shem

[Iris Sirius]

Yes how does that go again?  Something like, there's a Hebrew word, shem,
which, for whatever reason, well the reason is obvious, the word made very
strange indeed beginning parts of the Old Testament, so it's always been
translated as *name*.  But as a great deal of Semetic terms are taken
ultimately from Sumerian, if you look at the Sumerian root, shem means
something like "sky vehicle", or such things.  "Rocket."  Rocketmen.  So
what happened was reading shem as name you read a lot of the ancient texts,
like Gilgamesh, the Sumerians wanting *names* for themselves.  When really
they wanted to be rocketmen, like the humans who came down in them and gave
them advanced civilization.  One of the strangest things being regarding
the tower of Babel--it was intended to be a rocketship.  "Let us make a
rocket", rather than "Let us make a name."  The Neflim who lived with
Adam's people before the flood and married the daughters were humans from
the sky.  Nefilim into "giants" is another massacre.  Nefilim means "cast
down".
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