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some stuff I read

chuck010342

Active Member
"According to the history inscribed on Mesopotamian tablets, there was a time when human beings did not exist at all. Earth was inhabited by members of the Custodial civilization."
 

chuck010342

Active Member
"According to the history inscribed on Mesopotamian tablets, there was a time when human beings did not exist at all. Earth was inhabited by members of the Custodial civilization."

according to the history inscribed on Jewish tables there was a time when human beings did not exist at all earth was inhabited by water and land mass.
 

Madhuri

RF Goddess
Staff member
Premium Member
according to the history inscribed on Jewish tables there was a time when human beings did not exist at all earth was inhabited by water and land mass.

Yes, that is also described in eastern religions and if you don't take the 7 days literally in the Bible wasn't there first water?
 

Riverwolf

Amateur Rambler / Proud Ergi
Premium Member
Yes, that is also described in eastern religions and if you don't take the 7 days literally in the Bible wasn't there first water?

After all, the opening verse, when properly translated based on knew scholarship, says "At the beginning of God's creating the heavens and the earth..." implying a creation out of the later mentioned primordial waters which are almost 100% universal throughout all the ancient religions.
 

Riverwolf

Amateur Rambler / Proud Ergi
Premium Member
"According to the history inscribed on Mesopotamian tablets, there was a time when human beings did not exist at all. Earth was inhabited by members of the Custodial civilization."

according to the history inscribed on Jewish tables there was a time when human beings did not exist at all earth was inhabited by water and land mass.

Another good indication that early Judaism was based off of ancient Mesopotamian religions.
 

Riverwolf

Amateur Rambler / Proud Ergi
Premium Member
You mean this: World of Traditional Zoroastrianism So Noah was Gilgamesh? The tower of Babble was actually a ziggurat?

GEEEE!

I've never heard of that website.

I'm simply repeating what I learned in my Comparative Religion class. I know very little about Zoroastrianism; we spent only two days covering the religion in class, and my own studies haven't brought me to it, yet.

And I did say MESOPOTAMIAN religions, and I meant MESOPOTAMIAN religions. If I had meant Zoroastrianism, I would have said Zoroastrianism.

Noah was not Gilgamesh; Noah was Manu from Vaishnavic mythology. :D However, it is likely that the Tower of Babel was inspired by the Mesopotamian ziggurats, because they were intended to unite heaven and earth; what would the early Jews think when they see that? (Or, if you want to talk theologically, what would YHWH think when he sees that?)
 

Jayhawker Soule

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Premium Member
"According to the history inscribed on Mesopotamian tablets, there was a time when human beings did not exist at all. Earth was inhabited by members of the Custodial civilization."
according to the history inscribed on Jewish tables there was a time when human beings did not exist at all earth was inhabited by water and land mass.
What tablets? Therefore? This is pretty thin gruel ... :rolleyes:
 

Baydwin

Well-Known Member
according to the history inscribed on Jewish tables there was a time when human beings did not exist at all earth was inhabited by water and land mass.
Firstly, water and "land mass" can't be said to inhabit anything.

Second, if you're trying to say that the first point in some way validates the second, it doesn't. It is utterly unsurprising that the mythologies of the same geographical area should be similar.

Thirdly, paleontology also tell us that there was a time when the Earth wasn't inhabited by humans, a very, very long time.
 
:facepalm: Water "inhabits" EVERY living being on the planet.

What's being challenged isn't the idea, but the word-choice.

not sure it means anything but its just random input.
Water contains two elements, these two elements account for a very high percentage of the universes elemental mass, for instance Hydrogen is the number one most common element accounting for about 75 percent, oxygen comes in third after helium(about 22 percent) at about one percent, all other elements are much less common as is evident by there only being a few percent left.

Im just riffing here but it probably means nothing.
In fact the Helium buggers whatever theory I had raw but waters constituant parts accounting for over 75 percent of the universes elemental mass might mean something, and then again it might not.
 

Riverwolf

Amateur Rambler / Proud Ergi
Premium Member
not sure it means anything but its just random input.
Water contains two elements, these two elements account for a very high percentage of the universes elemental mass, for instance Hydrogen is the number one most common element accounting for about 75 percent, oxygen comes in third after helium(about 22 percent) at about one percent, all other elements are much less common as is evident by there only being a few percent left.

Im just riffing here but it probably means nothing.
In fact the Helium buggers whatever theory I had raw but waters constituant parts accounting for over 75 percent of the universes elemental mass might mean something, and then again it might not.

Well, seeing as that's a bit over the percentage of the water in the human body(I think), and about the percentage of water on earth, by coincidence, the microcosm is imitating the macrocosm. ^_^
 
Well, seeing as that's a bit over the percentage of the water in the human body(I think), and about the percentage of water on earth, by coincidence, the microcosm is imitating the macrocosm. ^_^

did a little bit more looking and it seems the make up of sea water is as follows,
you seem smarter than me, you might better make a connection if there is any, couldnt make one myself, probably not one to find in truth but what ifs are what I am all about;)

ElementPercentElementPercentOxygen85.84Sulfur0.091Hydrogen10.82Calcium0.04Chlorine1.94Potassium0.04Sodium1.08Bromine0.0067Magnesium0.1292Carbon0.0028
 

Valjean

Veteran Member
Premium Member
What the heck is this thread about. :shrug:
The OP is just a statement that Mesopotamians believed that before humans there was a "custodial civilization" -- whatever that means.
 

Riverwolf

Amateur Rambler / Proud Ergi
Premium Member
did a little bit more looking and it seems the make up of sea water is as follows,
you seem smarter than me, you might better make a connection if there is any, couldnt make one myself, probably not one to find in truth but what ifs are what I am all about;)

ElementPercentElementPercentOxygen85.84Sulfur0.091Hydrogen10.82Calcium0.04Chlorine1.94Potassium0.04Sodium1.08Bromine0.0067Magnesium0.1292Carbon0.0028

Nah, chemistry is not my forte at all. That doesn't mean much to me at all.
 

McBell

Resident Sourpuss
What the heck is this thread about. :shrug:
The OP is just a statement that Mesopotamians believed that before humans there was a "custodial civilization" -- whatever that means.
I have no idea either.

I was hoping that following the thread, sooner or later it would make some sort of sense.
 
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