It certainly does sell well, given twenty centuries of cooks picking and choosing which bits are kept in (and embellished as time and translations go by) and which are judged heresy and ordered destroyed.
You've certainly hit the analogous nail on the head.
I agree with you that many of our civilizations' ancient texts have been selectively pruned by modern historians, and in some cases embellished as you suggest.
What you come to realize through reading Sitchin's work is that no single ancient text or mythology is unique. They are all part of the same story, the same mythology, and the same history of our ancient past.
The gods that the Sumerians, and Mesopotamians write about are one and the same as those written about by the Egyptians, Norse, Mayans, Aztecs, Incans, and the ancient East. Sitchin lays out story, after story of the gods, their lore, relations, and wars they fought, and then shows how each culture had statistically impossible overlaps in the stories of their own gods, who were given different names in different cultures, but who had exactly the same familial structure in their pantheon, who fought the same familial wars, married and had offspring with the same gods and goddesses, etc.
These civilizations never, according to modern history, had contact with one another. You can excuse some of the correlations that occurred between the cultures of early Europe and Africa, as those regions were interconnected by land that would have made it entirely possible for stories to travel, but once you start making the leap to North and South America you have to admit that such a correlations in myths and legends are impossible given the thousands of miles of ocean water that separated these peoples from one another, and the lack of technology at the time to cross these oceans. Either our ancient ancestors carried their stories across the Atlantic and Pacific to cultures far and wide, or all the ancient peoples of Earth were witness to the same events as they occurred throughout the world.
That is quite the astute observation you have made. Do you have any substantive evaluation of the content of my posts, or are you going to stick with your the easy superficial observations of the structure of my writing, and your apparent dread, or perhaps lack of the skill of reading.
If you can't provide a reasonable rebuttal to my arguments, then simply don't reply. I'm willing to have an earnest conversation on this subject if you are willing to take it seriously. Thus far, you have provided little in the way of convincing counter-arguments to the research I have referenced.
It certainly does sell well, given twenty centuries of cooks picking and choosing which bits are kept in (and embellished as time and translations go by) and which are judged heresy and ordered destroyed.
No denying that.
You've certainly hit the analogous nail on the head. I agree with you that many of our civilizations' ancient texts have been selectively pruned by modern historians, and in some cases embellished as you suggest.
What you come to realize through reading Sitchin's work is that no single ancient text or mythology is unique. They are all part of the same story, the same mythology, and the same history of our ancient past. The gods that the Sumerians, and Mesopotamians write about are one and the same as those written about by the Egyptians, Norse, Mayans, Aztecs, Incans, and the ancient East. Sitchin lays out story, after story of the gods, their lore, relations, and wars they fought, and then shows how each culture had statistically impossible overlaps in the stories of their own gods, who were given different names in different cultures, but who had exactly the same familial structure in their pantheon, who fought the same familial wars, married and had offspring with the same gods and goddesses, etc.
These civilizations never, according to modern history, had contact with one another. You can excuse some of the correlations that occurred between the cultures of early Europe and Africa, as those regions were interconnected by land that would have made it entirely possible for stories to travel, but once you start making the leap to North and South America you have to admit that such a correlations in myths and legends are impossible given the thousands of miles of ocean water that separated these peoples from one another, and the lack of technology at the time to cross these oceans. Either our ancient ancestors carried their stories across the Atlantic and Pacific to cultures far and wide, or all the ancient peoples of Earth were witness to the same events as they occurred throughout the world.
Omega wall-o-text.
That is quite the astute observation you have made. Do you have any substantive evaluation of the content of my posts, or are you going to stick with your the easy superficial observations of the structure of my writing, and your apparent dread, or perhaps lack of the skill of reading.
If you can't provide a reasonable rebuttal to my arguments, then simply don't reply. I'm willing to have an earnest conversation on this subject if you are willing to take it seriously. Thus far, you have provided little in the way of convincing counter-arguments to the research I have referenced.