MDMD Nimrod "hunter of the sons of men"

[Jasper Fidget]

I can't believe I still have this link, but it's from some wacky site about
the "Corruption of Christianity"; it has an obvious bias, but there's some
interesting stuff here.  The link is this:
http://members.aol.com/davecrnll/corrupt2.html and this is the
Nimrod-relevant stuff:

[...]

Nimrod and Semiramis
  Great Benefactors
   At this same time there was a giant among the Adamites named Nimrod,[3]
an enormous man who it was said stood over seven feet tall. His father was
Cush, who was descended from Ham, the cursed son of Noah. Nimrod gathered
the people into communities, or walled cities, in the area known as Babylon.
He did this with the help of his wife, Semiramis, and her family who were
Masons, or wall builders. They built walls to protect the people and towers
so they could spot animals lurking outside the city. Safe within these
fortified cities the people no longer needed to fear wild animals.

   Nimrod began establishing an empire by forming hunting parties--he was
the first man to tame the horse--with which he protected the people and
gathered them from the forests into walled cities. He trained the leopard
and used it in these hunting parties to assist in killing the wild animals.
This is where Nimrod gets his name--from the word "Nimr" which means
"leopard" and "rod" which means "to subdue." In this way he was able to go
from place to place gathering the people together and protecting them from
the animals. Nimrod's empire, starting in Babylon, extended from the Middle
East to the Straits of Gibraltar in the west and as far east as the Hindoos
River Valley. His was the first empire in the history of the world.

   The tenth chapter of Genesis describes Nimrod and his empire. It states:

Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty
man. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, "Like
Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord." The beginning of his kingdom was
Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar. From that land
he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and Resen
between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city. (Genesis 10:8-12; RSV)

   It was said that Nimrod was so strong that he could tear a bull apart
with his bare hands and would wear the horns on his head as a sign of his
great might and power.

 Babylonian art depicts Nimrod as a half man-half bull, with cloven hoofs,
tail and the horns of a bull on his head. Here is where we get the typical
depiction of the devil or Satan. This cartouche conclusively proves that the
concept of the devil originated with Nimrod.

Nimrod as the Devil
   Nimrod became a great man and was a renowned benefactor, as he taught
Adam's Revelation of the one invisible God everywhere he went. He was also
known as "Lucifer," which means "light-bringer"--Nimrod spread the
civilizing light of Adam's Revelation. People were more than happy to accept
his empire, as they considered him to be their hero.

The Fall of Nimrod
   But later on Nimrod fell. This is described in the fourteenth chapter of
Isaiah:

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou
cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said
in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the
stars of God...[4] (Isaiah 14:12,13)

   Although the people loved Nimrod, as they were greatly in his debt and
they worshipped him as a God, they came to dislike the spiritual laws of
Adam, resenting the strict personal discipline these entailed. They had
difficulty with the idea of marriage and the worshipping of an invisible
Creator. They put pressure upon Nimrod to release them from these laws and
teachings. After all the whining and complaining, Nimrod finally gave in.

   The story of Nimrod's submission to the people's whims and fancies is
depicted in the myth of Atlas. As it says in this myth, the heavens were so
oppressive the people had to crawl around on their bellies just to get
around. Then Atlas comes along and lifts the heavens up on his shoulders.
Since Atlas was a giant, this allowed the people to stand up and walk around
in complete freedom. With another heave Atlas raises the heavens above the
sycamores; and then with a third and final heave he raises the heavens up
above the highest mountains, giving the people the freedom to go wherever
they wanted to without the heavens hindering them.

   This story represents three different edicts that Nimrod issued, the
third one completely freeing the people from the laws of Adam and allowing
them to return to their pagan ways. This resulted in all types of
licentiousness, corruption, perversion, orgies, drinking parties, drugs,
etc. When Nimrod did this, the religion of Adam became completely corrupted,
and Nimrod was hailed as the great emancipator.

   In different places and cultures, Nimrod was known by different names
because of the different languages, but it's the same basic story. In Egypt,
Nimrod was known as Osiris and he is said to be the devil who brought sin
into the world:

In Egypt we have evidence that Osiris, 'the seed of the woman', was the
'Lord of heaven' and king of hell, or Pluto. It can be shown that he was
none other than the Devil himself supposed to have become incarnate; who. .
. though he brought sin and death into the world, had, nevertheless, by
means of them, brought innumerable benefits to mankind.

   Along with Atlas and Osiris, Nimrod is also synonymous with Phoroneus,
the person first attributed with gathering mankind into communities:

[Phoroneus] lived...when the confusion of tongues began, when mankind was
first scattered abroad. He is said to have been the first that gathered
mankind into communities, the first of mortals that reigned, and the first
that offered idolatrous sacrifices.[5]

   Thus Nimrod's actions took the people away from worshipping the one true
invisible God and returned them to the worship of the sun, moon and stars
and so forth. But Nimrod and his wife added something completely new to this
paganism--the worship of people as gods. They said that the different
planets represented different people, with Jupiter reprsenting Nimrod's
father, Cush; Venus representing Nimrod's wife, Semiramis; and Nimrod
himself represented by Saturn.[6] And it's from this name "Saturn" where we
get the word "Satan"--the star of Nimrod.

   If anyone opposed what he and his wife were doing, Nimrod put a halt to
it. According to Aramaic translations of the verse that says Nimrod was "a
mighty hunter before the Lord" (Genesis 10:8), it says he was a "sinful
hunter of the sons of men." [7] Nimrod converted his hunting party into the
first cavalry and put down any instances of rebellion against the paganism
he was reestablishing. Thus Nimrod was the first to introduce warfare into
the world. As the people had not learned war, it was like taking candy from
a baby and his empire expanded.

Shem / Melchizedek
   At the same time that Nimrod was corrupting the religion, there was alive
in the world a highly spiritual person--Shem--who is also known in the Bible
as Melchizedek. Shem was the beloved son of Noah. He became aware of
Nimrod's violations of the Revelation of Adam and he went and spoke to the
72 judges of Egypt who administered the laws of Adam. Shem notified them
that Nimrod had completely corrupted Adam's Revelation and was in violation.
These 72 judges listened to Shem and agreed with him.

   When Nimrod returned to Egypt, he was arrested and brought to trial
before 30 of the judges. They found him guilty of apostasy, for perverting
the religion of Adam, and they sentenced him to death. Before they could
execute the sentence, Nimrod had to be brought before the full body of 72
judges. This full Council decided he should be cut up into chunks, with the
different parts of his body sent to the different nations of his empire to
show them what a dastardly thing it is to corrupt the Revelation of God.

[... --it goes on to talk about Semiramis, etc, and some footnotes; cut to
conserve space--JF]



----- Original Message -----
From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: MDMD Nimrod "hunter of the sons of men"


> Who was Nimrod (Genesis 10:8-12) ?

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