Anyone who has heard the word “Anunnaki” knows that it refers to aliens from outer space who are of reptilian origin. They are believed by various sects or just people with a weak psyche and a low level of education. However, in reality, this word does not mean what everyone thinks it means.
Anunnakis in our lives and ancient Sumer
The recent fuss made around the Allatra sect has made the unusual word “anunnaki” popular. Many people see it as something funny and, at least for most people, it is extremely unusual. But everyone knows that its synonym is the word “reptilians.”
Modern conspiracy theories say that a race of lizard-like aliens once came from outer space and has been living among us ever since. The “evidence” for this theory is increasingly absurd. However, the term “Anunnaki” has a very earthly history.
t all began in the Middle East, in the interfluve of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. 4-5 thousand years ago, the Sumerian-Akkadian civilization existed in these places. It was so long ago that we know about it only from its own texts and archaeological excavations.
We don’t know everything about it, but we are sure that it was a well-developed culture at the time. Of course, its carriers were people. They had their own beliefs, which we can investigate by the texts on clay tablets.
While scrutinizing Sumerian images on religious themes, you can discern whatever you want there. Source: Wikipedia
It was there that researchers read the word, which they pronounced “anunnaki.” It apparently comes from the name of the sky god Anu and means his children. As far as they could understand, this term was used by the ancient inhabitants of the Mesopotamia to refer to the younger gods and spirits of nature and the underworld.
They did not worship them in any special way; people simply believed that every stream or forest had its own soul that deserved respect. Here we can draw parallels with the ancient Greek dryads and nymphs, or with the Western European alves, who later turned into elves. Or with Ukrainian mavkas, foresters, and other “evil spirits.
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Anunnaki: Mythological Sumerian Gods or Space Aliens?
The Anunnaki gods were worshipped by the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia long before the Greeks praised the Olympian gods or the Egyptians prayed to Osiris.
While Zeus and the rest of the Greek gods resided at the top of Mount Olympus, and Osiris was the god of the earth and the underworld, the Anunnaki were winged deities who lived up in the heavens and came down to Earth to decide on people’s destiny.
The Sumerians had many myths involving the Anunnaki gods passing judgment on humans. The gods were described as children of the Earth and sky. This indicates they were believed to interact with humans when they came down to Earth.
Based on ancient carvings depicting deities of ancient Mesopotamia, some had wings, wore horned caps, and had bird faces, while others held something resembling a modern-day ladies’ purse.
The Anunnaki descended from the god of the heavens An and the goddess of the Earth Ki. The word Anunnaki word can be translated into “princely seed” in Sumerian, but as a term, it remains poorly defined. There is hardly any evidence of an exact number of these gods and their various functions as the historical texts deviate from one another.
According to Sumerian beliefs, the Heaven and Earth were inseparable until Enlil came along. Enlil split the Heaven and Earth in two and carried the Earth away whilst his father, An, carried away the sky.
The advanced Sumerian civilization
In the Sumerian language, Sumer means “land of the kings.” Sumer was located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers—hence the Greek name Mesopotamia, meaning Meso (between) potamia (rivers). Its land was in southern Mesopotamia in modern-day Iraq. Sumer is one of the oldest civilizations, estimated to have existed between 4500 BC to 1750 BC.
It consisted of a small number of city-states, each organized around a temple now called a ziggurat, dedicated to the Anunnaki gods’ worship. Ziggurats were layered pyramids with a flat top. Archaeologists consider those communities to be “servant-slave” populations dedicated to serving the temple gods. Later, the priesthood rulership was replaced by kings.
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