The reason for building Noah's ark was found: the first fake news in history
A researcher from the University of Cambridge claims that in the Babylonian version of the story of the flood and Noah's ark, the water god Aah ordered Noah to tell his associates to help him build the ark in exchange for food that fell from the sky.
According to the researcher, he used a double meaning when he said "rain of cakes" and actually meant a "devastating flood"
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03/10/2022
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Dr. Martin Worthington, a leading expert on the study of the Babylonian language from the University of Cambridge, claims that the 11th volume of the Gilgamesh Tales (one of the earliest literary works in human history, dating from about 2100 BC) reveals the truth behind the story of the flood and Noah's Ark. According to him , the text contains a double meaning designed to deceive humans and promise them that a rain of food will fall from the sky if they help Noah build the famous ark. According to him, the Babylonian god Aa was the first in history to use "fake news" to ensure that Noah would finish building his ark before the devastating flood .
The text with the double meaning was found engraved on a tablet from 700 BC and although Noah appears under a different name in the scriptures - Othanfisthem, it is commonly thought that this is the biblical Noah and the famous flood story.
Myths of flood stories are common in many different peoples and cultures, all over the world.
Some of these stories were discovered in archaeological finds that are 3000 years old and more.
There are striking similarities between the biblical flood story and several flood stories from nearby regions, especially the ancient stories from Mesopotamia and it seems that they were influenced by each other in antiquity.
As mentioned, a particularly ancient source for the story of a Mesopotamian flood is included in the Gilgamesh plots, in tablet 11 of 12 tablets stored in the British Museum.
In this plot, a similarity to the biblical story is evident - such as the ship, the geographical location (near Mount Ararat), the saving of the hero and the animals by God's grace, the sending of the birds (including a pigeon and a crow) to see if the water was all gone, and the sacrifice of thanks offered at the end of the story.
However, alongside the striking similarity between the Mesopotamian flood stories and the biblical story, there are also many differences between them.
Beyond the difference in the name of Noah and Uthnaphishtim, in Babylon the vessel was called a "big ship" or "temple" and not an "ark";
The dimensions and internal division are also different;
The ship is less big;
The ark did not rest on the Ararat mountains but south of them - on Mount Nazir.
Othanafishtim sent a dove, a swallow and then a raven, and it was the raven that did not return;
Another big difference is the duration of the flood - while according to the Bible the flood lasted a full year (of which the rain fell for 40 days, and after 150 days the water culture stopped), in the Babylonian story it lasted only seven days.
An original size model of Noah's ark built in the Netherlands (Photo: AP)
According to the doctor, the Babylonian water god, Aah, knew about the plan of the other gods to rain a devastating flood on the earth and decided to trick the humans into building an ark that would save them. The humans who will take care of feeding him and the other gods. In the 3,000-year-old engraved text, there are 9 lines that deal with the message that the Babylonian god Noah conveyed. A simple translation of one of the lines reads "At dawn, coconut cakes came down", but Dr. Martin claims that the true meaning of the sentence He "at dawn he will rain black upon you".
Another line promises "He will shower you abundantly", but the true meaning of the sentence is: "He will shower you abundantly".
Dr Worthington explained to the Daily Telegraph: "Aah worked for humanity by spreading fake news.
He told the Babylonian Noah, known as the Othanfishites, to promise the people that food would fall from the sky if they would help him build the ark.
When the ark is built, he and his family will come aboard and survive with a group of animals, while everyone else drowns.
In those days the manipulation of knowledge and language had already begun.
It's perhaps the earliest example of fake news ever." He added: "What people didn't understand is that Aah's message is tricky: it's a series of words that can be understood in completely different ways, like the difference between 'ice cream' and 'shout' (survey islands) in English.
Aa's message seems to promise a rain of food, when the hidden meaning actually warned of the flood."
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Dr. Worthington claims that Ah did everything he could so that humanity would survive and could continue to feed him and the other gods: "Babylonian gods survive only because people feed them.
If humanity were wiped out, the gods would starve.
That's why he had to work on them.
God manipulated with the help of language and deceived people to do as he wished because it serves his personal interest.
It's a technique that the gods and politicians use to this day."
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