Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Who were the Sumerians? Chapter 2 The discovery of ancient Sumer Chapter 3 The origins of the Temple Chapter 4 Searching for the ancient gods Chapter 5 The history of the pantheon Chapter 6 Rivalry between the gods Chapter 7 The King List and the Flood Chapter 8 The Flood as a geological event Chapter 9 Religion before the Flood Chapter 10 Stories of Creation and Paradise Chapter 11 From Babel to Abraham Chapter 12 The spiritual big bang Chapter 13 Paradise lost and regained Part 14 Appendices Part 15 Bibliography Part 16 Index

About the Author

Alan Dickin is Professor of Geology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, where he has taught for the past twenty years. He is the author of many scientific papers on Geochronology, as well as a graduate-level textbook Radiogenic Isotope Geology, (1995 and 2005). His new book Pagan Trinity - Holy Trinity: The Legacy of the Sumerians in Western Civilization is the result of his lifelong interest in the relationship between the biblical story of origins in Genesis, and geological, archaeological, and historical evidence for the origins of human civilization.