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chief god Marduk, also known as Bel. There was a dramatic representation of the conflict between the Thunder-god Beland the dragon Tiamat, as recounted in the epic of creation the Enuma elish, during which the god is vanquished andslain, but is raised from death by magical ceremonies, and eventually overcomes the dragon. Babylon was also thebirthplace of the mother of all sciences, astronomy, recognized as the special skill of the renowned Chaldeans, a term thathad originally referred to the inhabitants of Chaldea, but eventually understood to refer to the Babylonian astrologers.Although often attributed to the distant past, and falsely presumed to represent the survival of the Ancient Wisdom,scholars have now established that, due to a lack of a reliable system of chronology, the astrology of the Chaldeans,though based on older traditions, was not developed until the seventh and sixth centuries BC.These centuries were also the period in which a substantial Jewish population was found in Babylon. As a result of theAssyrian conquests of Jerusalem and the sacking of its great Temple, at the beginning of the sixth century BC, the greatportion of the Jewish people were relocated to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar, where they would remain for nearly halfa century, a period in Jewish history known as the Exile. It is acknowledged that it was at this time that the Jewsinculacted Babylonian teachings into their religion. Therefore, considering the size and prominence of the Jewishpopulation in Babylon, it is possible that they would have participated in the development of astrology. In fact, in the Bookof Daniel, Chapter 2:48, Daniel is made chief of the "wise men" of Babylon, that is, of the Chaldean Magi, and yet remainsfaithful to the laws of his own religion. Babylon was conquered by the Persians in 539 BC, at which point, the Magi, thepreists of Zoroastrianism, founded by Zoroaster, came into contact with the teachings of the Chaldeans. However, thoseMagi which became renowed for their "wisdom" throughout the ancient World were not followers of the teachings ofZoroaster, but a heretical branch of the religion. It is among them that we first find the presence of those teachings thatwould later come to be known as the Kabbalah, a collection of doctrines fundamentally different from orthodoxZoroastrianism. Essentially, the Magi preserved a triad of gods worshipped by the Babylonians, assimilating an ancientPersian god, named Mithras, to the Dying God of the Babylonian, Bel, symbolized by the Bull and the Sun. Their version ofZoroastrianism was one known as Zurvanism, and which included a ritual of death and rebirth, dualism, pantheism,number mysticism, and reincarnation."From the contact of these two cultures," meaning of the Zoroastrians and Chaldeans, Bartel van der Waerden, in ScienceAwakening II: The Birth of Astronomy, explains "something new sprang: an astrological doctrine of fate, closely related toscience on the one hand and religion on the other, which spread from Babylon over the whole ancient World." It was withthe conquests of the expanding Persian empire that the teachings of these heretical Magi, known as Magussaeans, wereintroduced to many parts of the ancient World, a phenomenon falsely attributed by European scholars to the spread of theAncient Wisdom by the Aryans. At its height, the Persian empire spanned an immense territory, including the whole of theMiddle East, Egypt, parts of India, Armenia, Afghanistan, Turkestan, Asia Minor and European ThraceIn 538 BC, Cyrus released the Jews from captivity at Babylon, who returned to Jerusalem and rebuilt their Temple. It wasat this time, known as the Second Temple period, that the Bible, although derived from earlier material, was compiled andseems to have incorporated a number of Zoroastrian doctrines. Ever since the initial suggestion of Count Constantin in1791, the importance of the influence of Zoroastrianism on Judaism was promoted by the History of Religions School.Currently, many important scholars maintain the thesis of Zoroastrian influence on Judaism, including Duchesne-Guillemin, Gnoli, Hinnels, Anders Hultgard, Joseph Kitagawa, Shaked, David Winston and Mary Boyce. However, it is notin the Bible, but in the Kabbalah, that we find teachings similar to those attributed to the ancient Chaldean Magi, andtherefore, are not to be found in Bible text, but in interpretations of it. But, since the Kabbalists claim to derive theirteachings from the text itself, the text must have been subtly altered to encrypt such information. In The Text of the OldTestament , Professor Wurthwein asserts: "before the text of the Old Testament was officially established it was notregarded as unalterable. Accordingly we should expect to find that those who were concerned with the transmission of thetext would occasionally make deliberate, fully intentional alterations in the text."Therefore, though much of Bible is indeed historical, the many bizarre, enigmatic and sometime offensive tales, haveperhaps been designed to conceal Kabbalistic meanings, some of which can be discerned from the extra-biblical texts ofthe Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, also compiled in the Second Temple period, as well as a number of Kabbalistic textsof the Middle Ages. It is in this manner that we should seek to understand the significance of the curious and paradoxicalstory of the descendants of Cain, Adam’s son, who was cursed for killing his brother Abel. According to Kabbalistic legend,Cain’s female descendants intermarried with the Sons of God of Genesis, producing a race of giants known as the Anakim.Apocryphal texts explain that the Sons of God were the devil and his legions, who were cast of heaven, and, taking forthemselves human brides, taught them the arts of sorcery and astrology. God finally inflicted the Flood to annihilate sinfulhumanity. Though, the Anakim were continued through the Canaanites, descendants of Canaan, grandson of Noah, andcursed for the sin of his father Ham. Following their exodus from Egypt, the Jews were commanded to punish theCanaanites for their transgressions, and possess their land in Palestine, the land promised by God to their ancestorAbraham. Though the Jews were sternly warned to the contrary, they repeatedly succumbed to the worship of theirCanaanite neighbors, a series of lapses that forms the fundamental theme of the Bible, from the Exodus to the Exile.The Canaanites worshipped Baal, one of many dying gods symbolized by the bull worshipped throughout the ancientMiddle East, like Adonis and Bel. He was identified in antiquity with the legendary founder of Babylon, Nimrod, "a mightyhunter before the Lord," which Jewish tradition regarded as the constellation Orion. His cult was centered around themyth of his death, or descent to the UnderWorld, and subsequent resurrection, symbolizing the death and return offertility with the seasons. Baal was one of three gods, comprising a trinity, with his father El, and his mother Astarte, alsohis sister and spouse. As the sky god who fertilizes the mother earth, Baal was usually represented by phallic pillars calledAsherah poles. 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