Why I wrote, Before Genesis. The idea for Before Genesis didn’t begin with a book. It began in a university classroom. Studying religion and anthropology, I kept running into familiar echoes across cultures. Floods, creation stories, sacred gardens, divine beings, even promises of their return. At first, it felt like coincidence, then like a pattern I couldn’t ignore. I started asking questions. Were these universal themes that arose independently? Did later cultures inherit and reshape much older traditions? Or could some myths preserve distant memories of events, interpreted through religion? As I dug deeper into ancient Mesopotamia, and later into controversial ideas about the Anunnaki, human origins, and modern UAPs, the questions only grew. I don’t expect every reader to land where I do, and that’s not the point. I want readers to compare stories, question assumptions, and decide for themselves. That journey became “Before Genesis: Recycled Religions and the Gods That Never Left.” I wrote it because once I started seeing those connections, I couldn’t stop asking questions. Sometimes the most interesting question isn’t what happened after Genesis, it’s what came before.