*NOTE* This is an active work, with constantly changing information. As more research is conducted, things will change. Places will change. Names will change. Dates will change. Geopolitical events will change. This is a developing theory, and not to be taken as a conclusive assumption of pre-history.
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Megas Apokaluptó - Book One of the Megas Historia Stulos - A theoretical
Account of The Middle Eastern Front of World War Zero from 10kB.C. to 480A.D.
J.H. Reidhead III - 2024
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Chapter 1: The Epic Tablets of Mythology
This is not a science fiction story of aliens and space races. This is not a mythological story of gods and mystical things. This is a geopolitical story, inspired heavily by my personal genealogical studies with a tremendous influence from geopolitical studies. The aim of this story is to take a realistic and human approach to explaining the gradual evolution of society. The idea is to take the stories of gods, men, monsters and magic, and convert those things into things that actually make sense for human beings to do. I believe that we today are not so different from our ancient ancestors. But many large bastardizations have twisted what is a story of empires, kings and dictators into a story of gods, titans, and aliens. For once, let's take a more realistic look at the symbolism to extract the reality.
I do not believe Akkad was the first empire civilization. I do not believe we’ve found the first empire civilization. I do not believe we ever will. Let’s go back to a time even before Sumeria, to a place called Aratta situated on the mountain of Zubi in what is now known as Mount Nemrut. Queen Inanna of the Arattian society is unhappy with her marriage to King Ensuguhirana. On a conquest to find new love, Inanna mounts her anatolian leopard steed and travels south for 757 miles, or 1,218 kilometers. She eventually comes upon the newly emerging city state of Uruk, and after a temple is built in her honor, she professes her love for the young king and architect Enmerkar who rules over Uruk. Enmerkar, seeing the opportunity to further expand his architectural conquest, requests that the people of Aratta become subjects of his kingdom and that they pay tribute by transporting precious materials like gold, from Zubi to Uruk. Inanna tells Enmerkar to send a messenger to Aratta to relay his request, but unbeknown to her Enmerkar decides to send a message of force instead of a humble request. He tells the messenger to relay that he will destroy the unified language of the surrounding territories if they refuse to comply with his demands.
The messenger departs on what would become a seven day journey by camel from Uruk to Zubi. If the messenger’s camel was moving at a rate of twenty two miles per hour, lower than the average speed of a camel, and it were walking for five hours a day for seven days, it would arrive at its destination on the seventh day approximately thirty minutes before the end of the fifth hour. When the messenger arrives, they relay the ominous threat to King Ensuguhirana. The king, in rather humorous fashion, calls Enmerkar’s mother a peasant and says that he is insignificant in the shadow of the current ruler of Aratta. He ends the jesting with an even more humorous suggestion that he will bow to their demands, but only if he’s sent a shipment of grain suitable for sustaining the people of Arata. Enmerkar has no idea what to make of this, and he returns the friendliness by sending the grain to Aratta with another request for more materials.
The problem was that Ensuguhirana was already the king of his people, and despite the diplomacy he wasn’t willing to just submit to a neighboring kingdom. He was also frantic about the loss of Inanna.. He sends Enmerkar a callout, telling him that if he wants the materials he can come and collect them himself. Enmerkar was probably told of Ensuguhirana’s emotional state, or perhaps he was just aware of what adultery does to men, so he crafted an ornate staff and sent it back with the messenger in what looks like an effort of great diplomacy. But when Ensuguhirana finally gets the staff, he’s petrified. He likely remembers the ominous warning that was originally delivered, so in an effort to avoid war; he requests that two champions be chosen to fight as representatives. Enmerkar accepts the challenge, but the messenger is annoyed and tells his king that he’s running out of headroom to remember all of the messages. In order to ensure that the messages would get to their destination without getting damaged, Enmerkar carved the messages into stone slabs. When Ensuguhirana gets and reads the new form of message, a storm breaks out, and he takes this as a sign that Inanna is still on his side.
He requisitions a champion, and the message is sent back again. The rest of the tablets that were found telling this story don’t describe what happened, but based on some facts from the story we can make some assumptions. Enmerkar receives the message, the fight is on, and following that is likely the organization of a boxing match. Perhaps it was the fight of the millennium, or perhaps it was a first round knockout with a sharp straight. Whatever the case may have been, Enmerkar’s champion emerged victorious. Ensuguhirana is then dethroned, and Enmerkar is put into power as the new leader of Aratta. But he hasn’t forgotten his ambitions, and he has no plans to move away from Uruk, so Ensuguhirana is left in position as the very first Ensi of the Sumerian Empire, now encompassing multiple distant territories.
To commemorate the boxing match, Enmerkar carved a stone tablet depicting the scene. It is unknown if it still exists, or ever existed, and it is not possible that it is the Boxer’s Relief or the Trials of Strength artifacts. But given Enmerkar’s prolific work on stone carving, and his architectural ambitions, it’s safe to say that he likely carved numerous allusions to historic moments, much like the paintings of Egypt. During the reign of Enmerkar and Inanna, they ruled the immediate territory with a sense of urgency. Clay pots depicting their effortful agricultural work have been found. It seems apparent that the people of Uruk were sustaining themselves well for a long time. That is until the age of the heir of Enmerkar.
Lugalbanda, who was presumably just a soldier among the Urukite army, fell terribly ill while on a mission with his brothers. To where and for what, we don’t really know.
Lugalbanda was left alone in a cave, essentially left for dead in the middle of nowhere, and after a couple of days he springs back to life and in desperation he completely forgets about his sickness. He’s probably severely dehydrated and starving of all nutrition, so his adrenaline takes over and he descends into the wilderness. Before long he stumbles upon the lake situated in what is now Nemrut Crater Lake. Once he’s rehydrated, he does what humans throughout history have done forever. He hunts livestock. It was probably his first time killing an animal of the land, because it makes him question everything he believes about the gods and his prayers. He makes his way around the lake and into the wilderness again until he eventually arrives in the Lullubi Highlands. It’s there where he finds a large baby bird, what they called Abzu at the time, and he spends some time feeding it. The bird’s mother flies in, and the act of giving food to their children is sacred to them, so it domesticates and it takes comfort in his presence.
Whatever this ancient bird species is, we don’t know. But we do have clues. Giant birds are a typical form of creature on Earth throughout its history. It’s likely that this is one of many species that has, over time, gone extinct. Perhaps interpreting the apparent surprise of Lugalbanda and his lack of knowledge about the bird, we can assume that the one he found is likely part of a species that is heavily endangered or nearly extinct. This is further evidenced by the docile nature that is described. Lugalbanda got so friendly that he rode the bird like a cowboy would ride a horse. Imagery depicts giant birds with wings, so it’s likely that his bird also was winged. But it may not have been a flying bird. It may have been one of the many incredibly fast land birds that populate various parts of the world. The modern day ostrich is capable of running at upwards of 45 miles per hour, which is far beyond that of any camel.
The act of animal taming is a sort of shared knowledge that humanity has been passing down since the beginning of time. It’s very likely that Lugalbanda already knew how to tame animals, or he learned the act of taming animals from a tribe among the Lullubi Highlands. It’s more likely that it’s the latter, and that the specific tribe that he learned this from worshiped or built their culture around this act of taming birds. Lugalbanda’s second legend mentions somebody he calls Abzud. He clearly distinguishes the bird Abzu from the bird tamer Abzud. He mentions that Abzud has a wife and a child, and that he prepared a banquet for their family in exchange for knowledge of how to tame the bird. The tribe directs him in toward the village elder, a woman who shared with him the secrets of making bappir and mixing beer. That woman’s name was Ninkasi, and Lugalbunda admired the elder woman for her intelligence.
When his beer brewing technique had been perfectly refined with everything he learned, he went back to the bird that he had previously comforted, and he gave it this second offering of beer. It probably wasn’t an intoxicating beer with a long ferment period. It was more likely just effective enough to calm the nerves of the bird, allowing Lugalbanda to mount it as a steed. Over time, he starts domesticating this bird and its chick to the point of being able to decorate them. But one day, the mother bird calls out to its chick, and the chick doesn’t answer, and the mother bird breaks out in a panic. This is the first documented account of somebody yelling “Woah” naturally to tame a newly hysteric animal, as a reaction from Abzud. The bird and Abzud investigated the nest, and found that the silence was coming from a sense of comfort. The nest had been decorated in things, with a piece of salt meat hanging prepared for when the chick woke up. Lugalbanda likely believed that this was his last great spiritual offering to the bird, because this was the moment he was finally able to take it and ride it as a practical steed.
He mounts the bird and is preparing to leave, but not without one of the most interesting and under-investigated speeches ever translated. Abzud gives Lugalbanda a blessing, and he tells him to “go like a boat loaded with precious metals, like a grain barge, like a boat going to deliver apples, like a boat piled up high with a cargo of cucumbers, covered in shade, like a boat loaded lavishly at a place of harvest, go back to brick built Kulaba with head held high.” Whether or not Abzud actually said this to Lugalbanda is questionable, but there are real inferences to be drawn between the lines. For instance, this makes mention of a grain barge and the delivery of apples, indicating a closely related trade route established with either Egypt or multiple different societies. The mention of Cucumbers heavily indicates that this is in fact Turkey. There is also specific mention of “brick-built” Kulaba, which indicates that this tribe likely lived in either a wood, volcanic clay, or stone architectural environment. Their position sounds permanent, so it’s likely a combination of various building methods.
Lugalbanda banters back with some gusto at Abzud, and from some of this banter we can infer some more information about the time period. For starters, we know that there are multiple different woodcarvers, plural, who are crafting decorative objects. We know that Lugalbanda is wearing shoes, or perhaps a more ancient style of sandals. We knew he was carrying multiple weapons, and probably some kind of sack to carry his food provisions. We also get a hint that Lugalbanda may have flown on the Abzu, instead of walking.
Let’s say he does for the sake of the story. He gets on the Abzu and he flies until he finds his comrades, and when he does he descends to the ground and approaches them on foot to not startle them. Let’s remember; These are armed soldiers, and they likely would have killed the bird. Lugalbanda tells his comrades that he survived by drinking the water of the mountain river, and by eating plant life from the land which is a lie by the earlier account in the story. The lake he speaks of is likely Nemrut Crater Lake. He also tells them of the tribe that took care of him while he recovered. We then get the first indication that this isn’t just some military patrol through the mountains for bandits or peacekeeping. The garrison of men move forward toward the outside of Aratta, and they set up an encampment on the outside at the bottom of the mountain. This is to set up a raid to retake the rebellious city of Aratta. The Arattites catch wind of what’s happening, and their military force starts hurling sling stones and javelins down the mountain. It’s here where we get an incredibly important piece of information.
Lugalbanda says quite directly that the area surrounding the mountain is covered in bushes populated by dragons. Fire breathing monsters? No, probably not. More likely a large legged reptile similar to a Komodo Dragon, or perhaps an extinct or migrated species of Crocodile. Traveling back through the roads while the chaos was disturbing the wildlife wasn’t a logical or rational option, and these well established animal tamers knew that. A single attack by the Arattites might not damage their population too tremendously, but the tablet states that the battle waged on for over a year with no real progress. Meanwhile over in Uruk, Emnerkar was spilling into an emotional mess, and the stresses of running a kingdom were taking a massive toll. He berated Inanna about the state of their relationship, and he questioned her motivations. If she loved the city and not him, then why was he chosen to lead the city? If she loved him and not the city, then why was he chosen to lead the city? This came about because Inanna expressed her dying attraction to Emnerkar. She was pretty clear that he just wasn’t fulfilling her demands. This is likely similar to the modern struggle of couples deteriorating in communicative skills from a high level of stress and anxiety.
Lugalbanda asks those around who among him would make the journey back to Uruk to inform the king of their inevitable defeat. After a brief moment of stone silence, he essentially gave up and decided to make the journey on his own. When Lugalbanda gets back to the palace of Uruk, he consorts with queen Inanna briefly before confiding in him what she wishes her husband would do. She wants Emnerkar to catch and serve a giant fish to what she calls her a-an-kara weapon. We can assume the weapon is a living creature, likely her steed leopard, or perhaps some kind of animal that wasn’t indigenous to the land. Whatever it is, it clearly defines the tight power Inanna had on the population. She was feared. She had control over a living weapon of war. She had faith in that weapon, and presumed it to be capable of crushing every adversary. She also mentions the use of metalworkers and blacksmiths as tools to achieve victory. The final line on the tablet describes a visual change in appearance to what Aratta now looks like during the rebellion. The final line on the tablet is “Praise be to Lugalbanda the pure” signifying him as a figure of great cultural importance.
Chapter 2: Descent into the Underworld
My current theory is that Lugalbanda likely journeyed out to catch a fish worthy of Queen Inanna’s leopard. When he returned, it is likely that she imposed her love onto him, but he denied her as a married woman. The battle for Aratta likely ensued shortly thereafter, ending with the recapture of the territory. This, in turn, is where Lugalbanda was chosen to be the Ensi of Aratta. But nobody except for Inanna really knew what was happening, and the account of her life that explains it all is more than a little bit interesting. During a battle decades later, the hero of Uruk, the legendary Gilgamesh, would arrive in the city of Uruk to cement himself as a hero. In the time that he’s there, the queen has him participate in tandem woodworking as a sort of playful activity where they grow this friendly bond together. While she’s doing this, she’s also busy courting her next husband Dumuzi, and that is almost an exclusively sexual relationship. Putting that aside for a moment, Inanna is a very mysterious and interesting figure.
Most prominently we know that Inanna was guarding something called “The Seven Holy Measures”, likely a collection of individual papyrus scrolls each written by one of the seven Anunnaki, or the seven wise sages of legend mentioned throughout all cultures of the time. Other collections of seven legendary documents appear everywhere, including the seven virtues, seven sins, and the most appropriate for this particular story; The seven seals of revelation. Seven individual seals marking the purpose of seven massive catastrophes. It’s often presumed that the opening of the scrolls is what will lead to the apocalypse. It doesn’t particularly make sense, but that isn’t even the most outlandish portion of Inanna’s story.
Inanna tells Gilgamesh that she’s going to descend into the underworld, and if she doesn’t return; it’s his job to set up a period of grieving for her. According to the legend, she gathers the Seven Holy Measures, she adorns herself in holy garments, and she travels with Gilgamesh to the temple of Ganzir. When they get there, she tells Gilgamesh to return to the city, and that he’s to initiate a period of mourning if she doesn’t return. From this, we can infer some of the setting and historical context. Inanna describes herself as “Inanna from the east” indicating that she traveled west to get to Ganzir. When Gilgamesh leaves, she pounds on the gate and yells out to the door keeper that she’s come to witness the procession of a lavish funeral for the husband of her sister Ereskigal. That husband, whom she called “Gugalanna the pure” was actually Lugalbanda, and we can infer his position of power more greatly here.
After conquering Aratta, Lugalbanda would go on to serve as the Ensi of the kingdom. We can infer this from the Sumerian Kings list, where Enmenluana, who we can assume is Ensuguhirana, is still in a position of power despite every account saying he was defeated and subjected into the empire. We know that he wasn’t a king in Uruk, but may have been an Ensi of Aratta subject to the king of Uruk. The next name in the list is Enmengalana, who we can assume is Lugalbanda after his rise to power following the recapture of Aratta. It’s likely that Ereskigal, another warrior queen and sister to Inanna, took Lugalbanda as a husband due to his conquest as a war hero.
When Inanna Descends into the Underworld, she passes through the seven stone gates of Ganzir one by one, each time having a part of her outfit and her possessions removed. When she finally arrives in the throne room, her sister Ereskigal rises up from the throne, and Inanna sits down, where she’s judged by the seven Anunnaki. They scolded her, for what we don’t really know. But we do know that they definitely weren’t happy with her. They sentence her to death, and the legend says that she is, in fact, killed and subsequently hung on a hook. There are major contradictions between translations of the tablets, but based on the similarities, we can build a solid narrative.
After Gilgamesh returns to the kingdom, he waits for three days before fulfilling the wishes of the queen. At that time, he initiates funeral rites, and he enlists the help of a few local scholars to go retrieve the queen. He knows that Ereshkigal is pregnant, likely because his father was her husband. He gives one of the scholars a plant that he called “The plant of life” and he gives the other “The water of life”. He tells them that they’re to swarm the entrance to Ganzir annoyingly until they’re allowed inside, at which time the queen will be going into labor. He tells them that Ereskigal is going to make offers and bribes, and that all of those requests are to be completely ignored in favor of asking for the body of Inanna. Ereskigal actually obliges this request, and the two sages supposedly mix a liquid that brings Inanna back to life.
This enrages the Anunnaki. They presumably have their guards seize the medicine men, as well as queen Inanna, and they give her a speech that stands as one of the most meaningful hints as to what the underworld was and how it operated. The Anunnaki tell Inanna that she has to provide a replacement to take her place in the underworld, and they run through this list of her closest possible consorts but she rejects all of them. Instead, she offers her husband Dimuzi, and the Anunnaki dispatch a raiding party to capture him. In the process, they destroy the city of Bad-Tibira, and they capture Dimuzi and his sister and bring them back to the Underworld. There, Dimuzi’s sister begs and pleads for her to be taken instead. The Anunnaki, in a display of very unusual diplomacy, decide that Dimuzi and his sister will both become subjects of the Underworld. Dimuzi is to spend one one half of the year subjugated, and his sister is to spend the other half.
The story raises a number of questions. What are the Seven Holy Measures? Based on the language of the gatekeeper in the story, we can infer that every kingdom had what was probably a constitution or a set of government rules. The measures of the Underworld are different from the measures of other kingdoms. Perhaps we already know what their specific scroll of measures looked like. The fifth seal of Revelation, described as the souls of the dead reaching out from the underworld, was likely a wax seal used to discern the specific constitutional document pertaining to “The Underworld”. But what is The Underworld? I believe I may have a rational, less mystical hypothesis as to who or what the underworld actually was.
Chapter 3: In Search of Irkalla
300 miles to the southeast of Mount Nemrut, we find the ancient underground city of Derinkuyu. It fits the bill perfectly. The innermost chamber is enclosed by many other chambers, each of which has a large stone rolling door that can only be opened from one side. The barrel vaulted room, what has long been considered to be something practical, may have actually been a mortuary where embalming and preparation of the dead took place. Think about it. Inanna, a queen who emerged from the top of the mountain, or Heaven, descends into a place she calls “The Underworld” through a series of large stone doors that have to be opened from within. Inanna also claims to be the queen “From the west” and Derinkuyu is to the southeast. We know that Inanna originally made a journey twice this distance when she descended from Aratta to Uruk. It is highly plausible that Inanna was referring to Derinkuyu as “The Underworld” and that their original society may have had a governorate based around the teachings of the seven Anunnaki. Not just, but the Anunnaki may have actually resided within Derinkuyu for an extended period of time.
There was something else going on at this time as well. Gilgamesh, the hero of Uruk and warrior king of Sumer, was conquesting for land to expand the empire. It’s here, sometime approximately between 2900bc and 2850bc, that the empire of Sumer begins its march against the Elamites. They already have a pre-recorded history of waging war conquests to claim territory, as indicated by the reclamation of Aratta. We know that they heavily armed their soldiers with swords, javelins, slings, and likely bows with arrows. That hardly sounds like the work of a small kingdom or city-state cluster. Military operations of the Sumerians heavily mirrors that of the Romans, who conducted a series of similar conquests many years later. What we have here is the oldest known emergence of humankind empire games.
Sumer, under the reign of Queen Inanna, was using animals as their weapons of war. Most likely, they were using vultures, native turkish jackals, and something that Inanna called the Anankara. The Anankara was likely a giant hell-bringing animal, and we may already have a depiction of what it actually was. The bull of heaven, or the red cow. It is said that Inanna used the bull to attack Gilgamesh for refusing her sexual advances, and that it was defeated in battle by Gilgamesh and his mysterious companion Enkidu. We actually get the biggest hint about this story from the myth of the Red Heifer in hebrew lore. It’s said that after the red cow was defeated in battle, it was burned and destroyed along with the bodies of heretics and their weapons. This is the first clear lead we have as to why we haven’t collected more human remains from the area. It appears constantly, all throughout sumerian history. The Sumerians were known for cremating their dead. This also likely explains why so many cities were destroyed, and why we have recovered a ton of stone objects without their wooden handles. The history itself has been turned into dust. So if the Sumerians and Elamites were destroying each other, could somebody else have been documenting the history of the region? I believe so. In order to understand what happened between Sumer and Elam, we need to follow the trails of their neighboring brethren. We’ll start with egypt. Gilgamesh rises to power, and in his power Sumeria constructs a building called Nippur.
Nippur, also called Nibru, is a place of sanctity in what looks to be a war torn world. The leader Enlil, said to be the leading intellectual on agriculture and metallurgy of the time, is worshiped in reliefs from the area. It appears to be the host building for a pantheon of rulers that may have ruled the kingdoms of the area. Not kings, necessarily. But perhaps a place where the Ensis of Sumeria gathered to discuss the state of trade and government under the watchful eye of their legendary king who gave them the gift of agriculture. This conflicts with earlier reports that Ensuguhirana believed Inanna had control over the agricultural state of the land, but it also reveals a very interesting detail. As confirmed by the writings of other cultural mythologies, a tribe of survivors emerged from the great flood with knowledge about agriculture, irrigation, metalworking, architecture, tailoring, militarism, and animal taming. Seven grand ideals, all of which serve as the basis for society itself. Perhaps the Anunnaki were not gods, but governors of the first great empire. Perhaps what we now know as Mesopotamia was, in fact, a collection of governments led by the survivors of the catastrophic flood that engulfed the world.
The seven Anunnaki. Who are they? What are they? Where did they come from? To answer that, we first must look at the seven empires that existed at the time. We can confirm that seven empires existed based on the ancient sumerian stone map of the region. First, there is the empire of Sumer, encompassing Sumeria itself as well as Aratta which is possibly Urartu. Next, there is the empire of Elam, who became an empire with the conquering of Mari. Then we have the empire of Irkalla, buried deep within the mountain at Derinkuyu. The fourth empire, Ebla, known for grand illustrious trade, but also for going to war with Mari for one 100 years. The fifth empire, Egypt, is known to have history dating beyond the dawn of civilization. The sixth empire of the Akhaians, a widely spread and rapidly evolving proto-Greek civilization, likely the Argonauts. Akhaian is a derivative of Makhai, the spirit of battle, adopted by Hebrew from Greek. Finally, the seventh empire of the Amorites, which was likely completely destroyed. Their original name was Mari, as indicated by their own original Hebrew name for it “Emori”. It was the adoption of Greek when it became “Amorite”, as the greeks called it “Ammoraῖoi”.
So to answer the question of who the Anunnaki were, there’s a very high probability that the Anunnaki were the puppet-masters for a pantheon of empire leaders attempting to maintain relations with each other. This was a time of considerably large warfare. This was a time when empires were invading empires, and entire civilizations were fracturing outward into more civilizations with entirely different customs. It’s only logical that the leaders of the largest empires of the area would be attempting to maintain their relationships, and with the help of their gods it was possible. They opened trade routes, they spoke of their goods and services, they wrote ledgers for inventory and drew road maps of the areas. They probably burned a great majority of any papyrus documents as a sort of religious cleansing right whenever a society crumbled, so some societies began carving and writing their most important things into stone to preserve and protect their messages from fire, exactly as Enmerkar did for the messenger while corresponding with Aratta. This is perhaps why we have the legendary story of Lugalbanda, as well as the complete beer recipe that accompanies the tale. This is perhaps why the oldest maps in the world were carved into stone tablets. Not everybody is literate. Even today we have a literacy problem. So perhaps the great works of art depicting oddities are actually the remnants of the real story being preserved from the eyes of the carver. We interpret things endlessly, but have we ever actually examined them?
Chapter 4: The Seven Empire Dynasty
Now that we’ve covered the geopolitical landscape and mythology with some minor theory, let’s take a second to establish a clear picture of what society looked like at this time. I’ll designate the entire period encompassing the area as “The Seven Empire Dynasty” dating from 3000bc to 2400bc. This time will encompass the creation of empires from the early city states, up until an event that we’ll designate here as “World War Alpha”, ending with the collapse of the Anunnakite societies, the exodus of the Amorites, the destruction of Sumer, the evacuation of Irkalla, the slaughter of Elam, and the birth of the Akkadian and Babylonian empires.
In the beginning, seven sages spread their knowledge of society to a series of survivalist tribes. Who these sages were, where they came from, is unknown. We can assume that they likely traveled away from one origin point, designated to explore and colonize various areas. We do not know who they were colonizing these areas for, but it can be assumed perhaps that they came from ancient cultures of the Americas, or perhaps one of the many lost continents, sometime after the Younger Dryas or perhaps even earlier. Prior to the ice age of the time, the northern half of America was covered in a giant glacial wall of ice. The clearest representation of what it looked like is modern day Antarctica. But a cataclysmic series of events occurred 12,000 years before the date of writing this, approximately 10,000bc. It’s uncertain, but something melted the giant glacial caps that covered the continent, raising sea levels in what was likely the greatest flash flood of this eon. Astronomers of the time before the flood saw the coming event, and in an effort to keep what they thought was all of humanity alive, they took to the ocean in boats. They likely carried with them all of their knowledge of the world, and how to raise societies.
They first arrived on the Canary Islands, around 1100BC, surviving through long ritualistic interbreeding. While in the Canary Islands, they construct the Pyramids of Tenerife. These pyramids were likely built by the hands of farmers, whom the Anunnaki taught to build Architecture that resembled their own Volcano gods. They later arrive on the beaches of Morocco, on the western edge of Africa circa 1000bc. When they arrived, they got to work creating tools and objects as matters of survival. They also began spreading the unified language system, the earliest cuneiform, likely on papyrus. This is what we now know as the “Iberomaurusian lithic industry”. Over the years, as the Anunnaki spread outward to the east, they would begin to train the local tribes and populations in their societal ways. This created cults of following, who looked to these sages as greater than themselves. They took positions as leaders, surveying lands to erect settlements, eventually developing into the first Caspian Empire. It’s unknown who or what led to the destruction and dispersal of the Caspians, but I do have a theory.
Egypt, circa 7500bce. The descendants of the original Anunnaki, or perhaps successive scholars who took their place through years of study, have been through one thousand years of building society. The time has come for them to move eastward, to continue the growth of civilization. They arrive in Egypt, met by tribes of people living in a desolate and unforgiving landscape. It’s here at this point in Egypt where the Badarian culture first begins to civilize. Once again, the Anunnaki spent 1000 years sharing their knowledge gradually, passing down their wisdom to individually selected scholars who would again travel further into the land. By this point in history, Caspians and Badarians have developed a flourishing trade relationship, leading to the mass production of precious metals and the widespread mining of ore and gemstone.
When the Anunnaki arrive on the other side of the Suez land bridge, they discover a vast territory spreading far to the north, and to that north are plumes of smoke from dying volcanoes. If these Anunnaki really were the Aztecs or Mayans of the Americas, then this is exactly where they would go. To them, the volcanoes were gods. After a very long conquest to the north, the Anunnaki arrive in Irkalla, and they dig the first chambers for what is now known as the underground city of Derinkuyu. The indication is that inhabiting a volcano may have been the goal from the beginning. It’s here at Derinkuyu where Anunnakite apostles began to study death, and they do it using the power of their influence.
Irkalla, apx. 7490bc. The Anunnaki, having been recognized as the progenitors of society, begin to demand animal sacrifices from their subordinates. They begin to make wild and unbelievable claims that they’ll create catastrophic events if their subjects refuse to comply. So the Caspian and Badarian kingdoms start doing something that drastically changes the landscape of Africa. They begin hunting certain animal species into extinction for the sake of appeasing these rulers who, to them, appear as gods. They tell these people to bring their sacrifices over the Aegean Sea and to Irkalla. This is where the association of death with the underworld was born. The Anunnaki spend a lot of time on the death issue. Long enough for a few species to go extinct. But somewhere down the line, something happens and the geopolitical landscape changes dramatically.
There are two possibilities for what took place from apx 7490bc to 7400bc. The first possibility is that the Anunnaki took notice of the extinction of some species of animal. The second is that they discovered something. Whatever the case was, it was around 7400bc where the first Anunnaki war happened. In an effort to collect bodies for the study of death, the Anunnaki order their advanced society, the Caspians, to wage war against the agricultural society of the Badarians. We’ll call this “The Badarian Slaughter”. The Caspians, being the older and more militarized society, effectively genocide the Badarians. Those who didn’t die were likely taken as slaves to rebuild the new Caspibadarian kingdom. In line with the time period, the Caspians likely destroyed all literary and cultural works of their Badarian cousins. They were likely told to religiously cleanse the heretics in fire, leading to the burning of artifacts and any possible scriptures. This all would have happened without any defense or preparation, as the Badarians were only partially capable of defending themselves. t’s unclear what happened in the years that followed but approximately 7000bc, war breaks out once again. This time, the Caspibadarans are attacked by the uncorrupted tribe from the south. This tribe of survivors, known formally as the Nubians, were completely untouched by the hands of the Anunnaki. They likely built their own society in a similar fashion to many of our Native American populations. They were uncorrupted by the doctrine of this religious society, which likely means their warfare tactics were led with surprise and indiscrimination. Whatever the case may be, Nubia and Caspibadaria remained at war for a very long time until around 6500bc. At this time, Caspibadaria is a struggling nation. There’s room to assume that they likely held off large periods of war by establishing trade agreements with the Nubians.
Chapter 5: The Gods Descend from Heaven
At some critical moment near that time, the Anunnaki do something that they’ve never done before. They descend from Irkalla and return to Caspibadaria, and in an effort of great diplomacy; they indoctrinate the elder of the Nubian population and initiate him into their fold. This leads to the creation of a pantheonic meeting place that we now know as Hermopolis. This is evidenced by the depiction of an eighth deity among the Anunnaki in artwork from Hermopolis. It’s likely that this eighth Anunnaki initiate was not actually accepted into the fold, but rather was manipulated into believing he was for political purposes. How do we know the Nubians were not influenced by the Anunnaki? Because they didn’t burn their dead. They weren’t corrupted by the “cleanse in fire” mentality until their own leader became an Anunnaki figurehead.
Around approximately 6000bc, the Nubians and the Caspibadarians had merged into one singular society consisting of two city states, gradually spreading their influence across the region. We’ll refer to this as “The first Anunnakite Empire''. The influence of the Anunnaki was beginning to spread far beyond their own conquest. Their legends and stories were moving, making their way across the Aegean Sea, who may have already been a developed society or who may have been a series of tribes attempting to develop a society. Their influence also likely spread east into China, as well as into other surrounding European societies like Troy. Whatever the case may be, around 5500bc the empire erupted into chaos. A rebellious faction of traditionalists who we now know as the Mermide culture took up refuge with another society of traditionalists known as the Faiyum culture, who had been thriving in the area since 9000bc.
Backing up for a moment, there is an argument to be made that all of these indigenous Afro tribes are actually the remnants of the society of Atlantis. Let’s assume, based on the incredibly strong evidence, that Atlantis was actually situated at the modern day Richat Structure, what we now call “The Eye of the Sahara”. Conveniently positioned directly along the Atlantic coast of Africa. Let's also assume that it was destroyed by some massive catastrophic asteroid or meteor impact event, causing something similar to the destruction caused by one enormous nuclear bomb. It is likely that the population saw the meteor approaching, and evacuated as many of their people as they could. From there, they likely formed the Faiyum population, which then segmented into the various populations of Africa and Egypt. This is evidenced by the way in which they treated their dead. It’s very likely that a lot of people died in Atlantis, which led to the preservation of bodies after death. After what we can only assume was an event that almost caused the extinction of their society, they wouldn’t want to burn or destroy the remains of their loved ones. They would instead hold them closely by burying them under their homes in an attempt to preserve them, as they would have done with wine or vegetables or various oils and fats. This is also most likely why the Anunnaki were easily able to persuade the conquestual tribes. They were probably searching for the secrets of eternal life long before the days of the flood. They arrived, and presented the prospect of bringing the dead loved ones of tribe members back to life if the tribes would do what they were told.
Back to 5500bc, where a war of rebellion erupts. The newly formed Mermide culture starts a rebellion against the Anunnakites. They fashion masks made of clay, and they take on the form of faceless demons in an attempt to intimidate the incredibly religious empire. In an effort to genocide the Mermides, the Anunnakites search the land and eventually come upon the largest Fayum settlement they find. Assuming it’s their attackers, they lay waste. The Faiyum, having long since dispersed into many smaller subcultures throughout the area, are completely destroyed and their remaining settlements join the rebellion. The war wages on for a very long time until eventually, the rebellion is completely annihilated and their culture has been cremated from the earth. Remnants of their war survive on through archeological sites commonly misconstrued to be hunter-gatherer settlements. They are actually more representative of the temporary settlement established by Lugalbanda’s garrison under Aratta at the bottom of the Zubi Mountains.
During this period, the smaller societies of inner Mesopotamia were waging war and conquering each other for land. First, they were Halaf and Hassuna. Likely a pair of warring city states that once were closely diplomatic, they engaged in conflict from apx. 6000bc to 5500bc when they both evolved further into kingdoms. Hassuna grew tremendously into the kingdom of Samarra, and Halaf shrunk tremendously into the struggling city-state of Ubaid. It’s likely that these cultures were also heavily influenced by the Anunnaki. The lack of remains indicates a mass burning of remains, similar to that of Anunnakite tradition. It appears that the Hassunans overpowered the Halafians, forcing them from one territory into another. Eventually, the remaining Ubaidians were absorbed into Samarra as a city-state. This great conquest is where we first officially find the Empire of Sumeria.
The years following this are a dramatic mystery. Following the eruption of the first iteration of the Sumerian empire, megalithic structures started to emerge all over the surrounding continents. The tales and legends of the Anunnaki are spreading like wildfire, and the languages and interpretations are changing. Eventually, the entire surrounding world comes to accept the gods of the mountain as their respective leaders. There are established rules for areas beyond Mesopotamia that further evidence this theory. In every area beyond that carries the legends; The gods do not interfere in the affairs of mortals. How could they? It was hundreds of miles just to traverse their own province. The gods of places like Greece, Rome, Norway and other Germanic/Slavic/Indo/China countries mirror this ideology. They also share the same commonality. It is assumed that the Anunnaki were all working for one ultimate leader that nobody knew. The Japanese mimicked this behavior centuries later, disallowing the public to view their emperor as he was seen as a deity beyond mortal comprehension. It is safe to assume that the Anunnaki had one greater mind who either led them or wrote their “seven sacred measures” to lead themselves.
Chapter 6: The Epic of Gilgamesh
After many years of society changing, evolving and moving positions; we finally arrive at the pinnacle time period. Approximately 3200bc, Anunnakite has grown into incomprehensible size for a society of the time. For two hundred years, they gradually transition into the Egyptian empire, beginning the first dynasty in approximately 3000bc. The royal Enmerkar, family who’s been ruling over the land of Sumeria for generations, has grown into a ripe imperial power as well, and begins construction of the city of Uruk. Far away in the Zubi mountains, the Anunnaki have gained influence over a mountain dwelling Lullubi tribe, and they construct the city of Aratta. This serves to be the closest possible source of human bodies for the Anunnaki study of death. The unfortunate reality for this tribe was that they were essentially a domesticated human cattle farm. Their leader, Queen Inanna, was likely a replacement.
Approximately 2990 BC, Queen Inanna dies, and is replaced by a selectively bred doppelganger who was probably ritualistically replaced every few decades. She travels by leopard-back south for hundreds of miles until she arrives at Uruk while still in the midst of construction. She sways the current Enmerkar into forcing his servants to construct a megalithic temple in her honor, and he obliges. Not because of her looks or personality, but because he sees this woman adorned with precious metals and gemstones like nothing he’s ever seen before accompanied by a tamed animal that was likely a notorious source of attacks on the Sumerian people. To him, this is a godly presence, and a grand opportunity. He must have thought that by appeasing Inanna, he could further expand his growing empire. We already know, that did eventually happen. Sumeria would go on to annex Aratta, to the great dismay of the Anunnaki. The Anunnaki, having been conquered by a rogue empire of their own design, enlists the help of a different tribe of people to lead a war against Sumeria.
Those people were the Elamites. Elam, having been formed around 3200bc, is likely a subordinate offshoot of Sumerian culture, as well as escaped Ubaidians, that believed the empire had forsaken the gods. This led to subordination and rapid growth born of a disdain for Sumeria’s lack of adherence to the gods, and in approximately 2990bc the Elamites attacked. The evidence to support the growing godlessness of Sumeria is reflected in their remaining stone tablets. The Sumerians believed that their kings and heroes were godly figures, just as much as their actual godly figures were. To the eyes of any devout Anunnaki follower, this would have been heresy. It’s very likely that the site we believe to be evidence of the oldest known war is actually a military checkpoint from one of the final conquests of the war.
The Elamites likely didn’t just attack this empire unprepared. They may have spent decades or even an entire century preparing for this war. Picture it: Mass logging leads to the decimation of a lot of wilderness, and the creation of a lot of war devices. Much of this would have been large sharpened wooden X shaped barriers bound in rope, as well as walls or dugouts to protect from arrows, javelins and sling bullets. The Sumerians, being of Anunnaki influence, burn their enemies and all of their possessions. The Elamites do the same. The ashes have likely been naturally buried and shifted over centuries.
The time comes. The turn of the decade, approximately 2990bc. The Elamites invade Sumeria, and are forced to retreat inland. Sumeria, being effectively blindsided by what they perceive to be an act of terrorism, mobilizes into the east gradually seizing territory over a long time. It’s likely that over the course of one decade, the front moved from the border of Elam into the territory. Sumeria, likely fighting their way through checkpoints and ambushes, intended to take control of the entire territory to begin the annexation of Elam. This did not happen fast, and actually gradually got much slower as they gained more control. Based on the story of Lugalbanda; The Sumerians had a very concise method of conducting military operations.
First, they would seize the checkpoint in battle. Once the checkpoint was seized, the remains, possessions and structures of the Elamites would all be cremated. The garrison that seized control of the checkpoint would remain until a messenger delivered a message back to the palace, to wit a new garrison would deploy to the checkpoint. Once the new garrison arrived, the battle garrison was allowed to mobilize further to seize the next point. This did not come without its challenges. The battle garrison would have to hold their position at every checkpoint for an increasingly longer period of time to alot for travel distance. This opened them to attacks, raids, captures, and probably acts of horror. This also meant waiting long periods of time for supplies like food, water, medicine, new weapons, ammunition and more. This was not a fast war, or a quick assimilation. None of the other occupations were either. These military campaigns, likely devised in nature by the Anunnaki or their origin, took a very long time. The travel was slow, the conditions were horrific, and the casualty rate is likely bigger than any estimate I could possibly give. Though, if I had to give an estimate based on archaeological digs, my guess is that at least 100,000 people died fighting in Anunnaki centric wars. At least.
Approximately 2985 bc. The people of the struggling human farm of Aratta are unwell, unhappy and uncared for. They’ve gained wind of the struggles of the Sumerian army on the Elamite front, and they decide that it’s time to fight back and regain control of their territory. Through a series of small clandestine incursions, they sew chaos throughout Sumeria, sending the signal that they are willing to retaliate. A garrison of very young prospective soldiers, maybe in their teenage years, is sent into the base of the Zubi mountains to reconquer Aratta. Among them is Lugalbanda, who is likely poisoned from toxic foliage or a venomous animal bite while traveling through a treacherous location. His empathetic young compatriots, not wanting to burn their brother in arms, leave him in a cave on the path and expect him to die. The young soldier wakes up in a fit of adrenaline, and makes his way to the crater lake at Zubi by accident. There, he meets a tribe that keeps him healthy until eventually tames a steed and rejoins his garrison a few days later at a checkpoint that they’ve established a few miles away from the base of the mountain. Lugalbanda makes himself a hero by taking the role of the traveler who can survive through these notoriously deadly wilderness areas. Over time, he’s chosen to lead the campaign against Aratta until he eventually takes a position of power as the Arattite Ensir. Here on the mountain, he meets Ereshkigal, sister of Inanna. Their relationship was close, they even get married. But the real motivation for Ereshkigal is to produce a son.
The Anunnaki, knowing that the conquest to maintain Aratta had failed, sent Ereshkigal as a sort of clandestine envoy. Her position in the grand scheme of things is to get impregnated by this Sumerian warrior as a sort of selective breeding process. This is where the story of Gilgamesh begins. He was likely born in Derinkuyu, or Irkalla as it was known at the time. He was born among the Anunnaki who, like with their children, trained Gilgamesh in all of their knowledge before they sent him into the world with a plan for how to take control of the country of Sumer. Some of the stories of Gilgamesh in the epic may actually be training sessions or moments of enlightenment from before he arrived in Uruk. Regardless of his upbringing, he arrives in Uruk circa 2970bc. When he arrives, he meets a man who was probably planted for the impending clandestine takeover. He eventually catches the eye of Inanna because of his resemblance to Lugalbanda. She’s searching for a new king to rule at this point, and she’s likely also a replacement for the queen Inanna who was there before her, so she makes a sexual advance on Gilgamesh knowing that she has to assign a king to maintain control while she travels for the long replacement ritual. Gilgamesh rejects her advancement. She’s sort of bewildered by this, she isn’t used to men who turn her away like that, so she invites Gilgamesh to the palace to learn more about him.
Gilgamesh tells Inanna that he’s a wild man who was born in a cave and grew up in the wilderness of the mountains. They do some woodworking, they drink some beer, they talk about the world and somewhere during all of this; Inanna figures out that Gilgamesh is her relative. Or at least, she figures out that he grew up with the Anunnaki in Irkalla. This is a politically unsettling situation for Inanna. She doesn’t quite know what to make of the spy that’s obviously been planted in her city, and she begins to fear that he may be there to lead a rebellion from the inside. She decides to put a close consort of hers in control of the city temporarily so she can travel to Egypt. By this point, Egypt had separated themselves from the Anunnaki to focus on their own conquest for eternal life, which led to the preservation of a large number of mummies to be recovered later. Specifically, the Egyptians wanted to preserve their greatest leaders and warriors.
In the legend of the underworld, Inanna marries a man named Djoser, a hypersexual man. In Egypt, he was known as Djet, the son of Djer, and is unrelated to the Djoser/Djeser who was founding pharaoh of the third dynasty. Inanna arrives in Egypt, and Djet who has been ruling Egypt for only 10 years, catches Inanna’s attention as the apparent leader of this empire. She sees the security from the massive military scale of the Egyptians, and she seduces Djet. Djet leaves his wife in Egypt to rule over the throne, and he departs for Sumeria with Inanna to get married in Uruk. When they arrive back in Sumeria, Inanna discovers that Gilgamesh has made a hero of himself in the city by killing a rampant bull, likely released by the clandestine operative that Gilgamesh met when he arrived. This is evidenced by the ease with which Gilgamesh and friend are written to have exercised. This doesn’t just make him a hero to Uruk and the people. It also makes him a hero to queen Inanna, who now disbelieves what she originally thought, which is that Gilgamesh was from Irkalla.
Chapter 7: The Real Descent into the Underworld
Inanna let her guard down. She assigns Gilgamesh the position of Ensi of Uruk, which is a position of immense power, and she consorts with him on a great number of things. Sometime around 2960bc, the time comes for Inanna to perform the replacement ritual. It’s likely that she was supposed to travel to the mountain, where a girl selectively bred to look like her would take her place. The first Inanna likely bred with the lone son of the Anunnaki, and that daughter was sent out to rule. Later, she bred a second daughter to replace Inanna when she reached a certain age. When the first daughter came back to replace her mother, they bred the next Inanna, likely the same to replace the father. The second daughter then took position as Inanna to the public, until it was time for her to replace her sister. The ritual continues forward for many generations until the Inanna of Gilgamesh.
Inanna departs from Sumeria with Djet as the new interim king, and Gilgamesh as the real figure of authority. Their instructions are to mourn her with a festival if she doesn’t return from the mountain, and it’s actually probably Djet that organizes the mourning event. Gilgamesh accompanies Inanna halfway through the valley, and she has a good reason for bringing him along. She tells Gilgamesh that she is almost certainly going to die in the underworld, so she gives him a sack with dried plants and a waterskin. She probably tells Gilgamesh something like “In three days, send your two most trusted subordinates to the mountain and have each of them carry one of these ingredients. When they arrive, Ereshkigal will be in labor. Tell them to enter by force and demand the return of my body and tell them to mix these ingredients and pour them into my mouth. I will come back to you.”
The day comes, and Gilgamesh sends his servants with the ingredients to go recover Inanna. Meanwhile, he’s in Uruk actively seizing control of the Sumerian kingdom from the inside. The town celebrates a day of mourning for Inanna, and the public is mingling and conversing, drinking beer, singing and playing music, and for the average person it’s probably a very meaningful occasion. In the palace, Gilgamesh captures and imprisons Djet until Inanna returns. He tells Inanna that Djet didn’t respect her wishes and refused to mourn at her funeral, so she has a convoy deliver Djet to the mountain. By this time, his sexual adrenaline rush is completely gone, so Djet looks at this like an opportunity. His culture broke away from the worship of the Annunaki traditionalism in favor of researching death and the afterlife. This was his chance to get up close and personal with them, and that’s probably exactly what he did.
Before that, let’s talk about the resurrection of Inanna. It’s very likely that what she gave to Gilgamesh wasn’t actually anything meaningful. It was more or less for the benefit of the subordinates that Gilgamesh sent, in order to maintain the illusion that a mix of special ingredients from the gods could bring the dead back to life. It’s likely that the new replacement Inanna was hung by the dress on a brass hook, among real dead, used to make the spectator believe that she was absolutely dead. Being a place that experimented on the dead, spectators probably saw hanging bodies and considered them “the souls” of the dead. That’s not to say there are no souls, or there is no god. On the contrary, matter cannot be created or destroyed.
To close the story of Djet, it is very likely that when he arrived on the Mountain, he volunteered to share the research that his own empire was conducting on the dead. There are two simultaneous consequences for that decision. The first is that the Annunaki no longer trust their empires to remain loyal to them, so they begin to disperse themselves among their most dedicated followers. The seven greatest emperors and pharaohs of the region would be overseen by one of the seven Anunnaki. I do not believe the delegated Anunnaki from the original occupation survived, nor do I think he passed his position to an heir. It is likely that his position remained destitute for centuries.The Anunnaki, having not revealed themselves for centuries, take on the appearances of scholars who publicly appear to be top level advisors to their leaders.
The second major consequence is the destruction of the pantheon. With all of the Anunnaki dispersed into the surrounding empires, there is nobody to maintain the replacement ritual. The two daughters and one son of the Anunnaki likely took suitors from the Arattites, leading them to believe that demigods walked among their people. These families born from the Anunnaki children probably saw themselves as greater than the rest of the population, which would sew great societal discourse for generations. These demigods likely dispersed into the surrounding areas and beyond, spreading mythical tales of their conquests and their power to the unsuspecting people of the world. Over time, this would lead to the destruction of the unified Cuneiform language of Anunnakite, and the creation of many other derivative languages.
Sometime during the late reign of Gilgamesh, a temple was constructed on a hill in a place called Nippur, likely ordered by Gilgamesh at the request of his nearby Anunnaki advisor. That building became the new pantheon for the Anunnaki to congregate. They now had regained control of the individual empires, and they needed a place to meet somewhere in the middle. When they arrived in town, the town probably threw a festival and left offerings at their temple as a sort of penance, but then they would enclose themselves inside away from the public and this is where the business was conducted. They would probably discuss matters of trade, architectural expansion, and most importantly; their research of the dead. It’s very unlikely that the Anunnaki actually directed or planned any major military engagements at this point in time.
The culture of Nippur has a very interesting trademark feature of its own. It’s described as the “city of demons” in some ancient stone literature. Throughout history, this iconography of the demon is usually represented by a Jackal, which I believe to be completely accurate. Jackals would have been among the first animals that the Anunnaki would tame on arrival in mount Nemrut. Consider our modern canine companions who serve in warfare today. It would not be surprising to find that dog creatures were used as weapons of war. At a time without firearms, it would be even less surprising to find that the public would consider them certain death. Nippur was likely a place highly inhabited by Jackals, and it may have even been a place where Jackals were bred domestically to maintain a supply of them as expendable weapons.
Chapter 8: The Reconstruction, Repatriation and Revelation
During the last days of his rule, Gilgamesh ordered the mass destruction of the temples that Enmerkar previously constructed. It wasn’t to disrupt the religious beliefs of the public or replace the iconography, but instead to expand on it. The temple of Inanna in Uruk was likely reconstructed as a megalithic pyramid structure with large underground chambers, possibly intended with the same purpose as the Egyptian pyramids. The underground chambers were to be used as giant storage containers for the dead, so that the Anunnaki could recover them later for examination. They likely wanted to study the many different stages of death, and to do that they would need places to store bodies for a relatively unlimited amount of time. These megalithic temples serve to be a refrigerator for human death research.
Five of the seven empires stood firm under the grip of the Anunnaki by this point. The two outliers were Amorites, and the Aegeans. For a long time, the Amorites are of little consequence and not important to the grand scope of things. The Aegeans, however, are a completely different situation. They likely came as pilgrims, not seeking to colonize the land but rather, looking to establish trade relations and alliances. On their side of the sea, a brand new kingdom was growing at a rapidly increasing rate, and it was aiming for the conquest of the aegean. This was the kingdom of Rome, which had been growing steadily for about five thousand years. Romulus’ theory that the Romans deliberately became a unified kingdom in the middle of the 8th century bc is a work of fiction, but it’s not entirely fiction.
It’s very likely that the first settlements that became the kingdom of Rome were having internal conflict for generations before congregating. Their militarized population would have gradually evolved from small village warfare into large-scale conquests as city-states, until finally one emerged victorious. Rome was likely the victorious settlement, and it most certainly wouldn’t have been called Rome back then. For a more real depiction, we’ll refer to them as the Jebusites, long misconceived to be an offshoot group of the Amorites.But instead of translating the meaning of Jebusite into Hebrew, let’s instead translate it into something more related. Latin.
“Jeb” in Hebrew means “Beloved Friend”. “Us” is a denomination for “God with us”. But according to the Hebrews of the old testament, this is the exact opposite of the Jebusites. So let’s translate into Latin instead. “Jeb” is not a latin word, but it does have a very close and fitting derivative. The latin word “Gens” translates to “clan” or “people” or “tribe”. The word “us” in latin translates to “foreign”. So “Jebusite” becomes “Gensusite”, which was probably misheard by a scribe when one of them described himself or his clan as “Gensus” which translates to “Foreign people” or “Gensusus” which translates to “People with the advantage”. This may have been a miscommunication from one scribe to another, or perhaps an early indication of partial deafness in people of the period. Whatever the case may be, I am convinced that the Jebusites were actually an occupying force from Rome, likely Gensusus, as that is more fitting with the proper noun format used throughout latin documents.
The Aegean Warning couldn’t have come soon enough. Between 2950 and 2890, the Gensusus Army sailed through the coast of the Aegean sea waging war on the inhabitants of the Orchomenus. At the time, they were the Corinthians, but as the Gensusites conquested through the sea, they were forced to retreat into what is now known as Cyprus. There, they established a commercial relationship with the Egyptians who saw great value in their seafaring and mining capabilities. This alliance with an Anunnakite Empire led to substantial growth throughout the island, and eventually multiple city states were erected into what we’ll just call the Argonaut Empire. The Hebrew people, somewhere down the way, merged their own language with Greek to create a term for them. The Perizzites. This is not a Hebrew word, despite the “ite” suffix. This is actually a Greek word. “Periz” is the greek word for “To break through” and “ites” directly translates to “stone”. From this, we can gather that the Hebrew people had enough respect to give them a name from their own language, despite not knowing what their culture was called.
To the Hebrews, as well as to the entirety of the Anunnakite Empires, the Argonauts were miners. They broke stones of all kinds and shipped them to every society in the Anunnakite territories. In order to ensure the smooth flow of commerce, as well as account for the distribution of materials, the Argonauts built a city-state inside of the center valley, in the place the Hebrews called Canaan. Near the same period, the Gensusus army sends a colony ship to land on the shores of the and they erect the city of “Diudeus”, which directly translates to “God for a long time” or “God by day”. This is the city that the Hebrews incorrectly referred to as “Judea”. In Hebrew, “Ju” means “Praise” and “Dea” means “Knowledge”. I think you can piece that one together. This style of mistranslation matches that of the Jebusite/Gensusus mistake.
The revelation. How can I describe it? Many things were revealed to many people and societies at this time, around the same time. For the Anunnakites, the emergence of civilizations outside of their control is the next in a series of never ending wars. They had been conducting clandestine style infiltration and influence for centuries by this point. But the Gensusus likely did the same thing. The Gensusus army was a well developed machine, having conquested the oceans beyond that of what their neighbors had touched. Through a series of wars and occupations, they developed a tactical methodology that worked like the clandestine operations of the Anunnaki and the military operations of the Sumerian Empire combined. They were unafraid of the Anunnaki, and didn’t actually believe in them as gods because they had begun to develop their own belief in one singular god. We can infer that the god of Gensusus was Sol Invictus, and that the Hebrew also adapted Greek words to mistranslate his name into “Sol o Mon” which directly translates from Greek into “The Lone Sun”. Speaking of that, the people of Mari were the first to be corrupted by the demigods of Aratta. Contrary to popular belief, “Demigod” does not mean “Half god”. It actually means “Earth God”. This is correlated by “Demi” meaning Earth in both Greek and Latin.
By approximately 2800bc, the Demigods had taken tight holds over the Emorites. They were convincing cults to follow them as gods, and word was spreading to the neighboring Empires. The Anunnaki, learning of the growing heresy, commissioned the army of Ebla to march on Mari for the first time. There’s no real way of knowing how long this war lasted because this was not a part of the documented Mariote war, but there is confirmation of the corruption of the demigods. At some point down the line, the Mari people started introducing new “Semitic” gods into their societies. This led to the eventual introduction of burying their dead instead of burning them, which is likely passed on from a demigod born from a Zubi tribe member. The first kingdom of Mari was occupied by the army of Ebla, who gradually tried to purify the heretical introductions. In doing so, the first city of Mari was destroyed and rebuilt. It is likely that the Eblaites maintained political and economic control during the reconstruction of the city. It’s also very likely that they were executing semitic heretics who refused to subjugate.
It’s hard to put a timeframe on when the semitic peoples deserted their polytheism in favor of Gensusus ideology, but the event is pretty contextually clear. The city of the Emorites was besieged, destroyed and rebuilt back into a subordinate of Ebla. Their own people were getting burned, and likely having the remains of their loved ones desecrated and burned as well. Through all of this, the demigods did nothing. In doing so, they created a new faction of people. The Eblaites took the Emorites as slaves, and moved westward to construct a city called Eshnunna as part of the Eblaite expansion. Ebla kept a tight hold on this city until the fall of Sumeria. In that time, escaped slaves and those who escaped during the original siege of Mari dispersed into the surrounding area
The first Mari city was “Ka a ul nay”, or Calneh in the later Nimrodian era. Ka’a’ul’nay directly translates from Sumerian to “The Ancient Place of Water” or “The rural place of water”. Bold claim, I know. But the fact is that there is no other place that it could be.The original population of Mari, the exiles and heretics, were expelled with the creation of the second city Ka’a’ul’nay, which was likely under the control of one of the Ensis of the Sumerian empire. If we consider the “Ancient” translation, it may be that Mari was among the first societies to fall during the original conquest of Sumeria by the royal Enmerkar family era, which is alluded to by multiple different accounts, but different people took credit for it over thousands of years. It likely predates the flood, and may actually be the original residence of Noah. When Noah is converted into the sumerian equivalent “Nu u a” it directly translates to “Man who rode the water”, likely not in relation to the flood itself. Noah had existing knowledge of boats, likely because he lived along the riverbank at the first city of Mari. Because of this, we can infer that he may have been the king of a culture that used boats as methods of trading with societies before the flood.
There was one more revelation. Egypt, the epicenter of death and dying men for thousands of years, was crumbling under the weight of war between its own north and south kingdoms. In the midst of this, a ruler held north Egypt for 41 years. His name was “Senedj” to his people. To the Anunnaki and Sumerians, he was “Si nè de ĝe” which translates to “Our Silent Rain Oracle” possibly indicating that a comet struck the water, acidifying the nearby sea, causing the mass death of crops. At the exact same time, Egypt began its civil war for the second dynasty, possibly to annex the fresh southern water of the Nile river.
Chapter 9: Empire Games, Guerillas, and the Ebony Throne
His name was Mebarasi. From Sumerian to English, he was the “Oracle of Battle”, but this is likely not his real name. His real name is Gilgamesh, and he is not the man who once infiltrated the city of Uruk to become its leader. Gilgamesh, like Emnerkar, becomes a family name passed down through generations of leaders among the family Gilgamesh. The Gilgamesh dynasty up until this point has been a faithful member of the Anunnakite world economy, acting as a peacekeeping authority and liaison. But there is political unrest, corruption of the gods by Irkalla, and the growing city of Diodeus situated in what is now modern day Jerusalem. By every account, the land was empty when the Gensusus army landed on the shores. That’s why they chose this position. The Gensusus army was attempting to establish a militant barrier between the island of Heraklion and the mainland, effectively strangling the trade routes of the Argonauts of Cyprus.
The Anunnaki, now faced with the prospect of further destabilization in a time when their greatest empires are all co-equally at war, decide to stir the pot for one final grand hurrah. They order Gilgamesh to march on Elam sometime in the early or middle 2700bc period. Gilgamesh does as requested, and marches against the rising city-states of Elam, defeating one of them in what can only be described as a massacre. It is in this period where the states of Elam manifest destiny, and travel westward to campaign against the Anunnakite empires. The entire region erupts into war and chaos. Cities begin to fall faster than they can be built. Literature is burned in mass by the retaliating Elamite kingdoms. The situation is desperate, so the remnants of the empires elevate the status of Mebarasi to Enmebaragesi. Most translations get this wrong. The real translation is “High Oracle of the Black Throne”. This was likely due to his success during the first incursion into Elam. The throne itself, likely fashioned out of Ebony from Egypt or Obsidian from Nemrut. More likely Ebony, and most likely crafted during the reign of Djet.
So here’s the landscape; In Egypt, there is the civil war of the Egyptians and remnants of the Thinites, who were once the Nubians. regions, each vying for control of the uncontaminated south Nile river. Sumeria marches on Elam, and both countries establish checkpoints through the region. Elam begins to march on Sumeria, conquering small city-states, causing more reformation of writing and religion in the area. Ebla is occupying the territory of Mari, and the Emori people have dispersed to the east, erecting tent settlements that move continuously. The demigods of Irkalla are corrupting Lullubi tribes, convincing them that Ebla is heretical. The tribes establish encampments to the north, and launch raids against the city of Ka’a’ul’ne, likely destroying parts of it that were later rebuilt again. The Argonauts, led by “Ge sun’ which translates to “humble leader”, are establishing ties with the mobilized semitic people to the east. They establish a route around the Gensusus canal stranglehold, and in exchange provide supplies and materials to the nomads to erect settlements. In this time, the Argonauts are also exchanging literature and scholarship in an effort to combine their languages. This is Aramoid, the proto-basis for the language that would become Aramaic, later Hebrew. “Ara ma a” in Sumerian translates to “Escaped Slaves of the Canal'' tying them to Mari on the river, and confirming that they were, in fact, escaped slaves of the Eblaite occupation.
Elam forms a coalition of kingdoms and establishes an eastern border outside of Ebla. The Aramoids to the west are preparing themselves to reconquer their territory. To the north, Irkallan demigod tribes are spreading outward into northern territories, leaving the once populated mountain in favor of Armenia to the north. A segmented faction of Aramoids moves south into the valley, where they indoctrinate themselves in the monotheistic Gensusus religion, we’ll call it “Jupitusus”, worship of the sun. In this time, the Gensusus army conquers a city north of Diodeus. The Sumerians called it “Da a mas kus” which translates to “surrounded by water canals”, implying that Gensusus erected the city in the center of the canals along the modern Barada river. It’s safe to assume that the Gensusus actually called this place “Erromaris” or “The Astray Sea” possibly in reference to the many canal splits of the Barada river. The original name of this place, by the Amaroids, is “Arimathea”.
Arimathea was likely constructed by the Argonauts, and later settled by the first Aramoid exiles from Mari. After its capture by Gensusus, the Aramoids likely moved just a little further into the valley. Here, they constructed the settlement of Ekallatum under the leadership of the Argonauts. Later, the Sumerian Empire would recognize this city as “na a se ru ut” which translates into “The group of river servants”. Later, Hebrew would incorporate a more Sumerian basis under the Babylonian empire, leading to the creation of the word “Nasrat” which would eventually evolve into Nazareth. This would become the primary stronghold for the alliance between the Argonauts and the Aramoids. They would then construct another city called “Gum ur ha” which translates from Sumerian into “Made of assorted bricks”, possibly suggesting that it was a combination of Amoroid clay and Argonaut mud bricks.
Around 2648bc, the Gensusus sends clandestine operatives into Gumurha, meanwhile the Amorite/Argonaut expansion is continuing forward into a city that the Sumerians would call “Sa ad am” which translates to “Surround and Drive Away'', indicating that the final king Gilgamesh of the Sumerian empire did actually participate in warfare against the city of Sodom. It is very likely that Gilgamesh led the first military campaign against the city of Sodom, but was driven back and absconded for his failure. The family Gilgamesh was removed from primary power over the Anunnaki globalist societies, and power was given to Kaderla’mar of Ebla. At this time, the empire of Ebla had grown into a militarized powerhouse, having conquered Mari. Whereas Sumeria was losing the war against Elam. This marks the end of the UR I dynasty in Mesopotamia, the end of the first Anunnakite empire, and the beginning of the second Anunnakite empire. This began the era of inter-imperial combat sports such as wrestling and boxing, likely off-shot from a story of Enmerkar that was likely more complete at the time. Combat sports became a symbolic method of handling disputes without waging war, so that the Empires could converge their efforts for the growing opposing empires.
The mass reformation of territory over the last century at this time likely spun out of control very quickly. With the emergence of the Argoamorites in the median valley, the tremendous growth of Ebla, the reconciliation of north and south Egypt under Sekhemkhet, the invasion of the Elamites who establish of the city of Azupiranu as a predecessor to the Akkadian Empire, and the conquest of coverage by the Gensusus; it is likely that hundreds, nay, thousands of nomadic micro-societies began to spread throughout the region. This likely led to the creation of cults, including those who kidnapped for sacrifices to appease their bastardized gods. It’s at this time where the first thieves guilds of the area are formed, leading to the mass disappearance and destruction of valuable artifacts from various empires. This is indicated by the repatriation of the original Map Tablet of Sumeria and the Planisphere, which were later appropriated into the Sun Map of Babylon. The two maps were found in Nineveh, Assyria when they should have been found in either the Temple of Inanna in Uruk, or the Royal Cemetery of Ur.
This suggests that the conquest of Akkadia began in Assyria, likely in the city of Azupiranu before it was a city. It is very likely that a thief stole the Sumerian map as well as the Planisphere, but that thief was later captured or killed by Akkadians who then seized them. They likely used this set of maps to determine where and when they would conquest against the Sumerians and Eblaites. It’s likely that by this point in time, they had no interest in the Argonauts, Argoamorites, Gensusus, or offshoot tribes of the west. This was a retaliatory occupation against Ebla and Sumeria, primarily driven by the original Eblaite invasion. At this time, the corrupted Lullubi tribes surrounding Irkalla would all be massively corrupted by the legends of the demigods. The Akkadians appear to only partially subject themselves to Anunnaki ideology, indicated by their variety of sub-deity iconography.
So let's recap: The second Anunnaki globalist empire forms under the rise of Kaderla’mar of Ebla. The Anunnakite empires begin to strengthen their relationship through diplomatic relations and interimperial athletic events, similar to the Olympics. Egypt, Sumeria, and Ebla are the last three major strongholds of Anunnakite ideology. The original Anunnakite ideology is crumbling under the current generation of Anunnaki. Their widespread study of death is halted, but Egypt maintains their own independent research. Meanwhile, the Argoamorites are building their intermingled greco-mori empire, likely to establish military and scholarly relations. Azupiranu settles, and the Argoamorites build an alliance with them to establish a trade route beneficial to both parties. This is the temporary empire of Argoamoria, which would later repatriate into the Akkadian empire. Gensusus, being a militant civilization, is conducting clandestine operations within Argoamoria, likely planning an invasion against the Argonauts. It is unlikely that they had any interest in the Amorite population until they first discovered Amorite refugees among the Argonauts. It is also unlikely that they had any interest in Sumeria. The Gensusus appeared to place their sole focus on the destruction of the Argonauts. This is likely due to a failed campaign against Gensusus during the earliest establishment of Rome.
Chapter 10: Gensusus and the Argonauts
I’ve mentioned the “Argonauts” a few times now, but this is not the Argonauts of the bastardized poet mythologies. The legend of the Argonauts orally predates Argonautica written by Apollonia of Rhodes, which itself is predated by the works of Homer. Homer himself was a blind monk who was likely told stories of the pre-hellenic kingdoms, and later twisted them into allegories for his own political unrest. Real accounts of the Argonauts were likely destroyed when their culture was destroyed, predating the great boredom of Greek philosophy.
So who are the Argonauts? To that Effect, who are Gensusus? Well, unfortunately most of the earliest Aegean literature was likely destroyed in the burning of the Library of Alexandria. But we do have some indication of who these people were, and proof that they were in this region. We’ll cover the Gensesus first, followed by the Argonauts.
The age is Chalcolithic, the location is Spain, and the people are a thriving empire who conduct trade with the African continents and Egypt. These people, by their own description, are Gensusus. This highly advanced Iberian culture was not a hunter-gatherer band of survivors. Rather, this particular Island was a thriving source of precious materials crucial to the scientific work of Egypt. Through tremendous growth of economy, ship technology and trade; they become a kingdom worthy of becoming an empire. To the east lay the Island of Sardinia, a foothold and median position to resupply the crews of ships who were conducting illustrious trade through the ocean, and a port city for safe harbor in the event of storms. The population of the Gensusus empire is growing rapidly between the islands.
The conquest of Italy began long before the arrival of Gensusus in Mesopotamia. I’m not entirely sure when the society itself began, but it’s safe to assume that it began in Spain, and quickly expanded into the surrounding islands to set up a trade network. When they arrived in Italy, likely on the modern beach of Isola Sacra, they immediately began the colonization of Rome. But there was another empire with a similar thought. A competing empire to the further east in the Aegean sea had already been on a very long conquest to inhabit the land of Italy. This society was the proto-greco navalists; Thebians. Based on archaeological evidence, thousands of battles took place across the entire land of Italy. The Gensusus likely referred to them as “Arma Nauta” which translates to “Sailors with Weapons” and this was likely because they were first attacked by the Thebian navy. These empire games are a story for another day, but the story ends with Gensusus emerging victorious over Thebes. The Gensusus empire now encompasses the provinces of Italy, controlling the complex trade routes from Gensusus colonies through the Mediterranean and Ionian seas. This pre-dates the romanization of Latin from Cuneiform into Phonetic. It is much more likely that the Phonetic alphabet was developed later by the enslaved Argoamoritic people in Phoenicia after the conquest of the Roman Empire. It was likely developed as a way for slaves and rebellions to communicate with each other as a form of code. Speaking Latin was not optional, it was mandatory, and that generation of Argoamorites knew that they could never keep secrets if they wrote in Latin Cuneiform. Latin Cuneiform existed in the area long before the occupation of the roman empire.
The empire games of Gensusus, Thebes, Sparta, possibly Atlantis, and the other pre-chalco empires is a story for another book. But there are two stories left here to tell that are relevant to this. The first of those is the invasion of Heraklion. Whether it was to conquer the whole of Greece, or merely to seize the trade route and take power over trade in the region; Gensusus invaded Heraklion and the Aegean islands. This didn’t just disrupt the flow of goods from Thebes, but also Athens. The Athenians and Thebians establish an allied barricade of the Aegean sea stretching to the island of Rhodes. The east canal of Rhodes becomes a passing point to exit from the Aegean sea, so that Cyprus can be established as the primary Greek trade route.
To no avail, the Gensusus conquest of the Aegean islands was long and brutal. It likely led to the development of more advanced Gensusus weaponry, as well as more advanced shipping for all parties. Unfortunately for them, the invasion wasn’t causing as much damage to the trade relations between Thebes, Athens and Egypt, which seemed to be their penultimate goal. It’s uncertain how long this island-to-island war raged, but one thing is certain. This all happened from approximately 3800bc to 2950bc. At that time, the island of Rhodes was inhabited by the land army of Athens, as well as colonists likely from Thebes, Athens and Sparta. Their populace was there to establish a permanent allied stronghold, and it was brilliant.
Rhodes is a tactically advantageous position for defense against an invasion. To the immediate northwest is Sparta, a population of struggle and warfare. To the immediate northeast is Athens, a government of rising power. To the south is Alexandria, the landing zone for trade and commerce between peoples. The position of Rhodes allows for the defense of the eastern Aegean island cluster, leaving the path to the west guarded entirely by the land army of Athens. In order to strangle the Greek trade route, the Gensusus would have to take land and sea control of the entire Aegean island cluster. This is not a small campaign. We’re talking about centuries of occupation and fighting, all while the empires of Mesopotamia, Egypt and the rest of the east are at war on the other side of the sea. By approximately 2990bc, the frustrated empires have been at war for almost a thousand years.
The frustrated Gensusus empire, having expended generations of men and resources, likely elects their greatest war hero as their leader, and they want his advice on how to win the war. For a thousand years they’ve been fighting for these islands, and for a thousand years they’ve been getting nowhere. This leader, their hero, knows that the Aegean islands are an impenetrable force, so he decides that they must become an immovable object.They plant themselves in Heraklion as a permanent outpost, and they keep fighting the war in the islands, but it isn’t to take control of them. The new objective is to travel to Mesopotamia and establish a naval embargo that cuts Cyprus off from Alexandria. But Rhodes is incredibly close to Heraklion, and these cultures had been fighting for a long time. It’s likely that Rhodes had a clandestine envoy operating inside of Heraklion, who then departs from Heraklion to spread the word. But he isn’t going to the kings of Greece. He’s going to warn their allies in the Anunakkite empires that a powerful invading force is about to occupy mesopotamian land.
If the Gensusus empire still had trade routes working at the time, it wasn’t in this part of the world. It was on the other side of the world, into the European territories. They weren’t stupid, they knew that this new land to the east would potentially be inhabited by somebody, but they didn’t really care. They sailed in a straight line directly in the path between Cyprus and Alexandria, and in approximately 2895bc they landed on the beaches of Tel Aviv, and they conquested inward to the first fertile soil where they built a city.
It’s worth remembering that this war between the Gensusus and Argonaut has been waging for a thousand years, and this is not the age of the internet. It’s very likely that the Gensusus empire's only goal and sole reason for existing was that they felt it was their destiny to destroy Greece. To them, this wasn’t about taking over the trade routes anymore. These are different leaders and different people who have changed according to the geopolitical landscape. The destruction of the Argonauts was their holiest of duties, and they lived on that belief religiously. That didn’t just mean cutting off the trade route to strangle the population. It meant burning their bodies, their literature, their weapons, their boats, their cities and cleansing the Earth of all things Greek. A sad methodology that history has repeated for as long as society has existed.
After the establishment of a naval city intended to strangle Cyprus, the next step for the Gensusus was to cut off all of the land connections to Egypt. They moved eastward, and built a metropolis in the valley. They began to convert the local tribes and skewed populations who were already shredded by centuries of their own wars and turmoils. Those who wouldn’t convert were likely taken as slaves, or killed. This was a force much more advanced than that of Sumeria and the surrounding territories. Their knowledge of battle was well developed, and their society didn’t have seven separate gods to consider when making a decision. They weren’t afraid of the Anunnakite Empires. Contrary, they saw them as their next conquest. But they first had to finish what they started, and segregate Greece from the rest of the world.
We’ll call this the “Mesolatinus'' province of the Gensusus empire. The Gensusus army knows that the only place for the argonauts of Cyprus to go now is to the north, or back to Greece. The Argonauts, likely having a similar ideology to their Gensusus counterparts, believe that they have to press on because it’s their destiny to win the war. The Argonauts move east, where they coalesce with the Amorite exiles and escapees. At this point, all the Argonauts want to do is establish a wall because if Cyprus falls, then the trade route falls. The Gensusus army on the other hand; they wholly intend to advance on their enemies and conquer all of the territory in their path. It’s here at this time where they build the city that the Sumerians called Da’a’mas’kus. To the Anunnakite empires, this was beginning to look like a threatening encroachment on their territory. But they couldn’t really give them the attention they needed because off to the east further, the kingdoms of Elam were moving in from every direction. The Gensusus probably thought that they were winning the war, and that the erection of a nearby city was a big strategic advantage for them. But what they didn’t know was that a whole new supply of Clandestine spies were operating from within, and they were unrecognizable. At this range, it was surely suicide.
Chapter 11: Send Them Forward, Push Them Back, Take no Prisoners
Approximately 2850bc. The Argoamorite society north of the Gensusus have infiltrated the nearby city of Da’a’mas’kus with a contrived network of spies, assassins, and professional agitators. The population of the city is getting frustrated and rebellious, and that consequently causes frustration among the Gensusus army. At this point in time, the Eblaites believe they’ve completely conquered Mari, and their sole focus is on Elam, so the Argoamorites have the full strength and power of their people to defend themselves. These clandestine operations eventually agitate things enough to force a full mobilization of the Gensusus army. In an attempt to settle the population, they march on Arimathea.
Unknown to the Gensusus, the Argoamorites are prepared for battle. They’ve been expecting this attack for probably months or maybe even years. There are barricades and checkpoints established around the entire border of Arimathea, and between them is many miles of land dotted with ambushes and raiding parties. The day comes and they finally get the word that the invasion is coming, and they prepare themselves like they’ve never prepared themselves for anything before. The Gensusus mobilize their entire army, likely including camels and other animals to carry equipment and supplies, and they fight their way through a 270 mile hellscape covered in attacks like none they’ve ever experienced before. It’s safe to say that during the journey from Damascus to Arimathea, the Gensusus army outnumbered the battalions of Argoamorites by a factor of at least ten-to-one. In just a few weeks, they reach the city of Arimathea, and when they get there; the Argoamorites rain hellfire.
The border of Amirathea is likely covered in large X shaped log barricades, and behind those barricades is an army of archers, javelin throwers, and sling shooters. The amorites aren’t just throwing out crap to the wind and hoping it hits the target. They’ve likely built a supply of some ignition agent, or pre-tindered weapons that were then lit on fire before they were thrown. It was likely a very coordinated defense. A tower or temporary dugout would be watching the area from the distance, and when the enemy approaches they let out a cry or an animal mimicry noise. That signals the commander to ready the long distance fighters, who then fire their weapons all at once. The purpose of the fire isn’t to kill anybody, but it helps the Argoamorites if it does. The real purpose of the fire is to set the plains on fire, stir the animals of the convoy, and create a hysteria among the approaching army. In the midst of the burning hellscape, the Argoamorites marched onto the Damascus battalion and killed most, if not all, of them. They burned their bodies; not because they were appeasing the Anunnakite empires, but because these were not their loved ones. They respected the dead, but did not memorialize their deaths.
The Argoamorites packed a small battalion of soldiers, men and women and teenagers, as well as a cargo of equipment, and they marched toward Da’a’mas’kus. When they arrived, the populace was likely afraid of them, but more so afraid of the Gensusus army who had been enslaving them. They welcomed the Argoamorites into power, and Da’a’mas’kus was now under the control of the new kingdom of Arimathea. This strong foothold into the valley wasn’t the final military conquest, but it was the beginning of the end of the Gensusus army occupation in Mesopotamia, and the beginning of the end of their entire society.
Meanwhile, on the other side of Mesopotamia; the many kingdoms of Elam have surrounded several parts of the Sumerian border to the north, and they’re beginning to shift the balances of power among each other after all of this long allied conquest. Approximately 2845bc, they begin the invasion of Sumeria. This isn’t a clean or methodical war, and it doesn’t happen all at once. It likely begins with bands of pillagers, tormentors and people who behave like pirates of the land. They steal, they rob, they kill, they rape, they commit arson, they do whatever they can to ensure that there is never a time of peace in Sumeria or Ebla. They likely spread even further to the north and surrounded the territories by establishing garrisons, camps and settlements throughout the Lullubi highlands. They likely don’t know that the Argoamorites are a separate empire from Ebla and Elam, so all they see is this major city sitting directly on the path where they need to be. It becomes a target of attacks and pillaging, like everywhere else.
This creates an unusual dynamic in the region. The Eblaites and Sumerians are hard and heavy fighting this very close war with Elam, and suddenly Elam drags the Argoamorites into the fray. The Argoamorites and the Anunnakite empires now have this bigger and more dangerous enemy approaching them from every direction. The Elamites are probably starting to organize a lot more, carrying out bigger architectural ambitions and taking slaves from the various Lullubi tribes. This growth likely led to further developing their weapons and trading things like grains, meat, fat, building materials, and large pottery for holding water. All of this unrest forces the Argoamorites of Aramaia to stand their ground. Da’a’mas’kus is unsafe, and they’ve been waiting and requesting reinforcements that just aren’t coming.
The Argoamorites of Da’a’mas’kus start hiring mercenaries, and the crime rate among the citizens skyrockets. This was likely the emergence of snake oil salesmen who claimed they knew the secret to eternal life, or had a potion that could create love, or relics that belonged to the gods. It’s here, in this swell of peddlers and killers, that the real city of Da’a’mas’kus is born. There is no outside support from any other kingdom, and there is no attack coming from one of the major empires, but there are loads of displaced tribes that were once escaped slaves, or cultist separatists. Da’a’mas’kus is getting raided by people they don’t recognize, and they’re simultaneously providing a safe harbor to people who come in. They create a sort of volunteer army to stand guard and organize to protect the city, and the public starts to elect people of power to handle things like distributing rations of food, collecting taxes in the form of grains and oils or perhaps even money, and they organize a battalion that travels into Sumeria specifically to buy and sell supplies. Da’a’mas’kus becomes the single democracy in a world of empires, kings and chaos.
Democracy. A heretical sin, perhaps one of the rules written in the scroll of the seven sacred measures that Inanna once protected. The power grip of the Anunnaki was unmatched. They presented themselves as gods to their subjects, and they were taken very seriously. When the word spread that a city of freedom and democracy was spreading influence in the valley, this was taken as a direct threat to the Anunnaki themselves. It challenged an existence that their leadership had upheld for thousands of years. It created paranoia, and led to an even greater amount of separatist groups dispersing into the valley, and further to the south. This wasn’t the time of the primitive Anunnaki who only researched the dead. This was a pantheon of war.
It’s here, sometime in approximately 2840bc, that the first bomb is detonated in Mesopotamia. There are a few things that it might have been. It was most certainly a clay vase, likely not made with incredible care because it would be destroyed anyway. They could have filled it with gunpowder, or paraffin, or perhaps it was a collection of combustible animal fats, but it doesn’t really matter what it was made of. It was carried into Da’a’mas’kus through some conventional and inconspicuous means, and then it was ignited by hand by whoever brought it in. This bomber was likely chosen specifically by the Anunnaki, who told him that he would be greatly rewarded by them in the afterlife if he sacrifices himself to cleanse the world of heresy.` The people of Da’a’mas’kus are devastated, and a panic ensues.
The citizens likely take this explosion as an act of the gods. They perhaps believe, maybe because of orally passed legends, that the gods are smiting them for establishing a sinful democracy. They aren’t completely wrong. The Anunnaki probably had chemical research far beyond everybody else at the time. In the act of creating medicines, you may accidentally blow yourself up or light yourself on fire or gas yourself with something toxic.You may even create something psychedelic.
That’s not to say everybody everywhere believed in these things, or even that this was the first bomb ever detonated. On the contrary, the Argoamorites had already done something similar to this. The burning of the fields of Aramaea was a deliberate attempt to display themselves as deities to their enemies. There may have been superstition, but the luxury of democracy incurred the act of self preservation among most of the city’s population. Willing to stand their ground, Da’a’mas’kus survives as a democracy with a completely new set of ideologies. They no longer fear the gods. Instead, they fear their enemy territories and they begin to praise the sun as the god who watches over them.
The sun gives this struggling society protection from their enemies, by allowing them to see and disappearing so their enemies can’t see. Consequently, they begin to worship the moon for providing light in the darkness. They begin to worship the stars as a readable language of the sky that helps them navigate the landscape around them. They start drawing maps, most likely on papyrus, and their close attention to the sky creates this natural urge to practice astronomy. This is not the first astronomical society, far from it. But this is the first society that considered it so important that they should carve it into stone to preserve it. Not because they had some urge to preserve their maps for history, but because they had to protect them from the natural world for long distance travel. This idea is a consequence of cultural development. In the legend of Enmerkar, likely still being told at this time, it’s said that Emnerkar carved his message to the king of Aratta in stone because the messenger told him that he couldn’t remember any more messages. Emnerkar used stone to ensure that no harm would come to the message.
So why the planisphere? For military tactics, of course. Take a close look at it. The planisphere is a depiction of the kingdoms that surround Da’a’mas’kus. All of them, simultaneously. It’s encoded by the stars, used as a language that can protect the new Da’a’mas’kusites’ plans in the event of an attack. It’s likely that these planispheres were designed specifically to be eventually destroyed, so they aren’t incredibly thick or strong material. Instead, they’re used to keep a protected record of the current geopolitical landscape. In some cases, they may be maps of individual areas, or perhaps messages written telling battalions of people where and when to move.
Perhaps there was also a mathematical nature to astronomy. One can stare endlessly at the stars, and out of the dots become shapes, and out of the shapes becomes geometry. Perhaps it is the natural progression of humanity to be mathematical creatures when presented with tremendous challenges. As natural as it is to solve a problem, so too it is natural to count things, so too it is natural to add to them, subtract from them, divide them, rotate them, and shift them. Perhaps the places who lack kings and elect experience are the ones most likely to develop these complex structures and algorithms that we can use to define the universe around us. For there is nowhere better to learn than from the experience of freedom, and in a place of strict rulership, this kind of freedom didn’t exist anywhere else.
In another part of the region; the first kingdom of Akkadia, before the days of Sargon, is being established. At this time, it was simply known as “Accad”, and it came about as the result of the Awan invasion of the north. This area was filled with a variety of peaceful tribes, likely taken as slaves and subjugated to Awan. It was also filled with brutalist tribes, because of the cultism and corruption of the demigods. It’s very likely that the Awan spent at least a century conquering tribes of this area, while their allied Elamite kingdoms were busy tearing down the fabrics of Ebla and Sumeria.
There’s also another faction, caught between a bad situation and a crumbling foundation. The Gensusus army was depleted in this region, and reinforcements to colonize the land were never called upon. Or perhaps they were, but nobody was available to answer. They reside in the center of the canyons, not far from the fallen city of Da’a’mas’kus. Struggles for power internally are creating turmoil among the commanders, and with nobody elected a leader, they begin to assassinate each other. First they segment themselves to cult followings in nooks of the city. Then they begin hiring thugs, mercenaries, and thieves to wage urban civil warfare against themselves. As the two lawless cities continue to dwindle to pieces, a hero in each of them emerges from the ashes to prevent any more unnecessary death. These heroes have no names, and were not mourned, and did not reign for long. Instead, word spread to the neighboring city of Da’a’mas’kus that the cities had fallen into turmoil, and that they were open to be subjugated into democracy.
Subjugation into democracy wasn’t the same as subjugation into a kingdom or empire. In this case, the elected leader of Da’a’mas’cus probably wrote a papyrus scroll or a stone tablet, and they sent it with an emissary to one neighboring city at a time. In this scroll was a set of instructions for how to create laws, ration foods, assign public officials, and hold elections, likely based on what they knew from their own experiences by this point. The leaders of these individual cities, probably believing these emissaries to be some kind of prophet sent from god, took to the rules of these papyrus scrolls as if they were gospel. It’s likely that only one of them was successful, and the other one was not.
The first emissary would have been sent to the closest city to Da’a’mas’cus, likely the city of Nazareth. After the success of converting the smaller city, an emissary would be sent to Diodeus. Here, in the capital of the Gensusus army, where the leadership and remnants have retained their foothold and awaited an attack; the emissary was killed. Gensusus, having been told that their second city has been converted, mobilizes every man, unmarried woman and teenager to battle, and they launch a surprise conquest toward the city of Nazareth. This includes slaves, who likely were bound at the ankle by chains.
It was 2830 BC when the Gensusus army remnants arrived in Nazareth. When they approached the gate, they readied torches and weaponry, and they laid siege to the city. This is the definition of hell on earth. Homes, families, lives and newly discovered freedom were now in jeopardy of destruction. As the demons rode into Nazareth, they instantly began to lay siege. But despite the unpreparedness of the Nazarites, freedom breeds creativity. Creativity breeds guerilla warfare tactics. They hid in their homes, readied their own weapons, and fought back with ambushes and fire of their own. They used wooden tables and chairs as blockades to take the impacts of fire and arrows. They relentlessly sought self preservation in the face of a desperate and dying army, who had now become pirates in a land that had forsaken them. It was here, in the city of Nazareth, where the slaves of the Gensusus army were freed and it was here where the Gensusus army itself was eradicated from mesopotamia. The province of Mesolatinus was no more.
The city of Diodeus now lay mostly abandoned, with only mothers and small children left. It’s likely that an emissary of Nazareth was sent to spread the news to “Da’a’mas’cus. When it arrived, an emissary was sent in return, and he carried a message unlike anything else before. The emissary that was sent back to Nazareth told the elected leader that their neighboring city was planning to make a pilgrimage to Diodeus to introduce democracy to the citizens. They requested that the leader of Nazareth join the leader of Da’a’mas’cus’ in this pilgrimage, and that when they arrived they would establish an elected tribunal of people to establish the balance of democracy. There was one leader, the lawmaker, who wrote the laws of the land. Another leader, the Judiciary, would be the interpreter of the law as it was written. The third member, a tie breaker, existed for wisdom in the event that the law did not agree with the interpretation. These people were to hold office until death or mutiny, at which point a new leader would be elected.
By the turn of the century, approximately 2800bc, the three democratic cities of Judea were born. At this time, the Argoamorites are unaware of the defeat of Gensusus, and they’re awaiting an attack from the south. But instead, they’re attacked from the north by the young kingdom of Awanaccad, and are driven from Damascus in the method that the Gensusus hoped to reconquer Nazareth. They marched on the land, set fire to the homes and works of the people, took slaves and cremated the remains of the soldiers that they killed. The kingdom, being much larger and more indiscriminately dangerous, tramples the city of Arathea. The Argoamorites that survived were forced to retreat inland, toward a place that they abandoned a long time ago.
This was the demoralization of the Argoamorites, but the resurgence of the Argonauts of cyprus. The land connection to Egypt was now gone, and they didn’t know that Gensusus had been driven out of Diodeus. The plan for the Argonauts now is to take the sea by force, so a naval fleet is dispatched toward Alexandria, and they sail for a long time until they come upon the naval army from Heraklion. To the Heraklion branch of the Gensusus, this is a complete surprise. They were never expecting a forward incursion, and they were undermanned and underprepared. The fleet retreats back toward Heraklion, likely to prepare to re-establish the blockade with bigger weapons, but that prospect is pretty much disintegrated by the time the Argonauts reach Alexandria.
The fleet that retreated back into Heraklion was likely reassigned to reconquer territory that they were losing around Rome. It’s likely that a wide scale invasion of Europe from an eastern or western country was conquering Gensusus territories, and gradually the army depleted back into a small tribe for a long time. That is a story for another book, the greater point here is that they were not seen again in this region in this era. The sea was once again free, for the first time in a long time.Speaking of Egypt, there was something completely different going on over there, involving a two-front conquest against Nubia and what we’ll now call Judea, formerly the Mesolatin province of Gensusus.
In Egypt at this time, the reign of Seth-Persiben is occurring. If you didn’t know, Seth-Persiben was the first to break a long-standing tradition. Instead of adorning his pictograph with a serekh, as was common for Egyptian Pharaohs; Persiben was depicted with a Set, or a Jackal which, as we know, were common animals of war. Persiben was not a Pharaoh and was not a member of the Egyptian government. Persiben was a dreaming prophet, and the brother of the Pharaoh of the time. He was the oracle of war to the current Egyptian empire.
And his name was Seth-Persiben, the heretic of war who spread through the slaves of Egypt a rebellious ideology. Persiben was not a slave himself. To the contrary, Persiben was a priest serving in the name of the god of war. The pharaoh of the time is a man named Nynetjer, and he is the son of Narmer; the Pharaoh that unified northern and southern Egypt. Under a unified Egypt, Nynetjer is conducting an expansion of the south into Nubia. To the north, the Egyptian army is conducting raids on Judea to capture the people of the democracies. As the army of slaves grows, the expansion of Egypt accelerates at a tremendous pace.
Chapter 12: Games, Drugs, and the Subjugation of Judea
Under the reign of Nynetjer, the studies of the dead and the living are pursued to drastic effect. The conquest of Nubia to the south is not for the sake of conquering Africa or claiming their land. The expansion of the Egyptian Empire in this time was intellectual, and they saw a giant Nubian human farm ripe for experimentation. The Egyptians took slaves and hostages. The stronger and more physically superior were likely put to work, while the others were subjected to endless human drug trials; testing ingredients recovered from individual expeditions to foreign lands. It is Persiben who leads this crusade,
Persiben takes a garrison of Egyptian soldiers and alchemists with him to form a raiding settlement in rural Nubia. The soldiers capture slaves, and are likely highly organized. One band of soldiers is to stay at the garrison to guard Persiben, who likely conducts on sight botanical research on captives. One band of soldiers is responsible for raiding Nubia and taking prisoners. One more band of soldiers is sent to forage for new foliage, explore potential ruins that may be more ancient than themselves, and hunt animals for provisions. This campaign to the south likely results in the discovery of numerous poisons, which would later be used in assassinations. It would also likely lead to the inevitable discovery of DMT.
Dimethyltryptamine, or more lexicographically DMT, is a psychedelic substance. The mystery and intrigue of it is longevous, but the effects are certain. The user who consumes DMT will ascend from reality into a world that is nothing like our own, and it does not last very long. These visions are not like the hallucinogenic mushrooms of commonality. They’re something much faster, much more powerful, and much more intelligent. They’re something nearly unexplainable by normal words, because the things that exist there are not things that exist here. The discovery of this drug, whether it was now or later, was the most important thing to happen to Egyptian research throughout their history.
On the other side of Egypt, into the land of Judea, the Egyptians are taking so many citizens of the democracy as slaves that they begin to descend into ruin and poverty. One of the citizens who is taken after nearly 100 years of raids, a man by the name of Am’ra’a’am, which translates from Sumerian into “Leader of the Measures” or to phoneticise it “Lawmaker”, was likely a member of the Tribunal of the capital city of Judea. His story is not a pleasant one. Am’ra’a’am was taken to a slave plantation, where he was forced to work on either agriculture, metallurgy or bricklaying for the rest of his life. He took up preference for a young woman, another Judean who had been taken captive, indicating that they worked agriculture. There is rumor that this woman may have been his own Sister, with whom he had a child. This was likely after years of enslavement, as the population of Judean slaves had grown to tremendous proportion following the birth of the child. This child was Motep.
The year is approximately 2700bc when Imhotep is born of Am’ra’a’an and his consort. The Pharaoh of the time, a man named Djoser, has completely devoted himself to the study of the dead while under the influence of DMT. He orders the execution of all of the Judean children, and all people who are old or incapable. The mother of Imhotep, hearing this news, takes an agricultural harvesting basket and reinforces it at the bottom. She places Imhotep in the basket and she takes him to a bed of reeds in the Nile, and she leaves him there. The daughter of Djoser, a woman named Inetkaes, finds the boy in the river, presumably later that day. This likely happened because the child cried.
Imhotep was raised under the royal family of Egypt of the time, likely at the side of Djoser for much of his reign. Presumably at the age of sixteen or eighteen, he’s patrolling the fields doing labor because Djoser has likely figured out that the boy is actually a Judean survivor of the genocide, so he puts him to work to test his dedication to the throne. It’s here, around 2680bc, where Imhotep kills an Egyptian guard and is forced to flee from Egypt. He does this after watching the guard flog one of the Judean slaves, likely because he has recognized the color of his own skin. He flees to the east, into the valley of Judea through a series of areas that are as far away from the Egyptian raiding garrisons. Eventually he makes his way to the capital city of Judea, where the democracy completely changes upon his arrival.
At this same time, the kingdom of Awanakkad is expanding across the entire front of the Zubi mountain range, and further into the lullubi valley. They have become a formidable force, an organized kingdom, and are no longer conducting minor raids or piracy. They are now conducting a solid military campaign against Ebla, leading to the repetitive destruction of buildings and settlements. Political unrest is building drastically among the Sumerian/Eblaite alliance. It is at approximately 2670bc when the word reaches Egypt that a new kind of government has formed in the land of Judea. This government, led by Imhotep, prompts the Egyptians to reach out to Sumeria to construct a blockade around the outer edge of the valley. They intend to trap Imhotep’s rising kingdom, fearing a rebellion may come.
A rebellion does come. It comes fast, hard and like a plague of locusts swarming through Nevada. Under the leadership of Imhotep, the Judeans lead a fast military campaign into Egypt, directly through their mainline garrisons. The Judeans have declared war on Egypt, and the conquest is to free the people of Judea from the Egyptians, likely driven by a deep hatred that Imhotep has been internalizing for a long time. At this same time, the mass production of DMT/Alkaline drugs are being introduced into the research of death directly within egypt, leading to the spread of conventional use in secret by the slave cultures. This becomes a period of massive enlightenment, where the slaves feel as though they are touching the gods and a savior will come for them.Where the Pharaoh and the high Anunnaki priest are subjugating themselves to constant and persistent use. A savior does come, and his name is Imhotep of Judea. His entry into Egypt is not met with cohesive resistance.
The Judean march on Egypt happens swiftly. Egypt is quickly overwhelmed on their eastern border by the Judean horde of reckoning. The slaves of the valley are driven to fight by the appearance of their savior. The battle wages until every living slave is to the border, and then wages back into the valley. The Egyptians retreat, establishing a blockade of the border to prevent another incursion. A Judean battery establishes a checkpoint system from the closest tactical position, all the way back into Judea. The goal of the checkpoints is not to establish a route for a second incursion, but to prevent another incursion of the Egyptians into Judea.
The Anunnaki take this direct attack against them as the biggest threat to their existence in thousands of years. They begin to organize the biggest military campaign that this era would ever see. First, they put in charge the Ensi of Ebla, a man named Kaderla’mar, to lead the war effort. To his side, the final son Gilgamesh who leads the dying empire that was once the greatest military power of the region. The dying king Djoser, who has ruled for nearly 40 years to this point, decides that his sons can not both be the next Pharaoh, so he organizes a boxing match between them. The victor, who would be Sekhemket, takes seat of the throne in approximately 2666bc. His brother is presumably crowned as a high priest.
The Anunnaki are busy at this time organizing military campaigns with Kaderla’mar against the inward valley. A few cities have been erected under the leadership of Imhotep in what is now the land of Canaan. The city of Sodom, the City of Gomorrah, the city of Judea, the city of Damascus, and the young city of Shalem. Imhotep led the Judeans away from the pyramid of Djoser, away from Cairo, across the Suez land bridge, through Sinai, and back into the valley. In the land of Sinai, Imhotep presented the Judeans with rules that he had carved into stone. Imhotep is looking for a complete restructuring of Judea, so he introduces the ten commandments of the law. First; The gods of the past are not to be worshiped. Next, carvings and engravings of iconography are banned. Third, you will not insult Imhotep. Fourth, all work will stop for one day every seven days. Fifth; you will abide by what your parents want you to do.
The second five commandments, more societal than cultural. Commandment six deems murder illegal. The seventh says that seducing married citizens is illegal. The eighth says that thievery and robbery is illegal. The ninth says that falsely accusing somebody of things is illegal. Finally, citizens do not own their lands and goods in Judea and will pay taxes. These ten legal doctrines establish the foundation for the Kingdom of Judea, where Imhotep is the highest king and subordinate kings are assigned to rule over each city. This is the dawn of the miniature Hotep Empire. The population called him “Mus sus”, translated from Sumerian into “Crowned Usurper” or “Royal Usurper”. This descriptive translation is quite precise. A title that was earned by Imhotep, rather than given at birth. It is likely that he ruled for quite some time without fail, from 2670bc at least to 2665bc at least. This is the second major disruption of the Anunnaki deities. The first was the corruption of the demigods, who presented themselves as deities that walk among the people. The second is the unification under a single god, likely the Sun, who watches over the Judeans on the field of battle and shades them from their enemies.
Chapter 13: In’ti’ĝa’a’da and the Wrath of the Gods
Holy war. In’ti’ĝa’a’da.Translated from Sumerian, this term means “The full offensive assault of the canals”. True to its name, this was not a regular war. This was not a territorial war of empire versus empire. This was a crusade to genocide the inhabitants of Judea, who struck the final nail in the coffin. At this point in history; worship of the Anunnaki gods was dwindling. It is likely that the city of Judea, under the leadership of Imhotep, was engaging in a massive expedition to free the various slaves of the surrounding populations. This was reckoning against the Empires of the Anunnaki, who have maintained a deified control over this region for thousands of years .
The first cities to fall were Sodom and Gomorrah, in the center of the valley. Under the leadership of Kaderla’mar, the armies of Sumeria, Egypt, and Ebla are mobilizing a complete assault from the eastern, southern and western fronts. To the north, the rising empire of Awanakkad is beginning their expansion into Ebla. The Awanakkadians set their sights on the center of the valley, believing it to be a tactically advantageous position. To them, the city of Damascus would fall. This was the beginning of the first exodus, second genocide and third enslavement of the Judeans. But before we get there, we first need to go back to approximately 2680bc.
To the west, on the island of Cyprus, something entirely different is happening. The Argonauts of Cyprus come under siege from a new adversary. The city of Troy, which has grown into a kingdom of prosperous mining, architecture and engineering, has information pertaining to mining operations on the island of Cyprus. In an effort to expand from Kingdom into Empire, they invade the island of Cyprus with a campaign like nothing else at the time. The Troians build a weapon. This machine, capable of firing giant projectiles, is known as the Catapult. They don’t just build one, however. They build several, and they attach them to their largest boats and ships. The catapult is not a one-size-fits-all device. It is manufactured in many sizes, made for many different forms of ship and land conquest.
The Troians set sail for the Island of Cyprus, and before they ever reach the land; They launch a full scale naval assault. The Troians rain down literal hell on the Cypriot Argonauts. The large catapults from the largest ships begin to hurl massive eighteen pound boulders at the island, and the frequency of the attack is severe. Catapults can be loaded and fired very quickly. As the smaller sloops approach the shoreline, they begin to fire smaller boulders that have been hollowed out, and filled with oil and parchment. The parchment is set ablaze, and when the stones hit the land; the land erupts into flames. But the Cypriots have developed a weapon of their own in anticipation of naval warfare against Gensusus. The Cypriots have developed the Ballista, a giant crossbow capable of precision strikes against the boats of the coastline. The difference between the Catapult and the Ballista is one of balance. The catapult can fire fast, and is devastating over large swaths of land, but it is impossible to aim with absolute precision at this time. The ballista can be maneuvered, aimed and can strike precisely; but cannot be loaded quickly and cannot be filled with explosives.
Nevertheless, the argonauts on the western side of the island prepare a battalion of battleships, armed with ballistas and fire archers. They sail around the island, and they take the distant fleet of Troians by complete surprise. The Troians don’t have enough time to reorient themselves, and consequently their fleet is destroyed. It’s likely that the Cypriots seized control over at least one of the ships involved, because it is at this moment where they recovered their first Catapult. This is not the end of the Troian invasion, however. It is here in the Cyprio-Trojan war where the legend of the Golden Fleece is born.
The current ge’sun of the Argonauts is a man of unrecorded name, but his legacy is one that lives on forever through mythology. We will do as the romanized future did later, and call him Jason. When the spoils of the Troian battleship are returned to Cyprus, among them is a document describing a set of golden tapestries that contain Troian secrets pertaining to engineering weapons of war. They are said to be held in the palace of Troy, under the guard of their king and current warlord.
The Argonauts, having recovered the mechanics of the catapult, use the design of the portable land catapult to construct a set of wheels and a platform. On this platform, they build the Trojan Horse. This wooden statue, which is intended to be a clandestine method of invasion, is sent by ship to Troy and is brought to the gates by emissaries who present it as a diplomatic gift to the king. Unknown to the Troians, the horse is loaded with a battalion of Argonaut soldiers. It is worth remembering that the Argonauts are no stranger to clandestine operations. It is the very thing that kept them alive against Gensusus for so long.
The gates are closed as the wooden statue is brought into the city of Troy. The clandestine operatives inside hold their ground steadily, and at nightfall; they sneak into the palace of Troy and steal the golden tapestries. They discover that they are not made of gold, but from the wool of a sheep. They’ve been dyed, likely with Marigolds and Irises. The Argonauts dub this collection of engineering secrets as “the golden fleece” whose legend lives on today as one of the most well known late-Greek legends. The recovery of the golden fleece is a tremendous conquestual win for the Argonauts, and a devastating defeat for the Troians who have now lost their most valuable artifacts of war. These tapestries likely contained the recipes for combustible compounds, materials required for weapon making, and the locations of valuable resources.
By approximately 2670bc, the Cypriots have produced multiple successful catapults. They begin to sell them to the Egyptians, who have been locked in warfare since the dawn of the Anunnaki. It is at this point where a full-scale war breaks out between Troy and Cyprus. The Troians have been preparing a reckoning invasion for years, and their goal is not to recover the golden fleece. To the contrary; The Troians now see a full occupation of Cyprus, and believe they are large enough to take the land. They are wrong, and are defeated in the water. The Argonauts sail to Troy with their new collection of weapons, consisting of incendiary mortars, ballistas that can now be lit on fire, and new armor made of copper that cannot be penetrated by the bronze weapons of the Troians. The Argonauts destroy the city of Troy, occupy the kingdom, and rebuild as the new City of Troy under the laws of Thebes.
By 2666, the Egyptians have changed power, and the trade relations between Cyprus and Egypt are crumbling under the weight of their new warlord Pharaoh. Egypt threatens to cut ties with the Argonauts unless they drastically increase the production of weapons and materials, and that rips the focus away from Troy. The problem for the Argonauts is that Troy is under-manned and incomplete. These were not armies of millions of men. These were armies of thousands. The division of labor on Cyprus was likely equal. Battalions of men would be stationed around the coastlines of the island to watch for and defend from an invasion. Meanwhile, the rest of the available Argonaut manpower would have been solely dedicated to the production of weapons and materials for Egypt.
2665, the greatest simultaneous invasion of this era. The Egyptians, Sumerians and Eblaites are now armed to the teeth with weapons and armors that they believe to be more advanced than their adversaries in the valley. They align their armies on the outer edge of Judea, in the very center of the Valley from every direction, and they plunge into war against Sodom and Gomorrah. To the north, the Awanakkadians have prepared to annex their next plot of land, and have been informed of when the crescent invasion of Judea will be, likely discovered through clandestine operations in Ebla. They decide to descend on Damascus at the exact same time. To the west, the Argonauts are struggling to maintain their frequency of production, and have fallen into Poverty. An Argonaut defector, likely a person in a higher position of power, informs the Trojans that an invasion of the eastern region will take place, and that the Argonauts will be forced to put their attention solely on that conflict. The Troians, having reformed into a growing rebellion, launch another invasion of Cyprus.
What ensues is an event of apocalyptic proportions. The invasion and occupation of Cyprus rapidly pulls attention away from the production of goods for Egypt. The Egyptian army, having only received a small fraction of what they requested, is not prepared with the correct equipment to launch the invasion from the west. They choose to invade anyway, using a combination of their new weapons and traditional tactics. The Argonauts of Cyprus, having labored into desolation, are annihilated by the Troians who seize control over the Island. To the east, the Eblaites have mobilized the full force of their army to march on Judea, leaving nobody to guard them. Awanakkad takes Damascus, and then seizes control of Ebla who is mostly unprotected. It is likely a mass enslavement event. To the south, the crumbled Sumerian empire under Gilgamesh mounts the full force of their empire toward Judea, and they come under attack from a mysterious kingdom to the south. Gilgamesh calls this place “Ba’a’bil” which translates from Sumerian into “It rises from the water”, likely indicating that they erupted as a settlement in what is now modern day Bubiyan Island. They are not overthrown yet, but this is the end of old Sumeria.
By approximately 2660bc, the empire of Ebla has fallen and been absorbed into the new Akkadian empire. The Argonauts of Cyprus have been mostly destroyed, and the refugee survivors make their way to Greece, where they spread the stories of the Argonauts and the golden fleece. The Egyptians, having been forsaken by the Argonauts, redirect their attention to the island of Cyprus where they intend to launch a full-scale invasion and occupation. It is here, in 2660bc, where the family of Gilgamesh is overthrown by the kingdom of Ba’a’bil. Sumeria, under the new leadership of Lugal-Sha-Engur. This was not a peaceful invasion.
Chapter 14; From the Ashes
The year is approximately 2655bc. The old population of Sumer has been enslaved by the new kingdom of Lagash. Those who do not convert are heretics, and burned. The empire of Ebla has completely disintegrated, and in its place stands the new empire of Akkad, land of the Akkadians. The province of Judea and the center of the valley lay mostly dormant, serving to be the only refuge away from the two ravaging empires. The Egyptians have conquested to Cyprus, where they are now locked into war with the Troians. The survivors of Judea have likely made a pilgrimage through Turkey, and they eventually arrive in Greece.
It is here in Greece, at this period, where the lessons and history of Judea are spread. They brought with them many ideals. The Judeans brought with them their history of democracy, their research of astronomy, their research in mathematics, their legends and histories, their iconography, and their worship of the Sun. They brought with them stories of the underworld, and of the gods who descended through the mountains. They brought with them stories of monsters, and heroes who thwarted those monsters. They brought with them what would become the new theology of Greece. Unfortunately, this is not widely accepted by the current Aegean kingdoms.
The word spread of the new Judeo-Greco kingdom, and how they were now separating themselves from the war of destiny against Gensusus. The Aegean kingdoms, lead by Thebes, begin to launch a series of invasions against the Judeogrecs. Unknown to Thebes, they’ve formed the most powerful alliance of the region. The Judeogrecs have developed a flourishing trade relation with the nearby kingdom of Troy, and their supply of weapons is superior to the Thebans. The Judeogrecs have access to the copper armors and weapons seized by the Troians from the Argonauts. They likely have medicines and combustible materials that are more advanced. Underneath all of it, they have access to the weapons of the golden fleece, such as the Catapult, as well as new weapons created by the reverse engineering of Ballistas. The invasion of Judeogreca is a one sided massacre of the invading Theban forces.
Judeogreca, having dominant control over eastern Greece, seizes control of Rhodes to launch a counteroffensive against the Thebans. In this period, they focus their efforts on seizing the Aegean islands, and they refrain from the mass duplication of documents so that their secrets of weaponry and tactics can’t be seized by the enemy. It begins first with the seizure of Heraklion from Gensusus, who’s presence on the island has dwindled to almost nothing in favor of the conquest of Italy. The Thebans, who have been boxed in from the east and can no longer use the Aegean sea, conquer the small island of Zakynthos and they start moving all of their research, all of their literature, all of their weapons and people, and over time they move these things again to the smaller islands of Arpia and Stamfani. The Theban people use these landing zones as a last stand against the technologically superior Judeogrecs. But only temporarily.
The Theban people make their way to Alexandria, and the Egyptians are completely blindsided by this massive migration of refugees. But they don’t turn them away, because the Thebans have brought their stockade of literature, weapons, materials, and artifacts with them. They established themselves in a temple, and this temple would grow to become the library of Alexandria. Over time, the contributions of the Thebans is recognized as a great advancement for the Egyptian empire, so a city is erected to house the new Egyptothebe population. They name this city “Thebes” in honor of their fallen kingdom.
Over in the new empires of Akkadia and Lagash, a conflict is brewing on the border. The year is approximately 2640bc, and the Akkadians and Lagashans are locked in what seems to be a widespread war for control over the central plains. The Akkadians, who have spread their influence across the north mountains and through Ebla, are seeking to take control over the entire region. The Lagashians are intending to do the same. Unknown to the Akkadians, Lagash was not just the empire that was once Sumeria. The territory of Lagash spread from the top of Sumeria, through the southern valley into Sodom and Gomorrah, and deeper into the south to the island of Bubiyan. The Lagashians were not just a small kingdom, they were a sizable empire of great force who now had evolved to include the advancements of their Sumerian predecessors.
The Lagashians, who have not adopted the theology of the Anunnakite empires, take notice of Egypt who is a thriving kingdom to the west. The Akkadians do the same. Over a period of many years, the Akkadians and Lagashians launch a series of raids and clandestine operations into Egypt. In the process, they eventually destroy a small portion of the library of Alexandria, likely believing that it is a place of worship, leading to the loss of possibly hundreds of years worth of collected information on papyrus scrolls. The Thebans, who have been gradually moving their gigantic collection of records from the islands to Egypt, decide to abandon their migration. The remnants of the Theban empire return to the western Islands of Greece, where they guard the rest of their possessions until their eventual extinction. The Egyptians, unwilling to forgo the treasury of knowledge they had acquired from the Thebans, place a heavy military presence around the Library. This catches the attention of the two warring empires of Mesopotamia, and the library of Alexandria becomes the primary target of conquest.
The Egyptians were protecting the library for a wide variety of reasons. Research of medicine, weapons, clandestine tactics, architecture, and surveys of the western continent. But more than all of this, the Thebans were conducting their own research into death and the afterlife. This incomplete stockade of information has become the most valuable treasure to Egypt, and that information is spreading to the east. Around approximately 2630bc, the Akkadians and Lagashians have both made numerous attempts to conquer the library, and they have failed every time. They retreat back into the east, abandoning the conquest of Egypt. It is here where the Akkadians establish themselves as a valuable trading partner to Egypt. They are no longer a strictly war society, having developed over a large region of the territory for a long time. They open up the path of trade to the Egyptians, along the Euphrates river, and they form a partial military alliance to prevent the western expansion of Lagash.
It is around this time where a new kingdom emerges in the south. Below Mesopotamia, in the land now known as Saudi Arabia, the kingdom of Neosumeria is forming as a coalition of city-states, led by a group of pilgrim remnants from the old Sumerian empire. They spread their stories of gods, conquest and a place they consider to be the holy land, and they became the kingdom of Umm Al Nar, under the leadership of either a queen or priestess from Sumeria. The name of the land translates to “queen of fire”. It is here, in ancient Arabia, where the Neosumerian rebellion begins.
Lagash is blindsided by an invasion from the south, and they engage in what will become a very long war with the Neosumerians. The Akkadians get word that this is happening, and they take the opportunity to shift their attention to geopolitics. They begin to pilgrimage through Turkey to the west, where they establish a trade route between Greece, Troy and Akkadia. The Akkadian empire now has two thriving trade relationships through the west, and they’re bringing back lessons and advancements from the Greeks. They bring back lessons of architecture, government, agriculture, taxation, tailoring, stonemasonry, copper metallurgy, and many other things that further advance their empire into a geopolitical titan. They likely also expand their trade routes to the north east, where they meet the Asian populations. By the end of 2600bc, the Akkadian empire is a thriving world.
It is worth mentioning that the Akkadian empire is not called “Akkad” yet. At this time, it was likely the Awanian empire. But this shift in namesake is not the result of usurping or restructuring, so we will continue to refer to it as Akkad. The Akkadians, Egyptians, Troians, Judeagrecs and proto-asian empires now have a complete geopolitical trading route, allowing for the repatriation of plants, animals, materials, artifacts, knowledge and more. This widespread advancement is the first great world order. The Egyptians have ceased their crusade of Troy at this point, and now inhabit the island of Cyprus as its primary residents. The Judeagrecs have not been at war for a long time, due to the inter-italic crusade and the extinction of Thebes. The Greek peninsulas begin to erect megalithic structures, grand cities, and they create the first universities. Scholars from every region make pilgrimage to Greece, to expand their knowledge and contribute to the greater advancement of society. They build machines for building larger structures. They build gymnasiums to train physical wellbeing. They develop the studies of physics, astrophysics, mathematics, chemistry, paleontology, archaeology, and philosophy.
There are two wars waging in this region at this time. The first is the Lagashian/Sumerian conflict of Arabia. The second is the Egyptian/Nubian war that has been waging for generations. On the Egyptian/Nubian front; things have not changed. The societies of Africa have emerged as independent governments who topple each other continuously, and Egypt is using the eternal conflict to kidnap slaves for work and human experimentation. On the Lagashian front, the Neosumerians are unwavering and are slowly building into a larger society. Fearing a larger and more organized invasion from the south, the Lagashians establish a border of checkpoints to prevent any Neosumerians from entering the province. They likely use this opportunity to capture slaves, who would be used for mining, agriculture, and smithing.
Chapter 15: The Pantheon, The Astronaut, and the Scorpion King
The era is 2570bc. For half of a century, Greece has been under the greatest geopolitical experiment in history. They have established three different governments; The Democracy of Athens, the Monarchy of Olympia, and the Commune of Sparta. These three governments were themselves governed by a tribunal of leaders. Zeus, the monarch of Olympia. Poseidon, the president of Athens. Hades, the dictator of Sparta. The pantheon. Under the democracy of Athens, the pantheon expanded their trade routes and universities. Under the monarchy of Olympia, they developed religion and philosophy. Under the dictatorship of Hades, they pursued the study of death and warfare. This pantheon would only serve to become the greatest internal power struggle to ever occur over one province.
To the east, the Troians are further developing their understanding of Architecture and engineering. After many years of peace after many years of war, they anticipate an invasion is coming, leading to the rapid development of machines. They build analog cranes, abacus calculators for mathematics, bladed mills for grinding grains, and it is here in Troy where they discover the power of hydroelectricity. The Troians are the first society to contain electricity inside of glass, using copper that they have not needed for weapons. They discover how to create batteries that can be used to temporarily store electricity for use later. The word of this electrical work spreads to the monarch Zeus, and in a drastic turn of fate; Zeus becomes the human god of lightning.
Zeus commissions the Troians to build him an electrified Ballista, significantly larger than any other ballista that has ever been built. He commissions an artisan to join him on mount Olympus, where the ballista will be built in secret. Over many years, this artisan builds a self sustaining hydroelectric generator that will constantly power the ballista. This was used because it was earlier proven to work via the construction of a self-powered fountain. The electricity will charge large copper rods that are loaded into the ballista, so that when it is fired; it appears to be lightning to the populations of Olympia. Zeus then gives his son Haphestus to the artisan, who teaches hephaestus the ways of smithing, architecture, engineering, and electricity. It appears that Zeus believes his government is the greatest, and he is preparing to wage war against the rest of Greece.
To the east, the Akkadians are beginning to get restless at the stagnation of their expansion. Legends of the old ways and traditional warfare are spreading through the kingdom, but they do not want to attack the Lagashians yet. The Lagashians are still at war with the Neosumerians. The Akkadians begin to conquest to the north on two fronts. One into the Anatolia region, and the other aimed at Troy. Word has spread to the Akkadians of the discovery of electricity, and this makes Troy the primary target of attack. The Akkadian army plans to wall the eastern passages to prevent the repatriation of Troians. The Anatolia region is swiftly conquered by the Akkadians, likely by willful subjugation. They establish a series of checkpoints, and a campaign route directly toward Troy.
To the south west, in Egypt, word has spread of the discovery of hydro-electricity. The Egyptians, looking to further their advancement into the research of death, heaven and the afterlife, commission the work of a Troian artisan who is carried from Troy to Cyprus to Alexandria. It is here in Alexandria, along the Alkaline rich portion of the Nile, a hydroelectric power plant is constructed. The Egyptians begin to develop a program to explore the heavens. Using their knowledge of chemistry, they develop a primitive rocket fuel that can launch small objects into the air at long distances. Eventually, they develop a fuel powerful enough to propel a vertical boat into the sky. They send an animal, or perhaps a slave, before anybody else. The mission is a failure, and the ship crashes into the ground from a great distance.
The second Egyptian test was likely done with a more powerful fuel, developed with more research to account for the weight of the explorer. They send up a second ship, and this time the mission is partially successful. The ship remains in the sky for hours before it descends. This time, it is using a pyramid shaped tapestry as a method of preventing it from crashing into the ground. When it lands, the Egyptian researchers discover that the explorer aboard has died from suffocation. Using this new found knowledge, they commission the Troian artisan to build a helmet and a copper capsule that feeds oxygen into the helmet. The third experiment is similar to the second, but this time when the capsule lands; the explorer emerges from the capsule and he tells the researchers in great detail about everything he’s seen.
The Egyptians take this as a great success, and they have an engraved pictograph made in the explorer’s honor. The explorer presumably told the researchers about the temperature changes in the atmosphere, the changes in pressure, what the vacuum of space looks like, and most importantly he tells them that if they continue this program, they can likely keep a very close eye on the positions of storms and other geographical events. It’s unknown what happened to the program, but it is likely that it continued for a long time until it was eventually abandoned.
In Sparta, it’s likely that the research of death by Hades has caught the attention of a late generation Anunnaki priest who aids him in his work. It is likely that this Anunnaki piloted a boat that would travel from a mortuary at what is now the beach of modern day Doganbey. From here, bodies of the dead from every region would be collected and carried from the river into a port at Lake Isikli. The harvest was then carried by land to Kaymaz Tepe, Sinap Daği, and Kiroğ Daği, which were likely all interconnected to each other. Hades likely spends his entire life collecting and studying the dead, perhaps not even aware that he is contributing to the work of the Anunnaki. Across the Aegean in Athens, the Democracy of Athens is conducting an election to determine who will be the next leader. A bright young woman, one of the many daughters of Zeus, brings word to Athens that her father is planning a full-scale assault on the territory. She is elected as the president, and subsequently is remembered as Athena. Her real name was Pallas, and she was the brother of Ares.
The Akkadians begin their assault on Troy, and unsuspectingly are pushed away by explosives and electrified traps. They begin to launch minor incursions into the surrounding wilderness, where they take hostages in the hope of collecting reconnaissance information. The Akkadians begin the process of developing methods of interrogation. It is likely that they work through a number of threatening measures, but eventually they settle on interrogation by scorpion. The risk of a slow and painful death by scorpion venom works, and the Akkadians use this method to create a more advanced plan of attack against the Troians. The Troians are not stupid, and they know that they can not maintain themselves forever against the massive Akkadian empire, so they begin to destroy most of their documents. The practice of making batteries, the practice of harvesting electricity, and the practice of electrified weapons were evacuated long before the invasion. It is likely that papyrus scrolls or scholars pertaining to the work of electricity are sent to a Judeagrec university to be protected and studied.
In approximately 2570bc, Troy is overthrown by the Akkadians who begin a militarized occupation of the area. They enslave the Troians to produce things for them, but the Troians refuse to share the secrets of electricity and are gradually executed. The population of Troians is decreasing tremendously. This new Troy under the rule of the Akkadian empire would come to be known in the modern age as Troy II, the first great expansion of the city. The Akkadians erected new structures surrounding the area, believing it to be the most tactically advantageous spot for an invasion of Greece.
In southern Mesopotamia, the Lugashian empire is struggling to maintain a hold over their territory. They have likely lost control of the island from where they originated, now under control of the Neosumerians who assume new new name “Baabilonian”. The Baabilonians are not only focused on the development of war to the north. They have established a trade route with Egypt through the Red Sea, and have also begun taking slaves from the region of what is now modern day Iran. The Baabilonians establish themselves as slave traders, who are willing to capture and transport large shipments of expendable slaves. Internally, the Lagashians are struck with a power struggle, likely created by the immense geopolitical isolation of Lagash.
In Egypt, the attention to the meteorology program is expanding. An explorer is likely selected from the slaves to be sent into the heavens, and when that explorer dies another is selected. They maintain this program for a long time, primarily to calculate the positions of storms and the most safe routes to travel between Alexandria and Cyprus. With the death of the Argonauts, knowledge of the dangerous nature of the sea is lost, so this is a way for the Egyptians to create and maintain a safe route to and from what is likely a tremendous slave-driven mining operation. It is here, on the island of Cyprus, where the Egyptians discover Uranium. It is likely discovered by accident. When it’s discovered, it glows with a beautiful color, but it causes death to anybody who comes into direct contact with it. The Egyptians subsequently abandon the island of Cyprus, likely believing that this material is forbidden to humanity.
Chapter 16: The Kraken, the Cosmos, and the Nemean Lion
Greece, fearing an invasion from the east, assembles the pantheon at the top of Mount Olympus. The prospect of a campaign by the Akkadian empire forces the hand of the pantheon to assign Ares to serve as general of the land armies, who are to be placed along the border of Sparta. Poseidon, who was previously elected as the president of Athens likely due to his study of naval trade routes and navigation, is assigned to lead the Greek navy along the coastline between Cyprus and Troy. Athena commissions a land army of her own to patrol the streets of the democracy, in the event that a clandestine operation may be taking place. Zeus volunteers himself to plan and lead a preemptive counteroffensive
The Navy of Poseidon is attacked by a large pre-dryas squidite creature that we now know to be the Kraken. The university of warfare likely harkens to what knowledge they have of Sumeria, and their well known use of animals as weapons of war. Poseidon is advised to commission the construction of a cage that can be carried by a ship, and from that he is likely advised to capture the creature. This new weapon, the Kraken, would serve to be one of the most devastating weapons of this war. On the land, Haphestus devises a blueprint for what would become the real first tank of battle. Hephaestus, with the help of laborers from Sparta, builds a series of boats on wheels with electrified ballistas mounted to the front of them. The idea is very simple.
The wheels and carrying frame are built first, similar to the construction of a catapult. From there, a flat bottomed ship is built directly onto the wheel frame. Two chariot pistons are attached to the front, likely to be carried by horses or some other larger animal. On the bow of the ship, atop a small platform, a rotatable and anglable ballista is mounted with the first iteration of copper wires. These were not covered copper wires that could be touched, but rather completely exposed wires that were fed into the hull of the ship. In the hull of the ship, a crew member has the responsibility of replacing the ballista battery. The battery was likely made in pottery, with a wooden cap. Holes were drilled into the center of the cap, where copper wire would be fed to close the circuit. When the battery was depleted, the wooden lid was removed and the pottery was replaced with a charged battery jar. It is very likely that only one shot could be fired per battery, and that the ballista had to be loaded immediately before the shot was fired.
Zeus, who is rapidly increasing in age at this time, is preparing to pass the monarchy to a son of his wife Hera. This boy’s name was also Zeus. At the same time, Zeus I is coveting a woman that is not his wife Hera. This woman’s name was Laonome, daughter of Amphitryon. Amphitryon was not a young man at this time. He was approximately 90 years old. His wife, Alcemene, was most certainly younger than he was, but she was not young either. Both of them had been to the city of Thebes, and Amphitryon was one of a few people who fought in the war to push the Thebians out of Thebes, and later fought them into the islands. The king of Thebes, now serving as a high priest in a new government, gave Amphitryon forgiveness, and his purchased wife finally agreed to marry him. Zeus likely did not choose to conceive a child with Laonome. It likely happened by accident, but it doesn’t matter. The child was born, and Laonome likely died during the birth. Amphitryon and Alcene raised this boy as Alcaeus.
On the other side of the world, the Lagashians and the Neosumerians are establishing a peace treaty. The Lagashians see the developing slave trade of Neosumer as an opportunity to bring an end to the attacks. They offer to provide them with military assistance in the capture and recovery of slaves, and in exchange they ask only to not be attacked. This is not because the Lagashians have suddenly developed a conception of peace, but rather because they are depleting rapidly and cannot maintain a posture of strong defense for much longer. The Neosumerians accept the agreement. They too have no prospect of peace with the country of Lagash, but they see this as an opportunity to expand their slave trade exhibition by an exponential amount. The Neosumerians likely figure that they can reconquer Lagash in the name of Sumeria only if they can increase their population and weapons production by an exponential factor. They begin to take women as slave wives, likely taking many wives at once. They sell all men to Egypt for architecture, smithing, mining, and meteorology. The Egyptians are aware of the Neosumerian plan to recapture Sumer, and they believe they are not at risk of an attack, so they repay the import of slaves with the mass export of weapons and technology. They barter with boats, swords, oils, catapults, and materials for creating fire like flint.
At the age of fifteen years old, Alcaeus departs from his grandparents' home after the death of his grandfather Amphitryon. He joins the army amassed at the front lines in Sparta, where the soldiers are training for an entirely different kind of warfare. This was not a war fought with slings and rocks. This was not a war fought with javelins. This was a war fought with fire, electricity, and precision. The traditional Argonaut ballista has been adapted into many different forms. The revolution of steel and the invention of the steel spring has brought forth handheld bolt guns, and they come in many forms. Some are coated with ignition agents, which are then loaded onto a bolt gun with a flint pad that ignites the bolt as it fires. Others are larger, made for longer range, loaded with aerodynamic arrow type bolts. These did not have bow type qualities, they were not crossbows. These were spring loaded bolt guns that could fire with great precision, but could not fire at tremendously long ranges. It’s very likely that they were loaded from the top, probably by hand, into a spring-loaded chamber that was stabilized on both sides. There was no automatic loading process, and there did not have to be. These would have been the fastest weapons on Earth at the time.
Alcaeus, a young prospective soldier uncorrupted by war of the past, develops passions for sword fighting, sharp shooting and the earliest forms of Pankration, which were likely being developed for the impending invasion. On the other side of Greece, in Nemia, an agricultural colony is under devastation by a Lion that has been killing livestock and people in the area. Ares is likely aware that the boy Alcaeus is a bastard, so he figures this as an opportunity to test the boy’s resolve. He dispatches Alcaeus to Nemea alone, likely aware that this is a multi-man mission and Alcaeus may be killed. When Alcaeus arrives in Nemia, he sets up a plan to ambush the Lion. The idea is simple. He will catch the lion off-guard when it comes into the town, and he’ll shoot it with a bolt. These bolts didn’t fire far, so he was in rather close proximity when he shot the lion, but the lion didn’t die instantly. It charged at Alcaeus, and with sword at the ready, he killed the lion with a precision sword strike to the head. Just before the sword struck, the boy yelled out “Heracles” to proclaim his dedication to the queen of the pantheon. His story was told for generations, and the town only knew him as Heracles.
[THIS BOOK IS A WORK IN PROGRESS]