The ‘filling’ process, however, is not random or wilful; it operates according to certain precise rules I have come to discern. Its scribes, we noted, were far more sophisticated than modern writers at cultivating different layers of meaning from the very same diction (words) such that while the scribe appears on one level to be praising the gods, on another level he is deeply insulting them.
In typical fashion, I extracted only a few lines of text-corpus in the epic-poem Enki’s journey to N’ibiru and then unpacked the superficial layer evidently meant to be palatable to the ‘gods’ (me-en), the ANU.NNA.KI ‘[Those Who] From the Heavens (A Nu) Stayed (nna) on Earth (ha Ki)’ of Sumerian legend. Their home planet is N’ibiru (Na-hibiru: the ‘Reddish One’ – which refers to Mars, the ‘Red Planet’ – also called ‘Mu’, or ‘Lahmu’ in full: literally La ha Mu: ‘[Land] of Mu’), and they settled on Earth when they found conditions here favourable. Without this background, it is impossible to grasp the full implications of what the scribe of the epic is saying as it is a paradigm shift away from what our archaeologists and anthropologists are teaching us.
