By Victor M Fontane
They are the most mysterious of beings, gods, angels, aliens or ordinary men with incredible knowledge or wisdom. Nobody’s sure. The culture of Mesopotamia is rich and complex and historians have been slowly unraveling their secrets. From the epic of Gilgamesh to the many references of them in other cultures, the mystery of the Anunnaki is becoming more clear. Over hundreds of years they have been called gods and angels and now in our modern age, many see them as aliens visiting earth and bringing great knowledge. The truth of their origin and purpose is much more bizarre and amazing than anything previously believed. From the Garden of Eden to the great flood, from the god of the Bible to the secrets of Inuk, all shall be revealed. In truth, the Anunnaki are a group of ancient Mesopotamian deities. They are to be found in Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian cultures. According to the earliest Sumerian texts, the Anunnaki were the most powerful of gods in a rich pantheon and were descended from An, the greatest of the gods. Later they became the seven judges who sit upon the throne in the underworld.
In one flood myth, the Igigi are sixth generation gods who perform labors for the Anunnaki. However, after 40 days, they revolt against their masters and so Enki, one of the Anunnaki, replaces them with humans. The similarities with the biblical flood in ”Numbers” are quite remarkable. It is obvious that Mesopotamian myths heavily influenced or were the origin of much of the biblical Old Testament.
It is said that the Sumerians invented cuneiform writing and were way ahead of their time, having advanced knowledge in music, poetry, art, mathematics, astronomy and science. For the ancient Sumerians, music was a tool that helped them describe the cosmos.
After 2000 BC, Sumerian city of Akkad declined as a nation and was later absorbed by the expanding empires of Babylonia and Assyria. In Sumerian creation myth, the angels known as the Anunaj, Anunnaki or Great Son of Anu were the founder of their culture. They have much in common as are indicative of the ancient ancestors who brought the secrets to the rest of the world. Interestingly, Anunnaki is phonetically similar to the Hebrew Anakim, the giant race who appear in the story later and also anger Kok, the shaman from Greenland to Alaska. They were known as the shining ones and can be found in four principal sources: First in the Sumerian Tablet from the library of Nikol where they are named the Anunaj. Second, in the book of Inok, where they are referred to as angels, watchers of nephilim, third, in the book of Jubilees, and fourth in the biblical book of Genesis, where they are given the name of Elohim.
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