what is the role of the winged dragon as the Great Serpent in Sumerian's original Garden of Eden teaching?

 a naked man in edin (Enkidu) is separated from his herbivore animal companions by a naked woman (Shamhat of Uruk) and she convinces him to leave edin and replaces his animals with her companionship. She convinces him to eat forbidden food (bread and alcoholic drink) offered by edin's shepards. They leave edin clothed. He ceases to be an animal, now he has knowledge like a god, for in early myths man was naked and hairy (Berossus' account), man ate grass like a beast, had no knowledge of good and evil. Only the gods wore clothes and knew of good and evil, they had laws laying out what was acceptable and non-acceptable conduct. Edin the steppe brings us to Enkidu (Adam), Shamhat (Eve), naked man, later a clothed man, animal companions who are herbivores, knowledge of good and evil. Edin the steppe brings us to Eridu and Ea, and his boast: I gave man wisdom but not immortality", anticipating God's actions in Eden. The motifs associated with Sumer's edin reappear in Genesis' Eden.

https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/2015/04/day398028 

 the Sumerian Edin did possess trees because of rivers, lakes, and man-made irrigation canals and water-retention ponds for irrigation. Wikipedia on Steppe:"...characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes..." Innana the goddess of Uruk finds an uprooted tree near Uruk, she has it planted in her garden intending to make furniture of it after maturity. A snake that "cannot be charmed" makes a nest at its base preventing its being cut down. Hero Gilgamesh learns of her sorrow and takes an axe, kills the serpent, chops down the tree and makes a throne of it for her.

  I understand that there were two Sumerian edins. The oldest was southern Mesopotamia and Sumer. By 3000 BC Sumerian colonies had been established in upper Mesopotamia, and I would assume they called this steppe land edin as well. In the northern area the Euphratyes is mostly one stream, but south of ancient Sippar it subdivides into four streams which subdivide into numerous branches which are tapped as irrigation canals. So an upper Mesopotamian river of edin (principaly today's Syria) becomes four streams south of today's Anah (south of ancient Mari) to become four streams of Genesis. Eden's stream flows downwards from the higher edin steppe land northwest of Mari, to become the four rivers of Genesis eden.

 So, Sumer's edin has led us to Eden's pre-biblical origin, Eridu and its god Enki/Ea who boasted of allowing Adapa (symbolizing mankind) to obtain wisdom like a god, but not immortality, a motif picked up later in Genesis.

 Eve and the serpent represent the religious culture of earth and vegetation because goddesses and animals (especially the goddess of fertility, who is always represented naked holding a serpent) were worshipped by Canaanite and foreign people; Adam heeds these two images that are in opposition to the pastoral religious system; because of this, Adam is condemned as Cain was. On the other hand, more than elsewhere, Noah is seen as a new Adam who inaugurates a world reborn from the Flood. However, contrary to Adam, Noah can eat meat, being, therefore, a part of the cattle culture (Gen. 9:3). Without a doubt, Noah represents the replacement (by means of the figure of the Flood) of an old agricultural order by a new pastoral one.

 Again, in a BBC TV programme broadcast in 2011 (episode 3 of The Bible’s Buried Secrets), Francesca Stavrakopoulou claimed that the serpent symbolized snake worship; she seems to be thinking of the bronze serpent Nehushtan.

 J. Coppens and J.A. Soggin[6] saw the serpent as symbolic of the Canaanite fertility cult. It is true that there is evidence suggesting that the serpent could symbolize fertility in Canaanite religion...

 K.R. Joines, “The Bronze Serpent in the Israelite Cult”, Journal of Biblical Literature 87 (1965), 245-58, at 246-50; idem, Serpent Symbolism in the Old Testament (Haddonfield, NJ: Haddonfield House, 1974), 63-73. She points, for example, to the frequent association of the serpent in Canaanite iconography with the nude goddess Qudshu, in addition to bulls and water, all of which were symbolic of fertility or life.

 A later depiction of the nephesh is two snakes on a pole;

 None of the characters in the Adapa myth was called a snake or serpent. Another myth did mention a serpent eating a plant denying man (Gilgamesh) a chance at rejuvenation of life so many scholars seized on this snake being behind Eden's serpent, and for over 100 years this is the most popular proposal amongst scholars. The problem? The Gilgamesh snake doesn't speak and doesn't walk. Agreeing with scholars about the Adapa myth being the closest parallel to mans acquiring knowledge but not immortality, I asked myself a question: Given that no snake appears in the Adapa myth, had anyone in Academia sought serpent associations in other myths for any of the characters? The answer appeared to be no. So I investigated various myths looking for any mention of Anu, Ea, Dumuzi, and Gishzida which might reveal a serpent association. I was successful. In other myths Ea, Dumuzi, and Gishzida all bore the Sumerian epithet ushumgal, ushum= serpent, gal= great, or "great serpent."

 Ningishzida (a variant of Gishzida) is represented by a basmu: "The symbol and beast of Ningishzida was the horned snake or dragon basmu (see snakes)...p. 140. Jeremy Black and Anthony Green. Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia. An Illustrated Dictionary. 1992.
Gishzida (Ningishzida) offered Adapa bread that he thought had been forbidden him by Ea, as it the bread of death

 Thus naked Enkidu's (EDIN) became
a "delightful" place for him and his herbivore companions (wild cattle and antelope) to live in? The myths declare edin is a dangerous place, lions, leopards and snakes inhabit it. I was informed by Professor George that (EDIN) means "back" (as in a person's back)and that by anology the steppe lands surrounding and "backing" the Sumerian cities' walls, came to be associated with the steppe where shepherds grazed their sheep and cattle. Every Sumerian city had a god or goddess who's fields were worked by men on the gods' behalf. Some art forms show food from these gardens, surrounded by edin the steppe, being presented to the god/goddess by naked men, whom I presume to be naked gardeners, for the gods made man to work their city-gardens in edin to provide food for the gods, freeing them of the back-breaking gardening chores: weeding, clearing canals of silt, etc. Ergo, Enkidu's (EDIN) is not the only prototype.

 Moses used the term "serpent" much like we use the phrase "snake in the grass" as a derogatory term describing who it was that confronted eve.

 

Did Ireneus get his "Natural Law" focus from Platonic philosophy? I ask Prof. Marian Hillar

 

Hi Professor Marian Hillar: Happy Spring! https://theologicalstudies.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/7.4.2.pdf This pdf points out Ireneus emphasizing "Natural law" and I wonder if you know of any connection to the natural law of Platonic philosophy? https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3935&context=vlr Plato and the Doctrine of Natural Law 1960 Plato and the Doctrine of Natural Law Hans Kelsen

thanks,

drew w. hempel

 Just as the body
of Adam was drawn from virgin soil, so Christ owes His human origin
to a virgin.94 Those Gnostics who claim that St. Joseph was the father
of Jesus in the ordinary meaning of that word, might have reason on
their side if they could point to a human father of Adam.95 As Adam
was tempted by Satan in the garden and was overcome, so Christ was
tempted in the desert and vanquished His assailant.96 It was on the
sixth day of creation that Adam disobeyed and died a spiritual death;
it was on the sixth day of the week that Christ consummated His
obedience by His physical death on Calvary.97 A similar parallelism
is drawn between Eve and the Blessed Virgin

https://theologicalstudies.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/7.4.2.pdf 

 Christ, he says, "rectifying that disobedience which had occurred by reason of a tree, through that
obedience which was [wrought out] upon a tree," showed that one and the same Father was concerned in the estrangement and the reconciliation...before he could, in a strange context, compare the
manner of Christ's death with that of Adam's fall, the soteriological
implication of that death had to be acknowledged. 

 St. Irenaeus speaks of Abraham as being ready to offer his only and beloved son as a sacrifice to God "in order that God also might be pleased to offer up for all his seed His own beloved and only-begotten Son, as a sacrifice for our redemption."142 That the offering on Calvary is a true sacrifice is clearly implied in those texts in which the priesthood of Christ is vindicated

 Finally, although by his union with the Spirit, man possesses within himself a principle of supernatural activity, his own nature is not thereby changed:
"But as the engrafted wild olive does not certainly lose the substance of its wood,
but changes the quality of its fruit, and receives another name, being now not a
wild olive, but a fruit-bearing olive, and is called so; so also, when man is grafted
in by faith and receives the Spirit of God, he certainly does not lose the substance
of flesh, but changes the quality of the fruit of his works, and receives another
name"

 Ireneus held a view that was disowned by the Church in the 12th Century:

AI says: The postponement of the Beatific Vision (direct vision of God) until the resurrection of the body is a theological position historically held by some, suggesting that full, perfect enjoyment of God is linked to the re-embodied state

. However, this view is largely considered a minority opinion or heresy in Roman Catholic theology....

 https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/2015/04/day398028

The Serpent in the Garden of Eden of Sumeria - evil or not?

  My research reveals the Sumerian god of Eridug, Enki, bore the epithet ushumgal "great serpent." Later, by 2500 BC (according to Sumeriologist Samuel Noah Kramer) Enki had been recast as the Babylonian god Ea. Only someone aware of Ea's formerly being known as ushumgal Enki would realize serpent associations existed behind the Adapa myth. Mesopotamian scribes would most likely possess this esoteric knowledge. Sumerian words were still being used in the Epic of Gilgamesh down to Neo Babylonian times, often as logograms. As for example logogram edin being used in lieu of Seru, "the plain" that Enkidu meets Shamhat in, recast as Adam meeting Eve in Eden according to Professor Morris Jastrow Jr in publications of 1898-1899.

 

 

Trump Fucked Kids and this shit it ain't going away

 

New Puharich medical research posted by Greg

 https://thecosmicclock.substack.com/p/inside-andrija-puharichs-radical

Crucial Puharich quote: "...the hair cell where the 1 KHz sine wave undergoes transduction to produce an analog 1 KHz sine electrical signal - the cochlear microphonic signal. ...As the current flows (the higher the frequency, the higher the current density) it will set up a magnetic field. The magnetic field will be picked up by the hydrogen proton of the C=O:H:N: set and cause it to precess ... [due to the phase difference between the right and left ear as side band undertone]... We would expect a short-range transfer of ELF magnetic information from the precessed proton to NA+[sodium] and K+ [potassium] via the acetylcholine molecule ... As the nerve pulse slows then the gravitational constant decreases via the magnetic moment, which causes an expansion of the psi-plasma vortex…" So that is a crucial Puharich quote to explain this secret to meditation via ultrasound subharmonics from (1987) ELF MAGNETIC MODEL of MATTER &MIND; the
ORIGIN OF LIFE; & the ART of HEALING. * * * * * * * * * * * Theory, Experiments and Proofs
I also quote in my book from Henry K. Puharich M.D., “Signal Detection in the Faraday Cage,” Draft, October 18, 1968, sent to Professor Olivier L. Reiser... and Unpublished draft sent to Professor Oliver L. Reiser, Protocommunication, 1971, “Protocommunication” presented at the Twentieth International Conference of the Parapsychology Foundation, France, 1971. 
And a top quantum biologist even admits this explanation: Professor JohnJoe McFadden, one of the founders of quantum biology, coauthor of "Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology" (2015) by Professors JohnJoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili - explains the no repeatability paradox is resolved through acoustic quantum phonons:
"Coherence in biology seems to be maintained by molecular vibrations. [acoustic phonons] This is why quantum coherence, entanglement and tunneling in biological systems is puzzling, because they are hot, messy, noisy where you wouldn't expect coherence to survive for very long. But it does ... Biology has somehow worked out how to use vibrations, use molecular noise, to maintain, rather than destroy coherence. There's a lot of evidence for that." (McFadden, 2014)...Puharich again:
“side band frequencies distributed according to the [12th root of two logarithmic music] rule will set up the phonon mechanism. The phonon mechanism is the direct cause for stimulating photon emission.” Andrija Puharich, “A NEW CONTROL AND INFORMATION SYSTEM DISCOVERED IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE: Extremely Low Frequency Magnetic Fields (ELF),” p. 64, 1987.
So Puharich believed in equal-tempered tuning but I believe in the noncommutative tuning for quantum biology healing. In the quote above where Puharich realizes that spiritual healers are able to maintain the 8 hertz quantum superconducting coherence - this is due to noncommutativity in my analysis and practice. 
Raymond Damadian's intense curiosity and passion for science led him to develop the first MR (Magnetic Resonance) Scanning Machine" - actually Damadian also argued that cancer was due to water losing it's tetrahedral macroquantum structure based on quantum frequency. The 8 Hz is actually quantum according to Puharich as the phase velocity difference between the magnetic moment of the proton and electron. I have more details on my blog and book, "There Is No Spoon" - so as Emilio del Giudice also realized (promoted by quantum biologist Dr. Mae-Wan Ho) - when water is split by the ultrasound piezoelectric microtubules there is creation of virtual photons that are nonlocal and also delocalized protons (yang qi) while the electrons are yin qi. The virtual photon thus has a magnetic moment with gravitational mass as per the paper "Light is Heavy" by Nobel physicist Gerard 't Hooft and Martin van der Mark. This enables transmutation as "yuan qi" in Daoist alchemy. This changes the definition of frequency to being noncommutative - something that Puharich hinted at when he relied on quantum biology. The "chlorophyll" similarity to red blood cells is due to the 1/2 spin of the electron being delocalized as an aromatic benzene ring structure. In Puharich's correspondence with Professor Oliver L. Reiser they both acknowledged the ground-breaking work of Andrew A. Cochran's 1965 master's thesis that cites David Bohm and Pascual Jordan (noncommutativity). Cochran got his research published as an academic article, "Its first volume, in 1971, contained a paper based on the dissertation of quantum chemist Andrew Cochran, concerning the “Relationships Between Quantum Physics and Biolo­gy.”

Paul's "Circumcision of the Heart" needs to be studied in Syriac & Hebrew for proper understanding: A "covert Jew"?

 ....binary contraposition between body and spirit can be deconstructed by providing a transcultural reading of Paul, namely, rereading him in Syriac and (Modern) Hebrew.

Paul’s Definition of “Circumcision of the Heart”: A Transcultural Reading of Romans 2:28–29 Federico Dal Bo 

... he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. (Rom 2:28–29 KJV)

  he is not referring to a difference in behavior and therefore that the contraposition that he claims would rather be metaphorical. In other words, it would not reflect a distinction in someone’s “flesh” (σάρξ) but rather in his “spirit” (πνεῦμα), as Paul himself strongly holds. 

...........

  supports not only the prominence of the circumcision of the heart over the circumcision of the flesh but also the prominence of orality over letter. 

  “circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter” (Rom 2:29 KJV).

  this allusion to “letter” (γράμμα) would reinforce the aforementioned opposition between circumcision of the flesh and circumcision of the heart and, by extension, between an apparent Jew and a covert Jew.........

 namely, the Platonic polemics against “writing” (γραμμή) that is fundamentally opposed to the creative ability of “speech” (φωνή), as eloquently reported in his most famous dialogue, the Phaedrus....

 This traditional reading of Paul’s Epistle to the Romans has traditionally reinforced Christian anti-Semitism and suggested that Judaism should be accounted as an outdated, carnal, and literal understanding of God’s commands......

 When read in a Semitic language like Syriac or Hebrew, Paul’s concepts sound remarkably different and seem to introduce a number of hidden connotations that would have escaped a non-Jewish, Greek-speaking audience but that, on the contrary, would surely have sounded familiar to a Jew of the period. The Syriac and Hebrew translations of the Epistle to the Romans mobilize a series of concepts that prevent establishing those binary oppositions examined so far. ...

 But he is a Jew, who is so in what is hidden: and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not from men, but from God.....

 the election of Israel, due to the association between circumcision and the alliance with God; the connection between circumcision and God’s word, due to the homophony between the two words; the assumption that a covet Jew actually is an individual who is uncircumcised and yet still liable of being called a Jew; finally, the assumption that one should not refer to Scripture as such, but rather approach it
by oral interpretation.

The process of "phase accumulation" in time unexplained by relativistic Higgs Field quantum physics: Shan Gao new paper

 The existence of such formulations raises a profound question: Is the gauge potential
Aμ merely a convenient mathematical tool, or is it a physically real field? The Aharonov-
Bohm (AB) effect famously provides a test case for this question in quantum mechanics
[1]. Gauge-invariant explanations of the AB effect, which attribute the phase shift to the
magnetic flux Φ = ∮ A · dr, are successful in predicting the final outcome. However, as
argued in [4], they fail to explain the process of phase accumulation in the generalized AB effect, where the flux varies in time. This leads to a no-go theorem: any purely gauge-invariant account cannot provide a complete explanation of the effect.

https://www.academia.edu/164907944/The_Gauge_Invariant_Higgs_Mechanism_Is_Incomplete_From_Angular_Momentum_to_Flux_Quantization 

 The incompleteness is not about exotic topological defects—it is about the most basic quantum property of a single particle: its orbital angular momentum. Any formulation that claims to be a complete physical description of the Higgs mechanism must be able to account for the quantization of angular momentum of its own particle excitations. Struyve’s formulation cannot do this without invoking external, global information....The gauge potential Aμ and the phase θ are not mere mathematical redundancies—they carry the global and topological information that makes quantum theory consistent. The next section will show that this problem becomes even more acute when genuine topological defects are considered...

  Struyve’s formulation fails to account for the most basic quantum properties—angular momentum quantization and flux quantization—without external input. It is therefore not a complete physical theory....require an externally imposed quantization condition involving global circulations and magnetic flux to enforce single-valuedness of the fundamental fields and to account for basic quantum properties like angular momentum quantization and flux
quantization. This incompleteness is not limited to exotic topological configurations. It already manifests for a single Higgs boson in a state with orbital angular momentum,

 

 

Dr. Mark Pretorius A metaphysical and neuropsychological assessment of musical tones to affect the brain, relax the mind and heal the body

 Thank you Dr. Mark Pretorius for you recent article, A metaphysical and neuropsychological assessment of musical tones to affect the brain, relax the mind and heal the body." I actually just discovered your work in relation to the spiritual teachings of Paul but my focus has been what I have called "Restoring the Lost Logos" (one name of my master's thesis section from University of Minnesota, 2000). I have an academia site that lists my master's thesis but also my recently published peer-reviewed academic paper on this topic of music as meditation for spiritual healing, in relation to philosophy of science. It was published in the 2024 December issue of the academic journal "Cosmos and History" and I reposted it on my articles section.
https://independent.academia.edu/hempeldrew
Sorry to write such a long message to you but I attended a Swedish Covenant Christian middle school and high school in Minneapolis Minnesota where I also studied music on an intense level. By age 15 I realized the secret of the Logos was actually Pythagorean music tuning as the secret harmony of the Universe. My first year of college I took quantum physics as an introductory course but taught by a very high level researcher. He demonstrated what is called the "Dirac Dance" as the secret of nonlocality and suddenly I realized it was the same music tuning math secret I had noticed in my studies.
I kept this to myself, except telling my parents in a letter home, as I could not complete the conceptual analysis. So my 2000 master's thesis then focuses on my discovery of John Beaulieu's biosonic book as you have also referenced. In that book he points out the Perfect Fifth is yang and the Perfect Fourth is yin. This corroborated the same secret I had discovered. It's a very simple idea but how it relates to philosophy of science was even more mysterious.
As I finished my master's thesis I was contacted by a publisher of music theory and physics - as he had graduated in physics. He admitted he couldn't understand my master's thesis and it was his wife who had thought it would make a good book for him to publish. So I studied his book on Music and Fractals - this was 25 years ago so - his name is Charles Madden. I realized he points out the Taiji symbol is not commutative geometry since it is complementary opposites and thus it is also not a fractal.
OK so I now realized the error in my master's thesis and I then discovered Alain Connes, a high level mathematical physicist talking about music theory with the same secret I had discovered! Finally the concept was made - it's called "noncommutativity" hahaha. My recent article is called "Noncommutative Music as Biophysics" by Drew W. Hempel.
https://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1100
I had tested out  my master's thesis by doing intensive qigong meditation in full lotus with qigong master Chunyi Lin who works with Mayo Clinic doctors http://springforestqigong.com
If I told you what I experienced, etc. you would probably not believe me. hahaha.
Have you read "The Man Who could Fly" by Professor Michael Grosso on Saint Joseph de Copertino? 
Well thanks for your music healing article - yes I can assure you that this is all true and much more!!