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Who are the Anunnaki? | What is the Planet

Nibiru?

27-34 minutes

by D.M. Murdock/Acharya S

Are the Anunnaki real? Are they aliens? Or are they part of a bigger
picture?

The "Anunnaki" are the major players in a paradigm making its

way into popular folklore, via the work of the late Zecharia Sitchin,
an economist by education and profession, and the author of
several best-selling books, including Genesis Revisited, that
explore ancient mythology and the mysterious megalithic ruins
found around the globe. These various books also seek to
demonstrate that there was in ancient times an extraterrestrial
race that genetically manipulated mankind for various reasons.
The Sitchin thesis ("Sitchinism"), now embraced by numerous
other writers, who have incorporated it into what is apparently a
new worldview, essentially asserts that these ancient Sumero-
Babylonian gods, the Anunnaki, are aliens from the planet Nibiru
(Sitchin's "12th Planet"), which passes by the earth every 3,500
years or so, at which time they planet-hop to the earth and create
mischief.

Although the idea of the ancient gods being aliens may seem
novel, the tendency to make the gods of old into "real people" or
"flesh and blood" is not at all new, dating to before the time of the
Greek historian Herodotus (5th c. BCE) and developed by the
Greek philosopher Euhemeros or Evemeras (c. 300 BCE). This
tendency is called, in fact, "euhemerism" or "evemerism," which
claims that the numerous gods of various cultures were not
"mythical" but were in reality kings, queens, warriors and assorted
heroes whose lives were turned into fairytales with the addition of
miraculous details to their biographies. The current Anunnaki
thesis is a modern version of evemerism, although it seeks to
explain the miracles as not fabulous "additions" to the tales but
genuine attributes of advanced extraterrestrials.

Unfortunately for those who would wish to see concrete evidence

of such exciting notions as extraterrestrial visitation in Earth's
remote past, the Anunnaki will not be the place to look, as the true
nature of these various gods and goddesses was already known
long before the era of modern revisionism.

Ancient Astronaut Theory

The tireless researcher Charles Fort was widely known as the

chronicler of what are now called "Forteana," bizarre anomalies
and mysteries that throw the current perception of reality on its
ear, whether it be religious or scientific. In an attempt to explain
these anomalies, which include weird stories or "myths" and

enormous, astonishing ruins worldwide, a

number of people, including Swiss writer Erich von Daniken and
Zecharia Sitchin, have created the "ancient astronaut theory,"
which dictates that alien visitors have been influencing human life
for thousands if not millions of years, even to the point of genetic
manipulation. von Daniken, it should be recalled, was one of the
first moderns to put forth the ancient astronaut theory and was
widely ridiculed and vilified for his observations. Because of
Sitchin's apparent scholastic training, he becomes more credible
for many, even though he is one of those renegades not
scholastically trained in his field. Furthermore, it should be noted
that neither man came up with the ancient astronaut theory, which
was largely developed by a German occultic society, for one,
during the 19th century.

Supporters ("Sitchinites") claim that Sitchin is one of the few

people who read the Sumerian language and that because he can
read Sumerian, he must be interpreting the data properly. The
assertion that he is one of the few scholars of Sumerian is not
true. Moreover, the idea that someone may be able to read a
language and therefore can interpret its data properly is a
specious argument, because the one certainly does not guarantee
the other. Years before Sitchin, biblical and Dead Sea scrolls
scholar John Allegro studied Sumerian intimately and came to
very different conclusions: To wit, that many of the words
revolved around sex and drugs. Hence, it is not the "mere" ability
to read the Sumerian that will produce an accurate rendering of it.

Biblical Bias?
Like so many other paradigms that make it into popular culture,
the alien astronaut theory has been agenda-driven. In fact, it
seems that the most recent attempt may be prompted by the
same type of motivation that produced the Bible, a chronicle
largely consisting of the plagiarized myths of other cultures that
were reconstituted as "humans" of a particular ethnicity. It
appears that the Anunnaki thesis has now led to the conclusion
that, while the Bible is not infallible, its god Yahweh is valid and its
various characters are the superhuman alien-hybrid progenitors of
"the chosen."

In reality, there was no reason to recreate the ancient gods

as aliens or humans, because the ancients themselves were quite
clear about what it was exactly they were worshipping and
fancifully describing in epic poetry. The speculation is not needed,
as, for example, the Sumero-Babylonians themselves said that the
gods were the planets, not people, and that their stories were
myths representing personifications of these bodies.

It is believed that by "dismissing" the myths of

the ancients as myths, we are somehow robbing them of their
"history." This claim is ludicrous, as it is those who insist that
there are no myths who are actually defaming the ancients. It
seems as if everyone has already forgotten the work of the
learned and esteemed mythologist Joseph Campbell. Campbell
knew that major biblical tales, such as that of Moses and the
Exodus, were mythical. In his book Occidental Mythology,
following a discussion of the Bible, Campbell turns to the "Gods
and Heroes of the European West," and says, with apparent
resentment:

"Fortunately, it will not be necessary to argue that Greek, Celtic

or Germanic myths were mythological. The peoples themselves
knew they were myths, and the European scholars discussing
them have not been overborne by the idea of something
uniquely holy about their topic."

Perhaps mythology is simply not as exciting as the UFOlogical

paradigm, whereby ancient astronauts were buzzing all over the
place, being worshipped for their extraordinary capacities.
However, the desire to see such a "history" often seems to be
coming from exposure as a youth to comic books and sci-fi
movies—and even the History Channel these days, featuring
"Ancient Aliens" shows!

Astrotheology of the Ancients

The ancients were not the dark and dumb rabble commonly
portrayed. They were, in fact, highly advanced. As such, they
developed over a period of many thousands of years a complex
astronomical/ astrological system that incorporated the
movements and qualities of numerous celestial bodies, which
could be called the "celestial mythos." The celestial mythos is
found around the globe in astonishing uniformity. In fact, it served
as the manner by which life on Earth was ordered, as it contained
information crucial to life, such as the movements and
interrelationship of the sun and moon. Without the mythos, no
people would have been able to become sea-faring, and planting
and harvesting would have been difficult. And the mythos needed
no alien intervention to be developed by humans, nor did it need
moderns to come along and reinterpret it contrary to what its
creators intended.

For example, the Anunnaki play a part in the mythos, but they are
not "people," human or otherwise. The Anunnaki, in general,
represent the seven "nether spheres" and guardians of the seven
"gates" through which the "sun of God" passes into the
netherworld or darkness. They are also the "tutelary spirits of the
earth." So, immediately we encounter a problem which reveals
that what Sitchin is putting forth is not what the ancients
themselves said of the traditions they themselves

developed. Like so many before

him, Sitchin also wants to make the main character of the
celestial mythos, the sun, into a person. Actually, he wants to
make it into several extraterrestrials. These various gods found
around the globe, such as Apollo, Osiris, Horus, Krishna, Hercules,
Jesus and Quetzalcoatl, are not people or aliens but
personifications of the solar hero, as was stated by the peoples
who created them. The ancients were not so dumb that they
mistook planets for people, even though they personified those
planets and, where the knowledge or gnosis of the mythos was
lost, they hoped for "the incarnation," or the carnalization or
appearance of a "god." There is no need to recreate the wheel here
by speculating upon what the ancients "really" meant.

The Anunnaki and Assorted Other Characters

Contrary to popular belief, the Sumerian culture has been known

for centuries and did not appear suddenly out of nowhere with the
discovery of the cuneiform tablets found at Ur, capitol of Sumeria,
for example. If anything, the tablets and others verified what we
already knew about Sumeria from its inheritors, the Akkadians
and Assyro-Babylonians. The Sumerians were not a lost
civilization, except that their older physical remains such as at Ur
had not been remembered through the ages but were
rediscovered only in the mid-19th century. Their mythology and
culture were fairly well preserved in the succeeding civilizations:
For instance, some 300,000 tablets of the Babylonians have been
found thus far, which include much commentary on their gods.

The main characters in the Sumero-Babylonian religion/mythology

are Enlil/Ellil, Utu/Shamash, Marduk/Merodach, Gilgamesh,
Nanna/Sin, Inanna/Ishtar, Ea/Enki and Dumuzi/Tammuz. A
number of these deities are in the class called "Anunnaki" and/or
"Igigi." The Anunnaki are numbered variously: 7, 50 and 900.

None of these characters is a historical person, as, again, the

Sumero-Babylonians correctly identified their own gods as being
the "planets," which, of course, included the sun and the moon to
the ancients. Says the Catholic Encyclopedia regarding Babel:

"The storied tower of Birs Nimrud counts seven of these

quadrangular platforms painted in seven colors, black, white,
yellow, blue, scarlet, silver and gold, and in the same order
 sacred to the stellar gods, Adar (Saturn), Ishtar (Venus),
Merodach (Jupiter), Nebo (Mercury), Nergal (Mars), Sin (the
Moon), Shamash (the Sun)."

Enlil/Ellil/Bel

The "king of the Anunnaki," Enlil is the storm/wind god, also

essentially the same as the later Bel or Baal, the Canaanite sun
god/solar hero. Enlil and Ninlil give birth to the moon god Nanna,
"a major astral deity of the Sumerians," who was called "Sin" in
Babylonian. Sin is the same moon god encamped at Mt. Sinai, as
well as worshipped at Ur and Harran, where purportedly lived the
mythical Abraham, progenitor of the Hebrews, who "borrowed"
many of their gods (Elohim) from Mesopotamia (and Canaan,
Egypt, etc.). Obviously, neither the moon nor "his parents" are real
persons/aliens; nor are the rest. Regarding Enlil/Bel, the
Encyclopedia Britannica says:

"Bel

"(Akkadian), Sumerian Enlil, Mesopotamian god of the

atmosphere and a member of the triad of gods completed by
Anu (Sumerian An) and Ea (Enki). Enlil meant 'Lord Wind'- both
the hurricane and the gentle winds of spring were thought of as
the breath issuing from his mouth, and eventually as his word or
command [cf. Christian "logos" (John 1:1)]. He was sometimes
called Lord of the Air.

"Although An was the highest god in the Sumerian pantheon,

Enlil had a more important role: he embodied energy and force
but not authority. Enlil's cult centre was Nippur. Enlil was also
the god of agriculture: the Myth of the Creation of the Hoe
describes how he separated heaven and earth to make room for
seeds to grow. He then invented the hoe and broke the hard
crust of earth; men sprang forth from the hole. Another myth
relates Enlil's rape of his consort Ninlil (Akkadian Belit), a grain
goddess, and his subsequent banishment to the underworld.
This myth reflects the agricultural cycle of fertilization, ripening
and winter inactivity.

"The name of his Akkadian counterpart, Bel, is derived from

 the Semitic word baal, or "lord." Bel had all the attributes of
Enlil, and his status and cult were much the same. Bel,
however, gradually came to be thought of as the god of order
and destiny. In Greek writings references to Bel indicate this
Babylonian deity and not the Syrian god of Palmyra of the same
name."

Although there were many Baalim, the singular Baal apparently

came to represent the sun in the age of Taurus (c. 4500-2400
BCE), whence, it is said, comes the word "bull."

Sin and Shamash

The moon god Sin is the father of Shamash, the Babylonian sun
god, who was worshipped by the Israelites. Indeed, "sun" in
Hebrew is "shamash." The sun god Shamash was called the
"sublime judge of the Anunnaki."

Enki/Ea

The "commander of the Anunnaki" and son of Enki/Ea, the god of

"the waters" (cf. Gen. 1:1), was Marduk, or Merodach, who is
apparently the Mordecai of the biblical book of Esther (Ishtar).
Also called a "king of the Igigi," Marduk was the supreme
Babylonian god and often represented Jupiter, although as "Bel-
Marduk" he incorporated aspects of the sun god as well and was
considered as such at a late period in his worship.

One of Marduk's 50 names was "Nibiru" or "Nebiru," in which

Robert Temple in The Sirius Mystery sees the Egyptian term "Neb-
Heru," meaning "Lord of the sun." The god
Horus or "Heru" is indeed largely a sun god, depicted as a hawk
with wings outstretched and the solar orb on his head.

Rather than representing the "12th planet," the description of

Nibiru in the Enuma Elish does indeed seem to depict the

personification of the sun and its

"exploits." "Nebo" was the Babylonian version of "Moses," actually
a solar hero, and Nibiru, in fact, is represented by a winged disc, a
common motif depicting the sun. According to the consensus of
astronomers worldwide, both amateur and professional, there is
no evidence for the 12th planet/Nibiru as Sitchin presents it. (In
other words, "Planet X" is not a known, astronomical reality.)

Gilgamesh

The demigod/hero
Gilgamesh is depicted as wrestling the "celestial bull," said
to represent the sign of the age of Taurus and is similar to the
motif of the Perso-Roman sun god Mithra slaying the bull. In
mourning the death of Enki, Gilgamesh "goes to the mountains of
Mashu and passes by the guardian scorpion-demons into the
darkness." Mt. Mashu was where "every evening the sun sought
repose." Per Robert Temple, "Mashu" may be derived from an
Egyptian term meaning, "Behold, the sun." Like "Moses," derived
from mashah in Hebrew (Strong's h3871), "Mashu" is apparently
related to "Shamash" and represents the sun. The "scorpion-
demons" or scorpion-men are evidently the stars in the
constellation of Scorpio, in the darkness of the night sky.
Gilgamesh has also been associated with the Egyptian sun god
Osiris, as has the biblical "Nimrod" or "Nemrod." The Catholic
Encyclopedia (CE) states:

"Gilgamesh, whom mythology transformed into a Babylonian

Hercules [the Greek solar hero], whose fortunes are described
in the Gilgamesh-epos, would then be the person designated by
the Biblical Nemrod. Others again see in Nemrod an intentional
corruption of Amarudu, the Akkadian for Marduk, whom the
Babylonians worshiped as the great God..." ("Babylonia")

Inanna/Ishtar

One of the "seven who decreed the fates," Inanna/Ishtar was the

Goddess, alternately Venus, the

moon, the constellation of Virgo, the earth, etc. Ishtar was
"Astarte" in Phoenicia, and, as Frazer says in The Worship of
Nature, "Her Phoenician worshippers identified her with the
Moon..." Like the Greek god of the underworld, Hades, who
allowed his beloved Persephone to return to the surface in order
to create spring, Inanna was the creator of seasons, as she is
depicted permitting the solar-fertility god Dumuzi/Tammuz to
remain in the underworld for only six months out of the year.

Dumuzi/Tammuz

One of the lesser Anunnaki, the "shepherd god" Tammuz was

worshipped also in Jerusalem, per the book of Ezekiel (8:14). As
the Babylonian records state concerning their "garden of Eden" or
"Edina," of Eridu: "a dark vine grew; it was made a glorious place,
planted beside the abyss. In the glorious house, which is like a
forest, its shadow extends; no man enters its midst. In its interior
is the Sun-god Tammuz. Between the mouths of the rivers, which
are on both sides." (CE "Babylonia")

The Netherworld Seven

In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Anunnaki appear thus:

"The Flood: Nergal pull down the dams of the nether waters,
Ninurta the war lord threw down the dykes, and the SEVEN
judges of hell, THE ANUNNAKI, raised their torches lighting the
land with their vivid fire."

The "nether
waters" represent the heavens, and the Anunnaki were called "the
fates" and light-bearers of the night sky. They were the "seven
judges of hell" and "seven nether spheres," as Barbara G. Walker
relates in her entry on Mary Magdalene (The Woman's
Encyclopedia, 614):

"The seven 'devils' exorcised from Mary Magdalene seem to

have been the seven Maskim, or Anunnaki, Sumero-Akkadian
spirits of the seven nether spheres, born of the goddess Mari.
Their multiple birth was represented in her sacred dramas,
which may account for their alleged emergence from Mary
Magdalene. An Akkadian tablet said of them, 'They are seven! In
the depths of the ocean, they are seven! In the brilliance of the
 heavens, they are seven! They proceed from the ocean depths
[Maria] from the hidden retreat!"

Walker also relates, in The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and

Sacred Objects, 13:

"A generally accepted view of the universe in antiquity was the

doctrine of the planetary spheres, conceived as great crystal
domes or inverted bowls nested inside one another over the
earth, turning independently of one another at various rates, and
emitting the 'music of the spheres' with their motions. The
theory was evolved to explain the apparently erratic movement
of planets against the background of the fixed stars. Reading
from the innermost sphere outward, arranging them according
to the days of the week, they were the spheres of the moon,
Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and the sun. Outermost
was the eight sphere, the Empyrean, the home of fixed spheres
and the ultimate God: the highest heaven.

"As a corollary to this theory, it was also assumed that there

were seven nether spheres descending under the earth: the
'seven hells' to which Dumuzi and Inanna (or Tammuz and
Ishtar) journeyed; whose seven gates were guarded by the
seven Anunnaki or Maskim, the nether counterparts of the
planetary spirits. According to an Akkadian magic tablet, 'They
proceed from the ocean depths, from the hidden retreat.' From
the ancient idea of the seven nether spheres, Dante took his
vision of the descending circles of hell.'

"Early Christians taught that each human soul descends from

heaven, picking up one of the seven deadly sins from each
planetary sphere along the way: lust from Venus, anger from
Mars, and so on. After death, the soul returned to the highest
heaven, shedding the same sins one by one, while passing the
'innkeeper' of the spheres - providing, of course, that the soul
was Christianized and therefore properly enlightened."
When we study what the ancients said about them, we discover
that the Anunnaki, et al., are part of the celestial mythos, not
"aliens." Here the Anunnaki are the "seven nether spheres" or
mirror images of the seven "planets." These seven judges are a
common mythical motif, also found in Slavic/Serbian mythology,
for example, where they are clearly identified as the planets:

"Among the Serbs the Sun was a young and handsome king. He
lived in a kingdom of light and sat on a throne of gold and
purple. At his side stood two beautiful virgins, Aurora of the
Morning and Aurora of the Evening, seven judges (the planets)
and seven 'messengers' who flew across the universe in the
guise of 'stars with tails' (comets). Also present was the Sun's
'bald uncle, old Myesyats' (or the moon)." New Larousse
Encyclopedia of Mythology, 284

As we can see, the reality of this issue is much more colorful and
luminous than a group of bizarre aliens terrorizing cavemen. This
information is what the ancients themselves wrote. They did not
write, "And so the Anunnaki were sky people from another planet
who landed here and mated with humans, etc." In fact, "Anunnaki"
is a generic term for gods, especially secondary gods, and means
"gods of heaven and earth," not "those who from heaven to earth
came." "An" or "Anu" means "sky" and represents the name of the
"god of heaven," while "Ki" means "earth" and is the name of the
earth goddess.

The Host of Heaven and Sons of God

As noted, the Anunnaki were numbered 900 as well, some of

whom apparently represented the stars, i.e., the zodiac, or
"heavenly host," as worshipped by the Canaanites and Hebrews. In
this regard, Benson writes in The History of God From Abraham to
Moses:

"The Anunnaki were analogous to the 'host of heaven' of the

Hebrews. Marduk allotted portions to the Anunnaki: 'To the
Anunnaki of heaven and earth [Marduk] had allotted their
portions.' Likewise, the Canaanite-Hebrew god El Elyon allotted
portions to his sons: 'When the Most High [Heb. Elyon] gave to
the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of
men, he fixed the bounds of the peoples according to the
number of the sons of God. For the LORDs portion is his people,
Jacob [Israel] his allotted heritage.' (Deuteronomy 32:8-9 RSV)
These 'sons of God' in the following verse are also called the
'host of heaven,' to whom God divided to all the nations: 'And
lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see...all the
host of heaven...which the LORD your God has divided to all
nations under the whole heaven.' (Deuteronomy 4:19 KJV)
These gods were secondary gods: 'For the LORD your God is
God of gods, and Lord of lords...' (Deuteronomy 10:17 KJV) 'O
give thanks to the God of gods...' (Psalm 136:2 KJV)"

Yahweh

Also, the biblical god Yahweh is not a person, alien or otherwise.

"He" too is in large part a solar myth. Regarding Yahweh, the
Catholic Encyclopedia says:

"It seems likely that the name of Ea, or Ya, or Aa, the oldest god
of the Babylonian Pantheon, is connected with the name Jahve,
 Jahu, or Ja, of the Old Testament."

The Babylonian "Ea" is equivalent to Enlil, whom, as we have seen,

is a sun god.

(The following regarding Yahweh is an excerpt from The Christ

Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold .)

Prior to being labeled Yahweh, the Israelite god was called "Baal."
signifying the sun in the Age of Taurus. When the sun passed into
Aries, "the Lord's" name was changed to the Egyptian Iao, which
became YHWH, IEUE, Yahweh, Jahweh, Jehovah and Jah. This
ancient name "IAO/Iao" represents the totality of "God," as the "I"
symbolizes unity, the "a" is the "alpha" or beginning, while the "o" is
the "omega" or end.

In fact, the name Yahweh, Iao or any number of variants thereof

can be found in several cultures:

"In Phoenicia the Sun was known as Adonis...identical with Iao,

or, according to the Chinese faith, Yao (Jehovah), the Sun, who
makes his appearance in the world 'at midnight of the twenty-
fourth day of the twelfth month.'"

YHWH/IEUE was additionally the Egyptian sun god Ra:

 "Ra was the father in heaven, who has the title of 'Huhi' the
eternal, from which the Hebrews derived the name 'Ihuh.'"

Thus, the tetragrammaton or sacred name of God

IAO/IEUE/YHWH is very old, pre-Israelite, and can be
etymologically linked to numerous gods, even to "Jesus," or
"Yahushua," whose name means "salvation" or "Iao/YHWH saves."

Yahweh had yet another aspect to "his" persona, as at some early

stage the "sacred tetragrammaton" of "God" was bi-gendered. As
Walker states:

"Jewish mystical tradition viewed the original Jehovah as an

androgyne, his/her name compounded as Jah (jod) and the pre-
Hebraic name of Eve, Havah or Hawah, rendered he-vau-he- in
Hebrew letters. The four letters together made the sacred
tetragrammaton, YHWH, the secret name of God.... The Bible
contains many plagiarized excerpts from earlier hymns and
prayers to Ishtar and other Goddess figures, with the name of
Yahweh substituted for that of the female deity."

Thus, even Yahweh was at one time plural, but "he" eventually
became an all-male, sky god. This singular Yahweh was a warrior
god, representing the sun in Aries, which is ruled by the warlike
Mars and symbolized by the Ram-the same symbolic ram "caught
in a thicket" near Abraham and used by him as a replacement
sacrifice for his son Isaac. This warrior god Yahweh was not only
Jealous but Zealous, as his name is rendered in Young's Literal
Translation:

"...for ye do not bow yourselves to another god-for Jehovah,

whose name [is] Zealous, is a zealous God." (Exodus 34:14)

In fact, the same word in Hebrew is used for both jealous and
zealous, although it is transliterated differently, "qanna" being
jealous and "qana," zealous. As El Elyon was but one of the
Canaanite Elohim, the Most High God, so was "Yahweh," as "El
Qanna," the Jealous/Zealous God, which is why in the Old
Testament he keeps sticking his nose in and shouting at
everyone. The title "Jealous/Zealous" is also appropriate for a god
represented by a volcano, as was Yahweh by the smoky and fiery
Mt. Sinai. Hence, Yahweh's followers themselves were intolerant
and hotheaded zealots.

Conclusion

There was in reality never any need for sci-fi explanation or

speculation as to these various figures and their stories. Nor was
there a need to take the Bible as a literal, historical document.
Indeed, the behind-the-scenes elite have known the allegorical,
mythical and astrological nature of the Bible and its characters
from the beginning.

It is evident that the ancients recording these myths were in fact

often smarter than they are given credit for by modern critics and
researchers. They knew the difference between planets and
people/aliens. The architecture,

art, writings and traditions of these various ancient cultures,

including Sumero-Babylon, India, Egypt, Chaldea, Phoenicia,
Canaan, etc., show an advanced degree of civilization surpassing
that which followed it. Such later degradation is particularly true
when it comes to biblical peoples. The Bible, in fact, represents a
dumbed-down version of the mythology of the aforementioned
cultures. In reality, in terms of cosmic knowledge, in many
important ways modern man has devolved. One of the major
problems is the compulsive and irrational historicization and
vulgarization of the planetary bodies and of the celestial mythos
and ritual, a body of knowledge and wisdom concerning the
cosmos and specifically the solar system, which filled the
ancients with awe and reverence. This mythos and ritual is found
worldwide, reflecting a global culture in ancient times. This body
of knowledge is discovered in stone and story all over the world,
reflected in the mysterious megalithic ruins.

To reduce this glory to a band of aliens and/or humans is a

serious mistake, as it robs the ancients of intelligence and
wisdom, among other things, including the quality of humanity
itself. Furthermore, part of the brainwashing to get people to
accept the story of Jesus Christ, for example—which is
significantly the story of the sun—was to make "myths" appear to
be foolish stories with no basis in reality. This mental
programming or "meme" has been displayed abundantly, but the
fact is that myths are not mere fantasies and hallucinations. They
are stories designed to pass along vital information from
generation to generation. It is easier to remember the "exploits" of
the sun, moon and stars, for example, when they are personified
and told in a fun story than when presented in a dry dissertation. It
is only when the knowledge, or gnosis, has been lost that humans
start believing these entities to be real people —and the gnosis
was very effectively driven underground by organized religion,
such that it was lost to the masses, who now must piece it
together, often coming up with erroneous and inaccurate
interpretations with occasional hits now and then.

Further Reading

Astrotheology of the Ancients

Are Aliens and UFOs Real?
The Myth of a 12th Planet: A Brief Analysis of Cylinder Seal VA
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AN ASTRONOMER'S ANALYSIS OF THE AKKADIAN SEAL