Dear Joseph,

Your letter reached me yesterday as the 3-day Commonwealth Conference opened in the Golden Sands hotel, snow fell in Exeter, and The Independent published a photograph of two of the large tents your Government has provided as temporary accommodation for recent immigrants from Somalia and elsewhere in Africa.

Your letter "The truth on Malta's prehistory" in The Malta Independent for 10 November makes interesting reading, even though editing it for length has deprived readers of your short paragraph about Noah's Flood, as discussed in connection with Malta in your own book.

So, Malta Heritage has mounted an exhibition about the archæological achievements of your father's friend, Professor L. M. Ugolini. Excellent news! For how long is it open? Is a permanent exhibition too much to hope for? Reading one of Ugolini's books in Italian in the Royal Malta Library in Valletta a few years ago helped to open my eyes - it would be good to have them also made available in English.

Despite Colin Renfrew's acknowledgment of the unique importance of Malta's prehistoric remains, school-children and others visiting the Mediterranean Archæology gallery in the Royal Exeter Museum would, I am sorry to say, still look in vain for any mention of your island home on the large wall-map there displayed.

Similarly, although David Gibbins is a fully professional underwater archæologist and an acknowledged world-authority on ancient shipwrecks and sunken cities, the "present-day map of the Mediterranean" printed at the beginning of his first novel Atlantis, which I think you would enjoy, makes room for the whole of the Black Sea but only shows that part of the Mediterranean itself which is further East than Stromboli...

WAS G-D PREGNANT?   Joseph S. Ellul writes to Linda C. Eneix

Dear Linda,

I came across your comments on the above subject, which you have explored in various authors including myself. Dr. Mary Gimbutas is a great romancer and novelist but no archaeologist; she is imbued with the ridiculous and contrived ideas of J. D. Evans who first applied the expression “goddess of fertility“ to several statuettes from Hagar Qim, each more than 30 cms. high and completely devoid of any female bust, and which Sir Temi Zammit, M.D., had already clearly labelled as male figures.

Gimbutas failed to realize that the origin of life is not woman, but the man who impregnates her. Woman nurtures her young, but even in trees and plants some prior male fertilizing influence is required, such as that supplied by bees, wasps, butterflies and other insects, or else carried by the wind from a male plant of the same species.

Gimbutas’s fixation on this imaginary "goddess of fertility" strikes me as utterly ridiculous. She is infatuated with this female goddess, the invention of a thief and a liar who stole several items from Malta's Museum of Archaeology, including an irreplaceable and very special skull.

Pleats and skirts on statues need not imply the wearer is female. Until 500 years ago all men wore skirts, even Christopher Columbus.

Sir Temi Zammit reckoned that the Stone Age ended in 3,000 B.C. Dr.Colin Renfrew has calculated a “staggering “ revised date of 3,800 B.C., but, as I have shown in my book, the most recent temple-wall built at Hagar Qim is at least 7,000 years old - if you read my book wisely, you will learn a lot of archaeology. What I have learned about stones in Malta, nobody else knows.

The women in temple days here weren't only not goddesses; they weren't even allowed to enter the temples. At Hagar Qim a stone phallus was, instead, reverenced in a niche-chapel outside the temple proper.

You appear, and perhaps on purpose, to have misunderstood the meaning of the extra-fat arms, thighs and calves on these figures.As I clearly explain in my book, these attributes are there as symbols of the power of G-d, especially almightiness and being everywhere at once.

One non-Maltese archaeologist posted me a photograph of one particular statue of a prehistoric god which clearly shows the genital area - It is entirely flat; there are no genitals, either male or female. And yet such a "god" is still said to be "male" when, in fact and in the relevant sense, it is neither "male" nor "female". So, dismiss from your mind any idea that the Stone-Age G-d was ever "a woman". Although the enemies of G-d may have aided and abetted Evans in his propounding of this hypocritical idea; David H. Trump is nowadays clearly embarrassed whenever he finds it ncessary to mention it, and he has already adopted my idea that the form of these temples is that of a squatting god.

Several foreign archaeologists have visited Zurrieq to discuss with and learn from me, while I am still here. If you have any comments on what I have wriiten or wish to contradict me in any way, please do not hesitate to get in touch. I’ll be pleased to hear from you.

I wish you a Merry Christmas 2005 and a Happy New Year 20006.

Yours sincerely,

Joseph S. Ellul
49 St Catherine Street
Zurrieq ZRQ 1083, Malta

JOHN CORNWELL's A Thief in the Night - The death of Pope John Paul I (Penguin Books, 1990) is also a good read.

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