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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
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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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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 time differently
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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 human 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 stories 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
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or the giants of noble county
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or the red-haired giants of North America
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or the long skull of piraka etc.
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There's a great range of people that we're
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beginning to come across as we dig into our ancient past
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so how would we know if we found an Anunnaki
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well one obvious possibility is by DNA testing
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so if Gilgamesh really was a human Anunnaki hybrid
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then all we have to do is find the royal tomb and DNA test him
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well I believe that's exactly what happened in Iraq
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in 2003 a team went in protected by American troops
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at the beginning of 2003 Iraq invasion
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and found Gilgamesh's tomb
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Fassbender spoke to the BBC you can go on his website
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you can read all about it
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now the officail story is that having located
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the probable tomb site 16 years ago we decided not
to investigate any further
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Similarly in 1927 the British archeologist Leonard Woolley
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discovered a person known as Queen Puabi
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now she was a high ranking Sumerian leader who lived
around 2500 BCE
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and they had found her remains
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so agian here's another find which with today's technology
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provides us with the oppurtunity to DNA test
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we can now test Sumerian royalty to comfirm
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whether it was entirely human, the result,
apparently we've decided not to investigate any further
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Now what do you make of that?
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Wouldn't you want to know?
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(Narrator) But why would an extraterrestrial
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species be interested in governing a human
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population on planet earth?
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Why would advanced beings from another planet have any interest
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in interfering with human evolution?
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And managing a human population?
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Why would they teach prehistoric humans about
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Mathematics, reading, legal and banking systems
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Contracts of employments, money, and pricing mechanisms?
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And why would they then withdraw?
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I wonder if our own behavior
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As a species on our own planet
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Might give us an insight on what such
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colonization might look like
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Because when we colonize
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we go in with force.
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We show our superiority
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And we take over.
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We provide the police, we provide the army
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the education, we put the locals to work
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We cream off the profits and the natural resources,
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And basically enjoy all the benefits of
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Sitting at the top of the economic tree
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With a powerful, visible presence to keep control
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But after awhile,
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You can get the locals to do their own
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Policing, and their own school teaching.
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Let the locals become the lawyers
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and the bankers
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And appoint a local as the governor.
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As long as you have some control
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Of the value of the money
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And as long as you set all the commodity
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Prices and exchange rates
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You don’t really need to maintain a visible presence anymore
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And so you can go home
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You can live in another country
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And still enjoy all the benefits of sitting
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At the top of the economic tree.
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Now that’s how we do it.
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That’s how we’ve done it
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From the Roman Empire
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To the Spanish, to the Dutch, the Portuguese
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The British, the American,
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That’s how we do it.
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Is it possible that an E.T. presence
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may have colonized the world in our prehistoric past
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In a way that’s analogous to that?
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That another species came
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And resided on planet earth for awhile
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They sat at the top of the economic tree
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And enjoyed all the benefits of it
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And then withdrew in exactly the kind of way
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I’ve just mapped out.
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You know, I wonder how much like
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the Annunaki we are.
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And as for what they were looking for...
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It could have been minerals, I believe it was.
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I think there is strong evidence of
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Prehistoric mines in Southern Africa
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It may well have been minerals.
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But it could have been something else
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Something to do with the properties of planet earth
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And it might have been something to do with ourselves
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Our uniqueness as Homosapiens.
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[Narrator] Were our ancestors really engineered as workers?
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Toiling for the colonizers.
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Were the Annunaki only interested
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In our planets resources
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And coldly indifferent to the progress of
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The human race?
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Other ancestral narratives speak of our human origins
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In exactly the same terms.
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And yet there are other strands to the story.
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The Greek Babylonian narrative of Oannes
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And the apkallū
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Speak of the visitors helping and educating
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Our human ancestors.
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Native American memory reports
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Inter-dimensional and extraterrestrials visitors
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nurturing the beginnings of human society.
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Zudo mytholgy speaks of our ancestors being nurtured
by advanced beings
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Might the Anunnaki have had a more generous motivation
towards their human workforce
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My book escaping from Eden argues that our ancient texts
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recall a range of species that bumped up
against our ancestors
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and thes stories in our world mythologies
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tell of conflicting ideas among the visitors
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as to how conscious and how intelligent
they wanted humans to be
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Now certaintly there are some cold agendas
towards humanity
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That play out in our world's stories of beginnings
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The limiting of human life
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A flood to kill them all
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A neurological interference to take the
power of speech from us and dumb us down
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A bombing that destroys our
engineering and technology
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A nuerological interference to lower our
perceptual and cognitive abilities
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Now, in the Sumerian version of these stories
it's the senior Anunnaki Enlil
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Who actions and pushes all these negative agendas
that are somewhat hostile to human beings
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But htere is another agenda in the Anunnaki community
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There is a figure a called Enki who appears to be
the leader of the Earth project
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and he is junior to Enlil
he's described as Enlil's brother
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So in the Sumerian story humanity gets caught in the crossfire
of these mysterious beings in conflict
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A number of our so-called creation myths begin with
a rehabilitation of a devastated and flooded planet
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shrouded in darkness
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and that arrival is a positive interaction with this other species
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because they begin to nurture life on the planet
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They nurture animal life
they nurture human life
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and later in the Sumerian account its Enki
the one who's in charge of the earth project
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Who wants to upgrade human beings
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For a more enjoyable a better more conscious
kind of life
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and there's a conflict between Enlil and Enki
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Over whether that should happen
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Enlil the CEO does not want that
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and so Enki breaks ranks to acheive that
upgrade for us
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When Enlil wants to destroy the human experiment
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by devastating the planet, again it's Enki
who seeks out a favored family
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The family of Atrahasis aka Ziusudra
aka Utnapishtem aka Noah
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and gives him instructions as to how to
construct an escape pod
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For his family and his farm so they
can reboot the project
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So I think we can say the Anunnaki presence
is a mixed bag for humanity
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We're really caught in the crossfire of this conflict
among a species
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Who are ambivalent about the progress
of human society
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There is oppression and slavery in the
Anunnaki narrative
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but there's also a concern for human welfare
and a nurturing of human beings
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So it's a mixed story
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(Narrarator) Today's reports of ET contact
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reflect a similar range of agendas
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Some harmful, some indifferent and some nurturing
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Are these contempory experiences connected with the Anunnaki
narratives?
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Or are people today experiencing something or someone different
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What difference does the Anunnaki narrative make to human beings today?
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If you and I are part primate and part Anunnaki
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How does that help us
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and are the Anunnaki still present or are we now
our own masters?
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Does the Anunnaki narrative give us an
explanation of our original separation
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from all other animal forms on planet Earth
but leave us with no word about our future?
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My hope is focused not so much on external interventions
as on our own capabilites
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Our ancestral narratives all speak of higher consciousness
being downgraded in our pre-historic past
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and to my mind that raises the possibility
that our cognitive abilities can be upgraded
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and our consciousness can be heightened
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Our mythologies speak of our perceptual feild
being limited
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Now, to my mind that suggests we might be able
to expand it
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The Anunnaki narrative speaks of us laboring
for superiors and you can see that we're hard-wired to do that
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but what if we were able to break down that programming
and start working for one another instead of those above us
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What if we de-engineered all our neurological slave settings
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And allowed ourselves to live freer less
fearful lives
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What would that look like?
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Many of the cultures that have curated these stories of beginnings
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Have also curated modalities, methods, that are designed
to re-awaken our higher state of consciousness
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So ancient Greek culture which had this narrative
also had the modality of a Kykeon ritual
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Kykeon was a kind of tea ritual aimed
at heightening the persons state of consciousness
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In Mesoamerica we find another tea ceremony
with exactly the same purpose
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If we go to indigenous Australia or to Native America
we find smoke and smoking ceremonies
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and similar activities in the ancient Indian cultures
that produced the Vedas
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Eastern Monastic traditions have disciplines of stillness
and conscious breathing
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And in my experience, they really do have
perches in terms of altering our state of consciousness
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And heightening our abilities for a better human experience
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(Narrator) If the Anunnaki stories represent our true
origins as a species
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and human beings are part earthling and part higher being
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What does that mean for our potential
as human beings today?
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Are we bound to the contracts of employment
systems of money and banking
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and the tryanny of hours, minutes and seconds
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First taught to the ancient Sumerians more than
5000 years ago
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Or are other ways open to us as human beings?
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Might, higher froms of conscousness help us
achieve a new freedom from the legacy
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of our enslaved past and provide a pathway
to a better human eperience
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