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THE STORY OF THE GNOME AND THE GENOME 8/19/2006 4:37:11 AM
Where do we come from? Where do we come from?
As I have said before, after everything is analysed and carefully weighed I am now at least certain that the human race had in all probability four female ancestors, namely: Eve, Lilith, a female orang-utan, and a lady gorilla. I know because I see their descendents around me everyday. Our male ancestor most probably was a feral extraterrestrial outlaw [Samael or Adam].
Some of the things that I am not so sure about makes up the rest of my books. This was long before the time and lives of The Seven Daughters of Eve (2002) of Bryan Sykes. The seven daughters of mitochondrial Eve were, if anything, late comers in the history of humankind!
Gnomes [earth spirits, Adam?] are represented in medieval mythologies as a small, ugly, physically deformed (usually hunchbacked) creature resembling a dry, gnarled old man. The females [Eve?], called gnomides, were supposed to be of extreme beauty and goodness.
Most of us may know the story of Adam and Eve as well as that of the primeval Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions, is the original human couple, parents of the human race.
In the Old Testament, there are two accounts of their creation, namely:
• According to the Priestly (P) history of the 5th or 6th century BC (Genesis 1:1-2:4), God on the sixth day of Creation created all the living creatures and, ‘in his own image’, man both ‘male and female’. God then blessed the couple, told them to be ‘fruitful and multiply’, and gave them dominion over all other living things.
• According to the lengthier Yahwist (J) narrative of the 10th century BC (Genesis 2:5-7, 2:15-4:1, 4:25), God, or Yahweh [Jehovah, YHVH], created Adam at a time when the earth was still void, forming him from the earth’s dust and breathing ‘into his nostrils the breath of life’. God then gave Adam the primeval Garden of Eden to tend but, on penalty of death, commanded him not to eat of the fruit of the ‘tree of knowledge of good and evil’.
Subsequently, so that Adam would not be alone, God created other animals but finding these insufficient, put Adam to sleep, took from him a ‘rib’, and created a new companion, Eve [Hebrew Chavvah or Havvah]. The two were persons of innocence until Eve yielded to the temptations of the evil serpent [snake] and Adam joined her in eating the forbidden fruit, whereupon they both recognised their nakedness and donned fig leaves as garments. Immediately, God recognised their transgression and proclaimed their punishments – for the woman, pain in childbirth and subordination to man, and, for the man, relegation to an accursed ground with which he must toil and sweat for his subsistence.
However, this is not the only story. There are also a number of other Hebrew traditions and stories concerning the origins (genesis) of humankind, which we can consider. In the Zohar, for example, we find a number of references to a woman called Lilith. Who was this Lilith?
According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Lilith is a female demon of Jewish folklore. Her name and personality are derived from the class of Mesopotamian demons called lilû (feminine: lilītu). [However, Lilith was much, much more than a female demon. Hers is a fascinating story indeed!]
“In rabbinic literature, Lilith is variously depicted as the mother of Adam’s demonic offspring following his separation from Eve or as his first wife, who left him because of their incompatibility. Three angels tried in vain to force her return; the evil she threatened, especially against children, was said to be counteracted by the wearing of an amulet bearing the names of the angels. A cult associated with Lilith survived among some Jews as late as the 7th century AD.”
It is also written in the Zohar that the male is called ‘Samael’ [Satan, the Devil], and his female [Lilith] is always included with him. Just as on the side of holiness there are male and female, so on ‘the other side’ there are male and female, included one with the other. The female of Samael is called ‘snake’, ‘a wife of harlotry’, ‘the end of all flesh’, ‘the end of days’. Two evil spirits are attached to one another. The male spirit is fine [?]. The female spirit [Lilith] is spread out, down several ways and paths, and is attached to the male spirit.
Then there was a certain male, who came into the world from the spirit on the side of Cain, and they called him Tuba-Cain (or Tubal Cain). Moreover, a certain female emerged with him and human beings then went astray after her, and her name is Naamah. From her other spirits and demons came forth and they are suspended in the air, giving information to others who are below them. This Tuba-Cain brought weapons of war into the world [the sword]. Naamah makes a roaring noise and cleaves to her forces and she still survives.
Naamah, an angel of prostitution, one of the succubus mates of the demon Samael in Zoharistic Qabalah. She is the mother of divination. This Naamah is generally regarded as being the daughter of Lamech; how she became a demon is unclear. In Gnostic Kabbalah, she is called Nahemah.
Her dwelling is among the breakers of the great sea, and she goes out to mock at humankind, warming herself on them in dreams with human desire, and cleaving to them. She receives this desire but no more, and she becomes pregnant through this desire and brings other kinds of demons into the world. The sons that she bears to mortal men present themselves to the females among humankind and they become pregnant by them and bear spirits.
On the other hand as far as the descendents of apes are concerned, the first known supposed primate dates to about 60 million years ago (these dates are not indisputable fact, but it is the best we have!), as complete skulls and partial postcranial skeletons are available for the genera Plesiadapis, Ignacius, and Palaechthon from Europe and North America.
If you truly believe that you have descended from a common ancestor with monkeys and apes (e.g. Plesiadapis) like the evolutionists do; then who am I to tell you any different. None of us can choose our ancestors or family!
Very ‘special’ evolutionist, like for example Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, Desmond Morris, and even physicists like Heinz Pagels, are people who can effortlessly trace their genealogy right back to Plesiadapis – do not feel too bad if you cannot do the same!
According to geneticist, the human genome is the present-day tome of the genesis of man and it is composed of 46 chromosomes (23 pairs), each of which contains thousands of genes separated by intergenic regions. Intergenic regions may contain regulatory sequences and so-called ‘junk DNA’. The total human genome is made up of 3 billion (3 x 109) bases of DNA.
The genome is the list of instructions, encoded in DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), and needed to make a human (or any other organism).
The 23 distinct human chromosome pairs are numbers 1-22, plus the sex-determining ‘X’ and Y-chromosomes. Chromosomes 1-22 are numbered roughly in order of decreasing size. Somatic cells usually have one copy of chromosomes 1-22 from each parent, plus an X-chromosome from the mother (the mitochondrial DNA) and either an X or Y-chromosome from the father, for a total of 46. Women have an XX-chromosome pair and men an XY-chromosome pair – one chromosome is from the mother’s side and one from the father’s.
Now, who were your ancestors, Lilith, biblical Eve, mitochondrial Eve, and possibly some extraterrestrial being, maybe Samael, from the planet Gehenna or the hellhole in the movie Pitch Black (2000)?
