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“Akkadian cylinder seal dating to c. 2300 BC, depicting the deities
Inanna, Utu, Enki, and Isimud” (Enki’s messenger) (Kramer 1961:32-33)
By
The British Museum Collections - Version 1 Version 2, Public Domain,
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Chapter 3 - “Gods of
Heaven and Earth”
This
chapter starts with the question of what--“after hundreds of thousands and even
millions of years of painfully slow human development”--“changed everything so
completely,” and
in a one-two-three punch—circa
11,000-7400-3800 B.C.—
transformed primitive nomadic
hunters and food gatherers
into farmers and pottery
makers, and then into builders of
cities, engineers, mathematicians,
astronomers, metallurgists,
merchants, musicians, judges,
doctors, authors, librarians,
(and) priests. (52)
The
Sumerians had one answer: the “gods.”
Who
were the gods?
Were
they like the gods of Greece?
Sitchin
identifies the Greek pantheon of 12 gods/goddesses, and informs that the Greek
gods were, among other things, “anthropomorphic,” that is, “as physically
similar to mortal men and women, and human in character” (52).
Thus,
“they could be happy and angry and jealous; they made love, quarreled, fought;
and they procreated like humans, bringing forth offspring through sexual
intercourse—with each other or with humans” (52-53).
Sitchin discerns patterns in the relationship among the gods of Greece, as well as of other
peoples of the ancient world—such patterns, for example, as usurpation,
castration, and the recurrence of the number 12 relative to the
pantheon of each people’s or nation’s major gods.
Based on the aforesaid patterns, Sitchin says that the
gods/goddesses of Greece are all traceable in origin to the Near East,
particularly Sumer.
As
Sitchin writes, “all the corridors of all the temples” of the Greeks, the
Aryans, Hittites, Hurrians, Canaanites, Egyptians, and Amorites have “one
source: Sumer” (87).
Chapter 4 - “Sumer:
Land of the Gods”
Sitchin calls attention to three classifications of gods:
(1) the gods “of the
heavens” – which were actually “celestial bodies,” such as Apsu (the Sun),
Tiamat (the primordial Earth before it was divided), Anshar (Jupiter), and
Kishar (Saturn);
(2) the lesser
gods “of Earth,” who were “local deities”; and
(3) the “Gods of
Heaven and Earth,” who were “national—indeed, international gods” (88-89).
Sitchin then zeroes
in on “a dynasty of gods”--whose rules of succession involve the “recognition
of one’s son by his half-sister as heir apparent” (89).
This “divine
family” of “closely related but bitterly divided” relatives was headed by a
“pantheon” of twelve who were each assigned or associated with a number that
signified their rank:
(1) An
or Anu (King of Nibiru), number 60;
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Ur III (Middle Bronze Age) form of the
cuneiform character DINGIR (AN)
By Geoff Richards (User:Qef) - Generated
by uploader, path data
rendered using font 'Akkadian', by George Douros.,
Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4947027
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(2) Antu
(Anu’s wife), number 55;
(3) Enlil
(Anu’s son by his official wife; thus, his heir apparent), number
50;
(4) Ninlil
(Enlil’s wife), number 45;
(5) Ea
also known as Enki (Anu’s first-born
son by Id, one of Anu’s
concubines), number 40;
(6) Damkina
or Ninki (Enki’s wife), number 35;
(7) Nannar
or Sin (Enlil’s first-born son by
his wife Ninlil), number 30;
(8) Ningal
(Sin’s wife), number 25;
(9) Utu
or Shamash, number 20;
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Inanna/Ishtar
By Marie-Lan Nguyen (User:Jastrow), 2009-01-14, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6005529
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(10) Irnini or Ishtar, number 15 (Utu and Irnini were
Nannar’s twin
offspring);
(11) Ishkur also known as Adad / Teshub, Enlil’s son, number 10; and
(12) Ninhursag (Enki’s and
Enlil’s half sister), number 5.
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"Marduk."
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/readinglists/marduk.jpg -
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Other Anunnaki gods who "played active roles in the affairs of Earth" were:
a) Marduk (Enki’s son who wanted to
claim supremacy among the
gods/goddesses, and succeeded for a while after the
nuclear holocaust of
2024 B.C.);
b) Ninurta (Enlil’s
heir apparent); and
c) Nergal (Enki’s son
who often sided with the Enlilites).
Anu and Antu
remained for the most part in their home planet, Nibiru.
Enki or Ea lived
in Eridu. His other name was
Nudimmud ((“he who made things”).
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"The Ruins of Eridu
in 2011,"
By Ltybcc1 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17767932
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Enlil lived for "21,600 Earth years in Larsa" while
a “Mission Control Center”
was being built in Nibruki (“Earth’s crossing”) or Nippur.
At Nippur’s center, when the Mission Control Center was done, was
"Enlil’s headquarters, the KI.UR (“place of Earth’s root”).
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“Ruins from a
temple in Naffur (ancient Nippur), Iraq,
are said to be the site for the
meeting of Sumerian gods,
as well as the place that man was created" (2009 photo)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ruins_from_a_temple_in_Naffur.jpg
Jasmine N.
Walthall, U.S. Army [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Nannar or Sin was installed by Enlil in Bad-tibira, an industrial center. Nannar was also known as Nugig (“he of the night
sky”) (297).
Ninurta’s city was Larak. He was also known as Pabilsag (“great protector”).
Utu was assigned at Sippar (“bird”)--when he “matured to take command of the Fiery Rockets;” “in time,” he was “to become the God of
Justice,” and “was assigned the constellation Scorpio and Libra" (298).
Ninhursag or Sud took charge of Shruruppak, the Anunnaki’s medical center.
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"List of titles of different
occupations, clay tablet from Shuruppak,
Southern Mesopotamia, Iraq, on display
in the Pergamon Museum,"
Osama
Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) [CC BY-SA 4.0
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
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