5-6 thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq), the people of Sumer and Babylon had to choose between two extremely powerful clans of the ‘gods’, namely the Enlilites of Sumer and the Enkiites of Babylon and Egypt. Basically, the Enlilites (descendants of EN.LILLU (Enlil): ‘Lord of the Illu, the Gods’) anted apartheid between ‘gods’ and ‘mortals’ (Genesis 3:22ff) even though both were mere flesh-and-blood. The Enkiites (descendants of EN.KI (Enki): ‘Lord of the Earth’, Enlil’s second-in-command) acknowledged that, in reality, all humanity was an equal in the eyes of the Real God.
Ultimately, however, it was the Enlilites who emerged victorious – and the true history of the Enkiites was either obfuscated (as in the Bible) or completely blotted out from records, and the clan’s leaders vilified as ‘snakes’ (Gen. 3:1-5) for ‘betraying’ the gods by ‘lying’ to the Adama (mankind) that they, too can be as gods. Nowadays, the unbiased, untainted story of the Enkiites can only be pieced together in whatever remains of extant Mesopotamian texts.
