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Enlil was simply “the” god, his name deriving from a doubling of the Semitic word ilu (“god”):  il + ilû, meaning “god of gods,” or “god of all the gods.”Continue Reading

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The origin of the term for “king” or “ruler” in languages from Western Europe to East Asia is a word used by our distant ancestors for the pre-Flood god-kings, the Rephaim.Continue Reading

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In Ugaritic texts, the Rephaim were summoned through a necromancy ritual to the “threshing-floor” of the Canaanite creator-god El–the summit of Mount Hermon.Continue Reading

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A cave under the Dome of the Rock, directly below the Foundation Stone, has been called the Well of Souls since at least the Middle Ages.Continue Reading

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The first identity of this rebellious Watcher to appear in the historical record is not Saturn or his Greek analogue, Kronos. The Titan king and his Phoenician equivalent, Baal Hammon, don’t appear until the first millennium BC. Enlil of Akkad and Sumer appears in the written record around the endContinue Reading