It’s funny how some things can plague you from childhood through your adult years. Not big things, but little things, which don’t exactly persist, but annoyingly stick their head through your life’s door and say “Boo!” just to let you know they’re still there. If I made a list of all these things in my life it might take up a whole book.
I’d like to talk about just one of these bugaboos. From the first time I heard the story of the creation and Adam and Eve, it “buzzed” me, as my young son would say. Now, to me the answer was not simply one of two usual alternatives: either unquestioning faith in the story as it stands, or complete repudiation as utter nonsense.
No, the answer seemed to lie elsewhere. If the story were taught as the truth so uniformly, in spite of its apparent divergence from scientific truths, then to me the true course would seem to be a search for the foundation of the story, which would then lead to a true reading of it.
The pursuit happened almost by accident. Years of data correlation in studying the earth tumbling concept has shown the last tumble to have occurred about 6500 years ago; that Noah, or Utnapishtim, or whatever his name was, did exist and did survive that particular cataclysm..
A friend of mine suggested that Genesis I is almost a perfect description of conditions on our planet right
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after a cataclysm, including about a week following On rereading it, I had to agree; Genesis II even mentions that a mist (proper translation: inundation) arose from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.
Well, now! This was worth thinking about. If it were so, then it would be the cataclysm preceding Noah’s (another fascinating story!), about 11,500 years ago. This, then, could be approximately the time of the Adam and Eve Story.
The pursuit started. If the story did originate with that cataclysm, in what language was it first written? Certainly not Hebrew or Greek, for as far as we know, they didn’t even exist at that time. Was it possible to delve into the vanished pages of prehistory and find both the language and the story as originally written?
If we look to men such as Don Antonio Batres Jaurequi and James Churchward, we may have our answer. Certainly their knowledge of prehistoric languages could be a key, and later we’ll discuss the role of Naga and ancient Mayan in the story of Adam and Eve; first, however, let’s examine the history of Genesis I, II and III.
There are many schools of thought on this subject; the predominant one is that Moses was the originator. This seems not obtuse, since Moses was reared in the Egyptian tradition, in a royal household; he probably
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