The British Edda The Great Epic Poem Of The Ancient Britons On The Exploits Of King Thor Arthur Or Adam And His Knights In Establishing Civilization Reforming Eden Capturing The Holy Grail About 3380 3350 B C

This book is a Sumerian, Egyptian and English mythology and linguistics epic narrating the fantastical adventures of Wodan, Loki and El, who comprise the Eden Triad of the Garden of Eden. An adventurous tale rich with mythological wonder and legendary story telling, this text combines heroic narrative with speculative insights into ancient history and the origins of civilisation, promising to entertain and provoke the mind of the discerning reader Laurence Waddell was an explorer, Professor of Chemistry and Pathology, British army surgeon, collector, philologist, archaeologist, Doctor of Laws, and author. First published in 1930, The British Edda is now published with a biography of the author and is a must-have for any collector of Waddell’s work.

This book contains the great epic poem of the ancient Britons on the exploits of King Thor, Arthur or Adam and his knights in establishing civilization reforming Eden and capturing the Holy Grail about 3880-3350 BC, reconstructed for the first time from the medieval manuscripts of Babylonian, Hittite, Egyptian, Trojan, and Gothic keys and done literally into English.

Lieut.-Col. Laurence Austine Waddell (1854 1938) was a British Army officer with an established reputation mainly due to a work on the 'Buddhism' of Tibet, his explorations of the Himalayas, and a biography which included records of the 1903-4 military expedition to Lhasa (Lhasa and its Mysteries). Waddell was also in the limelight due to his acquisition of Tibetan manuscripts which he donated to the British Museum. His overriding interest was in 'Aryan origins'. After learning Sanskrit and Tibetan, and in between military expeditions and gathering intelligence from the borders of Tibet in the Great Game, Waddell researched Lamaïsm. He extended his activities to Archaeology, Philology and Ethnology, and was credited with discoveries in relation to Buddha. His personal ambition was to locate records of ancient civilisation in Tibetan lamaseries. Waddell is little known as an archaeologist and scholar, in contrast with his fame in the Oriental field, due to the controversial nature of his published works dealing with 'Aryan themes'. Waddell studied Sumerian and presented evidence that an Aryan migration fleeing Sargon II carried Sumerian records to India. He interrupted his comparative studies of Sumerian and Indian king-lists to publish a work on Phoenician origins and decipherment of Indus Valley seals, the inscriptions of which he claimed were similar to Sumerian pictogram signs cited from G. A. Barton's plates, which are reproduced in this volume. Waddell's life is reconstructed from primary sources, such as letters from Marc Aurel Stein at the British Museum and Theophilus G Pinches, held in the Special Collections at the University of Glasgow Library. Special attention is paid to the contemporary reception of his theories, with the objective of re-evaluating his contribution; they are contrasted to past and present academic views, in addition to an overview of relevant discoveries in Archaeology.

This work unravels the great mysteries of the Bible and ancient civilization. In introducing her disclosures Christine Preston reveals the meaning of Trees in Scripture as being in connection with Initiation in the Old World. The latter being the Atlantis of Plato, she reveals original "sin" as a misuse of power by Atlanteans influenced by "Wise Serpents," who opposed spiritual evolution. She discusses divine-human intermarriages and provides a solution for the fact that the Watchers parallel to the Sons of God of Genesis are depicted as evil, by disclosing a secondary scenario in Enoch that is illustrated by the Ancient Book of Jika.