Sumer: The First Known Civilization

While the very existence of Atlantis is still being debated, we find the first of the great recorded
civilizations was ancient Sumer. Also known as Shinar and Chaldea, this civilization arose between the
Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the area known today as Iraq, which derived its name from the ancient
Sumerian city of Uruk. From Sumer came an amazing and fully evolved civilization that handed down the
basics for all ensuing Western cultures, from written language and law to mathematics, agriculture, and
astronomy.

According to conventional history, Sumer grew out of a collection of hunter-gatherer clans who banded
together to form the first human civilization within the Tigris-Euphrates Valley about 4000 BC. Yet by
3300 BC, archaeological studies have shown that Sumerians had drained marshes, dug canals, constructed
dams and dikes, and built a large-scale irrigation system next to gleaming cities containing huge
pyramidal structures called ziggurats. What prompted this sudden spurt of civilization?

About 2400 BC, Sumer was invaded from the west and north by Semitic tribes, and by about 2350 BC
was captive to the warrior king Sargon the Great, who founded the Semite Akkadian Dynasty, whose
empire stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. After years of wars and population
displacements, the lands of Sumer were united under Hammurabi of Babylon, who’s famous code of laws
may have been instituted to discipline the mass migrations of people taking place at that time due to wars
and geophysical catastrophes. It is now clear that the Code of Hammurabi was drawn from laws set down
by the Sumerians centuries earlier, particularly the earliest law code yet discovered, issued by the
Sumerian king Ur-Nammu.

Virtually nothing was known about the Sumerians until about 150 years ago, when archaeologists,
spurred by the seventeenth-century writings of Italian traveler Pietro della Valle, began to dig into the
strange mounds that dotted the countryside in southern Iraq. In 1843, the Frenchman Paul-Emile Botta
discovered Sargon II’s palace near modern-day Khorsabad, and soon after, archaeologists found buried
cities, broken palaces, artifacts, and thousands of clay tablets detailing every facet of Sumerian life. By
the late 1800s, Sumerian was considered an original language and was being translated. Despite today’s
knowledge, the general public still has been taught little about this first great human civilization, which
suddenly materialized in Mesopotamia.

Before it strangely vanished, it had gready influenced life as far east as the Indus River and as far west
as Palestine and Egypt. In fact, it would appear that civilizations such as those of the Akkadians,
Phoenicians, Minoans, Assyrians, Babylonians, and even the Egyptians were merely devolved versions of
ancient Sumer. Yet the public has long believed them to be separate entities, an assumption which has
hindered a truthful understanding of human history.

CUNEIFORM TABLETS

Despite our superficial knowledge of the Sumerians, we have already been able to credit them with many
world “firsts.” Samuel Noah Kramer, author of History Begins at Sumer and The Sumerians, noted that
these people developed the wheel, schools, medical science, the first written proverbs, history, the first
bicameral congress, taxation, laws, social reforms, the first cosmogony and cosmology, and the first
money (a weighed silver shekel), as well as the first writing system, cuneiform

Sumerian cuneiform writing may reveal more to us about Sumerian culture than we know about the
ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. The papyrus papers of other elder empires disintegrated over
time or were destroyed by the fires of war, but cuneiform was etched onto wet clay tablets with a wedge-
shaped stylus. These tablets were then dried, baked, and kept in large libraries. About five hundred
thousand of these clay tablets have now been found, providing invaluable knowledge of ancient Sumer
(which is not to be confused with the Biblical Samaria, the name of a mountain, city, and region north of
Jerusalem).

The Sumerian tablets went undeciphered until 1802, when a German high school teacher named Georg
Grotefend began systematically translating the trilingual Persian inscription of Darius the Great on the
Behistun Rock, which included a version in Babylonian cuneiform Today nearly eighty percent of
cuneiform tablets have not yet been translated into English because the sheer quantity has overwhelmed
the world’s handful of translators.

The Sumerian alphabet was essentially shorthand for a much older original language made up of
logograms (symbols representing concepts rather than words) similar to antique Chinese characters.
Because this older language was not as detailed as English, many different translations may stem from a
Sumerian sentence.

LONGEVITY AND NUMBERS

One ancient Sumerian document, known as the King List, described not their “gods” but the earliest
Sumerian rulers and the lengths of their reigns. At first glance, the list seems preposterous, as it states,
“After the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridu. In Eridu, Alulim became king; he
ruled for 28,800 years.” Other kings served even longer, according to the list. For example, Alalngar
reigned for 36,000 years, while En-men-lu-ana ruled for an amazing 43,200 years.

Such longevity is also recorded in the Bible, wherein Methuseleh, Noah, Seth, Enos, and others are
reported to have lived more than nine hundred years. In China, rulers of the first dynasties each ruled
more than seven hundred years, while the Hindu Vedas state that prior to 3000 BC, the life span was about
a thousand years.

After the Great Flood, these numbers began to decrease until Gilgamesh ruled for a mere 126 years,
followed by others whose reigns were in only the double-digit range. Either there was something very
wrong with the ancient counting systems or there was something very unearthly about their rulers. Could
extraterrestrial intervention in human evolution account for such longevity? Could the promise of a much
longer life be used today to gain the allegiance of ranking politicians who otherwise would disdain bribes
or other enticements?

Sumerians traveled frequently and widely and are thought to have brought their advanced shipbuilding
technology and mapping abilities to the early Phoenicians, who settled along the eastern Mediterranean
coast in what is now Lebanon and later traveled the world.

Sumerian knowledge of the heavens was both amazing and puzzling. “The whole concept of spherical
astronomy, including the 360-degree circle, the zenith, the horizon, the celestial axis, the poles, the
ecliptic, the equinoxes, etc., all arose suddenly in Sumer,” noted Alan Alford. Sumerian knowledge of the
movements of the sun and moon resulted in the world’s first calendar, used for centuries afterward by the
Semites, Egyptians, and Greeks.

Few people realize that we also owe our geometry and modern timekeeping systems to the Sumerians.
“The origin of 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute is not arbitrary, but designed around a
sexagesimal (based on the number 60) system,” Alford reported. He added that the modern zodiac was a

Sumerian creation based on their twelve “gods.” They used it to chart a great precessional cycle that
would take 25,920 years to fully complete, a period known as the Platonic year. “The uncomfortable
question which the scientists have avoided is this: how could the Sumerians, whose civilization only
lasted 2,000 years, possibly have observed and recorded a celestial cycle that took 25,920 years to
complete? And why did their civilization begin in the middle of a zodiac period? Is this a clue that their
astronomy was a legacy from the gods?” asked Alford.

His question could be enlarged to question how the early primitive humans of almost six thousand years
ago suddenly transformed from small packs of hunter-gatherers into a full-blown—advanced even by
today’s standards—civilization?

MYTH OR HISTORY?

It is difficult to believe that primitive humans acquired so much knowledge on their own overnight.
Through thousands of translated Sumerian tablets along with their inscribed cylinder seals, perhaps we
should allow the Sumerians themselves to explain.

The answer, echoing claims from many other ancient peoples, is that all their knowledge came horn
their “gods.” Scholars in the past believed the Sumerians were talking about ethereal and imaginary
beings in the sky. Today a growing number of researchers suspect they might well have been referring to
physical beings who would descend to earth, much like the gods of ancient Greece, such as Zeus and
Athena.

“All the ancient peoples believed in gods who had descended to Earth from the heavens and who could
at will soar heavenwards,” explained Zecharia Sitchin in the prologue to the first book of a series
detailing his translations and interpretations of Sumerian accounts of their origin and history. “But these
tales were never given credibility, having been branded by scholars from the very beginning as myths.”

Yet Sitchin and many others have questioned why ancient scribes would have taken the time and energy
to painstakingly write down fables of absolute dreamlike fantasy. Wouldn’t it be more reasonable to
conclude that they wrote such tales as fables to recount dimly remembered history?

Understanding the Sumerian version of the human origin requires only a slight shift in mind-set. Sitchin
and others simply believe that the ancient Sumerians may have just been putting down on their clay tablets
history as they understood it rather than fanciful myths.

The Sumerian descriptions of many ancient cities were believed to be mere fables until their ruins were
discovered and excavated. In 2003, scientists claimed to have found the tomb of Gilgamesh, previously
thought by most to have been merely a mythological character. Why not also consider their written history
as reality?

Regarding the ancient texts, author Paul \bn Ward stated, “To accept them only as fantasy or metaphor,
we must first be able to demonstrate that they do not refer to actual events. Until we have proven their
claims are false, we have no defensible justification for not interpreting them as plausible scenarios in
our still-evolving knowledge.” Ward added that while it is easy to find data on nonhuman beings in the
historical record, “you will find—as I did—that the toughest challenge lies in overcoming our
institutionally implanted assumptions.”

We also must remember that before the twentieth century and the advent of heavier-than-air flight,
scholars would not have thought of spaceflight as possible. Thus, Sitchin reasoned, “Now that astronauts
have landed on the Moon, and unmanned spacecraft explore other planets, it is no longer impossible to
believe that a civilization on another planet more advanced than ours was capable of landing its
astronauts on the planet Earth sometime in the past.” Nor is it impossible now to consider the biological manipulation of a species in light of the modern sciences of cloning and in vitro fertilization.

The belief in ancient gods from the sky was not the sole province of Middle Eastern cults. In North
America, the Blackfoot tribe awaited the promised return of Napi, said to be the son of the sun and the
moon. In legend, Napi, also known as the Old Man, created humans from clay and taught them the skills to
survive. Other Algonquians watched for Glooscap, the legendary figure who created humans and brought
them knowledge. In Central America, when the Spanish conquistadors arrived, the Aztecs welcomed them
as the return of their ancient god, Quetzalcoad.

After researching numerous American legends of creation, Von Ward noted,

Quetzalcoatl … reportedly sprinkled his blood with the bones of earlier creatures to create
humans. In the American West, the Selish tribes’ creator … Amotken used hair from his head to
create the first five women. The Quinaults of the Pacific Northwest believe their “changer god
Kwatee” created humans from his own sweat. All these methods could imply a contribution of the
gods ’ DNA And these gods, as did the Anunnaki, came from the sky.

In fact, mythologies from around the world appear to tell the same essential story—that in ancient times
individuals with “godlike” powers arrived to restore civilization following a period of catastrophes.

Quetzalcoad, the great teacher of the Mayans, was known as Viracocha to the Incas and as the sun god
Ra to the Egyptians. Sargon, the first great leader of the Akkadian dynasty, which succeeded the
Sumerians, attributed his knowledge to the god Anu, while the Babylonian king Hammurabi was said to
have gained power through Marduk, again a reference to the accounts of the Anunnaki.

In India, it is believed that man is descended from gods who flew in fiery craft called vimanas. The
Teutons point to ancestors in flying craft called Wanen. The ancient Mayans thought their predecessors
came from the Pleiades, while the Incas said simply that they were the “sons of the sun.” Chinese texts tell
of long-lived rulers from the heavens who sailed through the skies in “fire-breathing dragons.” The Dogon
tribe in Mali, West Africa, tells of space travelers called Nommos, who came to Earth thousands of years
ago from the Sirius star system and gave them detailed information about their world and our solar
system. The Dogon described Sirius as having dual or binary suns, a fact not known until recent years.
Debunkers, including the late Carl Sagan, tried to argue that recent Western visitors had given them such
information, perhaps inadvertently. However, this theory failed to explain a four-hundred-year-old Dogon
artifact that apparently correctly depicts the Sirius configuration or ceremonies conducted by the Dogons
since the thirteenth century celebrating the cycle of Sirius A and B.

Most of these accounts lack any physical evidence to support them. However, at least one account of
ancient visitors did provide such evidence, though the case ended tragically. In 1938, archaeologist Chi
Pu Tei discovered regularly aligned rows of graves in the Baian Kara Ula Mountains near the Sino-
Tibetan border. Beneath cave drawings of beings wearing helmets along with depictions of the stars, sun,
and moon, small frail skeletons with unusually large skulls were found. Chi Pu Tei theorized that the
skeletons belonged to an extinct species of mountain ape and that the drawings were left in the caves later
by human tribes. Since the graves were in systematic rows, his theory was laughed at and forgotten until
1962, when stone plates found among the graves were translated by Professor Tsum Um Nui of the
Academy of Prehistoric Research in Beijing.

The translation told an eerie story of a group of beings who claimed to have come from star system
Sirius and crash-landed on Earth about twelve thousand years ago. Unable to repair their craft, this group
attempted to make friends with the mountain tribes but were hunted down and killed due to their nonhuman
features. Locals buried them with circular holed stones strikingly identical to some UFO descriptions.
Since this account was not compatible with the Western worldview, it, too, was dismissed, but curiously,

the mountainous crash site remains off limits to foreigners.

THE ANUNNAKI: IMPROVING THE BREED?

In several accounts etched permanently into their clay tablets, the ancient Sumerian scribes gave
more detail as to the source of their knowledge. They wrote that 432,000 years before the Great Flood,
the Anunnaki arrived and taught them the basics of civilization.

According to the interpretations of Zecharia Sitchin and many others, the term Anunnaki means “those
who came from the heavens to the Earth.” In Sitchin’s narrative, these were astronauts from the planet
Nibiru who traveled through the Great Bracelet (the asteroid belt) and initially landed in the Persian Gulf.
There they began to colonize and search for gold. But strikes broke out over the hard work, and it was
decided to engineer a slave race by manipulating the DNA of primitives on Earth. Thereafter, kings and
dynasties were established among the new hybrids, which led to conflicts, warfare, and widespread
devastation.

Michael Tellinger noted that Zulu creation legends agree with Sitchin’s interpretation of the Sumerian
tablets.

Most of African mythology speaks about the same things, the sky gods the abelungu who came
down from the sky. They created the people, to mine gold. The Zulu people, people from the sky.
The abelungu have the same aspects as ascribed to the Anunnaki in the Sumerian tablets. Credo
Mutwa fan African shaman] tells us Abantu in Zulu means the children of Antu. Antu is the
Sumerian Goddess of the Afozu—where the gold came from. Lord Enki is also known as Enkei as
the creator-god, the Sumerian medicine man. He cloned a species. His symbol is the medical
symbol, caduceus. This is one of the oldest symbols on the earth encoded with so much
knowledge and information we can spend a lecture on it alone.

THE NEFILIM CHAIN OF COMMAND

According to Sitchin’s interpretations of Sumerian texts, about 450,000 years ago, during Earth’s
Pleistocene ice age, the highly developed inhabitants of Nibiru—the Anunnaki—journeyed to Earth as the
two planets came into proximity. Their initial landings were made in the Persian Gulf, just as our own
astronauts at first splashed down in the ocean.

Logically, these ancient astronauts would have sought a base camp that could provide moderate weather
and a good source of water and fuel. Only one location met all these criteria—the Fertile Crescent, which
included the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys in Mesopotamia.

With the supreme Nibirian ruler, Anu—or An or El, depending on the source—supervising their effort
from the home planet, the Anunnaki began a systematic colonization of Earth under the leadership of Anu’s
two sons, Enlil and Enki. All of the Anunnaki leaders were later to assume the role of “gods,” or Nefilim,
to their human subjects. Nefilim was translated by almost all ancient writers as those who had “fallen.” In
religious terms, they were thought to be angels who fell from the grace of God. But “fallen” can also be
seen as those who came down, and in more recent times, the term has taken on the meaning of giants who
were a hybrid of two species.

In the tablets’ story, Enlil was the mission commander, while Enki served as executive and science
officer. There was immediate and long-standing antagonism between the two half-brothers, due to

Nibirian protocol. As in later Earth dynasties, the firstborn, Enki, was relegated to secondary status
because his mother was not the official wife of Anu. This removed him from the royal line of succession.
Yet it was Enki who led the first expedition to Earth.

Enki was both scientist and engineer. Under his leadership, the marshes on the northern shore of the
Persian Gulf were drained, dikes were constructed, and irrigation systems were dug, as well as canals
connecting the Tigris with the Euphrates. Reinforcements later arrived under the leadership of Enki’s
firstborn son, Marduk.

There is no doubt that the Anunnaki were real and important. The prologue to the Lawcode of
Hammurabi refers to these same Anunnaki overlords, stating,

When exalted Anu, king of the divinities [the Anunnaki], and Enlil, lord of heaven and earth, the
determiner of the destinies of the land, determined for Marduk, the first-born of Enki, the
dominion over the whole of humankind, made him the greatest among the deities, called Babylon
by its exalted name, made it supreme in the world, and established for him in its midst an eternal
kingship, whose foundations are as firm as heaven and earth, then it was that Anu and Enlil
named me, Hammurabi, the devout and god-fearing prince, to promote the welfare of the people,
to cause justice to prevail in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil, that the strong might
not oppress the weak, to rise like the sun over the black-headed people, and to light up the land.

SITCHIN’S CRITICS

The translations by Sitchin and others have gathered many detractors, especially over the depiction of the
Anunnaki as extraterrestrials. Michael Heiser, who earned degrees in the Hebrew Bible and ancient
Semitic languages and was one of Sitchin’s most vociferous critics, stated on his website,
SitchinIsWrong.com, “that what Sitchin has written about Nibiru, the Anunnaki, the book of Genesis, the
Nephilim, and a host of other things has absolutely no basis in the real data of the ancient world.”

In an open letter to Sitchin, now addressed to “Ancient Astronaut Enthusiast” following Sitchin’s death
in 2010, Heiser argued that the name Anunnaki appears nowhere in the Electronic Text Corpus of
Sumerian Literature published on the Internet by the University of Oxford.

While technically this may be true, the term Anuna gods appears numerous times in the literature and
obviously could be collectivized into the plural term Anunnaki. One example of this term from the Oxford
Sumerian texts recounts the boasts of Enki, who proclaimed, “With An the king, on An’s dais, I oversee
justice. With Enlil, looking out over the lands, I decree good destinies. He has placed in my hands the
decreeing of fates in the place where the sun rises. I am cherished by Nintur. I am named with a good
name by Ninhursaga. I am the leader of the Anuna gods. I was born as the firstborn son of holy An.”

Naturally, no reputable scientist who desires to protect conventional textbooks and his funding sources
would publicly admit to subscribing to Sitchin’s theories, yet many thousands have followed Sitchin’s
work, some researchers augmenting the details of his narrative. Author, psychologist, and minister Paul
Mm Ward spoke for many when he wrote, “Although I do not agree with his cosmology … his elucidation
of historical details and connection of them to other fields of knowledge stand up under comparative
review with the work of other scholars. His summary of information relating to the ‘olden gods’ known in
Sumeria as the Anunnaki presents a cohesive and defensible mixture of textual material and judicious
interpretation.”

C. L. Turnage, an author who has studied more than three hundred translations of ancient Mesopotamian
and Vedic writings, including the extrabiblical Book of Enoch, wrote, “After studying [Sitchin’s] theory, I
began my own contemplation of the pre-biblical Babylonian Epic of Creation or Enuma Elish. It was

from a study of this narrative that Sitchin became aware of the planet Nibiru and its establishment within
our own solar system This tale was originally written on seven clay tablets, each corresponding to a
‘day’ of creation. … The creation of man was recorded on the sixth tablet, while the seventh was
reserved for the exaltation of the Babylonian national deity Marduk, the ‘creator god.’ After my own study
of these chronicles, I concurred with Sitchin’s findings. It does appear that the first three chapters of
Genesis, particularly the seven days of creation, were actually derived horn the older creation epic, and
other chronicles—then revamped to meet Hebrew theology. Why would the Hebrews borrow the creation
story from older Mesopotamian texts? Was it because they worshipped one of the Mesopotamian deities
themselves?”

AN EARLY GOLD RUSH

Over thousands of years Earth time, according to the Sumerian narrative, the Anunnaki continued to put a
thriving colony in place, and their attention turned to their primary objective—gold.

Some researchers have composed elaborate metaphysical explanations for Anunnaki activities on
Earth, many having to do with energy fields and spiritual planes disrupted by the passing of Nibiru and the
creation of Earth. One theory was that the more highly evolved Anunnaki were attempting to rescue “lost
souls” left behind after the planetary collision.

But more documented and acceptable is the idea of Sitchin and others that these colonists were after
Earth’s mineral wealth—particularly gold—for use on their home planet. “The Anunnaki sought gold to
save their atmosphere, which had apparently sprung leaks similar to those we have created in ours by
damaging the Earth’s ozone layer with hydrofluorocarbons,” explained author Lloyd Pye. “The Anunnaki
solution was to disperse extremely tiny flakes of gold into their upper atmosphere to patch holes. …
Ironically, modern scientists contend that if we are ever forced to repair our own damaged ozone layer,
tiny particulates of gold shot into the upper atmosphere would be the best way to go about it.”

This theory is not so far-fetched when one considers that in 1997 a research team led by the physicist
Edward Teller, known as the father of the hydrogen bomb, proposed various methods for controlling solar
radiation, including the seeding of heavy metals, such as gold particles, into the upper atmosphere. Also,
it is known that gold is an excellent conductor of electromagnetic energy, and it never rusts. In fact, in
April 2009, President Obama’s science adviser, John P. Holdren, publicly suggested that heavy-metal
“pollutants” be sprayed into the upper atmosphere to create a heat shield to retard perceived “global
warming.”

But when the Anunnaki attempted to retrieve gold from the Persian Gulf by an extraction process, it
proved inefficient and time-consuming. Anu, along with his heir Enlil, visited the colony and assigned
Enki to find more gold. Enlil was placed in overall command of the Earth colony while Enki led a foray
to Africa and eventually to South America, where he set up gold-mining operations. Proof of such early
gold mining has come from scientific studies conducted for the Anglo-American Corporation, a leading
South African mining company, in the 1970s. According to South African author Michael Tellinger,
company scientists discovered evidence of thousands of ancient mining operations, some dated as far
back as 100,000 BC. Similar ancient mine excavations have been found in Central and South America.
They indicate that the Anunnaki mining efforts were worldwide and may go far in explaining the early
diffusion of humans.

Further substantiation of such wide-ranging travel may be found by comparing the names of ancient
Mesopotamian cities and localities as recorded by the second-century AD geographer Ptolemy to
counterparts for gold-mining sites in Central America:

MESOPOTAMIAN NAME

CENTRAL AMERICAN NAME

Choi

Chol-ula

Colua

Colua-can

Zuivana

Zuivan

Cholima

Colima

Zalissa

Xalisco

The raw mined ore was then carried from the far-flung mines by cargo craft back to Mesopotamia for
smelting and processing into hourglass-shaped ingots called zag, or “purified precious.” Engravings of
such ingots are numerous, and some of the actual ingots have been found in archaeological excavations.

In an effort to ease the increasing rivalry between the half-brothers Enlil and Enki, their father, Anu,
placed Enlil in charge of the Mesopotamian colony E-din—perhaps the basis for the biblical Eden—
while assigning Enki to Ab-zu, or Africa, the “land of the mines.”

OUT OF AFRICA

A number of writers believe that the Anunnaki mined gold on Earth for more than a hundred thousand
years, until the rank-and-file Anunnaki, who were doing the backbreaking work in the mines, mutinied
about three hundred thousand years ago. On top of the unrelenting drudgery of the mining operations,
difficulties for these extraterrestrial colonists had increased due to climate changes.

Enlil, the commander in chief, wanted to punish the workers for their rebellion. He called an Assembly
of the Great Anunnaki, which included his father, Anu, who was more sympathetic to the plight of the
Anunnaki miners. He saw that the work of the mutineers was very hard and that their distress was
considerable. One Sumerian text reported, “The load is excessive, it is killing us! Our work is too hard,
the trouble too much! So every single one of us gods has agreed to complain to Ellil [Enlil].”

Enlil wondered aloud if there wasn’t another way to obtain gold. At this point, Enki suggested that a
primitive worker, called an Adamu, be created to take over the difficult work. Enki pointed out that a
primitive humanoid—what we call Homo erectus or a closely related hominid—was quite prevalent in
Abzu (Africa), where he maintained a laboratory.

Just as today we furiously debate animal experimentation, gene splicing, and cloning, the Anunnaki also
debated the morality of tinkering with a species. Anunnaki leaders argued, “Creation in the hands of the
Father of All Beginning alone is held!”

Enki counterargued that producing a hybrid—half Anunnaki and half primitive human—would not be an
act of creation but merely improving the existing breed. Many people today believe that Sitchin and his
followers are claiming that aliens created humans. Instead, the process as described in the Sumerian
tablets was only a breeding program similar to what has been done with various animals by mankind to
improve the stock.

And so Enki’s plan to create a worker race in Africa was approved by the Anunnaki Assembly, and the
Anunnaki created a race in their image. Sound like a familiar refrain? One of the most puzzling verses in
the Bible, Genesis 1:26, assures readers that there is only one true God, but then quotes God in the plural,
stating, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness …” Could the plural gods here be the
Anunnaki?

The Genesis verse may reveal two things about our history. The first is that the plural Elohim of the Old

Testament, later interpreted as “God” by the monotheists who wrote Genesis, indeed may have referred to
the Anunnaki Assembly. The second idea horn this verse is that creating man “in our image” meant simply
genetic manipulation of an existing species, not the creation of a new race. As Zecharia Sitchin explained,
“As both Orientalists and Bible scholars now know … the editing and summarizing by the compilers of
the Book of Genesis [was] of much earlier and considerably more detailed texts first written down in
Sumer.”

The Anunnaki Earth mission’s medical officer was a female named Ninhursag, who had already been
working with Enki in genetic experimentation. On at least one Sumerian cylinder seal, an illustration of
Enki and Ninhursag depicted them surrounded by vials or vessels, a table, shelves, a plant, and a helper,
looking very much like a laboratory. Enki and Ninhursag produced many mutated creatures, including
animals, such as bulls and lions with human heads, winged animals and apes, and humanoids with the
head and feet of goats. If true, it is obvious that these experiments may have been the source for the many
legends of “mythological” creatures and superhumans, such as Adas, Goliath, Polyphemus, and Typhon.

In addition to these fantastic creatures, the Sumerian tablets describe how Enki produced the first test-
tube infant by combining DNA and producing a hybrid of human and alien origin in his laboratory. Could
this be why recent studies of mitochondrial DNA indicate that all of Earth’s humans can be traced back to
one primitive female who lived in Africa?

Michael Tellinger and South African researcher Johan Heine have added considerable strength to the
argument that modern humans are the offspring of the Anunnaki gods from space.

The pair has unearthed startling new evidence that human civilization is far older than believed by
conventional history and that large human habitants were flourishing within huge communities in South
Africa more than two hundred thousand years ago. In fact, they claim that they may have found the location
of Enki’s laboratory at the ruins called Adam’s Calendar on the Transvaal Escarpment.

In Temples of the African Gods, Tellinger and Heine wrote, “The discoveries we have been making
right here since 2003 are so astonishing that they will require a dramatic paradigm shift in our perception
of human history. … A new understanding of the real history of humankind may just provide some of the
answers we have been searching for and deliver a new sense of comfort for many who feel betrayed by
our historians and especially by our religions.”

Tellinger and Heine claim that even the Sumerian civilization may have been preceded by an African
culture whose settlements covered most of South Africa and may have even known how to harness free
energy horn the Earth. An ancient petroglyph found in Africa, a circle containing a cross inside a
sweeping boomerang shape, resembles the famous winged disc normally associated with Sumer,
Babylonia, and Egypt. Another connection between Africa and Sumer may be found in the names of their
gods, which bear a striking resemblance to the Sumerian overlords. “It is astonishing to discover that
ancient Zulu culture and religion, including those of all other Bantu tribes, is directly linked to the
Sumerians,” noted Tellinger and Heine.

“Our proof comes in the form of large stone monolith statues, petroglyphs and symbols, discovered in
Mpumalanga and other parts of South Africa, which were previously believed to be of Sumerian and
Egyptian origins.” Tellinger and Heine have also been careful to look at the Sumerian tablets to formulate
their conclusions. “These tablets are the oldest written record of human history and the constant reference
to southern Africa in these tablets leaves little doubt that there was a lot of activity here, long before
Sumer or Egypt were established. It is now very clear that the first civilization merged many thousands of
years ago in a land the Sumerians called the ABZU—the land of the FIRST [emphasis in the original]
people in southern Africa—where the gold came from.”

THE HYBRID

The Sumerian account of the creation of the first man—written as Lu-lu in the Sumerian or in Hebrew,
Adama, literally translated as Man of Earth or simply Earthling—is quite clear in light of today’s
knowledge concerning cloning and in vitro fertilization. But up to twenty-five years ago or so, the whole
concept would have been incomprehensible to even the most learned scholar.

It is written that Enki and Ninhursag took the reproductive cell or egg from a primitive African female
hominid and fertilized it with the sperm of a young Anunnaki male. The fertilized ovum was then placed
inside an Anunnaki woman—reportedly by one of Enki’s own wives, Ninki—who carried the child to
term

Although a Cesarean section was required at birth, a healthy young male Adama hybrid was produced
for the first time on Earth, bypassing natural evolution by millions of years. According to the ancient
Sumerian reporters, “When Mankind was first created, they knew not the eating of bread, knew not the
dressing with garments, ate plants with their mouth like sheep, drank water from the ditch. …”

Human antiquity lends much support to the legitimacy of the Sumerian accounts of humankind’s
beginnings. And consider that both the Dogon tribe in Africa and the aborigines of Australia—continents
apart—both claim knowledge passed down for more than fifty thousand years of human creation by beings
who came from the stars.

If this seems like a far stretch of the imagination, consider that the Encyclopaedia Britannica tells the
same story, only it is under the heading of Mesopotamian mythology.

Until about 1996, when Dolly the sheep was cloned in Scotland, scholars reading the Sumerian texts
regarding the hybridization and cloning of humans are excused for believing the stories were all fanciful
myths. But today, cloning, gene splicing, and in vitro fertilization are commonplace procedures.

In July 2011, a modern parallel to the Sumerian story of humankind’s creation became apparent when it
was revealed that human-animal hybrids were secredy being created by scientists in Britain. According to
reports, 155 embryos, containing both human and animal genetic material, had been created since the
introduction of Britain’s 2008 Human Fertilisation Embryology Act. This research, conducted in hopes of
finding cures for disease, was carried out in labs at King’s College in London, Newcastle University, and
Warwick University.

Lord David Alton of Liverpool criticized the research, proclaiming, “I argued in Parliament against the
creation of human-animal hybrids as a matter of principle. None of the scientists who appeared before us
could give us any justification in terms of treatment.” Although officials said the scientists were not
concerned over the human-animal hybrid embryos, because legally they must be destroyed within fourteen
days, the experiments were stopped, reportedly due to lack of funding.

Continuing the Anunnaki narrative, Enki and Ninhursag went on to produce a number of Adamas, both
male and female, although at this time they were incapable of reproduction and lived very short lives
compared to the Anunnaki. This was apparendy done in a conscious effort to prevent any competition
from the new human race. It is interesting to note that, according to Genesis 3:5, the very first order of the
Elohim was that man—in the allegorical form of Adam and Eve—was to remain ignorant, lest “ye shall
be as gods” (King James Version).

The “laboratory” which produced the first Adamas was called Shi-im-ti, or “the house where the wind
of life is breathed in,” by the Sumerians. Compare this phrase with Genesis 2:7, in which God, after
forming man from “the dust of the ground” or adamu, meaning “earth,” “breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life.”

“Adam was the first test-tube baby,” proclaimed Sitchin after the birth of the first modern test-tube baby

in 1978. He saw this modern birth as support for his Sumerian translations.

That the ancient Sumerians passed along symbols representing the long-forgotten science of cloning is
suggested by the caduceus, the logo of physicians even today. This ancient symbol of life-giving medical
treatment represented by entwined snakes along a winged staff bears a striking resemblance to the double
spiral strings of DNA molecules. DNA, discovered only in 1946, is the compound within nucleated cells
that stores that individual organism’s genetic blueprint. It is the manipulation of DNA that can produce a
duplicate (clone) or hybrid.

The first human workers were like mules and could not procreate. The Anunnaki had to constandy
create new batches, a time-consuming procedure considering the span of time between in vitro
fertilization and birth. So Enki and Ninhursag set about to create an Adama race that could reproduce
itself.

Genesis 2:8-15 makes it clear that the Adamas were created elsewhere and then placed in the Garden
of Eden, or that area of the original Anunnaki colony called E-din, described as the plain between the
Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The Sumerian texts relate how an envious Enlil raided Enki’s African lab and
returned with captives to E-din, where they were put to work producing food and serving the Anunnaki. It
has been theorized that in retaliation for Enlil’s raid on his African lab, Enki traveled to Eden, where he
created a human-reproduction lab for Enlil but secredy manipulated the genetic code to allow sexual
reproduction.

Although the Sumerian texts describing the details of this process have been either lost or are as yet
undiscovered, researchers have assumed that the procedure involved obtaining life-producing Adama
DNA, possibly by extracting a rib while the subject was under anesthesia. This time the male Adama’s
DNA was combined with a female Adama rather than an Anunnaki, possibly with some accompanying
DNA-sequence cutting and splicing, a procedure within the abilities of our technology today.

The result was a male Adama with the ability to reproduce through sex with an Adama female, or to
“know” a woman, as the Bible euphemistically puts it. The man Adam had gained the “knowledge” of
reproduction, a fact that many Elohim/Anunnaki, including Enlil, deplored. They complained that next the
humans would want to live as long as they themselves. “The man has now become like one of us, knowing
good and evil,” reported Genesis 3:22 (New International Version). “He must not be allowed to reach out
his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” Therefore, DNA manipulation
drastically reduced the human life span along with the ability to make full use of human brain capacity.

Such manipulation may explain the telomeres, caps on the ends of the human chromosomes. These caps,
something like the protective caps on shoelaces, after a certain length of time prevent cells from
reproducing, leading to oxidation, aging, and eventually death. No one knows for certain how or why
these caps were placed in the DNA, but they prevent extended life. Furthermore, in 2011, researchers at
Johns Hopkins University announced that telomere shortening is linked to diabetes, cancer, lung disease,
and other age-related illnesses.

With the ability to reproduce, the human population exploded, both in the far-flung Anunnaki mining
operations and in Mesopotamia. Many Adamas were taken to work in the other cities growing up along
the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Some were returned to mining chores, and others may have escaped into
the wild or may have been sent away for population control. In any case, the Adama were sent out of E-
din.

The result of this human population growth and increasingly close human contact with the Anunnaki was
perhaps predictable. Genesis 6:1-4 related, “When men began to increase in number on the earth and
daughters were born to them, the sons of God [the Nefilim/Anunnaki] saw that the daughters of men were
beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. … The Nefilim were on the earth in those days—and

also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them” (New
International Version). Apparentiy, the term Nefilim was applied to both pure Anunnaki and their later
hybrid offspring.

Over the centuries, the Adama race, in addition to such interbreeding, was the object of continued
experimentation by the Anunnaki, which eventually resulted in changing Neanderthal to Cro-Magnon, or
modern man. But some specific deficiencies remained, including a progressive decline in the human life
span. Descendants of the early Adamas lived for thousands of Earth years, thanks to their Anunnaki genes.
The extreme life spans of the more pure-blooded Anunnaki rulers made them appear as immortal. The
Epic of Gilgamesh states, “Only the gods live forever under the sun. / As for mankind, numbered are their
days: / Whatever they achieve is but the wind!”

In 2012, a group of genetic scientists, attempting to pinpoint telltale variants in the genetic code, found
surprising evidence that supported the idea of ancient genetic manipulation of human DNA. They turned
up 13.4 million genetic variants in three African groups—3 million of which had never before been seen
in humans. They sequenced the genome of five individuals from three different African hunter-gatherer
populations including pygmies from Cameroon and Khoesan-speaking Hadza and Sandawe from
Tanzania. As expected, the scientists found that ninety percent of the gene flow from one species into the
gene pool of another, by the repeated backcrossing of a hybrid with one of its parent species, traced back
to the Neanderthal. But surprisingly, the other ten percent came from what they could only describe as an
unknown “foreign group.”

The three selected African groups represent some of the most ancient lineages in the world and the
findings support the idea that modern humans evolved out of Africa. Such findings also lend support to the
Sumerian account of human hybrids being bred by the spacefaring Anunnaki.

Joshua Akey, one of the science team, told Linda Moulton Howe, reporter and editor of the award¬
winning science and environment news website, www.Earthfiles.com, “[W]e can detect in the genomes
and DNA of present-day Africans these bits of DNA that seem like they came from another (unknown)
group. … We don’t know anything really about this group. … If we collect more genome sequences from
African individuals, we think we will be able to learn more about this unknown group. … The group that
we think contributed this foreign DNA to these African populations was much more closely related to
anatomically modern humans than Homo erectus. I think it is more appropriate to think of this foreign
group as about as different as Neanderthals were to Cro-magnon Homo sapiens sapiens.”

Akey said this foreign DNA is not found in non-Africans except for a few groups outside that continent.
“And so what we think is the explanation for that is that as anatomically modern humans started dispersing
out of Africa, those individuals that originally left Africa already contained some of that foreign DNA.
And so the foreign DNA was taken out of Africa with those initial waves of migrations that peopled the
world.” Asked if such foreign DNA might imply breeding attempts by ancient astronauts, Akey laughed
and replied, “I think the claim of extraterrestrial manipulation is such a high bar that as a scientist, you
have to be skeptical about everything and that just strains the bar of credibility.”

For early man, life was not pleasant. As blundy stated in the Bible, Adam, Eve, and their progeny were
not destined for a life of ease, but one of hard work and survival at the hands of their “Lords.” Sitchin
stated, “The term that is commonly translated as ‘worship’ was in fact avod —‘work.’ Ancient and
biblical man did not ‘worship’ his god; he worked for him”

Researcher Arthur Horn stated that study of the Sumerian texts made it clear that “the Anunnaki treated
their created slaves poorly, much like we treat domestic animals we are simply exploiting—like catde.
Overt slavery in human societies was common from the first known civilizations until quite recendy.
Perhaps it shouldn’t surprise us to learn that the Anunnaki were vain, petty, cruel, incestuous, hateful—

almost any negative adjective one can think of. The evidence indicates that they worked their slaves very
hard and had little compassion for the plight of humans. Yet, the Anunnaki eventually decided to grant
humankind their first civilization, the Sumerian civilization.”

LONGEVITY AND ANOTHER NOAH

The Bible often describes the very long human lives of those who came before Noah, such as Adam, Seth,
Enosh, Kenan, Enoch, and Methuselah. Alan Alford has pointed to the fossil record and the Sumerian texts
placing the birth of humans at 450,000 years ago. In order to make the Bible’s timeline make sense next to
the Sumerian and fossil timeline, Alford multiplied biblical ages by 100; he found that the time between
the birth of Adam’s son Seth and the great Flood of Noah was 165,000 years. This number is more
consistent with the Sumerian accounts. “The Jewish people spent an extremely long exile in Egypt for 400
years prior to the Exodus. Later they spent around 60 years exiled in Babylon,” explained Alford. “The
Jews were thus a long way from the Sumerian origin of their patriarch Abraham, and had lost the
knowledge of the sexagesimal system in which their ancestry through to Abraham was recorded.”

According to the new interpretations of Sumerian tales, the first humans—the Adama—were produced
about three hundred thousand years ago. After further genetic manipulation allowed reproduction, human
women found favor with Anunnaki males, and they began interbreeding about one hundred thousand years
ago. Not long after this, a new Ice Age began, decimating the human population outside Anunnaki control.
Neanderthals slowly disappeared, while Cro-Magnons survived only in the Middle East. By fifty
thousand years ago, some Anunnaki leaders allowed humans fathered by Anunnaki to rule in selected
cities. This angered Enlil, already incensed that some Anunnaki would mate with human women. In fact,
mating in general seemed to bother Enlil—he complained that the sound of mating humans kept him awake
at night. Enlil became determined to do something about the irritating humans.

About twelve thousand years ago, the Anunnaki leadership realized that severe climatic changes would
occur with the imminent return of the planet Nibiru to the vicinity of Earth. Enlil made his move. In the
Anunnaki’s Great Assembly, Enlil convinced the majority to allow nature to take its course—to wipe out
the humans while the Anunnaki waited out events in evacuation ships orbiting Earth.

But Enki had a plan of his own. Whether out of some affection for humans or simply to thwart Enlil’s
plans, Enki passed along the murderous “secret of the gods” to one of his most prized human assistants,
the Sumerian Utnapishtim In Babylonian legend, he was Atrahasis. The Bible called him Noah.

The Akkadian version stated Utnapishtim had lived in Shuruppak, the seventh city built by the
Anunnaki, which has been identified as the Anunnaki medical center. It was also referred to as the city of
Sud, who has been identified as Ninhursag—the one who assisted Enki with the genetic creation of the
Lu-lu, the first Earthling.

Nearly all cultures have their own version of a Noah who survived the Great Flood. He was Ziusudra
to the ancient Sumerians, Nuwah to the Chinese, Cox to Aztecs, Powaco to other Native Americans, Manu
Yaivasata to the Hindus, Dwytach to the Celts, Noa to the natives of the Amazon, and Nu-u to the
Hawaiians.

Utnapishtim has been called the Sumerian Noah, and the parallels between the biblical account of Noah
and the Gilgamesh account of the Great Flood are both striking and obvious. Referring to the story of
Noah, Sitchin stated that “the biblical account is an edited version of the original Sumerian account. As in
the other instances, the monotheistic Bible has compressed into one Deity the roles played by several
gods who were not always in accord.”

According to the Sumerian texts, it was Enlil’s rival half-brother, Enki, who instructed

Utnapishtim/Noah how to construct an ark, using readily available bitumen to make it waterproof. The
Gilgamesh version added some interesting details deleted from the Biblical account. For example, Enki
provided Utnapishtim with an excuse to explain to his neighbors why he was building a boat—as a
follower of Enki he was forced to leave the Enlil-controlled area and needed the boat to journey to Enki’s
territory in Africa.

It also states that Enki instructed Utnapishtim/Noah, “Aboard ship take thou the seed of all living things.
…” This instruction is most fascinating: because Enki had been the science officer involved in the genetic
engineering of humans, it makes plausible the idea that Utnapishtim/Noah took DNA samples of all living
things rather than a boatload of animals, insects, and plants. A ship’s cabin full of tiny samples would be
much more reasonable than a floating zoological park.

Scattered archaeological excavations over many years indicate that what is regarded as the Great Flood
was a planetwide catastrophe, though not every portion of the world went underwater. In fact, the
Akkadian account stated that the Great Flood was not merely the result of heavy rains but also colossal
winds that increased in intensity, destroying buildings and rupturing dikes. These are the kinds of
conditions we might expect from a large planetary body passing by Earth.

One theory holds that the gravitational forces caused by the passing of Nibiru shook the Antarctic ice
sheet—already unstable from the end of the last ice age—causing it to slide into the ocean and raise sea
levels all over the planet. Even today, most of the original Anunnaki cities near the mouths of the Tigris
and Euphrates rivers remain deep under water and silt.

Such a great catastrophe might explain why there were so few humans in the past on a planet that had
housed so many great civilizations more than ten thousand years ago—most were lost in the Great Flood.
This planetwide catastrophe might also explain the disappearance of Beringia, the thousand-mile-long
land bridge between Siberia and North America. During the Pleistocene ice age more than ten thousand
years ago, much of Earth’s waters were contained in glaciers. Beringia had been a dry, grassy plain,
drawing both animals and humans that connected Asia and North America across the Bering Strait.
However, worldwide flooding may have melted great scores of ice, thus inundating Beringia.

After six days and nights, the storms receded. Yet most of the land had disappeared. Finally, as in the
biblical account, the ark of Utnapishtim/Noah came to rest atop Mount Ararat. In one version of the story,
wherein Utnapishtim/Noah actually brought animals aboard his boat, he sent a dove, a swallow, and a
raven from the ark. Only the raven didn’t return, indicating that more dry land was nearby. Noah and his
family then left the ark and offered a burnt sacrifice, which drew the attention of the returning Anunnaki.
An ancient text stated that the “gods crowded like flies” around the cooking flesh. Apparently, they had
developed a hunger for fresh food during their long confinement in the ships orbiting Earth during the
flood.

After he realized that the humans had survived the flood, Enlil had little choice but to relent and allow
them to remain on Earth. With flood waters subsiding and Nibiru moving out of the solar system, the
Anunnaki and the handful of surviving humans set about reconstructing the world. But this post-Flood
world was to prove less peaceful than the previous one.

Prior to the Flood, any humans not working directly for the Anunnaki were roaming hunters or
gatherers. But virtually overnight they became farmers. “Farming may be more work than hunting, judging
by the available ethnographic data and [results] in an unstable man-modified ecosystem with low
diversity index results,” noted archaeologist Kent Flannery. “Since early farming represents a decision to
work harder and eat more ‘third-choice’ food, I suspect that people did it because they felt they had to, not
because they wanted to farm Why they felt they had to, we may never know, in spite of the fact that their
decision reshaped all the rest of human history.”

SEPARATING THE HUMANS

The Sumerian tablets explained why humans had to cultivate the land and domesticate animals—because
their gods demanded it. After the floods, men began to cultivate land not in the rich soil of the river
valleys but in the mountain highlands of Mesopotamia and Palestine. Evidence of this exists even today. A
Sumerian text fragment recounts the story: “Enlil went up to the peak and lifted his eyes; he looked down;
there the waters filled as a sea. He looked up: there was the mountain of the aromatic cedars. He hauled
up the barley, terraced it on the mountain. That which vegetates he hauled up, terraced the grain cereals on
the mountain.”

With farming came larger and more densely crowded cities than before the Flood. Each city was ruled
by one of the Anunnaki overlords, who were now beginning to be considered gods by the humans, as they
had not only survived the devastation but had returned with their knowledge and technology.

Like modern humans, certain food crops appeared to have no antecedent in Earth’s evolutionary chain.
They just suddenly appeared—fully cultured—about 13,000 years ago according to archaeological finds.
“There is no explanation for this botanogenetic miracle, unless the process was not one of natural
selection but of artificial manipulation,” commented Sitchin. His point may have some merit, as three
critical phases of human development—farming (circa 11,000 BC), higher culture (circa 7500 BC), and
civilization (circa 3800 BC)—occurred at intervals of 3,600 years, the same period of time for a
complete orbit by Nibiru.

KINGS AND CONFLICT

During a post-Flood assembly of the Anunnaki/Nefilim, it was decided to divide the Earth into four
regions, with the captive human population split up within three of these areas—lower Mesopotamia, the
Nile Valley, and the Indus Valley. The Anunnaki reserved the Sinai Peninsula—their new spaceflight
center following the Flood—as their private, or “holy,” sanctuary.

Obviously, this divide-and-rule strategy for the scattered human communities required separate leaders.
Thus was born the concept of kingship, human rulers specially chosen by the Anunnaki, or “gods,” to be
intermediaries between themselves and the humans, whom they still considered as little better than
animals.

This practice began in the Sumerian city of Kish, which Sitchin equates with the biblical Cush. Genesis
10:8-12 relates that Cush was a grandson of Noah and father of the legendary Nimrod, who ruled and
built such cities as Babylon, Erech, and Akkad from his base in Sumer, before constructing cities in
Assyria, including Nineveh. The practice of dynastic kingship based on a royal lineage traceable to the
gods has affected nations and governments up to the present day, as evidenced by the fact that the
Rothschilds of today claim kinship to Nimrod.

It may have been Nimrod’s attempt to thwart Enlil’s dispersion plan that led to the Old Testament story
of the Tower of Babel. This narrative began at Baalbek, believed to be a post-Flood center for Anunnaki
space-shuttle operations. The massiveness of the 1,100-ton granite block of the Trilithon, and others
weighing more than 300 tons each, buttresses the idea that this may have once been a landing or launch
pad.

One explanation for the trouble at Babel was that the humans there attempted to construct their own
launch tower, apparently hoping to produce their own shem, or flying vehicle, with a view toward arguing
against the breakup of humanity with the off-world ruler, An. “Come, let us build ourselves a city with a
tower that reaches to the heavens,” they were quoted in Genesis 11:4 (New International Version) as
saying, “so that we may make a shem for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

An Arabic text found at Baalbek stated that Nimrod and his followers also tried to construct a shem
there. “Shem, inadvertendy misunderstood, was rendered by most translators as a sign for the word
‘name. 5 However, it originally signified ‘that which goes up,’ ” explained author Turnage. “Sitchin
designates the origin of shem as Mesopotamian, originating from the word mu or the Semitic derivative
shu-mu, or sham … ‘that by which one is remembered/ evolving into ‘name/ The original meaning of the
words, however, was originally connected with the concept of something that flies.”

“The realization that mu or shem in many Mesopotamian texts should be read not as ‘name 5 but as ‘sky
vehicle’ opens the way to the understanding of the true meaning of many ancient tales, including the
biblical story of the Tower of Babel,” wrote Sitchin. Even Sitchin’s critics agree that shem or shamaim
(heaven) stem horn the word shamah translated as “that which is highward.”

The activity at Baalbek only increased Enlil’s fear of human competition and made him even more
determined to break up the humans. His reaction may have been reflected in Genesis 11:5-8 (Revised
Standard Version), “And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had
built. And the Lord said, ‘Behold, they are one people and they have all one language; and this is only the
beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s
speech.’ So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the Earth and they left off
building the city.”

Soon the three branches of humankind—all descendants of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth—were
transported to the preordained locations, where different languages indeed developed over time.

Alford theorized that Utnapishtim/Noah may have had wives representing separate racial groups. The
offspring of these wives would have been of different races, offering an explanation for the presence of
the Negroid race in Africa, Mongoloids in Asia, and Caucasoid in the Near East.

Both the Sumerian texts and the Bible agree that Shem and his descendants remained in the area
encompassing Mesopotamia, Ham and his kin were taken to Africa—here including parts of Arabia—
while Japheth’s people were transported to the Indus Valley, possibly becoming the mysterious Aryans
who suddenly appeared there in ancient times.

This dispersion, accompanied by the growth of new cities with their newly installed kings and
increased food production, should have led to a congenial peace. But unfortunately it appeared that the
ancient “gods” were no more able to produce lasting peace than humans.

Trouble began even as the Anunnaki began to relocate their spaceflight facilities from Sumer—now
mostiy underwater due to the flood—to the Sinai Peninsula at a place that came to be called El Paran
(God’s Glorious Place). Mount Ararat, in what is now eastern Turkey and is reportedly where the ark
finally grounded, provided the northernmost landmark for a glide path to the Anunnaki’s Sinai landing
facility. This base was located on the thirtieth parallel in the geographic center of Sinai. The southern
glide path landmark was the two highest peaks of Mount Sinai, the higher being Mount Catherine (8,652
feet above sea level) and the lower, Mount Moses (7,500 feet (2286 meters)). What was lacking for this glide path was
a matching landmark to the west. Because that area was flat, some researchers claim that tall markers
were constructed—the great pyramids of Giza.

The editors of the Holman Bible Dictionary reported that Mount Sinai probably came horn the word
meaning “shining” and was likely derived horn the Babylonian god Sin. However, Sin was simply the
Semitic name for Nannar, the firstborn son of the Anunnaki leader Enlil and sovereign of Ur, the home city
of Abraham.

Sin also was the Chaldean name for the moon, where the Sumerians claimed Enki first obtained the life-
producing tissue cells or “seed” for his human hybrid experiments that remained from the clash between

Nibiru and the planet Tiamat. “The enormity of this single name change on human history is beyond
comprehension,” declared author William Henry. “When the Christian interpreters came along, they
repeated the story that we were born in sin. They were entirely accurate in their statement. However, they
omitted the fact that Sin referred to the Moon, the source of our genetic material!” In the ensuing wars
between the Anunnaki overlords, Sin was reported to have sided with the human benefactor Enki, which
caused Enlil to declare those who opposed him as “sinners.”

Because the Anunnaki mission control center at the Sumerian city of Nippur was destroyed during the
Flood and because of the need for a location equidistant from the glide path lines, a new control center
was needed. It was built at Mount Moriah, translated as “Mount of Directing.” It was the site of the future
holy city of Jerusalem, long considered a most sacred place by all major Western religions.

Eventually, new generations of the Anunnaki were on the Earth, and from their descendants came stories
filled with intrigues, conspiracies, and outright wars pitting brother against brother and sister against
sister. These conflicts, rebellions, and wars would eventually involve humankind, providing their first
exposure to armed combat, which continues even today.

According to the Sumerian texts, Enki’s firstborn son, Marduk, gained sovereignty over the lands of
Egypt and became known as Ra. It was his children, Shu and Tefnut, who set an example for future
pharaohs by wedding each other. Their offspring, Geb and Nut, also married and were the next royal
couple as well as the parents of some of Egypt’s most famous god/rulers—Osiris, his sister/wife Isis,
Seth, and Nephthys, sister of Isis.

There may be a fascinating rationale for such interbreeding, as explained by researcher Bill Putnam. He
said that this was a method for exacdy reproducing the chromosomes of the pharaoh. Egyptian literature
indicates that the pharaohs usually married a half sister. If a pharaoh’s son bred with the daughter of an
unrelated wife (the pharaohs had several wives), the resulting match of the X and Y chromosomes would
result in reproducing an exact match of chromosomes of the original pharaoh. “The net effect was that the
DNA of the ‘god on Earth’ would be reproduced every other generation,” explained Putnam. Putnam said
they were most likely following the example of their gods, the Anunnaki, to whom reproducing the
bloodline was a most necessary deed. This could help explain this practice among humans, which
continues until today within royal and bloodline families. “Princess Diana had more claim to the
bloodline than Prince Charles,” said Putnam.

All this interfamily marriage led to a succession problem, solved by dividing the country. Osiris was
given Lower Egypt and Seth, mountainous Upper Egypt. Unsatisfied with his apportionment, Seth began to
maneuver against Osiris, and thus began the legendary wars of ancient Egypt.

In a story reminiscent of Romeo and Juliet, the Sumerian stories tell of a granddaughter of Enlil named
Inanna, who married the youngest son of Enki, Dumuzi, with the wary blessing of both feuding families.
But when Dumuzi was killed after being taken into custody by Enki’s firstborn son, Marduk, or Ra, for
violating the Anunnaki moral code, Inanna attacked Marduk/Ra.

To stop this conflict, Marduk was tried for Dumuzi’s death. As it could not be proven whether the death
had been deliberate or accidental, and because Marduk/Ra was proclaimed a god, it was decided to
sentence him to life imprisonment in a huge, impenetrable place whose walls reached the skies. Sitchin
identified Marduk’s prison as none other than the Great Pyramid. He wrote that his translations of the
Sumerian texts explained that the curious well shaft within the Great Pyramid—a puzzling hand-hewed
tunnel connecting the pyramid’s Descending Passage to its Ascending Passage—was dug to bypass the
large granite stone that plugs the Ascending Passage in an attempt to rescue Marduk, who escaped but
eventually returned. The capture and imprisonment of an Egyptian god are well recounted in ancient
Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Despite Marduk’s punishment, Inanna was far from satisfied, as she, too, wanted power. The Anunnaki
could satisfy her only by giving her control over another area, now identified as the Indus Valley
Mounded ruins of Mohenjo-daro, the largest city of a civilization dating back to before 2500 BC, were
first recognized on the Indus River in southern Pakistan in 1922. Although thoroughly—and strangely—
devastated in some prehistoric time, the baked-brick construction of buildings and the preplanned layout
of the city indicated to some researchers an obvious connection with Sumer. Author Alford said the city
was inhabited by a people called the Harappans, who “worshipped a sole female deity, whose depiction
bore an amazing similarity to other images of the goddess Inanna.”

If this Indus goddess was indeed Inanna, she continued her quest for power, according to the Sumerian
texts, eventually replacing Ninhursag among the major Anunnaki leaders. Using a human hybrid named
Sharru-Kin, Inanna carved out a new empire. The man she picked is also known as Sargon the Great.
Believed to be the offspring of a human mother and an Anunnaki father, Sargon claimed that he, like
Moses later, was placed in a sealed basket of reeds by his mother and floated down a river to safety
while a baby. Sargon went on to found the Semite Akkadian dynasty about 2200 BC, which finally
encompassed all of Mesopotamia.

With the fall of Sargon and the Akkadian empire, Marduk slipped from exile and attempted to regain his
sovereignty over Babylon sometime before the year 2000 BC. But alliances quickly shifted, and Enlil and
Inanna aligned their forces against Marduk and his father Enki. Marduk also faced a crushing defection
from his son Nergal, who joined Enlil. For the Anunnaki, a true civil war was taking place.

Many are familiar with the biblical patriarch Abraham, but few realize that he may have been involved
with Anunnaki civil war. According to Zecharia Sitchin, a variety of texts clearly indicate that Abraham
was far from just a wandering Hebrew, as often popularly believed, but was rather a ranking Sumerian
from Ur. “Coming to Egypt, Abraham and Sarah were taken to the Pharaoh’s court; in Canaan, Abraham
made treaties with the local rulers,” he noted. “This is not the image of a nomad pillaging others’
settlements; it is the image of a personage of high standing skilled in negotiation and diplomacy.”

Genesis 14:14-16 alludes to the fact that Abraham also commanded armed troops—according to the
biblical text, he took 318 “trained men” to rescue his nephew Lot and his family from an invading
coalition of armies under Marduk, as Marduk had been maneuvering to retake the Sinai space port from
the north. Abraham’s warriors turned him back before he could reach the Sinai space facilities at El
Paran. This feat later brought praise and blessing from Melchizedek, king of Salem, as well as a covenant
with Yahweh, identified as Enlil.

Instead of a full retreat, Marduk stopped to sack the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Siddim
Valley, which lies on the southern edge of the Dead Sea. Here, he defeated the kings of these cities, and
took Lot prisoner before moving back north. After being rescued by Abraham, Lot returned to the area. As
usually the case in so many wars, things got out of hand for the Anunnaki. It may have been at this time that
the world felt the first blast of a nuclear explosion.

ATOMIC WAR?

Enlil and his sons, fearing Marduk’s power, persuaded Anu to allow the use of seven mighty weapons,
now believed by many to have been tantamount to tactical nuclear missiles, against Marduk/Ra.
Meanwhile, the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah felt betrayed by their Enlilite “gods,” who had failed to
protect them from the invading coalition, so they switched their allegiance to Marduk, in essence, sealing
their doom

But in honor of Abraham’s past service, Enlil decided to give him warning. Genesis 18 explains what

happened next. Yahweh came to Abraham and warned him that the cities would be destroyed because they
had turned away from him This warning is evidence that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was a
planned event, not some unanticipated natural disaster.

Such foreknowledge is also evidenced by the warning of Lot in Sodom by two “angels,” although the
original Hebrew word, mal’akhim, actually only meant “emissaries,” while Webster’s 3rd New
International Dictionary defines them as “messengers.” Could this mean emissaries from Enlil?
Following some trouble with the neighbors over the visitors, as recounted in Genesis 19:12-13, the pair
told Lot, “Have you anyone else here? Sons-in-laws, sons, daughters, or any one you have in the city,
bring them out of the place; for we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people
has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it” (Revised Standard Version).

Lot and his kindred fled to the mountains as instructed, but the fiery cataclysm reached out to his own
family. According to Genesis 19:26, Lot’s wife, who had lagged behind, was turned to “a pillar of salt.”
But Zecharia Sitchin noted that the original Sumerian word interpreted by Hebrew scribes as “salt” also
meant “vapor.” Lot’s wife then was vaporized by the explosion that consumed Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot
and the rest of his family survived. They may have been shielded by the crest of a hill or the like.

Abraham, standing miles away in the mountains, looked down and saw a column of dense smoke rising
as if from a furnace. Could it have been mushroom shaped? Evidence that Sodom and Gomorrah were
destroyed by a nuclear explosion has come from many sources. The nearby Dead Sea covered the bombed
cities with salt water, perhaps under the shallow southern section of the sea below the Lisan Peninsula.
Oddly enough, the bottom of the Dead Sea is almost 2,500 feet (762 meters) below the level of the Mediterranean,
indicating it was created by something quite unusual and unnatural.

More evidence came from hydrology research on the west bank of the Dead Sea in the 1960s that
revealed some springs in the area still register higher than normal background radioactivity. In addition,
bones found at the Ain es-Sultan Spring, located on the site of ancient Jericho, contained alpha radiation,
according to researchers I. M. Blake of Oxford University and J. Cynthia Weber of Harvard. Although
they argued against an ancient explosion, they did note that surrounding settiements were suddenly
abandoned for several centuries about 2040 BC. The Bible also hints that this radioactivity brought about
sterility. In II Kings 2:19, a delegation from Jericho tells the prophet Elisha, “ … the situation of this city
is pleasant… but the water is bad and the ground barren.”

In addition to the devastation of Sodom and Gomorrah, the ancient tablets recount how the Sinai
spaceport also was targeted for nuclear destruction, apparendy to prevent it from falling into Marduk’s
hands. According to Sitchin, Alford, and others, the Sinai detonation produced an unnatural scarring of the
peninsula that can still be seen from space, as well as a multitude of scorched rocks in the area. “In the
eastern Sinai, millions of blackened stones are found strewn for tens of miles. These stones are, without
any doubt, unnatural,” reported Alford, who asserts that “photographs clearly demonstrate that the rocks
are blackened only on the surface.”

Throughout the Middle East and beyond, there is evidence that other targets, unrecorded and as yet
undiscovered, may also have experienced nuclear detonations. There are mysterious globules of fused
glass and vitrified rocks at cities deep in the strata of archaeological digs at Pierrelatte in Gabon, Africa.
Similar evidence attesting to the possible use of nuclear weapons in the distant past also has been found
in the Euphrates Valley, the Sahara Desert, the Gobi Desert, the Mojave Desert, Scodand, Egypt (during
the Old and Middle Kingdoms), and south-central Turkey.

Such globules, some referred to as tektites, are thought to come from meteorites. However, in most
cases there are no visible impact craters in the vicinity. If not meteoric in origin, the problem is how they
were created.

John O’Keefe, writing in Scientific American, noted, “If tektites are terrestrial, it means that some
process exists by which soil or common rocks can be converted in an instant into homogeneous, water-
free, bubble-free glass and be propelled thousands of miles above the atmosphere.”

Such fused material today can be found only at test sites for nuclear weapons. Moreover, scientists have
found a number of ancient mining operations near deposits of uranium
One of the most convincing indications of ancient nuclear war can be found in the ruins of Harappa, in
northeast Pakistan, and Mohenjo Daro, another major city of the same period, located in south-central
Pakistan. Both were major cities of the Bronze Age Indus Valley civilization, and both seem to spring up
suddenly with no clear traces of a primitive past. Curiously, the lowest strata at Mohenjo Daro seem to
indicate that the civilization was more advanced earlier in its history than later. Soapstone was replaced
by common clay; crude shapes replaced lifelike engravings, and finely glazed ceramics devolved to plain
clumsy pots. “Even the bricks were inferior,” said Jonathan Gray, Australian archaeologist and author of
Dead Men’s Secrets.

According to Gray, we know almost nothing about Harappa and Mohenjo Daro “except that both were
destroyed suddenly. In Mohenjo-Daro, in an epicenter 150 feet (45 meters) wide, everything was crystallized, fused
or melted; 180 feet (54 meters) from the center the bricks are melted on one side, indicating a blast. Excavations
down to the street level revealed 44 scattered skeletons, as if doom had come so suddenly they could not
get to their houses. All the skeletons were flattened to the ground. A father, mother and child were found
flattened in the street, face down and still holding hands. It has been claimed that the skeletons, after
thousands of years, are still among the most radioactive that have ever been found, on a par with those of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”

An ancient Indian text called the Mahabharata describes how war broke out between the early
“Masters” of the cities of Harappa, Mohenjo Daro, and another city, Kot Diji. According to the text, flying
machines called vimanas —apparently similar to the Anunnaki flying craft—launched a weapon that
seemed to be as devastating as an atomic bomb. Although the language differences prohibit an absolute
connection to the accounts of the Anunnaki craft and weapons, the similarities are provocative. The
weapon was described thus:

… (it was) a single projectile

Charged with all the power of the Universe.

An incandescent column of smoke and flame
As bright as the thousand suns
Rose in all its splendor …

… it was an unknown weapon,

An iron thunderbolt,

A gigantic messenger of death,

Which reduced to ashes
The entire race of the
Vrishnis and the Andhakas
… The corpses were so burned
As to be unrecognizable.

The hair and nails fell out;

Pottery broke without apparent cause,

… After a few hours

All foodstuffs were infected …

… to escape from this fire
The soldiers threw themselves in streams
To wash themselves and their equipment.

There is surprising scientific support for this account of nuclear weapons used in India. A layer of
radioactive ash was found covering a three-square-mile area in Rajasthan, ten miles west of Jodhpur,
India. Archaeologist Francis Taylor, translating etchings at the site, remarked, “It’s so mind-boggling to
imagine that some civilization had nuclear technology before we did. The radioactive ash adds credibility
to the ancient Indian records that describe atomic warfare.”

Conventional history states that mighty Sumer simply vanished suddenly, absorbed by the new empires
of Babylon and Assyria, though Sumerian texts tell a much more horrible story. Besides destroying a
number of cities, tragic collateral damage came about as a result of the nuclear blasts on the Sinai
Peninsula—in the fallout from the explosions, a radioactive cyclone formed and moved through
Mesopotamia and on into the Indus Valley, obliterating all life and ending the Sumerian civilization.

According to various “lamentations” translated by the Sumerian scholar Samuel Noah Kramer, “On the
land [Sumer] fell a calamity, one unknown to man; one that had never been seen before, one which could
not be withstood. A great storm from heaven … A land-annihilating storm … An evil wind, like a rushing
torrent… A battling storm joined by scorching heat… By day it deprived the land of the bright sun, in the
evening the stars did not shine … The people, terrified, could hardly breathe; the evil wind clutched them,
does not grant them another day … Mouths were drenched with blood, heads wallowed in blood … The
face was made pale by the Evil Wind. It caused cities to be desolated, houses to become desolate; stalls
to become desolate, the sheepfolds to be emptied … Sumer’s rivers it made flow with water that is bitter;
its cultivated fields grow weeds, its pastures grow withered plants … Thus all its gods evacuated Uruk;
they kept away from it; they hid in the mountains, they escaped to the distant plains.” This one great storm
of radioactive fallout annihilated the world’s first great civilization, leaving the bodies of the population
“stacked up in heaps.”

The final war in Mesopotamia was the Anunnaki’s nuclear Armageddon. Their millennia-old colony of
Eden was blown away. One theory was that the Anunnaki, shocked by what they had wrought, retreated to
an enclave in the Sinai where most of them made the decision to return home, perhaps leaving behind only
a caretaker force or perhaps abandoning the culprits who instigated the insurrection against the Anunnaki
hierarchy.

To humans, all this occurred in ancient times, more than 4,000 years ago. If their time is counted by the
3,600-year revolution of their planet around our sun, then to the Anunnaki, all this would have taken place
just a little more than a year ago. Some researchers feel an Anunnaki rescue mission may still be on the
way to Earth. Only time will tell if there is any truth to this.

It was at this time, after the destruction of the Mesopotamian cities, that the detailed narratives of Sumer
and its gods ceased. It would be centuries before civilization and writing once more flourished in parts of
Mesopotamia as memory of the great cataclysm faded into vague stories of the nightmare.

HISTORY BECOMES MYTHOLOGY

In Bloodline of the Holy Grail, Laurence Gardner explained how these stories evolved into a twisted
history “What actually transpired was that the original Mesopotamian writings were recorded as history.
This history was later rewritten to form a base for foreign religious cults—first Judaism and then
Christianity. The corrupted dogma—the new approved history—was so different from the original
writings, the early first-hand reports were labeled ‘mythology.’ ”

The term mythology stems from the Greek word mythos, simply meaning words or stories reflecting the
basic values and attitudes of a people. In past ages, when the vast majority of humans were illiterate,
easily understood parables were used to educate people about history, science, and technology. During the
Dark Ages, when most people were taught that the Earth was flat, the word mythology was changed by the
Roman Church to mean imaginative and fanciful tales veering far from any truthfulness. This small change
in semantics has caused untold damage in current perceptions.

For example, the Mesopotamian saga of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s earliest known epic
poem. It tells of the offspring of a human mother and an Anunnaki father, who, along with his nonhuman
companion, Enkidu, sets out on a journey to find the secret of immortality. The epic was thought to be
merely a fable at the time of its discovery in 1872. However, in 2003, German archaeologists working at
the site of ancient Uruk discovered what they believed to be the lost tomb of Gilgamesh. “I don’t want to
say definitely it was the grave of King Gilgamesh, but it looks very similar to that described in the epic,”
Jorg Fassbinder of the Bavarian Department of Historical Monuments in Munich told the BBC.

Once again, myth was turned into reality. Breakthroughs in astronomy, anthropology, archaeology, and
Egyptology have only supported the theses of Erich von Daniken, Zecharia Sitchin, Alan Alford, Michael
Tellinger, and many others. Outlandish as these concepts may appear to some, many people today believe
strongly that soon the revised Sumerian version of history will become a widespread and legitimate
subject of study in seminaries, universities, and science centers.

HAND-ME-DOWN CULTURES AND CONTROL

Survivors of this early nuclear holocaust faced a period of regression and barbarism. The
remaining humans made the best of things and began rebuilding their civilizations, a slow process without
the overt aid of their “gods.”

The humans longed for the gods’ return, and they may have expressed this longing through art evoking
flight. Those who participated in this art were part of something today called a cargo cult. Cargo cultists
in certain areas of Melanesia in the Pacific believed for years that the sky gods would bring them goods—
cargo—in “big birds.” They especially believed such prophecies were coming true during World War II,
when American and Japanese planes dropped food and materiel in the jungles for advancing troops. After
the war, the natives built mock airstrips and even bamboo “radios” in an effort to prepare for a return of
the “gods.” Some of this practice continues even today.

Erich von Daniken saw a cargo cult behind the famous Nazca Lines in Peru. He speculated that in
ancient times “unknown intelligences” landed at Nazca and laid down two runways before departing. Pre-
Inca tribesmen witnessed their arrival and later extended the two runways and added several of their own
to induce the “gods” to return. Similar etchings, which can only be discerned from the air, have been
found in the Middle East.

Following the devastation north and east of Palestine, Abraham moved his people to the south, where
he fathered Isaac when he was one hundred years old, thanks perhaps to his hybrid genes. Isaac’s son
Jacob became known as Israel, a name soon applied to his entire people. Some believe that the name
Israel is nothing less than a combination of the Egyptian gods OsirlS and RA and the Mesopotamian god
EL.

For about thirty-five generations, or more than 875 years, the Israelites passed along oral accounts of
the stories of the Abraham and the Anunnaki until they finally wrote the stories down in Hebrew. Later,
the life of Jesus Christ was added into the mix after the stories had been translated into Greek; the result
was then “authorized” by a succession of rulers, including Britain’s King James I. We now read these
stories in the form of the Bible. It also must be understood that the narrative above is recounted, in one
form or another, in the Sumerian texts uncovered only in the last 150 years, all of which predate the Bible
by at least 2,000 years. Just consider what current events will sound like 2,000 years from now.

The evidence just covered only begins to scratch the surface of the wealth of data now available—both
archaeological and in the cuneiform tablets—that supports this incredible narrative with its far-reaching
implications. Even the authors and researchers studying this subject feel certain they do not have all the
facts. And while these facts probably don’t tell us the full truth of our history, they most likely are pointing
us in the right direction. Dr. Horn summed it up by noting, “Let us make clear, once again, that we do not
believe the ancient Sumerian and other Mesopotamian stories are ‘absolutely true’ history. These stories
that have come to us through thousands of years of oral tradition and writing are bound to be somewhat
distorted—probably in some cases deliberately distorted by the Anunnaki. But, I feel these ancient stories
are probably as close as we’ll come to the truth today. …”

Obviously, such revision of ancient history has had and will continue to have a profound impact on
conventional science. Horn resigned as a professor of biological anthropology at Colorado State
University in 1990 after he concluded that the conventional explanations for man’s origins that he was
teaching were “nonsense.” After much study, he, too, came to believe that extraterrestrials were intricately involved in the origin and development of humans.

If some Anunnaki remained on the devastated Earth, they would have found themselves marooned on a
primitive world, like the astronaut portrayed by Charleston Heston in the film Planet of the Apes. Without
the infrastructure to manufacture the simplest items, they would have lost the use of their superior
technology but not the knowledge of it, and they certainly would not have been satisfied with simply being
another member of the ape horde.

But how could these ancient visitors control the much larger human population? How could one person,
or even a handful of persons, control several billion people? Certainly not though physical control, but
rather through deceit, secrecy, and the use of two historic institutions of power—first religion and later
finance. Our visitors might have also tried to control us through fractious wars and slavery, which is
practiced right up until today, although most forms of direct physical slavery were abandoned in First
World nations by the mid-1800s.

GIVE ME THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION

Initially, our primitive ancestors most likely felt awe and reverence toward the technologically advanced
visitors who came from the heavens. After all, what primitive human could fly and perform acts that must
have seemed like magic? As author and scientist Arthur C. Clarke once stated, “Any sufficiendy advanced
technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Despite our deference, the first humans thought of these
visitors merely as watchers or messengers from the heavens. Only after Anunnaki leaders began to
appoint rulers over humanity did the concept of religion come into play.

Rather than deal directly with the burgeoning human population, the ancient gods ordained an
administrative body or priesthood to pass along edicts and instruction as well as interpret policy. These
clerics got a taste of wealth and power, a taste they were loath to relinquish. Religion soon evolved into a
rigid structure of dogmas, catechisms, tithing, and obedience.

According to writers Peter Jiang and Jenny Li, some among those who study extraterrestrial phenomena
—known as exoscientists—suggest that other extraterrestrials, who have come to Earth after the
Anunnaki, have tried to manipulate humans genetically, technologically, and also through religious dogma
and ritual. “Apparendy, these extraterrestrials performed ‘great feats’ in order to be worshipped as
‘gods.’ The reported next step was to provide technology to these Earth humans so that these humans
could create impressive looking ‘rich’ structures of religious worship, laid with gold and other mined
mineral resources, of religious worship to these extraterrestrial ‘gods.’ ”

By the time of the earliest recorded human civilizations, such as Assyria and Babylonia, religions were
well established and had merged with the prevailing political structure. Certain civilizations had firmly
established the idea that the clergy could be the only religious authority and that kingship was a divine
right. Anointed priests who worshipped one god exhorted their followers to demonize the worshippers of
the others. And anyone who failed to offer allegiance to their one true god was castigated as a
blasphemer, heathen, Satan worshipper, or worse.

But as the physical gods—the earlier visitors—dropped from sight, the religions they created turned
metaphysical. The concept of God evolved from a physical being to an omnipresent yet anthropomorphic
supernatural entity. The elder conflicts between the ancient astronauts became a metaphor for ancient
wars and a struggle between the new God and his evil counterpart, Satan. Baptist minister and author Paul
\bn Ward wrote about “the development of supernatural religion in what we call the cradle of
civilization, beginning less than 3,000 years ago. Here religions that grew out of absentee-[Advanced
Beings]-cults that described their gods as immortal, magical beings took the next step toward supernaturalism.”

Religious expert, author, and Princeton professor of religion Elaine Pagels received both Rockefeller
and Guggenheim fellowships and was a Mellon Fellow at the Aspen Institute, where she later served on
the board of trustees. She noted, “The earliest mention of Satan occurs in a few scattered references in the
Hebrew Bible. Jewish storytellers introduce a supernatural figure they call ha satan, which can be
translated from Hebrew as ‘the adversary/ or ‘the opposer/ or ‘the obstructer/ But this supernatural
‘opposer’ never dares to oppose God. On the contrary, he is one of God’s obedient servants, his
messengers, called in Hebrew malakim, members of the heavenly court. Translated into Greek, malak
becomes angelos, from which we get the word ‘angel/ ”

The story of how one of God’s trusted messengers turned against him came from various accounts of
prebiblical Hebrew storytellers. One version was that Satan and his followers were thrown out of heaven
after rebelling against orders from their commander in chief. Others stated they violated policy by mating
with human women. Yet another was that the messenger Satan refused to bow down to a younger sibling,
proclaiming, “Why do you press me? I will not worship one who is younger than I am, and inferior; I am
older than he; he ought to worship me!”

Whatever the origin of Satan’s rebellion, Pagels argued that Satan represented human hostility against
other humans: “And it’s no accident that the foundational texts of Christian tradition—the gospels of the
New Testament, like the Dead Sea Scrolls—all begin with stories of Satan contending against God’s
spirit.” Pagels explained that Christians later “turned the image of Satan against a far wider range of
targets—against the Roman empire and its government, which persecuted Christians, and then against
other ‘intimate enemies’—other Christians, whom they called ‘heretics.’

“What I’ve come to see is that when people invoke Satan—whether in the first century or the twentieth
—they have in mind not only some supernatural being, but also some very human beings. People who say,
for example, ‘Satan is trying to take over this country, but we are resisting him,’ know exacdy who they
have in mind, and probably can name names!”

Ward elaborated on Pagels’s viewpoint by stating that “history makes it clear that the Hebrews had
simply followed the example of their patron god. They labeled their opponents, foreign or domestic,
Satanic worshipers of Beelzebub, Belial, and the Princes of Darkness. In return, their opponents likely
shouted their own epithets of ‘infidel’ (meaning ‘unfaithful to the “true” god’).”

According to \bn Ward, a “confluence of historical events” provided the basis for Western
supernaturalism during the Roman Empire. These events included the development of absentee nonhuman
cult worship in the Middle East, the Hebrew worship of Yahweh, who was believed to be the leader of
the olden gods, and the new and compelling reformation cult of Jesus of Nazareth. \bn Ward also
attributes the rise of supernaturalism to the simultaneous rise of powerful institutions—for instance, the
development of Roman organizational skills and the creation of a Christ-centered church, the power of
Rome to elevate Paul’s Christian cult to the status of the state religion, and the Nicean council of bishops
that “culled from competing texts a Bible that largely excludes references to the reality of other
[Advanced Beings] and Jesus’ humanity.”

\bn Ward said generations of humans slowly developed a defense mechanism once the ancient gods
were no longer visible: “The Anunnaki had apparendy decided to go about their own affairs, but humans
felt bereft at being deserted. So supernatural theology was the defense mechanism created to help cope
with the pain and anxiety of an obvious separation of humans from their gods. One of its purposes was to
assure humans that the religious rituals would either bring the departed gods back to Earth or reconnect
the humans to them in the supernatural realm”

With the rise of the Roman Empire, the keepers of ancient secrets moved their network from

Mesopotamia to Rome. As the Roman Empire declined, Christianity became a major institution. With the
founding of the Roman Church, the powers of the ruling elite skyrocketed. Even today, David Icke and
others claim, “The Roman Catholic Church controlled by the Jesuit secret society remains at the heart of Illuminati operations.”

SHOW ME THE MONEY

In early Eastern and Western cultures, rulers gained power and wealth from religion. Yet today, religion has waned, especially in highly developed nations. Now the favored method of control is through money.

The Hebrew Mogen David, or Star of David, is of Babylonian origin and is indicative of how
Babylonian/Sumerian culture was blended with Hebrew religion during the Jews’ captivity in Babylon.
And it was in the Temple at Jerusalem that Jesus turned violent against the money changers.

Matthew 21:12-13 relates, “And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of those who sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves” (KJV).

Author Joseph R Farrell saw the development of the private issuance of bullion-based monies both in ancient times and in various later cultures as suggesting “the evident hand of a hidden international class of bullion-brokers, war merchants, slave traders, and mining operators, for almost invariably, the pattern is the same.” The pattern involved blending finances with the prevailing religion as if money was ordained by God.

Farrell has argued that the methodology of aligning religion with money would go something like this:
rulers could penetrate and ally with the temple, issue false receipts, substitute bullion for letters of credit as a measure against the false receipts, and thus create a facsimile of money.

Thus, we arrive back at the state of issuing false receipts, only in this instance, these receipts are
neither false nor counterfeit, they are simply privately created notes or promises to pay a certain
amount of bullion (which they also control). Thus, once again the money supply is not only
expanded, but the use of such instruments actually served to allow the bullion brokers to
circulate more of such notes than they had actual bullion to redeem. The key, once again, was the
sanctifying probity that the temple association gave them. With this step their power and
influence over the various states which they penetrated was almost complete, for it gave these
ancient bankers, like their modern counterparts, the ability to expand or contract a state’s
money supply and to control their economies to create boom or bust.

The power of exchanging money can be traced back to Palestine, where money changers were prevalent —people who exchanged the currencies of the various cities and nations into money acceptable to the temple priests. Money therefore became closely associated with the temples, which also doubled as centers for the study of astronomy and astrology.

Farrell presented the thesis that modern banking magnates are merely utilizing financial legerdemain
learned from ancient practices. The earliest bankers, who originally dealt in gold and silver bullion,
learned that great profits could be made by issuing written notes and credit vouchers.

Today, money is increasingly mere electronic blips in a computer accessed by plastic cards at ATMs.
There is nothing to back it up. Yet this illusory currency is loaned at interest by great institutions. As the total amount of money grows, its worth decreases. This is called inflation, in effect a built-in tax on the use of money. And inflation can be manipulated upward or downward by those who control the flow of paper money or electronic blips.

“The result of this whole system is massive debt at every level of society today” wrote William
Bramley author of The Gods of Eden. “The banks are in debt to the depositors, and the depositors’ money is loaned out and creates indebtedness to the banks. Making this system even more akin to something out of a maniac’s delirium is the fact that banks, like other lenders, often have the right to seize physical property if its paper money is not repaid.”

Both Bramley and Farrell saw that the strategy and practices of a banking elite in existence since
ancient times involve war, slavery (whether physical or financial), usurpation of the money-creating
power of the state, the invention of debt-as-money, and economic cycles coupled with astrology.

But in order to exert control over such a system, a banking elite would have required long-distance
communication and the use of basic technology in order to construct a worldwide financial network. It has been well documented how early banking dynasties, such as the Medicis and Rothschilds, indeed were dependent on elaborate and effective communication systems. And both families exercised power over kings and monarchs, even selecting the pope.

There are examples of communication technology that could have been used in the past to simulate
miracles and messages from divine beings. Konstantin Meyl, who teaches electronics and alternative
energy technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Furtwangen, Germany, has built on the work of Nikola Tesla in describing how energy—including sound waves—can be transferred without wires via scalar waves, multidimensional standing-wave patterns that exist within the universal unified energy field. G. Patrick Flanagan, author of Pyramid Power, has developed a device called a neurophone, which can carry sound to the brain without the use of the auditory system Using “hyperspacial nested modulation” technology, this device takes a complex signal, such as the sound of an orchestra, and
electrically processes it into square waves approximating human brain waves. After further processing,
the waves are carried through zirconium titanate electrodes embedded in acrylic plastic tiles placed on
the skin anywhere on the body. A person using a neurophone device can “hear” music and speech without the use of the ears. The neurophone has been used experimentally in communicating with dolphins, and further experimentation has shown that scalar-wave sound like radio waves may be discernible without the need for physical contact.

Such existing technology led Meyl to theorize that many ancient temples were constructed in such a way as to create a communication system “The temples in antiquity were all shortwave broadcasting
stations,” blundy stated Meyl in his 2003 book Scalar Waves: From an Extended Vortex and Field
Theory to a Technical, Biological, and Historical Use of Longitudinal Waves. He said the temples were powered by ambient Earth electromagnetic energy as described by Michael Tellinger. Also they were constructed in such a manner as to harness energy from the sun, as well as neutrino radiation from the planets.

Studying the floor plans of the Greek temples of Zeus, Athena, Hera, and Apollo and even the Pantheon in Rome, Meyl presents a compelling argument that the dimensions of such sites show an uncanny geometric resemblance based on the golden ratio, an irrational (nonfractional) number, a mathematical constant used by many early artists and architects, who referred to such designs as sacred geometry. So by constructing edifices using certain rigid mathematical formulas and by utilizing ambient radiation, knowledgeable insiders within the banking elite were able to communicate at great distances via both aural and psychic means.

According to Meyl, old accounts have proved that this type of communication existed, yet those
translating the accounts garbled the translations because they didn’t understand the technology being discussed. For instance, those who have translated accounts of oracles, angelic voices, and prophecies

may have actually meant that a receiver was in use. One old Latin text, for example, stated, “They sent by courier to the emperor in Rome and got for an answer … The answer of the emperor namely arrived at the squad at the latest in the following night.” Meyl has posited that the correct translation should read, “They cabled” or “They broadcast to the emperor in Rome and got for an answer …” Meyl continued, “Such a big empire as the Roman Empire actually could only be reigned by means of efficient communication.
Cicero coined the word: ‘We have conquered the people of the Earth owing to our broadcasting
technology.’ … If engineers, however, rework the incorrect translations … much direct evidence exists
concerning the practical use of this technology.” Like many ancient philosophers, Cicero also wrote that the occult mysteries had more to do with natural science than with religion.

Bramley saw war as another important control mechanism. “War can be an effective tool for
maintaining social and political control over a large population,” he wrote. “A state of war [including an undeclared one, such as the War on Drugs or War on Terrorism] can also be used to encourage
populations to think in ways that they would not otherwise do, and to accept the formation of institutions that they would normally reject. The longer a nation involves itself in wars, the more entrenched those institutions and ways of thinking will become.”

With the control mechanisms of war, religion, and finance firmly in place and coupled with an effective communication system, the stage was set for subjugation of humanity by a relative handful of persons, all traceable to the original civilizations with their narratives of sky gods bringing knowledge and technology.

Much detail concerning the ancient Sumerians and their Anunnaki overlords has been kept from the
general public, although in recent years some of this material has begun to break through into the
corporate mass media. The History Channel’s popular program Ancient Aliens broke many barriers in
bringing the concept of extraterrestrials on Earth in the past to the public.

As the once great Sumerian culture disappeared into history, vestiges of this civilization rose and fell in the Near East. The empires of Akkad, Assyria, Phoenicia, Minoan Crete, and Egypt came to the fore.
Their histories are both well documented and well known. Lesser known is that they were merely hand- me-down cultures based on the religion and technology of the much older civilization of Sumer. And behind their history lurked personages with a desire to rule humanity.

ANCIENT EGYPT

Egypt was ruled by pharaohs who, like other kings, jealously guarded their bloodline. The bloodlines of these Egyptian kings carried the DNA closest to that of the Anunnaki overlords, and it was this DNA that helped them claim their kingship. This custom had been passed down from generation to generation, even though the bloodline of the kings was probably diluted after wars or marriages took place or after the kings bred with commoners.

Although no one in the past had a clear understanding of extraterrestrial life, there are many tantalizing
clues hinting at past visitations, found in engravings, jewelry, and statuary. In the small Egyptian village of
Nazlet el-Samaan, located near the pyramids and the Giza Plateau, an ancient gate holds in its keystone a carving of a small alien “gray.” The figure was carved from a two-and-a-half-ton block of marble, and the doorway’s base was fashioned from blocks made from an aggregate of small, round crushed stones and sand, the stones in which have been dubbed “coins” by the villagers.

Few researchers have bothered to visit this poor neighborhood, nestied just beyond the paws of the
Sphinx. Villagers claim that the diminutive figure on the gate has been there for as long as anyone
remembers, yet they have no explanation or even an oral history concerning it. Lions or cats, long known

as symbols of protection, were carved on both sides of the gate. Some say designs on the gate resemble those of the Mayans. Others say it appears to be Phoenician. Recendy the doorway was demolished to be replaced by a modern entrance, but the ET carving was hidden away for safekeeping.

As the blocks comprising the doorway were of the same stone and craftsmanship as seen on the Great Pyramid, many others believe it dates back to the pyramid’s construction. Until modern times, the area where the village is now located was covered with sand, which may explain why the doorway was so well preserved. This doorway was not an anomaly. There are other ancient doorways in Nazlet el- Samaan with keystones, as well as carved marble stairways and columns, most now broken into pieces.
Many of these ancient pieces have been plastered over by the villagers who now live there and who seek to protect the pieces from those who wish to destroy anything that does not fit with official and
conventional Egyptian history.

Some Egyptian locals claim that in many areas of Cairo there are entrances to a labyrinth of tunnels
running beneath the Giza Plateau. Egyptian authorities continue to discount accounts of such tunnels. In 2009, six Egyptians died of suffocation while digging down to the tunnel system. They had visited the underground tunnels previously but died when their shaft collapsed. Annie DeRiso, news director of The Common Sense Show radio program, hosted by Dave Hodges, said she climbed down into the tunnels in 2006. In them, she and others found the same aggregate of sand and round, coinlike-stone that composed the “alien” gate, as well as fragments of glass and the bones of a giant humanoid.

Erhan Altunay, who said he, too, had visited the tunnels under the Giza Plateau, recalled,

During one of my visits to Egypt (in 1996,1 think) I was guided by a local guide (although I hate
to be disturbed by the guides around), and he said he would show something special if I gave him
$20. We went to a special area near to the Pyramids but at the bottom of the plateau where the
Pyramids are situated. We entered through a hole by paying $5 to the guard there and I was
extremely surprised to see a lot of gates opening to endless tunnels. I saw also many statues, as
you may see in the pictures. (It is strictly forbidden to take pictures, but you may take some if you
pay the guard, as I did.) It seems to me that these tunnels are very old but also used in later
times as I saw some sarcophagi which seem to be from very late periods. I’ve been in Egypt
several times but this was the first and the last time I saw those tunnels, as it was forbidden to
go there.

In 1978, ground-penetrating radar was used to map what was described as “an extraordinary
subterranean complex beneath the Egyptian pyramids.” With the agreement of then president Anwar Sadat, secret excavations were conducted for the next three decades. The excavations were colloquially known as the Giza project. In a private screening many years after the project began, one of the scientists reportedly involved, James J. Hurtak, showed a film of the findings. According to one participant, Paul White, Hurtak’s film depicted “a vast megalithic metropolis, 15,000 years old, reaching several levels below the Giza plateau.” The film depicted underground waterways, massive chambers, and enormous statues carved in situ, the size of those in the Valley of the Nile. White has called this underground sprawl the City of the Gods, stating, “It is the legacy of a civilisation and a technology beyond our own.”

Dr. Hurtak, who commands an international following, compared the discovery of the underground city with its miles of tunnels to contact with an advanced extraterrestrial culture. He said the sprawling city was the work of Adanteans, which he described as the Fourth Root Culture. To Hurtak, this discovery was unequivocal evidence that all languages, cultures, and religions can be traced back to a single common source, which he called the Parent Civilization.

Adding to the mystery of the Giza underground labyrinth are many other disturbing oddities, which can still be found amid Egyptian ruins. In 2010, seventeen new pyramids were found through the use of NASA satellite imaging. Images found on the ceiling beams of the three-thousand-year-old New Kingdom Temple of Seti at Abydos appear to depict a modern helicopter, submarine, airplane, and hovercraft. The carvings were discovered only recendy when a front piece fell from the beam. At Saqqara, Egypt, within the tomb of the sage and philosopher Ptahhotep, author of an extant book of advice to princes, hieroglyphics describe servants offering food to the deceased, who served Pharaoh Djedkare Isesi during his reign, part of the Fifth Dynasty, which lasted from 2494 until 2345 BC. Amazingly, at the bottom is a figure that resembles nothing less than a small alien “gray” as described by so many people who claim UFO contact experiences.

CLASSICAL GREECE

Egypt has long held the fascination of scientists, archaeologists, adventurers, moviemakers, and others, but ancient Greece has always been considered the foundation of Western culture. Greece was settled around 3500 BC. Its name comes from the Greek word graikoi, referring to the original inhabitants of Dodona, which held the oldest known shrine to the god of thunder, Zeus. Perhaps early inhabitants migrated from the decaying Minoan civilization on Crete.

By the sixth century BC, Greek power had become concentrated in the two city states of Athens and
Sparta. After the Greeks twice defeated Persian invasions, Athens became the center of power and during the next few centuries led the nation’s advancement in science, the arts, and philosophy.

Exhausted by war against each other, Athens and Sparta declined during the fourth century BC, and the power vacuum was filled by Philip of Macedon, whose son Alexander the Great, born in 356 BC,
plundered Greece, then Persia, Syria, Phoenicia, Egypt, Babylonia, and parts of India before dying in
Babylon at the age of thirty-three. During his rule of Egypt, he founded the city of Alexandria, which
became the ancient world’s most important center for scientific and literary studies, as well as for the transmission of esoteric traditions. Alexander was a student of the Greek philosopher Aristode, who had been taught by Plato, who had learned from Socrates. By 146 BC, Greece was dominated by Rome.
Centuries later, after the Roman Empire had been divided into eastern and western halves and the western empire had fallen, Greece became part of the Byzantine Empire.

GREEK GODS FROM EGYPT

A close study of mythology from around the world reveals striking similarities among many cultures and their beliefs in ancient gods. Legends from different peoples living in all corners of the Earth seem to tell essentially the same story—in the distant past, certain individuals with “godlike” powers molded mankind into a civilized state following a period of cataclysmic upheaval.

While there is no agreement on the specific connections among the “gods,” due to the large amount of incidental material that has grown up around the stories, a general comparison of mythologies
demonstrates common features that appear to go beyond coincidence and reveal the striking similarities among all versions of the ancient “gods.” The names changed with different languages, but the characteristics remained the same.

Role	Sumerian	Egyptian	Greek	Roman
Heavenly Father	Anu	Amen-Ra	Cronos	Saturn
Heavenly Mother	Antu	Mut	Hera	Juno
Earth Lord	Enlil	Set	Zeus	Jupiter
Earth Mother	Ninhursag	Isis	Athena	Minerva
Earth Brother/Builder	Enki	Osiris	Apollo	Vulcan
Warrior Rival	Marduk	Horus	Ares	Mars
Underworld Lord	Nergal	Anubis	Hades	Pluto
Provider of Love	Inanna	Hathor	Aphrodite	Venus
Facilitator of the Gods	Ninurta	Thoth	Hermes	Mercury

It is important to understand that early on the Sumerians never considered, nor referred to, the beings who brought them knowledge as “gods.” This was a later interpretation by the Romans and Greeks, who fashioned their own gods after the earlier traditions of the Egyptians and earlier civilizations.

All references to these gods carry similar attributes, which correspond to other worlds beyond the
Earth and also convey the idea of influences over humanity as found in astrology, the origin of which is so ancient as to be unknown.

The Greek Herodotus, the “father of history,” has been proven truthful in his accounts. The Scythian city Gelonus was a privileged trading partner to the Greeks until conquered by Alexander. Herodotus’s description of this population center as being a thousand times larger than Troy was widely disbelieved until it was rediscovered in 1975.

Herodotus made it quite clear that the Greek gods, and the rites attributed to them, all came from Egypt, conquered by Alexander in 332 BC. The Egyptian gods simply assumed new names when translated into the Greek language. One clear example is the Greek term for their pantheon of gods, the Titans, who ruled the earth prior to an insurrection. The ruler of the Titans was Cronos, who has been identified as the Anunnaki Anu. He was succeeded by his son Zeus, who has been compared to the Sumerian overlord Enlil. Furthermore, the Titans have always been associated with the various planets, indicating a strong connection to the heavens, and in the Sumerian cuneiform tablets, the word for “those who live in the heavens” is Ti-ta-an.

Herodotus also noted the extreme longevity of ancient Egyptian rulers and also wrote that prior to
eleven thousand years ago living “gods” had resided among the humans. “Thus far I have spoken on the authority of the Egyptians and their priests. They declare that from their first king to this last-mentioned monarch, the priest of Vulcan, was a period of three hundred and forty-one generations; such, at least, they say, was the number both of their kings, and of their high-priests, during this interval,” wrote Herodotus in Book 2 of his Histories. “Now three hundred generations of men make ten thousand years, three generations filling up the century. … However, in the times anterior to [the human kings] it was otherwise; then Egypt had gods for its rulers, who dwelt upon the earth with men, one being always supreme above the rest. The last of these was Horns, the son of Osiris, called by the Greeks Apollo.” As indicated in the comparison chart, Osiris was the Egyptian name for the Anunnaki god Enki, meaning that his son, Horus, would have been Marduk to the Sumerians and Ares to the Greeks, who was the god of war. Is it just coincidence that Marduk began the great civil war between the Anunnaki?

Close to twenty ancient buildings in southern Greece look like pyramids and show evidence of
Egyptian influence. One impressive pyramid is located near the eastern Peloponnesian village of
Hellenikon in Argolis, but for the most part, the structures are largely ruins. Some speculate that in the past the edifices were torn down and used as construction materials for churches and for lime production.

It appears that the Greek pyramids, like the Great Pyramid, were aligned with heavenly bodies. In the
1990s, archaeologists with the Archaeological Museum of Nauplion found the astronomical orientation of

the long entrance corridor of the Hellenikon pyramid probably aligned with Orion’s Belt between the
years 2400-2000 BC. By measuring accumulated radiation using a method called thermoluminescence, archaeologists were able to date scrapings back past 3,000 BC, making them older than similar Egyptian structures.

Athletes and musicians gathered every few years in the Greek city of Delphi to compete in the Pythian Games, which may have begun even earlier than the Olympics, which according to tradition began in 776 BC. Delphi was also home to the Oracle of Delphi, a famed figure in classical Greek mythology. There
are mysterious connections between this sacred site and other sites in Greece, such as the Acropolis of Athens, where the Parthenon is located.

In Odyssey of the Gods, an account of extraterrestrial contact in ancient Greece, Erich von Daniken
writes of an experience with Theophanias Manias, a Greek Air Force officer who had studied topography at the National Technical University of Athens.

He [Manias] took a pair of compasses, placed the point on Delphi and drew a circle through the
Acropolis. Strange to say, the circumference of the circle also touched Argos and Olympia. These
places were equal distances from each other. A strange coincidence, thought Colonel Manias,
and then placed the compass point on Knossos at Crete. The circumference of this circle also
touched Sparta and Epidaurus — strange! Colonel Manias continued. When the center was Delos,
Thebes and Izmir lay on the circumference; when the center was Paros, it was Knossos and
Chalcis; when the center was Sparta, Mycenae and the oracle site of Trofonion were on the
circumference.

Both Manias and von Daniken saw in these configurations a repetition of the previously described
golden ratio indicating the influence of ancient knowledge. “In ancient Greece many such triangles can be drawn, and always with two proportions in regard to the length of their sides,” noted von Daniken. “Such triangles joining cult sites cannot just arise by chance.”

Maurice Chatelain has written of sacred sites connected with a perfection that could only have been
accomplished horn the vantage point of outer space. He described thirteen mystical sites within a 450- mile radius of the long-venerated Greek island of Delos connected by straight lines to produce a perfect Maltese Cross, later the emblem of the Knights Templar. Delos has always been considered one of ancient Greece’s most holy sites, although no one has ever known exacdy why. In Our Ancestors Came from Outer Space, Chatelain wrote, “What interests us now is how and why such a gigantic pattern was marked on the Aegean and surrounding lands. I do not believe that even today’s land surveyors could so precisely mark such a gigantic figure of over 360 miles (579 kilometers) jumping from island to island and stretching over sea and mountains. Except horn high up in the air this Maltese Cross would not be visible.”

Hesiod, a Greek poet who lived about 700 BC, wrote extensively of the gods in his Theogony, a
synthesis of stories concerning the Greek gods. He wrote of conflicts and wars, even between Zeus (Enlil in Sumerian) and his father Cronos (the sky god Anu in Sumerian). He may have been describing thunderous Anunnaki sky god Enlil and his more beneficent half-brother Enki when he wrote, “The glowing Sun never looks upon them with his beams, neither as he goes up into heaven, nor as he comes down from heaven. And the former of them roams peacefully over the earth and the sea’s broad back and is kindly to men; but the other has a heart of iron, and his spirit within him is pitiless as bronze: whomsoever of men he has once seized he holds fast: and he is hateful even to the deathless gods.”

In writing of the wars between the gods, Hesiod spoke of their flying chariots and may have even
described ancient atomic weapons when he wrote, “And flame shot forth from the thunder-stricken lord in the dim rugged glens of the mount, when he was smitten. A great part of huge earth was scorched by the terrible vapour and melted as tin melts when heated by men’s art in channeled crucibles; or as iron, which is hardest of all things, is softened by glowing fire in mountain glens and melts in the divine earth through the strength of Hephaestus. Even so, then, the earth melted in the glow of the blazing fire.” Hesiod goes to some length to detail the many wives of Zeus and the spreading of his bloodline following the wars of the gods.

Many centuries after Hesiod, Plato wrote in the Statesman that Earth’s poles shifted after the gods left the Earth.

In the fulness of time, when the change was to take place, and the earth-born race had all
perished, and every soul had completed its proper cycle of births and been sown in the earth her
appointed number of times, the pilot of the universe let the helm go, and retired to his place of
view; and then Fate and innate desire reversed the motion of the world. Then also all the inferior
deities who share the rule of the supreme power, being informed of what was happening, let go
the parts of the world which were under their control. And the world turning round with a sudden
shock, being impelled in an opposite direction from beginning to end, was shaken by a mighty
earthquake, which wrought a new destruction of all manner of animals.

The classical Greeks also wrote of leaders and rulers who, much like the Anunnaki, were the offspring of humans and gods. In the oldest telling of the story of Jason and the Argonauts, Pindar’s Pythian Ode number 4, eleven adventurers, including Jason, all were said to have been descendants from the ancient gods.

Beyond the overlaps between Sumerian and Greek mythology and the influence the Greeks have had on our culture, it’s possible that the Greeks and their gods are affecting us in ways we might never have imagined. Recentiy, a man known pseudonymously as Ted Connors, who worked with a Department of Defense subcontracting firm in Alabama, recounted how one morning in 2007 he saw a large metallic hubcap next to a tree with long wires stretching upward. Suddenly the object rose and disappeared in midair.

Connors was among several people who were reporting seeing such “spider drones.” Later in the year, Connors found himself having disturbing dreams about his encounter. When he revisited the tree, he found that it had been cut down. As he sat nearby contemplating, he began to feel an electrostatic charge throughout his body and started to receive what he thought were telepathic messages from beings from another planet. They first explained that the object Connors saw was a drone probing Earth for information. They said they were from a planet called Oltissis, the twenty-third planet in their star system, one that has four moons. The probe came through a “tear” in time and space, which was repaired upon its return. Connors was told that our interpretation of time and space is incorrect. “All is infinite,” they explained, adding that we would not understand their “ethos,” a Greek word for the character or nature of a people.

As ethos is derived from the Greek and Oltissis sounds Greek, Connors wrote, “My feeling is these
[telepathic beings] are the ancient Greeks. These [from Oltissis] are the ones who came here before
Earth’s historic timeline. They are the Greek gods.”

Connors’s tale might be written off as a delusion or fabrication, except for a further development.
Because he connected his experience to the Greek gods, Connors visited a local library for a book on ancient Greece and stumbled across one entided Ancient Greek Gods and Lore Revisited. It was
copyrighted 1962 and was by an author whose name Connors remembers as Fredrico Ionnides. In this book he said he found three references to Oltissis. Apparentiy one reference mentioned Oltissis as a historic Greek pleasure palace. He said he left the book on his car seat, as he intended to read it when he had time.

Two days later, Connors said he was surprised to be called into his boss’s office. He was even more
surprised to find two men there who presented identification showing they were from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Security Agency (NSA). The pair asked him about the library book he had obtained and said curdy, “We need to have that book.” When asked why, the one from DHS replied it was a national security matter and asked if Connors was aware of the PATRIOT Act.

Connors’s boss said brusquely, “Go get the book!” He immediately retrieved the book from his car and turned it over to the two men, asking, “How will I get the book back?”

“We will contact you,” they replied.

Connors was flabbergasted and never thought to ask the men how they knew he had checked out this book from the library or why a book on ancient Greek gods would have any application to national security. Since he had mentioned the book’s title in an e-mail to a friend, Connors suspected the agents learned of it through e-mail interception, and he suspected that the Greek god connection, whatever it may be, is a serious matter to certain federal authorities. “If there is one thing I’m sure of at this point in time [it] is that—and this is what I got from the first message I received—is that this is very important to mankind—not to governments—not to leaders—not to power brokers—but to mankind,” he told journalist Linda Moulton Howe.

John Coleman, a veteran best-selling conspiracy author and a self-proclaimed former MI6 agent,
provided connective tissue bringing the tales of Greek gods right up to date. In his book on the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, Coleman said in modern America a “closely knit group of social psychologists, pollsters and media manipulators” is presided over by an elite group of powerful patrons, known as the Committee of 300 or, more significantly, “the Gods of Olympus.”

POWER PASSES TO ROME

After the Greeks came the Romans. The Roman civilization is said to have been founded in 753 BC by Romulus and Remus, the twin sons of the Trojan leader Aeneas, who fled to Italy with other refugees following the fall of Troy in modern-day Turkey. It was said Aeneas was the son of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, and with his death, at his mother’s request, he was deified as the god Jupiter Indiges. Venus, the goddess of beauty, sex, fertility, and victory, was the Roman counterpart of Aphrodite. Her Anunnaki counterpart would have been Inanna. Such connections indicate the ongoing cult worship that began in Sumer and then passed through Egypt and Greece.

About 80 BC, General Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, better known simply as Sulla, founded a college in
Rome dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis. However, Isis worship was discouraged by the Roman
consuls, who did not want to share control over the population. The worship of Isis at Rome continued to be suppressed by a succession of decrees until the reign of Caligula.

In 212 BC, a different man, Gaius Sulla, an ardent worshipper of Apollo, organized the first of the
annual Ludi Apollinares, or Games of Apollo, honoring the Greek god whose counterparts were Osiris
and Enki. The later warlord, Sulla Felix, was known to wear a small golden image of Apollo into battle.
In many ways, Roman culture was merely the latest incarnation of Sumer, bringing with it many of the
older centralized religious and political structures.

The Roman Empire was formed in 27 BC after Julius Caesar’s nephew Octavian (Caesar Augustus)
had emerged victorious from a series of ruinous civil wars, first primarily between Julius Caesar and his former ally Pompey, and then between Octavian and his former ally Mark Antony. Before his
assassination in 44 BC by a group of senators hoping to restore the republic, Julius Caesar had seen to it that his name became so popular that it was used as a title for subsequent rulers; soon the tide Caesar evolved horn being a family name of the Julian clan of Rome to a title held by a Roman emperor. The name has lived on in the German word kaiser and the Russian tide czar.

At the height of its power in about AD 117, the empire commanded most of the Western world. Like
Greece and the United States, Rome began as a democratic republic but evolved into a voracious and aggressive empire ruled by a succession of tyrannical Caesars, its people disdacted by bread and circuses—government-sponsored bee food and weekly gladiatorial spectacles in the various coliseums.

However, after the death (possibly another assassination) of the last pagan emperor, Julian the
Apostate, the due ruling power was the Roman Church, collector of tithes and lender of money to the
government. As the power of the later Roman state rested on the power of the Church, it is insductive to review the rise of Christianity.

In the time of Jesus of Nazareth, Jews in Palestine were fragmented among the clerical and politically powerful Pharisees, the pious Sadducees, and the unconventional Essenes. Moreover, the interpretations of the Old Testament found in the Dead Sea Scrolls illuminate the ways in which the interpretations of James and the Jerusalem Christians devoted to the teachings of Jesus differed bom those of Paul and his followers outside Palestine. It is interesting to note that in the Scriptures Jesus condemned both the Pharisees and Sadducees but pointedly ignored the Essenes, leading many to believe he favored the Essene philosophies.

As leaders of the Jerusalem church, Jesus’s brother James and Mary Magdalene were at odds with
Paul, who was bringing his version of Christianity to the gentiles to the north. There were immense
squabbles over the most minute issues. In Galatians 5:12, Paul had become so exasperated with a
continuing argument over circumcision that he expressed the hope that those initiating the controversy would emasculate themselves.

Bible scholar and former intelligence analyst Patricia G. Eddy wrote, “The first Jewish Christians
believed that obeying all of the sbingent Jewish religious laws, including circumcision and eating only Kosher food, were necessary for salvation.” Yet according to Eddy, “Paul preached that salvation could be attained through faith and that the Jewish religious laws should not be allowed to impede people bom becoming Christians. Paul’s view eventually won out, as more and more gentiles converted to Christianity. By the third century, they outnumbered the Jewish Christians by a large margin, defined Christianity according to Paul’s theology, and began castigating the original Jewish Christians as heretics.”

By the middle of the second century, Irenaeus, the Bishop of Lyons, was condemning the followers of Jesus and James as heretics. These followers were known as Nazarenes, or the poor. The author Laurence Gardner noted that Irenaeus complained that these Nazarenes “reject the Pauline epistles and they reject the apostle Paul, calling him an apostate [rejecter] of the Law … the Nazarenes … denounced Paul as a ‘renegade’ and a ‘false apostle,’ claiming that his ‘idolatrous writings’ should be ‘rejected altogether.’ ”

Elaine Pagels wrote that “diverse forms of Christianity flourished in the early years of the Christian
movement. Hundreds of rival teachers all claimed to teach the ‘true doctrine of Christ’ and denounced one another as bauds. Christians in churches scattered bom Asia Minor to Greece, Jerusalem, and Rome split into factions, arguing over church leadership. All claimed to represent ‘the authentic tradition.’ ”

Aber becoming an established institution, the Roman Church quickly gained wealth and power. It
derived a great deal of power bom collecting tithes and lending money to the government. “Far above the wrangling in the local churches sat the Roman Church, unconcerned, untroubled, and probably, uncomprehending,” Patricia Eddy wrote, adding that the Church at this time was primarily concentrating on missionary work in Europe, an activity which paid unexpected benefits. “Unwittingly, the Christianization of these heathen ultimately saved the Roman Church because the barbarians and their priests regarded the Roman Church as the authority for their religious beliefs. When the barbarians overran Rome, the Roman Church was spared. …”

Though spared by the barbarians, the Church still had to contend with a variety of sects, all with their own version of Christianity. Church control was maintained predominantiy by fear of God’s wrath as evoked by the priesthood. If that failed, there was always force.

And all of the Church’s machinations were said to be supported by biblical scripture, which had been
edited numerous times to eliminate certain messages that contradicted Church dogma. Editing, or
redactions, as they are euphemistically called, over the years has led to errors in our translations of the Bible, which in turn have led some to misunderstandings over modern terms, such as flight, or when it came to secret codes hidden within its language. The Essenes of Jesus’s time produced literature containing their own intricate codes and allegories to protect their knowledge from the uninitiated as well as from the Roman authorities. For example, when writing about the Romans, they used the term Kittim, but this word was often misinterpreted to refer to the ancient Chaldeans of Mesopotamia or some of the Greek islands.

In addition, according to C. L. Turnage, some Bible codes and symbols referred to multiple deities.
“These coded references pointed the way toward an understanding that such beings were the gods, or Elohim, of the Bible, whose worship began in Sumer, and who ultimately originated on another world.”

The conflicts both within and outside of Christianity were setded by the Roman emperor Constantine in a compromise to gain power. “Apart from various cultic beliefs, the Romans had worshipped the
Emperors in their capacity as gods descended from others like Neptune and Jupiter,” explained author Laurence Gardner. “At the Council of Arles in 314, Constantine retained his own divine status by introducing the omnipotent God of the Christians as his personal sponsor. He then dealt with the
anomalies of doctrine by replacing certain aspects of Christian ritual with the familiar pagan traditions of sun worship, together with other teachings of Syrian and Persian origin. In short, the new religion of the Roman Church was constructed as a ‘hybrid’ to appease all influential factions. By this means, Constantine looked towards a common and unified ‘world’ religion—Catholic meaning universal —with himself at its head.”

Once Christianity became the accepted religion of the empire, pagan holidays were expropriated.
Saturnalia, for example, was the winter festival in honor of the god Saturn, the equivalent of the Sumerian god of the heavens, Anu, and the Egyptian god Amen-Ra (known to the Greeks as Cronos). Saturnalia was merely a latter-day extension of the Greek festival of Kronia, a remembrance of the “Golden Days” when Cronos ruled the world. By the end of the republic, it had evolved into a gay time of gift-giving, lighting candles, feasting, and general frivolities for the entire population, including slaves. But when Christianity arrived, the Roman rulers found it difficult to stamp out this holiday, so the Church simply announced that it was celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, an observance that has been carried forward to this day as Christ Mass, or Christmas.

The church’s co-optation of Christianity was sealed at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325. During the
council, the priest Arius was beaten and tossed out because he and his followers believed that only God created everything and therefore Jesus was not God but simply a heavenly inspired teacher. His
followers, the Arians, were banished from the Church, and the Nicene Creed was established, which
formally defined God as a deity of three equal and coexisting parts—the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost.

One year later, Constantine ordered the confiscation and destruction of all works that questioned the
newly constructed orthodoxy and then opened the Lateran Palace, which was a precursor of the Vatican, to the Bishop of Rome. In 331, the emperor ordered new copies made of Christian texts, most of which had been lost or destroyed during the previous persecutions. The resulting editing included alterations that have become the foundation of modern Christianity.

BOOK BURNING

Although history lavishes praise on the Greek and Roman empires for the advances they brought in
military strategies, construction, and sanitation, scant attention has been paid to the destruction of ancient sacred sites and indigenous cultures as these empires spread across the world.

Ancient knowledge and history were forgotten by the masses, often because the ruling classes destroyed libraries and historical records. Only a few of Homer’s poems survived the destruction of his works by the Greek tyrant Pisistratus in Athens. Nothing survived the destruction of the Egyptian library in the Temple of Ptah in Memphis. Likewise, an estimated two hundred thousand volumes of priceless works disappeared with the destruction of the library of Pergamum in Asia Minor.

When the Romans leveled the city of Carthage in their drive for world conquest, they destroyed a
library said to have contained more than five hundred thousand volumes. Then came Julius Caesar, whose war against Egypt resulted in the loss of the great library at Alexandria, considered the greatest collection of books in antiquity. With the loss of the Serapeum and the Bruchion branches of that library, a total of up to seven hundred thousand volumes of accumulated knowledge went up in flames.

European libraries also suffered under the Romans and later horn zealous Christians. Between the
sacking of Constantinople by Crusaders in 1204 and the Catholic Inquisition (1137-1825), an inestimable number of ancient works were irretrievably lost.

Collections in Asia fared little better, as Emperor Ch’in Shih Huang Ti ordered all histories of ancient
China burned just before he died in 210 BC.

“Because of these tragedies we have to depend on disconnected fragments, casual passages and meager accounts,” lamented Australian author Andrew Tomas. “Our distant past is a vacuum filled at random with tablets, parchments, statues, paintings, and various artifacts. The history of science would appear totally different were the book collection of Alexandria intact today.”

Always this destruction was done in the name of God or the people. In Rome, the official slogan was
Senatus populus quis Romanus, meaning the Senate (government) and the Roman people are one, or synonymous. It was an early and eerie forerunner of the German Nazi slogan Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fiihrer, or One people, one Empire, one Leader.

The book burning of the Nazis is well known, but such destruction of knowledge did not stop with the end of World War II. In Iraq, the central al-Awqaf Library, founded in 1920, contained 45,000 rare books and more than 6,000 documents from the Ottoman Empire. At the onset of the U.S. invasion, arsonists set fire to the building in April 2003. Although the staff managed to save 5,250 items, including a collection of older Korans, all else was lost. The fire spread, destroying all 175,000 books and manuscripts at the library of the University of Baghdad’s College of Art. The entire library at the University of Basra was reduced to ash, and the Central Public Library in Basra lost 100 percent of its collection. Also lost in the invasion and subsequent occupation were volumes from the Iraqi National Library as well as those at Bayt al-Hikma, the Central Library of the University of Mosul, and others. According to Fernando Baez, director of Venezuela’s National Library and author of A Universal History of the Destruction of Books, almost one million books and ten million priceless documents have been destroyed, lost, or stolen throughout Iraq since 2003. Baez described the losses as “the biggest cultural disaster since the descendants of Genghis Khan destroyed Baghdad in 1258.”

LOST IN TRANSLATION

All this destruction of human origins and history has led to gaping holes in humankind’s true history,
leading in turn to confusion due to mistranslations, misinterpretations, and name changes within religious documents, which may be ascribed simply to the differences among languages and cultures or to deliberate obfuscation.

Rabbi Dovid Bendory, rabbinic director for Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO),
is just one of the more recent researchers who have found major misunderstandings based on
mistranslations of the Bible. In a 2012 commentary, Rabbi Bendory explained that one of the most
commonly recognized lines of the Ten Commandments, “Thou shall not kill,” is a mistranslation of the Hebrew Lo tirtzach, which actually means “Do not murder.” He said this term has “a clear and
unequivocal meaning,” one that “forever changed the course of all human history,” as both Jews and
Christians have been plagued with guilt and remorse over killing in wars, by accident, or self-defense.

“There is a world of difference between killing and murder,” he explained. “Can we possibly estimate
the numbers of lives that have been lost by foolish pacifism rather than righteous defense in the face of evil?”

Mauro Biglino also has challenged interpretations and translations of the Bible. Biglino, formerly an
Italian translator for the religious publishing house San Paolo Editors, has been a scholar of religious
history and a student of ancient Hebrew for more than thirty years. Biglino was fired from his position as a translator of Vatican material after publishing a book in 2012 in which he claimed that extraterrestrials guided the development of humankind. He said this was confirmed by a careful and literal translation of the original Hebrew Bible.

In his original work, The Book That Will Forever Change Our Ideas About the Bible, now released as
There Is No God in the Bible, Biglino pointed to the Old Testament book of Deuteronomy (1:28) in which scouts reported to Moses of encountering giants and great cities in the sky inhabited by the “sons of the Anakims.” Current Bible dictionaries fail to explain the Anakims. Yet several researchers connect the Anakim to the Nephilim, the oversize hybrid offspring of the sons of gods and the daughters of men mentioned in Genesis 6:4. Large bones and tools found all over the world, though little publicized, attest to the existence once of a race of giants. The biblical story of David and Goliath comes to mind.

According to Biglino, like the Nephilim, angels in the Bible are described only by their function as
messengers rather than their physical nature. He said this is because the ancient scribes were writing about physical beings whose nature was obvious to the people of that time who had encountered them.

They ate, drank, slept, and even washed themselves, hardly the activities of nonphysical beings. Only in later centuries, when such face-to-face contact was lost, were these messengers transformed into metaphysical entities.

Biglino noted that the Israelites of the Old Testament obviously did not see their god as a transcendent and unique entity, and their relationship with him was not viewed as unavoidable. “The whole history of Israel is full of betrayals, abandonment, cults dedicated to other deities, also called Elohims, all concrete, all present like the Elohim leading Israel and with whom there had been this alliance: Jews would serve him and he would help them conquer the land and become a nation. This same Elohim repeatedly calls himself jealous, and we wonder: how can one be jealous of a partner if there are no rivals in the relationship?” Biglino also compared the original Ten Commandments of Yahweh as written in Hebrew to the modern, sanitized, and Christianized version and found little in common.

In addition to the account of Ezekiel and his fiery flying saucer, well covered in other sources and found to accurately describe a subspace vehicle by a NASA scientist, Biglino described the experiences of other biblical figures. These include Elisha and the prophet Elijah, whose name, Eliyahu, means “My God is El.” In II Kings 2:10-11, it is clear that Elijah has foreknowledge that he would be taken, and shordy he was pulled up into the heavens in a whirlwind by a “chariot of fire.” For three days, his countrymen looked for him but failed to find any sign of him Biglino has pointed out that: “This was an announced event, known in advance by the involved parties and therefore programmed by the Elohims who had decided to take with them this representative of theirs. One does not search for three days, laboring over hills and dales, for someone who has been kidnapped just in a vision or a dream!” Enoch, the father of Methuselah, who reportedly lived 365 years, was also taken up to heaven by his god.

Could these accounts actually be of alien abductions? Biglino has said that the prophet Zechariah
encountered an efahm, interpreted as a flying roll or cylinder, similar to some UFOs reported today. He compares such biblical experiences with the flying machines of the Sumerian Anunnaki.

The Bible’s Psalm 82 describes God in assembly with other gods. Biglino viewed this as a description of a meeting between the ancient gods, or Elohims, and their superiors. Here they are warned about bringing arrogance to their positions over humans, as well as reminded that they, too, have finite, although lengthy, life spans. Biglino has pointed out that the connection is clear and simple: “The Elohims die like all ADAMS! It comes as no surprise to anyone who speculates that ANUNNAKI/ELOHIMS could have a long life—incredibly long for earthly beings, as it was measured on Nibiru’s orbital cycles—but that, as people made of flesh and blood, they too were meant to die. Simply astonishing is the fact that the Bible itself says so![emphases in the original].” Mauro Biglino’s conclusion was that we have worshipped the extraterrestrials who have come to our planet as gods, and the original recognition of these multiple gods has, over the years, been reduced to one god. This interpretation does not necessarily deny the existence of an omniscient universal creator God.

Biglino is not alone in believing that extraterrestrials are mentioned in the Bible. In 2003, Monsignor
Corrado Balducci, a Vatican spokesman on the UFO issue, stated that not believing in “UFOs and the
presence of other living beings is a sin. Their existence is not only proven by about a million witnesses, including those of many atheist scientists, but it is also confirmed by some passages of the Scripture that clarify some points about their presence.”

This vision by the Catholic Church was supported by Jose Gabriel Funes, an Argentinean Jesuit and
director of the Vatican Observatory. In a 2008 interview, Father Funes stated, “It is possible to believe in God and in extraterrestrials. The existence of other worlds and other life, even more evolved than ours, can be accepted without this interfering in the discussion of the faith of creation, the incarnation, the redemption. … As a multiplicity of creatures exist on earth, so there could be other beings, also intelligent, created by God. This does not contrast with our faith because we cannot put limits on the
creative freedom of God.”

The claims of Jose Funes and Mauro Biglino may seem outrageous to some. Yet their interpretation of the Bible is similar to the recent translations of Sumerian glyphs and ancient Hebrew. According to one reviewer of Biglino’s work, “Many translators have come up with parallel results. Mr. Biglino brings validity to the former researchers by sharing it with us. These are the translations that come through when you use the correct database to transcribe from Researchers that worked with Michael Heiser [that critic of Zecharia Sitchin are government funded and they use a newer base to translate with, which is preposterous to do so, due to the changing meanings and subsets of civilizations over time. The originals were hundreds if not thousands of years older than the database that Heiser’s group was translating with.

Further, academics wouldn’t be allowed to put their stamp of approval on any work they found that’s
related to extraterrestrials, due to the socio-economic upheaval it could cause. That very thing must be avoided at all costs, as far as they are concerned. Our government and the people behind the scenes are not receptive to anything other than what they’ve mandated. History is written by the victors, and rarely does the truth match what the victors write about. If the government allowed the truth, then billions of history, medical, financial, etc. books would need to be corrected.”

It is little wonder that learned men down through the ages have misunderstood the truths lying behind the gods of legend and myth? “Is it any wonder that ‘science’ can’t find any evidence for ancient aliens, or lost knowledge?” asked author Philip Coppens, a prolific writer who has made a study of old legends and secret societies throughout his life. If historians have been misled concerning true history, then perhaps it is time we consider that much of modern man’s entire worldview has been misguided.