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I've been a preacher for more than 30
years. I've studied and taught through

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the book of Genesis many, many times
in churches all around the world

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and I've trained pastors in the skills of
interpreting texts

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and it's very clear they're not stories
about Gods.

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They're stories about the powerful ones in
the Bible.

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And the sky people, the Anunnaki
and the Sumerian tablets

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[Narrator] In 1896 eminent scholar
Nathaniel Schmidt

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was fired from his position
as Professor of Semitic languages

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at Colgate University

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For eleven years, this American University
had enjoyed Nathaniel Schmidt erudition

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and Semitic Languages

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He delivered numerous courses in Hebrew,
Aramaic, Coptic, Arabic, Syriac

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and other ancient languages besides

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In fact, Nathaniel Schmidt was one of
America's leading scholars in the field

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So why, after eleven years
of outstanding achievement

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was he tried for heresy,

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and fired from his tenure in 1896?

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Though a devout Christian
and a Baptist pastor

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The authorities considered 
that his recent

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theological papers had struck
at the very roots

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of two world religions

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Christianity and Judaism.

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What Nathaniel Schmidt had done wrong

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was read the Sumerian and Babylonian

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and Assyrian text and notice
that they were full

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of fascinating parallels.
Stories that occurred there

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that were uncannily similar to all
the stories and beginnings

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of the Bible.

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Stories like: Adam and Eve

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The Fall, Cain and Abel

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The Flood, the limiting of human life,

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the event of the Tower of Babel,

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and Schmidt's work demonstrated that

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the Sumerian accounts

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and those that follow it
from nearly 6000 years ago

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where in all probability 
the source of all those familiar

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biblical stories.

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Now, that was a problem
in the 1890's

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because if you think about it

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the Church was still reading from
the after effects of

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[Paul] Charles Darwin's 
"On the Origin of Species"

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and it is busy 
putting together

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new doctrinal basis

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and new doctrines 
of biblical inherency

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to shore up the ship

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So the idea that the Bible 


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might actually be based 
on somebody else's stories

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was a bit of an embarrassment

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It shouldn't have been

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because Judaism 
and Christianity

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both find their roots

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in the story of a Sumerian family.

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The family of Abraham and Sarah.

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Abraham and Sarah 
grew up and spent

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the best part of their lives
in (research name)

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A Sumerian culture

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and so when they emigrated
from there

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it's hardly surprising that
they would carry with them

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all the stories of beginnings

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that they had 
grown up with.

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and sew them
into the foundations

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of what was to become

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their culture

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their religion

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and their Bible.

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And so, it shouldn't be a surprise
that in the Bible

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we have a summary version
of all these stories

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that pepper the Sumerian, Babylonian 
and Assyrian texts.

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The problem and the shock horror

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is that the original versions

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the Sumerian versions of these stories
make no mention of God at all.

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In the Sumerian originals
these are stories

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of our ancestor's contact 
with another species.

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A species called 
The Anunnakki.

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[Narrator] Could Judaism
and Christianity

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familiar stories of God

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really be a retelling of our
ancestor's close encounters

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with extraterrestrials?

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the cuneiform tablets which has fascinated 
Nathaniel Schmidt were first on Earth in 1500.

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As colonial powers began to escalate the ancient 
sites of Mesopotamia.

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Over the decades had followed some 200,000 clay tablets were uncovered.

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The tablets were adorned with strange etchings
or glyphs

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made when the clay was soft.

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Scholars of the day divided us to the meanings of these markings

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Some believe that the glyphs to be an unknown written language.

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Others refuse to accept this.

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since the tablets appear to predate any known language.

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They presume the markings to be no more than decoration.

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And so the tablets were archived,

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the secrets were locked away for three centuries.

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Until in 1835,

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Henry Rawranson arrived. In south western Iran.

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Rawranson was a military man. He was employed by the East India Tea Company.

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And he was in Iran helping the Shah of Iran to train his troops.

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As worth pausing there for a moment because if you thought that

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corporations rivaling nations states was something new

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take a look at the East India Tea company.

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A tea company that's able to move a standing army

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around the world and train the armies of nation states.

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That's quite a tea company.

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In fact, Rawranson presence in Iran wasn't part of quid pro quo for trading rights.

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He was there for access to the district of Behistun.

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He wanted to find the Behistun inscription

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[Narrator] the Behistun inscription was an ancient royal proclamation

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carved into a cliff face.

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It was written in three known languages Persian, Elamite and Akkadian.

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Which was the common language of Mesopotamian cultures.

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The inscription expressed all three languages in 
cuneiform script.

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It was the translation key that cuneiform tablets have been waiting for.

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The memories of the Mesopotamian ancient cultures was suddenly an open book.

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The glyphs were not made decoration after all.

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They were banking records

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business agreements,

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shopping lists,

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contracts,

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recipes,

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inventories,

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royal histories and the most ancient narrative in the history of the world

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It was in these ancient narratives that the source of the bibles familiar stories

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began to emarge.

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At an academic level Nathaniel Schmidt was in good company,

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He was one of the small number who began confronting us with this new layer of our history.

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I should mention just to reassure you that shortly after Colgate university fired him

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he did get a new job with Cornell University. and he was a professor of Semitic languages for full 36 years.

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So, he did land on his feet.

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His work continued to argue that the cuneiform reveal that

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earliest history are not about god. They are about a prehistoric contact with the Anunnaki.

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[Narrator] In the 20th century, the writer Zecharia Sitchin began pouring over the cuneiform texts.

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He highlighted the clear implications of the
Sumerian's stories.

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That the Anunnaki were powerful and advanced extraterrestrial species.

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Their arrival on planet Earth put them at the top of the terrestrial food chain.

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To create a local work force, the Anunnaki used sequences of their own genetic code

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to hybridize a primed ancestor into a human, ready to put to work for their Anunnaki masters.

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Such an argued the word Anunnaki means those who came from the heavens to Earth.

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A phrase that made clear that the 
extraterrestrials origin.

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Zecharia Sitchin was not an academic. He was not a PHD or a professor.

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He had a degree from the London School of Economics and worked in commerce.

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The LSE I should is a pretty august institution

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He wrote at a popular level. Let's to say for general audience.

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And not with the kind of referencing and footnotes

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that you'd expect to see in an academic kind of tome

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An academic critics don't like that. They think that slack.

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Some might identify mistakes or bias in his work.

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And that's then their pretext to disregard his contributions

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which is an important one.

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Now, some writers in the field reject Sitchin's translation of the word Anunnaki

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and they would contend that the word usage 
tells us

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that it simply means nobility or royalty.

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the rulers

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I'm not persuaded by that. It's not that that's not true.

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It's just a very partial answer. It's a very lazy explanation.

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It simply doesn't ask enough of questions.

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Who were the rulers identified by this word?

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why is that word associated with the rulers?

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You see if yo look at the etymology of the word, 
at it's roots meanings

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look at the component parts you have
Anu

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which means heavens

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ki which means Earth.

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Anunnaki are those who came from the heavens to the earth.

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You can follow the logic ,but even if you didn't have
the narrative

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imbedded in the word itself

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as soon as you read the cuneiforms, the stories
themselves

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unpack that that's exactly what was going on.

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And the glyph that they used to indicate the rulers

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who come down from the heavens at the beginning of the story

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that glyph simply indicates the sky

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So, these Anunnaki are from the heavens.

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The sky people.

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[Narrator] Many of the world's oldest mythologies claim

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that the governance of human society began

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with dominance over human beings, being 
established by superior beings or gods.

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and then the job of rulership is handed over at a later stage

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to human governors or kings

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Egyptian mythology holds such a narrative

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Similarly The Bible speaks of King Sol

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as the first human king over the people of god

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The Semeirian cuneiforms

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also name their first human king Gilgamesh

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To be more accurate, Gilgamesh is a transition king

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A hybrid of human and annunaki

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His name appears on one of the most famous of Mesopotamian artifacts

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The Sumerian King's list

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Among the shopping lists, legal agreements, business contracts

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and all the rest of the cuneiform tablets

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There appears what on first inspection

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is a dry record of a succesion of kings

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of Sumeria

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The most recent entries record reigns of 6 to 36 years

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As we go further back on the timeline

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the kings list starts running with some odd looking information

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because out of the blue

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we suddenly read of a dynasty

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that lasted 24,510 years 3 months and 3 and a half days

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Now that precision absolutely befits Sumerian culture

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because its from Semerian culture that

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we get 360 degrees in a circle

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60 seconds in a minute

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60 minutes in an hour

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so the precision doesn't surprise us

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what is odd is that

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that dynasty of 24,500 years, 3 months and 3 and a half days

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was divided across no more than 23 kings

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thats an average range of more than a thousand years each

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and its not a one off

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the dynasty concluded by the great flood

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lasted 241,000 years shared by no more than 8 kings

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that's an average range of more than 30,000 years

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Now, some have tried to make the dates symbolic

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or have interpreted their unit of timedifferently

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but that doesn't quite work when its an unbroken record

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of 6 to 36 year reigns uh

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to 36,000 years reigns

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all in the same unit of time

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all in the same narrative

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the narrative begins with non-human kings

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who then hand over to human kings

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and this elasticity of the length of their dynasty's

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is another suggestion that the non-human kings

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are something quite different to juman beings

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it's like comparing the lifespan of a human being

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with the lifespan of an ant

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(Narrarator) the king's list is not the only evidence

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pointing to an extraterrestrial hypothesis

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the Sumerian version of The Tower of Babel

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speaks of 50 technicians who employ mysterious technology

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to dispatch 300 observers to their stations in the stars

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right along side the genesis account

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the two narratives confirm one another

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and paint a vivid picture

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Babel, was a stargate

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providing the observers rapid access to space stations

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The thing that got me into this whole field of research

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was an anomalous word in the book of genesis

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I've been a preacher for more than 30 years

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I've studied and talked through the book of genesis

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many, many times in churches all around the world

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and I've trained pastors in the skills of interpreting texts

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So I've long known about this anomalous word

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Well finally i allowed myself the time to sit down

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and really drill into what was going on

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Genesis uses two words for god

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One is Elohim and one is Yaweh or Jehovah

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Now, Yaweh is the holy name given to Moses

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in a time, centureis or millenia after all the action described

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in the stories of beginnings

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So, the fact that the word Yaweh appears in those much older stories

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that clues us that we're not reading the original version of the stories

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The sotries are being retold by someone after the time of Moses

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Now, there's a broad consensus among biblical scholars

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that the current version of the old testament

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the Hebrew scriptures was edited or redacted

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sometime in the sixth century B.C.E.

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and that the redacter, by putting the name Yaweh

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into these older stories, the stories that

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Abraham and Sarah have brought with them

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was telling the reader to regard them as God's stories

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by using the later name

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he's also telling the reader, this is not the original version

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Originally, they were Elohim's stories

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Now that word Elohim is a very interesting word because

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it's a plural form word

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it often exhibits plural behaviors, "Let us make,

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let us make the humans to look like one of us,

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we dont want them to become to much like one of us etc".

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The word Elohim often takes plural verb forms

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its sometimes translated as god but in other places

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it gets translated as false gods or demons

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or angels or cheiftans or land barons

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so why this enormous elasticity in the words meaning

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Well again, we have to go back to the roots of the word

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and ask why is it used that way and why does it behave like a plural

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When you look at its component parts the word Elohim

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means the powers or the powerful ones

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now when you read genesis translating the word that way

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the texts change and suddenly line up with the Sumerian texts

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One by one they confirm each others stories

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and its very clear they're not stories about gods

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they're stories about the powerful ones in the bible

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and the sky people, the Annunaki in the Sumerian tablets

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(Narrarator) but is there any material evidence that

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a non-human ruling presence ever occupied planet earth

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one might reasonably ask

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Why have no physical remains of Annunaki been found?

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firstly i would note that the more we dig up ancient sites

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the greater a diversity of ancient peoples were finding

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if you think about the hobbits that were found in Indonesia

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We called them hobbits think the proper name is homoforensis