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Genesis 10:8 And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth.
 9 He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.
 10 And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
 11 From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,
 12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah, which is a very great town.
 (BBE)

Nimrod.

Elmer was hunting Bugs Bunny in a cartoon and Bugs quipped: "What a Nimrod!" So now instead of realizing the irony, a generation sees that as an insult meaning  Nimrod as a synonym for "fool."

In the SF series Surface, a young boy names a baby sea creature Nimrod, shortened to Nim. A hunting sea creature.

Nimrod is the pseudonym of a film reviewer in Creature Cantina an SF site.  A sign of "Kewlness", as the reviewer repurposes the word.

Then we have an article focusing on the Gilgamesh who was "2/3 god, 1/3 man", the Babylonian legend recorded on tablets in cuneiform.


In Genesis 10:8-11 we learn that “Nimrod” established a kingdom. Therefore, one would expect to find also, in the literature of the ancient Near East, a person who was a type, or example, for other people to follow. And there was. It is a well-known tale, common in Sumerian literature, of a man who fits the description. In addition to the Sumerians, the Babylonians wrote about this person; the Assyrians likewise; and the Hittites. Even in Israel, tablets have been found with this man's name on them. He was obviously the most popular hero in the Ancient Near East.

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It concludes:

The Gilgamesh Epic describes the first “God is dead” movement. In the Epic, the hero is a vile, filthy, perverted person, yet he is presented as the greatest, strongest, hero that ever lived (Alexander Heidel, 1963: 18). So that the one who sent the Flood will not trouble them anymore, Gilgamesh sets out to kill the perpetrator. He takes with him a friend who is a monstrous half-man, half-animal-Enkidu. Together they go on a long journey to the Cedar Mountain to find and destroy the monster who sent the Flood. Gilgamesh finds him and finally succeeds in cutting off the head of this creature whose name is “Huwawa” (“Humbaba” in the Assyrian version; see Heidel 1963: 34ff). Is there a connection with the Gilgamesh epic and Genesis 10? Note what Gilgamesh says to Enkidu the half man, half beast, who accompanied him on his journey, found in Tablet III, lines 147-150. “If I fall,” Gilgamesh says, “I will establish a name for myself. Gilgamesh is fallen, they will say, in combat with terrible Huwawa.” But the next five lines are missing from all tablets found so far! Can we speculate on what they say? Let's try… We suggest that those five lines include, “But if I win, …they will say, Gilgamesh, the mighty vanquisher of Huwawa!” Why do we say that? Because Genesis 10:9 gives us the portion missing from the Gilgamesh tablets. Those lines include. “it is said, Nimrod (or Gilgamesh) the mighty vanquisher of YHWH.” This has to be what is missing from all the clay tablets of the Gilgamesh story. The Gilgamesh Epic calls him Huwawa; the Bible calls Him YHWH. Alexander Heidel, speaking of the incident as it is found on Tablet V says, All we can conclude from them [the lost lines] is that Gilgamesh and Enkidu cut off the head of Humbaba (or Huwawa) and that the expedition had a successful issue [ending] (1963: 47). The missing lines from the Epic are right there in the Bible! Because of the parallels between Gilgamesh and Nimrod, many scholars agree that Gilgamesh is Nimrod. Continuing with Gilgamesh's fable, he did win, he did vanquish Huwawa and took his head. Therefore, he could come back to Uruk and other cities and tell the people not to worry about YHWH anymore, he is dead. “I killed him over in the Lebanon mountains. So just live however you like, I will be your king and take care of you.” There are still other parallels between the Bible and the Gilgamesh epic: “YaHWeH” has a somewhat similar sound to “Huwawa.” Gilgamesh did just as the “sons of god” in Genesis 6 did. The “sons of god” forcibly took men's wives. The Epic says that is precisely what Gilgamesh did. The Bible calls Nimrod a tyrant, and Gilgamesh was a tyrant. There was a flood in the Bible; there is a flood in the Epic. Cush is mentioned in the Bible, Kish in the Epic. Erech is mentioned in Scripture; Uruk was Gilgamesh's city. Gilgamesh made a trip to see the survivor of the Flood. This was more likely Ham than Noah, since “Nimrod” was Ham's grandson! Historically, Gilgamesh was of the first dynasty of Uruk. As Jacobsen points out (1939: 157), kings before Gilgamesh may be fictional, but not likely. The fact that the Gilgamesh epic also contains the Deluge story would indicate a close link with events immediately following the Flood. S.N. Kramer says, A few years ago one would have strongly doubted his (historical) existence… we now have the certitude that the time of Gilgamesh corresponds to the earliest period of Mesopotamian history. (Kramer 1959: 117) What a contrast Psalm 2 is compared with the Gilgamesh Epic! Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the Earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the LORD and against his Anointed One. “Let us break their chains,” they say, “and throw off their fetters.” The One enthroned in heaven laughs, the Lord scoffs at them. Then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying, “I have installed my King on Zion, my holy hill.” I will proclaim the decree of the LORD: He said to me, “you are my Son, today I have become your Father, Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the Earth your possession. You will rule them with an iron scepter; you will dash them to pieces like pottery.” Therefore, you kings, be wise; he warned, you rulers of the Earth. Serve the LORD with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

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Then we have the Osirus notions:

Two key figures in the origin of Christmas are Nimrod, a great grandson of Noah, and his mother and wife, Semiramis, also known as Ishtar and Isis. Nimrod, known in Egypt as Osiris, was the founder of the first world empire at Babel, later known as Babylon (Genesis 10:8-12; 11:1-9). From ancient sources such as the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and records unearthed by archeologists from long-ruined Mesopotamian and Egyptian cities, we can reconstruct subsequent events. After Nimrod's death (c. 2167 BC), Semiramis promoted the belief that he was a god. She claimed that she saw a full-grown evergreen tree spring out of the roots of a dead tree stump, symbolizing the springing forth of new life for Nimrod. On the anniversary of his birth, she said, Nimrod would visit the evergreen tree and leave gifts under it. His birthday fell on the winter solstice at the end of December. A few years later, Semiramis bore a son, Horus or Gilgamesh. She declared that she had been visited by the spirit of Nimrod, who left her pregnant with the boy. Horus, she maintained, was Nimrod reincarnated. With a father, mother, and son deified, a deceptive, perverted trinity was formed. Semiramis and Horus were worshipped as "Madonna and child." As the generations passed, they were worshipped under other names in different countries and languages. Many of these are recognizable: Fortuna and Jupiter in Rome; Aphrodite and Adonis in Greece; and Ashtoreth/Astarte and Molech/Baal in Canaan. During the time between Babel and Christ, pagans developed the belief that the days grew shorter in early winter because their sun-god was leaving them. When they saw the length of the day increasing, they celebrated by riotous, unrestrained feasting and orgies. This celebration, known as Saturnalia, was named after Saturn, another name for Nimrod. Martin G. Collins  http://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Topical.show/RTD/CGG/ID/773/Osiris.htm From a site I just discovered that seems to agree with me on everything concerning the gene notions up to this point comes a further discussion: "There were giants walking around the Earth warring with nations, angels openly being revealed and being worshiped as gods and all sorts of supernatural activity taking place.  The pre-flood world was a very unique place. Noah’s family was well aware of this and that it’s root was satanic, hence Noah being a “preacher of righteousness.” Ham rejected God’s righteousness and God’s ways to forge his own. This was solely Ham’s fault. James chapter 1 outlines the process of sin in one’s heart: Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. – James 1:12-15. "Ham was drawn by his own lusts to the pagan, sinful world. He knew the right way to live because the Bible states that  Noah was a “preacher of righteousness.”  Noah and his family were completely aware of the Nephilim hybridization taking place and Noah clearly made efforts to live separate from this.  Despite having the most Holy man on the planet (literally) as is his father, Ham had no faith in God.   This always brings in sin to a person’s life. We can never forget that when looking at any Biblical account. God could have certainly killed Ham’s wife or told Ham “she’s corrupted” but it is this author’s thinking that Ham did not care about what God had to say because Ham was not a follower of God. Ham had a choice. And he chose to reject God." Which led to Nimrod: "Just as Canaan received a special distinction in his genealogy, Nimrod gets several extra verses! Clearly this is someone of special significance. Nimrod was the first murderer and conqueror in the post-flood world. He was the founder of the city of Babylon which became a center of pagan, satanic idolatry, much of it with various versions of Nimrod himself being worshiped as a god. His name, which means “to rebel” or “let us rebel” indicates his disposition. He was an enemy of God and at the time was Satan’s main servant on Earth. He is credited for leading the effort to build the tower of Babel, a religious temple used to access the angelic realm through pagan ritual. The Tower of Babel was also the first attempt at a global government, led by Nimrod and an attempt for man to reach the spiritual realm and “godhood” without The Lord (to which God swiftly responded by destroying the tower, confusing the languages of all the people of the world and scattering them all over the Earth). Was this grandson of Ham possibly a Nephilim? "It is interesting to note is that the verse 9 states that Nimrod “began to be a mighty one in the earth.” The term for “mighty one”, gibborim, is the same Hebrew phrase used to describe the Nephilim giants in Chapter 6 of Genesis who were “mighty men”. It is also the same term used to describe the giant Goliath in 1 Samuel 17:51. Was Nimrod a Nephilim? In mythology, Nimrod is known by many names, among them Gilgamesh and Osiris, who were worshiped as gods. In Sumerian texts he is described as “2/3 god, 1/3 man.” The Hebrew word for “began” in the verse is chalal, which means, “to profane, desecrate or pollute oneself, begin, ritually or sexually”." And: "The final piece of evidence to consider is that in the Septuagint, the oldest version of the Old Testament, the same verse from Genesis reads: And [Cush] begot [Nimrod]: he began to be a giant upon the earth. He was a giant hunter before the Lord God; therefore they say, As [Nimrod] the giant hunter before the Lord. – Genesis 10:8,9 (LXX) "So from just the text of scripture it appears that through some form of defilement and/or occult ritual, Nimrod. the grandson of Ham, was transformed into a giant. This would not be the only time a human king was transformed into a different creature. Please note that in Daniel 4, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, was literally transformed into a “beast” and lived as an animal for seven years. And this was at the pronouncement of “watchers” and “holy ones” (the same type of angels that are named as being involved in the Genesis 6 illicit relations in extra-biblical texts like the Book of Enoch)." Ge 10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.  9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.  (KJV) Benson Commentary Genesis 10:9. Nimrod was a mighty hunter — In the Septuagint it is, He was a giant hunter: — the Arabic has it, He was a terrible giant before the Lord: and the Syriac, He was a great warrior. It is probable he began with hunting, and for this became famous to a proverb. He served his country by ridding it of wild beasts, and so insinuating himself into the affections of his neighbours, he got to be their prince. And perhaps, under pretence of hunting, he gathered men under his command, to make himself master of the country. Thus he became a mighty hunter, a violent invader of his neighbours’ rights and properties. Great conquerors are but great hunters before the Lord. Alexander and Cesar would not make such a figure in Scripture history as they do in common history. The former is represented in prophecy, but as a he-goat pushing, Daniel 8:5. I grew up reading SF and recall a number of their stories concerning invasions from aliens.  "Occam's Scalpel" suggests a fraud about the possibility of an industrial giant actually being run by aliens who want to terraform the Earth with pollution and the fakers use it as a way to persuade the new leader to clean up nit just his industry's pollution but all pollution  to protect against invasion.   Watch the movie "Independence Day".  Everyone unites to fight the aliens.  It has been a long-term scenario that an external threat will unite the nation through fear.  Donald Trump currently seems to presume he can unite the country by blaming a LOT of people other than himself for the sad state of the country.  "You should hate everyone who isn't like you and we'll throw them out of the country together."  So long as you're a white guy.  This message united a large portion of uncommitted white youth and working class white men in this Recession recovering  country as it did in the Depression ruined Europe of the 1930's.  The idea then was that the Jews were the aliens responsible for all the evil.  Hispanics are not universally hated in this country so the economic Recession didn't make them THE Scapegoat.  Which explains Trump ranting against the "wrong kind" of Muslims, women and  blacks.  In fact, the ideal scapegoat would be actual aliens, ones who were, say, giants.  Easily distinguishable like Jews with Stars of David sewn on their clothes as opposed to a people with brown skin in a homogenized culture.  But even the Jews in Nazi Germany had people who helped them.  Who would help the giants who could kill them? Return to that section of the Septuagint: And [Cush] begot [Nimrod]: he began to be a giant upon the earth. He was a giant hunter before the Lord God; therefore they say, As [Nimrod] the giant hunter before the Lord. – Genesis 10:8,9 (LXX) That term "before"  was also translated to read "against" in one commentary.  Also: "Who put himself before the Lord."  It can imply either that he was FOR God  or AGAINST God.  Or maybe both?  Maybe that was why the word was used? The facts lead me to a conclusion I haven't seen in anyone I've read yet.  1) We have a man who is a mighty hunter and  (implied) warrior.  2)  The peoples, tribes, all around, were faced with a new generation of giants from Ham's descendants.  Mighty men who were conquers themselves. terrorists.  The Enemy.  Giants who stood out like sore thumbs. Giants who, if you killed one with a bow, you would be seen as...David.  Songs sung about you.  "Shem has killed his hundreds but Nimrod has killed his thousands."  Beings who a man could kill with a bow, The bow and arrow as the six-gun "equalizer" of the Wild Middle East.  Maybe even a part of the legend we lost but David knew when he took a sling into battle.    3) We have that man uniting those tribes, become the "one world" leader everyone who reads Revelation comes to suspect as the Antichrist.   I conclude we can read that Septuagint sentence differently:  "giant hunter" could mean as it is taken  a giant who is a hunter, but could as easily mean "a hunter of  giants."  Nimrod was not the ogre hunting men but descended from the same line, human but a killer of his relatives.  He united the tribes against a common enemy to drive the giants out of their lands into a specific area, killing them off as was God's will but stopping once they were driven into that area away from the Babylonia area, perhaps even driving off the tribes they came from, the seven that were found in the Holy Land centuries later by Joshua and the Hebrews, into an area near the sea, one that would come to be called the Holy Land, one God would later give to His People.    Moses and Joshua  even killed some of them. Now this makes sense of something we Christians get asked about that taking of the Holy Land: De 7:1 When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;  2 And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:  3 Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.  4 For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.  5 But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.  6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.  7 The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:  8 But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.  9 Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;  10 Rewarding his haters to their face with destruction; he will have no mercy on his hater, but will give him open punishment.  11 So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.  (BBE)  We can follow the spiritual part of that which God here emphasizes and Matt Henry explains: 7:1-11 Here is a strict caution against all friendship and fellowship with idols and idolaters. Those who are in communion with God, must have no communication with the unfruitful works of darkness. Limiting the orders to destroy, to the nations here mentioned, plainly shows that after ages were not to draw this into a precedent. A proper understanding of the evil of sin, and of the mystery of a crucified Saviour, will enable us to perceive the justice of God in all his punishments, temporal and eternal. We must deal decidedly with our lusts that war against our souls; let us not show them any mercy, but mortify, and crucify, and utterly destroy them. Thousands in the world that now is, have been undone by ungodly marriages; for there is more likelihood that the good will be perverted, than that the bad will be converted. Those who, in choosing yoke-fellows, keep not within the bounds of a profession of religion, cannot promise themselves helps meet for them. I would add that the genetic pollution of the population, the cross marriages with the nephilim, made this a deadly practice so the extermination of that genetic trait also became an essential.  And the pure line polluted by this strain would have endangered the birth of the Savior.  We understand, too, why God was angry at Nimrod for stopping his rout of the giants.   Support for this comes from the myths surrounding the area.  Then Greeks told of the Titans the first, antediluvian giant "gods" and their conquest by Zeus but the post flood new gods lived on Olympus, away from humanity and only sometimes came down to have relations with humanity,  Demigods resulted from those matings.  This served as Satan's spiritual preparation for facing the fact of Christ which Paul later turned around to reach.  Norse legends told the story of Odin and his son Thor battling the frost giants, and of the later Ragnarok, Armageddon to the Christian. An old friend who is an atheist insisted that legend was never in Norse mythology until Christianity appeared and corrupted it.  Ragnarok actually relates the idea of a "future " situation that looks awfully familiar: In Norse mythology, Ragnarök is a series of future events, including a great battle, foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures (including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdallr, and Loki), the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water. Afterward, the world will resurface anew and fertile, the surviving and returning gods will meet, and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors. Ragnarök is an important event in the Norse canon, and has been the subject of scholarly discourse and theory. The old gods would die, the new gods arise. The partial extermination of that genetic trait allowed  it go on and was also a form of rebellion against the leadership of God and of insuring the security of Nimrod's leadership.  So long as there was still an enemy out there, there was the need for a strong leader and military and military spending, so you have a Cold War.  Keep the enemy in the ghetto so we know where they are.  Too many of our people were lost in Hot Wars so we have mutual destruction.  stockpile wealth for the king so he can build walls like in Jericho.  So he can found as many cities as he can from Babylon to Nineveh.  Elect him God so he can watch over you  always, even after death.  Keep an eye on the kids since any one of them could be born with that gene.  Cast them out or maybe offer them as sacrifices?  Offer any deformed child as sacrifice.  When that seems to work, maybe offer normal ones since that will please God more, especially if they are children of the king's political enemies.  Keep everyone united in fear of the leader as they were united in fear of the giants.   In Joseph Campbell's Goddesses, he explained  there were two "movements".  Campbell suggested the hunting/man-centered religion began first but also cited that the earliest idols were of the equatorial goddesses.  This suggests the goddess religion was actual the first idolatry and certainly fits the Genesis history,  Man-centered religion appears to begin with Gilgamesh/Nimrod.  The suggestion from the research is that the Nimrod legend gave the priestly class a union of the goddess and the god, the creation of a total humanistic religion with gods in our own image.  Empowering the tribal power structure of king-witch doctor or priest/ priestess-general.  Warrior-king fit Nimrod so he occupied two of the power roles.  Becoming a god made him the high priest also.  This set the pattern for civilization that was to follow.  Even today, we have the political leader, the military leader and the religious leader as separate powers which can be blended by the general who seizes power by a junta or the religious leader who takes power by a successful rebellion.  All of this follows that original pattern. The warrior king takes power because of a threat.  He wishes to stay on power.  Create a religion based on the King.  And worship him. This time it had other consequences. Ones that reached for the sky.