What Does the Sumerian Term “Anunnaki” Really Mean?
Channel: Houseform Apologetics
Date: 2017-12-18

Dr. Michael Heiser gives the scholarly consensus for what the Sumerian term "Anunnaki" means and who they were—in a nutshell. Mike can do translation work in roughly a dozen ancient languages, among them Biblical Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Ugaritic cuneiform.  He has also studied Akkadian and Sumerian independently.

THE ANUNNAKI

There are other names used for the Anunnaki, all refer to the same group of beings—Anunna, Anunnaku. The term means “of royal/princely seed” because the Anunnaki were considered the offspring of Anu [An] and Ki. We have Anu, the god of heaven (chief deity) and his chief consort Ki, the goddess of earth—heaven and earth, a concept of divine coupling was the way the Mesopotamian’s conceived their pantheon. The Anunnaki were a group of significant gods early on, later on they become sort of demoted to the netherworld (the Sumerian version of hell). It’s the realm of the dead, and Sumerian text never tell us how the Anunnaki lost their position.    

Free PDF Books on Ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Etc.—Courtesy of the University of Chicago. Here are some titles (with links):

• Gelb, The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character 
   https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/misc/sumerians-their-history-culture-and-character
• Gelb, A Study of Writing 
   https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/misc/study-writing
• Frankfort, Kingship and the Gods: A Study of Ancient Near 
   Eastern Religion as the Integration of Society and Nature 
   https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/misc/kingship-and-gods-study-ancient-near-eastern-religion-society-and-nature
• Frankfort, Jacobsen, Wilson, The Intellectual Adventure of 
   Ancient Man: An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near 
   East 
   https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/misc/intellectual-adventure-ancient-man-essay-speculative-thought-ancient-near

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