EDMUND MARRIAGE

IN SEARCH OF THE SHINING ONES

 

THE GENIUS OF THE FEW (1985) is the title of what was initially an obscure book by former exploration geologist Christian O'Brien (co-written with his wife Barbara Joy O'Brien). He was a reader of cuneiform script and with this specialist knowledge made a new translation of an Sumero-Akkadian text, from the library at Nippur, which came to be known as the Kharsag Epic. It appeared to tell of a thriving settlement inhabited by creator-gods named as Annanage (Annunaki). Repeatedly, the location of their agricultural settlement is given as edinu, the same root word used to describe the original homeland of the human race in biblical tradition - Eden.

Realising the human background to these living gods, which were often said to have serpent eyes and shining faces, O'Brien compared the Kharsag account with the enigmatic Book of Enoch, a Jewish apocryphal work written originally by the Dead Sea community at Qumran, sometime after 170 BC. It describes the activities and transgressions of a community of angels, or 'Watchers', that pre-existed the Flood and inhabited a region described as Heaven, Paradise or Eden, and very soon O'Brien realised that the gods of Sumer and Akkad were one and the same as the Watchers, who were also said to have serpentine features and shining eyes.

THE GENIUS OF THE FEW was re-discovered in 1994 by Andrew Collins and Richard Ward when they too were working on the human origins of the Watchers for Andrew's up-coming book FROM THE ASHES OF ANGELS (1996). Thankfully, its publication rekindled an interest in Christian O'Brien's own neglected work, which was republished again in 1999 (he also went on to write a mammoth book on the subject entitled THE SHINING ONES).

Sadly, Christian O'Brien, who might himself by described as 'a genius of the few', died in February 2001, in the knowledge that much of his early work on the 'Shining Ones', as he termed the ancient, pre-civilisation race which inhabited this planet, had been vindicated.

Edmund Marriage is Christian's nephew with an expert knowledge of agronomy among ancient cultures. Not only does he promote the extraordinary work of his uncle, but his own research into this fascinating subject has pushed our understanding of the agricultural and pastoral developments of the early Neolithic in the ancient world back by thousands of years.

In his lecture, Edmund Marriage, with a little help from Barbara Joy O'Brien, will outline his beliefs concerning the nature of the Shining Ones and the location of Eden. He will also decode an ancient proto-language used by the Sumerians, which he now believes was the original language used by the angelic race.

Edmund Marriage lives in Circencester. He is the founder of the Patrick Foundation and Golden Age Project, an independent research body which promotes the work of Christian O'Brien and uncovers new knowledge of ancient and advanced civilisations of prehistory. For more information click here.

 

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