Anunnaki

__NOTOC__{{folklore}}{{pseudohistorynav}}The '''Anunnaki''' are [[Mythology|mythological]] beings mentioned in [[Middle East]]ern and [[Mesopotamia]]n mythology, notably that of the [[Sumer]]ians, Assyrians, and Babylonians. They are involved in the Babylonian [[creation myth]]. They were altogether uninteresting for years until [[crank]]s, [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theorists]], [[scam]] artists, [[woo]] peddlers, and grifters discovered the mythology and started blathering about it en masse.

==Appeal to cranks==
[[The Bible Code]] people feel that the Anunnaki are the [[Nephilim]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20031212053716/http://www.hiddencodes.com/annunaki.htm Hiddencodes]</ref> But wait, the madness doesn't stop there! Apparently the Anunnaki tie into [[Zecharia Sitchin]]'s [[crank]]y screeds, the [[Planet X]]/[[Nibiru]] silliness, and, of course, [[Earth changes]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050516075341/http://www.pufoin.com/pufoin_perspective/nibiru.php Nibiru & Anunnaki—The Return]</ref> The home planet of the Anunnaki is the tenth planet and is called 
Nibiry
 Anu.  The Anunnaki built the [[Egypt]]ian [[pyramid]]s at Giza, nuked Mesopotamia, could bring the dead back to life…the weirdness just goes on and on.<ref>[https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sumer_anunnaki/anunnaki/anu_13c.htm History of the Anunnaki]</ref>

The Anunnaki were supposed to return in 2022 or the world will end then, [[List of predictions of the end of the world|yet again]] or something.<ref>''2022 Anunnaki Code: End Of The World Or Their Return To Earth ?'', [[Maximillien de Lafayette]], CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2008, {{isbn|978-1438213132}}</ref>

==Stolen fantasy==
[[File:Hugh Rankin - The Shadow Kingdom.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Zecharia Sitchin ripped off Robert E. Howard's ''{{wpl|The Shadow Kingdom||,}}'' and gave the world a new [[conspiracy theory]].]]Few know that Sitchin wasn't the first to reintroduce the Anunnaki to 20th-century culture. In Robert E. Howard's short story "The Shadow Kingdom" from the August 1929 issue of ''Weird Tales'', Kull of Atlantis (a precursor to Howard's better known hero Conan the Barbarian) battles and defeats the "lizard people" who enslaved humanity in a Pangaea like world.<ref>[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61892 Weird Tales, August 1929] at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.</ref><ref>Robert E. Howard, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Kingdom ''The Shadow Kingdom''], 1929, at wikisource.org.</ref> Kull would influence many of Howard's later works. The main villain (Thulsa Doom) and the serpent cult in the 1982 ''Conan the Barbarian'' movie, were from the Kull series. Howard was an amateur mythologist and was well aware of Babylonian myths and deities which he used as inspiration in his fantasy and shared/exchanged information with [[H.P. Lovecraft]] to create a common mythos. Sitchin's Anunnaki seem to have more similarities with Robert E. Howard's lizard people than with the Sumerian Anunnaki deities mentioned in ''Gilgamesh'', suggesting that he most likely just [[plagiarism|copied Howard's sword & sorcery lizard people yarns and repackaged them as "forbidden knowledge"]].

Regardless, the Anunnaki and their later correlation with Nibiru are an interesting case of 'modern syncretism' offering parallels to how Utanapistim became Noah and suggesting that myths are mastodon-tic cannibal beasts that eat everything in their path. Consequently, we can safely deduce that, eventually, we will have one, big, tidy, all-encompassing conspiracy theory that ties together Anunnaki, crop circles, ancient giants, the Illuminati, Santa Claus, and every other conspiracy theory no matter how nonsensical or contradictory it is. AMAZING!

==Historical references==

===First reference of Anunnaki (or the first and longest case of intellectual property infringement in history!)===
The Anunnaki were 7 gods mentioned by Utanapistim (later Noah) to Gilgamesh as the old gods that sent the flood on Earth. They are first mentioned in the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' table 10. While these 7 deities later had Sumerian and Babylonian counterparts it is important to note that in the text these are presented as the gods of Utanapistim and not Gilgamesh. We can thus deduce that they were not Sumerian deities but rather were the gods of more ancient peoples (Utanapistim's). While '''Ea''' delivers the message to Utanapistim (and can thus be identified with later impersonifications in Christian and Hebrew mythology), '''An''' is the leader of this Pantheon and the people of ''Surrupak'' worshiped '''Enlil'''.

===Ancient Greece===
'''An''', cruel father/ruler of these gods, was killed and substituted by his son '''Marduk''' and were later adopted by Hellenic cultures as '''Chronos''' and '''Zeus''' respectively.

===Hebrew mythology===
The problem presented by the plurality of Annunaki deities for a monotheistic religion was resolved with the invention of '''archangels''' under a single divinity (inspired by the Annunaki figure of '''Ea'''). This also presented the opportunity to transfer 'defects' or inconsistencies of the main divinity to its subjects.{{fact}}

===Christian culture===
The next step came as a result of the reduction of Archangels from 6-7 to 3, resulting in the main divinity (God) absorbing all the powers of the original 7 Anunaki.
During the medieval ages and the redefinition of Satan, the undesirable traits of the 7 original deities were transferred to the devil.

==Conclusion==
The Anunnaki are much less boring than [[Noah's Ark]], which has lost its appeal amongst conspiracy theories as it has no [[magic]] wielding, high tech, [[space]]-faring [[Reptilians|lizard people]]. Moreover, it is an opportunity to educate people against their will, by teaching them about syncretism and the hows of dynamic culture while they think you are telling them a story about [[Extraterrestrial|aliens]].

==See also==
* [[Bashar]]
* [[David Icke]]
* [[Amitakh Stanford]]
* [[Giorgio A. Tsoukalos]]

==External links==
* [http://www.vibrani.com/Anunnaki.htm Even more madness] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20181204120225/http://www.vibrani.com/Anunnaki.htm Web archive link])
* [http://www.sitchiniswrong.com/anunnaki/anunnaki.htm The Anunnaki] This site refutes unreasonable claims.
* [http://www.sitchiniswrong.com/ Michael Heiser's "Sitchin is Wrong" website]

==References==
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