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I've been a preacher for more than 30
years. I've studied and taught through
the book of Genesis many, many times
in churches all around the world
and I've trained pastors in the skills of
interpreting texts,
and it's very clear they're not stories
about Gods.
They're stories about the powerful ones in
the Bible.
And the sky people, the Anunnaki
and the Sumerian tablets.
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[Narrator] In 1896 eminent scholar
Nathaniel Schmidt
was fired from his position
as Professor of Semitic languages
at Colgate University.
For eleven years, this American University
had enjoyed Nathaniel Schmidt erudition
in Semitic Languages.
He delivered numerous courses in Hebrew,
Aramaic, Coptic, Arabic, Syriac
and other ancient languages besides.
In fact, Nathaniel Schmidt was one of
America's leading scholars in the field.
So why, after eleven years
of outstanding achievement
was he tried for heresy,
and fired from his tenure in 1896?
Though a devout Christian
and a Baptist pastor,
the authorities considered
that his recent
theological papers had struck
at the very roots
of two world religions
Christianity and Judaism.
What Nathaniel Schmidt had done wrong
was read the Sumerian and Babylonian
and Assyrian text and notice
that they were full
of fascinating parallels.
Stories that occurred there
that were uncannily similar to all
the stories and beginnings
of the Bible.
Stories like: Adam and Eve
The Fall, Cain and Abel
The Flood, the limiting of human life,
the event of the Tower of Babel,
and Schmidt's work demonstrated that
the Sumerian accounts
and those that follow it
from nearly 6000 years ago
where in all probability
the source of all those familiar
biblical stories.
Now, that was a problem
in the 1890's
because if you think about it
the Church was still reading from
the after effects of
Charles Darwin's
"On the Origin of Species"
and it is busy
putting together
new doctrinal basis
and new doctrines
of biblical inherency
to shore up the ship.
So the idea that the Bible
might actually be based
on somebody else's stories
was a bit of an embarrassment.
It shouldn't have been
because Judaism
and Christianity
both find their roots
in the story of a Sumerian family.
The family of Abraham and Sarah.
Abraham and Sarah
grew up and spent
the best part of their lives
in Ur of the Chaldees,
A Sumerian culture
and so when they emigrated
from there
it's hardly surprising that
they would carry with them
all the stories of beginnings
that they had
grown up with.
that they had
grown up with.
of what was to become
their culture
their religion
and their Bible.
And so, it shouldn't be a surprise
that in the Bible
we have a summary version
of all these stories
that pepper the Sumerian, Babylonian
and Assyrian texts.
The problem and the shock horror
is that the original versions
the Sumerian versions of these stories
make no mention of God at all.
In the Sumerian originals
these are stories
of our ancestor's contact
with another species.
A species called
The Anunnakki.
[Narrator] Could Judaism
and Christianity
familiar stories of God
really be a retelling of our
ancestor's close encounters
with extraterrestrials?
The cuneiform tablets which has fascinated
Nathaniel Schmidt were first on Earth in 1500.
As colonial powers began to escalate the
ancient sites of Mesopotamia.
Over the decades had followed some
200,000 clay tablets were uncovered.
The tablets were adorned with
strange etchings or glyphs
made when the clay was soft.
Scholars of the day divided us to
the meanings of these markings
Some believe that the glyphs to
be an unknown written language.
Others refuse to accept this.
since the tablets appear to
predate any known language.
They presume the markings to be
no more than decoration.
And so the tablets were archived,
the secrets were locked away
for three centuries.
Until in 1835,
Henry Rawranson arrived.
In south western Iran.
Rawranson was a military man. He was
employed by the East India Tea Company.
And he was in Iran helping the
Shah of Iran to train his troops.
As worth pausing there for a moment
because if you thought that
corporations rivaling nations states
was something new
take a look at the East India Tea company.
A tea company that's able to
move a standing army
around the world and train
the armies of nation-states.
That's quite a tea company.
In fact, Rawranson presence in Iran wasn't
part of quid pro quo for trading rights.
He was there for access to
the district of Behistun.
He wanted to find the Behistun inscription
[Narrator] the Behistun inscription was
an ancient royal proclamation
carved into a cliff face.
It was written in three known languages
Persian, Elamite and Akkadian.
Which was the common language of
Mesopotamian cultures.
The inscription expressed all three
languages in cuneiform script.
It was the translation key that cuneiform
tablets have been waiting for.
The memories of the Mesopotamian ancient
cultures was suddenly an open book.
The glyphs were not made
decoration after all.
They were banking records
business agreements,
shopping lists,
contracts,
recipes,
inventories,
royal histories and the most ancient narrative in the history of the world
It was in these ancient narratives that
the source of the bibles familiar stories
began to emarge.
At an academic level Nathaniel Schmidt
was in good company,
He was one of the small number who began
confronting us with this new layer of our history.
I should mention just to reassure you that
shortly after Colgate university fired him
he did get a new job with Cornell University. and he
was a professor of Semitic languages for full 36 years.
So, he did land on his feet.
His work continued to argue that
the cuneiform reveal that
earliest history are not about god. They are
about a prehistoric contact with the Anunnaki
[Narrator] In the 20th century, the writer Zecharia
Sitchin began pouring over the cuneiform texts.
He highlighted the clear implications
of the Sumerian's stories.
That the Anunnaki were powerful and
advanced extraterrestrial species.
Their arrival on planet Earth put them at
the top of the terrestrial food chain.
To create a local work force, the Anunnaki
used sequences of their own genetic code
to hybridize a primed ancestor into a human,
ready to put to work for their Anunnaki masters.
Such an argued the word Anunnaki means
those who came from the heavens to Earth.
A phrase that made clear that the
extraterrestrials origin.
Zecharia Sitchin was not an academic.
He was not a PHD or a professor.
He had a degree from the London School
of Economics and worked in commerce.
The LSE I should is a pretty
august institution.
He wrote at a popular level.
Let's to say for general audience.
And not with the kind of
referencing and footnotes
that you'd expect to see in an
academic kind of tome
An academic critics don't like that.
They think that slack.
Some might identify mistakes or
bias in his work.
And that's then their pretext to
disregard his contributions
which is an important one.
Now, some writers in the field reject
Sitchin's translation of the word Anunnaki
and they would contend that the word usage
that it simply means nobility or royalty.
the rulers
I'm not persuaded by that.
It's not that that's not true.
It's just a very partial answer.
It's a very lazy explanation.
It simply doesn't ask enough of questions.
Who were the rulers identified by this word?
why is that word associated with the rulers?
You see if yo look at the etymology of
the word, at it's roots meanings
look at the component parts
you have Anu
which means heavens
ki which means Earth.
Anunnaki are those who came from
the heavens to the earth.
You can follow the logic ,but even if you
didn't have the narrative
imbedded in the word itself
as soon as you read the cuneiforms,
the stories themselves
unpack that that's exactly
what was going on.
And the glyph that they used to
indicate the rulers
who come down from the heavens at
the beginning of the story
that glyph simply indicates the sky
So, these Anunnaki are from the heavens.
The sky people.
[Narrator] Many of the world's
oldest mythologies claim
that the governance of human society began
with dominance over human beings, being
established by superior beings or gods.
and then the job of rulership is
handed over at a later stage
to human governors or kings
Egyptian mythology holds such a narrative
Similarly The Bible speaks of King Sol
as the first human king over
the people of god
The Semeirian cuneiforms
also name their fir st human king Gilgamesh
To be more accurate,
Gilgamesh is a transition king
A hybrid of human and annunaki
His name appears on one of the
most famous of Mesopotamian artifacts
The Sumerian King's list
Among the shopping lists,
legal agreements, business contracts
and all the rest of the cuneiform tablets
There appears what on first inspection
is a dry record of a succesion of kings
of Sumeria
The most recent entries record
reigns of 6 to 36 years
As we go further back on the timeline
the kings list starts running with
some odd looking information
because out of the blue
we suddenly read of a dynasty
that lasted 24,510 years 3 months
and 3 and a half days
Now that precision absolutely
befits Sumerian culture
because its from Semerian culture that
we get 360 degrees in a circle
60 seconds in a minute
60 minutes in an hour
so the precision doesn't surprise us
what is odd is that
that dynasty of 24,500 years, 3 months
and 3 and a half days
was divided across no more than 23 kings
thats an average range of more than
a thousand years each
and its not a one off
the dynasty concluded by the great flood
lasted 241,000 years shared
by no more than 8 kings
that's an average range of more than 30,000 years
Now, some have tried to
make the dates symbolic
or have interpreted their
unit of timedifferently
but that doesn't quite work
when its an unbroken record
of 6 to 36 year reigns uh
to 36,000 years reigns
all in the same unit of time
all in the same narrative
the narrative begins with non-human kings
who then hand over to human kings
and this elasticity of
the length of their dynasty's
is another suggestion
that the non-human kings
are something quite
different to juman beings
it's like comparing the lifespan
of a human being
with the lifespan of an ant
[Narrator] the king's list
is not the only evidence
pointing to an extraterrestrial hypothesis
the Sumerian version of The Tower of Babel
speaks of 50 technicians
who employ mysterious technology
to dispatch 300 observers to
their stations in the stars
right along side the genesis account
the two narratives confirm one another
and paint a vivid picture
Babel, was a stargate
providing the observers
rapid access to space stations
The thing that got me into
this whole field of research
was an anomalous word
in the book of genesis
I've been a preacher
for more than 30 years
I've studied and talked through
the book of genesis
many, many times in
churches all around the world
and I've trained pastors
in the skills of interpreting texts
So I've long known about
this anomalous word
Well finally i allowed myself
the time to sit down
and really drill into what was going on
Genesis uses two words for god
One is Elohim and one is Yaweh or Jehovah
Now, Yaweh is the holy name given to Moses
in a time, centureis or millenia
after all the action described
in the stories of beginnings
So, the fact that the word Yaweh
appears in those much older stories
that clues us that we're not reading
the original version of the stories
The sotries are being retold by
someone after the time of Moses
Now, there's a broad consensus
among biblical scholars
that the current version of
the old testament
the Hebrew scriptures
was edited or redacted
sometime in the sixth century B.C.E.
and that the redacter,
by putting the name Yaweh
into these older stories, the stories that
Abraham and Sarah have brought with them
was telling the reader to
regard them as God's stories
by using the later name
he's also telling the reader,
this is not the original version
Originally, they were Elohim's stories
Now that word Elohim is
a very interesting word because
it's a plural form word
it often exhibits plural behaviors,
"Let us make,
let us make the humans to
look like one of us,
we dont want them to
become to much like one of us etc".
The word Elohim often
takes plural verb forms
its sometimes translated as
god but in other places
it gets translated as false gods or demons
or angels or cheiftans or land barons
so why this enormous elasticity
in the words meaning
Well again, we have to go back to
the roots of the word
and ask why is it used that way and
why does it behave like a plural
When you look at its
component parts the word Elohim
means the powers or the powerful ones
now when you read genesis
translating the word that way
the texts change and suddenly
line up with the Sumerian texts
One by one they confirm
each others stories
and its very clear they're
not stories about gods
they're stories about
the powerful ones in the bible
and the sky people,
the Annunaki in the Sumerian tablets
[Narrarator] but is there any
material evidence that
a non-human ruling presence
ever occupied planet earth
one might reasonably ask
Why have no physical remains of
Annunaki been found?
firstly i would note that
the more we dig up ancient sites
the greater a diversity of
ancient peoples were finding
if you think about the hobbits that
were found in Indonesia
We called them hobbits think
the proper name is homoforensis
or the giants of noble county
or the red-haired giants of North America
or the long skull of piraka etc.
There's a great range of people that we're
beginning to come across as
we dig into our ancient past
so how would we know if
we found an Anunnaki
well one obvious possibility
is by DNA testing
so if Gilgamesh really was
a human Anunnaki hybrid
then all we have to do is find
the royal tomb and DNA test him
well I believe that's exactly
what happened in Iraq
in 2003 a team went in
protected by American troops
in 2003 a team went in
protected by American troops
and found Gilgamesh's tomb.
Fassbender spoke to the BBC
you can go on his website
you can read all about it
now the officail story is that having located
the probable tomb site 16 years ago
we decided not to investigate any further.
Similarly in 1927 the British
archeologist Leonard Woolley
discovered a person known as Queen Puabi
now she was a high ranking Sumerian
leader who lived around 2500 BCE
and they had found her remains
so agian here's another find which
with today's technology
provides us with
the oppurtunity to DNA test
we can now test Sumerian
royalty to comfirm
whether it was entirely human, the result,
apparently we've decided not to investigate any further
Now what do you make of that?
Wouldn't you want to know?