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What About the Anunnaki?
The "Anunnaki" are
the major players in a new paradigm that is making its way
into popular folklore, via the work of Zecharia Sitchin, an
economist by education and profession, and the author of
several best-selling books that explore ancient mythology and
the enigmatic ruins found around the globe. These various
books also seek to demonstrate that there was in ancient
times an extraterrestrial race that genetically manipulated
mankind for various reasons. The Sitchin thesis ("Sitchinism"), now embraced
by numerous other writers, who have incorporated it into what
is apparently a new worldview, essentially asserts that these
ancient Sumero-Babylonian gods, the Anunnaki, are aliens from
the planet Nibiru (Sitchin's "12th Planet"), which passes by the earth every 3,500
years or so, at which time they planet-hop to the earth and
create mischief. Although the idea of the ancient gods being
aliens may seem novel, the tendency to make the gods of old
into "real people" or "flesh and blood"
is not at all new, dating to before the time of the Greek historian
Herodotus (5th c. BCE) and developed by the Greek philosopher Euhemeros or Evemeras (@ 300
BCE). This tendency
is called, in fact, "euhemerism" or
"evemerism," which claims that the numerous gods of
various cultures were not "mythical" but were in
reality kings, queens, warriors and assorted heroes whose
lives were turned into fairytales with the addition of
miraculous details to their biographies. The current Anunnaki
thesis is a modern version of evemerism, although it seeks to
explain the miracles as not fabulous "additions" to the tales but genuine
attributes of advanced extraterrestrials. Unfortunately for those who
would wish to see concrete evidence of such exciting notions
as extraterrestrial visitation in Earth's remote past, the
Anunnaki will not be the place to look, as the true nature of
these various gods and goddesses was already known long
before the era of modern revisionism. This modern revisionism
often carries with it an abhorrence of the ideas of those who
are classically educated in a given field; it seems to be
embraced most frequently by renegades and modern
"Indiana Joneses" and thrill-seekers who eschew the
typical channels of education. In such an education, however, if one
discovers factual information that is contradictory to what
one already believes or perceives, one is compelled by
honesty to abandon the earlier, erroneous model and accept
the new, which is essentially what the renegade is also
attempting to do. Nevertheless, while it is true that
some people (fewer than the masses would like to believe)
needn't be specialists in a given field through standard
scholastic training, it is of greater validity that someone
who has spent years upon years studying an issue, subjected
to criticism and feedback by way of "tests" and
"grades," is in the end generally going to be more
knowledgeable in that field. For example, if one needs
a heart transplant, one must go to a specialist and doctor,
not a plumber. On the other hand, those who are
classically educated but do not display acute critical
thinking will mindlessly go along with the party line, no
matter how wrong it may be, which is why there are renegades,
some of whom, such as Charles Fort, have produced some truly
remarkable work. The tireless researcher Charles Fort was
widely known as the chronicler of what are now called
"Forteana," bizarre anomalies and
mysteries that throw the current
perception of reality on its ear, whether it be religious or
scientific. In fact, in discovering the origins of mankind,
it often appears that neither evolution nor creationism are
completely adequate in themselves. In an attempt to
explain these anomalies, which include weird stories or
"myths" and enormous, astonishing ruins worldwide,
a number of people, including Erich von Däniken and Zecharia
Sitchin, have created the "ancient astronaut
theory," which dictates that alien visitors have been
influencing human life for thousands if not millions of
years, even to the point of genetic manipulation. von
Däniken, it should be recalled, was one of the first moderns
to put forth the ancient astronaut theory and was widely
ridiculed and vilified for his observations. Because of
Sitchin's apparent scholastic training, he becomes more
credible for many, even though he is one of those renegades
who is not scholastically trained in his field. Furthermore,
it should be noted that neither man came up with the ancient
astronaut theory, which was largely developed by the German
school, for one, during the 19th century. Supporters ("Sitchinites") claim that Sitchin is one of the
few people who read the Sumerian language and that because he
can read Sumerian, he must be interpreting the data properly.
In the first place, the assertion that he is one of the few
scholars of Sumerian is not true. In the second, the idea
that someone may be able to read a language and therefore can
interpret its data properly is a specious argument, because
the one certainly does not guarantee the other. Years before Sitchin, biblical and Dead Sea scrolls scholar
John Allegro studied Sumerian intimately and came to very
different conclusions, to wit that many of the words revolved
around sex and drugs. Hence, it is not the "mere" ability
to read the Sumerian that will produce an accurate rendering of it. Like so many other paradigms that make it
into popular culture, the alien astronaut theory has been
agenda-driven. In fact, it seems that the most recent attempt
may be prompted by the same type of motivation that produced
the Bible, a chronicle largely consisting of the plagiarized
myths of other cultures that were evemeristically reconstituted as "humans" of a particular
ethnicity. It appears that the Anunnaki thesis has now led to
the conclusion that, while the Bible is not infallible, its
god Yahweh is valid and its various characters are the
superhuman alien-hybrid progenitors of "the
chosen." In reality, there was no reason to recreate
the ancient gods as people or humans, because the ancients
themselves were quite clear about what it was exactly they
were worshipping and fancifully describing in epic poetry.
Indeed, the speculation is not needed, as, for example, the
Sumero-Babylonians themselves said that the gods were the planets,
not people, and that their stories were myths
representing personifications of these bodies. It is believed that by
"dismissing" the myths of the ancients as myths, we
are somehow robbing them of their "history."
This claim is ludicrous, as it is those who insist that there
are no myths who are actually defaming the ancients. It
seems as if everyone has already forgotten the work of the
learned and esteemed mythologist Joseph Campbell.
Campbell knew that major biblical tales, such as that of
Moses and the Exodus, were mythical. In his book Occidental Mythology, following a discussion of the Bible, Campbell
turns to the "Gods and Heroes of the European
West," and says, with apparent resentment: "Fortunately, it will not be
necessary to argue that Greek, Celtic or Germanic myths
were mythological. The peoples themselves knew
they were myths, and the European scholars discussing
them have not been overborne by the idea of something
uniquely holy about their topic." Perhaps mythology is just
not as exciting as the UFOlogical paradigm, whereby ancient
astronauts were buzzing all over the place, being worshipped
for their extraordinary capacities. However, the desire
to see such a "history" often seems to be coming
from exposure as a youth to comic books and sci-fi movies.
Also, the ancients were not the dark and
dumb rabble commonly portrayed. They were, in fact,
highly advanced. As such, they developed over a period
of many thousands of years a complex
astronomical/astrological system that incorporated the
movements and qualities of numerous celestial bodies, which could be called the "celestial mythos." The
celestial mythos is found around the globe in astonishing
uniformity. In fact, it served as the manner by which
life on Earth was ordered, as it contained information
crucial to life, such as the movements and interrelationship
of the sun and moon. Without the mythos, no people
would have been able to become sea-faring, and planting and
harvesting would have been difficult. And the mythos
needed no alien intervention to be developed by humans, nor
did it need moderns to come along and reinterpret it contrary
to what its creators intended. For example, the Anunnaki play a part in
the mythos, but they are not "people," human or
otherwise. The Anunnaki, in general, represent the
seven "nether spheres" and guardians of the seven
"gates" through which the "sun of God"
passes into the netherworld or darkness. They are also
the "tutelary spirits of the earth." So,
immediately we encounter a problem which reveals that what
Sitchin is putting forth is not what the ancients themselves
said of the traditions they themselves developed. Like
so many before him, Sitchin also wants to make the main
character of the celestial mythos, the sun, into a
person. Actually, he wants to make it into several
extraterrestrials. These various gods found around the
globe, such as Osiris, Horus, Krishna, Hercules, Jesus and
Quetzalcoatl, are not people or aliens but personifications
of the solar hero, as was stated by the peoples who created
them. The ancients were not so dumb that they mistook
planets for people, even though they personified those
planets and, where the knowledge or gnosis of the
mythos was lost, they hoped for "the incarnation,"
or the carnalization or appearance of a
"god." There is no need to recreate the wheel
here by speculating upon what the ancients "really"
meant. (Even a Christian like Jack Chick knows that these ancient gods
were SOLAR HEROES, not people or aliens.) In investigating these various subjects, I am reminded of an incident during my
archaeological sojourn on the island of Crete. As we
stood inside the covered remains of the ancient town near the
sacred site of Mallia, dating to around 2500 BCE, our
attention was directed to the stone bowls that appeared
outside of the doors of virtually every house in this
fascinating village, and we were asked to speculate upon what
those bowls could be used for. Now, despite my defense
of my own hard-earned classical education, I have a pet peeve
with archaeologists, because they blast into other people's
countries, with little direct experience of the culture, and
attempt to interpret how those people lived. They often
barely even pay attention to the traditions of the people,
especially those who are still living in the area and
frequently in the manner of the ancients. Some of these
archaeologists do not even learn the language of the country
they are in, such that they cannot communicate with the
natives, whose insights would no doubt help them in their
quest and reduce the need for endless and groundless
speculation. My professor at the time of this bowl
incident was not one of these archaeologists, as he was
married to a Greek woman and spoke the language extremely
well. He thus had respect for the indigenous people and
did not discount their opinions. When the professor asked the students - the
vast majority of whom either held PhDs or were PhD candidates
from respected colleges and universities - to put forth their
interpretations of these bowls, a number of them fell into
the typical archaeological trap by making grandiose
pronouncements that these bowls were for some religious
ritual such as the "offering of the first fruits to the
gods." The professor then turned to the old Greek
man who had been the caretaker at this site for decades and
asked him what the bowls were for. As he had lived in
the area all his life, it made sense that he would know what
these accoutrements were for and, indeed, his answer nearly
made me laugh out loud because it showed how silly were the
archaeologists in their grandiose explanations. The
other archaeologists, not knowing Greek, were not privy to
the joke until the caretaker's words were translated by the
professor. "Well," said the old man in regard
to the ubiquitous bowls, "they are for the dogs, for
water." This is a typical habit with
archaeologists: What they cannot explain, they attribute to
some bizarre religious madness. Another incident
made me appreciate a bit of Sitchin's work. Some years ago
there was a PBS special about the mysterious Bolivian site of
Tiahuanaco, in which an archaeologist, encountering the
fabulous building with water sluices, pronounced it a
"temple to the water god." Sitchin sees a more practical silver-working operation,
an opinion which may be sound, as there seem to have been at least two
"global"
civilizations of high degree thousands of years ago who may have in fact
been working mines. The notion of
"alien" visitation is not necessarily absurd, especially in
consideration of the
legends of the ancients who claimed that their ancestors came
from the Pleiades or Orion or Sirius, although these claims
could very well be allegorical, in that these celestial bodies
were considered "gods" and humans frequently
believed themselves to be born of the gods. Indeed,
humans are made of "star stuff." Nor is the idea of genetic manipulation eons
ago completely ridiculous,
particularly because the origin of the races is still not
satisfactorily explained and because it is a fact that humans thousands of
years ago crossbred animals to create such things as the domesticated pig,
dog and cat. In any serious investigation of this
subject, we must be able to discern between the
"gods" and the "sky people" mentioned by
the ancients. As noted, the enlightened ancients knew
the "gods" were the planets, representing astrotheology. The sky people were a
different matter apparently. Some of them may have been
"aliens" in the off world sense, but other legends
hold that at least some of these sky people were the remnants
of one of the advanced global civilizations destroyed by cataclysm. The legends further say that such advanced
people appeared around the world to reestablish civilization
after the various cataclysms. In doing so, they also
reintroduced the celestial mythos, which was subsequently
developed by the "natives" to produce their own
"flavor." When these advanced teachers
appeared and began to speak of the gods in the mythos, they
were often called priests of those gods, i.e., "priest
of Apollo." These titles were at times reduced,
first to "priest Apollo," and then just
"Apollo." As time went on, the teacher became
associated with the god, such that the mythos became entwined
with the "history" of the teacher. In other
words, although a legend may hold that the god Apollo
appeared in the flesh to teach the natives, it was in fact
merely a representative of the god. One such "modern" case of this
mistaken identity has occurred in Japan, in the village of Shingo, where, inhabitants insist, the remains of
"Jesus" and his "brother" are
buried. The story holds that Jesus's
"brother" was crucified in his place and that Jesus
and his followers fled with the brother's remains to Shingo, where Jesus lived
to be 100 years old and to father children with a Japanese
woman. The legend also holds that Jesus had been
educated by Buddhist masters during his "lost
years." Unfortunately for all this mythmaking, the
alleged graves of Jesus and his brother actually belong to
two Christian missionaries who arrived in the 16th century.
Thus, we can see that things are a little
more complicated than they appear and that discernment of the
highest order is required to determine what has actually
happened on this planet. In a serious scientific
search, one needs to be more cautious in jumping to
conclusions based on speculation, and to produce a recital of
facts, with as little speculation as possible. These
facts come from "the horse's mouth," i.e., the
archaeological and historical/legendary records of the
ancients themselves, without embellishment or interpretation.
In reality, the ancients also had myths
that had nothing to do with sky people or extraterrestrials
but which revolved around what was known, i.e., what they
could see and detect around them. Nothing was quite as
awesome to the ancients as the earth, sky, planetary bodies
and natural forces. No alien could have compared to the
power contained on earth and in the heavens. The ancients, then, did not mistake
the sun and its varied personifications for the real people,
except where the gnosis was lost and the civilization had
degraded, or where it was deliberately obfuscated in order to
defraud, as is the case with Christianity. Also, to suggest that all these solar heroes
such as Krishna, Quetzalcoatl, Osiris, Horus and Jesus, with
their virtually identical "lives," were aliens, is
just a bit absurd, since it supposes that they all were born
of virgins, had tyrants trying to kill them at their birth,
were presented with the same gifts, did and said the same
things and then were all crucified. In shoring up such
a ridiculous premise, we are asked to believe that
"superior" aliens kept "coming down" and
kindly obliging the barbaric humans, who kept insisting upon
crucifying them (between two thieves, no less). Quite a
bizzaro-world, that. Contrary to popular belief, the Sumerian
culture has been known for centuries and did not appear
suddenly out of nowhere with the discovery of the cuneiform
tablets found at Ur, capitol of Sumeria, for example.
If anything, the tablets and others verified what we already
knew about Sumeria from its inheritors, the Akkadians and
Assyro-Babylonians. The Sumerians were not a lost
civilization, except that their older remains such as at Ur
had not been preserved. Their mythology and culture
were fairly well preserved in the succeeding civilizations: For instance,
some 300,000 tablets of the Babylonians have been
found thus far, which include much commentary on their gods. The main characters in the
Sumero-Babylonian religion/mythology are Enlil/Ellil,
Utu/Shamash, Marduk/Merodach, Gilgamesh, Nanna/Sin,
Inanna/Ishtar, Ea/Enki and Dumuzi/Tammuz. A number of
these deities are in the class called "Anunnaki"
and/or "Igigi." The Anunnaki are numbered
variously: 7, 50 and 900. None of these characters is a historical
person, as, again, the Sumero-Babylonians correctly
identified their own gods as being the "planets,"
which, of course, included the sun and the moon.Says the Catholic Encyclopedia>regarding Babel: "The storied tower of Birs
Nimrud counts seven of these quadrangular platforms
painted in seven colors, black, white, yellow, blue,
scarlet, silver, and gold, and in the same order
sacred to the stellar gods, Adar (Saturn), Ishtar
(Venus), Merodach (Jupiter), Nebo (Mercury), Nergal
(Mars), Sin (the Moon), Shamash (the Sun)." The "king of the Anunnaki," Enlil
is the storm/wind god, also essentially the same as the later
Bel or Baal, the Canaanite sun god/solar hero. Enlil
and Ninlil give birth to the moon god Nanna, "a major
astral deity of the Sumerians," who was called
"Sin" in Babylonian. Sin is the same moon god
encamped at Mt. Sinai, as well as worshipped at Ur and
Harran, where lived the mythical Abraham, progenitor of the
Hebrews, who "borrowed" many of their gods (Elohim)
from Mesopotamia. Obviously, neither the moon nor
"his parents" are real persons/aliens; nor are the
rest. Regarding Enlil/Bel, the
Encyclopedia Britannica
says: "Bel "(Akkadian), Sumerian
Enlil, Mesopotamian god of the atmosphere and a
member of the triad of gods completed by Anu (Sumerian
An) and Ea (Enki). Enlil meant 'Lord Wind' - both the
hurricane and the gentle winds of spring were thought of
as the breath issuing from his mouth, and eventually as
his word or command. He was sometimes called Lord of the
Air. "Although An was the highest god
in the Sumerian pantheon, Enlil had a more important role
he embodied energy and force but not authority. Enlil's
cult centre was Nippur. Enlil was also the god of
agriculture: the Myth of the Creation of the Hoe
describes how he separated heaven and earth to make room
for seeds to grow. He then invented the hoe and broke the
hard crust of earth; men sprang forth from the hole.
Another myth relates Enlil's rape of his consort Ninlil
(Akkadian Belit), a grain goddess, and his subsequent
banishment to the underworld. This myth reflects the
agricultural cycle of fertilization, ripening, and winter
inactivity. "The name of his Akkadian
counterpart, Bel, is derived from the Semitic word baal,
or "lord." Bel had all the attributes of Enlil,
and his status and cult were much the same. Bel,
however, gradually came to be thought of as the god of
order and destiny. In Greek writings references to Bel
indicate this Babylonian deity and not the Syrian god of
Palmyra of the same name." Although there were many Baalim, the
singular Baal came to represent the sun in the age of Taurus
(@4500-2400 BCE), whence comes the word
"bull." The moon god Sin is the father of Shamash,
the Babylonian sun god who was called Chemosh in Moabite and
who was worshipped by the Israelites. Indeed,
"sun" in Hebrew is "shamash." The
sun god Shamash was called the "sublime judge of the
Anunnaki." The "commander of the Anunnaki"
and son of Enki/Ea, the god of "the waters" (Gen.
1:1), was Marduk, or Merodach, who is the Mordecai of the
biblical book of Esther (Ishtar). Also called a "king of
the Igigi," Marduk was the supreme Babylonian god and
often represented Jupiter, although as "Bel-Marduk"
he incorporated aspects of the sun god as well and was
considered as such at a late period in his worship. One
of Marduk's 50 names was "Nibiru" or
"Nebiru," in which Robert Temple in The Sirius Mystery
sees the Egyptian term "Neb-Heru," meaning
"Lord of the sun." Rather than representing the
"12th planet," the description of Nibiru in the
Enuma Elish does indeed seem to depict the personification of
the sun and its "exploits." "Nebo" was
the Babylonian version of "Moses," actually a solar
hero, and Nibiru, in fact, is represented by a winged disc, a
common motif representing the sun. According to the consensus of
astronomers worldwide, both amateur and professional, there is no evidence
for the 12th planet/Nibiru as Sitchin presents it. (In other words,
"Planet X" is not a known, astronomical reality.) The demigod/hero Gilgamesh is represented
as wrestling the "celestial bull," which is the
sign of the age of Taurus and is similar to the motif of the
Persian sun god Mithra slaying the bull. In mourning
the death of Enki, Gilgamesh "goes to the mountains of
Mashu and passes by the guardian scorpion-demons into the
darkness." Mt. Mashu was where "every evening the
sun sought repose." Per Robert Temple, "Mashu"
is evidently derived from an Egyptian term meaning,
"Behold, the sun." Like "Moses," derived
from mashah in Hebrew, "Mashu" is
apparently related to "Shamash" and represents the
sun. The "scorpion-demons" or scorpion-men are
evidently the stars in the constellation of Scorpio, in the
darkness of the night sky. Gilgamesh has also been associated
with the Egyptian sun god Osiris, as has the biblical
"Nimrod" or "Nemrod." The Catholic Encyclopedia (CE) states: "Gilgamesh, whom mythology
transformed into a Babylonian Hercules [the Greek solar
hero], whose fortunes are described in the
Gilgamesh-epos, would then be the person designated by
the Biblical Nemrod. Others again see in Nemrod an
intentional corruption of Amarudu, the Akkadian for
Marduk, whom the Babylonians worshiped as the great God .
. . " ("Babylonia") One of the "seven who decreed the
fates," Inanna/Ishtar was the Goddess, alternately
Venus, the moon, the constellation of Virgo, the earth,
etc. Ishtar was "Astarte" in Phoenicia, and,
as Frazer says in The Worship of Nature, "Her Phoenician worshippers identified her
with the Moon . . . " Like the Greek god of the
underworld, Hades, who allowed his beloved Persephone to
return to the surface in order to create spring, Inanna was
the creator of seasons, as she is depicted as permitting the
solar-fertility god Dumuzi/Tammuz to remain in the underworld
for only six months out of the year. One of the lesser Anunnaki, the
"shepherd god" Tammuz was worshipped also in
Jerusalem, per the book of Ezekiel (8:14). As the
Babylonian records state concerning their "garden of
Eden" or "Edina," of Eridu: "a dark vine grew; it was made a glorious place,
planted beside the abyss. In the glorious house, which is
like a forest, its shadow extends; no man enters its midst.
In its interior is the Sun-god Tammuz.
Between the mouths of the rivers, which are on both
sides." (CE "Babylonia") In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Anunnaki
appear thus: "The Flood: Nergal pull down the
dams of the nether waters, Ninurta the war lord threw
down the dykes, and the SEVEN judges of hell, THE
ANUNNAKI, raised their torches lighting the land with
their vivid fire." The "nether waters" represent the
heavens, and the Anunnaki were called "the fates"
and light-bearers of the night sky. They were the
"seven judges of hell" and "seven nether
spheres," as Barbara Walker relates in her entry on Mary
Magdalene (The Woman's Encyclopedia), 614): "The seven 'devils' exorcised from
Mary Magdalene seem to have been the seven Maskim, or
Anunnaki, Sumero-Akkadian spirits of the seven nether
spheres, born of the goddess Mari. Their multiple
birth was represented in her sacred dramas, which may
account for their alleged emergence from Mary
Magdalene. An Akkadian tablet said of them, 'They
are seven! In the depths of the ocean, they are
seven! In the brilliance of the heavens, they are
seven! They proceed from the ocean depths [Maria]
from the hidden retreat!" Walker also relates, in The Woman's Dictionary of
Symbols and Sacred Objects, 13:
"A generally accepted view of the
universe in antiquity was the doctrine of the planetary
spheres, conceived as great crystal domes or inverted
bowls nested inside one another over the earth, turning
independently of one another at various rates, and
emitting the 'music of the spheres' with their
motions. The theory was evolved to explain the
apparently erratic movement of planets against the
background of the fixed stars. Reading from the
innermost sphere outward, arranging them according to the
days of the week, they were the spheres of the moon,
Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and the sun.
Outermost was the eight sphere, the Empyrean, the home of
fixed spheres and the ultimate God: the highest
heaven. "As a corollary to this theory, it
was also assumed that there were seven nether spheres
descending under the earth: the 'seven hells' to
which Dumuzi and Inanna (or Tammuz and Ishtar) journeyed;
whose seven gates were guarded by the seven Anunnaki or
Maskim, the nether counterparts of the planetary
spirits. According to an Akkadian magic tablet,
'They proceed from the ocean depths, from the hidden
retreat.' From the ancient idea of the seven nether
spheres, Dante took his vision of the descending circles
of hell.' "Early Christians taught that each
human soul descends from heaven, picking up one of the
seven deadly sins from each planetary sphere along the
way: lust from Venus, anger from Mars, and so
on. After death, the soul returned to the highest
heaven, shedding the same sins one by one, while passing
the 'innkeeper' of the spheres - providing, of course,
that the soul was Christianized and therefore properly
enlightened." One of these Anunnaki, was Ningizzida, a
"lesser god of the Underworld," and "one of
the guardians of the gate of heaven." When we study what the ancients said about
them, we discover that the Anunnaki, et al., are part of the
celestial mythos, not "aliens." These
Anunnaki are, in fact, the "seven nether spheres"
or mirror images of the seven "planets."
These seven judges are a common mythical motif, also found in
Slavic/Serbian mythology, for example, where they are clearly
identified as the planets: "Among the Serbs the Sun was a
young and handsome king. He lived in a kingdom of light
and sat on a throne of gold and purple. At his side stood
two beautiful virgins, Aurora of the Morning and Aurora
of the Evening, seven judges (the planets) and seven
'messengers' who flew across the universe in the guise of
'stars with tails' (comets). Also present was the Sun's
'bald uncle, old Myesyats' (or the moon)." New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology , 284 As we can see, the reality of this issue is
much more colorful and luminous than a group of bizarre
aliens terrorizing cavemen. This information is what
the ancients themselves wrote. They did not write,
"And so the Anunnaki were sky people from another planet
who landed here and mated with humans, etc." In fact, "Anunnaki" is a generic term for
gods, especially secondary gods, and means "gods of
heaven and earth," not
"those who from heaven to earth came."
"An" or "Anu" means "sky" and
represents the name of the "god of heaven," while
"Ki" means "earth" and is the name of the
earth goddess. As noted, the Anunnaki were
numbered 900 as well, some of whom apparently represented the
stars, i.e., the zodiac, or "heavenly host," as
worshipped by the Canaanites and Hebrews. In this regard, Benson writes in The History of God From
Abraham to Moses : "The Anunnaki were
analogous to the 'host of heaven' of the Hebrews. Marduk
allotted portions to the Anunnaki: 'To the Anunnaki of
heaven and earth [Marduk] had allotted their
portions.' Likewise, the Canaanite-Hebrew god El
Elyon allotted portions to his sons: 'When the Most High
[Heb. Elyon] gave to the nations their inheritance, when
he separated the sons of men, he fixed the bounds of the
peoples according to the number of the sons of God. For
the LORD’s portion is his people, Jacob [Israel] his
allotted heritage.' (Deuteronomy 32:8-9 RSV) These 'sons
of God' in the following verse are also called the 'host
of heaven,' to whom God divided to all the nations: 'And
lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see
... all the host of heaven ... which the LORD
your God has divided to all nations under the whole
heaven.' (Deuteronomy 4:19 KJV) These gods were secondary
gods: 'For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of
lords ...' (Deuteronomy 10:17 KJV) 'O give thanks to the
God of gods ...' (Psalm 136:2 KJV)" Also, the biblical god Yahweh is not a
person, alien or otherwise. "He" too is in
large part a solar myth. Regarding Yahweh, the Catholic
Encyclopedia says: "It seems likely that the name of
Ea, or Ya, or Aa, the oldest god of the Babylonian
Pantheon, is connected with the name Jahve, Jahu, or Ja,
of the Old Testament." The Babylonian "Ea" is equivalent
to Enlil, whom, as we have seen, is a sun god. (The following regarding Yahweh is an
excerpt from my book The Christ
Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold.) Prior to being labeled Yahweh, the
Israelite god was called "Baal." signifying
the sun in the Age of Taurus. When the sun passed into
Aries, "the Lord's" name was changed to the
Egyptian Iao, which became YHWH, IEUE, Yahweh, Jahweh,
Jehovah and Jah. This ancient name "IAO/Iao"
represents the totality of "God," as the
"I" symbolizes unity, the "a" is the
"alpha" or beginning, while the "o" is
the "omega" or end. In fact, the name Yahweh, Iao, or any
number of variants thereof can be found in several cultures:
"In Phoenicia the Sun was known as
Adonis . . . identical with Iao, or, according to
the Chinese faith, Yao (Jehovah), the Sun, who makes his
appearance in the world 'at midnight of the twenty-fourth
day of the twelfth month.'" YHWH/IEUE was additionally the Egyptian sun
god Ra: "Ra was the father in heaven, who
has the title of 'Huhi' the eternal, from which the
Hebrews derived the name 'Ihuh.'" Thus, the tetragrammaton or sacred name of
God IAO/IEUE/YHWH is very old, pre-Israelite, and can be
etymologically linked to numerous gods, even to
"Jesus," or "Yahushua," whose name means
"salvation" or "Iao/YHWH saves." As Godfrey Higgins
says in Anacalypsis: "The pious Dr. Parkhurst. . .
proves, from the authority of Diodorus Siculus, Varro,
St. Augustin, etc., that the Iao, Jehovah, or ieue, or ie
of the Jews, was the Jove of the Latins and Etruscans. .
. . he allows that this ie was the name of Apollo . .
. He then admits that this ieue Jehovah is Jesus
Christ in the following sentences: 'It would be
almost endless to quote all the passages of scripture
wherein the name . . . (ieue) is applied to Christ . . .
they cannot miss of a scriptural demonstration that Jesus
is Jehovah.' But we have seen it is admitted that
Jehovah is Jove, Apollo, Sol, whence it follows that
Jesus is Jove, etc." Yahweh had yet another aspect to
"his" persona, as at some early stage the
"sacred tetragrammaton" of "God" was
bi-gendered. As Walker states: "Jewish mystical tradition viewed
the original Jehovah as an androgyne, his/her name
compounded as Jah (jod) and the pre-Hebraic name of Eve,
Havah or Hawah, rendered he-vau-he- in Hebrew
letters. The four letters together made the sacred
tetragrammaton, YHWH, the secret name of God. . . .
The Bible contains many plagiarized excerpts from earlier
hymns and prayers to Ishtar and other Goddess figures,
with the name of Yahweh substituted for that of the
female deity." Thus, even Yahweh was at one time plural,
but "he" eventually became an all-male, sky
god. This singular Yahweh was a warrior god,
representing the sun in Aries, which is ruled by the warlike
Mars and symbolized by the Ram - the same symbolic ram
"caught in a thicket" near Abraham and used by him
as a replacement sacrifice for his son Isaac. This
warrior god Yahweh was not only Jealous but Zealous, as his
name is rendered in Young's Literal Translation: " . . . for ye do not bow
yourselves to another god - for Jehovah, whose name [is]
Zealous, is a zealous God." (Exodus 34:14) In fact, the same word in Hebrew is used
for both jealous and zealous, although is transliterated
differently, "qanna" being jealous and
"qana," zealous. As El Elyon was but one of
the Canaanite Elohim, the Most High God, so was
"Yahweh," as "El Qanna," the
Jealous/Zealous God, which is why in the Old Testament he
keeps sticking his nose in and shouting at everyone.
The title "Jealous/Zealous" is also appropriate for
a god represented by a volcano, as was Yahweh by the smoky
and fiery Mt. Sinai. Hence, Yahweh's followers
themselves were intolerant and hotheaded zealots. There was in reality never any need for
sci-fi explanation or speculation as to these various
characters and their stories. Nor was there a need to
take the Bible as a literal, historical document.
Indeed, the behind-the-scenes elite have known the
allegorical, mythical and astrological nature of the Bible
and its characters from the beginning. It is evident that the ancients recording
these myths were in fact often smarter than the average
"useless eater," to use a CIA phrase. They
knew the difference between planets and people/aliens.
The architecture, art, writings and traditions of these
various ancient cultures, including Sumero-Babylon, India,
Egypt, Chaldea, Phoenicia/Canaan, etc., show an advanced
degree of civilization surpassing that which followed
it. Such later degradation is particularly true when it
comes to biblical peoples. The Bible, in fact,
represents a dumbed-down version of the mythology of the
aforementioned cultures. In reality, in terms of cosmic
knowledge, in many important ways modern man has
devolved. One of the major problems is the compulsive
and irrational personification and vulgarization of the
planetary bodies and of the celestial mythos and ritual, a
body of knowledge and wisdom concerning the cosmos and
specifically the solar system, which filled the ancients with
awe and reverence. This mythos and ritual is found
worldwide, reflecting a global culture in ancient
times. This body of knowledge is found in stone and story all over the world, reflected in
the mysterious megalithic ruins. To reduce this glory to a band of aliens
and/or humans is silly and deplorable, as it robs the
ancients of intelligence and wisdom, among other things,
including the quality of humanity itself. Furthermore,
part of the brainwashing to get people to accept the story of
Jesus Christ, for example - which is the story of the sun
- was to make "myths" appear to be foolish stories
with no basis in reality. This mental programming or
"meme" has been displayed abundantly, but the fact
is that myths are not silly fantasies and
hallucinations. They are stories designed to pass along
vital information from generation to generation. It is
easier to remember the "exploits" of the sun, moon
and stars, for example, when they are personified and told in
a fun story than when presented in a dry dissertation.
It is only when the knowledge, or gnosis, has been lost that
humans start believing these entities to be real people - and
the gnosis was very effectively driven underground by
organized religion, such that it was lost to the masses, who
now must piece it together, often coming up with erroneous
and inaccurate interpretations with occasional hits now and
then. © 2004 Acharya S. "Problems
with Sitchin" thread from "From Sex to
Superconsciousness" discussion list Zecharia Sitchin and The
Earth Chronicles - From Skeptic's Dictionary Sitchin's
Twelfth Planet by Rob Hafernik - In-depth analysis
Ancient Astronaut Theory
The Ancients Knew What They were Creating
Misinterpreting the Ancients
The Sky People
The Anunnaki and Assorted Other Characters
Yahweh
Conclusion
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