The Assyrian Encyclopedia: a heap of clay tablets covered with cuneiform writing, gathering all the knowledge of ancient Babylon. This major archaeological discovery opened Pandora's boxSee page...

The excavations of the palace of the assyrian King Senacherib(-704 to -681) led by Austen Layard in Nineveh in 1849 revealed "two large rooms where were piled on one foot or more in thickness, clay tablets with cuneiform inscriptions." Very close from there, the palace of Ashurbanipal(-668 to -627) grand son of Senacherib, gave a rich library of some 25,000 clay tablets that were sent to the British Museum. Very smart indeed!Science without conscience is but ruin of soul. Go to ruine de l'âme Be sure that if Layard had been French, he would have sent them all to the Louvre.

The Assyrian kings had raked through their empire in search of ancient inscriptions, odd legends and old myths, that they engraved on this tablets either in Akkadian, the language of the time, either in their original language. There you can find the epic of Gilgamesh,Go to page with many stories of all origins, quotations, recipes, various handbooks, and last not least: you can find how some gods and goddesses shaped the human beingGo to page by mixing their blood with the blood of the earth, ie clay ... Did the clay facilitated the genetic manipulationGo to L'homme OGM that gave birth to the first AdamGo to Adam saga?

Thus, through the clay, we would be genuine sons of the earth. But also sons of heaven, thanks to the DNA of the Elohim. In the event that they were really aliens, which is doubtful ... There is particularly something not very likely. According to the Assyrian tablets,And other later texts man was created only a few millennia ago. How to reconcile such a recent creation with the "real" age of Homo Sapiens, which is 150,000 yearsGo to Homo Sapiens for paleo-anthropologists, or billions of yearsGo to How Old Are We for some authors?

The creation of man with clay would be a re-creation, or even a recreation. Modern man is the work of playful gods. To believe Rudolf Steiner,Australian thinker, (1861-1925) he founded the Anthroposophical Society, which goes beyond the purely technical, materialistic and destructive side of modern science, and aims to educate and heal the man, to harmonize in him the physical being and the spiritual being, by developing the "gift of the heart," only force capable of balancing the opposites. Clay is to earth what plasma is to our bodies: a vital fluid of a very special essence. It is true that clay, in horticulture, is used exactly as the terrestrial plasma. Horticulturists use clay as an anti-rejection paste to make a plant graft or transplant, as well as a catalyst for rooting a cutting. Besides clay has other qualities to convey information ...

Clay tablets from Senacherib and Ashurbanipal for instance. Another example, quite different, would be the flood clay layerGo to The Flood that extended beneath the ruins of Ur when Wooley made his excavations …

And that is either clay or the gods that shaped man. And from the clay catalyst in plant transplant to clay catalyst in in vitro fertilization, or genetic manipulation, it is a short step. It is no doubt a big step. But people have already taken the plungeGo to L'homme OGM... Anyway, clay has supplied us an invaluable information on the very ancient habits and knowledge. These tablets represent the most ancient encyclopedic library discovered to date. Through them, we have access to the knowledge not only of the first millennium BC, but through the transcripts, to former knowledge and myths, coming from Sumer or from forgotten civilizations.Go to Mondes disparus

While many ancient libraries were burnt or looted, while much knowledge has been lost, the library of clay is a world heritage of great value. It includes, among other rarities, the original version of the biblical genesis.Click +