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

the best part of their lives
in (research name)

A Sumerian culture

and so when they emigrated
from there

it's hardly surprising that
they would carry with them

[Paul] all the stories of beginnings

that they had
grown up with.

and sew them
into the foundations

of what was to become

their culture

their religion

and their Bible.

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

we have a summary version
of all these stories

that ? 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
hieroglyphs

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 it 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 rides.

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 bible familiar stories

began to emarge.

At the 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 expect to see in an academic kind of tome

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

Some might identify mistakes or bias in his work.

And that's then their pretext to disregard his contributions

which is an important one.

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

and they would contend that the word usage
tells us

that it simply means nobility or royalty.

the rulers

I am 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.