They Came From the Sky

How Ancient Gods Shaped Our Actual History

by

L. M. Leteane

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 They Came from the Sky

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I dedicate this book to all truth-seekers the world over
 Acknowledgements

This book is basically a labour of love for which I had sacrificed much.
I am thus grateful to my wife Lebo for her support and many ideas,
and my children for putting up with so much. I am also grateful, in a
special way, to my mother Patricia for her kind words of
encouragement and never giving up on me even in the dark days
when the light at the end of the tunnel seemed very far…

Letlhogonolo Mark Leteane

Gaborone, January 2011
 Note to the Reader

Although They Came from the Sky is written mostly in storyline format, it
is in fact all proper history based on many ancient sources, both written
and oral. Fortunately, a new understanding of certain African lore and
mythology has helped complete the formerly hazy picture of just who
the ‘Anunnaki’ were in our collective history.

Their story literally spans from Genesis to Revelation: from the

formation of our solar system 4.6 billion years ago to our collective
destiny as humanity. Even so, this book is written to be comprehended
by anyone from the age of 16. As such, all key words have been
highlighted that the reader needs to understand for the amazing story
of the Anunnaki to be comprehended without any difficulty, and the
more technical ones further explained in the footnotes* as shown.

*
footnote: a marked and extended explanation for a phrase or word. It appears at the
bottom of the page – as in this very example
Contents

Map of the early civilizations and important centres vii

Sumerian Family Tree of the Illui – the gods that ruled mankind viii
Introduction ix
Chapter One: The Enuma Elish epic 1
Chapter Two: The Anunnaki descend on Earth 15
Chapter Three: They create a Slave Race 27
Chapter Four: Angels and giants walk the Earth 46
Chapter Five: Towards the time of the Flood 66
Chapter Six: From the Age of Leo 80
Chapter Seven: The gods fight each other 107
Chapter Eight: Countdown to catastrophe 121
Chapter Nine: Catastrophe in the Age of the Ram 134
Chapter Ten: Rise of Yahweh 144
Chapter Eleven: The making of monotheism 161
Chapter Twelve: The Messianic Cycle begins 180
Chapter Thirteen: The rise and fall of empires 194
Chapter Fourteen: The making of a Saviour 205
Chapter Fifteen: Jesus and the Anunnaki agenda 219
Chapter Sixteen: Revelations: a book unsealed 235
Chapter Seventeen: The Wine and the Oil 256
Epilogue 272
Bibliography 275
Glossary 277
 Map of the Early Civilisations and Important Centres

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Sumerian Family Tree of the Illui*—the Gods that Ruled Mankind

Anu

Id
(concubine) Antu (half-sister)

Enki Enlil Ninharsag

(Ninmah)
Ninki Ninlil Ninurta
(Damkina
Bau
Marduk Ishkur
(Baal) (Adad)
Nannar
Tsirpanit Shala (Sin)
(Sarpanit)
Ningal
Dumuzi
Nabu
Obal-Utu
(Shamash)
Inanna
Tashmetu Aya
m Nergal

Ereshkigal

Member of the original Pantheon of Twelve Gods

Spouse (and lesser-ranked god)

*Literally ‘Shining Ones’, (plural ‘Illani’); otherwise called A-b’Ilungu in

Zulu/Nguni; ’Lung or Gua-Illu in Chinese; Ma-Gua (Makhoa) or Ba-Illui (Ba-Loi)
in Sotho-Tswana; M’Akhua (Akhus) in ancient Egypt, and Eloi (plural Elohim) in
Hebrew. Later they became the Ba-dimo (ancestral sky-beings) in Sotho-Tswana;
deimos in Greek, which became ‘gods’: the gud (good) ones’ (ba-lungile in
Zulu/Nguni).
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This is a story about the Anunnaki.

‘Anunnaki’ is the Sumerian name for the gods who once openly ruled
mankind at a time so far back that their legend is only dimly
remembered around the world. They were not mythical creatures as it
is supposed, but real flesh-and-blood beings that possessed advanced
technology. Their technology was so advanced that we in modern
times are yet to catch up with them.
Any rational person would ask: yes, but where are they now? As their
story will clearly reveal, they have now innocently blended in with the
rest of mankind and are still controlling us from within secret societies.
Until around 1844 AD, they had kept their best technology from being
understood by the rest of mankind, creating a secret and privileged
parallel civilization. This secrecy was all the better to create fear and
awe amongst ordinary people who regarded them as ‘gods’.
Another question would be: but why have we not heard about them?
The short answer is that we have all heard about them. Every culture
in the world has stories of mighty beings that descended on Earth from
the skies (also called the ‘heavens’). Some cultures (especially those
who were exposed to writing) have preserved these stories rather
better than other cultures and can therefore suitably impress others
with their ancient accounts of these gods.
But only a few people will possibly know the real history of the
Anunnaki and how they have actually shaped the destiny of mankind
from time immemorial—and that is exactly how this select group

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would like to keep it. But there is a saying: there is nothing that can stop
an idea whose time has come.
We are now well into the 21st Century and the world is connected by
information technology such as live television broadcasts and the
internet. People can access information in faster and better ways, as if
living in one village. As such, we are now better placed to not only
more easily collect the many legends and myths around the world but
to compare and contrast them, make better sense of what these stories
are trying to tell us…
Indeed, we are about to embark on a strange but exciting journey.
This journey is also a story—an epic* story of the gods whom the
Sumerians called the Anunnaki. ‘Anunnaki’ means ‘Those Who From
the Heavens Came to Stay on Earth’. Their full story is only
understandable when many original discoveries are factored in that
will, in places, put the author at odds with both conventional and
‘alternative history’ researchers. But what makes this full story even
more exciting is the discovery that many words in the ancient
Sumerian and Egyptian languages are very similar to those of the
southern African ‘Bantu’ languages—and more especially the Sotho-
Tswana language group. Even the name ‘Illu’ and ‘Anunnaki’ can be
understood in these terms, and official translations from Sumerian can
now be corrected. This discovery came quite by chance to this author.
Behind it all is the true story of what triggered Bantu mass-migration
out of Egypt at a very ill-understood period in history.
Indeed, with Africa and her own legends now properly factored in,
the full story of the Anunnaki—we can now confidently say—is at last
complete...

*
epic: a long and detailed story that is retold in the style of an adventure

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The Enuma Elish epic

The mystery of the sky

Every time we look up into the sky we are confronted with something
much bigger than ourselves. Up there, we see many mysterious objects
like the sun, the moon and the stars. All these appear to float beneath a
vast blue ‘canvas’ that we call the ‘sky’.
This is most probably how ancient people saw it. Even today, less
sophisticated people see the sky as a ‘firmament’* rather than empty
space. The widely accepted view is that the ancients regarded all
celestial objects as ‘gods’ and thus projected many of their worst fears
on them. What if the sun-god did not rise tomorrow? What if the moon-
god did not shine? What would happen if the sky-goddess fell on our
heads? Should we in fact not try and appease all of these?
Since then, science has apparently taught us a lot. We now regard all
ancient people as having been primitive and superstitious. However, as
we will soon see, this was not always the case. Certain ancient
knowledge, long forgotten in history, was in fact far more advanced
than what we knew only a few hundred years ago. An ancient people
called the Sumerians had, we will prove, such remarkable knowledge.

Who were the Sumerians?

Although the modern human being is reckoned to have emerged some

*
firmament: a solid ceiling that supposedly made up the sky
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250 000 years ago, the first clear signs of proper civilization have
emerged from only around 5000 BC, in the Mesopotamia area—what is
mostly now Iraq. This was an area inhabited by the Sumerians. What
has always puzzled scientists is that this culture appears to have risen
up suddenly and almost complete in every way. In other words, it did
not show signs of slow development, as they would reasonably expect.
This only becomes less mysterious when we take more seriously
what the Sumerians, and later the Babylonians, say in their legends
rather than dismiss their stories as ‘myth’. They are positive that they
were created and then ruled by pale-skinned gods from a planet called
N’ibiru—who landed on Earth in the 1st Shar. The advanced civilization
of these sky-gods, they say, suffered a major set-back when a cataclysm
struck Earth in the 120th Shar and they had to begin everything from
scratch. Since a Sumerian Sar is 3600 years (and a Babylonian Shar is
2160 years), we will soon see if there is any truth to this...

The Big Bang and the formation of the universe

Date: 4.6 billion years ago

The most famous legend of how our Earth came to be is contained in a

Sumerian epic called the Enuma Elish—also called the ‘Epic of Creation’.
Before examining this epic (which is still treated as ‘myth’), we would
first need a quick scientific background on how our universe came to
be. A widely-accepted theory in this regard is The Big Bang theory. This
theory states that all matter in the universe was at one point fused into
one. This resulted in a process called ‘nuclear fusion’ which is exactly
what creates a nuclear explosion.
As the fused matter exploded, it formed an ever-expanding
universe. Most likely because of gravity, (a phenomenon still little-
understood today), maximum elasticity was then reached, as in an
elastic band. When that happens, the whole universe is pulled inward
back into a single point—which recreates nuclear fusion. Matter then
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explodes once more, only to reach maximum elasticity again. The
universe is thus created and destroyed in an endless pulsating manner
which, when carefully considered, has neither beginning nor end…

Structure of a solar system

It is a worthwhile exercise for us to also briefly consider the incredible
size of the universe and how very small we on Earth are within it. We
will soon realise that its size is completely beyond our comprehension.
This realisation has often raised a very intriguing question: out of the
trillions of planets in the universe, surely the probability exists that Earth may
not be the only planet with Life in it. Surely there must be at least one other
that has the same conditions as our Earth; conditions that can sustain
Life as we know it. Indeed, the universe is composed of countless solar
systems. How is a solar system formed?

The orbits of planets in our solar system

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Clearly, the Big Bang process will initially release incredible amounts of
molten material out into space. In the weightlessness (or zero-gravity)
of space, all liquids form perfect ‘bubbles’ called spheres. Similarly, the
extremely hot molten matter from the Big Bang outburst will also form
‘spherical objects’ which become the suns, moons and planets. Through
the process of gravity (which definitely relates to the mass of an object),
the smaller objects (called satellites*) then form orbits around the much
larger objects. Whenever planets become the satellites of a sun, that
entire arrangement is called a solar system. As illustrated above, the
orbits of planets around the sun are typically circular in shape.

Size of the universe

Suns are often millions of times bigger than the planets that orbit it.
Indeed, our sun is about a million times larger than Earth. Planets, in
turn, are usually dozens of times bigger than the moons that orbit
them.Whenever many solar systems cluster together because of
gravitional attraction, they form a galaxy. Galaxies are distinguishable
in the ‘heavens’ because they are separated from each other by vast,
empty space. The distance from one galaxy to another is very hard to
imagine. The only way we can make a suitable measurement of it is by
adopting the speed of light as the standard.
Light travels at a velocity of 298 million metres per second. A light-
year is the distance it would take light—travelling at this speed—to
reach. Since Earth is only about 7,926.28 miles (12,756.1 km) in diameter
at the Equator, light takes barely a second to traverse it. That is why
radio and television signals (which travel at a similar speed) allow us to
see live broadcasts from the other side of our planet in ‘real time’.
Considering that the top speed of a NASA space shuttle in orbit is
about 17 580 miles an hour, and light travels at 186 282.5 miles per
second, below is an attempt to illustrate how large our universe is,

*
satellite: an object in space that orbits around another object
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using the speed of light as the standard of measurement.

X (see below) Proxima Centauri The Sun Earth

60 million light-years 4.3 light-years 8 minutes

years years

As one light year equals 5,878,625,373,200 miles, it would take a NASA space
shuttle about 160,000 years to reach Proxima Centauri, the nearest star—a
distance light reaches in only 4.3 years

A galaxy is only a small part of the entire universe. This one, NGC414, is
some 55 000 light years in diameter and about 60 million light years away
from Earth. And we can hardly reach a distance of 4.3 light-years…

The orbit of satellites

It is interesting that, even at the level of an atom, electrons will orbit a
central nucleus. The nucleus is thus the equivalent of the sun in a solar
system and electrons are the equivalent of planets. Some celestial
bodies like meteorites and asteroids, however, do not always behave
like satellites. Occasionally they may break free from the gravity of the
large body that holds them and thus wander off on a new trajectory or

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path. This may occasionally put such objects on a collision path with
other objects—often with devastating results. Comets, in particular,
have a shiny ‘tail’ made up of cosmic debris and tend to follow a long,
elliptical* orbit that makes them wander in and out of our solar system.
We will soon see a good example of one such comet, but which is highly
misunderstood in history.
Direction of the
circular orbits of
planets Hale-Bopp
Halley’s comet
comet

Sun

Comet
Chiron

The elliptical path of comets as opposed to the circular orbit of planets

The atmosphere—our saviour from disaster

Comets, meteoroids and asteroids are floating masses of rock, ice and
metal drifting through space. Meteoroids are often fragments of comets
and are thus usually the smallest of the three. As many are only a few
metres wide, they are often destroyed by air friction as they enter our
atmosphere, which causes them to burn up. We thus see them as bright
flashes of light called meteors or ‘shooting stars’. Normally, a meteor
burns to nothing before it can hit the ground.
If the meteor was made up mostly of iron and it was, for example, a
kilometre or so wide (many are much bigger) it would not be
completely destroyed while still in the atmosphere. Thus, as soon as it

*
elliptical: not perfectly round; egg-shaped
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impacts the ground it is termed a meteorite. The impact craters of some
meteorites (Vredefort in the Free State, South Africa is one such
example) are kilometres wide and the impact shockwaves can devastate
whole regions. On June 30, 1908, above Tunguska in central Siberia, an
atmospheric explosion of a meteoroid (estimated at only 60 metres in
diameter) devastated thousands of square kilometres of forest—about
15 kilometres in every direction from the centre of the explosion.
Asteroids—which lie mostly in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter
(see diagram above)—are usually much bigger; 480 miles to less than
one mile in diameter, and can thus destroy nearly all life in our planet.
Our atmosphere is just not thick enough to stop them.

The rise and fall of species and civilizations

Date: 65 million years ago to present

It is most likely that, 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs were destroyed
by an asteroid. Upon impacting Earth, the dust it raised blotted out the
sun for a very long period of time and many species* of life became
extinct. Mammals somehow survived the harsh conditions that
followed and ultimately became the new dominant species in what is
called the Cenozoic era that continues to today. What would happen if
a comet or asteroid of the size that destroyed the dinosaurs were to
strike Earth at this moment? Any human survivors would be suddenly
reduced to raw primitiveness.
The last time there was a mass extinction of many species of mammals
and birds was at the end of the Pleistocene epoch (the last Ice Age)
around 11 000 BC (13 000 years ago). This marked the beginning of our
present Holocene epoch. Indeed, some geologists have concluded that
world-wide flooding definitely occurred around this time—caused not
only by the thawing of the Ice Age, but by cataclysmic shifts in the

*
species: plants or animals with close biological similarities
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Earth’s crust and mantle which must have raised gigantic tsunamis.
Did a previous advanced civilization rise to prominence, only to fall in
this catastrophe? Did those having the technology to escape (just as
NASA astronauts could today by blasting off to space) later come back
as ‘sky-gods’ to the remaining and pitiful survivors? We are about to
find out as the story of the Anunnaki continues to unfold.

Sotho-Tswana: an ancient language

If all people are genetically related (as they indeed are) then it makes
sense that they once spoke a single language—which gradually differed
as people began to spread out into the world. Indeed, in this story we
will show that the Bantu people of southern Africa have migrated from
as far up morth as ancient Egypt. It should therefore not surprise that
Sotho-Tswana is able to explain many ancient names from the earliest
civilizations. A.NU.NNA.KI (as it is spelt in Sumerian syntax*) is—even
now—understandable in Sotho-Tswana: ‘A’ means ‘belonging to’, as in
a nuka: from the river. ‘NU’ means a blue, watery expanse—hence nu-ka
means ‘like the sea (or sky)’. ‘NNA’ means sit or stay (reside in). ‘KI’
means ‘Earth’—and it was originally ‘Ki-e’ (‘Here It Is‘, in Sotho-
Tswana). In Greek, the term is ‘Ge-o’ (‘of the Earth’)—as in geography,
geology and so on. Interstingly, ke-o still means ‘here he/she is’ in Sotho-
Tswana! Evidently, this was a term pointing to the very ground of
Earth. Ultimately, we can still understand the name Anunnaki in Sotho-
Tswana. It means: ‘[those] from the sky [who then] resided on Earth’.
N’ibiru is made up as follows: ‘Na’ means ‘toward (or away from) as in
na-mela (go towards)’. ‘Ibiru’ means ‘red’—now ‘hibidu’ in Tswana. As
we shall see, this fabled planet of the gods is indeed a Red Planet...
Throughout our story, we shall continue to note many words in
Egyptian and Sumerian that are still understandable in Sotho-Tswana.

*
syntax: the style, grammar, or order of words that make a language understandable to
another
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The Enuma Elish: an original story

One of the most famous and important of the stories told by the
Sumerians is the Enuma Elish. One of the best ways to preserve a legend
is to tell it in the form of an exciting story to children. This, quite clearly,
is what happened with this epic. To make it even more memorable, the
basic drama was colourfully re-enacted in an annual festival marking
the Babylonian New Year. The Babylonians are a people who rose to
power—circa 2000 BC—after the Sumerian civilization had collapsed,
but kept most of its language and traditions. A pioneering scholar
named Zechariahh Sitchin was the first to make proper sense of this
seemingly childish story. What he discovered was that the epic
accurately describes the origins of Earth in a way that no one can
seriously dispute.

The correct meaning of ‘Enuma Elish’

Date: 4.6 billion years ago

Enu ma-Elli, shaa, la nabu(a); shaa-maane...

This is how the epic begins. Although we have broken up the syllables
differently from scholars, this is how, using Sotho-Tswana, they become
intelligible, even today. Also, the most accepted scholarly translation
for this is: ‘when up high the heavens were not yet named’, but with the
help of Sotho-Tswana we can confirm that this means: ‘enu (these ones),
ma-Illu (the Shining Ones), shaa (up there), la na-bua ([when] of them [we
could] not [even] speak) shaa-maane (up there [in the] heavens)...’ This
effectively means: ‘in an age so old that that not even the Illu (see page viii)
could be spoken of in the heavens...’ there existed, the story continues, only
the AP.SU (covering of darkness).
Again, scholars incorrectly translate this term as ‘Primordial
Waters’, but Ap means ‘cover’ in Sotho-Tswana as in ap-ara (cover) and
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ap-ola (uncover). ‘Su’ (or ‘Zu’) means ‘darkness’, as in tsho (pronounced
‘tzu’). To show consistency in how we explain these ancient words, we
will take a further look at this revealing term: zu.

The association of ‘dark’ with ‘fertility

Su-en is the epithet of a Sumerian god that we will hear much about.
His name means ‘Multplying (or Fertile) Lord’. As we saw, Su means
Dark: here implying ‘fertile’ as in dark, rich soil. En means Lord; Ene
(‘The One/Himself’, in Sotho-Tswana). Indeed, the association between
‘dark’ and ‘fertile’ is based on soil as a metaphor, and it is a well-known
one. As such, Egypt was called ‘Khemet’—meaning ‘dark land’—and
this was because the annual flooding of the river Nile deposited rich,
black soil suitable for agriculture in the delta area. Although the term
khemet (khemetha in Sotho-Tswana) properly means ‘in rich abundance’,
it later came to mean just ‘black’ in Europe, thus generating terms like
al-khem (later ‘alchemy’) which originally meant ‘black [art]’. This was
an awed, fearful reference to the dark, mysterious, process of ‘potion
making’—as chemistry was suspiciously viewed in earlier times.
Per the Enuma-Elish epic, the sun soon appeared and chased the
darkness away. We can easily see that the term ‘sun’ was originally ‘su-
an-zi-a!’ (‘darkness of the sky, run!’) which later became z’an’zi—now
‘tsatsi’ in Sotho-Tswana. The sun is thus the triumphant chaser away of
darkness. It then ‘gave birth’ to each of the planets, all of which now
orbit the sun in an anticlockwise direction (see illustration).

The original meaning of ‘gods’

Although it is made out like, in their primitivity, the ancients viewed
celestial objects as ‘gods’, the original meaning of ba-dimo in Sotho-
Tswana (deimos in Greek) was actually ‘those-that-are-up-high’. The
meaning blurred after each of the Pantheon* of Twelve gods (see page

*
Pantheon: literally: Earth (pan) gods (theon); a grouping of gods
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viii) later called a celestial object after his or her name. As the gods were
also supposedly from the heavens—hence the term A.NU.NNA.KI—
this blurring became all-too-easy and inevitable. Soon, these objects also
came to be regarded as ‘living gods’ in both these languages—and in
Greek deimos later became the ‘One God’ (Dei).
The actual term ‘god’ comes from an old Germanic term ‘gud’
(good). This was because the ‘gods’, in their anxiety to distinguish
themselves from ordinary ‘mortals’, saw themselves as the ‘good’
(superior) ones—something they made sure such ‘mortals’ understood.
Indeed, we shall soon see, all legends treated these ‘gods’ as actual,
flesh-and-blood beings who fought, died, had children, and governed
their lives—and not just notional spirit-beings; the product of a fearful
and primitive imagination. The whole point of this book is to show and
prove that the ancients were correct and that, today, we are still
unwittingly worshiping these very same ‘gods’—now artfully bundled
into one Unseen God.

Tiamat is challenged by Marduk's winds

Date: 250 million years ago

In the ‘midst of the gods’, says the Enuma Elish, there stood a proud and
mighty monster-god named Tiamat. In Sotho-Tswana, ‘Tiamat’ is
‘Mighty (mata) in Built (tia: [be] well-built’). However, conventionally,
the word ti also means ‘life’; ma is ‘mother’ and ta is ‘of’—resulting in
the interpretation ‘Mother of Life’. Both interpretations may well apply
as we see what happened to this ‘god’.
Tiamat is described as a ‘god’ of the Deep Waters and we can
accurately interpret this to mean a watery planet (or ‘high one’). Indeed,
it once lay in the midst of the planets, between Mars and Jupiter. Whilst
Tiamat was still reigning unchallenged, a powerful new ‘god’ with
‘long members’ arose to at last challenge him. The planet (or comet) was
named ‘Marduk’ after a great Babylonian god: a prominent member of
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the Anunnaki. All this effectively means that from space there emerged
a comet with a long retinue—that is, ‘followers’ or satellites. This
corresponds to the ‘tail’ of a comet, which in the epic is called his
‘winds’—or ‘those that flutter at his sides’. This comet happened to be
on a collision course with the planet Tiamat.

A chunk of Tiamat becomes the Earth

How exactly Earth was formed is still debated by scientist today, but as
Sitchin has discerned, the Enuma Elish epic gives us solid clues in this
regard—if properly interpreted. As such, one of the ‘winds’ of Marduk
smashed into Tiamat, sliced off the ‘crown of his head’, and send it to
‘places unknown’. This ‘crown’, a chunk of Tiamat, we can see, was sent
to a different orbit. This piece is now Earth…and it did not go alone.

Comet Marduk’s ‘moons’ smash into Tiamat

Comet Marduk’s ‘moons’ smash into Tiamat

A god ‘Kingu’ (KI.NKU: Earth’s Sheep/Follower, as Sotho-Tswana can

better translate) was sent to ‘guard’ the Earth and it became our moon.
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Marduk, the epic says, then captured the ‘trembling’ satellites of Tiamat
with a ‘net’. This means that Tiamat’s moons or satellites were caught
by the gravitational* pull of comet Marduk and went away with him.
However, as comets tend to have a long, elliptical orbit that takes them
in and out of our solar system, Marduk was soon to return. This is
when, the Enuma Elish says, the ‘final act of creation’ was performed.

Marduk bends Tiamat's tail into the Hammered Bracelet

As Marduk returned to our solar system in its clockwise orbit, there was
more drama. One or more of Marduk’s satellites smashed into whatever
remained of Tiamat and then ‘artfully bent her tail into the Hammered
Bracelet’—the rakia in Hebrew, meaning ‘ring-like’; le-rako in Sotho
Tswana. This, Sitchin says, quite clearly refers to the Asteroid Belt.
The Asteroid Belt is obviously the remains of a destroyed planet and
much of it is in the form of trillions of pieces of floating rock and ice—as
befits a once watery planet. It occupies the orbit where Tiamat once was
(see illustration on page 3). The question is: how did the Sumerian's
come to know all this? They swear that they obtained this knowledge directly
from the gods who knew all this. It is now time to see if scientists today can
beat the ancient ‘gods’ in the knowledge of the origins of Earth...

The struggle of Science to explain Earth’s origins

Scientists often begin to explain things by starting off with what is
called a ‘hypothesis’. This is a theory that seems to best explain a
situation, but which needs to be tested and proven before being
accepted as fact. If they followed Zechariah Sitchin’s interpretation of
the Enuma Elish, many of the things that puzzle them today about the
origins of the Earth and the moon would be answered.
Firstly, scientists agree that the planets are most likely formed from the

*
gravitational: to do with gravity: a force that pulls smaller objects towards very large
objects
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molten* material flung out by the sun—just as the Sumerians appeared
to know from their description of the Apsu and the ‘gods’ that arose
from it. In fact, the core of the Earth is also extremely hot. This is shown
when cracks in the Earth allow red-hot lava† to escape in volcanic
eruptions. But there are other things that they cannot easily explain.

The Enuma Elish explains

According to the calculations of astronomers, the size of Earth is too
small to easily capture a satellite the size of the moon. Nor does the
moon seem to originate from the Earth: their compositions are too
different and they are about the same age. This is however easily
explained when we realize that Kingu was the satellite of the obviously
much bigger comet Marduk.
Another point is that Earth is not the near-perfect sphere that it should
be. In space, all molten material will form a perfect sphere. A big chunk
of Earth is missing and it is in this cavity that the Pacific Ocean is
housed. No other planet in our solar system has such a large chunk
missing. Moreover, the age of this cavity is about 250 million years old
while the rest of the planet is 4.6 billion years old. This is only explained
when we understand that a catastrophe occurred some 250 million
years ago when Marduk collided with Tiamat. Regarding Earth, this
time coincides with what scientists called the Permian‡ extinction when
something caused up to 95 percent of all life on Earth to die suddenly.
Indeed, the Earth was one once made up of one big continent
surrounded by water, but an impact caused it to break up into several
‘tectonic’§ plates that began to drift apart, making up the continents that

*
molten: melted into liquid form by very high temperatures
†
lava: molten rock
‡
Permian: one of the great Periods (ages) in pre-history, each lasting millions of years
§
tectonic: to do with the formation and deformation of the Earth's crust (the solid outer
layer that we live on, which floats on top of the molten material of the inner layers )
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we see today. Many scientists now believe that a ‘Mars-sized’ impacting
object once hit Earth with a glancing blow. They are quite correct—except
for not seeing that Tiamat was that once-complete planet.
We will stop here, but there are many other things about the Earth and
the solar system that can only be convincingly explained by correctly
understanding the Enuma Elish...an epic story which, the ancient
Sumerians swear, was handed down to them by their mighty flesh-and-
blood gods of old—the great Anunnaki…

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The Anunnaki Descend on Earth

When Life restarts

We have seen that the Big Bang creates and destroys the entire universe
in an endless pulsing rhythm, and that a catastrophic clash of celestial
bodies around 250 million years ago (recounted in the Enuma Elish epic)
resulted in a breakaway fragment of Tiamat now called Earth. The rest
of Tiamat and its moons were then pulverised into the Asteroid Belt.
When did Life itself begin? According to palaeontologists, the earliest
forms of Life began in the Arceozoic Eon some 3.9 to 2.5 billion years
ago, when Earth (then Tiamat, we now know) had solidified due to the
appearance of an oceanic crust. Why oceanic? There was little by way of
a continental crust—even as Sumerian legend confirms—because Tiamat
was a ‘waterworld’, a watery planet…even as Earth is to a large extent
today. Indeed, three-fifths of Earth’s surface area is covered by water.
Several eons later, according to scientists, at the beginning of the
Pleistocene epoch (around 1.8 million years ago), the earliest human-
like species began to appear—only a little more sophisticated than apes.
They steadily evolved into the human (homo sapiens) species of today.
But if, as we had suggested earlier, a sophisticated race of beings had
always existed (as some ignored fossil evidence millions of years old
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except, perhaps, the Big Bang cataclysm*—would they not eventually
become extremely advanced technologically? And even if such Life
could not survive the next Big Bang, would that signal the extinction of all
intelligence? To attempt to answer this question, we need to look at a few
basics of science.

Escapers of Catastrophe
Science is of the view that matter and energy are one. This view stems
from the calculations of a genius by the name of Albert Einstein who
proved that matter is only an aspect of energy in his famous equation
E=mc² where ‘E’ is energy, ‘m’ is mass, and ‘c’ is the velocity of light.
His theories, when fully extrapolated, imply that, in reality, there is
nothing at all except energy—which can neither be created nor
destroyed. As such, even consciousness (or ‘intelligence’) is nothing but
a form of energy. Consequently, I would argue, the essence of such
intelligence will not be destroyed even during the Big Bang.
Being indestructible, would this energy not carry forth all the
knowledge it has gained, becoming more advanced from cycle to cycle?
Is this not the very ‘spirit of God’ that ‘hovers’ over the ‘waters of The
Deep’ (that is, the molten matter that once occupied limitless space)?—
refer Genesis 1:2. Is it not the invisible factor that shapes everything?
Indeed, Life or Intelligence does far more than merely find a home in
all sorts of creatures. As sentience,† it is the invisible factor that learns,
makes choices, drives and controls all bodily evolution and function. Without
it evolution is not possible. However, it is only fully expressed in the
primate‡ life of the time, now the human being. Today, so relatively
advanced is this Primate Life that it acts as a veritable ‘god’ over ‘lesser’
creatures. Could a mandate of certain sections of the Primate Life be

*
cataclysm: a disaster so major that it marks the end of an age or epoch
†
Sentience: self-awareness, ability to sense one’s surroundings
‡
primate: topmost, dominant, or most sophisticated
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this: to re-seed and nurture Life every time it has teetered on the edge
of extinction? Actually, this is effectively what the Anunnaki claim to be
their divine right in many of their legends!

No prior sophistication?
Most scientists and scholars of history are of the view that there is no
evidence at all of any prior civilization of immense sophistication. This
is despite the accumulation of many mysterious Out-of-Place-Objects
(OOPOs) from archaeological records. One of the most intriguing of
these is the presence of perfectly-machined cubes, drill bits, jewellery—
and other sophisticated items—found fossilised* in rock 250 million
years old! This would, to us, suggest that an advanced civilization existed
even at the time of Tiamat’s destruction. As we have seen, and shall
continue see, this is not as far-fetched as it sounds.
Why do we not routinely see much more of such evidence—perhaps
even the fossilised remains of a sophisticated race of people stretching
from that era? The answer may lie in the ‘waterworld’ nature of Tiamat
itself, as it once was. Firstly, it is highly unlikely that ‘burial’ in a
waterworld would involve interment into the soil, like we do today. It
would involve much more efficient means, including cremation.
Secondly, a huge chunk of land is missing in what is now the Pacific
Ocean. Indeed, this huge cavity—the world’s largest area—was only
created after a large piece of Tiamat was ‘bitten’ off 250 million years
ago—removing much-needed data along with it. Earth is merely what
remained of Tiamat. This cavity created the world’s largest ocean as
water drained into it, exposing more continental land. But such new
land is quite unlikely to have been inhabited by sophisticated beings.
They, we had suggested, would have long escaped catastrophe.
Nevertheless, despite all this, some evidence has managed to slip

*
fossilised: compacted into a rock-like material over millions of years as layers of soil
accumulate on top of the object
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through the cracks…and scientists do not know what to make of it.
In any case, a clear-cut example of prior sophistication is the
discovery of a prehistoric bison with a neat bullet hole in the head.
Since these finds (or OOPOS) can make up a whole books on their own,
let us instead concentrate on the intriguing question of whether these
‘gods’ (‘angels’ in the Semitic* records) did indeed possess aircraft and
spacecraft...vessels that would have enabled them to escape Tiamat.

The archaeological record of flight

Many items unearthed by archaeologists can be said to prove the
existence of aircraft and spacecraft well before the Wright brothers flew
their first powered airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903.
Indeed, ancient civilizations and many legends around the world are
positive that there existed great beings who flew above them at great speed. It
is thus no wonder that many winged sculptures and artwork have been
discovered that do not relate to any known bird (and no one who
looked at them could seriously deny that). A couple of such ‘birds’ are
illustrated below and the reader may come to his or her own conclusion
as to whether this is not compelling evidence.

Ancient model of an aircraft ‘Gift of Amon’, a ‘bird’ in the Cairo Museum.

from the Quimbaya, Columbia, Note upright tail fin and fixed-wing shape
culture; circa 1000-1500 BC

The ancient Egyptian aerodynamic model craft with a tail rudder had
the words Per Damien inscribed on it (Perd-a-me-En: ‘Horse of the Gods’

*
Semitic: of Jewish origin
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in my correcting translation)—otherwise incongruous for a mere bird. It
was catalogued as exhibit 6347 at the Cairo Museum along with many
other dubious ‘birds’ that, through the efforts one Dr Khalil Messiha,
went on exhibition on December, 1971. In Turkey, an archaeological dig
at a 2 500-year old site turned up a sculpture of an astonishingly
accurate rocket with three booster engines.

Ancient sculpture of a rocket unearthed at Toprakkale (known in ancient times

as Tuspa, during the brief reign of the Kingdom of Uratru 2 500 years ago ).

In the cockpit was the clear figure of an (unfortunately) decapitated

astronaut in a one-piece space suit! It was so shockingly similar to
modern ones that the Turkish museum at first believed it to be a hoax.
The cover of this book also incorporates a photograph of an ancient
Egyptian mural that clearly shows an airplane and a helicopter.

Ancient Egyptian mural showing aircraft (and a submarine?) at the temple of

Seti I, at Abydos, Egypt. The images had been concealed by other hieroglyphs
creating what ‘mainstream’ scientists call a palimpsest

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Why would scientists ignore such clear evidence (even proof) in their
sweeping conclusion? We have already explained that there are clear
signs of a coordinated effort to deny the historical existence of the
Anunnaki. This secret agenda, quite evidently, can only be—and is—
maintained at the top levels of many old universities. There, well-
known and powerful secret societies such as the Freemasons operate.
Any researcher who crosses this line is quickly stripped of credibility
by the academic world. Why is this so? We will soon uncover one of the
Anunnaki remnants’ greatest secrets—a secret they would like to keep...

Mars (N'ibiru): the place of refuge

Almost all non-fiction ‘alternative history’ researchers today believe that
N’ibiru is a mysterious ‘tenth planet’ with a comet-like elliptical orbit
that makes it wander in and out of our solar system. This is a view first
articulated by Zechariah Sitchin in his book The Twelfth Planet. Why
twelve instead of ten? This is because the Sumerians generally included
the sun and Earth’s moon in their configurations, and only because
they are very important bodies to us here. The number ‘twelve’ thus
became an important number to the Anunnaki—as we shall see.
I, on the other hand, am of the opinion that what Sitchin calls N’ibiru is
in fact the planet Mars—and that it is not the same entity as ‘Marduk’.
Marduk, we saw, is quite another body; in fact a large comet with a
long, brilliant tail. When the doomed planet Tiamat was about to be
smashed into pieces by the arrival of comet Marduk, the Primate Life of
the time—we had suggested—may have escaped the Tiamat
catastrophe. Where could they have escaped to? Only two main planets
could possibly support life in our solar system. These are Mars and
Earth. They are at a reasonable distance from the sun whereby it is
neither too hot nor too cold to support life as we know it.
But since Earth (a fragment of Tiamat) was—at that time—newly
devastated, Mars alone would have been the logical choice. Indeed, a
study of the ‘Red Planet’ (as Na-hibiru—‘reddish’—can be still
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understood in Tswana) reveals two remarkable facts. The first is that it
was once covered by a thick atmosphere (including oxygen) which had
the effect of trapping heat from the many volcanic craters that are still in
evidence there. It also had plenty of water. All this is exactly as N’ibiru
is described in Sumerian accounts, and these conditions would have
made life tolerable in this very cold planet. As such—another amazing
fact—hundreds of recently released photographs by NASA show that
many of the volcanic craters* look like they were artificially tampered
with (as geysers for underground heating?). Many other surface and
underground structures are acknowledged—even by NASA scientists—
as admittedly very artificial looking; unlikely to have been shaped by any
known natural forces... But they always stop short of admitting that there
could be an intelligent presence of sorts in the Red Planet…

Catastrophe strikes Lahmu

Another Sumerian name for N’ibiru is Lahmu. It is worth noting that
legend speaks of a catastrophe that once afflicted an ancient advanced
civilisation called ‘Mu’, well before another one completely devastated
‘Atlantis’. If ‘Mu’ is indeed Lahmu (Mars), then it will become more
understandable why a major catastrophe there forced the Anunnaki to
seek refuge elsewhere. Mars has all the signs of being bombarded by a
celestial visitor which ultimately peeled away much of its atmosphere,
crust and water. This may have had the effect of making life on the
surface so unbearable that the Anunnaki were driven underground, as
actual physical evidence appears to clearly show...

Underground secrets of Mars and Phobos

Although there is clear evidence of ruins with 90-degree walls on the
surface of Mars—duly photographed by the Mars Rover (90-degree
corners do not occur naturally)—the biggest and most artificial-looking

*
crater: an opening in the mountain where lava can escape
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structures were underground, recorded by infra-red imaging in both the
Mariner 9 mission of 1970 and the doomed Phobos II mission of July,
1988. Infra-red captures images reflected by heat rather than by light
and they can thus ‘see’ underground.

Mars Rover took this surface picture Infra-red picture of an underground

of a right-angled structure on Mars layout on Mars
These images showed a very geometrical pattern underneath the
surface of Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos. The pattern closely
resembles a planned city... To make matters even more interesting, a
famous occurrence called ‘the Phobos Incident’ revealed even more
surprises. One of the last photographs transmitted by the unmanned
Russian spacecraft Phobos II revealed the shadow of a perfect elliptical
shape on the surface of Mars.

Shadow on the surface of Mars cast A Phobos II picture showing a huge

by a perfectly elliptical object cigar-shaped object near Phobos
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It was too small to have been caused by the moonlet Phobos itself
(which, in any case, is actually spherical in shape with a rough surface),
and too large for the Phobos II aircraft (which was certainly not elliptical
in shape). A final photograph (which had to be smuggled out of Russia
as the authorities were tight-lipped), showed what may have caused
this curious shape: it was a huge cigar-shaped object that appeared to be
parked next to the moonlet Phobos! Was it a spacecraft?
The official story is that Phobos II was ‘impacted by an unknown
object’ and was thus permanently disabled. But unconfirmed reports
indicate that as the spacecraft was directed to approach the object, it
was hit by something that seemed like a missile of sorts…

Anunnaki succession rules

The Phobos II incident alone shows once again that it may be foolish to
dismiss everything that the Sumerians had said millennia ago about the
Anunnaki and their ‘home planet’. Their stories were recorded in
thousands of clay tablets etched in cuneiform* writing, many of which
still lie untranslated in the basements of several museums. A story
recorded by a Mesopotamian nation called the Hittites may have
originated from ancient Sumerian accounts. It speaks of a time when the
gods were only in N’ibiru—before they became settlers on Earth. The
stories explain the complex rules that governed the leadership of the
gods. Only when these are properly understood does much of the
history of today’s long-standing royal families also become
understandable as it is clear that they once copied the Anunnaki.
A major rule concerned succession to the throne. The son of a king and
his legitimate spouse could be superseded by the out-of-wedlock son of

*
Cuneiform: wedge-shaped writing marks made on clay tablets by the Sumerians and
Babylonians
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a king and his half-sister. Inbreeding*, however, was feared by the
Anunnaki. Thus, a child born of the king and his full sister (that is, had
parents who had the same mother and father) could not supersede one
born of a king and his half-sister. It was because of these rules—
according to the Hittite text—that trouble began to brew in N’ibiru.

The contending of Anu and Allalu

At a time when conditions were very hard in N’ibiru, says the Hittite
text Kingship in Heaven, there was an urgent need to do something about
the situation. This was a time when Allalu was the King. According to
Sitchin’s research, the reason for the harsh conditions was because there
was a gap (or reduction) in the atmosphere, much as would happen on
Earth if the ozone layer was completely depleted. Although different
reasons have been suggested for this situation in Mars, we can discern
that this was created by the celestial visitor that devastated the planet.
As pressure continued to mount on Allalu to do something decisive
about these conditions, Anu soon rose to challenge him. The basis for
his right to be able to challenge Allalu was the story that he was actually
the direct descendent of a previous king and a half-sister—and not just
that of a spouse. Since an impasse resulted out of this (as some
challenged this claim), it was to be decided by the traditional practice of
wrestling each other whilst completely naked—a sport said to have
been continued by the Olympian gods on Earth. Anu won the challenge
and became the new leader of N’ibiru.
Allalu suspected he could only challenge Anu again if he found a new
lease of life for his people. Thus, ‘down into the dark-hued Earth went
Allalu’ says the Hittite text—a planet (once again) teeming with life. The
gods then became the Anunnaki: settlers on Earth from the skies.

*
inbreeding: when closely related families consistently produce offspring amongst
themselves, often resulting in undesirable physical characteristics in the offspring
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The Anunnaki divide the Earth
Date: circa 277 000 BC: the 1st Shar

If a story is very old and yet is most probably true, other cultures will
also have an independent record of it. This is the case with the story of
how the Anunnaki came to divide the Earth amongst each other. This
was to have a profound effect on the course of history, as we shall see. Both
the Sumerian and Greek versions of the story indicate that the gods
were divided into the TII.TA.AN (Titans: ‘Heavily-Built Ones from the
Heavens’, per Sotho-Tswana) who resided mostly in the ‘sky’, and the
Olympians—who resided on Earth; ostensibly on Mount Olympus.
The Greek and Sumerian accounts are consistent in that both of these
indicate that Anu, the topmost god, divided Earth into two main
hemispheres—one for each of his two sons. Enlil (EN. L’ILLU: ‘Lord of
the Shining Ones’), who was the son of Anu and his half-sister Ninmah,
became the leader while the other, Enki (EN.KI: ‘Lord of the Earth’),
became the second-in-command. As Sitchin has discerned, Anu had to
further ensure that one of the sons would look after rockets that were to
transport minerals from Earth to the struggling N’ibiru, while the other
was to supervise the mining process itself. As both wanted the cooler
north, the only way to decide this was through the drawing of lots*.
Greek legend suggests that there were actually three contenders—the
third, Kumarbi/Mot/Hades, most likely being Allalu or a descendent of
his. My take on this is that Enlil/Zeus indeed won the cooler northern
region; Enki/Poseidon became E.AA—‘He of the Water’—which at the
time ‘encircled the land like an envelope’ (showing that Pangaea had
not yet broken up into continents); and Hades drew the short stick of
the AB.ZU (literally: the ‘Black Depths’)—an ill-understood reference to
the mines in Africa.

lots: when the top part of a shorter stick is placed level with other longer ones and their
lower parts are all concealed. Whoever draws the short stick is the loser.
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When all the continents were one
We have seen that deep fractures remained on Earth due to the collision
of comet Marduk’s moons with Tiamat…the original and complete
Earth. How can we be sure that by the time the Anunnaki landed on
Earth the lands were joined together; that the breakaway of Pangaea
into continents did not occur millions of years ago as it is supposed?
A recently-completed and comprehensive worldwide genome map
shows that the yellow-skinned San (Bushmen) of southern Africa are
closely related, genetically, to people in...Tibet! To show further African
commonality with the orient, and as my own sister once reported to me,
a Japanese volunteer working amongst the San (Bushmen) in Botswana
became ‘traumatised’ when he discovered that he could fully
understand snippets of their language!
The point here is that the Indian sub-continent plate must have
separated from Africa not too far back in history as modern man is
hardly 300 000 years old—and language differences are even less! I
would go so far as to say that it lends credence to Dr Hapgood’s bold
(albeit cautious) theory that tectonic movements are at times sudden,
drastic and violent—and not always the ever-so-slow continental drift
said to occur over millions of years… In fact, later in the book, we will
examine other irrefutable evidence that confirms this.

The Kumarbi Cycle

If Kumarbi/Hades was chosen to supervise mining in the ‘underworld’
of the Abzu, how, then, did Enki eventually become ‘Lord of the
AB.ZU’? This, I aver, is most likely because of the following incident
recorded in another Hittite text known as the Kumarbi Cycle by scholars.
It seems to confirm that Enlil was drawn to remain in the north while
Kumarbi/Hades was drawn to supervise the mining. What I ultimately
piece together from a summation of these dimly-recalled legends is that
the unhappy Kumarbi took the opportunity to challenge Anu (Chronos)
to a wrestling match. Unable, perhaps, to win fairly, he resorted to
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biting off Anu’s testicles—hence, I detect, the name Kum-arabi. In Sotho-
Tswana, this comes across as ‘He Who Responded by Swallowing’.
In the Greek mythology version, however it is Chronos who
swallowed the ‘sons’ of Zeus. Greek history, it will become clear, was
heavily biased towards Zeus whose title will be explained from a fresh
and informative Sotho-Tswana angle. This title, I have come to see, was
miscued by much later legend (and therefore by scholars) to be the name
of a particular god—and this has helped to create much confusion.
It is not clear what the fate of Kumarbi was; some tablets imply that
he was left outside the underground sanctuary of N’ibiru to perish,
while others suggest that he joined a rebellious arm of the Titans who,
we shall find out, were also called the ‘Igigi’.
With Kumarbi out of the picture, Ea was assigned the AB.ZU and
thus became EN.KI: ‘Lord of the Earth’. The root-name of ‘Earth’ is E-aa-
ur: ‘[Region of] water and land’. Just to show that these ancient people
knew that the Earth was round, let us examine the term ‘curve’. It
comes from Kur (KA.UR: ‘like Earth’), which then became ‘mountain’—
something rounded or heaped. From this term, we also get ‘corrugated’
and mo-koro (Tswana: a canoe made from a hollowed-out (curved) log).

Birth of the Pantheon

After the Kumarbi incident, Anu eventually returned to N’ibiru and the
gods settled down to their various tasks on Earth. A distinct hierarchy,
often called the Pantheon of Twelve, then developed over time.
However, one particular group making up the Pantheon (or ‘Council of
the Gods’) remained in power during most of the formative history of
both the Anunnaki and mankind. It is listed on page viii.
We shall soon familiarise ourselves with all its individual gods as
they began their long and eventful stay on Earth...

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They create a Slave Race

Correcting a scholarly perception

What did the Anunnaki find when they first settled here on Earth? The
Sumerian texts are quite clear that modern man (homo sapiens sapiens or
’wiser wise man’) did not yet exist here at that time, the 1st Shar. Since
they also give us the exact date in which mankind first appeared on the
scene, we can easily check whether this is consistent with scientific fact.
However, there is one matter we have to clear up quickly before we go
any further. It is over the confusion that arises from scholars as to the
following lines in the Enuma Elish—a long Babylonian text that reveals
much of what happened in much earlier times, before the Anunnaki
settled on Earth:

They bound him [the chosen god Kingu],

and held him in front of Ea,
imposed the penalty on him,
cut off his blood.
He created humankind from his blood

Once again, this is dismissed by scholars as a nonsensical tale written by

people with very little understanding of how mankind came to be.
However, we will soon find that it is very consistent with scientific fact
and record. Although we can recall from the Enuma Elish that ‘Kingu’

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refers to the moon, most scholars fail to see the cosmological* aspect of
that epic. They thus miss the idioms† within this text. It seems clear to
me that being ‘bound and held in front of Ea (another name for Earth)’
simply means that the moon, by some twist of fate (being ‘chosen’), was
captured by the Earth (‘bound’) and suffered the ‘penalty’ of having his
‘blood’ (relatives or fellow satellites) being ‘cut off’ (separated) from
him. This is exactly what happened to Kingu—as we explained in
Chapter One. And there is nothing, we saw, that is ‘nonsensical’ about
the Enuma–Elish explanation of how Earth came to be.
Creating ‘humankind from his blood’ simply means that, from this
catastrophic separation, mankind would eventually rise to prominence.
Indeed, after the Permian extinction of 250 million years ago (and
especially later when the era of great reptiles—the dinosaurs—also
ended catastrophically), this gave rise to the new dominance of
mammals, of which mankind is one. In this manner, the Babylonians
will have directly linked the great Permian extinction to the eventual rise
of humankind...but this was only after an intervention by the ‘gods’…

A funny fossil record

We have already mentioned that the scientific community prefers to
conveniently ignore certain OOPOs that they cannot explain in terms of
their timelines. This included anomalous items such as drill bits,
screws, cubes and jewellery—all of them perfectly machined—but lying
fossilised in rock strata‡ millions of years old§. As we shall see, scientists

*
cosmological: related to the cosmos (the universe)
†
idioms: ‘colourful’ expressions to make language interesting - but which should not be
taken literally, e.g. ‘beat about the bush’ means ‘avoid directly explaining something’.
‡
strata: layers of something. Fossils tend to be embedded in sedimentary rock which
consists of distinct layers of sediment (soil and dust deposits)
§
Note: As at the publishing of this e-book excerpt, another was discovered in Russia by a
farmer, embedded in coal 300 million years old: see http://www.unexplained-
mysteries.com
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are also not at all keen to investigate (or even mention) the many
photographed and exhibited bones of human giants lying around the
world, nor do they want to take seriously the documented accounts of
even bigger skeletal remains found and recorded by stunned
discoverers as recently as only a few centuries ago... This behaviour by
scholars is typical of when they are confronted with a major paradigm
shift*—especially one that would involve many years of changing the
way science and history is written. Behind it all—we have suspected—
lies the now-invisible hand of the Anunnaki...

Dating the first modern human

Date: circa 183 000 BC

How do we know that the Sumerians and Babylonians are right when
they say that modern man was ‘created’ relatively soon after the 40th
Shar since the Anunnaki settled on Earth? As we have already
mentioned, a Shar is 2160 years in the Babylonian system. It is actually
from the Babylonian record that we read many of the Sumerian stories.
Thus, according to the Atra-Hasis, it all began with mining...
Babylonian chronology† says that the Anunnaki miners rebelled in the
40th Shar since they had settled on Earth. They were demanding relief
from the toil of mining. When Enlil himself came to the AB.ZU to see
what the fuss was all about, they burnt their mining tools and
surrounded his quarters. Anu himself was called in to rescue the
situation, and Enlil wanted the striking miners punished. Anu was
however reluctant, and Enlil threatened to resign and return to N’ibiru.
It was Enki who saved the day. He suggested that a LU.LU (mixed
creature) could be created to relieve the gods of their toil. This, we will
see, was achieved by genetically mixing the genes of the gods with one

*
paradigm shift: a concept which when understood causes previous ideas to change
†
chronology: a time-based sequence
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of the primitive hominids to create a more sophisticated creature.
Counting backwards from the 120th Shar, their date for the Flood
(which some researchers have pinned to 10 983 BC), then the Anunnaki
will have first settled in 277 483 BC—but we must allow for a variation
of up to 2160 years. This should—and does—relate to the appearance of
the first anatomically* modern man. The 40th Shar is therefore 183 783
BC. It coincides with the scientific date for when, genetically, ‘the races
began to split’. We will soon uncover the real reasons for this, below.

The importance of mines and mining

For civilizations to begin to rapidly advance, the process is typically
kick-started by the pervasive use of metals. The Anunnaki knew this
very well. As soon as they had settled on Earth, mining began in
earnest. Metals have many unique properties without which now-
indispensable technologies like electricity would not be possible. In
fact, the evolution of civilization, left on its own, is considered to
undergo a natural progress from stone tools (Stone Age) to copper or
bronze tools (Bronze Age), before arriving at the Iron Age when the
knowledge of how to smelt iron is acquired. However, things are not
always that neat when looking objectively at the history of the world.

The distant history of iron and mining

B'jah (iron – the ‘divine metal’) was well-known in Egypt at a time its
people were supposed to be in the midst of the Bronze Age, as
researchers like Zechariah Sitchin have noted. Conventional historians
think that this iron could only have been obtained from meteorites, but
the composition of samples of these metals showed that they must have
been smelted. The use of iron, we can well-understand by now, was
largely reserved for the gods. Indeed, the metal is mentioned as having
been used in, for example, the secure double-doors that enclosed the

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anatomically: related to the external and internal structure of the body
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underground chambers where the Anunnaki (called the ‘Akhus’ in
Egypt) kept their aircraft and rockets. We find this intimation in ancient
texts like the famous Egyptian Book of the Dead:

The doors of iron which are in the starry sky

are thrown open for me, and I go through them.
The Door to Heaven is open!
The Door of Earth is open!
The aperture of the celestial windows is open!
The Stairway to Heaven is open;
the Steps of Light are revealed…
The Double Doors to Heaven are open;
the Double Doors of Khebu are open
for Horus of the east, at daybreak

The Heaven speaks; the Earth quakes;

the Earth trembles;
the two districts of the gods shout;
the ground is come apart….
when the king ascends to Heaven,
when he ferries over the vault.

In fact, the oldest mines can be found in Africa, as authors and

researchers Rand Flem-Ath and Colin Wilson have noted in their book
The Atlantis Blueprint. They document therein that the haematite (red
iron ore) mine of Ngwenya in Swaziland is dated to around 7690 BC or
earlier. Again, it would not be a point of contention that iron ore relates
specifically to iron—and not to copper or stone!
Even in South America, the oldest civilization to be found there was
centred on mining. Mining appears to have been carried out by the
Olmecs. Subsequent South American cultures appear to have derived
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Negroid* race. Fortunately, as if they knew that as time marched on
many would like to deny that they ever lived there (or just conclude
that they were slaves, not miners or engineers), they left behind gigantic
sculptures of their helmeted heads…and faces that clearly depict their
distinctly Negroid features!

A few of the Olmec heads in various parts of South America. All are Negroid,
helmeted, and weigh several tons. Each is more than the height of a man

Even today, all metals—and not just the precious ones like gold and
silver—are stockpiled. As we shall find out, the reason for this caution
is because past lessons have been well-learnt. In the specific case of the
post-Flood epoch, there was the dilemma of how to mine for metals
when nearly all tools had been wiped out by catastrophe. This had
drastically slowed down the process of recovery initiated by the gods.

Trouble in the Land of the Mines

In Sumerian texts, the AB.ZU (literally: ‘Black Depths’) is regularly
associated with the ‘underworld’. Since it is clear that this was where
the ‘black-headed ones’ (non-Caucasians†) were located, this can only
refer to Africa which was also known as the ‘Land of the Mines’.
Evidently, many of these mines were of the shaft type and early miners

*
Negroid: literally: ‘of the Negro’; features found in most Africans south of the Sahara
†
Caucasians: ‘White’ people. They are historically associated with the Caucus
mountains in what is now Iran
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dreaded descending deep inside these dark shafts. Indeed, ‘Ab’ is at the
root of the term ‘abyss’. Although it is clear that cattle were reared and
other normal activities were carried out in the Abzu, scholars are quick
to portray this ‘underworld’ as imaginary; one that reflected the
Sumerian’s childish fear of what might lie beneath the ground! In
typical fashion, they then use their own interpretation as yet another
indicator of how the Sumerians and Babylonians had a ’primitive’
understanding of the ‘mysteries of Creation’…
In the Atra-Hasis, it is clear that Anunnaki miners had begun to grow
weary of working in the mines—but their plea for respite fell on deaf
ears. This was when they decided to strike. Enlil, the Leader of the
Anunnaki on Earth, decided to see for himself the nature of the
situation—but he was trapped by the miners in his quarters as they
threatened his life. The decision to contact Anu, the topmost leader of
the Anunnaki (who resided in N’ibiru), was made and the Atra-Hasis
reports that he came to Earth. With Anu himself present, Enlil wanted
the mutiny leaders to be executed—but Anu was reluctant. This
angered Enlil who then threatened to leave. Clearly, something had to
be done...

Enki has a bright idea

‘Let us make a LU.LU [mixed creature] to bear the burden of the gods’,
suggested Enki who was responsible for the mining process. Enlil was
not too keen on the idea, but Anu accepted it as a solution to the
problem of excessive toil by the gods. The term LU.LU can be easily
explained in Sotho-Tswana. Lo-lo (as in mo-lo-lo: temperate – neither hot
nor cold) means ‘neither this nor that’. The root word for the term is lo
(‘you are’), and the literal meaning is ‘you are [this], you are [that]’—
meaning that the LU.LU was neither ‘god’ nor was he, now, any of the
primitive species of hominids that existed then. He was, in fact, a
mixture of the ‘essence’ (genes) of both ‘god’ and the hominid.

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The hybridization* of a species of homo erectus (upright man) with the
the genes of the ‘gods’ to create the LU.LU became Ninmah and Enki’s
project. It seems that Neanderthal† man was ruled out as he could have
been too slow in thinking to be able to properly carry out instructions.
The Anunnaki, it seems, soon found the right ‘backward’ species of
Primate Life to mix with their ‘essence’: Cro-Magnon man. This choice,
quite evidently, was to the detriment of the Neanderthal who, we later
show, was driven to extinction—especially after the en-masse arrival of
the Igigi into Europe. He was effectively displaced, and the species
quickly died out. A few of them sought refuge in the Himalayas. There,
as the eyethe (Sotho-Tswana for ‘big, stupid man’—and also called ‘yeti’
in the Himalayan languages) he kept largely away from mankind.

How the Adamu was created

Enki and his half-sister Ninmah are recorded as having spent much
time studying these hominids‡ and collecting their DNA§—as
systematically depicted not only in Mesopotamian art but in Egyptian
and other ancient depictions.

Ninmah holding the Adamu (note test-tube, Tree of Life and laboratory)

*
hybridization: the act of producing offspring from two different species that are not
too dissimilar e.g. a mule: the offspring of a donkey and a horse. Hybrids are often sterile.
†
Neanderthal: a species of hominid that inhabited Europe and the Mediterranean area
‡
hominid: an earlier species of Primate that was more advanced than apes
§
DNA: a part of the cell that contains a history of the inherited genes of a living thing
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In the picture above, Ninmah (who in the ancient Babylonian epic the
Atra-Hasis is also known as Mami: ‘the mother’) is the one who delivers
the first Adamu (A-da-mmu: ‘[skin] like the soil’: mmu is ‘soil’ in Sotho-
Tswana). There, Ninmah is shown holding the new Adamu in front of
what is quite clearly a test tube. Given the overall theme of a laboratory
in this picture, it is not surprising that many other ancient depictions
also clearly show the genetic double-helix*—something Sumerians and
Egyptians are not supposed to have understood!
In Tablet One of the Atra-Hasis, a god Geshtu-E is ‘slaughtered with
his intelligence’, his blood then mixed with ‘clay’—from which the
ghost (spirit) of life then appeared. Although these words are now
greatly misinterpreted by conventional scholars, it seems obvious to me
that the scribes were told that the ‘purity’—including the unique
enlightenment—of the gods was ‘sacrificed’ when pieces of flesh (DNA)
were extracted from Geshtu-E. This extraction was later interpreted as
‘being slaughtered’ (as if he was ‘cut into pieces’) to create a hybrid we
now call ‘Man’...
Blood and semen samples (the latter euphemistically called ‘spit’ in
the text, but which we can now easily see to mean ‘ejaculation’) were
also evidently taken from the Anunnaki and thereafter mixed with the
‘clay’ (hominid DNA), from which, eventually, the ‘drumbeat’ (the first
beatings of the heart) of a new creature would ‘sound forever’...a
creature more fascinating than any modern ‘greep’†.
One again, it is clear, we should give the ancients scribes substantially
more credit than we currently do: we ought not to treat them as if they
had little or no common sense…

*
double-helix: a helix is a pattern that coils like a spring. When two of these interweave,
they create a double-helix pattern (see illustration on page 138)
†
greep: an artificially produced cross between a goat and a sheep which cannot, of
course, occur naturally. Similarly, the Anunnaki and Earth’s hominids were no doubt
genetically different - even though all life seems to have originated from Tiamat.
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Anunnaki: the original primate race?

How can we determine that Cro-Magnon Man was the hominid chosen
to create the LU.LU hybrid? The distinctive features of this hominid
(mainly the slanting forehead and deep-set eyes) are still widely evident
in many races everywhere in the world today. This brings me to yet
another major point. It is commonly believed that Caucasians and other
races have sprung from the Negroid race, which was based in Africa.
Africa is thus called the ‘Cradle of Civilization’. What is the reason for
this conclusion? The African Negroid genome appears to exhibit the
greatest variety in that it has all the distinctive features of other races—
and more. It is thus presumed to have been the ancestor of all the rest.
However, for reasons I advance below, I see it differently.
First of all, we must understand that the splitting of the races can be
traced to around 180 000 to 200 000 years ago—which is basically
around the same time that homo sapiens sapiens (‘wiser wise-man’)
appeared on the scene. We can definitely relate this to the time the
LU.LU was created, as per the Sumerians—soon after the 40th Shar since
the Anunnaki descended on Earth. Significantly, this was the same era
in which the Anunnaki miners had rebelled. Before that, homo sapiens
existed in the form of the Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon and similar species.
What race was the Anunnaki and why were they so relatively
advanced? We must first remember that they escaped the Tiamat
cataclysm while most of Earth (or Tiamat’s) species died out in the
Permian extinction. That is why their genes were not too far off from
those of the hominids that had remained and survived—that struggled
to reassert themselves in the bleak conditions that followed. Thus, as in
the case of the ‘greep’, the hybridization of Anunnaki and hominid
appears not to have occurred naturally, hence the laboratory conditions
in which they were delivered.
Everything suggests that the Anunnaki were White (Caucasian)!
Indeed, the fact that they called the LU.LU ‘the black-headed-ones’ most
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probably referred to the colour of their hair. Indeed, in Sotho-Tswana, a
white-haired person is called letlhogo-tshoeu—literally meaning ‘white-
headed one’—and not leriri-tshoeu: ‘white-haired one’. Since only
Caucasians have hair (and eyes) of different colours (all the other races
have black hair), this confirms that the Anunnaki were indeed White!
There are other confirmations of this in the ancient texts.
Given such a scenario, I would argue, one cannot say that the Negroid
race is necessarily older than the Caucasian race: all it means is that—
like all other races—the Negroid carried the genes of a hominid species
millions of years old. Moreover, the African gene subsequently
interacted with many more gene pools than others. Indeed, as we have
already seen, the Negroid person has been through many travels—even
as far as South America where the Olmecs at one point dominated the
region. One thing is certain: we can now all be traced to a curiously
limited gene pool that seems to have emerged some 13 000 years ago.
We will soon see the reason for this.
Before that, and more especially from the time the Igigi (Titans) came
to Earth in numbers—as we shall see—all races have mixed, and even
Caucasians will have traces of Negroid genes. Or is it the other way
round? Negroids certainly have a Caucasian component long acquired
hundreds of millennia ago...

Legend of the birth goddesses

Date: post 180 000 BC

It looks like Mesopotamia is the source of many of the legends written

in the Old Testament. In the first place, Mesopotamian legend exhibits
greater detail in some important stories than the evidently abbreviated
Old Testament versions. Broadly speaking, events covered in the Atra-
Hasis suggest that it was written some 2 000 years before the Old
Testament—which Bible was written from oral tradition and assembled

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during or after the captivity of the Jews in Babylon. This was in the time
of Nebuchadnezzar in the 6th century BC.
Why is all this apparent? Genesis—the oldest part of the Bible—
borrows heavily from Sumerian-Babylonian elements recounted in the
Enuma Elish and other accounts—but in much-abbreviated form. Two
main sections can be detected in the Old Testament: the ‘Eloist’ and the
‘Yahwist’ section. The latter reflects the eventual change of the ‘name of
God’ from ‘Eloi’ to ‘Yahweh/Jehovah’.
As can be discerned from Mesopotamian legend, Adamu was a hybrid
of Anunnaki and ‘primitive man’ and, like all hybrids, he could thus not
procreate*. As such, and as ancient art duly depicts, 7 birth-goddesses
had to be employed to birth the male LU.LU workers for the mines.
Legend suggests that another 7 was for the birthing of female LU.LU
but such a female LU.LU would also have been sterile. Although,
naturally, this ensured that the LU.LU population could be strictly
controlled, in time this proved untenable for the goddesses. As they no
doubt began to grumble, it is clear that Enki decided to intervene. The
plan to first create the first fertile LU.LU pair was soon hatched...

An Indian art depiction of seven of the fourteen Birth Goddesses

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procreate: have the ability to produce offspring
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Adamu’s procreation angers Enlil
It appears that Enki enlisted the awesome talents of his son
Ningishzidda (later known as ‘Thoth’ in Egypt) in order to realise his
dream of a fertile LU.LU who could procreate and relieve the toil of the
birth-goddesses. Enlil’s well-documented misgivings about the
‘Created Ones’ (as the LU.LU were called) was—quite evidently—over
what the eventual status of this creature was going to be. Enlil wanted
the Adamu to be kept as simple and different as possible ‘lest he
become like one of us, knowing everything’—as recorded in Genesis.
What Enlil also wanted was that when the LU.LU was no longer
needed, the birth-goddesses would simply stop receiving implants* and
the remaining population could be allowed to die off. However, Enki
went ahead and secretly produced a fertile LU.LU pair. Enlil eventually
found out and was very angry. He ‘confiscated’ Adam and Eve from
Enki and took them to E.DIN where he could keep a close eye on them.
There, they were to be kept innocent. They were not to learn about
sexual intercourse and procreation (called ‘taste the fruit of the
knowledge of everything’ in Genesis). But all this was in vain.
Eve did eventually become pregnant—and it seems that Enki was
arrested for allowing this to happen. As ‘alternative history’ scholars
have discerned, this is because there is a Sumerian depiction of a god
being arrested in a lush garden—while a naked frightened couple
watches nearby. And, as Genesis also confirms, Adamu and Eve were
then banished from Eden. In Sumerian, Eden is called E.DIN;
meaning—as I see it—‘Place of the Powerful Ones’. ‘Din’ is at the root of
‘dint’, ‘dent’ and ‘din’ (great noise)—all relating to power. Where I
differ with most conventional translations is that I also discern that
Eden may have been considered to be ‘noisy’—and it will later be clear
why. In any case, from then on, Eve and her husband were to work for
their living—as originally intended. Their life of relative ease in Eden

*
implants: eggs that are fertilised in a test-tube and then inserted into the womb
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was over. They were to return to the mines of the Abzu, in Africa.

Myth of the Pickaxe: the invasion

At some point in that epoch, it looked like severe flooding did occur in
certain parts of the world. This is because the Atra-Hasis mentions that
land reclamation* needed to be carried out in the Mesopotamia area.
Later, we may be able to relate this flooding to a hitherto unknown
cycle that I have managed to work out—one that ties together, for the
first time, comet Marduk’s orbit with the obliquity† of the Earth.
The northern-based Anunnaki, it is clear from the ancient texts, soon
found their duties overwhelming. They therefore began to complain
bitterly. What they needed, they said, were helpers to carry out the
more menial tasks. This would allow them to concentrate on their new
task of land reclamation. Faced again with the possibility of striking
Anunnaki, Enlil duly requested Enki for some of his ‘black-headed
ones’ in the Abzu—but Enki refused to part with them. Knowing very
well the character of Enlil, Enki instead began to build and fortify an
underground residence—where the LU.LU mine workers were to
remain hidden. It is evident that he then proceeded to seal the enclosure
with something like thick concrete. A Sumerian text called The Myth of
the Pickaxe by scholars explains:

The Anunnaki stepped up to Enlil,

Black-Headed-Ones they were demanding of him;
for Black-Headed-Ones [he needed] to send a ‘pick-axe’,
there to be wielded.
The Lord Enlil, whose decisions are unalterable, verily did make haste
to separate heaven and earth [to prepare to fly]: in the DUR.AN.KI
to make a gash so that the Created Ones could be taken out [abducted]
from the Place-Where-Beings-of-Flesh-Originate [the Abzu].

*
reclamation: the process of making land habitable or useful again
†
Obliquity: the rhythmic tilting of the Earth relative to its axis
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The Lord called forth the A.L’ANI [Reacher-of-Skies (an aircraft)]
[and] gave it orders [worked the complex piloting instruments].
He placed the [huge] earth-splitter as if a crown on top [of the aircraft]
and made off with it to the Place-Where-Beings-of-Flesh-Originate.
In the hole [underground bunker] appeared the head of a man.
From [inside] the ground people were breaking out towards Enlil.
He eyed them with a long look of fascination (Note: all parentheses mine).

This is one of the most misinterpreted of Mesopotamian texts.

Conventional scholars, in typical fashion, are quick to treat the story as
if it is yet another childish explanation of ‘Creation’. The silliest of these
is that Enlil had planted the LU.LU inside the ground…and they were
now ready to be harvested with a hoe or pick-axe! But the context of the
story is clear. It clearly favours the interpretation by Zechariah Sitchin
that the LU.LU were being abducted from Enki. However, no-one had,
to my knowledge, correctly interpreted all the above idioms.

Myth of the Pickaxe explained

The context of the Myth of the Pickaxe is one in which Enlil needed to
make a firm decision very quickly—or face rebellion. No one was going
to stand in his way. After all, he was the one ‘whose decisions are
unalterable’ (as the above text later praises him). My contention is that
‘separating heaven from earth’ is a colourful idiom that refers to
flying—the fastest means to get to the Abzu. This interpretation will
soon become clearer as we continue to explain the ‘myth’.
The ‘horn’ with a ‘splitter’ (as it is described elsewhere) can only refer
to a large, possibly hand-operated device that drills into concrete—such
as many of us have seen in modern times being used in road works.
This was no ‘pick-axe’. Enlil used this device to break (‘make a gash’)
into the dur-an-ki—a fortified place—as the term dur (root for durable)
tells us. When the LU.LU duly broke out from their cramped quarters
and began running in relief towards their ‘rescuer’ Enlil, the fact that
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with them—ever since he banished them from Eden. Naturally, he
would have been curious as to how they had developed in time.
All this has nothing to do with ‘Creation’. The ‘myth’ clearly refers to
the LU.LU as already existing: the ‘Created Ones’. They only needed to
be fetched by the fastest means possible—a transport plane as we shall
see from a corroborating African legend.

Legend of godumo-dumo
How can we know that a transport plane was used to convey the LU.LU
from Africa into the Mesopotamia area? As the ‘black-headed ones’ ran
towards Enlil, they were doing so out of fear of Enki. Indeed, they
thought they were being released from him. However, something must
have caught them by surprise. Waiting to transport them out of their
enclosure was a big, black ‘bird’—most likely the Imdugud. This was
Enlil’s son Ninurta’s feared abducting plane which, as the Indian
legend of Indra (India’s name for him) confirms, had a ‘net’ with which
he could entrap and abduct his enemies. Indeed, ‘Imdugud’
transliterates* as ‘I-mthukhuthi’ (‘mugger’ or ‘harasser’ or ‘abductor’) in
Zulu—which is exactly as in Sumerian! Enlil’s own plane seems to have
been quite small as the earth-splitter had to be hastily strapped onto the
roof—a detail everyone seems to have missed! When the LU.LU saw the
‘great black bird’ (as it is described in many ancient texts) they would
have naturally run away in fear. This is when the hitherto ill-
understood Sotho Legend of godumo-dumo comes in...
This well-known Sotho legend speaks of a ‘great sky monster’ that
once flew into a village and swallowed everyone. However, a fearless
boy called Mosimane wa Sankatane (Boy Who Does Not Retreat)
immobilised it from inside with his spear, split its belly, and managed
to free everyone. This may not be the only airplane known to Africans

*
transliterates: converts letter-by-letter or syllable-by-syllable into another language. In
this case, it specifically refers to the sound of the words as compared to Sotho-Tswana.
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in legend. In fact, Ninurta (often called ‘Enlil’s foremost warrior’) had
another feared airplane—called ‘TA.DI’ in Sumerian. By all accounts,
this plane carried awesome weapons that were like ‘thunderbolts’. It is
almost definitely the case that Africans had witnessed its feared
firepower at some point. Up to today, most southern Africans believe in
a fearful ‘lightning bird’ called tladi that lays an explosive egg while still
in the sky. This ‘egg’ is, supposedly, what creates lightning. ‘TA.DI’ is
actually made up of Ta! and Di!—and in Sotho-Tswana this means
Wham! Thud [on the ground]! In Sumerian, TA.DI is described as: ‘That
Which Strikes and Fells’—exactly as in Sotho-Tswana!

Enoch’s vision of Hell

There is yet another ancient and ill-understood African reference to the
horrors of mining, as were experienced by the enslaved LU.LU. This
reference explains the origins of the term matintinyane. Although this
now refers to a boar or wild pig, it literally means ‘that which beats you
into pulp’. Why this association? It is certainly not because of the
distinctive behaviour of the wild pig. The apocryphal* Book of Enoch
gives us some good clues. A passage therein describes how ‘angels’
mercilessly tortured ‘savage’ people into working in an underground
place that flowed with red-hot rivers of molten material. This became
the prototypical† image of hell—made even more famous by the horrific
scenes imagined by a writer known as Dante.
How is all this connected with matintinyane? I would imagine, as will
the reader, that the tormented miners and smelters did not like their
working conditions at all—and therefore may have occasionally rioted.
We now know that African was the ancient Land of the Mines. We also
know how riot police are normally attired if they intend to use tear-gas

*
apocryphal: hidden or disregarded; texts that were not included in the Old and New
Testament for one reason or the other
†
prototypical: relating to a prototype; an initial guideline that is later developed
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to control a mob. They put on gas-masks with pig-like snouts, and use
batons to beat the rioters. Such incidents evidently took long to be
forgotten in African legend…and the snout of the wild pig certainly
reminded them of ‘Those that Beat One into Pulp’...

Dante’s vision of hell captured in art The wild pig (warthog)

The Second Garden-of-Eden incident

What is now clear is that the LU.LU worker was at some point taken
back to Eden. This fact becomes very important when we attempt to
make sense of the entire ‘Garden of Eden’ incident—as related in the
Book of Genesis. What we can reveal already is that the Genesis version
of events is a merger of several distinct ancient accounts which can be
found in the Mesopotamian record of events.
The fact that the LU.LU workers once worked and performed
menial task in the Mesopotamia region is confirmed by Mesopotamian
artwork, as Sitchin clearly shows in his books. One depicts a number of
naked and obviously non-Anunnaki people performing menial tasks
such as sweeping, washing and cooking there—in stark contrast to the
Genesis account whereby the only inhabitants of Eden were Adam and
Eve, before they too were banned from there. Indeed, the knowledge
that the Adamu did eventually return to Eden prepares us for the
‘second Garden of Eden incident’—a story that will complete the Eden-
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and-Africa story of the Adamu, the ‘Created One’ who was regularly
moved around by the Anunnaki...

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Angels and giants walk the Earth

The Old Testament abbreviates again

The Old Testament makes no distinction between Adamu and a later
character called Adapa, and yet in Mesopotamian record these are two
distinct beings. In fact, it is by merging these characters into one that many
problems of credibility regarding the Old Testament arise—even from
staunch Christians. One such question is: if Cain and Abel were the
only sons of Adam and Eve, and there were no other people in the
world, who were the external people who would kill Cain (Genesis 4:13)
when, later, he was banished for killing his brother Abel? Where did
Cain find the wife mentioned in Genesis 4:16-17? This merger is also the
reason why Mesopotamian Kings Lists do not reconcile with the
succession of Biblical Patriarchs* chronicled in Genesis 5.
Even ‘alternative history’ scholars have occasionally fallen into the
trap of failing to make this distinction. This had the effect of further
complicating their efforts at matching the ages of these Biblical
Patriarchs with secular history. Otherwise, if the Bible is to be taken
literally, Adam, the first human being, was created only some 6 000
years ago—which we all know to be untrue! All these errors contribute
to the notion that the Old Testament is nothing but myth. However,
once certain facts have been straightened out with the help of the

*
Patriarchs: male heads of large or powerful families of relatives
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original Sumerian-Babylonian accounts, we will see that the Old
Testament, in fact, contains a proper historical record that fully
reconciles with the archaeological record. But this only after I have
unscrambled certain modifications the early biblical compilers had, for
certain reasons, made to the original Sumerian-Babylonian record...

Enki fathers Adapa and Titi

Date: circa 70 000 BC

There is the suggestion in the ancient texts that Enki came to father two
children—one male and the other female—by sleeping with two
different females of the line of Adamu. He named the male child
‘Adapa’, and the female ‘Titi’. So pleased was Enki with their beauty
and intelligence that he soon wanted to show them off to Anu in N’ibiru
as ‘the brilliant future of mankind’. Enlil however disagreed. Firstly, he
did not approve of the Anunnaki continuing to mix their genes with
that of the Adamaic line. His fear was that this would only complicate
the distinction between ‘god’ and ‘mortal’—something that he was very
concerned about. Secondly, records show, he considered it utterly
wasteful that a whole shem (rocket) could be devoted to flying the pair
to N’ibiru. But there was yet another thing Enlil was afraid of, as we shall
soon see…
It looks like Enki somehow managed to get his way. This was most
probably because he managed to interest Anu in the potential of these
clever new creatures. He had taught them to read and write and indeed
one of the main tasks of the Adapite line was that they later acted as
scribes* to the Anunnaki. As scribes, they basically wrote down for
posterity whatever the Anunnaki wanted them to write. Since what
happened next was later merged into one biblical Garden of Eden story,

*
scribes: people entrusted to create a written record of things - especially in ancient
times when few people could read or write
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we shall therefore call it the second Garden of Eden story.

Enlil and Enki outfox each other

Possibly because Enlil did not want to antagonize Anu, he did not
create a fuss about the intended trip of Adapa and Titi to N’ibiru.
Instead, he hatched what he saw as a brilliant plan. The first step was to
ensure that once Adapa and Titi arrived in N’ibiru they would be
persuaded to remain in the planet by being assured that they would
acquire ‘immortality’ there. The next step, no doubt, would have been
to make even stricter laws on Earth regarding the ‘sacred’ line between
‘god’ and ‘mortal’. In this manner, he evidently thought, it might
hopefully be the last he would hear of this new race—a race that had the
potential to blur this 'sacred’ distinction...
Enki, on the other hand, may have somehow learnt of Enlil’s intention
and thus begun to prepare his own counter-strategy. Ancient texts
show that he told Adapa and Titi that when they got to N’ibiru they will
be offered ‘immortality’, but they are to refuse it—otherwise they will
never return home. Indeed, when the pair reached N’ibiru they refused
the offer to taste ‘immortality’ and duly returned to Earth—much to
Enlil’s disgust.
It is clear that Enlil thereafter summoned the services of Namtara, the
‘plague-god’. His role was to use plagues and pestilence to reduce the
‘noise‘ created by rapidly-multiplying Adamites—but which plans
never quite worked out. Enlil soon realised that Enki was the one who
constantly thwarted these plans. However, a catastrophic event for
Earth was steadily looming, and Enlil could afford to bide his time...

Adapa and Titi taste immortality

Enlil was initially concerned about the Adamites’ knowledge of sex and
procreation (described euphemistically as tasting the fruit of the Tree of the
Knowledge of ’Everything’ in the Book of Genesis). But he was even more
disturbed by the Adapites having tasted the fruit of the ‘Tree of Life’.
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What was this ‘tree ’whose ‘fruit’ conferred immortality to whoever
tasted it? At the simplest level—as in the case of the Adamaic line—it
simply referred to progeny; the perpetuation of one’s line even after
one’s death. As initial hybrids, this was unlocked for them by Enki.
In another distinct sense ‘immortality’ referred to the very long life
of the gods. As we shall now show, this ‘fruit’ referred to the rockets
(shems) hidden in silos* in the Sinai Peninsula and in Lebanon! Now
what can possibly link rockets with immortality?

An ancient stylised depiction of what can only be a rocket hidden in an

underground silo. The command module is shown protruding above the surface

A table adopted from Meyer’s Handbook on Space answers this question.

Years for Rocket Crew Years for Earth Inhabitants

2 2.1
5 6.5
10 24
15 80
20 270
25 910
30 3 100
35 10 600
40 36 000
45 121 000
50 420 000
This table shows that enormous shifts in time occur inside an

*
silos: long, narrow upright shelters (often underground for rockets and missiles)
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accelerating or decelerating rocket relative to the planet from which the
rocket was launched. First accelerated at a Force G*, halfway along its
course it is decelerated with a force of minus 1G. This is a little-noticed
but scientifically-accepted method for achieving what looks like
‘immortality’ as far as the people on Earth are concerned!
In this book, we will properly extrapolate this scientific fact and
show how it answers many questions about the importance of E.DIN—
later the ‘Holy Land’. We will also show how it explains ancient
reverence for obelisks (monuments that were actually stylised rockets)
as well as many other hitherto ill-understood symbols and references.
Most of all, it will explain the ancient association of ‘heaven’ with
immortality...
Great scholars like Zechariah Sitchin have noticed the all-important
role played by shems (Hebrew: sha-im—‘fiery ones’—sha is ‘burn’ in
Sotho-Tswana) in the evolution of religion. But none had directly
connected the rocket with ancient ‘immortality’—even though an ancient
character called Gilgamesh (as we shall see) quite actively looked for both!

E.DIN becomes off-limits

Enlil’s concerns about a whole shem being used on Adapa and Titi can
now be better understood. Indeed, Mesopotamian chronology indicates
that Adapa and Titi became very long-lived individuals. In fact, the
average lifespan of Adapite descendants was as much as 32 000 years.
It is also clear from Mesopotamian and apocryphal texts that all of their
patriarchs were, at some point, given a ride to ‘heaven’…
What we have to picture is this: as far as the people on Earth were
concerned, whenever a shem blasted off to space—only returning after a
considerable period of time—the ‘gods’ would come back looking just as
young as they had looked when they last took off, whereas centuries, even

*
Force G: a force equal to the acceleration of gravity; that is, 10 metres per second per
second (10m/s²). In the table, each of the years relates to its own complete space trip
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millennia, will have passed by on Earth! And now Adapa and Titi had
tasted the divine secret that had separated ‘god’ from ‘man’. Now they also
needed to be guarded; kept very close to the gods.
Meanwhile, for the Adamites (and for many of the progeny of Adapa
and Titi), E.DIN—the ‘Place of Great Noise’ where the DIN.GIR
(literally: ‘Noisy Machines’, the rockets) took off and landed—suddenly
became totally off-limits. DIN (noisy part) clearly relates to the booster
and GIR (‘that which meshes’—root of ‘gear’) to capsule of a rocket:

DIN.GIR DIN GIR

As Genesis 3:23 was to record, based on older legend, the Adamu had
been returned to Africa to ‘till the land whence he was taken from’. This
is another highly misunderstood statement, as author Alan Alford has
discussed in his book Gods of the New Millennium. This actually meant to
‘dig the earth [back in Africa], where he was taken from’. This referred
to a return to mining in Africa after having been forcibly removed from
there in the Myth of the Pickaxe incident. It did not originally mean that
mankind was ‘formed from dust or soil and shall therefore return to it’.
Even in the Atra-Hasis, the reference to mankind being formed from
‘clay’ (a cell, or building block) and the Anunnaki thereafter ‘spitting’
on it (injecting their genes into it) can be scientifically understood these
days—as discussed earlier—without taking it all literally.

The birth of offerings

It was a time of great joy (a jubilee—jabula in Zulu) when Ka’in and
Ab’el were born to Adapa and Titi, a fact recorded in the apocryphal
Book of Jubilees. The birth of Adam (in actual fact Adapa) was the first
Jubilee and the birth of their son Seth was the second. Why does it jump
to Seth and omit Cain and Abel? In fact, the long-lived couple was to
have as many as 32 children in all, per Mesopotamian legend. The
reason lies in the following.
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As part of keeping a close watch on Adapa and Titi and their progeny,
we observed, Enlil decided that he will use them to serve the gods in
various ways. An important area Enlil identified was that they were to
be henceforth responsible for the growing of food fit for the Anunnaki.
This became the birth of ‘offerings to the gods’. An important
component of this process was the annual harvest festival. There, each
would display his produce for the gods to admire and ‘bless’. Ka’in
(KA.EN—‘[One Who is] Like the Lord)’—was duly trained in arable
agriculture while Ab’el (AB.EL: [One Whose] Ancestor is the Lord’)
became a pastoralist.
However, as the years moved ever closer to the Ice Age, (as a table
further below will show) food became increasingly scarce. Naturally,
the cold weather affected arable farming more than animal husbandry.
Understandably, Ka’in became increasingly stressed about what he was
going to offer the gods at the next great harvest festival. One day Ab’el
forgot to close one of the gates and his animals strayed into Ka’in’s field
of crops, eating a good part of them. It was no surprise that Ka’in
became very angry and in a fit of rage accidentally killed his brother
Ab’el. The punishment meted out by the gods was that Ka’in was to be
banished from E.DIN and a ‘mark’ put on him and his descendants.

The Mark of Cain

Where did Ka’in go and what was the nature of the mark? Although
this is highly speculative, what can be gathered from various legends
around the world is that he became involved in the building of large
monuments, assisted by Igigi giants. In Lebanon, Cain is associated with
the largest building blocks ever made (called the ‘trilithon’), each of
which weighs around a thousand tons. In South America, the name ‘In-
ca’ may be a metathesis* of ‘Ca-in’ and he may have founded the Inca
nation. There, giants were reputed to have erected large monuments

*
Metathesis: when the order of syllables is changed
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virtually overnight. The ‘mark’ put on his forehead is believed to have
been an altering of his genes such that he could grow no beard. Indeed,
all pure Amerindians* are genetically beardless!

The Sumerian-Babylonian Kings List

In order to properly place the descendants of Seth (the third son of
Adapa and Titi and from whom the biblical Patriarchs trace
themselves—Genesis 5), we need to look quickly at the Mesopotamian
Kings Lists. Both the Sumerian and the Babylonians have a detailed list
of a succession of kings from the time the Anunnaki first settled on
Earth to the time of the Great Flood. Many scholars have puzzled over
how to reconcile these two lists. The Sumerians had a total of 8 kings
who reigned one after the other for a total of 72 Sars. Berossus’ original
Babylonian count is lost: but 10 kings reigned for a total of 120 Shars.
Event/reign Sars Years Shars Years: Rule
(3600 yrs) (2160 yrs) ends BC

Arrival of Anunnaki 270 183

Olden gods: Enki/Enlil 5 18 000 10 21 600 252 183
City administrative gods
A.LU.LIM 8 28 800 3 6 480 223 383
AL.LAL.GAR 10 36 000 13 28 080 187 383
EN.MEN LU.AN.NA 12 43 200 12 25 920 144 183
EN.MEN.GAL.AN.NA 8 28 800 18 38 880 115 383
DU.MU.ZI 10 36 000 10 21 600 79 383
EN.ZIB.ZI.AN.NA 8 28 800 18 38 880 50 583
EN.MEN.DUR.AN.NA 6 21 600 10 21 600 28 983
UBAR.TUTU 5 18 000 8 17 280 10 983
18 38 880
TOTAL 72 259 200 120 259 200
Advent of the Flood 10 983

*
Amerindians: inhabitants of the Americas who the first explorers named ‘Indians’ when
they thought that they had reached India
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We can easily see that The Babylonian account does not quite match the
original Sumerian one. The reason, according to scholars, is most likely
because Berossus’ account is now mostly fragments collected by later
authors who only quote him. In fact, nothing remains of his original
document. It is therefore far less reliable.
Nevertheless, a researcher named Alan Alford came up with a
convincing solution to reconcile the fact that, for the same period, there
are only 72 Sars in the Sumerian account, but 120 Shars in the later
Babylonian version.
The Sumerian Sar was based on the orbit of the comet Marduk—
which is rounded to 3 600 years—while the Babylonian Shar of 2 160
years was based on the period taken by one astrological age within a
complex astronomical cycle that lasts a total cycle of 25 920 years (2160 x
12). We will discuss this phenomenon in more detail below. When these
two separate formulas are appropriately applied, the two lists
reconcile—at least as regards the total length of the pre-Flood period:
259 200 years. Why then, is the lifespan of Adam’s (Adapite) line so
different in the Bible? It is not, per my own table below...
Here, I believe, I have come up with the first proper chronology of the
Adapite line! In the more reliable Sumerian list, the reign of these god-
kings is 259 200 years for only 8 kings, giving us an average of 32 400
years for each one. This is about the same number of years that Adapa and
many of his descendants lived per my new table below.
What we should note however is that both conventional biblical
historians and ‘alternative history’ researchers have made the hasty
conclusion that the Mesopotamian Kings Lists and the Adapite
chronology speak of the same ‘line of Adam’. This is far from true as
our story will conclusively show as we go along.

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The Pre-Flood Chronology of the Adapite Line
Had Actual
Had Adj. son years Adj. Bibl.
Born son at used bibl. lived used Age Died
Shar Jub. Patriarch (BC) (yrs) (÷360) (x10) (yrs) (÷360) (x10) (BC)

93 1 Adapa 70599 4680 13 130 33480 93 930 37119

95 3 Seth 65919 3780 10.5 105 32832 91.2 912 33087

97 5 Enosh 62139 3240 9 90 32580 90.5 905 29559

99 7 Kenan 58899 2520 7 70 32760 91 910 26139

101 9 Mahalel 56379 2340 6.5 65 32220 89.5 895 24159

102 10 Jared 54039 5832 16.2 162 34632 96.2 962 19407
103 11 Enoch 48207 2340 6.5 65 13140* 36.5 365 35067*
105 13 Methuselah 45867 6732 18.7 187 34884 96.9 969 10983†
106 14 Lamech 39135 6552 18.2 182 27927 77.7 777 11163
110 18 Noah 32583 1800 50 500 21600‡ 60 600 10983‡
Shem, Ham,
Japhet 14583 3600‡ 10 100 10983‡
*Not known. This is only the age/year that Enoch was taken to Eden to live with the gods
†Methuselah thus perished in the Flood – the only one of Noah’s ancestors to see it
‡Lived beyond the Flood. This is their record as at time of the Great Flood
Note: Counting backwards, only the completed Shar and Jubilee is considered.
This table is proof that the 2160-year Shar was known well before Hipparchus

Here, we can clearly see that lifespan in the Adapite chronology was
reduced by the Old Testament compilers using a specific formula that
modified what can only have been the original Sumerian-Babylonian
figures. When this adjustment is removed, the lifespan of pre-Flood
Patriarchs becomes consistent with the Kings Lists. This reduction was
evidently meant to conceal the real pre-Flood lifespan from mankind. As

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such ‘the Lord’ employed the ‘one day is equal to 360 days’ formula
(Exodus 4:6 and Numbers 14:34)—which reduction was then multiplied
by ten to arrive at the biblical figures.
As already hinted, the total reign period of the pre-Flood god-kings
in the Sumerian and Babylonian kings lists equates to a complex
astronomical process—called the Precession of Equinoxes*—in which
ten Precessional Cycles result in 259 200 years! Why the total reign of
the god-kings is equal to ten of these will be explained below. It is also
significant that in the Babylonian Kings List ten god-kings are said to
have ruled for this same period of time. This coincidence has managed
to throw off some researchers into believing that these god-kings were
only anthromorphic† equivalents of celestial cycles—the Precession of
the Equinoxes to be exact—but we will find a more natural and
understandable reason for this when we introduce a phenomenon I call
the Cycles of Catastrophe.
As for the extraordinary lifespan itself, this most likely resulted from
the space-time distortion experienced in a rocket, as shown in Meyer’s
table above. We can readily conclude that the Adapite patriarchs were
favoured with shem-rides as part of a certain deal with the gods. Indeed,
Mesopotamian and Hebrew records show that Seth’s descendants were
elite scribes and close aides of the Anunnaki. As such, ‘Methuselah’ is
actually Mothusa-El (‘Assistant of El’ in Sotho-Tswana). All, it is said,
were taken to ‘Heaven’ (N’ibiru) at some point...

The descendants of Seth

As we have already noted, many scholars (and even some ‘alternative
history’ researchers) have confused Adamu with Adapa even though
they are quite clearly separate characters. The correct dates for the

*
Precession of the Equinoxes: as the Earth moves in a slow, stirring motion (explained
before) the Spring equinox (a point in the seasons where the length of the day is equal to
that of the night) will appear to come earlier and earlier each successive year
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Adapite line of Seth and his descendants within the history of the
Anunnaki are properly shown in the chronology above. The reader will
note that they emerged much later than the earliest god-kings in the
Sumerian-Babylonian Kings List—and cannot therefore be those gods.
Another thing is that Ubar-Tutu is not likely to be the same character as
Lamech, as almost everyone else seems to think. Lamech died well
before the Flood of 10983 BC as my table clearly shows. In fact, I have
concluded, ‘Ubar-Tutu’ is another rendition of ‘Abol-Utu’. Utu (also
known as Shamash) was the twin of Inanna (see page viii). Evidently,
Inanna’s catastrophic Age of the Virgin (Virgo) preceded the Age of the
Lion (Leo) and it was therefore in her age that her twin Utu became the
ruling god-king (governor) of the gods’ capital city. The name ‘Ubal’, it
is clear to me, is a corruption of ‘Abol’ or ‘Apollo’. In full, this was
Apollyon. ‘Apo-lyon’ is made up of apo—Greek for ‘away from’, thus
meaning ‘before’ in this case—and lyon, which is ‘lion’ or ‘leo’. This
evidently points to a time before the onset of the Age of Leo.
This should now confirm that Ubar-Tutu (or Apollo)—a god—and
not Lamech—an elevated ‘mortal’—was the governor of the gods’
capital city at an age named after his sister-twin Artemis (her Greek
name), and just as the fateful new Age of Leo was about to dawn...

Marduk weds Earthling Sarpanit

Date: circa 54 000 BC

As Adapite descendants continued their close association with Enlil, a

momentous event eventually took place. This was the engagement of
Enki’s son Marduk to an ‘Earthling’ female called Tsirpanit (or
Sarpanit). What was unprecedented about this event was the fact that
this was the first time an Anunnaki ‘god’ was to actually marry a ‘mortal’.
Beforehand, Enki had only slept with the mothers of Adapa and Titi.
In those prior days, the news of the birth of Adapa and Titi to Enki,
followed by their being shown off in N’ibiru, must have spread like
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wildfire amongst the Igigi—the ‘Watchers’ of biblical Apocrypha—who
we are about to become familiar with. From then on, we can be sure,
they kept a close eye on all developments regarding the couple and
their descendants. Many of the Igigi were in fact astronauts who spent
long periods of time in space—as shall be conclusively revealed in this
Chapter. Sumerian legend reveals that they often complained bitterly
about their living conditions and even occasionally sided with any
Anunnaki who rebelled for whatever reason—for example Kumarbi.
As more and more of the gods in N’ibiru began to favour the pleasant
conditions on Earth, and Lahmu became more and more like an outpost
to hedge against the effects of a possible cataclysm on Earth, the
remaining Lahmu-based Igigi began to long for female company. This
was when they began to plot to use Marduk’s wedding for the
abduction of Adapite females…

The abduction of Adapite females

To the Earthling ‘mortals’, the marriage of Tsirpanit to a full god was a
very auspicious development indeed, as her name reflected. Tsir means
‘protect’ (as in the Sotho-Tswana word sira or sireletsa) and ‘pan’ means
‘Earth’ or ‘land’. The full meaning of her name was therefore ‘Earth’s
Protector’. She was viewed as a symbolic guarantee that the gods will
henceforth treat mortals with more respect as they had now taken one
of them in marriage.
Per the Book of Enoch, the plot to abduct earthling females—engineered
by certain ‘rebel angels’—took place ‘in the days of Jared’. As Jared was
born in the 10th Jubilee since the birth of Adapa (see chronology above)
we can relate this to about 50 000 BC. This was when at least 200 out of
600 Igigi descended on Mount Hermon with the specific intent of
abducting Earthling females of the Adapite line.
The Igigi indeed went ahead and abducted the females—much to
Enlil’s anger (‘with much disgust did Enlil eye them’). It was however
reasoned that what was allowed Marduk could not be denied the Igigi
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without being unfair. But ‘in his heart was Enlil plotting against them’.
He could not let them get away with this. In the meantime, as children
were born to the Igigi and their Earthling wives, the line between ‘god’
and mortal had been crossed. Indeed, by the 104th Shar, the Igigi began
to leave for Earth in large numbers, as Sumerian legend recalls.
Enlil soon decreed that the Igigi should be kept out of the sensitive
areas where the rockets were hidden, and these astronauts therefore
headed for Europe and other cooler northern areas. The period from
Marduk’s wedding to the mass exodus of Igigi to Earth ‘in the 104th
Shar’ relates, basically, to from around 50 000 BC to about 46 000 BC. To
indicate the veracity of my table, this neatly coincides with a period that
archaeologists and anthropologists* associate with a ‘sudden increase in
the sophistication of the inhabitants of Europe’. Although this is still a
mystery to them because they do not believe in the basic truth of
‘myths’, we can now see that it is the arrival of the Igigi that would have
caused this. After all, they were astronauts.
We can now also suspect, with good reason, that this was the period in
which legends of giants began to appear around the world... Why the
Igigi were synonymous with giants will become clear in the sections
below. Indeed, to show that these astronauts were, naturally, very
sophisticated, nearly all tales in the world that speak of giants also
reveal that they had gold and wonderful items like a harp that ‘played all by
itself’ (Jack and the Beanstalk). Such ‘treasure’ were envied and often
stolen by the human heroes of the tales. A typical ending was that the
hero would outwit the giant and escape with the treasure...much to the
delight of the listener—usually children.

Of angels and giants

These same legends were also recorded in the Old Testament—as the
following passage records for us. Thus, according to Genesis 6:1-2.:

*
Anthropologists: scientists who study the development of civilizations over time
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Now it came to pass that when men began to multiply on the face of the
earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the
daughters of men, that they were fair; and they took wives for themselves
of all whom they chose.

In verse 4, giants are supposed to have resulted out of this union. But
when we look closely at the above verses, we can easily see that, once
again, this is an abbreviated version of the story of the Igigi that we
have just recounted in part from Mesopotamian records. However, one
important clue has come out of this exercise. It seems that these flesh-
and-blood beings were ‘gods’ to Mesopotamians, ‘angels’ to the authors
of the Book of Enoch, and—contrary to John 1:18—‘sons of God’ in the
Genesis quote above. We must thus point out, here, that Christianity in
its present form hinges on the conviction that God had ‘begotten’ only
one son! We will explore this strange contradiction with Genesis much
later in the book when we arrive at events in the time of Jesus.
To show that the above terms refer to the same beings, we will soon
de-mystify each of the above terms. We have seen that those ‘gods’
who had settled on Earth were called ‘Anunnaki’ and those who mainly
resided in space or in N’ibiru were called ‘Titans’ (TII.TA.AN) or ‘Igigi’
(I.GI.GI). We now need to make better sense of all this. ‘Anunnaki’, we
have seen even from Sotho-Tswana, means ‘[Those Who] From (A) the
Heavens (nu) Settled (nna) on Earth (Ki)’. TII.TA.AN similarly means
‘Heavily-Built Ones (tii) belonging to—or coming from (ta)—the
Heavens (an or a-nu).
I.GI.GI literally means ‘That Which Goes [makes the sound] Gi! Gi!
[when it walks]’, suggesting giants—or those heavy enough to make the
round shake when they walk. In fact the English term ‘giant’ stems from
the Greek word gigantes which in turn stems from two words: gi-gi and
an(u) (sky). We can now clearly see that the term ‘giant’ also refers to
‘beings from the sky’, just as does the term ‘Titan’. Finally, what does
‘Angel’ mean? My own take is that the term was originally ‘AN.EL’
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which means ‘Lord (El) from the Sky/Heavens (an or a-nu)’. The ‘g’ is
most likely a ‘bridging consonant’ often used in many languages to
make pronunciation easier, but it might also be rooted in a variant
Sumerian term ‘GAL’ which means ‘great’. This would not change
anything much because KA.EL (the likely source of ‘GAL’) would still
mean ‘like EL’ or ‘EL-like’ and the Illu—another term for the Anunnaki
and the likely source of ‘EL’—were synonymous with greatness.
What can we now conclude? The only logical conclusion is that all the
above names refer to beings that came to Earth from the skies! ‘Angel’ is
therefore only a variation of ‘Anunnaki’ or ‘Titan’ or ‘giant’. Yet another
indicator of this ‘from the sky’ theme is very interesting because it
comes from Sotho-Tswana. Giants are called bo-dimo and this literally
means ‘Those From High Up’!

Why ‘giant’ does not refer principally to height

Although it is tempting to argue that the Sotho-Tswana term ‘dimo’
(high up) referred to the height of the giants rather than their being from
high up, in Sotho-Tswana we cannot politely say to anyone ‘o dimo’ if
we want to say ‘you are tall’. This specifically means: you are a giant (of
legend)—and nothing else. And giants in legend are not too-well-
regarded because they were considered to be man-eaters. ‘O-(ko) go-
dimo’ also means that one is on a tree or mountain or building or
aircraft—somewhere high up—not tall. ‘Tall’ would specifically be ‘o mo-
leele’! If we wanted to include ‘dimo’ in our reference to height, we
would have to say something like ‘o goletse go-dimo’: you have grown
high up...a rather more cumbersome expression…
We should also recall here that in Chapter One we found an ancient
association of dimo with deimos—a Greek term. It is not the only Greek
term to be just like Sotho-Tswana in both pronunciation and meaning—
but that is beyond the intended scope of this book. We also noted how
deimos became ‘gods’ and then God (Dei).

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The Titans and the Olympians
As we have already seen, in Greek mythology a distinction is made
between the Titans and the Olympians—although they are both
considered to be ‘gods’. We had also noted that the Titans are
considered to be older than the Olympians and this can now be more
understandable. The answer is that before settling on Earth (or Mount
Olympus as the Greeks supposed), all gods were basically Titans (or
Igigi), that is, they belonged to outer space or N’ibiru—another name,
we saw, for Lahmu or Mars. La-ha-mmu in Tswana means, loosely
speaking, [land] of [reddish] soil’—as in Mars’ reddish soil. Indeed,
Mars is commonly referred to as the ‘Red Planet’ by astronomers.
It was very easy to physically distinguish the Igigi (Titans) from the
Olympians (Anunnaki). The Titans were giants while the Olympians
were of more normal height. These two groups often clashed with each
other according to legend. Since the Titans either lived in Mars or out in
space (that is, manning the lookout satellites that gave them the
reputation of being ‘Watchers’—or ‘all-seeing’), their great height made
them very noticeable indeed when they visited or stayed on Earth,
perhaps contributing to their hostility and inability to fit in.

Why were giants so tall?

There are two very important points that need to be further appreciated
in order to better understand the ancient gods. The first has to do with
the height of the Titan/Igigi giants and whatever caused this anomaly.
The second has to do with the skin colour of all the gods, but we will
consider that further in the next chapter.
The entire matter of the size of the giants, I have discerned, hinges on one
factor alone—gravity. Mars has much lighter gravity than Earth and
outer space is almost totally without gravity. ‘Well, what has gravity to do
with height?’ one may well ask... It is a well-known and indisputable
scientific fact that when modern astronauts embark on a mission into
space (where there is zero-gravity), they grow taller by as much as two
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inches (about 5 centimetres) for every four weeks they spend there! This
is why the Igigi/Titans were much taller than the gods that remained on
Earth! The reason for their large variation in the height (see below) is
also understandable. It was, firstly, a function of whether they were
Lahmu-based or space-based Igigi (that is of how much gravity), and,
secondly, it was about how much time they spent out there...

The above images and text below belong to Joe Taylor of the Mont Blanc Fossil Museum.
His highly informative website www.mtblanco.com is listed in my bibliography section

A) Present day modern man which averages about 6-feet tall + or - several inches or more.

B) 15-foot human skeleton found in southeast Turkey in late 1950's in the Euphrates valley during road
construction. Many tombs containing giants were uncovered here. This pertains to the picture of the giant
human femur and myself [p76].

C) Maximinus Thrax Caesar of Rome 235-238 A.D. This was an 8' 6" skeleton.
D) Goliath was about 9 feet + or - a few inches. I Samuel 17:4; late 11th century BC.
E) King Og spoken of in Deuteronomy 3:11 whose iron bedstead was approximately 14-feet by 6-feet wide.
King Og was at least 12-feet tall, yet some claim up to 18.

F) A 19'6" human skeleton found in 1577 A.D. under an overturned oak tree in the Canton of Lucerne.

G) 23-foot tall skeleton found in 1456 A.D. beside a river in Valence, France.

H) A 25' 6 " skeleton found in 1613 A.D. near the castle of Chaumont in France. This was claimed to be a
nearly complete find.

I) Almost beyond comprehension or believability was the find of the two separate 36-foot human remains
uncovered by Carthaginians somewhere between 200-600 B.C.
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As we have already hinted, scientists are reluctant to fully investigate
the reasons for the existence of giants long ago. This is because they
have no proper explanation for their abnormal height. Indeed, the
height of these giants, they have discerned, is not because they are a
strange or unique species or that they had hormonal disorders like
acromegaly. The reason was definitely something else.
Scientists are actually in a fix because they are not prepared to
acknowledge the veracity of the ‘myth’ that people in ancient times had
the knowledge of space travel! My explanations, however, now put all
these vexing matters into proper perspective. Indeed, one clarification
that arises out of this is that it was not because of having children with
‘angels’ that giants were born. This trait was a result of prolonged
exposure to the weightlessness of space or the lesser gravity of Mars; it
was not genetic at all. Thus, whilst all legend correctly associates giants
with ‘beings from the sky’, the actual reason for the great height of
giants was most likely misunderstood by later writers and compilers...
In modern times, the skeletons of mummified Caucasian giants 7-12
feet tall have been found in China, USA, South America, New Zealand
and other places. One television program on the controversial subject
was even aired on Discovery Channel. However, a more discomfiting
allegation has been that certain governments have taken to cementing
over the burial places or tombs of these giants—all of whom are
Caucasian and most of whom are red-haired. Some of them have two
rows of teeth. While this can be explained away in places like China—
attributable, perhaps, to Aryan invasions in distant times—it is rather
more difficult to explain them in other places which the White man is
said to have reached only from the time of Columbus.
Once again, there appears to be a certain group of people who are
determined that the full story of the Anunnaki and their travels is to
remain hidden—as should any notion that there was prior
sophistication equivalent to, or even exceeding ours, in ancient times…

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 Bibliography
Primary sources
These are some of the leading ancient texts as translated by scholars

Enuma Elish
Kingship in Heaven
Kumarbi Cycle
Atra-Hasis
Myth of the Pick-axe
Myths of Kur
Epic of Gilgamesh
Book of the Coming Forth by Day (Egyptian Book of the Dead)
Enmerkar and the Lords of Aratta
Admonitions of Upi-Wer
Khedeolaomar Texts
Erra Opos
Nabunaid and the Clergy of Babylon

Secondary sources (and recommended reading)

The Atlantis Blueprint Rand Flem-Ath and Colin Wilson, Time Warner (2001)
Die to Live Charan Singh, Radha Soami Satsang, Beas (1980)
Egypt – Light of the World Gerald Massey, (First printed London, 1907)
The End of Days Zechariah Sitchin, HarperCollins (2007)
Godman Kirpal Singh, Ruhani Satsang Books (Fifth Edition, 1989)
Gods of Eden William Bramley, HarperCollins (1993)
Gods of the New Millennium Alan F. Alford, New English Library Edition (2000)
The Hiram Key Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, Arrow (1997)
Holy Bible commentary by Harold E. Metcalf,
C.D. Stampley Enterprises, Inc. (1976)
Holy Blood, Holy Grail Michael Baignet, Henry Lincoln and Richard Leigh,
Dell Publishing Co. (1983)
In Search of Ancient Gods Erich von Daniken, Corgi Edition (1981)
Jesus, Last of the Pharaohs Ralph Ellis, Adventures Unlimited Press (2002)

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Keeper of Genesis Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock, Heinemann (1996)
The Lost Book of Enki Zechariah Sitchin, Bear & Co. (2004)
The Master Answers Charan Singh, Radha Soami Satsang, Beas (1980)
The Second Messiah Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, Arrow (1998)
Slave Species of god Michael Tellinger, Music Masters Books (2005)
The Stairway to Heaven Zechariah Sitchin, HarperCollins Edition (2007)
Thief in the Night William Sears George Ronald (20th Edition, 1997)
The War of Gods and Men Zechariah Sitchin, HarperCollins (2007)

Internet references: http://...

dwiji.org www.eridu.co.uk
freespace.virgin.net www.europa.com
home.austernet.co.au www.geocities.com
www.angelfire.com www.hermetics.org
www.bibliotecapleyades.net www.historyworld.net
www.britam.org www.lds-mormon.com
www.crystalinks.com www.mtblanco.com
www.eidolon.ndirect.co.uk www.star-one.org.uk
www.en.wikipaedia.org www.thetruthseeker.co.uk
www.ericparker.com www.viewzone.com

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Glossary
These are some of the important Sumerian, Babylonian (Akkadian), Egyptian
and Hebrew terms that from the basis of many languages today:

A : in the direction of. Can be ‘towards’ or ‘away/opposite of’

Aa : expanse of water (aa is also an expression of directionless size)
Ab : deep. Also means ‘father’: one deeper down the line of descent
Aha/Aho : (Egyptian) build/building. Egypt was Ma-aha-an (Magan):
‘Builders-to-Up-High’ referring to their pyramids
An/Anu : up high (literally: tending towards the sky)
At(a) : multiply, expand
Atl : expansive, ever-unfolding. Sotho-Tswana: lo-atle (ocean), se-atla
(hand: ‘that which unfolds’); Greek: atlas ‘the spread-out Earth’
Atra : excessive, root of ‘ultra’: same root as ‘at’ and ‘atl’
Ba : people of; e.g. ba-ur (boer): people of the land
Bu(a) : talk
Buba : to weave (root of ‘bobbin’: English); bobi: spider’s web (Tswana)
Di! : [heavy sound of] falling down
Dil : eye [typically in a steadfast or intimidating manner]
Din : a huge presence, greatness of impact
Dur : strong, fortress-like
E : like; of e.g. ‘E-kur: like a mountain
En : Lord, literally: ‘The One’, ene in Sotho-Tswana
En-u : my/our; literally: ‘The-One(s)-Here’ (tone of familiarity)
Gal : worthy, great, equal to. Toot of ‘Kal’ as in s’kala (scale)
Gi! : [sound of] heavy or many footstep(s)
Gir : machine (root of the word ‘gear’)
Gu : creature; thing
Hibi : bright, glaring; opp. in-hibi: restrain(ed); see also Ibi-ru
Hor : far away (Sotho-Tswana: Hol-e: ‘hol’ is a measure of great size)
Hul : major; all-encompassing (holo in many languages)
Huba : bulge, become big or proud. Rahab is Ra-huba: [male] proud one
Huhi : pronounced ‘ruri’ and meaning eternal, everlasting, rightful
Hyk : Princely, rich, prominent (also ‘ryk’)
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Illani : Sky-gods; comprises Illu (gods) and ani (of the skies)
Illu : shining, bright, illuminating;
Ibiru : bright-red. Composed of hibi (bright) and ru (red); also hibiru.
Ka : with, by, through, or like. In Egypt the Ka was the twin (like).
Khemet : full to capacity. Later came to mean ‘black’ referring to
the thick, rich, black soil deposited by the Nile
Kheret : (Egyptian) depleted, clean-shaven
Khet : (Egyptian) special/apart/chosen
Ki : Earth (Sotho-Tswana: Ke-e; Greek: Ge-o--‘It Is Here’)
Kul : variation of ‘Gal’. Ka-Hul: Great (in size or years)
K’ur : ‘heaped land’ or hill. Made up of Ka-Ur: ‘like the curved Earth’
Root of kur-ugated (corrugated); kuru (Sotho-Tswana): curved’
Lu : you are:
LU.LU : ‘you are this, you are that’, i.e. mixed
Maan(e) : the skies (later ‘over there’). Made up of ma and ani
Manda : strong (Nguni: mandla)
Masheta : strong (origin of Master: the ‘strong one’)
Mila : to grow, foment (root of ‘militant’)
Me : plural of; e.g. me-aa (waters) and me-en (Lords)
Mo : referring to a person
Meso : between (Sotho-Tswana: dawn—between night and day’
Mose : (Egyptian) son/daughter of
Mun : visible (root of ‘munificent’, and mmona in Sotho-Tswana)
Na : tending towards (or away from) the attribute of
Naga/Naha : snake. Also ‘nahash’ i.e. twisted, cunning, low-lying.
Neb : (Egyptian)—see ‘Nepa’
Nepa : be wise, be always right
Neteru : bearded ones (referred to the Hyksos or Akhus)
Ngu : sheep: literally ‘na-gu’ - ‘animal-like’ (nku in Sotho-Tswana)
Nin : great; many (Nguni: ningi)
Ni(n)-daba : News, issues, lengthy written account. For ‘dab’ see also ‘tab’
Nna : stay
Ntu : house; or person (a ‘house of the spirit’). At first, only the
‘gods’ referred to themselves like this
Nu : the great blue (can be the sky or the sea)
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Para/phara : wide (‘pharaoh’ is phara-aho in Sotho-Tswana –‘Great House’)
Po : horn or horn-like (jutting or curved)
Po-ta : surround or embrace (like horns). Ptah (potter) was ‘The
Maker’: name deriving from the revolving action of pottery
Ra : father; male
Ra! : burst out, radiate
Ru : bulging, puffy (a- ma-ru is ‘clouds’), or earnest (ruri or huhi)
Ru : red, as in ruddy, rusty, ruby etc (see also Ibi-ru)
Sha : there
Sir : protect; come between a harsh entity and the protected one
Su : see ‘Zu’
Shu : hot, fiery
Ta : of (also ‘coming to’). Me-ta (meetings) means ‘many coming to’
Ta! : [sound of] striking (literally: wham!)
Tab : grab; handle (also later meaning ‘write [with]’); tear apart
Tam : juicy, wet. Root of ‘damp’. Tam-usa (Sotho-Tswana) means
‘squeeze the juice out of’
Tef(a) : throw a tantrum, act ‘watery’
Tep(a) : throw a tantrum, act ‘watery’
Ti(a) : sturdy, substantial, feminine (i.e. ‘fleshier’—referring to
women’s breasts; Sotho-Tswana: nama-gadi ‘having much flesh’)
Ti! : [heavy sound of] falling down
Tsir : see Sir
U : noun indicator pointing to a person
Ur : of the Earth/land, root of ‘ore’ (raw from the soil)
Utu : extreme (see also ‘Atra’)
Zepi : (Egyptian) nothing. English (slang) zip, Sotho-Tswana: sepe
Zi : here
Zib[a] : know
Zu : darkness. [Of the soil]: thick (black) with fertility

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