| Brad Steiger is the author/coauthor of 154 books with over 17 million copies in print. His first published articles on the unexplained appeared in 1956, and he has now written more than 2,000 articles with paranormal themes. From 1970-'73, his weekly newspaper column, The Strange World of Brad Steiger, was carried domestically in over 80 newspapers and overseas from Bombay to Tokyo. He was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on February 19,1936. He is married to Sherry Hansen Steiger, a licensed and ordained minister, herself the author or coauthor of over 22 books. He has two sons, three daughters, and five grandchildren. Visit Brad Steiger's website: http://www.bradandsherry.com/ and also read Evidence for a New History. Read Brad Steiger's latest book Revelation: The Divine Fire .
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Rudolf Steiner
& The Legacy
Of The Star Gods
by Brad Steiger  Posted: 16:08 May 2, 2008
A quantum leap in humankind' s intellectual development
occurred in Sumer 6000 years ago when cuneiform writing was invented in
order to record a dramatic starburst. Every pulsating thrust of the technology
with which humankind surrounds itself today was initiated when a star died
in a dramatic, brilliant explosion.
The psychological and cultural impact of the supernova
on the inhabitants of Sumer was overwhelming. Literally "overnight"
in evolutionary terms, the Sumerians gave the world a law code, the first
love song, the first school system, the first parliament, and the first
directory of pharmaceutical remedies. The origins of contemporary Western
culture were nursed in Sumer, the cradle of civilization. The roots of
the Judeo-Christian religious beliefs grew from the "tree of knowledge,"
the Garden of Eden, which tradition places in that same area.
Today astronomers recognize the nearest and brightest
supernova ever witnessed by humankind as Vela X, now a faintly flashing
pulsar about 1300 light-years from our solar system. George Michanowsky,
a specialist in Mesopotamian astronomy, saw how the very first and most
fundamental symbol of Sumerian script was one which represented "star."
He went on to show how the first word ever written by a human soon became
linked with the symbol for "deity," thus communicating "star
god." Michanowsky saw the death-blaze of Vela X to have been such
a profound sky show that it became a "cultural organizing principle"
that forced human knowledge to take a dramatic leap forward.
But was there something more that took place at that
time? The priest -historian Berossus chronicled the account of Oannes,
half-man, half-fish, who surfaced from the Persian Gulf to instruct the
early inhabitants of Mesopotamia in the arts of civilization. Oannes was
said to be one who was possessed of an insight into letters, sciences,
and every kind of art. Oannes was but an ancient Greek form of Ea, the
star god of the Sumerians,
Were the Sumerians so overwhelmingly inspired by the
starburst that they were stimulated into creating writing, law, education,
and many of the essential concepts of science?
Or had they received some overt physical assistance and
instruction from survivors who might have been escaping the supernova,
the death of their sun?
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