-writing-from-the-lost-book-of-enki/ |
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