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Originally Posted by Wardendresden
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Look, you're making this much harder than it has to be.
Let's start simple, shall we?
Industries have associations and those associations have working groups.
Two examples would be the TIA and the CTIA which are the Telecommunications Industry Association and the Cellular Telephone Industry Association.
Why?
Well, those associations promote their industry; educate the general public; attract people to the field of communications; and, why, yes, lobby Congress and federal agencies for legislation beneficial to their industry.
Those associations have working groups and once such working group is the Architecture Working Group.
So, they're building houses? No, architecture refers to the printed wire boards (PWBs) in your cell phone.
Why would you want a working group? In a word:
Harmony.
The goal is to harmonize the 24+ makers of cell phones so that they are all on the same sheet of music.
It's better for you, better for me. Why? Because it reduces costs.
If everyone is doing their own thing and on a different sheet of music then a manufacturer of PWBs has to have one assembly line for each of the 24+ different cell phone manufacturers which means all the competitors have to have one assembly line for each of the 24+ different cell phone manufacturers.
That gets expensive because it costs a lot.
But, if we harmonize the architecture then we make it universal which means a PWB can be used in any of the 24+ cell phones.
That makes it cheaper for you, and cheaper for me.
Get it?
Let's take that one step further: The IAU.
The International Astronomers Union promotes astronomy; educates the general public about astronomy; attracts people to the field of astronomy; and, why, yes, they lobby Congress for funding like the Cassini probe at astronomical prices.
They have working groups, too. They have working groups for every planet, the Sun, moons,
the Moon, the solar system as a whole, the Oort Cloud, planetoids, asteroids, comets and so on.
What do they do?
They harmonize.
Specifically, they work to harmonize definitions and categories and things.
Can you imagine if every astronomer had their own set of definitions?
Reading scholarly papers would be a freaking nightmare. Nobody would understand what anyone is saying and you cannot transmit knowledge properly if no one knows what anyone's talking about.
They define the meanings of planet, minor planet, planetoid, moon, moonlet, asteroid and so on.
Some astronomers thought Pluto was not a planet and so they held a debate and voted to reclassify Pluto as another celestial object.
Get it?
Let's take that one step further: Asiatic Studies.
Asiatic is a misnomer. It doesn't mean Chinese. It's alleged the Hyksos who were in Egypt were "Asiatic peoples."
Asiatic means Asia Minor.
That would be Mesopotamia and environs.
They do the same thing everyone else does: promote the field; educate the general public; attract people into Asiatic Studies; and, why, yes, they lobby governments, universities and private groups for funding to do archaeological research.
They have working groups, too, and their function is to harmonize definitions and categories and things so that everyone is on the same sheet of music.
Over time, evidence amasses that provide irrefutable proof the Sumerians, and by extension the civilizations their knowledge was transmitted like the Akkadians, Mari, Nuzi, Mitanni, Cassites (the biblical Kush the unholy Hebrew scribes botched), Hittites, Hurrians, Canaanites
et al knew the Earth was a sphere.
There are cuneiform tablets with mathematical tables. Lots of tablets. They predicted solar and lunar eclipses and the motions of the planets, including their retrograde and direct motions. Those tables can only be derived mathematically if, and only if, you believe the Earth is a sphere.
There's also about half a dozen tablets that show the Precession of the Equinox, and you have to believe the Earth is a sphere for that.
The interesting thing is all the tablets start with the Constellation Pisces. That was ~27,000 years ago.
A couple of tablets show the dates of the Ages, and one is annotated. That one says the Deluge happened in the Age of Leo --- about 12,000 years ago -- and that a sphinx was built in the land of Magan (Egypt) and then it's broken.
There is a sphinx in Egypt. Scholars claim it was erected 4,000 years ago, but the Sumerians say 12,000 years ago. Scholars say the face of the sphinx has been altered, while Sumerians say it was a lion, you know, for the Age of Leo. Since sphinx were usually built in pairs, there's probably another one out there if not on the Saudi Peninsula then in India, since Arratta was Ianna's domain.
It begs the question, "
Why Pisces?"
What, exactly, were humans doing 27,000 years ago?
Did people already organize the Constellations and were recording the phenomenon of the Precession of the Equinox 27,000 years ago?
Because if that's the case, then everything we know about ancient history is wrong.
Did the Sumerians discover the phenomenon and then calculate backwards?
That's certainly a possibility, but it still begs the question, "
Why Pisces?"
I mean if you can calculate backwards, why not calculate back 120,000 years?
There's a reason the Sumerians chose Pisces, and it would behoove us to find out why.
And, then we have the Constellations themselves. The Way of An, the 12 Constellations that we know and love is a no-brainer.
The 12 Constellations that make up the Way of Enlil and which few people know is hardly a shocker, either.
But, the 12 Constellations that make up the Way of Enki is a different story.
Some of the stars that make up the 12 Constellations in the Way of Enki cannot be seen from Sumer/Iraq.
Yeah, it's that spherical Earth thing.
The only way you can see those stars is to be south of 30°S Latitude. That means walked or rode a camel through Africa or sailed a ship south of that point and charted the stars.
But, that ain't the half of it.
Some of those stars are fixed stars, meaning they do not rise or set.
The only way you could possibly see them, is to be in southern Africa or Antarctica.
It's not unlike the Aleuts and Eskimos and others who live in Arctic Circle or high latitudes. From where I am, there are stars the Aleuts and Eskimos can never see, because of their location, and they certainly can't see stars in the Antarctic Circle.
And, then there was more evidence. A text says "
he made moor the ships of Magan [Egypt] and the ships of Abzu with gold."
It makes sense a Sumerian king would trade with Egypt, but does it make sense a Sumerian king would send a ship to Hell and bring back gold?
On top of that gods came and went freely from the Abzu and so did garden-variety everyday people, including Sumerian kings, priests, their representatives and others.
And from the physical descriptions in texts, it was painfully obvious the Abzu was a real physical earthly place and that place is modern-day Zaire.
So, armed with an avalanche of evidence, scholars tried to persuade other scholars to change the definition of Abzu from "underworld" to its correct true and accurate definition of "land down under" or "down under."
The phihellenes -- the Greek Firsters -- refused to budge and will go to their graves before they ever dare admit the possibility that the Greeks made in an error in translation.
Then you have christians who are adamant that Hell exists.
After a fierce debate, a compromise was reached: from this point forward, Abzu will be translated as "
netherworld" instead of the erroneous "
underworld."
Now that you know that, if you see an idiotic remark that Nergal is the god of the underworld or any mention of an underworld, you can draw one of four conclusions:
1) the text was published before 1996 when the definition of Abzu was changed from "
underworld" to "
netherworld"; or
2) the text was written by a Greek Firster who would rather die than ever admit the Greeks could have made an error in translation; or
3) the text was written by a christian who is dumb enough to believe the Hell imagined up by the Greeks based on an erroneous translation is real; or
4) the text was written by someone who doesn't know what the hell they're talking about.
Nergal
is not the god of the underworld.
Nergal's domain is the Abzu and the Abzu is modern-day South Africa, Zaire and Nambia.
According to Sumerian texts, that's where Nergal lived, worked and played and that's where the solunar observatory was located that allowed Nergal to discover the impending doom leading to the Deluge.
The Sumerians also said that Nergal using his solunar observatory noted that whatever caused the Deluge also disturbed stellar time resulting in a delay in the transition from the Age of Taurus to the Age of Aries.
Marduk is supposed to rule in the Age of Aries and he's very, very angry that there will be a delay.
That is why Nabu -- Marduk's son -- had his armies in Sodom and Gomorrah.
And,
that is why Nergal and Ninurta destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah: to wipe out Nabu's armies so Marduk can't get power.
The Hebrew version of the Sumerian story that Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because people are strange doesn't make any sense, but then the Hebrews didn't make much sense anyway.
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) to give him the excuse for a 'flounce'. So he's now trying to engineer a thread closure so that he can tell himself (at least) that that he could have 'won' if only he hadn't been prevented from responding.
