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Luc Charlot
Another committed Historian writes.
New revelations thanks to Russel Gmerkin's excavations.
Who says the truth?
The pitfalls of imagination
A book, a series of programs on You tube sound the death knell for myths and alleged truths engraved in stone. The list of myths and lies that rocked our childhood and perverted our education as citizens of the world is obviously too long to venture to write it here. Just mention only the two most salient:
- Greece is the cradle of civilization.
- The Bible is the infallible word of God.
In a fun, brilliantly educational style, the show "Mobali Speaks to the Kamits", introduces Russel E. Gmirkin who explains his book "Plato and The Creation of the Bible of the Hebrews".
The author, Russel Gmirkin, first defines himself as a detective of History, that is to say a writer who, above all, has set himself the task of clearing the jungle, destroying myths and restoring historical truth to its full extent, candor and brutality. Any looking for should be interested in this book despite its high price (about 200 euros). Here are the few pearls that can be deduced after listening to the show or enjoying the book:
- The Bible is more platonic than divine. It was Plato, to whom we may owe everything we say with the soul (Read Plato, Egypt and the Question of the Soul, by Frédéric Mathieu), who imposed his philosophy and his vision of the world that, to properly lead a people or a nation, we need laws; that if we can obtain that those we lead believe that these laws, in the very distant past, were ordered by an almighty god whom everyone fears, and if these laws are introduced into a single national literature that everyone accepts as sacred (under penalty of punishment, no doubt), this people, this nation will blindly obey these laws from generation to generation.
- The obsession, the West's fixation on homosexuality may have resulted from a misstep by Plato. Wanting to legislate as a mastermind of Greece, he was the author of two contradictory laws: "If you are a war hero, you have the right to whomever you want, man or woman". Then, faced with the obvious problems that such a prerogative to the victors/conquerors entailed in the traditional household, Plato began: "There can be, however, no adultery or homosexuality except in secret". A raw version of the very recent American "Don't ask, Don't tell", adds Gmirkin with a laugh via his excellent interpreter, Tshiboy Kabwe. Many of the accounts of the Old Testament owe their existence and inclusion to the Greek cultural influence and prowess of the Jewish intellect. In the literary works of these two ethnic groups, we find invention, borrowings, true stories, anecdotes, theater and poetry, ancient wisdom and plagiarism (especially from Ancient Africa and Mesopotamia), such as psalms and proverbs; and, especially in the camp of the "orphans of Abraham", an unparalleled expertise in the art of rearranging a real or fictional story to their advantage, to carve out, with nationalist pride, a reputation for exceptional superiority, overrated of which some great of their own, such as Albert Einstein, do not rejoice.
Needless to say, at that time when Plato lived (428/427-348/347 BCE), Greece was polytheistic, and that the supreme God was called Zeus who, later co-opted by cultures defeated or conquered by slavery or colonialism, according to organized religion, will become God, God, Allah, etc. Indeed, God and God met in vocabulary quite late in the history of peoples; in the 9th century for "God", and in the 6th century for "God" (in Christian Codex Argenteus). They do not exist verbatim in Aramaic or Hebrew, ancient languages from which the Mother Bible (the Original Book), is supposed to have been translated. No Bible existed before the Septuagint. None before the Greeks entered history. The argument that God has always existed in all peoples under different terms is very true, however it would be very stupid to believe that Mulungu (or Murungu, Mlungu, Zuma) of the Bantu languages, among Europeans and American fundamentalists, have the same resonance as the poorly pronounced derivative of Zeus in French, "god". It is likely that in this world dominated by English and the dollar, statistically, in the world vocabulary, God, God, and their derivatives in the Germanic and Scandinavian Latin languages, have no part of the lion.
The essay here is not to debate that God exists or does not exist. This article offers only a retrospective look at History in the name of truth. Let's say it on the way: putting on the green carpet would only make sense if it were for the West's perception of the Extraordinary Creative Intelligence that the Christian world today calls God, a perception imposed by the sword, torture, fear, threats, and very often in blood, on the submissives, colonized peoples, not of the egregore "Go Thus, sifting everything through the analysis, the author of Plato And The Creation Of The Bible Of The Hebrews" gives us the following conclusions:
Patriarchs are only fiction. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob never existed. This notion of the 12 tribes of Israel: an undeniable fabrication inspired by the fact that the Greeks subdivided their people into groups (12 or 6) to better distribute them in the performance of military tasks, the performance of civic duties and, in turn, integrate them into administrative obligations. The Greeks also delegated by lot instead of elections. Of all the 12 tribal names, only those of Judah and Gad belong to history. Judah was rather an ancient kingdom and Gad another, liberated from the Israelites by a certain King Meshah, a Moabite. Never before were Israel and Judah one and the same kingdom where king David or Solomon would have reigned in a city called Jerusalem. It was only very late in history that, from proprio motu, they joined each other for the purpose of resistance. Thus says History!
- The story of the Exodus? absolutely fictitious. Moses is mentioned by two historians; Hecatea of Abderius, a Greek who seems to have made the character of Moses popular, and Manetho, an Egyptian, a priest of Serapis who served under the first Ptolemy. Hecate speaks of a Moses ordered by an overcrowded Egypt to colonize a sparse Palestine in the name of Egypt. Manetho's account presents a different Moses. His narration, taken up in substance by the writings of Josephus, is intertwined with stories of atheists Hyksos, undesirable lepers pushed twice to Judea; in any case neither of the two writings is a true copy of what Genesis says, which plants the Egyptians like the evil heads. The story of Genesis is apparently a parody. Berossus, a learned priest who served in the temple of Marduk in Mesopotamia, is said to have translated the Enuma Elish for the Greeks, a similar version but older and more colorful than the Genesis account. Passover, contrary to what the Church says, was a feast dedicated to agriculture. Exodus, Moses, and the tables of the Law, in short, the Bible did not exist before Plato. The Elephantine Papyri, a collection of some 175 ancient manuscripts of Jewish history, over a journey of 100 years, long before the Bible, do not mention Moses or the Exodus; neither patriarchs, nor Ezra, nor anyone! The laws of Deuteronomy spread philosophy, the Greek point of view of good governance, and some, in all probability, came from the creative genius of the great philosopher. There is no doubt that Greek mythology testifies to a perfect talent for Hollywood novelists. One can even believe that the Odyssey of Moses was a prodigious layer of the Greek legend that Hercules received from the gods the prophecy that his descendants should one day lead his people to a Promised Land, in addition to being sprinkled a little with the legend of King Sargon of Akkad. Anyone who has the chance to read Anita Diamant's The Red Tent or Joseph Heller's God Knows would realize that the Jewish novelist, like the Greeks, for that matter, writes to create. Even today we say with his admirers: "Blessed who, like Odysseus, made a beautiful trip". In this epic narration, the scene of the Cyclops, for example, by its liveliness takes the reader by the throat. And why not? This is what the novelist gets when he has talent. And the Bible is a bit like that.
- "About 726 years old, the Prophet Micah predicted that Jesus Christ was to be born in Bethlehem" this sentence I extract from a text learned by heart, in early childhood, by my older sister and I. Yet, according to Gmirkin, Micah's prophecy was in the Bible between 170 years and 400 years before Christ. How then can we believe that a book said something 556 or even 326 years before it existed? It can be bet, according to analysts, that the entire Old Testament was written some 170 years before our era. Ezra never existed," laconically says historian Gmirkin. His name is nowhere in history books. Neither Mesopotamia nor the official history of the Jews. Historical Solomon: an Assyrian king on the other side of the Euphrates; never a king of Jews who had his throne in Jerusalem, says the historian-detective with confidence. Everything else is legend!
- The famous letter called from Ariseus, to his brother Philocrates (150 BC, 100 years after the Septuagint), today considered a fictitious work, unravels the tangle of the notion of a sacred book identically translated into Greek by 70 scientists from a Hebrew text, at that time a language that was written without vowels, spaces, and Let's repeat: 70 scribes, among whom probably little old people with weakened vision, even before the invention of glasses in the 13th century AD, without consulting each other, realized the incredible wonder of translating an obscure text into Greek, and their translations competed as if by magic! Thus say militant and unconditional exegetes of the Bible as God-inspired wonder. Judah Aristobulus, a learned Jew who lived in Alexandria, passed the legend under the false epigraph of "The Letter of Aristotle". Said Gmirkin, Alexandria invented the science of the library. Each book was recorded in a "library catalog", with title, publication date and author names. There is no doubt that the Book of Moses was not a translation. Here is how it simply happened: A Pharaoh, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, asked the Jewish priests about the truth of the account that the Jews received from their almighty god a sacred book, the Book of Moses, and the laws they swore to keep forever. This king asked that this book with his laws be made available to him. The Jewish Senate, then also called the Septuagint, docile, complied. He immediately set to work and produced the "Seagint" (in French, La Septuagint) translated from Hebrew. No, says the detective historian, it was not so! The truth: the Jewish Senate (70 individuals working together) went as far as Alexandria, retired to the great library, wrote in Greek, and then delivered to the inquisitive monarch a text that they pretended as the happy translation of an old Hebrew original (250 BC).
How hard-headed facts! How difficult the truth is to bury or exhume! Fortunately, she has her heroes, martyrs, apostles and patrons. Distinguished researchers, Ralph Ellis, Shlomo Sand and many others have spared no energy or fortune to dig everything and generously share their discoveries. Shlomo Sand, with scientific rigour, established that the Romans engaged in a war of extermination against Judea and that there was never a deportation of Jews to Rome. From Ralph Ellis, we learn that Jesus may have stronger ethnic relations with Persia, Rome, Egypt than with Judea. When the Talmud disrespectfully calls Jesus Balaam and says of him that he is the son of a prostitute and a Roman soldier, is this blasphemy spoken by allusion to the narrative that the tortured of Golgotha would have more biological filiation with Cleopatra and Caesar than with David? The intrepid seeker informs us that before his suicide by snake sting, Cleopatra had children of Julius Caesar, then Mark Anthony. Ironically, or simply omnipotence of the eternal feminine, it was a putative girl, Thermosa, who almost prevailed over Caesarion, the presumptive (but unfortunate) heir in the aims of Egypt's voluptuous sovereign. This very little girl, Thermusa (Thermuthis or Thea-Musa), would have survived just to become the mother of Miriam, mother of Jesus. In addition, Ralph Ellis, after having, through his excavations, made it plausible that the champions of the Bible and their masters of thought, among whom Josephus Flavius, aka Yuzef Bar Matheus (Joseph of Arimatheus), aka Saul of Tarsus, changed dates, places, names and testimonies, postulates that Jesus would have been We add that he was a scholar, full of wisdom and with a most beautiful and functional world view.
Who says the truth? Only God knows. God, "the Incorruptible Eternal and Lord of Mathematics"; according to a reflection on Wikipedia; God, the non-anthropomorphic, the unspeakable, who is one with his creation, the God who is his universe, his multiverse, all their content, and much more!
At the time of finishing this article, I have the good fortune to receive some pearls from my irreplaceable friends. They invite me, all in order to protect myself, to dig deeper, to read what others say about it, because, in truth, my article could be considered an unconditional endorsement of what Russel Gmirkin says. Never mind! I obeyed but without revoking my right to forage, like the bee, wherever it seems to me to see flowers. On this suggestion from my friends, I revisited Sam Harris of "New Atheism, Jordan Peterson, the author of "The Power of Mythological Archetypes" and "The Heros' Myth., Leonard Woolley, British archaeologist, Joseph Campbell to whom we owe the understanding of the "Four Basic Functions of Mythology. And, finally, upon returning from this plunge into the world of these great dissertationists/philosophers, masters-of-thinkers, I gladly remember Sharouk Mustafa Ibrahim's wise warning:
"May you never be the reason why someone who likes to sing, no longer sings. Or that you are the reason why someone who dresses in a unique way, now only dresses, to the ordinary, never again to his taste. Or that someone who always enthusiastically talks about his dreams, now no longer talks about them."
May you never be the reason why someone drops a part of himself because you, his interlocutor, were the extinguisher of his aspirations, because you would have killed all motivation in him, because you would not have known how to appreciate him, never stopped criticizing him excessively, worse, always been towards him, sarcastic. »
That said, my only desire is that I am not unnecessarily iconoclastic and irresponsible here. In previous writings that I still defend, I have struggled to convince that it is a question of respect for a sacred right, that no one should despise or resent someone else because of unshared personal beliefs. No one escapes it, we all wear and seem to need this crutch (Saving Haiti/Saving The World -2008), and Understanding The World Through Biology-2019). However, I feel a need to remind wisdom that we need beacons, safeguards whose benefits would be obvious: "Let no misfortune, disaster, or unnecessary misery be the result of erroneous beliefs.
And, since we are there, let's talk about Religion: Joseph Campbell said: All religions are true, but none are literal... Believers are people who accept metaphors for facts, Atheists know that all metaphors in religion are lies". Both may be wrong. Indeed, the same Campbell wrote: "Myths are more important than history, and adds: "History is journalism, and we know how credible history is! To want there to be only true stories instead of myths, can be a valid intellectual concern, but does it advantageously replace poetry, a magnificent painting, a song, a beautiful novel, a beautiful play,? Or is it superior in beauty, civic and moral education than a fairy tale? The answer is clear: No! So here is the simple truth:
Whether the whole story is a myth, there is a danger of losing or corrupting entire generations. Also, there is no credible model of heroism, and the sense of the sacred can be forever lost! And when a posterity with a stronger intellectual quotient takes over, it will not be good, that in their eyes, we are pranksters or fools. So let's be very happy and easy that some myths passed for stories, fade on their own in the spotlight of Science. May a myth, on the contrary, usurp the throne of history, and remain functional for a long time, for the good of humanity, be praised God. But be careful, when myths are responsible for misery, crimes against humanity, destruction of other cultures, genocide, injustices, discrimination and prejudice of all kinds, it is worth checking that they are not historical facts and the greatest service to humanity is to classify them as such and put them in the museum.
Let us demand better ones, and invite Science and Divine Providence, the true, hopefully, fortunately better defined, better perceived, better applied than it has been so far. There are myths that have made their course; they no longer have merit and usefulness, no longer operational virtue. There are really stories in sacred books that are dangerous, there are recommendations in Leviticus and Deuteronomy that are awful, There are no worse ruthless imprecatory prayers than Psalms 109 and 129. There, we are far from the Gospel of forgiveness of offenses, the "Father, forgive them because they do not know what they are doing", and the wisdom of Madiba. That to lose composure in the face of the alarming worries and exhortations of a Jordan Peterson, some, of course, well-founded, it is better for a philosopher, overwhelmed from the tender age of 13 in the complex world of the Ayn Rand (eugenics), Aldous Huxley, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, George Orwell Since his genius was born when I was going to be admitted to Medical School! It is also surely worth it, for the sake of balance, for him to debate a Sam Harris. Similarly, to hear me exhorted to take the opposite view of what a Shlomo Sand a Ralph Ellis says because Leonard Woolley, an Archaeologist, made excavations that confirmed the story of Abraham who left Ur in Chaldea, or that official Jewish history is unavoidable, the clinician in me says: "not so fast". Official history has fooled us for too long... Let's continue the research. Moreover, when a preacher, son of a preacher, subsidized by the Christian West, probably biblical literalist and fundamentalist moreover, transferred to an archaeologist, goes in search of scientific evidence of a Bible account, we must be careful. Chances are that inevitably he has what English since James Wason has called: "observation bias", in addition to "cognitive bias".
Thus, it is with a mixture of recognition, respect and also skepticism, required by the scientific spirit, that I greet him and all those who drew so hard to help inform us.
In any case, it is undeniable that Plato, Aristotle, Thales, Pythagoras, etc., all of them were educated, informed and trained with our Kémites ancestors.
An independent thinker has a duty of humility to bet on good faith to so many others who still believe that we live better by drawing without ceasing between Tartuffus and Machiavelli; that Plato's noble lie sometimes serves better than truth; that naked reality, without metaphysical smoke, is often an unattractive dish. We must, however, be wary of those who, to establish their point of view, satisfy their thirst for power, their rage to dominate, availed themselves rightly or at the right of Roman 7 v. 3, their intellectual abilities, brutal force, their geopolitical, military and technological powers to stupefy, lie to peoples, women, take away their feeling of their real importance, ensure the allegiance of temporal authorities and finally, take advantage of broken hearts and our few human goodnesses. However, such a strong judgment, in the end, only belongs to God, the one who knows everything. But we will say, until proven otherwise:
There is only one race: the human race and, between man and woman, any claim to any superiority is absolute aberration.
No one is black, white or yellow because they are cursed or blessed by the fault of an ancestor, whatever sacred or unsacred books say.
It is not true that it was through one man, misled by a woman, that sin entered the world. The author or authors of Genesis and Saul of Tars, or St. Augustine are wrong. They turned out to be a small misogynistic clique.
Spirituality is worth much more than zeal and does not care about cultural prejudices!
The West and those who have validated its crimes should make amends. It's time. This is a mandatory condition for the new start.
The Greek-Judeo-Christian heritage is not the sine qua non criterion of true civilization.
Africa was the first civilized and the first civilizer.
Greece pierly and hypocritically plagiarizes Ancient Egypt. It is not the cradle of Civilization; it is an imposture.
We should recover buried values; below the manipulators of truth, gravediggers and novelists of History!
The scientific spirit is universal, and Science has no borders.
Peoples and nations can and must help each other and not destroy each other.
That each country be free to exploit its natural resources and workforce without petty interference.
Solidarity must be in the consented sharing; the future, the survival of humanity, of this planet Earth require sharing.
Down with looting and exploitation in any name.
Long live Jean-François Champollion, the honest scientist who impartially deciphers hieroglyphics!
Honor and glory forever to the illustrious Haitian, Anténor Firmin, author of "De L'égalité Des Races Humaines". !
May the spirit of the greatest scientist of the 20th century, the Negro Sheikh Anta Diop, author of Nations, Negro and Culture, reign in all scientific forums and research centers!
JBLC
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