C. THE COSMIC WAR: MARDUK MEASURED THE STRUCTURE OF THE DEEP
So how does all this
measuring activity in ancient times fit into the “Cosmic War”
scenario? What agendas might it disclose beyond that already
suggested, namely, that an elite was in a hurry to stimulate trade
based on reliable and accurately reproducible units of measure
based on astronomical observation?
The answer to these
questions is suggested by a short statement that occurs at the end
of the fourth tablet of the so-called Babylonian creation epic, the
Enuma Elish. The statement is that “The
Lord,” i.e., the Babylonian god Marduk, “measured the structure of
the Deep.”96 But the context
reveals why this was necessary, and what is meant within the
context by “the Deep”:
47. (Marduk) sent forth the winds which he had created, the seven of them;48. to disturb the inward parts of Tiamat, they followed after him.49. Then the Lord raised the thunderbolt, his mighty weapon,50. He mounted the chariot, the storm unequalled for terror,51. He harnessed and yoked it unto four horses,52. Destructive, ferocious, overwhelming, and swift of pace...9758. With overwhelming brightness his head was crowned......65. And the Lord drew nigh, he gazed upon the inward parts of Tiamat...9875. Then the Lord (raised) the thunderbolt, his mighty weapon...76. (and against) Tiamat, who was raging, thus he sent (the word):77. “(Thou art become great, thou hast exalted thyself on high,78. and thy (heart hath prompted) thee to call to battle...”99...87. When Tiamat heard these words,88. She was like one possessed, she lost her reason89. Tiamat uttered wild piercing cries,90. she trembled and shook to her very foundations.......95. The Lord spread out his net and caught her,96. and the evil wind that was behind him he let loose in her face.97. As Tiamat opened her mouth to its full extent,98. He drove in the evil wind, while as yet she had not shut her lips.99. The terrible winds filled her body......101. He seized the spear and burst her body,102. He severed her inward parts, he pierced (her) heart....129. And the Lord stood upon Tiamat’s hinder parts,130. and with his merciless club he smashed her skull.100...137. He split her up like a fish into two halves.......143. And the Lord measured the structure of the Deep.101
These verses, in my
opinion, speak less of a “creation epic” based on a dualistic
cosmology, a dualism allegorized as a war (the standard academic
interpretation), as they do of an actual war, where “Tiamat” stands as the name of an
actual planet that once existed within our solar system. Thus
viewed, the verses are a garbled, though nonetheless clear
indication of a sophisticated technology and hence of a
sophisticated civilization with a very sophisticated physics. I
have stated this interpretation in the following fashion:
I believe these passages reveal a remarkably accurate sequence of what the destruction of a planet by a “scalar” weapon employing a longitudinal pulse or acoustic stress in the medium itself would entail, right down to acoustic cavitation and large electrostatic displays, signatures of the use of such a weapon at extreme power. Let us note the sequence:a. The “winds” are sent to “disturb” or destabilize the “inward parts” of Tiamat, the planetary core (vv. 47–48);b. “Lightning” is then unleashed on the (already destabilized) planet from the “four winds,” i.e., from every direction (vv. 49–50)....c. These “thunderbolts” are then apparently directed toward that destabilized core, suggesting that a sudden and extreme pulse is administered (vv. 58, 65, 75–78);d. Tiamat responds with cries and trembles and shakes to “her very foundations,” i.e., experiences very severe earthquakes or acoustic cavitations throughout the planet, to its very core (vv. 95, 97);e. Tiamat appears unable to break resonance with the weapon (vv. 97–98) as Marduk spreads the net and drives in the final “wind” or pulse (v. 98);f. Tiamat reaches maximum instability in her planetary core and mantle (cc. 98–99);g. Marduk pierces the crust, and releases the enormous energies that have built up in the planet through the acoustic cavitations, resulting in a colossal explosion with the entire planet as its fuel, rather like bursting a balloon filled to extreme pressure (vv. 101–102, 137).All this implies the existence of a physics sophisticated enough to “measure the structure of the Deep” (v. 143), and to weaponize it...Another comment is perhaps warranted by this discussion. It is to be noted that Marduk “measures the structure of the Deep” after Tiamat’s destruction. This would have been necessary in terms of the type of physics being suggested, since the destruction of a planetary-sized body in the approximate orbit of the asteroid belt would have required an adjustment to astronomical measurements of the solar system, since its previously existing celestial mechanics and geometry has been shattered.102
To summarize what is
being argued in the Cosmic War context, we have the
following:
1. A physics once existed whereby it was possible to tap into the geometries of the local physical medium to the extent that it was possible to blow up an entire planet in an act of war;
2. That physics could only be accessed by accurate measures of “the Deep” or of local space and its celestial mechanics;
3. After the destruction caused by that Cosmic War, it was necessary for the surviving elites to quickly re-establish accurate measures of the surviving celestial mechanics for two reasons:a. If civilization were ever to return to a similar state of development with access to that physics once again, of necessity that civilization would have to be global in extent, and this could only be achieved through the gradual re-establishment of global trade, which in turn depended on accurate, uniform, and consistent units of measure, which in turn could only be established by “measuring the structure of the Deep,” and this is precisely what we have seen happened in the Megalithic measures.b. If the technology that made such fearsome weapons possible were ever to be reconstructed, again, this would require accurate measures of “the structure of the Deep.”
Thus, we are perhaps
in the presence of two hidden long-term
agendas, and very possibly in the presence of two elites with vastly different long-term
objectives, with one elite wanting to restore the same level of
civilization as existed before the war, and the other wanting to
reestablish the fearsome technologies that made that war possible,
and thereby to restore, or claim, its own hegemony. At the minimum,
then, the Megalithic measures and their self-evident propagation by
a hidden elite — as Knight and Butler have shown — is a
demonstration of the first agenda. As
we shall discover in the coming pages, however, there is ample
evidence to suggest that another elite
is at work for purposes that are not so benign. And this brings us
back to Sumeria, and the suggestions of that deeper
physics.