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Sargon and those Akkadians that followed believed that man was controlled by the stars. His past, present, and future could all be read into the constellations. Prophecy was done mainly through astrology, especially the Biblical Revelation. The great cosmic myth presented in the Bible was meant to be a history of the "world" or at least that region. It combined factual history with astrology, or history of the heavens. Historical people and gods became the characters in the Bible, with altered names.
If you knew this saga, and not too difficult to forget, you would also know the meaning or significance of the stars and constellations. The real meaning of the story would have been kept semi-secret as it could predict the future as well as be used for navigation or travel by night.
The Akkadian stories and history clearly underline the text. However, in most cases the names of the characters are mainly Amorite with a few exceptions. The Amorites took these stories and adopted them as their own, most likely because they too worship similar cosmic gods.
The following is very speculative and may not be true as it pertains to my theory. It is a possibility as to how this cosmic proto-text came about:
During the reign of Gungunum, an Amorite who conquered Ur sometime after 1930 BCE, he vowed to return the culture of the moon-god Sin to the people and to return those who were dispersed. Most likely and Akkadian reference. I contend the proto-text was written, (with some exceptions such as Moses) to give the people of Ur back their religion. However Gungunum fused his religion with theirs. Abraham is the key character. He is from Ur then goes to Haran, an Amorite moon worshipping city. He then becomes the leader of his people. Gungunum returns to Ur, as a king of the Amorites. He would have been seen as a descendent of Abraham of Ur. Hence, he would look not as an invader, but as one who returned, a liberator. this would make it easier for him to govern.
Sargon and those Akkadians that followed believed that man was controlled by the stars. His past, present, and future could all be read into the constellations. Prophecy was done mainly through astrology, especially the Biblical Revelation. The great cosmic myth presented in the Bible was meant to be a history of the "world" or at least that region. It combined factual history with astrology, or history of the heavens. Historical people and gods became the characters in the Bible, with altered names.
If you knew this saga, and not too difficult to forget, you would also know the meaning or significance of the stars and constellations. The real meaning of the story would have been kept semi-secret as it could predict the future as well as be used for navigation or travel by night.
The Akkadian stories and history clearly underline the text. However, in most cases the names of the characters are mainly Amorite with a few exceptions. The Amorites took these stories and adopted them as their own, most likely because they too worship similar cosmic gods.
The following is very speculative and may not be true as it pertains to my theory. It is a possibility as to how this cosmic proto-text came about:
During the reign of Gungunum, an Amorite who conquered Ur sometime after 1930 BCE, he vowed to return the culture of the moon-god Sin to the people and to return those who were dispersed. Most likely and Akkadian reference. I contend the proto-text was written, (with some exceptions such as Moses) to give the people of Ur back their religion. However Gungunum fused his religion with theirs. Abraham is the key character. He is from Ur then goes to Haran, an Amorite moon worshipping city. He then becomes the leader of his people. Gungunum returns to Ur, as a king of the Amorites. He would have been seen as a descendent of Abraham of Ur. Hence, he would look not as an invader, but as one who returned, a liberator. this would make it easier for him to govern.
"On Earth as it is in Heaven, the Cosmic Roots of the Bible" available on the Amazon.
