Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [143]
When the Yahwists imposed monotheism on both the Levantine peoples and their scriptures, they subjugated the wide variety of Canaanite Baals under their "one Lord" and turned these "foreign" gods into "patriarchs" and assorted other characters, good and bad. As Dujardin says:
Where Judaism fully succeeded, the ancient Baals of Palestine were transformed into heroic servants of Jahveh; where it gained only a partial victory, they became secondary gods.... Many of the old Baals of Palestine were assimilated by Judaism, which converted them into heroes in the cause of Jahveh, and in fact many scholars agree that the patriarchs of the Bible are the ancient gods of Palestine.3
Dujardin further outlines the process by which "Baals" or "foreign" gods were changed into Hebrew patriarchs, kings, prophets and heroes:
1. The ancient divinities of Palestine are transformed by the Bible into historical characters and turned into servants of Jahveh.
2. Their sanctuaries are turned into sanctuaries raised by them to Jahveh, or into tombs where they are buried, or into monuments of their exploits. Sometimes, however, their names, or those of the animals that they had been originally, were given to a place, and were no longer used except to denote it.
3. The names of the clans, derived from these divinities and from the names of animals that they had originally been, became the names of persons, and were introduced into the interminable genealogies invented to glorify great families of the Jewish state. All this was by way of assimilation.
4. Proscription was effected by devoting to abomination all the cults that offered resistance.
5. Also by making impure such animals as had originally been ancient gods, by forbidding the eating of them, or by putting a curse on them.
6. And by transforming some of the rites and myths of these cults into historical legends.'
In this manner, ancient gods of other nations were mutated into not only biblical individuals but also tribes and nations.
Noah and the Flood
The fable of Noah purports to be the true story of the progenitor of the human race; however, like so many other biblical characters, Noah is a myth, found earlier in India, Egypt, Babylon, Sumer and other places. The fact is that there have been floods and deluge stories in many different parts of the world, including but not limited to the Middle East. As Churchward says:
There was never any one Great Deluge as in the Biblical rendering. . . . at least ten Great Deluges have taken place at each glacial epoch, when the snow and ice have melted. . . . There was also a great inundation once a year-when the Nile came down in flood. There is a portrayal on the monuments where Num is in his boat or Ark waiting for this flood.5
Regarding the ubiquitous flood myth, Walker says:
The biblical flood story, the "deluge," was a late offshoot of a cycle of flood myths known everywhere in the ancient world. Thousands of years before the Bible was written, an ark was built by the Sumerian Ziusudra. In Akkad, the flood hero's name was Atrakhasis. In Babylon, he was Uta-Napishtim, the only mortal to become immortal. In Greece he was Deucalion, who repopulated the earth after the waters subsided and after the ark landed on Mt. Parnassos] . . . In Armenia, the hero was Xisuthros-a corruption of Sumerian Ziusudra-whose ark landed on Mount Ararat. According to the original Chaldean account, the flood hero was told by his god, "Build a vessel and finish it. By a deluge I will destroy substance and life. Cause thou to go up into the vessel the substance of all that has life."6
Xisuthros or Ziusudra was considered the "10th king," while Noah was the "10th patriarch." Noah's "history" can also be found in India, where there is a "tomb of Nuh" near the river Gagra in the