The Bible_s Genesis vs. the Aboriginal Dreaming - artwork by John H Lynch1st May 2014

By Steven Strong

Contributing Writers for Wake Up World

My wife Del always does a final proof read before we send our drafted articles to a group of 18 Original Elders, Custodians, colleagues and advisors. Never published until all have had the chance to review and comment, it is a standard routine and vital part of our collaborative approach.

After scanning through a recent article, Com-piracy: Proof Human History was Written by Government, Not Science, Del was quite taken by Slater’s description of Baiame and his legless sacrifice that led to the spawning of modern humans. She felt this selfless act was deserving of further discussion.

Undeniable Similarities

In general terms, Baiame seems to have a primary foundation role and eternal place of residence. He is the central Creation Being who led the Sky Heroes to Earth, and left soon after. His tenure was brief but was dedicated to one elemental task: to create the first batch of Homo sapien sapiens. To that end one extremity of his body, his leg, was sacrificed to the greater good. “Bhaiame (sic), which means ‘cut off to build’, cut off one of his legs in order to make man”. By bequeathing humanity “the sacred means of propogating life” in this manner, it would seem we are indeed the genetic relation, and equal, to the God’s that created us.

There are echoes and traces of that same genetic assistance still evident in Chapter 6, Verse 4 of Genesis. “There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown”. It has been assumed that the “children” of this liaison came about through hormones and two participating partners, but this was not explicitly stated. As for how they “came in unto the daughters of men”, as we know today that process can be through natural or artificial means and there is certainly nothing in this passage that denies the use of “the sacred means of propogating life”.

And the undeniable similarities between these scriptures continue; once Baiame’s task was complete he departed. “He brought living things from on high and then stepped back into the high regions from whence he came”.

Alas, since Baiame departed his legacy has been diluted, refashioned and often destroyed over the years. And while there is undoubtedly a cross-over between the stories of Baiame’s Leg and Adam’s Rib, there is one crucial difference between the stories of Baiame and his biblical counterpart – an unforgivable lapse in gender judgment. In Genesis, Adam is created first and Eve is made from one of Adam’s bones to satisfy his need to have a companion. The lesser subservient role attributed to Eve is an offence – she was the embodiment of the Divine Feminine, after all – and in total contradiction with the united ancestry found in Dreaming accounts.

Sudden Insight

If anything, the gender roles in the Dreaming story The First Men and Women are reversed, with the feminine in the ascendency. They met in their travels; she was “from the south” and he “from the north”. Unknown to each other, First Man asked her “Are you by yourself?” Once she told him she was unaccompanied, he asked her for permission to wed: “Then will you be my wife?” She agreed to this and “the formalities were complete”.

The telling part of this narrative of humanity is that it is the woman who had a revelation – through “sudden insight” she realised “we two have no baby”. At her behest, and certainly not as a derivative creation that led Man astray, First Woman realised that “if birds, animals, reptiles and insects can all have babies, then we too should have a baby”.

First Man accepted her directive, but misunderstood some fundamental truths that were revealed to First Woman alone. Eager to assist, he set himself to task stating that “I shall make a baby of clay”, but in this endeavour he was doomed to fail and needed more guidance in basic practicalities from the female recipient of that “sudden insight”. She said “Yes you can do that, but you must place it in my body to give it life”.

Accentuating how much First Man was out of the loop, he “was startled at this proposal, but after going away and thinking about it, he had to agree…”. If you were first “startled” then “had to agree”, it is obvious you are a secondary to what is taking place, unaware of the Divine plan. He had no “insight” or input beyond the wisdom to follow the guidance of someone who was clearly wiser and at the helm of proceedings.

With his wife pregnant and in control, First Man rightly acceded the whole creation event to woman when he declared “this baby is our baby, the first ever to be born of woman”. And it is this fundamental error in translation that has caused so much grief – in the Genesis account, woman is literally born out of man; she is a by-product appearing after the main event. In the Original Dreaming story, which pre-dates is counterpart by tens of thousands of years, the woman orchestrates the divine proceedings of Creation and the male accepts his role in Creation as sub-ordinate, as he should.

In the Dreaming story Baiame and Man, another “flash of insight” was once again “imparted by Baiame”, resulting in the understanding “that this creature woman [is] equal to man, and complimentary both in nature and form. The same divine spark illuminated her face and her thought as in man itself. He knew instinctively that in her was the otherness that separated, yet linked male and female in all life, and that they were both linked to the everlasting otherness that was part of Baiame himself”.

There are no grey areas in this sublime Original narrative; it painted a picture of total gender equality. To state otherwise, as regrettably occurred in Genesis, is wrong on every count. The deliberate gender distortion in the Christian interpretation has had dire consequences for humanity and woman’s place in Christian societies, and still does.

The Magic Tree of Fire

The similarities between the Dreaming and Old Testament are not restricted to two parts of the anatomy. In Genesis it is written that “the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground”. In the corresponding Original version, Baiame and the First Man and Woman, “he fashioned them from the dust of the ridges”. Ignoring the slight rise in elevation, this two passages are essentially the same. But the apparent coincidences have barely begun.

The next repetition was definitely the most surprising. I had known of the extract from the second page of Genesis where the creator was very prescriptive of human dietary behaviours, and his vegetarian stance always had me intrigued. “And God said, behold, I have given you herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of the tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat”. Being a vegetarian for many decades, I recalled neither mention of any form of flesh amongst the menu nor permission to chop off the heads of chooks and rabbits.

But what was unexpected to me was Baiame’s similar decree, that all flesh and every animal was prohibited. “These are the plants you shall eat-these and these-but not the animals I have created”. This is actually even more vegetarian specific, and would have been extremely difficult to comply with if living a nomadic lifestyle. Unfortunately, in what paralleled the Biblical climatic cataclysm Noah was called to prepare for, there was in Australia a “new and terrifying experience”, a drought set new pressures into play and saw one warrior act “in desperation”. He “killed some of the forbidden animals” and certainly incurred Biamie’s displeasure, verging on despair. Now that “Baiame’s intention for the men and animals he loved had been thwarted… the swamp oak trees sighed incessantly, the gum trees shed tears of blood, which crystallized as red gum”.

The Original Dreaming details a Magic Tree of Fire, a place where all the tribes gathered around to light their fire sticks. This point of meeting and sharing was a sacred site where wisdom was given and co-operation was essential. The conventional Christian translation, where the Tree of Knowledge led to the downfall of humanity and its banishment from paradise, is in stark contrast to the lessons of the Dreaming. Once again the original meaning has been tainted by the same sexism evident in the story of Adam’s Rib.

The incorrectly labeled ‘flood myths’, once stripped away of the cultural baggage and symbolism, are real historical accounts, evidence of which can be found throughout the planet. There are many Original accounts of this flood and its catastrophic effects, as was the case in all other ancient records throughout the world. The ‘Garden of Eden’ was a place where all resided in harmony, without shame or clothing. Until the arrival of the British, Australia was the only continent where people still lived in the original naked state of grace and place.

We could continue in our comparison between the Original Dreaming stories and the opening pages of the Bible, but the point is already sufficiently made, for now. Defying coincidence, the most important implication and question demanding to be addressed is — which came first? If indeed the Dreaming is the oldest continuous religion on this planet, being no less than 50,000 years older than any recognised faith on Earth, it would seem logical to assume these tales originated in the Dreaming, within Australia, then spread throughout the continent and others. It is certainly what our Original guides tell us.

The message from the Ancients contained in the Dreaming was sublime, its content in sustainable accord with the Old Ways. Alas, once this ancient knowledge left these shores, so much of it was lost in translation and even more was stolen. Until the narrative of humanity’s creation is properly restored and recognized, our ancient heritage and the importance to humanity of ‘the feminine’ – the Mother – will never be duly honoured.

Mary Magdalene’s Dreaming

Mary Magdalene_s Dreaming - Steven and Evan StrongFor further insights on these ancient scriptures, check out Steven and Evan Strong’s book Mary Magdalene’s Dreaming. Steven and Evan continue their esoteric journey tracing the origins of religion, which they began their first book, Constructing a New World Map. In Mary Magdalene’s Dreaming, they examine the Gnostic Scriptures detailing the words and deeds of Mary and Jesus recently found at Nag Hammadi.

Although their research is extensive, their premise is simple: Jesus and Mary were, as Jesus stated in the Gospel of Thomas, custodians of a secret tradition. Jesus insisted he is but the caretaker of a “bubbling spring that I have tended”. The authors assert that this “bubbling spring” is identical to the “secret place” aboriginal elder, Bill Neidjie, urges all to discover. It is their contention that a closer inspection of the ancient mystical spring Jesus and Mary accessed is evident in many Gnostic texts. The secret knowledge Mary and Jesus preached, stripped of cultural and geographic differences, is undoubtedly the purest replication of the Dreaming since the first mariners were banished from Australia.

Read Steven & Evan’s recent series of articles documenting the unfolding ‘Com-piracy’ cover-up:

Previous articles by Steven & Evan Strong:

About the author:

Steve and Evan Strong

Steven Strong is an Australian-based researcher, author and former high school teacher with a background in archaeology. He was involved in the formation of a Graduate Diploma of Aboriginal Education for the NSW Department of Education, writing units on Traditional Law and Contemporary History. He also co-authored the highly successful “Aboriginal Australia: A Language and Cultural kit” and has written over a dozen articles on Original history and lore for the National Indigenous Times, with four articles also appearing in New Dawn magazine.

Evan Strong is a researcher, historian and author with a Bachelor degree in the Social Sciences, majoring in psychology and archaeology/anthropology.

Together they have co-written 4 books:

  • Constructing a New World Map, an exploration of the ancient mystical tradition that began in the Dreaming, and and examination of the historical circumstances that require the construction of a new world map.
  • Mary Magdalene’s Dreaming: Tracing the origins of religion, Steven and Evan deliver a remarkable comparison of Aboriginal wisdom and Gnostic scriptures, stripped of all cultural and geographic differences.
  • Forgotten Origin: Dedicated to the first Homo sapiens, the Australian Aboriginal people, Steven and Evan continue their investigation into the global impact of Aboriginal people sailing from Australia no less than 50,000 years ago, paying particular attention to mtDNA, Y Chromosomes, skull morphology, and historical and religious accounts.
  • Shunned, their latest publication, thoroughly refutes the Out-of-Africa theory of human history and examines the archaeological and DNA evidence that suggests Australia is where modern human beings derived.

With close to 30 years of contact with original Gumilaroi people and tribes of the Bundjalung Language Confederation, and the benefit of extensive consultation with many Original Elders, Steve and Evan’s work is to reveal the ancient story of the Original people, a narrative that was almost lost to aggressive European colonisation.

For more information visit ForgottenOrigin.com or get involved with the Forgotten Origins tribe!

 

 


 

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