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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
and 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
[Paul] 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 (research name)
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.
and sew them into the foundations
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 tells us
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 first 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
(Narrarator) 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 stories 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
at the beginning of 2003 Iraq invasion
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?
(Narrator) But why would an extraterrestrial
species be interested in governing a human
population on planet earth?
Why would advanced beings have any interest
in interfering with human evolution?
And managing a human population?
Why would they teach prehistoric humans about
Mathematics, reading, legal and banking systems
Contracts of employments, money, and pricing mechanisms?
And why would they then withdraw?
I wonder if our own behavior
As a species on our own planet
Might give us an insight on what such
colonization might look like
Because when we colonize
we go in with force.
We show our superiority
And we take over.
We provide the police, we provide the army
the education, we put the locals to work
We cream off the profits and the natural resources,
And basically enjoy all the benefits of
Sitting at the top of the economic tree
With a powerful, visible presence to keep control
But after awhile,
You can get the locals to do their own
Policing, and their own school teaching.
Let the locals become the lawyers
and the bankers
And appoint a local as the governor.
As long as you have some control
Of the value of the money
And as long as you set all the commodity
Prices and exchange rates
You don’t really need to maintain a visible presence anymore
And so you can go home
You can live in another country
And still enjoy all the benefits of sitting
At the top of the economic tree.
Now that’s how we do it.
That’s how we’ve done it
From the Roman Empire
To the Spanish, to the Dutch, the Portuguese
The British, the American,
That’s how we do it.
Is it possible that an E.T. presence
may have colonized the world in our prehistoric past
In a way that’s analogous to that?
That another species came
And resided on planet earth for awhile
They sat at the top of the economic tree
And enjoyed all the benefits of it
And then withdrew in exactly the kind of way
I’ve just mapped out.
You know, I wonder how much like
the annunaki we are.
And as for what they were looking for...
It could have been minerals, I believe it was.
I think there is strong evidence for
Prehistoric mines in Southern Africa
It may well have been minerals.
But it could have been something else
Something to do with the properties of planet earth
And it might have been something to do with ourselves
Our uniqueness as Homosapiens.
Were our ancestors really engineered as workers?
Toiling for the colonizers.
Were the annunaki only interested
In our planets resources
And coldly indifferent to the progress of
The human race?
Other ancestral narratives speak of our human origins
In exactly the same terms.
And yet there are other strands to the story.
The Greek Babylonian narrative of Oannes
And the apkallū
Speak of the visitors helping and educating
Our human ancestors.
Native American memory reports
Inter-dimensional and extraterrestrials visitors
nurturing the beginnings of human society.