Figures on the same shelf include Anu, Alalu (Earth / gold discoverer in Sitchin-style lists), Poseidon as an Anunnaki father in Matias’s map, and Noah / Manu as flood-survivor neighbors.
Sitchin reinterprets Sumerian and Mesopotamian myths to portray Alalu as an extraterrestrial from Nibiru who fled to Earth and found gold, which the Anunnaki later mined.
This claim lacks support in ancient texts, where Alalu appears only as a primordial god in Hurrian-Hittite succession myths, with no mention of gold, Earth, or extraterrestrial elements.