Legend of Mmantsiripane demystified

L M Leteane | Friday February 10, 2017 11:32

Although with much passage of time, and as typically happens when there is missing knowledge with yawning and inviting voids, blanks are typically filled in with all manner of invention and embellishment – depending on the peculiar whims of the storyteller. But, thankfully, there is a coherent and authentic story that roundly explains the source of the term mmantsiripane.

But first let me give a small background to my methodology. I try to keep my work as scholarly as possible: not just as entertaining as possible. Everything I write can be backed up…although for a newspaper column such as this, it is not good practice to include copious formal references typically required of most non-fiction books or a scholarly article for a scholarly journal.

And aside from the fact that there just is not enough space here, heavy subjects such as this also ought to be written in a style that, though certainly entertaining, is also concise, quick to get to the point, somewhat conversational, while remaining truly informative. And In the newspaper world, footnotes are a complete no-no. I say this because I have my own brand, approach, and many unique discoveries which are not to be confused with the views and outlooks expressed by another columnist… much of whose content, incidentally, I do not subscribe to.at all.

Now let me get into my story for this week. In a recent article in my new ‘Legends’ series, I noted that Sumerian ‘mythology’ speaks of the pre-Flood wedding of the god Marduk to a certain Tsirpanit. By all accounts, Tsirpanit was not a goddess, but a commoner (or ‘Earthling’, or ‘mortal’, as the gods would have it).

Of course, as I have obviated in many articles, the ‘gods’, in reality, were simply flesh-and-blood beings of such super-advanced technology that, even millions of years ago, it apparently superseded our present level today. (I will not repeat, here, the copious facts and proofs I pointed to to back this up).

But because they had to recolonise Earth, their original home-planet, which they abandoned in the Great Permian Extinction of 250 million years ago in favour of Mars, the real N’ibiru (Na-hibiru: ‘Reddish One’), when Mars was itself devastated in a cosmic incident that stripped it of most of its water, oxygen and crust, they came here as guds (literally: ‘ good/superior) ones from the sky’)…which ‘origins’ they boasted of to the now-backward hominids they had abandoned during the old cataclysm.

As for their ‘immortality’, this in reality was simply extraordinary longevity – due mainly to very good knowledge, and some manipulation, of the gene that controls aging…coupled with the fact that, as frequent space-travellers, time spent in an accelerating space-rocket warps time for the crew inside such that thousands of Earth-years can pass by for just a few years for the crew (see Meyers Handbook on Space for the specific quantum physics calculations.) Otherwise, they were simply hominids. And just like their backward cousins, they lived, aged and eventually died.

Now, there was one thing the gods strongly disapproved of: marriage between a god and a ‘mortal’. Marduk’s action was hitherto unthinkable…but he had fallen hopelessly in love. The senior gods had no choice but to relent, and so he duly married Tsirpanit. All might have remained barely tolerated but ultimately accepted as one-off, but the Igigi. I explained in a prior article, plotted a means of escaping their lonely lives as Watchers in space.

There, their primary duties were to closely watch out for near-Earth objects that threatened Earth, and also to quickly evacuate the elite of the gods in case collision with Earth was inevitable. (I duly pointed out that there are still some Igigi in space and that the decorated NASA veteran Clark McClelland was astonished to one day see, on his TV monitors, such an ‘ET’ –towering over a NASA astronaut – talking to and instructing the Erthling.) They used the excuse of attending Marduk’s wedding to instead abduct and marry ‘Earthling’ women themselves. Enlil then banished them from Sumer and Canaan.

Ultimately, Enlil never forgave Marduk and Tsirpanit.

He blamed Marduk’s father Enki for having inspired all this due to his undisguised love for humanity…whereas Enlil wanted god and man to live in eternal apartheid. (Genesis 3:22-24) Now, ever since the ‘Garden of Eden’ incident with the Ata-mu (Adam), Enlil called his half-brother Enki ‘a snake’. But the biggest ‘snake’ to him was Tsirpanit, Marduk’s new wife.

She was the woman who tempted and seduced a full ‘god’, precipitating a ‘fall’ in the exclusive status of the gods. Consequently, the term ‘Tsirpanit’ – literally: Tshiri (Protector of) ‘Pan’ (Earth/Everywhere) – also became synonymous with’ snake’ – thus the alternative spelling ‘Sarpanit’: source of ‘serpent’. And as we can now see, biblically, her story was truncated, abbreviated, and welded with another old story I will relate another time to create the hybrid ‘Garden of Eden’ story we all know.

Now, why the ancient Setswana association with a ‘tall, skinny, woman’? All the gods, I noted, spent time in space, and Sarpanit evidently had to do likewise. She obviously then grew in height (every astronaut grows in height for every few weeks spent in space, as I have obviated time and again). However, she must have done so without gaining much weight, and so the name ‘Mma-Ntsiripane’ became synonymous with her new and distinctive figure as people marvelled at her dramatic transformation. And her name lived on well into the post-Flood era…

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