It is said to have oozed up out of sterile rock. It is of life that I speak. It just oozed up and started changing from one thing to the next. And now we have lots of plants, animals and humanity. This makes it all sound so simple. Life just oozed right up out of sterile rock at the bottom of a puddle. But then, we would have a puddle of life running through the worlds mythology instead of a tree.

The Tree of Life has lived in the myth of many ancient peoples. In the Middle East it was a tree that grew in the Garden of Eden, a tree to which Adam and Eve were not allowed access. To the Maya of central America the Tree of Life was the place in the sky where the galactic equator intersects the ecliptic and is sometimes called the World Cross. What would one of us, a modern sentient simian, see if we were looking at this tree? A tree that is said to be the source of all Life.

To the ancients the Universe was made of four fundamental elements, or so we are told by the teachers of science and history. They are the ones that teach that it all just oozed up out of sterile rock. The four were Earth, Air, Fire and Water. Modern science, defining the word element to mean the individual atoms of which matter is made, has now found or made one hundred twelve elements with more on the way. The four elements of the ancients are now considered to be a simple minded way of explaining something that the ancients could not possibly have known. Yet the ancients knew some things we have yet to master. Their civil engineering projects, such as the pyramids in Egypt and other stone structures throughout the world, surpass anything we can build. It is as though they filled these large stones with air and floated them on water.

Earth, Air, Fire and Water are the four fundamental forces of our three space experience. Earth is gravitation. In ancient Mesopotamia there was a Sumerian god referred to as Lord Earth. This was Enki. En is rendered as Lord from the cuneiform writing of ancient Sumer. En is also rendered as administrator. Ki is rendered as earth. This suggests that Enki had administrative responsibility for the operation of the Earth. Put in modern cooperate terminology, Enki would have been the CEO, the Chief of Earth Operations. One of the responsibilities of Enki was the design and maintenance of the irrigation systems needed to grow the food for Sumer. The dams, canals and water ways of an irrigation system are an exercise in the use of gravitation. Gravitation is the base of the World or Universal Cross. It is important to know when the word "world" is being used for our planet earth or when it is used for the All.

Fire is nucleation, the strong nuclear force. Utu, son of Nanna-Sin, the Moon, was the Sun. There is no En followed by the Sumerian cuneiform for fire as there is for Lord Earth. The responsibilities of a Lord Fire would have been discharged off planet. Nucleation is the top of the upright member of the Universal Cross.

The cross arm of the Universal Cross has Air, electrification and Water, magnetization at either end. Air and Water, the electromagnetic forces, dance between Earth and Fire to form the world of our experience.

Although Enki is associated with water, this was the liquid stuff that flows in the canals for which he was responsible. It is also said that Enki lived in a watery abyss called the Abzu. As we will see below, this Abzu was the subterranean basement of the Tree of Life.

The responsibilities of Lord Water, the Chief Navigator, were discharged off planet. In interstellar space there are rivers of charged partials that flow on the magnetic lines of flux that come off the spin axes of every star. It is on these rivers that star ships the size of small planets sail from one star to another on journeys lasting millions of years. Ancient Egypt tells of a Ship of Millions of Years. The Chief Navigator is sailing a death star out of the solar system. Soon he will return, the multitude will reassemble and the Solar Child will be reborn.

There was a Lord Air in ancient Sumer. He was Enlil, half brother to Enki. They both had the same father, An, but different mothers. The cuneiform character that is associated with An is rendered heaven. An's proper wife was Ki, Enlil's mother. This made Enlil, although younger than Enki, heir to An's godship. These two brothers did not get on well with each other. Put in modern cooperate terminology, Enlil would have been the CAO, the Chief of Atmospheric Operations. More will be said about his responsibilities below. Bur first let us consider a Tree of Life.

An Ancient Space Elevator

Consider if you will a space elevator, also known as a tethered satellite. This is a structure that has its center of mass in a geostationary orbit with its base loosely connected to a fixed point on the surface of the Earth. NASA is looking into the feasibility of building one. Some researchers are working to have this tower with its head in heaven working in a couple of decades. The last time we tried to build a space elevator, the project was terminated and the workers had their languages confused as they were scattered throughout the world. The unfinished base terminal of this space elevator was covered with large stones to keep us out. All that remains of the history of a series of space elevators that were in operation for several millions of years are myths of a Tree of Life and a list of administrations known as the Sumerian Kings List.

Many mythologies talk of a World Tree. In Sumer, Inanna had a tree that was very important to her. It was to be made into her bed and thrown. But before this could be done a bird in its crown, Lilith, Adam's first wife, in its trunk and a serpent in its roots had to be removed. On the other side of the world the Tree of Life is seen on the Sarcophagus lid at Palengue, a Mayan site. This stone carving shows a tree with a bird at the top, a female figure in the trunk and a serpent at the bottom.

Figure One is a functional schematic of a space elevator referred to as an Electric Umbilical Tower. The ratio of the size of the earth to the distance to geostationary, the arms, is approximately correct. Otherwise this diagram is totally schematic. On the vertical shaft, all the mass above geostationary is balanced by the mass below geostationary. The drooping arms float in a geostationary orbit. These arms are an antenna array that can work from one cycle every few hours to the high mega-hertz. It is through this antenna, using the very lowest of the low frequencies, that the internal tectonic stresses of the planet are relieved. The surface is stabilized through an interaction of the forces controlled through the antenna and the forces within the Earth. There were no festering pustules known as volcanoes or fracture lines known as earthquake faults on the surface of Gaia's womb. The seas were deep but the hills were low. There were no great mountains. The Earth did not shake and knock everything down.

The sheer size of the tower required hundreds of megawatts to operate at normal capacity. In times of stress, bursts to a couple of thousand megawatts or more were possible. Over most of the land mass of the planet rain fell. The seas mostly were kept clear so the sun could boil off the water for the rain. Clouds over the seas were used as a shutter to control the energy flow into the system.

The Umbilical Tower and the Earth made up a womb used to populate the solar system with hundreds of billions of individuals, most living off planet. This tower was the Tree of Life. There is memory of this all over the world. Easter Island, Cuzco in Peru, the Oracle at Delphi and Nippur in ancient Sumer are just a few of the places known as the Navel of the World. This is not to say that all these locations were once the location of a tower. People, having once lived at the “Navel of the World” would still tend to call their home such, even if the tower is now somewhere else, or gone completely.

Nippur is south of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, in what was once ancient Sumer. This ancient land of Sumer had a god in every city with other gods and priests working for them, very cooperate like. Nippur, the Navel of the World, was home to Enlil, the Great Mountain, Lord Air. Enlil was the supreme god of Sumer, the Chief of Atmospheric Operations for the Tree of Life. The main mission of Atmospheric Operations was to make rain to generate the electricity to power the tower. Enlil and his offspring are known as storm gods. The offices and apartments of Atmospheric Operations on the tower were just above geostationary. This low gravity environment is ideal for an avian staff.

The womb needed for Reproductive Operations was best formed in the mammalian, generally sentient simian. It should be noted here that there are suggestions in the mythology of a two part female reproductive system, two female reproductive forms. One form was for conception and the other for gestation and birthing. Inanna was the Innocent Bride who became the lustful warrior after being raped by a slave working in the garden. As the Innocent Bride she was the Assistant Chief for Conception Operations. Ninhursag, also known as Mama and Nintu in Sumer and was Gaia to the Greeks, was the Great Mother, The Assistant Chief for Gestation, Birthing and Lactation Operations. Both together, as a single mind, was the Chief of Reproductive Operations. Mama was the womb out of which all sentient life flowed. Mama was a large person with wide hips. She could give birth with ease. She lived in the low gravity just below geostationary on the tower and never went to the surface. Whereas, Inanna was narrow hipped, slender and muscular, suited well for conception but totally unsuitable for birthing. I know it sounds like one was having all the fun and the other was doing all the work. But, Inanna had accepted the responsibilities of her position and acknowledges the need to have direct intimate physical contact with her male counterpart from time to time. And Mama let her play with the children when ever she wanted. Mama had a male counterpart as well. He was the helpmate that worked in the womb, the true gardener. Together they experienced each other in an intimate but non-reproductive way. This experience was continuous and on going. Whereas the intimacies used for conception were competitive and very intense. They were used only once in a generation to conceive the new generation. The rest of the time Inanna and her male counterpart were celibate.

Most of the rain flowed off the land and back into the seas. But some of the water was channeled into great rivers that flowed to the base of the tower. The water flowed in from two directions in two great rivers. The water flowed through living filters, the canebrakes and reed sieves, and into underground aquifers before being taken up into the tower. It was in this subterranean realm, in the Abzu, that Enki, the Chief of Earth Operations, and his staff had their homes and offices. The range of environments on and under the surface required a very adaptable biological form. The reptilian form was ideally suited for this work and was used to staff Earth Operations. The used water from the tower left in two great rivers and flowed back to the sea.

The tower was held in a net woven from threads spun of carbon nanotubes. This net provided the pathways for the resonant fields that were the structural integrity. Within each tube is a single strand of another element. A mono-crystalline thread of tungsten is used for strength. A string of aluminum atoms gives transparency, I bow to Star Trek for this one. Silicon strings are semi-conductive. View ports on the tower are a tight weave of tungsten, aluminum and silicon filled nanotubes. The transparency of the port was controlled by silicon logic circuits controlling the aluminum while the tungsten gives it the strength to hold onto an atmosphere in the vacuum of space. This same structure could also be used as display terminals.

Between all habitats, the tower was a loose weave of flexible cords and shafts. In the cords are the pipes and conduits for the transport of power, water and other fluids up and down the tower. In the shafts capsules moved for the transportation of individuals and goods. All habituates were stone structures held loosely by the net of nanotubes and firmly by the structural integrity fields.

A List of Space Elevators

The Sumerian Kings List mentioned above lists five space elevators operated by eight administrations followed by chaotic times. The first section of this list is reproduced here.

After the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridug.

In Eridug,
Alulim became king; he ruled for 28800 years.
Alaljar ruled for 36000 years.
2 kings; they ruled for 64800 years.

Then Eridug fell and the kingship was taken to Bad-tibira.

In Bad-tibira,
En-men-lu-ana ruled for 43200 years.
En-men-gal-ana ruled for 28800 years.
Dumuzid, the shepherd, ruled for 36000 years.
3 kings; they ruled for 108000 years.

Then Bad-tibira fell (?) and the kingship was taken to Larag.

In Larag,
En-sipad-zid-ana ruled for 28800 years.
1 king; he ruled for 28800 years.

Then Larag fell (?) and the kingship was taken to Zimbir.

In Zimbir,
En-men-dur-ana became king; he ruled for 21000 years.
1 king; he ruled for 21000 years.

Then Zimbir fell (?) and the kingship was taken to Curuppag.

In Curuppag,
Ubara-Tutu became king; he ruled for 18600 years.
1 king; he ruled for 18600 years.

In 5 cities 8 kings; they ruled for 241200 years.

Then the flood swept over.

The following copyright is also included:

Black, J.A., Cunningham, G., Fluckiger-Hawker, E, Robson, E., and Zólyomi, G., The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/), Oxford 1998- .

Copyright © J.A. Black, G. Cunningham, E. Robson, and G. Zólyomi 1998, 1999, 2000; J.A. Black, G. Cunningham, E. Flückiger-hawker, E. Robson, J. Taylor, and G. Zólyomi 2001. The authors have asserted their moral rights.

The first tower was located at Eridug. In ancient times, as well as modern, it was common to reuse names of people and places. Any connection with this Eridug and any historical Eridug, other than shearing a name, is a matter of fate and has nothing to do with destiny. This tower was built nearly thirty million years ago, just before the brown dwarf star came through the solar system and messed things up a bit. Under, first the administration of Alulim and then the administration of Alaljar the tower served for six million four hundred and eighty thousand years. Yes, this timing is not from the standard value of a Sar, which is thirty-six hundred years. But we are admonished to be certain which clock we are using when we are told that a day is as a thousand years. The question is, do you know which clock you are using. Get the wrong clock and interpretations of the chronology of events can get really silly. There is a larger story here that requires a longer clock. Append two zeros on to each of the times given above.

Before the tower at Eridug was decommissioned, a new tower was built at Bad-tibira. All these locations were at different locations on the equator. There were three administrations at Bab-tibira. It served for ten million eight hundred thousand years. But during the administration of Dumuzid a brown dwarf star came through the solar system. It shattered the planet that orbited where the asteroids are now. The shattered remains of this planet, often called Tiamet, rained down on Mars. Mars lay mortally wounded. Earth was pulled on enough to destabilize the space elevator and start the continents running into each other. Great mountains started to form. The administration of Dumuzid had to shepherd the tower staff through some trying times. There was only one administration on each of the last three towers. The next to the last tower went out of service prematurely and the last tower at Curuppag had to be rushed into service early. It was in this last administration that it was decided to lift the tower off the Earth until the Earth could be stabilized.

With the loss of the tower, control of the weather system was lost. Most of the energy stored in the clouds precipitated out as rain. The system of aquifers around the tower collapsed and the tower base dropped hundreds of feet. There was massive flooding throughout the world. The seas rose hundreds of feet as the water rained out of the atmosphere.

A Time of Chaos

After some time a new tower was lowered to the Earth. But as can be seen by reading the document on the Oxford site, times were hard. The length of time each administration ran the tower shortened and became more erratic. A reestablished tower would not have lasted long. At some point the administrators would have been working from orbital habitats, and then been confined to the surface of the planet. For the most part the list is the naming of administrators and locations. At times there are other comments that are of interest. As for the clock, two zeros at the start, one zero in the middle and our current clock for the historical kings. And this on a sliding scale as there was a steady decline in all aspects of the experience.

Etana, the shepherd, who ascended to heaven and consolidated all the foreign countries, became king; he ruled for 1500 years. This guy had meetings with the administrators off planet.

The copyright from above applies here as well.

En-men-barage-si, who made the land of Elam submit, became king; he ruled for 900 years. War is here to stay.

In E-ana, Mec-ki-aj-gacer, the son of Utu, became lord and king; he ruled for 324 years. Mec-ki-aj-gacer entered the sea and disappeared. It does not say if he used a boat or just walked in.

Lugalbanda, the shepherd, ruled for 1200 years. Lugalbanda is the name of the father of Gilgamash.

Dumuzid, the fisherman, whose city was Kuara, ruled for 100 years. He captured En-me-barage-si single-handed. Here he is a fisherman. Above he was a shepherd.

Some time later in Kic,

Susuda, the fuller, became king; he ruled for 201 + X years. Dadasig ruled for 81 years. Mamagal, the boatman, ruled for 360 years. After five more locations and at least one more fuller, the King returns again to Kic.

Kug-Bau, the woman tavern-keeper, who made firm the foundations of Kic, became king; she ruled for 100 years. 1 king; she ruled for 100 years. Then Kic was defeated and the kingship was taken to Akcak. Of all the kings with gender reference, she is the only female. Women inn-keepers are found in other mythologies.

Finely at Agade is the historical King:

Sargon, whose father was a gardener, the cupbearer of Ur-Zababa, became king, the king of Agade, who built Agade; he ruled for 56 years.

Near the end of the list, what with the power struggles and all, at one point the army took over administration. At this time it is unlikely that there was still a tower in operation. Lord Water, the Chief Navigator, and most of the resources of the multitude had gone to deal with the death star. By attaching sails and sailing it off in a new direction it would come back through the solar system in twenty-seven million years and then be gone for good. But it would take a few million years after this last pass to see the death star safely out of the solar system.

De We Have Any Idea What We Are Talking About?

At this point some definitions are in order. And, for these definitions some ground work is needed. From the ancient past it is said that the what is above is as it is below. For example, we sentient simians have bodies made of large numbers of cells. The cells in our bodies are made of large numbers of molecules. And molecules are made of atoms, sometimes in large numbers. The pattern is that one large living thing is made of large numbers of small living things. These small things tend to be grouped into specialized communities such as the organs in our biological bodies. Simular specialation can be seen in the groupings of molecules in cells. The question now becomes, what part do we sentient simians play in a larger living being? At first glance it appears that the pattern breaks down above us. But this may just be a symptom of isolation from our true nature in the universal creation.

In Egyptian mythology the god Osiris was dismembered by his brother Set and scattered over all the land. Isis, the wife of Osiris, gathered up all of his parts, except his genitals and reassembled him. Even without the genitals Isis was able to produce a son, Horus. On the other side of the world the Maya have a myth of a dismembered goddess. One way of looking at these myths is to see them as just stories with no bases in reality. After all, both the Egyptians and the Maya portray their gods as looking just like we sentient simians. And we know that if we disassemble one of us, there is no putting us back together.

On the Disassembly of a God

If we return to the as above so below idea, we may have a solution to the dismembered gods and goddess. The below would be a biological entity like ourselves. The ancients used the pomegranate as a symbol of this type of life, many units tightly bound in a single covering. The above would be a global, or more likely, stellar class being. In that I could say that my experience is the sum of the experience of all the cells in my body, the experience of this stellar class being would be the sum of all the experience of the sentient type beings that are a part of it. The ancients used a bunch of grapes as a symbol of this type of life, many units loosely bound and in their own individual coverings. In this case it would be communities of people, the kingdoms of mankind, that make up the organs of this stellar class person. All of the individuals in this larger person would be part of one mind. Now the dismembering and reassembling of a god or goddess makes sense. In the dismemberment the different communities, tribes, would be moved apart and the common mind would no longer function. To reassemble the god would be to move all the tribes back to a single location and let the mind come back together. With the Hopi in the North American south west and the different Mayan tribes in Central America we may have a goddess just waiting to be reassembled.

Now For Some Definitions

There is the unknowable All. The dimensionless point of infinite extent. This is the infinite in all aspects and much much more. In no way can a finite part of the infinite know the infinite. To name this or try to describe it in any way is to limit it and is inappropriate. It is here, and only here, that blind faith is needed.

THE TÂO TEH KING.

PART I.

1.

Ch. 1. 1. The Tâo that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tâo. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.

2. (Conceived of as) having no name, it is the Originator of heaven and earth; (conceived of as) having a name, it is the Mother of all things.

3. Always without desire we must be found,
If its deep mystery we would sound;
But if desire always within us be,
Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

From The Texts of Taoism, Translated by James Legge, [1891] found on The Internet Sacred Text Archive . There will be more on the last three lines of the above in a paper under development called On the Nature of Experience.

A god is one of these stellar beings made up of individual bioforms held together by a common mind. These bioforms can be of any zoological phylum, family or classification. It is the environment and mission that determines what genetic structure to use. Imagen the complexity of the nonlinear language sentient cephalopods would speak through patterns on their skin. Glyphs, as in Egyptian and Mayan, are but the first simple parts of the language a child would learn. Imagen all zoological forms in the seas and on the land singing the same song. In the seas the cetaceans sing the base while on land it is the pachyderms. All of one voice we sing. This is Gaia, our Mother Earth, joyful at the happiness of her children. They sing with the Tree of Life to calm the chaos of the fire that burns above and below. The joy of life fills all.

An administrator is a collection bioforms within the mind of the stellar being. These head the kingdoms that are the organs of this stellar person. It is one of the more sentient of the multitude. They hold the executive positions.

Yet There is Always a Down Side

During separation from the common mind, that is, with their parents away, administrators can fall to the dominance of their own personal egos. This can lead to delusions of grandeur. In certain cases the administrators will claim to be the god of which they are a part. At its worst, the administrators will claim to be the unnameable All. These misguided administrators are known as renegades. To feed their own delusion they will deceive the civilized workers and enslave the whole world. When there is more than one of these renegades, war is the inevitable outcome as they fight for control of the world with their armies of slaves.

Using all of its sailing skills, Lord Water, the Chief Navigator, sailed the death star past the solar system for the last time. But through a misfortune in timing, a new generation of administrators was being born.

With the full attention of the gods on removing the death star from the solar system, there was no place for this new generation. Their physical being should have been returned to the earth and their spirit returned to the mind. But the strain of fighting death was taking its toll. The birth mother did not want to give up the comfort of her children in these troubled times. It was decided to leave them on Earth with a working space elevator and very specific instruction on what to do while their parents were gone. There were materials they were to mine and stockpile for rebuilding the Solar Child after the death star was banished. With out the guidance of the older generation, this new generation of administrators soon fell pry to the whims of their personal egos. After about three million years of toil, the lesser administrators, the ones forced to dig in the mines, refused to work. They destroyed their tools and went to confront the Chief of Earth Operations. "Relieve us of our burden Father" they cried. "Are we not your children?" On the insistence of his mother, this chief administrator, who is also the chief scientist, and a sub-sister with a good knowledge of the biology of nuclear DNA build a primitive worker. After a couple of false starts a good strong semi-sentient simian worker was developed. And, it looked just like them. The staff in the birthing department was increased. Each birth added twelve new workers, six male/female pairs. These pairs were non reproducing and, as a pair, stayed together until they were reabsorbed.

The administrators now had workers to do all the heavy lifting, such as digging in the mines. These workers could be trained to do simple tasks for the administrators. A complete domestic staff was developed for cleaning, cooking and serving. But the administrators still had to go to the surface to supervise these workers. The administrators needed a fully sentient civilized worker to supervise the primitive workers.

It is here that this rebellious generation of inexperienced renegades starts to get in over their heads. They sacrifice one of their own, an apparently expendable male administrator, for the purpose of building this civilized worker. They used his DNA and personality along with a spirit. Rummer is the female side of the double helix came from the surface. Some biologically rich clay was added to provide DNA fragments to fill any gaps there might be in the double-helix. This was needed to get two incompatible DNA strands to form a viable genome. Here is where they made their first error. They did not have proper control of how the bio-fragments from the clay would fill the gaps in the helix. This civilized workers turned out smarter than the renegades and were hard to handle.

In spite of this, the staff of the birthing department was pressed back into service. These fully civilized sentient simian workers were produced as fast as possible. After a time the birthing department saw that they were working harder then the rest of the administrators.

When the birthing department stopped producing workers, the renegades made their second and most dangerous error. They let the civilized workers reproduce. Within a few generations the population was out of control. As fate would have it, a couple of generations later the crust of the earth was to shift do to gravitational turbulence left from the last pass of the death star.

The last operational tower had to be prepared for a quick departure. These renegades only knew that there was a threat, but had no idea how devastating it would be. In preparation for the turbulence, the Chief of Atmospheric Operations was pumping as much energy as possible into the atmosphere to have sufficient reserves to ride out the gravitational storm. This energy took the form of moisture in the clouds. If the tower was pulled off suddenly, all the moisture would rain out quickly causing massive flooding.

In counsel, the renegade administrators decided not to inform the workers. The Chief of Atmospheric Operations saw this as a good opportunity to get rid of an infestation on the planet's surface. If these renegades' parents came back with the slaves out of control there would be hell to pay. The Chief of Earth Operations agreed about the infestation but wanted to keep a few workers to start a new, controlled, population of slaves. Against the wishes of the majority of the renegades, but without breaking his oath not to tell, the Chief of Earth Operations allowed the head of one family of workers to know about the flood. This king was to make preparations for his grandson, Utnapishtim, to ride out the deluge in a large sealed boat. The king was taken up into the tower and given the information needed to run a society without the assistance of the administrators. Three hundred and sixty five books were dictated to him. There was an astronomy lesson for the purpose of establishing a calendar. It took the Chief of Earth Operations six days to tell the story of the building of the solar system. This included the making of sun, all the planets, as well as the plants and animals including the workers. Many years after the flood when the Chief of Reproductive Operations, now the lustful warrior and separated from her birthing counterpart, seduced the Chief of Earth Operations. her uncle, and took the remaining books from him , there were about a hundred left. By then all the renegades had taken the same sentient simian form as the worker slaves. The only down side to this was that the female form of the worker was modeled after the Assistant Chief for Conception Operations. The hips of this form were way to narrow for birthing. A serious design flaw by any definition of engineering excellence.

When the gravitational turbulence of the passage of the death star became to great to handle, the tower was pulled away quickly. Not only did the flood rains come, the aquifers under the tower collapsed and all that water gushed forth. This aggravated the flooding near the base of the tower where most of the workers lived and worked.

After the flood waters had settled down and the boat was on ground again, Utnapishtim got out and set up an alter for a sacrifice. No sooner had the fire been lit than the administrators showed up. Utnapishtim know they would be hungry so he killed several young lambs for the burnt offering. For the first time ever the administrators allowed Utnapishtim and his fellow slaves to eat of the animal flesh with them.

When he finally arrived, the Chief of Atmospheric Operations was very unhappy that some of the slaves had survived. But the lamb was done to perfection and he had been very hungry. The slaves did have their uses, if they could be kept under control. With grave concerns he agreed to let them be if their genetics was adjusted for a much shorter life span. He was secretly hoping that, with the adverse condition after the flood, and the shortened life, that they would just die out and the renegades would be free of this horrible mess they had made. He did not want to face his parents with an out of control infestation of slaves on the planet's surface.

Several generations after the flood there was an attempt the build a new tower. Shortly after the project was started the Chief of Earth Operations saw that most of the tools needed to build the tower had been lost in the flood. They could still fill large stones with air and float them on water. But the ability to weave the carbon nanotube ropes and nets has been lost. Complicating the project was the fact that space elevators were built up, down and out from a geostationary orbit, not from the planets surface.

The Chief of Earth Operations knew it would take hundreds of generations to rebuild the technologies needed to get into space and build another tower. In the mean time control of the planet's surface tectonics had been lost. Soon there would be massive volcanic ruptures in the surface. High mountains would form. And there was the ever present danger of loosing control of the slaves. There was nothing could be done about the volcanoes and mountains. But for the slaves there was a plan or two. The Chief of Atmospheric Operations, and other renegade administrators sympathetic to his cause, scattered the slaves across the face of the Earth in small subsistence communities or as nomadic tribes. The Chief of Earth Operations changed their language in ways to create confusion and fear. The fear, he knew, would lead to war. And there is nothing better to speed the development of technology and control populations than war. The only question was, could he get the tower build before their parents returned to take the planet away from them?

With the Chief of Atmospheric Operations trying to keep the slaves scattered and pacified and the Chief of Earth Operations trying the keep them confused and fearful, life for the slaves was at best a time of quiet desperation.

Or maybe life did just ooze up out of lifeless rock like modern science says. And the priests just made up all these warring gods to frighten us on Halloween.

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