Brian Godawa [Chronicles of t Gilgamesh Immortal (epub)

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.Other books by the AuthorHollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdomand Discernment (InterVarsity Press)Word Pictures: Knowing God Through Story and Imagination (InterVarsity Press)Myth Became Fact: Storytelling, Imagination& Apologetics in the BibleChronicles of the NephilimNoah PrimevalEnoch PrimordialGilgamesh ImmortalAbraham AllegiantJoshua ValiantCaleb VigilantDavid AscendantJesus TriumphantWhen Giants Were Upon the Earth:The Watchers, Nephilim, & the Biblical Cosmic War of the SeedFor more information and products by the author,see the back pages of this book or go to:www.ChroniclesOfTheNephilim.comwww.godawa.comGilgamesh ImmortalChronicles of the NephilimBook ThreeBy Brian GodawaCopyright ©2012 Brian GodawaAll rights reserved.2nd EditionEmbedded Pictures PublishingLos Angeles, California310.948.0224www.embeddedpictures.comScripture quotations taken from The Holy Bible: English Standard Version.Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001.Dedicated tothe memory ofSinleqiunninni of Babylonia.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSSpecial thanks to the wife of my youth, Kimberly, who is my life, my muse, and my grounding; to Gilgamesh scholar Andrew George for his magisterial critical commentary The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic; to Don Enevoldsen for his editing; to Mark Tapson for his helpful comments; to Rich Knox, my agent and lifelong buddy for his insightful theological suggestions; to Shari Risoff my sister-in-law for her excellent proofreading; to Amazon.com that has empowered me as an author; and to the God who is sometimes hidden, but always near, Yahweh Elohim.This is what really happened to Gilgamesh.PrologueIn the time before the Great Flood, the War of Gods and Men raged in the desert of Dudael.Methuselah ben Enoch had led the armies of man, undefiled by genetic miscegenation and idol worship, to gloriously defend a last stand of righteousness against the rebel Sons of God called Watchers and their demonic minions of hybrid soldiers and giants called Nephilim.And then the Deluge came and washed the land clean of the corruption that had infested it.Noah ben Lamech and his family of eight were spared by Elohim in a large box of a boat, along with a multitude of animals, to repopulate the land.Everyone else and every land animal perished.This floating barge carried Noah and his wife Emzara, and their sons, Shem, Japheth, and Ham.Shem’s wife was named Sedeq, Japheth’s wife was Adatanes, and Ham’s wife was Neela.Neela had been pregnant on the ark and had given birth to the first child of the postdiluvian generation.He was named Cush.The Nephilim were giant preternatural hybrid offspring of the Sons of God and the daughters of men.Though these chimeras died as mortal flesh in the Deluge, their divine element remained as demonic spirits that now roamed the earth with an insatiable hunger to inhabit human flesh.The lead Watchers, Semjaza and Azazel, and their two hundred defiant Watchers had taken upon themselves the identities of a pantheon of gods to accomplish their scheme.Semjaza became Anu, the high god, and Azazel was Inanna, his consort, the goddess of sex and war.During the War of Gods and Men, Anu and Inanna, and many of their fellow immortal Watchers were bound by archangels and imprisoned in the heart of the earth until judgment.But not all of them.Seventy leaders of the Watchers avoided capture, along with a contingent of their subordinate mal’akim insurgent angels.Just how many, no one was sure.• • • • •The ark had come to rest on Mount Nimush near the river Tigris in the mountains of Aratta that are now called Ararat.After the flood waters receded, Noah left the boat and offered a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Elohim known by his covenant name of Yahweh.Yahweh made a covenant with Noah and his descendants to never again kill all life on the land with water as he had done.The rainbow in the sky was his signature of that covenant promise.Yahweh commissioned Noah with the original calling of Adam, to multiply and fill the land.Yahweh had started all over with a new creation and new human race.Humanity was created in God’s image and as such was a holy representation of that ruler over creation.The first murderer, Cain, had violated that sacred image by slaying his own brother, and thus starting an evil spiral of violence that dragged the original creation into the very depths of Sheol.Now Yahweh gave Noah the charge to uphold the sacred image of God in man through just recompense.Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.After some time, Noah and his family descended from the mountainous region into the Mesopotamian plains to start anew.It was a horrible sight to behold.The waters had washed over everything, burying the once beautiful alluvial terrain in layers of mud and silt.The land was wiped away, leaving a vision of barren ugliness and death.The cities were piles of flooded rubble.The thought of so many people drowned to death was sickening to the stomach.Noah would often say that all of humanity had been turned to clay.But even so, life had already begun to break through the graveyard before them, as vegetation quickly sprouted from the seedlings buried in the soil.Elohim had created a resilient earth.The family of Noah began to multiply and fill the earth and to rebuild civilization by passing on their acquired knowledge to their descendants.It would take some time before cities, culture, and technology were reconstructed to the level they were before the Flood, but just like the vegetation, it would return speedily because the seeds of such knowledge lay in their accumulated experience in the world before.City building, irrigation, agriculture, metallurgy, writing, shepherding, would only be temporarily set back as the growing population pushed forward with a hunger to pick up where it had left off.Noah had been a warrior before the Deluge.But now he started anew and became a tiller of the soil.He felt weaker, and he was not getting any younger.He set his mind to develop agricultural growth that Emzara his wife had explained to him from her time at Erech.His crowning achievement was a vineyard that sported a vast array of grapes for the fermentation of wine.But in his heart, Noah was not at peace.He felt the depression of despair over him like the shadow of an Anzu thunderbird.He could not shake it.He had been the Chosen One to end the reign of the gods, bring rest to the land, and bear the Seed of Eve that would war with the Seed of the Serpent.He had faced death too many times to count, fought with gods, survived torture, and even looked into the Abyss of Sheol.It was terrifying to experience such frightful extremes, but it was also invigorating.It had charged through his veins like a drug that fueled intense awareness of every living moment.It made him know he was truly alive [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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