Genius of the Few: The Story of Those Who Founded the Garden in Eden [Revised] 0946604177, 9780946604173

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These are, respectively, the bright or shining ones (gods), the bright or shining farmers from the enclosure or garden, and the shining countenanced lords of the cultivation. Many of the earliest biblical names end in el, the common root of bright or shining and also meaning singular god or LORD BUTTHElRSTPARTOFTHENAMEPROBABLY denoted their role rather than the individual within a highly organized group displaying advanced technical and administrative skills.

Christian O’Brien CBE M.A. read Natural Sciences at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and spent many years as an exploration geologist in Iran, where he was involved in the discovery of the Tchoga Zambil ziggurat. In 1970 he retired as head of the Iranian oil industry and devoted his time to researching into the many enigmas of prehistory. His wife Barbara Joy played a full part in these researches. She is also a poet with several publications and awards to her credit.

BARBARA JOY O’BRIEN

Up to now some of the more solid information we have from the later Assyrian records indicate that there was a small group of wise sages called the ‘abka-lu’, who passed down their wisdom to subsequent generations. The linguistic roots and phonetic sounds of these two names and that of the more commonly recognised angel ‘en-ge-li’ offer several logical and linked interpretations.

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It is now known that commercial accounting tokens or tablets go back to these earliest dates. Translating the cuneiform, which had changed from simple pictorial signs with an associated phonetic sound, then turned on its side to become elaborate texts supervised by professional scribes, has presented problems. Single words often have more than one meaning depending upon the context in which they are used.

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he Genius of the Few continues the author’s earlier book – The Megalithic Odyssey – and carries the prehistoric research back around 9,000 BC, when a group of sages, known to the Sumerians as the ‘Annanage’, and to the early people of the Middle East as the ‘Shining Ones’, settled in a fertile basin within the mountains of Southern Lebanon. There they established an agricultural and animal breeding centre for their own survival and for teaching Early Man the elements of civilized living. These sages, who seem to have been exploring what was for THEMANUNKNOWNWORLD WEREINEVITABLYDEIlEDnINTHEIR absence – millenia after the events described. They founded the Hebrew race who carried the tribal memory of their homeland as the Garden in Eden, and of their benefactors as ‘angels’. The leader of the group was remembered as Yahweh Elohim, and was later worshipped as ‘God’. Based on extensive research into ancient Middle Eastern languages and little known documents, The Genius of the Few challenges dogmatic interpretations of the biblical Book of Genesis and raises questions and probabilities that have immense implications for the study of prehistoric and modern religion.

CHRISTIAN O’BRIEN

Some ancient historians did refer to the ‘Elohim’ by name, but we have never been sure who was responsible for the spectacular agricultural production, monumental structures and the resulting highly organised city states, which would now appear to have existed throughout the fertile crescent, and as far back as 8000 BC, at Jericho and Baalbek.

The Garden in Eden – Biblical Myth or Prehistoric Reality?

THE GENIUS OF THE FEW

the remains of the ruined libraries of a cultured and ordered society, which was iNFULLmOWERMORETHANYEARSBEFORE the Old Testament Bible stories were compiled between 850 BC and 550 BC.

CHRISTIAN O’BRIEN

with Barbara

Joy O’Brien

THE GENIUS OF THE FEW The Story of Those who Founded the Garden in Eden KHAR – SAG WHERE HEAVEN AND EARTH MET

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irst published in 1985, this remarkable book has stood both the test of time and peer review, to become a classic amongst specialists in the human origin subjects. As archaeological science has broadened its base, to cover many new and exciting disciplines, it is primarily the solid evidence on the origins and spread of agriculture and pastoralism, genetics and lanGUAGE WHICHTAKEUSWITHSOMECONlDENCE with the O’Briens to Southern Lebanon around 9,000 BC. Here we can identify our distant relatives, who delivered from elsewhere a comprehensive agricultural package and much more, which transformed our planet and the lives of its inhabitants.

We have added to the appendix three important sections from the recent major compilation of the O’Brien’s research, entitled The Shining Ones, which cover An Alternative Genesis, The Enigma of the Phaistos Disc and The Universal Measuring Rod. This evidence adds weight TOTHElNDINGSWITHINTHEGenius of the Few, yet still keeps within the constraints of an easy-to-read and enjoyable detective story covering our origins. Only during the reign of Queen Victoria did the knowledge and interest in the great Sumerian civilization begin to be revealed from the archaeological evidence, which included precisely inscribed ‘cuneiform’ text (wedge shaped lines) on thousands of clay tablets from cont’d on back flap

THE HEAVENLY ASSEMBLY GREAT SONS OF THE LORD ANU THEY DESCENDED THE MANY WISE ONES

All enquiries regarding this book should be directed to: Patrick Foundation Independant Research [email protected] Or visit the Golden Age Project Website: www.goldenageproject.org.uk

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