Legend of bodimo: a mystery resolved (4)

Last week, in Part 3 of this miniseries, we saw why bo-dimo (giants) are remembered worldwide as man-eaters. The reason was that as the fateful year of 10 983 BC drew nearer, Earth was heading towards her most extreme tilt of 24.4 degrees (it is now at 23.5 degrees and slowly decreasing).

At that extreme angle, and because Earth always maintains the same orientation in its annual orbit around the sun – which causes the seasons – the Polar regions took turns at being even further from the sun than at present as the planet headed toward the peak of an Ice Age. As such, conditions were very difficult and food was scarce.

The Igigi (‘giants’ in Sumerian) – whose stature was a side-effect of being astronauts (see explanation last week) – then took to regularly swooping down on people and demanding their meagre harvests. This, I suggested, is when the term tsie (locust) was contemptuously associated with bo-dimo, thus tsie-badimo (‘locust-gods’). But as the Book of Enoch reveals, when the meagre offerings eventually became not enough to share with bo-dimo, they began to eat mankind himself. So bitter was this memory that it has refused to die even to this day…which brings us to another point.

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