QUOTE(Essan @ Jun 9 2005, 04:35 PM)
I guess this is reference to the serpent/vulture cult that Andrew Collins describes in his book From the Ashes of Angels - who may have lived around Lake Van and may have come down from the hills to educate the early peoples of Mesopotamia, giving rise to legends of fallen angels and their connection with serpents.
It does seem possible that a group of people did exist who were more advanced (for their time) than the local hunter gatherers and early farmers (we talking c8,000-6,000bce) and who were associated with snakes and/or birds. And around whom later myths evolved.
Never heard them referred to as the Brotherhood of the Snake (or Dragon) though - that sounds more Indiana Jones make believe to me.
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Andrew Collins is not a sumerian scholar
who can you trust eh
his website is called "Eden"
and it recently published this announcement
"Andrew would like to apologise for the lack of activity on the site over the past few months. This was due to a total crash of hardware, which has caused untold problems, and has resulted in a loss of data. If you have registered to receive updates from Eden - the Andrew Collins website over the past year, please apply again as your name and details might well have been deleted."
so like
he's a crank man
don't even mention his name in a serious discussion about origins
he thinks king tut fell off his chariot and he's proved it
in his new book
available from the fiction section of most budget book stores and from charity shops