Genius of the Few: The Story of Those Who Founded the Garden in Eden

377 Pages·1999·171.031 MB·English

by  Barbara Joy (O'Brien) O'Brien, Christian and O'Brien

the remains of the ruined libraries of a The Garden in Eden – Biblical Myth T CHRISTIAN O’BRIEN First published in 1985, this remarkable
book has stood both the test of time
cultured and ordered society, which was
or Prehistoric Reality? with Barbara Joy O’Brien and peer review, to become a classic
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amongst specialists in the human origin
the Old Testament Bible stories were com- The Genius of the Few continues the author’s earlier book H subjects. As archaeological science has
piled between 850 BC and 550 BC.
– The Megalithic Odyssey – and carries the prehistoric broadened its base, to cover many new and
THE exciting disciplines, it is primarily the solid
Some ancient historians did refer to the research back around 9,000 BC, when a group of sages, known to E
evidence on the origins and spread of agri-
‘Elohim’ by name, but we have never the Sumerians as the ‘Annanage’, and to the early people of C culture and pastoralism, genetics and lan-
been sure who was responsible for the
the Middle East as the ‘Shining Ones’, settled in a fertile basin HG (cid:71)(cid:85)(cid:65)(cid:71)(cid:69)(cid:12)(cid:3)(cid:87)(cid:72)(cid:73)(cid:67)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:84)(cid:65)(cid:75)(cid:69)(cid:3)(cid:85)(cid:83)(cid:3)(cid:87)(cid:73)(cid:84)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:83)(cid:79)(cid:77)(cid:69)(cid:3)(cid:67)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:108)(cid:3)(cid:68)(cid:69)(cid:78)(cid:67)(cid:69)(cid:3)
spectacular agricultural production, mon-
umental structures and the resulting high- within the mountains of Southern Lebanon. RI with the O’Briens to Southern Lebanon
ly organised city states, which would now S around 9,000 BC. Here we can identify
There they established an agricultural and animal breeding T GENIUS OF our distant relatives, who delivered from
appear to have existed throughout the fer-
tile crescent, and as far back as 8000 BC, centre for their own survival and for teaching Early Man the IAE elsewhere a comprehensive agricultural
at Jericho and Baalbek. elements of civilized living. N package and much more, which trans-
N formed our planet and the lives of its
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It is now known that commercial These sages, who seem to have been exploring what was for inhabitants.
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these earliest dates. Translating the absence – millenia after the events described. They founded the RU important sections from the recent major
cuneiform, which had changed from sim- I
compilation of the O’Brien’s research, enti-
Hebrew race who carried the tribal memory of their homeland E
ple pictorial signs with an associated pho-
N tled Th e Shining Ones, which cover An
netic sound, then turned on its side to as the Garden in Eden, and of their benefactors as ‘angels’. The S The Story of Those Alternative Genesis, The Enigma of the
become elaborate texts supervised by pro- leader of the group was remembered as Yahweh Elohim, and W Phaistos Disc and The Universal
fessional scribes, has presented problems. was later worshipped as ‘God’. IT who Founded the Measuring Rod. This evidence adds weight
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mwheiacnhi ntgh edye pareen udsinedg. upon the context in Based on extensive research into ancient Middle Eastern lan- B Garden in Eden Few, yet still keeps within the constraints
guages and little known documents, The Genius of the Few of an easy-to-read and enjoyable detective
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challenges dogmatic interpretations of the biblical Book of R
Up to now some of the more solid
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information we have from the later Genesis and raises questions and probabilities that have immense A Only during the reign of Queen
Assyrian records indicate that there was a implications for the study of prehistoric and modern religion. RT Victoria did the knowledge and interest
small group of wise sages called the ‘ab- A KHAR – SAG in the great Sumerian civilization begin
ka-lu’, who passed down their wisdom to Christian O’Brien CBE M.A. read Natural Sciences at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and JH to be revealed from the archaeological
subsequent generations. The linguistic spent many years as an exploration geologist in Iran, where he was involved in the discovery O evidence, which included precisely
roots and phonetic sounds of these two of the Tchoga Zambil ziggurat. In 1970 he retired as head of the Iranian oil industry Y WHERE HEAVEN AND EARTH MET inscribed ‘cuneiform’ text (wedge shaped
names and that of the more commonly and devoted his time to researching into the many enigmas of prehistory. OE lines) on thousands of clay tablets from
recognised angel ‘en-ge-li’ offer several
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logical and linked interpretations. B THE HEAVENLY ASSEMBLY cont’d on back fl ap
His wife Barbara Joy
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