Sumerians

Yet by3300 BC, archaeological studies have shown that Sumerians had drained marshes, dug canals, constructeddams and dikes, and built a large-scale irrigation system next to gleaming cities containing hugepyramidal structures called ziggurats.

It is now clear that the Code of Hammurabi was drawn from laws set downby the Sumerians centuries earlier, particularly the earliest law code yet discovered, issued by theSumerian 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 thestrange mounds that dotted the countryside in southern Iraq.

In 1843, the Frenchman Paul-Emile Bottadiscovered Sargon II’s palace near modern-day Khorsabad, and soon after, archaeologists found buriedcities, broken palaces, artifacts, and thousands of clay tablets detailing every facet of Sumerian life.

Bythe late 1800s, Sumerian was considered an original language and was being translated.

Despite our superficial knowledge of the Sumerians, we have already been able to credit them with manyworld “firsts.” Samuel Noah Kramer, author of History Begins at Sumer and The Sumerians, noted thatthese people developed the wheel, schools, medical science, the first written proverbs, history, the firstbicameral congress, taxation, laws, social reforms, the first cosmogony and cosmology, and the firstmoney (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 theancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.

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

The Sumerian alphabet was essentially shorthand for a much older original language made up oflogograms (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 aSumerian sentence.

One ancient Sumerian document, known as the King List, described not their “gods” but the earliestSumerian rulers and the lengths of their reigns.

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

Sumerian knowledge of the heavens was both amazing and puzzling.

Sumerian knowledge of themovements of the sun and moon resulted in the world’s first calendar, used for centuries afterward by theSemites, 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 asexagesimal (based on the number 60) system,” Alford reported.

Sumerian creation based on their twelve “gods.” They used it to chart a great precessional cycle thatwould take 25,920 years to fully complete, a period known as the Platonic year.

“The uncomfortablequestion which the scientists have avoided is this: how could the Sumerians, whose civilization onlylasted 2,000 years, possibly have observed and recorded a celestial cycle that took 25,920 years tocomplete?

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 weshould allow the Sumerians themselves to explain.

The answer, echoing claims from many other ancient peoples, is that all their knowledge came horntheir “gods.” Scholars in the past believed the Sumerians were talking about ethereal and imaginarybeings in the sky.

“All the ancient peoples believed in gods who had descended to Earth from the heavens and who couldat will soar heavenwards,” explained Zecharia Sitchin in the prologue to the first book of a seriesdetailing his translations and interpretations of Sumerian accounts of their origin and history.

Understanding the Sumerian version of the human origin requires only a slight shift in mind-set.

Sitchinand others simply believe that the ancient Sumerians may have just been putting down on their clay tabletshistory as they understood it rather than fanciful myths.

The Sumerian descriptions of many ancient cities were believed to be mere fables until their ruins werediscovered and excavated.

In several accounts etched permanently into their clay tablets, the ancient Sumerian scribes gavemore detail as to the source of their knowledge.

The Zulu people, people from the sky.The abelungu have the same aspects as ascribed to the Anunnaki in the Sumerian tablets.

Lord Enki is also known as Enkei asthe creator-god, the Sumerian medicine man.

According to Sitchin’s interpretations of Sumerian texts, about 450,000 years ago, during Earth’sPleistocene ice age, the highly developed inhabitants of Nibiru—the Anunnaki—journeyed to Earth as thetwo planets came into proximity.

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

One Sumerian text reported, “The load is excessive, it is killing us!

On at least one Sumerian cylinder seal, an illustration ofEnki and Ninhursag depicted them surrounded by vials or vessels, a table, shelves, a plant, and a helper,looking very much like a laboratory.

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.

Tellinger and Heine claim that even the Sumerian civilization may have been preceded by an Africanculture whose settlements covered most of South Africa and may have even known how to harness freeenergy horn the Earth.

Another connection between Africa and Sumer may be found in the names of theirgods, which bear a striking resemblance to the Sumerian overlords.

“Our proof comes in the form of large stone monolith statues, petroglyphs and symbols, discovered inMpumalanga and other parts of South Africa, which were previously believed to be of Sumerian andEgyptian origins.” Tellinger and Heine have also been careful to look at the Sumerian tablets to formulatetheir conclusions.

It is now very clear that the first civilization merged many thousands ofyears 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 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’sknowledge concerning cloning and in vitro fertilization.

Human antiquity lends much support to the legitimacy of the Sumerian accounts of humankind’sbeginnings.

Until about 1996, when Dolly the sheep was cloned in Scotland, scholars reading the Sumerian textsregarding the hybridization and cloning of humans are excused for believing the stories were all fancifulmyths.

In July 2011, a modern parallel to the Sumerian story of humankind’s creation became apparent when itwas revealed that human-animal hybrids were secredy being created by scientists in Britain.

The “laboratory” which produced the first Adamas was called Shi-im-ti, or “the house where the windof life is breathed in,” by the Sumerians.

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 issuggested by the caduceus, the logo of physicians even today.

The Sumerian texts relate how an envious Enlil raided Enki’s African lab andreturned with captives to E-din, where they were put to work producing food and serving the Anunnaki.

Although the Sumerian texts describing the details of this process have been either lost or are as yetundiscovered, researchers have assumed that the procedure involved obtaining life-producing AdamaDNA, possibly by extracting a rib while the subject was under anesthesia.

Researcher Arthur Horn stated that study of the Sumerian texts made it clear that “the Anunnaki treatedtheir 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—

Yet, the Anunnaki eventually decided to granthumankind their first civilization, the Sumerian civilization.”

Alan Alford has pointed to the fossil record and the Sumerian textsplacing the birth of humans at 450,000 years ago.

In order to make the Bible’s timeline make sense next tothe Sumerian and fossil timeline, Alford multiplied biblical ages by 100; he found that the time betweenthe birth of Adam’s son Seth and the great Flood of Noah was 165,000 years.

This number is moreconsistent with the Sumerian accounts.

“TheJews were thus a long way from the Sumerian origin of their patriarch Abraham, and had lost theknowledge 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 producedabout three hundred thousand years ago.

Whether out of some affection for humans or simply to thwart Enlil’splans, 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.

He was Ziusudrato the ancient Sumerians, Nuwah to the Chinese, Cox to Aztecs, Powaco to other Native Americans, ManuYaivasata to the Hindus, Dwytach to the Celts, Noa to the natives of the Amazon, and Nu-u to theHawaiians.

Utnapishtim has been called the Sumerian Noah, and the parallels between the biblical account of Noahand the Gilgamesh account of the Great Flood are both striking and obvious.

Referring to the story ofNoah, Sitchin stated that “the biblical account is an edited version of the original Sumerian account.

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

The Sumerian tablets explained why humans had to cultivate the land and domesticate animals—becausetheir gods demanded it.

This practice began in the Sumerian city of Kish, which Sitchin equates with the biblical Cush.

Both the Sumerian texts and the Bible agree that Shem and his descendants remained in the areaencompassing 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 Aryanswho suddenly appeared there in ancient times.

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

Because the Anunnaki mission control center at the Sumerian city of Nippur was destroyed during theFlood and because of the need for a location equidistant from the glide path lines, a new control centerwas needed.

According to the Sumerian texts, Enki’s firstborn son, Marduk, gained sovereignty over the lands ofEgypt and became known as Ra.

In a story reminiscent of Romeo and Juliet, the Sumerian stories tell of a granddaughter of Enlil namedInanna, 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, forviolating the Anunnaki moral code, Inanna attacked Marduk/Ra.

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” alsomeant “vapor.” Lot’s wife then was vaporized by the explosion that consumed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Conventional history states that mighty Sumer simply vanished suddenly, absorbed by the new empiresof Babylon and Assyria, though Sumerian texts tell a much more horrible story.

Besides destroying anumber of cities, tragic collateral damage came about as a result of the nuclear blasts on the SinaiPeninsula—in the fallout from the explosions, a radioactive cyclone formed and moved throughMesopotamia 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 theland [Sumer] fell a calamity, one unknown to man; one that had never been seen before, one which couldnot be withstood.

Outlandish as these concepts may appear to some, many people today believestrongly that soon the revised Sumerian version of history will become a widespread and legitimatesubject of study in seminaries, universities, and science centers.

It also must be understood that the narrative above is recounted, in oneform or another, in the Sumerian texts uncovered only in the last 150 years, all of which predate the Bibleby at least 2,000 years.

Horn summed it up by noting, “Let us make clear, once again, that we do notbelieve the ancient Sumerian and other Mesopotamian stories are ‘absolutely true’ history.

The Hebrew Mogen David, or Star of David, is of Babylonian origin and is indicative of howBabylonian/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.

Much detail concerning the ancient Sumerians and their Anunnaki overlords has been kept from thegeneral public, although in recent years some of this material has begun to break through into thecorporate mass media.

As the once great Sumerian culture disappeared into history, vestiges of this civilization rose and fell in the Near East.

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.

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.

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.

He wrote of conflicts and wars, even between Zeus (Enlil in Sumerian) and his father Cronos (the sky god Anu in Sumerian).

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.

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).

He compares such biblical experiences with the flying machines of the Sumerian Anunnaki.

Yet their interpretation of the Bible is similar to the recent translations of Sumerian glyphs and ancient Hebrew.