WHY ARE WE HERE? A Scary Truth Behind the Original Bible Story | Full Documentary

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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

Abraham and Sarah
grew up and spent

A Sumerian culture

and so when they emigrated
from there

it's hardly surprising that
they would carry with them

all the stories of beginnings

that they had
grown up with.

that they had
grown up with.

of what was to become

their culture

their religion

and their Bible.

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

we have a summary version
of all these stories

that pepper the Sumerian, Babylonian
and Assyrian texts.

The problem and the shock horror

is that the original versions

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

In the Sumerian originals
these are stories

of our ancestor's contact
with another species.

A species called
The Anunnakki.

[Narrator] Could Judaism
and Christianity

familiar stories of God

really be a retelling of our
ancestor's close encounters

with extraterrestrials?

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

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

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

The tablets were adorned with
strange etchings or glyphs

made when the clay was soft.

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

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

Others refuse to accept this.

since the tablets appear to
predate any known language.

They presume the markings to be
no more than decoration.

And so the tablets were archived,

the secrets were locked away
for three centuries.

Until in 1835,

Henry Rawranson arrived.
In south western Iran.

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

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

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

corporations rivaling nations states
was something new

take a look at the East India Tea company.

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

around the world and train
the armies of nation-states.

That's quite a tea company.

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

He was there for access to
the district of Behistun.

He wanted to find the Behistun inscription

[Narrator] the Behistun inscription was
an ancient royal proclamation

carved into a cliff face.

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

Which was the common language of
Mesopotamian cultures.

The inscription expressed all three
languages in cuneiform script.

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

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

The glyphs were not made
decoration after all.

They were banking records

business agreements,

shopping lists,

contracts,

recipes,

inventories,

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

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

began to emarge.

At an academic level Nathaniel Schmidt
was in good company,

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

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

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

So, he did land on his feet.

His work continued to argue that
the cuneiform reveal that

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

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

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

That the Anunnaki were powerful and
advanced extraterrestrial species.

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

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

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

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

A phrase that made clear that the
extraterrestrials origin.

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

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

The LSE I should is a pretty
august institution.

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

And not with the kind of
referencing and footnotes

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

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

Some might identify mistakes or
bias in his work.

And that's then their pretext to
disregard his contributions

which is an important one.

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

and they would contend that the word usage

that it simply means nobility or royalty.

the rulers

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

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

It simply doesn't ask enough of questions.

Who were the rulers identified by this word?

why is that word associated with the rulers?

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

look at the component parts
you have Anu

which means heavens

ki which means Earth.

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

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

imbedded in the word itself

as soon as you read the cuneiforms,
the stories themselves

unpack that that's exactly
what was going on.

And the glyph that they used to
indicate the rulers

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

that glyph simply indicates the sky

So, these Anunnaki are from the heavens.

The sky people.

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

that the governance of human society began

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

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

to human governors or kings

Egyptian mythology holds such a narrative

Similarly The Bible speaks of King Sol

as the first human king over
the people of god

The Semeirian cuneiforms

also name their fir st human king Gilgamesh

To be more accurate,
Gilgamesh is a transition king

A hybrid of human and annunaki

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

The Sumerian King's list

Among the shopping lists,
legal agreements, business contracts

and all the rest of the cuneiform tablets

There appears what on first inspection

is a dry record of a succesion of kings

of Sumeria

The most recent entries record
reigns of 6 to 36 years

As we go further back on the timeline

the kings list starts running with
some odd looking information

because out of the blue

we suddenly read of a dynasty

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

Now that precision absolutely
befits Sumerian culture

because its from Semerian culture that

we get 360 degrees in a circle

60 seconds in a minute

60 minutes in an hour

so the precision doesn't surprise us

what is odd is that

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

was divided across no more than 23 kings

thats an average range of more than
a thousand years each

and its not a one off

the dynasty concluded by the great flood

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

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

Now, some have tried to
make the dates symbolic

or have interpreted their
unit of timedifferently

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

of 6 to 36 year reigns uh

to 36,000 years reigns

all in the same unit of time

all in the same narrative

the narrative begins with non-human kings

who then hand over to human kings

and this elasticity of
the length of their dynasty's

is another suggestion
that the non-human kings

are something quite
different to juman beings

it's like comparing the lifespan
of a human being

with the lifespan of an ant

[Narrator] the king's list
is not the only evidence

pointing to an extraterrestrial hypothesis

the Sumerian version of The Tower of Babel

speaks of 50 technicians
who employ mysterious technology

to dispatch 300 observers to
their stations in the stars

right along side the genesis account

the two narratives confirm one another

and paint a vivid picture

Babel, was a stargate

providing the observers
rapid access to space stations

The thing that got me into
this whole field of research

was an anomalous word
in the book of genesis

I've been a preacher
for more than 30 years

I've studied and talked through
the book of genesis

many, many times in
churches all around the world

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

So I've long known about
this anomalous word

Well finally i allowed myself
the time to sit down

and really drill into what was going on

Genesis uses two words for god

One is Elohim and one is Yaweh or Jehovah

Now, Yaweh is the holy name given to Moses

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

in the stories of beginnings

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

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

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

Now, there's a broad consensus
among biblical scholars

that the current version of
the old testament

the Hebrew scriptures
was edited or redacted

sometime in the sixth century B.C.E.

and that the redacter,
by putting the name Yaweh

into these older stories, the stories that

Abraham and Sarah have brought with them

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

by using the later name

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

Originally, they were Elohim's stories

Now that word Elohim is
a very interesting word because

it's a plural form word

it often exhibits plural behaviors,
"Let us make,

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

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

The word Elohim often
takes plural verb forms

its sometimes translated as
god but in other places

it gets translated as false gods or demons

or angels or cheiftans or land barons

so why this enormous elasticity
in the words meaning

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

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

When you look at its
component parts the word Elohim

means the powers or the powerful ones

now when you read genesis
translating the word that way

the texts change and suddenly
line up with the Sumerian texts

One by one they confirm
each others stories

and its very clear they're
not stories about gods

they're stories about
the powerful ones in the bible

and the sky people,
the Annunaki in the Sumerian tablets

[Narrarator] but is there any
material evidence that

a non-human ruling presence
ever occupied planet earth

one might reasonably ask

Why have no physical remains of
Annunaki been found?

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

the greater a diversity of
ancient peoples were finding

if you think about the hobbits that
were found in Indonesia

We called them hobbits think
the proper name is homoforensis

or the giants of noble county

or the red-haired giants of North America

or the long skull of piraka etc.

There's a great range of people that we're

beginning to come across as
we dig into our ancient past

so how would we know if
we found an Anunnaki

well one obvious possibility
is by DNA testing

so if Gilgamesh really was
a human Anunnaki hybrid

then all we have to do is find
the royal tomb and DNA test him

well I believe that's exactly
what happened in Iraq

in 2003 a team went in
protected by American troops

in 2003 a team went in
protected by American troops

and found Gilgamesh's tomb.

Fassbender spoke to the BBC
you can go on his website

you can read all about it

now the officail story is that having located

the probable tomb site 16 years ago
we decided not to investigate any further.

Similarly in 1927 the British
archeologist Leonard Woolley

discovered a person known as Queen Puabi

now she was a high ranking Sumerian
leader who lived around 2500 BCE

and they had found her remains

so agian here's another find which
with today's technology

provides us with
the oppurtunity to DNA test

we can now test Sumerian
royalty to comfirm

whether it was entirely human, the result,
apparently we've decided not to investigate any further

Now what do you make of that?

Wouldn't you want to know?