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The Adam's Family

The longevity of the bible’s early patriarchs has always been a cause of wonderment, if not outright skepticism.  However, the tradition of such longevity in ancient man (at least the kings) is recorded by several ancient historians, including: Acusilaus, Berosus, Ephorus, Hecataeus, Hellanicus, Hesiod, Hestiaeus, Hieronymus, Josephus, Manetho, Mochus, and Nicolaus.  In addition, the “Sumerian King Lists” tell the same story, and furthermore, note a profound discontinuity of lifetimes before and after the Great Flood/Deluge.  

The strangeness of the Adam’s Family Tree is illustrated in the below tables, where the far left column is dated from the birth of Adam, the number under each name is that person’s age when his son was born (e.g. Seth was 105, when Enos was born), and the underlined numbers are age of the patriarch at his death. (The years are taken from the King James version of the Bible.)

        From Adam to Noah        
                       
000 Adam                    
130

130

Seth                  
235  

105

Enos                
325    

90

Cainan              
395      

70

Mahala leel          
460        

65

Jared          
622          

162

Enoch        
687            

65

Methu- selah    
874              

187

Lamech    
930

930

                   
987            

365

       
1042  

912

                 
1056                

182

Noah  
1140    

905

               
1235      

910

             
1290        

895

           
1422          

962

         
1556                  

500

Shem
1651                

777

   
1656 -------- -------- ---The Flood --------- --------- --------- 969   600 100
               

     
2006                  

950

 
2156                    

600

The first table shows that when Noah was born he had six generations of his family still living, with Enoch having “ascended to heaven” rather than dying.  Inheritances were obviously few and far between in those days!  Meanwhile, Noah’s father, Lamech, could have set on his great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather’s knee, while Methuselah apparently survived the Great Flood/Deluge!  

The average age of the pre-flood patriarchs (not counting the special case of Enoch) is 913.  This is in sharp contrast to the line from Shem to Abraham -- even though Shem was born before the Flood.  The Sumerian King Lists show a similar sharp change in the longevity of their kings immediately following the Flood.

From Noah to Abraham (Abram)

 
000 Noah                    
500

500

Shem                  
602  

102

Arphax ad              
637    

35

Salah              
667      

30

Eber            
701        

34

Peleg          
731          

30

Reu (the day!?)      
763            

32

Serug      
793              

30

Nahor    
822                

29

Terah  
892                  

70

Abram
940           239          
941                 148    
950 950                    
970             239        
993               230      
1027                   205  
1040     438                
1067                   175
1070     433              
1100   600                
1134         468          

From the second table, there is even more intrigue.   On the one hand, fathers were having their sons at a relatively early age (31.4 average) for seven of the generations (as compared to an average of 150 in all of the previous generations).  Curious fact.

Meanwhile, Noah did quite well for himself in terms of longevity (in line with all of his previous generations), while Shem didn’t quite make it to the end of “middle age” (i.e. less than 2/3rds of Noah).  The next three generations averaged 446 years (about half of the Adam to Noah clan).  And then yet another drop in the following six generations to an average of 206 years!  

This led to the weird situation (there’s no other name for it), whereby Noah’s son, Shem, outlived all but one member of the next eight generations!  Shem and the three generations behind him, far outlived the following five generations.  After growing up with ancestors from ten generations still hanging around, Abraham must have felt incredibly unlucky, when he died prior to his great, great, great, great grandfather, his great, great, great, great, great grandfather, and his great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather!

After Abraham, everything went even further downhill, i.e. at the time of their death:  

Isaac...............................         was 180                               

Jacob.............................         was 147                               

Job.................................         was 140                               

Levi.................................         was 137                               

Kohath............................         was 133                               

Amaram..........................        was 137                               

Moses.............................        was 120                               

Joshua............................         was 110                               

Eli....................................         was   98                               

David...............................        was   70

How can this strangeness be explained?  

If we assume that Adam and Eve were born of a genetic DNA combination of Anunnaki and Homo erectus blood (as recounted in the webpages, Genesis and Adam and Eve), and that the Anunnaki were extremely long-lived compared to humans (i.e. on the order of 500,000  years), then the long lives of the pre-flood patriarchs are not that much of a surprise.  There is easily a clearly genetic component involved.  

But DNA alone doesn’t suffice to explain the step-wise decrease in longevity from the time of Noah to that of David.  There is a huge gap between Noah (950) and his son, Shem (600), another gap between Shem and the next three generations (446), and yet another huge gap before the following six generations (222), and then a gap and slow decrease over the next ten generations (down to 70). 

A slow degradation of the genetics might explain a part, but not why the pre-flood patriarchs showed no signs of decreasing longevity, nor why the subsequent decreases came in steps.  

This leaves environmental causes as a possible answer.  Theories have been suggested in this regard, but a change in the environment doesn’t explain the step-wise progression either.  Environmental processes typically don’t show a series of discontinuities.  

But perhaps, the change is more obvious -- perhaps it’s something they ate, or didn’t eat!    Was the long-term mortality of Adam’s Family due to the something in their diet that provided an extended mortality, and that the step-wise removal of this key ingredient was responsible for the quantum reductions in longevity?  As opposed to a serious aversion to inheritance taxes?  

In other words, the simplest explanation is pretty much a version of the modern day explanation for living long:  It’s all in the Diet!     

The key ingredient appears to have been the ORME (aka Star Fire, elixir of life, “white powder of gold,” Ma-Na or Manna).  This is the literal version of “soul food”, which feeds the soul and thereby allows for substantially prolonged life times.   

Consider the following scenario:  

During the pre-flood days, everything was progressing pretty much in accordance with the establishment’s (i.e. Anunnaki’s) agenda, and thus the kings and patriarchs who were given their charge by the so-called Gods and Goddesses were provided ready access to the ORME (in any of its versions and by any of its names).   

After the flood, however, there was a sea change (pardon the pun) in how things were going.  There is, after all, nothing like having the vast majority of civilized man wiped out to cause a certain lack of confidence by men in their gods.  There is also the distinct possibility that the gods themselves (the Anunnaki) had decided that perhaps it was not in their best interests to have their human middle managers (aka kings) hang around so long.  (This is a problem that many modern day CEO’s can appreciate.)  

Accordingly, and with the exception of Noah, things started to change.  There is definite distinction between, for example, Star Fire of the Goddess and an ORME “supplement”.  By the time of Moses, for example, the Exodus hero was totally dependent upon the ORME, which he attempted to manufacture in his furnace atop Mount Sinai (aka Mount Horeb).  Laurence Gardner has noted that “it was from the milk of Hathor [the Egyptian Mother Goddess, and an aspect of Isis the Great Mother] that the pharaohs were said to gain their divinity, becoming gods in their own right.” [1]  

Gardner also noted that “In more ancient Sumerian times, during the days of the original Star Fire ritual, the bloodline kings who were fed with the hormone-rich lunar essence of the Anunnaki goddesses were also said to have been nourished with their own milk -- notably that of Ishtar.”  This Star Fire was actually the divine menstruum, which supposedly “constituted the purest and most potent life force.”   

The “white powder of gold” (the ORME), which was manufactured as a substitute for the Goddess Star Fire, may have had other potential uses, but it was simply not as potent as the original.  

The bottom line is the Goddess Star Fire was undoubtedly fully available to the pre-flood patriarchs, but less so to the post-flood gang.  There is also the possibility that it may have been replaced in incremental steps by the ORME, and/or other substitutes as time passed, and as the middle managers came and went.  While the ORME might have been used for generations by the Anunnaki as the key to their longevity (which over time would have made major DNA changes), for the humans (kings, et al) the Star Fire may have been a combination of ORME and the benefits of Anunnaki-style “mother’s milk”. 

Finally, just as supplements don’t really replace healthy organically grown foods, the ORME simply wouldn’t have the carrying power of Star Fire.   But even with the ORME, Star Fire, elixir of life, or what-have-you, there is also the need to approach its consumption with the right attitude, or for lack of a better term, a sense of righteousness.  It’s all about where the food is from, how it’s obtained, and importantly, how it’s consumed -- an ancient version of the modern day Theory of Eating.  

It’s also important -- particularly with respect to the Star Fire -- to know where it’s been!    

Adam and Eve         Genesis         Chronicles of Earth

Forward to:

Deluge         Sodom and Gomorrah         The Tower of Babel

__________________________ References: [1]  Laurence Gardner, Genesis of the Grail Kings, Bantam Press, NY, 1999.

  

               

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