However, a fearless boy called Mosimane wa Sankatane (‘Boy Who Does Not Retreat’ i.e. a fearless boy) immobilised it from inside with his spear, split open its belly, and managed to free everyone. As we then found, this was no mere, story-telling nonsense: it was an actual, dimly-recalled event whose fuzzy details were inevitably embellished by story-teller after storyteller. Fortunately for us, ancient, written-down Sumerian stories have now brought into sharper focus the hazy outline of this story, which I have dovetailed to the famous Myth of the Pick-axe.
Now, why do I date it to pre-Flood times, i.e. well before the geologically-correct date of 10 983 BC, when the last Ice Age thawed and flooding inevitable occurred? Firstly, as geologists have correctly determined, there has been not one Ice Age, but several. This, I have noted in greater detail in my books, is because the Earth oscillates (tilts back and forth) between 23.4 and 22.8 degrees: taking 20 500 years in one direction, and then 20 500 years in the reverse direction. At its most extreme angle away from the sun, an ‘Ice Age’ is precipitated near the Poles. So, in the 300 000-odd years since the Anunnaki (the ‘gods’ of old) settled (or rather, resettled) here, this extreme point was reach at least six times. Now, what are the Anunnaki? As explained in more detail in Part 1, they are an extremely advanced hominid species that, millions of years ago, escaped a planetary cataclysm here and sought refuge in Mars (‘Mu’ or ‘Lahmu; in full, as they called it; also known as Na-hibiru, the ‘Reddish One’). When Mars itself was devastated in a cataclysm that stripped it of much of its crust and atmosphere, they resettled here on Earth. Per the Atra-Hasis, the Anunnaki settlers kick-started civilization here through mining for metals…but as the shafts sank deeper and deeper, the labour soon got to them. They complained bitterly, so one of the primitive hominid species was upgraded with their genes to create first the LU.LU (a hybrid), then the Atamo, a procreating version (see story in last week’s article). This upgraded creature then worked mainly in the Abzu (Africa), the Land of the Mines.
