Creation Epic

The Mesopotamian Creation Epic provides further evidence of a fish lineage. Men wearing fish-coats depict Supreme fish-beings called Oannes. Many believe the name John, meaning man, derives from Oannes. 

Before turning our attention to the unsavory aspects of necromancy, it is helpful to understand a little more of the poem called the Descent of the Inanna. This poem appears in both the Creation Epic of the Mesopotamians and the Dread Book. Surprisingly, it allows us to outline the acceptable limit of magic in mysteries by reference to the rituals of the Roman Catholic Church. 

Several hundred kilometres further east, in Finnish Karelia, the nineteenth century saw the birth of legends which were passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation. Elias Lonnrot, a doctor, collected these fables and used them to create the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala , which starts with a creation myth. In the first rune, the daughter of the air lets herself fall into the sea. She is made pregnant by the wind and the waves. The duck, as water mother, comes to her, builds a nest on her knee, and lays her eggs. These roll into the sea and break, giving rise to the Earth, the heavens, the sun, the moon and the stars ... 

The Babylonian creation story is called the Enuma Elish. It took the form of an epic poem that would be recited aloud every year at... 

David Quint writes that the ideology of the epic produces an official party line that aids in the creation of a master narrative (Quint, 1993). This master narrative takes on a life of its own and becomes the trae story. The epic is defined by western values. It is associated with the male gender, a coherent political ideology, order, self-sacrifice, duty, and fate. The... 

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