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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
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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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    in 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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    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 Ur of the Chaldees,
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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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    that they had
    grown up with.
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    Of what was to become
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    their culture
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    their religion
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    and their Bible.
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    And so, it shouldn't be a surprise
    that in the Bible
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    we have a summary version
    of all these stories
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    that pepper the Sumerian, Babylonian
    and Assyrian texts.
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    The problem and the shock horror
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    is that the original versions,
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    the Sumerian versions of these stories,
    make no mention of God at all.
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    In the Sumerian originals,
    these are stories
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    of our ancestor's contact
    with another species.
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    A species called
    The Anunnakki.
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    [Narrator] Could Judaism
    and Christianity,
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    familiar stories of God,
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    really be a retelling of our
    ancestor's close encounters
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    with extraterrestrials?
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    The cuneiform tablets which has fascinated
    Nathaniel Schmidt were first on Earth in 1500.
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    As colonial powers began to escalate the
    ancient sites of Mesopotamia.
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    Over the decades had followed some
    200,000 clay tablets were uncovered.
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    The tablets were adorned with
    strange etchings or glyphs
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    made when the clay was soft.
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    Scholars of the day divided us to
    the meanings of these markings.
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    Some believe that the glyphs to
    be an unknown written language.
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    Others refuse to accept this,
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    since the tablets appear to
    predate any known language.
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    They presume the markings to be
    no more than decoration.
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    And so the tablets were archived,
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    the secrets were locked away
    for three centuries.
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    Until in 1835,
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    Henry Rawranson arrived.
    In south western Iran.
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    Rawranson was a military man. He was
    employed by the East India Tea Company.
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    And he was in Iran helping the
    Shah of Iran to train his troops.
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    As worth pausing there for a moment
    because if you thought that
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    corporations rivaling nations states
    was something new
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    take a look at the East India Tea company.
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    A tea company that's able to
    move a standing army
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    around the world and train
    the armies of nation-states.
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    That's quite a tea company.
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    In fact, Rawranson presence in Iran wasn't
    part of quid pro quo for trading rights.
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    He was there for access to
    the district of Behistun.
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    He wanted to find the Behistun inscription
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    [Narrator] the Behistun inscription was
    an ancient royal proclamation
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    carved into a cliff face.
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    It was written in three known languages
    Persian, Elamite and Akkadian.
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    Which was the common language of
    Mesopotamian cultures.
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    The inscription expressed all three
    languages in cuneiform script.
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    It was the translation key that cuneiform
    tablets have been waiting for.
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    The memories of the Mesopotamian ancient
    cultures was suddenly an open book.
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    The glyphs were not made
    decoration after all.
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    They were banking records
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    business agreements,
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    shopping lists,
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    contracts,
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    recipes,
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    inventories,
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    royal histories and the most ancient narrative in the history of the world
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    It was in these ancient narratives that
    the source of the bibles familiar stories
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    began to emarge.
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    At an academic level Nathaniel Schmidt
    was in good company,
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    He was one of the small number who began
    confronting us with this new layer of our history.
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    I should mention just to reassure you that
    shortly after Colgate university fired him
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    he did get a new job with Cornell University. and he
    was a professor of Semitic languages for full 36 years.
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    So, he did land on his feet.
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    His work continued to argue that
    the cuneiforms reveal that our
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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 one argued, the word Anunnaki means
    "those who came from the heavens to Earth".
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    A phrase that made clear that their
    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 say, is a pretty
    august institution.
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    He wrote at a popular level,
    let's to say, for a 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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    And academic critics don't like that.
    They think that´s 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
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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 Sumerian cuneiforms
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    also name their first
    human king Gilgamesh.
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    To be more accurate,
    Gilgamesh is a transition king.
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    A hybrid of human and annunaki.
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    His name appears on one of the
    most famous of Mesopotamian artifacts,
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    the Sumerian King's list.
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    Among the shopping lists,
    legal agreements, business contracts
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    and all the rest of the cuneiform tablets,
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    There appears what on first inspection
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    is a dry record of a succesion of kings
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    of Sumeria.
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    The most recent entries record
    reigns of 6 to 36 years.
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    As we go further back on the timeline
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    the kings list starts running with
    some odd looking information
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    because, out of the blue,
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    we suddenly read of a dynasty
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    that lasted 24,510 years, 3 months
    and 3 and a half days.
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    Now that precision absolutely
    befits Sumerian culture
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    because its from Semerian culture that
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    we get 360 degrees in a circle,
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    60 seconds in a minute,
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    60 minutes in an hour,
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    so the precision doesn't surprise us.
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    What is odd is that
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    that dynasty of 24,500 years, 3 months
    and 3 and a half days
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    was divided across no more than 23 kings
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    thats an average range of more than
    a thousand years each
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    and its not a one off
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    the dynasty concluded by the great flood
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    lasted 241,000 years shared
    by no more than 8 kings
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    that's an average range of more than 30,000 years
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    Now, some have tried to
    make the dates symbolic
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    or have interpreted their
    unit of timedifferently
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    but that doesn't quite work
    when its an unbroken record
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    of 6 to 36 year reigns uh
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    to 36,000 years reigns
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    all in the same unit of time
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    all in the same narrative
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    the narrative begins with non-human kings
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    who then hand over to human kings
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    and this elasticity of
    the length of their dynasty's
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    is another suggestion
    that the non-human kings
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    are something quite
    different to juman beings
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    it's like comparing the lifespan
    of a human being
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    with the lifespan of an ant
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    [Narrator] the king's list
    is not the only evidence
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    pointing to an extraterrestrial hypothesis
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    the Sumerian version of The Tower of Babel
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    speaks of 50 technicians
    who employ mysterious technology
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    to dispatch 300 observers to
    their stations in the stars
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    right along side the genesis account
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    the two narratives confirm one another
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    and paint a vivid picture
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    Babel, was a stargate
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    providing the observers
    rapid access to space stations
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    The thing that got me into
    this whole field of research
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    was an anomalous word
    in the book of genesis
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    I've been a preacher
    for more than 30 years
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    I've studied and talked through
    the book of genesis
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    many, many times in
    churches all around the world
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    and I've trained pastors
    in the skills of interpreting texts
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    So I've long known about
    this anomalous word
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    Well finally i allowed myself
    the time to sit down
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    and really drill into what was going on
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    Genesis uses two words for god
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    One is Elohim and one is Yaweh or Jehovah
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    Now, Yaweh is the holy name given to Moses
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    in a time, centureis or millenia
    after all the action described
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    in the stories of beginnings
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    So, the fact that the word Yaweh
    appears in those much older stories
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    that clues us that we're not reading
    the original version of the stories
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    The sotries are being retold by
    someone after the time of Moses
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    Now, there's a broad consensus
    among biblical scholars
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    that the current version of
    the old testament
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    the Hebrew scriptures
    was edited or redacted
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    sometime in the sixth century B.C.E.
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    and that the redacter,
    by putting the name Yaweh
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    into these older stories, the stories that
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    Abraham and Sarah have brought with them
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    was telling the reader to
    regard them as God's stories
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    by using the later name
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    he's also telling the reader,
    this is not the original version
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    Originally, they were Elohim's stories
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    Now that word Elohim is
    a very interesting word because
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    it's a plural form word
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    it often exhibits plural behaviors,
    "Let us make,
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    let us make the humans to
    look like one of us,
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    we dont want them to
    become to much like one of us etc".
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    The word Elohim often
    takes plural verb forms
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    its sometimes translated as
    god but in other places
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    it gets translated as false gods or demons
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    or angels or cheiftans or land barons
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    so why this enormous elasticity
    in the words meaning
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    Well again, we have to go back to
    the roots of the word
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    and ask why is it used that way and
    why does it behave like a plural
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    When you look at its
    component parts the word Elohim
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    means the powers or the powerful ones
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    now when you read genesis
    translating the word that way
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    the texts change and suddenly
    line up with the Sumerian texts
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    One by one they confirm
    each others stories
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    and its very clear they're
    not stories about gods
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    they're stories about
    the powerful ones in the bible
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    and the sky people,
    the Annunaki in the Sumerian tablets
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    [Narrarator] but is there any
    material evidence that
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    a non-human ruling presence
    ever occupied planet earth
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    one might reasonably ask
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    Why have no physical remains of
    Annunaki been found?
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    firstly i would note that
    the more we dig up ancient sites
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    the greater a diversity of
    ancient peoples were finding
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    if you think about the hobbits that
    were found in Indonesia
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    We called them hobbits think
    the proper name is homoforensis
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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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    in 2003 a team went in
    protected by American troops
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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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