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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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We’re moving through the religions of the ancient world to trace the ancient god called “Shemihazah,” “Kumarbi,” and many other names in roughly chronological order.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 1984, husband and wife archaeologists discovered a link between the earliest post-Flood civilizations, the mysterious “sons of God” mentioned in Genesis chapter 6, and the myths of Greece and Rome.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