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Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.99,0:00:13.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,static noise effect
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.35,0:00:25.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mysterious music
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.54,0:00:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been a preacher for more than 30\Nyears. I've studied and taught through
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.54,0:00:38.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the book of Genesis many, many times\Nin churches all around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.54,0:00:42.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I've trained pastors in the skills of\Ninterpreting texts
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.54,0:00:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's very clear they're not stories\Nabout Gods.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.32,0:00:49.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're stories about the powerful ones in\Nthe Bible.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.77,0:00:53.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the sky people, the Anunnaki\Nand the Sumerian tablets
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.83,0:01:08.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,static noise effect
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.60,0:01:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] In 1896 eminent scholar\NNathaniel Schmidt
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.52,0:01:18.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was fired from his position\Nas Professor of Semitic languages
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.96,0:01:21.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at Colgate University
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.68,0:01:26.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For eleven years, this American University\Nhad enjoyed Nathaniel Schmidt erudition
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.74,0:01:28.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Semitic Languages
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.58,0:01:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He delivered numerous courses in Hebrew,\NAramaic, Coptic, Arabic, Syriac
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.12,0:01:37.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other ancient languages besides
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.42,0:01:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, Nathaniel Schmidt was one of\NAmerica's leading scholars in the field
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.38,0:01:46.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So why, after eleven years\Nof outstanding achievement
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.57,0:01:48.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was he tried for heresy,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.84,0:01:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fired from his tenure in 1896?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.33,0:01:56.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Though a devout Christian\Nand a Baptist pastor
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.08,0:01:58.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The authorities considered \Nthat his recent
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.53,0:02:01.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,theological papers had struck\Nat the very roots
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.37,0:02:03.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of two world religions
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.87,0:02:06.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christianity and Judaism.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.12,0:02:09.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What Nathaniel Schmidt had done wrong
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.66,0:02:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was read the Sumerian and Babylonian
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.76,0:02:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Assyrian text and notice\Nthat they were full
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.60,0:02:20.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of fascinating parallels.\NStories that occurred there
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.76,0:02:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were uncannily similar to all\Nthe stories and beginnings
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.48,0:02:26.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Bible.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.37,0:02:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stories like: Adam and Eve
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.06,0:02:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Fall, Cain and Abel
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.66,0:02:33.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Flood, the limiting of human life,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.96,0:02:36.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the event of the Tower of Babel,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.29,0:02:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Schmidt's work demonstrated that
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.58,0:02:42.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Sumerian accounts
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.99,0:02:47.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those that follow it\Nfrom nearly 6000 years ago
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.74,0:02:50.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where in all probability \Nthe source of all those familiar
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.99,0:02:52.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,biblical stories.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.94,0:02:55.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, that was a problem\Nin the 1890's
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.82,0:02:57.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because if you think about it
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.35,0:03:00.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Church was still reading from\Nthe after effects of
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.09,0:03:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Paul] Charles Darwin's \N"On the Origin of Species"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.87,0:03:04.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is busy \Nputting together
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.77,0:03:06.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,new doctrinal basis
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.24,0:03:09.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and new doctrines \Nof biblical inherency
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.35,0:03:10.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to shore up the ship
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.71,0:03:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the idea that the Bible \N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.56,0:03:15.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might actually be based \Non somebody else's stories
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.71,0:03:18.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a bit of an embarrassment
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.48,0:03:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It shouldn't have been
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.58,0:03:22.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because Judaism \Nand Christianity
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.03,0:03:23.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both find their roots
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.78,0:03:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the story of a Sumerian family.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.25,0:03:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The family of Abraham and Sarah.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.70,0:03:32.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Abraham and Sarah \Ngrew up and spent
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.89,0:03:35.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the best part of their lives\Nin (research name)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.82,0:03:37.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A Sumerian culture
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.59,0:03:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so when they emigrated\Nfrom there
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.94,0:03:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's hardly surprising that\Nthey would carry with them
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.46,0:03:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the stories of beginnings
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.32,0:03:47.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they had \Ngrown up with.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.12,0:03:50.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sew them\Ninto the foundations
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.03,0:03:52.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what was to become
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.41,0:03:53.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their culture
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.82,0:03:55.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their religion
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.22,0:03:56.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their Bible.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.14,0:03:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, it shouldn't be a surprise\Nthat in the Bible
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.88,0:04:03.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have a summary version\Nof all these stories
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.65,0:04:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that pepper the Sumerian, Babylonian \Nand Assyrian texts.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.24,0:04:10.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The problem and the shock horror
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.52,0:04:13.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that the original versions
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.31,0:04:18.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Sumerian versions of these stories\Nmake no mention of God at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.29,0:04:22.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the Sumerian originals\Nthese are stories
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.10,0:04:26.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our ancestor's contact \Nwith another species.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.50,0:04:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A species called \NThe Anunnakki.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.78,0:04:32.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] Could Judaism\Nand Christianity
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.76,0:04:34.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,familiar stories of God
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.25,0:04:38.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really be a retelling of our\Nancestor's close encounters
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.09,0:04:40.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with extraterrestrials?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.17,0:04:47.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the cuneiform tablets which has fascinated \NNathaniel Schmidt were first on Earth in 1500.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.46,0:04:52.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As colonial powers began to escalate the ancient \Nsites of Mesopotamia.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.38,0:04:59.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the decades had followed some 200,000 clay tablets were uncovered.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.65,0:05:03.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tablets were adorned with strange etchings\Nor glyphs
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.63,0:05:06.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made when the clay was soft.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.05,0:05:11.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scholars of the day divided us to the meanings of these markings
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.72,0:05:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some believe that the glyphs to be an unknown written language.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.82,0:05:17.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Others refuse to accept this.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.75,0:05:21.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since the tablets appear to predate any known language.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.17,0:05:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They presume the markings to be no more than decoration.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.56,0:05:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the tablets were archived,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.28,0:05:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the secrets were locked away for three centuries.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.50,0:05:37.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until it 1835,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.28,0:05:42.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Henry Rawranson arrived. In south western Iran.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.62,0:05:47.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rawranson was a military man. He was employed by the East India Tea Company.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.94,0:05:51.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he was in Iran helping the Shah of Iran to train his troops.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.73,0:05:55.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As worth pausing there for a moment because if you thought that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.27,0:05:59.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,corporations rivaling nations states was something new
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.90,0:06:03.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take a look at the East India Tea company.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.27,0:06:06.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A tea company that's able to move a standing army
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.99,0:06:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around the world and train the armies of nation states.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.01,0:06:16.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's quite a tea company.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.12,0:06:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, Rawranson presence in Iran wasn't part of quid pro quo for trading rides.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.03,0:06:27.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was there for access to the district of Behistun.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.11,0:06:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wanted to find the Behistun inscription
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.27,0:06:37.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] the Behistun inscription was an ancient royal proclamation
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.33,0:06:40.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carved into a cliff face.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.34,0:06:47.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was written in three known languages persian, elamite and akkadian.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.22,0:06:51.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which was the common language of Mesopotamian cultures.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.44,0:06:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The inscription expressed all three languages in \Ncuneiform script.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.89,0:07:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the translation key that cuneiform tablets have been waiting for.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.41,0:07:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The memories of the Mesopotamian ancient cultures was suddenly an open book.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.50,0:07:12.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The glyphs were not made decoration after all.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.66,0:07:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were banking records
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.90,0:07:15.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,business agreements,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.46,0:07:16.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shopping lists,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.86,0:07:18.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,contracts,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.29,0:07:19.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recipes,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.66,0:07:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inventories,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.90,0:07:27.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,royal histories and the most ancient narrative in the history of the world
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.42,0:07:33.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was in these ancient narratives that the source of the bible familiar stories
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.33,0:07:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,began to emarge.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.27,0:07:41.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the academic level Nathaniel Schmidt was in good company,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.52,0:07:46.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was one of the small number who began confronting us with this new layer of our history.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.55,0:07:50.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I should mention just to reassure you that shortly after Colgate university fired him
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.96,0:07:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he did get a new job with Cornell university. and he was a professor of Semitic languages for full 36 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.38,0:08:00.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, he did land on his feet.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.48,0:08:06.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His work continued to argue that the cuneiform reveal that
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.18,0:08:13.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,earliest history are not about god. They are about a prehistoric contact with the Anunnaki.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.08,0:08:22.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] In the 20th century, the writer Zecharia Sitchin began pouring over the cuneiform texts.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.25,0:08:26.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He highlighted the clear implications of the\NSumerian's stories.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.50,0:08:32.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That the Anunnaki were powerful and advanced extraterrestrial species.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.86,0:08:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their arrival on planet Earth put them at the top of the terrestrial food chain.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.40,0:08:44.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To create a local work force, the Anunnaki used sequences of their own genetic code
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.18,0:08:53.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to hybridize a primed ancestor into a human, ready to put to work for their Anunnaki masters.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.76,0:09:01.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Such an argued the word Anunnaki means those who came from the heavens to Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.60,0:09:05.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A phrase that made clear that the \Nextraterrestrials origin.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.12,0:09:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Zecharia Sitchin was not an academic. He was not a Phd or a professor.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.68,0:09:15.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had a degree from the London School of Economics and worked in commerce.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.40,0:09:19.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The LSE I should is a pretty august institution
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.73,0:09:23.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wrote at a popular level. Let's to say for general audience.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.74,0:09:27.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And not with the kind of referencing and footnotes
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.51,0:09:31.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you expect to see in an academic kind of tome
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.04,0:09:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An academic critics don't like that. They think that slack.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.93,0:09:40.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some might identify mistakes or bias in his work.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.71,0:09:44.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's then their pretext to disregard his contributions
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.28,0:09:46.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is an important one.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.57,0:09:51.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, some writers in the field reject Sitchin's translation of the word Anunnaki
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.60,0:09:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they would contend that the word usage \Ntells us
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.05,0:09:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it simply means nobility or royalty.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.82,0:10:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rulers
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.34,0:10:05.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am not persuaded by that. It's not that that's not true.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.30,0:10:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just a very partial answer. It's a very lazy explanation.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.96,0:10:13.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It simply doesn't ask enough of questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.37,0:10:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who were the rulers identified by this word?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.62,0:10:19.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why is that word associated with the rulers?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.30,0:10:24.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see if yo look at the etymology of the word, \Nat it's roots meanings
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.39,0:10:26.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,look at the component parts you have\NAnu
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.65,0:10:28.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which means heavens
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.34,0:10:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ki which means Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.63,0:10:34.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anunnaki are those who came from the heavens to the earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.10,0:10:38.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can follow the logic ,but even if you didn't have\Nthe narrative
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.14,0:10:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imbedded in the word itself
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.18,0:10:43.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as soon as you read the cuneiforms, the stories\Nthemselves
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.80,0:10:47.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unpack that that's exactly what was going on.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.44,0:10:51.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the glyph that they used to indicate the rulers
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.16,0:10:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who come down from the heavens at the beginning of the story
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.98,0:10:57.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that glyph simply indicates the sky
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.90,0:11:01.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, these Anunnaki are from the heavens.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.96,0:11:03.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sky people.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.41,0:11:11.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] Many of the world's oldest mythologies claim
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.78,0:11:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the governance of human society began
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.27,0:11:21.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with dominance over human beings, being \Nestablished by superior beings or gods.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.70,0:11:25.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,