CHRISTIAN O’BRIEN F irst published in 1985, this remarkable

The Garden in Eden – Biblical Myth

THE GENIUS OF THE FEW

the remains of the ruined libraries of a
cultured and ordered society, which was book has stood both the test of time
iNFULLmOWERMORETHANYEARSBEFORE or Prehistoric Reality? with Barbara Joy O’Brien and peer review, to become a classic
the Old Testament Bible stories were com- amongst specialists in the human origin
piled between 850 BC and 550 BC.
T he Genius of the Few continues the author’s earlier book
– The Megalithic Odyssey – and carries the prehistoric
subjects. As archaeological science has
broadened its base, to cover many new and

THE
exciting disciplines, it is primarily the solid
Some ancient historians did refer to the research back around 9,000 BC, when a group of sages, known to evidence on the origins and spread of agri-
‘Elohim’ by name, but we have never
the Sumerians as the ‘Annanage’, and to the early people of

CHRISTIAN O’BRIEN
been sure who was responsible for the culture and pastoralism, genetics and lan-
spectacular agricultural production, mon- the Middle East as the ‘Shining Ones’, settled in a fertile basin GUAGEWHICHTAKEUSWITHSOMECONlDENCE
umental structures and the resulting high- within the mountains of Southern Lebanon. with the O’Briens to Southern Lebanon
around 9,000 BC. Here we can identify

GENIUS OF
ly organised city states, which would now
appear to have existed throughout the fer- There they established an agricultural and animal breeding our distant relatives, who delivered from
tile crescent, and as far back as 8000 BC, centre for their own survival and for teaching Early Man the elsewhere a comprehensive agricultural
at Jericho and Baalbek. package and much more, which trans-
elements of civilized living. formed our planet and the lives of its
It is now known that commercial These sages, who seem to have been exploring what was for inhabitants.

THE FEW
accounting tokens or tablets go back to THEMANUNKNOWNWORLDWEREINEVITABLYDEIlEDnINTHEIR We have added to the appendix three
these earliest dates. Translating the important sections from the recent major
cuneiform, which had changed from sim- absence – millenia after the events described. They founded the
compilation of the O’Brien’s research, enti-
ple pictorial signs with an associated pho- Hebrew race who carried the tribal memory of their homeland tled The Shining Ones, which cover An
netic sound, then turned on its side to as the Garden in Eden, and of their benefactors as ‘angels’. The Alternative Genesis, The Enigma of the

WITH
become elaborate texts supervised by pro-
fessional scribes, has presented problems.
Single words often have more than one
leader of the group was remembered as Yahweh Elohim, and
was later worshipped as ‘God’.
The Story of Those Phaistos Disc and The Universal
Measuring Rod. This evidence adds weight
meaning depending upon the context in Based on extensive research into ancient Middle Eastern lan- who Founded the TOTHElNDINGSWITHINTHEGenius of the
Few, yet still keeps within the constraints

BARBARA JOY O’BRIEN

which they are used.

Up to now some of the more solid

guages and little known documents, The Genius of the Few
challenges dogmatic interpretations of the biblical Book of Garden in Eden of an easy-to-read and enjoyable detective
story covering our origins.
information we have from the later Genesis and raises questions and probabilities that have immense Only during the reign of Queen
Assyrian records indicate that there was a implications for the study of prehistoric and modern religion. Victoria did the knowledge and interest
small group of wise sages called the ‘ab- KHAR – SAG in the great Sumerian civilization begin
ka-lu’, who passed down their wisdom to Christian O’Brien CBE M.A. read Natural Sciences at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and to be revealed from the archaeological
subsequent generations. The linguistic spent many years as an exploration geologist in Iran, where he was involved in the discovery evidence, which included precisely
roots and phonetic sounds of these two of the Tchoga Zambil ziggurat. In 1970 he retired as head of the Iranian oil industry WHERE HEAVEN AND EARTH MET inscribed ‘cuneiform’ text (wedge shaped
names and that of the more commonly and devoted his time to researching into the many enigmas of prehistory. lines) on thousands of clay tablets from
recognised angel ‘en-ge-li’ offer several
logical and linked interpretations. THE HEAVENLY ASSEMBLY cont’d on back flap
His wife Barbara Joy
These are, respectively, the bright or played a full part in
these researches. She All enquiries regarding this book should be
shining ones (gods), the bright or shining GREAT SONS OF THE LORD ANU directed to: Patrick Foundation Independant
farmers from the enclosure or garden, and is also a poet with
several publications and Research [email protected]
the shining countenanced lords of the culti-
awards to her credit. Or visit the Golden Age Project Website:
vation. Many of the earliest biblical names
end in el, the common root of bright or
THEY DESCENDED www.goldenageproject.org.uk
shining and also meaning singular god or
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