michael k tyrell jr

“I rose from marsh mud
algae, equisetum, willows,
sweet green, noisy
birds and frogs.”
― Lorine Niedecker

“they recorded a tale of creation that matches, in some parts word for word, the tale of Genesis. George Smith of the British Museum pieced together the broken tablets that held the creation texts and published, in 1876, The Chaldean Genesis; it conclusively established that there indeed existed an Akkadian text of the Genesis tale, written in the Old Babylonian dialect, that preceded the biblical text by at least a thousand years.”
― Zecharia Sitchin, Genesis Revisited: Is Modern Science Catching Up With Ancient Knowledge?

“the creation tales of Genesis are edited and abbreviated versions of much more detailed Mesopotamian texts, which were in turn versions of an original Sumerian text.”
― Zecharia Sitchin, Genesis Revisited: Is Modern Science Catching Up With Ancient Knowledge?

“correct reading emerges: When, in the beginning, The Lord created the Heaven and the Earth, The Earth, not yet formed, was in the void, and there was darkness upon Tiamat. Then the Wind of the Lord swept upon its waters and the Lord commanded, "Let there be lightning!" and there was a bright light.”
― Zecharia Sitchin, Genesis Revisited: Is Modern Science Catching Up With Ancient Knowledge?