“Allah created the sexes, the male and the female, from a drop of ejected semen….
He who is the Lord of Sirius.” —–Sura 53 The Koran
Zecharia Sitchin’s work in The Earth Chronicles poses a number of different problems.
BOOKS: The Earth Chronicles – by Zecharia Sitchin – Library of Rickandria
Firstly, for those who already now it, the information obviously has a lot to do with our subject.
The difficulty is that it also suffers from the ‘blame-it-all-on-one-group-of-aliens’ syndrome that is a purposeful cover-up to the true details of life here on Earth.
This is common among specialists, but here it is a matter of the opposition getting their oar in the water first so as to confuse people on what the true reality is.
In this case, there is an obvious failure to be aware of, or take into account, the large number of other races also involved with the Earth’s history, both today as well as in the past.
To give an example of how some of these difficulties arise, imagine if you would that you were asked to write down your own history.
You would be tempted to glorify your own origins, your own achievements, and also the extent of the impact you have had on the entire world around you.
There would also be certain portions of your life you would be tempted to totally leave out, whitewashing the blank areas, or simply glossing over them. If you were a good public relations person, you would also lie to head off any adverse publicity you might receive further on down the road.
The history of those called the Anunnaki in the Sumerian texts does just this same kind of thing.
Their history was recorded by scribes they trained and manipulated and is a source of potential fallibility.
The various translations of those said texts are also subject to many and varied interpretations, both mistakenly as well as on purpose.
The Anunnaki’s history, and what follows from it, certainly fails to take into account the influence of the One we have talked about already who is the supreme director behind many of these aliens’ actions.
Neither does it take into account what has heretofore been unknown, that is the personal participation of this central character in an extremely physical way with the history of the planet.
It is difficult for those not in possession of certain facts to fully explain the events as they happened.
Much of what has been written, then, is simply incorrect.
The history of the Anunnaki does not also take into account the fact that this race of reptilian/human hybrids are also the lackeys of the grander and darker races of both Sirius and Orion from whom they once sprang.
The jealousy, the often fatal attempts to supplant their own Masters, reminds one very much of the Klingons of Star Trek fame, the pirates and convicts of the galaxy, making do with whatever they can to enhance their own sense of self-esteem and value.
In truth, they are little more than the archetypal galactic drug pushers and pirates.
Sitchin’s work, while groundbreaking in its openness and the bringing forward of this very controversial issue, is suspect at best.
His research and cross-referencing make for wonderfully adventurous reading.
It is an indication of the expansion of consciousness of the population that it has been so popularly received.
Without question it has also given many people a marvelous chance to open their minds to new possibilities about the role ‘aliens’ have played in both our history and in our religions.
This is important.
When similar, but more narrowly focused ideas were suggested by Dr. Agrest, Doctor of Physical mathematics, in an article in the Moscow Literary Gazette of February 1960, it may have stimulated interest among some scientists but never had the startling effect on the population the way that Zecharia Sitchin’s work has.
Even though the material has been available for the past two decades, we feel it is still necessary to give a brief introduction to Sumeria and Mesopotamia, as well as some basic background information on Sitchin’s premise.
We will also endeavor to put events in some context of what else was happening on the planet around that same time.
Introduction Sumer was an ancient country of western Asia, corresponding to the ancient Mesopotamia and Babylonia of biblical times.
It was situated in what is today the southern part of Iraq.
The history books speak of Sumer as dating back to the 5th millennium BC when the Ubaidians established settlements in the area.
Several centuries later, as the Ubaidian settlers prospered, Semites from the Syrian and Arabian deserts began to infiltrate, both as peaceful immigrants and as raiders in quest of booty.
After about 3250 BC, another people migrated from its homeland, located probably northeast of Mesopotamia (from the colony we have known as Aksu at that 3200 BC mark in time), and began to intermarry with the native population.
The newcomers, who became known as Sumerians, spoke an agglutinative language unrelated apparently to any other known language (from the star seeding of language through genetics to Aksu).
The name of rulers that preceded Sargon of Akkad in the region did not make sense at all in terms of having a meaning:
The king at whose court Sargon was a counselor was called Ur-zababa; the king who reigned in Erech was named Lugal-zage-si; and so on.
Scholars therefore took another look at the Akkadian inscriptions.
Basically, the Akkadian cuneiform script was syllabic:
Each sign stood for a complete syllable (Ab, ba, bat, etc.) Yet the script made extensive use of signs that were not phonetic syllables but conveyed the meanings “god,” “city,” “country,” or “life,” “exalted” and the like.
The only possible explanation for this phenomenon was that these signs were remains of an earlier writing method which used pictographs.
Akkadian then, must have been preceded by another language that used a writing method akin to the Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The claim by Ashurbanipal that he could read intricate tablets in “Shumerian” and understand the words written on tablets from the “days before the Flood” only increased the mystery.
But in January 1869 Jules Oppert suggested to the French Society of Numismatics and Archaeology that recognition be given to the existence of a pre-Akkadian language and people.
Julius (Jules) Oppert (9 July 1825 – 21 August 1905) was a French-German Assyriologist, born in Hamburg of Jewish parents.
Pointing out that the early rulers of Mesopotamia proclaimed their legitimacy by taking the title “King of Sumer and Akkad,” he suggested that the people be called “Sumerians,” and their land “Sumer” (Shinar was the Biblical name for Shumer).
In the centuries that followed the immigration of the Sumerians, the country grew rich and powerful.
Art and architecture, crafts, religious and ethical thought flourished.
The Sumerian language became the prevailing speech of the land, and the people developed the cuneiform script, a system of writing on clay.
This script was to become the basic means of written communication throughout the Middle East for about 2000 years.
Agga, the last ruler of the Etana Dynasty in Sumer, was defeated by Mesannepada, king of Ur in about 2670 BC.
Mesannepada then founded the so-called 1st Dynasty of Ur and made Ur the capital of Sumer.
Soon after his death, the city of Erech achieved a position of political prominence under the leadership of Gilgamesh (about 2700-2650 BC), some of whose deeds are chronicled in the story we have already mentioned, The Epic of Gilgamesh.
ANCIENT TEXTS: Epic of Gilgamesh – Library of Rickandria
By the 23rd century BC, the power of the Sumerians had declined to such an extent that they could no longer defend themselves against foreign invasion.
The Semitic ruler Sargon the Great, who reigned about 2335-2279 BC, succeeded in conquering the entire country.
Sargon founded a new capital, called Agade, in the far north of Sumer and made it the richest and most powerful city in the world at that time.
The people of northern Sumer and the conquering invaders, fusing gradually, became known ethnically and linguistically as Akkadians.
The land of Sumer acquired the composite name Sumer and Akkad.
Sitchin describes Sumer as:
“The first known civilization, appearing suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere some 6,000 years ago.
It is credited with virtually all the ‘firsts’ of high civilization: inventions and innovations, concepts and beliefs, which form the foundation of our own Western culture, and indeed of all other civilizations and cultures throughout the Earth.
The wheel and animal drawn vehicles, boats for rivers and ships for seas, the kiln and the brick, high-rise buildings, writings and schools and scribes, laws and judges and juries, kingship and citizens’ councils, music and dance and art, medicine and chemistry, weaving and textiles, religion and priesthoods and temples.
And above all, knowledge of mathematics and astronomy began there.”
After cataloguing some of the great technological achievements of ancient Lemuria and Atlantis and knowing that the Atlanteans were responsible for setting up many of their colonies around the world, including those close to ancient Mesopotamia in Egypt, one can begin to understand the arrogance of this statement.
Sumer (actually Shumer) was called—“land of the Guardians.”
The term Nephilim (alias the Anunnaki) was also rendered as “Guardians” or sometimes as ‘Watchers.”
In ancient Egypt, the term for “gods, divine” was Neteru, also translated as “Guardians.”
Neteru—The Divine Energies – Egyptian Wisdom Center
The hieroglyph for this term was an axe.
Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 1857 – 23 November 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East.[1] He made numerous trips to Egypt and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan on behalf of the British Museum to buy antiquities, and helped it build its collection of cuneiform tablets, manuscripts, and papyri. He published many books on Egyptology, helping to bring the findings to larger audiences. In 1920, he was knighted for his service to Egyptology and the British Museum.
E. A. Wallis Budge in a special chapter in his work The Gods of the Egyptians titled “The Axe as a Symbol of God,” concluded that the axe was made of metal, and that the symbol was probably borrowed from the Sumerians.
Background
Since the early work of Erich Von Daniken and his Chariot of the Gods in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to search through ancient myths and legends to find instances of what could openly be interpreted as aliens or space-gods visiting Earth and interacting with mankind.
Some of these legends are reported to stem from before the Great Flood, about 9,000 BC, as we now already know.
It is these legends that are often used by Sitchin in his work to explain the supposed spread of Anunnaki influence around the world.
One of the cycles of legends used by Sitchin in his work is that of the Nahuatl tribes of central Mexico, of whom the Aztecs encountered by the Spaniards were the last extant.
Their tales of migration encompassed four ages, or “Suns,” the first one of which ended with the deluge.
One version which provides the lengths in years for those ages indicates that the first “Sun” began 17,141 years before the tale was related to the Spaniards, i.e. circa 15,600 BC, and thus indeed millennia before the Deluge.
The use of the sun to measure ages suggests that these were most likely remnants of the last Lemurian people fleeing the spreading Dark forces of Atlantis almost 6,000 years prior to its final breakup.
Further south along the Pacific coast of South America, Andean ‘myths’ did not recall pre Diluvian migrations.
They knew of the Deluge and asserted that the gods, already present in those lands, were the ones to help the few survivors upon the high peaks to repopulate the continent.
This is an important point, for verily it is the same thing as happened with Lemuria and the islands of the Pacific where the few who survived began civilization again.
Similarly, the Canary Islands and the Azores are the mountain peaks of the once great Atlantis.
The Andean legends used by Sitchin do speak clearly, however, of new, post-Diluvial arrivals by sea.
The most memorable of these was one headed by a leader called Naymlap who led his people across the Pacific in a fleet of boats made of balsa wood, guided by an “idol,” a green stone through which the Great God delivered navigational and other instructions.
Their landfall was at the most westward point of the South American continent, nowadays called Cape Santa Helena in Ecuador.
After they landed, the Great God (still speaking through the green stone) instructed the people in:
- farming
- building
- handicrafts
An ancient relic made of pure gold, now kept in the Gold Museum of Bogota, Colombia, depicts a tall leader with his entourage atop a balsa wood raft.
The artwork may well have represented the sea crossing by Naymlap or his like.
These people were well acquainted with the calendar and worshiped a pantheon of twelve gods according to the Naymlap legend.
Moving inland to settle where Ecuador’s capital, Quito, is now situated, they built there two temples facing each other:
one dedicated to the Sun, the other to the Moon, much as was done at Teotihuacan in Mexico.
The Temple of the Sun had in front of its gateway two stone columns and in its forecourt a circle of twelve stone pillars.
Because these two myths speak of people who were aware of the calendar cycles or the division of the sky into the twelve sections of the Zodiac, or because they had a pantheon of twelve gods and two pillars in front of their temple, indicates to Sitchin that they had some kind of contact with ancient Mesopotamia and therefore ancient Sumer.
Unfortunately, it is hard to extrapolate balsa wood boats into aliens from the heavens.
From the Nine’s channelings it is more likely—even coming from the West—that these were members of one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, or remnants of some other colony of Atlantis.
And from what we know of temple technology, the similarities are ubiquitous (world-wide).
Sitchin also uses the same location already mentioned by Brother Philip to support his claims of Sumerian interaction in South America.
Unfortunately, we already know this area to be one settled by some of the survivors of Lemuria.
Sitchin’s claim is that south of where Lima, the capital of Peru, is situated, along the coast and mountains that face Lake Titicaca, and on southward toward Chile, the dominant tribal language was that of Aymaras.
They too recalled in their legends early arrivals on the Pacific Coast by sea and by land from the territory east of Lake Titicaca.
The Aymara considered the former as unfriendly invaders; the latter were called Uru, meaning “olden people” similar to Anasazi which can also be interpreted as ‘ancient Ones’.
Those remnants still exist in the Sacred Valley as a group with its own customs and traditions.
The possibility that they were Sumerians, arriving at Lake Titicaca when Ur was Sumer’s capital (the last time between 2200 and 2000 BC), must be taken seriously, according to Sitchin.
The fact that the province that connects the Sacred Valley, the eastern shores of Lake Titicaca, and western Brazil is still called Madre del Dios—“mother of the gods” indicates to Sitchin that this area was named after the Nibiruan ‘mother of the gods’, Ninhursag.
The fact that both the Lemurians and Atlanteans had a female representation in their religion of the Mother of the Gods, however, makes either one of these races just as plausible.
Sitchin’s own explanations of the Piri Reis map suggest that there were a number of peoples who could have been traveling the world as early as the 3rd millennium BC.
CIVILIZATION: Piri Reis Map – Library of Rickandria
The Piri Reis map dates back to AD 1513, and shows all of South America, including its Patagonian tip, parts of which were still unknown at the time, as well as Antarctica, unknown by the civilized world until around AD 1820.
Antarctica Rediscovered – Library of Rickandria
If the Hebrews could get to North America, as suggested by the Book of Mormon and as supported by the Nine, then travel in those days was not as limited as some historians might tend to think.
Indeed, there are a number of carvings in stone throughout South America that portray very Semitic-looking men with long flowing beards.
As a sidebar here, it is important to understand the great portent the Piri Reis map has on the suggestion that much of history has been ‘staged.’
“. . . He (Piri Reis) also repeated the tale of how Columbus first tried to convince the grandees of Genoa and then the king of Spain that according to a book that he (Columbus) possessed,
“At the end of the Western Sea (the Atlantic), that is on its western side, there were coasts and islands and all kinds of metals and also precious stones.”
The details contained in the Turkish admiral’s book confirm that Columbus knew quite well in advance where he was going.
Columbus as a member of the Rosicrucians, a student of Dante Alighieri, and having been sponsored by Leonardo Da Vinci, was in the right circle of friends to be in the possession of very detailed maps and geographic data from very ancient sources.
If Columbus knew where he was going because many others had gone before, why is it that we so celebrate his achievements and think of him as the discoverer of North America?
The answer lies in a later chapter.
The existence of such early maps is attested to by Piri Reis.
In a subsequent notation which explains how the map was drawn he listed as sources maps made by Arab cartographers, the Portuguese, the “map of Columbus,” as well as “about twenty charts and Mappae Mundi” (charts drawn in the days of “Alexander, Lord of the Two Horns”—an Arabic epithet for Alexander the Great).
This statement alone suggests that Piri Re’is saw and used maps from as early as the fourth century BC, maps that were once kept in the Library of Alexandria and survived the destruction by fire in AD 642.
It is now believed that the suggestion to sail westward on the Atlantic to reach existing coasts was first made not by Columbus but by an:
- astronomer
- mathematician
- geographer
from Florence, Italy, named Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli in 1474.
It is also recognized that maps such as the Medicean from 1351 and that of Pizingi of 1367, were available to later mariners and cartographers, the most renowned of whom being Mercator whose Atlas of 1569 and methods of projection are still standard features of cartography to this day.
Oddly enough, Mercator’s maps of the world also show an Antarctica with geographical and topographical features such as:
and mountains, even rivers, where none can now be seen because of the ice cap that hides them, features that have been buried under an ice sheet for thousands of years!
It is clear to Sitchin that these early sailors had an instrument of navigation for accurately determining longitudes that was far superior to anything possessed by the peoples of ancient, medieval, or even modern times until the second half of the 18th century.
Just such a mechanism was discovered in the sea off Antikythera Island by sponge divers in 1900.
It was part of the cargo of a shipwreck which occurred in the first century BC.
The mechanism is considered to be a calendrical Sun and Moon computing machine, dated after the latest evidence to circa 80 BC. In it, the gears were linked one to the other on a basis of several differentials—a sophistication which we now find in automatic gearshift boxes in cars.
It incorporated the cycle of the Sun and the Metonic (nineteen-year) cycle of the Moon.
The gears were fitted with tiny teeth and moved on varied axles.
Markings on circular and angular parts were accompanied by inscriptions in Greek that named a number of zodiacal constellations.
Derek John de Solla Price (22 January 1922 – 3 September 1983) was a British physicist, historian of science, and information scientist. He was known for his investigation of the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek planetary computer, and for quantitative studies on scientific publications, which led to his being described as the “Herald of scientometrics”.
Professor Derek J. de Solla Price of Yale University, author of a study on the subject, said that he could not agree that the complexity of the device and its mechanical sophistication put it so far beyond the scope of Hellenistic technology that it could only have been designed and created by:
“alien astronauts coming from outer space and visiting out civilization.”
The Greek civilization was a by-product of that of Atlantis, rooted in the technology of the Alteans and many other ‘alien’ races.
In fact, the technology of Atlantis far outdistanced our own considerable achievements in technology and was more advanced than even that of the Anunnaki.
However, this is not the point.
It is a simple truth that many alien races brought their technology to the planet for one reason or another.
That not much of anything remains from the time before the Flood, does not exclude the Atlanteans from being a more genuine claimant to the title of ‘originator of modern civilization’ than the Anunnaki, as supported by both the Nine and Edgar Cayce, although they must get some of the credit it is true.
The Anunnaki
The story of the Anunnaki, the Nephilim of the Bible, is clearly told in The Book of the Watchers, a collection of visionary stories set, in turn, into a larger collection called the First Book of Enoch.
RELIGION: CHRISTIANITY: – The Book of Enoch – Library of Rickandria
The story tells how the “watcher” angel, whom God appointed to supervise (“watch over”) the universe, fell from heaven.
Starting from the story of Genesis 6, in which the “sons of God” lusted for human women, the author combines two different accounts of how the watchers lost their heavenly glory.
RELIGION: WATCHERS – Library of Rickandria
The first describes how Samyaza, leader of the watchers, coerced two hundred other angels to join him in a pact to violate divine order by mating with human women.
Samyaza (Hebrew: שַׁמְּחֲזַי Šamməḥăzay; Imperial Aramaic: שְׁמִיעָזָא Šəmīʿāzāʾ; Greek: Σεμιαζά; Arabic: ساميارس, Samyarus), also Shamhazai, Aza or Ouza, is a fallen angel of apocryphal Abrahamic traditions and Manichaeism as the leader of the Watchers.
These mismatcheds produced:
“a race of bastards, the giants known as nephilim (fallen ones”) from whom there were to proceed demonic spirits,”
who brought violence upon the earth and devoured its people.
Interwoven with this story is an alternative version which tells how the archangel Azazel sinned by disclosing to human beings the secrets of metallurgy, a pernicious revelation that inspired men to make weapons and women to adorn themselves with gold and silver.
In the Hebrew Bible, the name Azazel (/əˈzeɪzəl, ˈæzəˌzɛl/; Hebrew: עֲזָאזֵל ʿĂzāʾzēl) represents a desolate place where a scapegoat bearing the sins of the Jews was sent during Yom Kippur. During the late Second Temple period (after the closure of the Hebrew Bible canon), Azazel came to be viewed as a fallen angel responsible for introducing humans to forbidden knowledge, as described in the Book of Enoch. His role as a fallen angel partly remains in Christian and Islamic traditions.
Thus, the fallen angels and their demon offspring incited in both sexes:
- violence
- greed
- lust
George Nickelsberg points out that from the time of Alexander the Great, Greek kings have claimed to be descended from a mating of the gods with human women; the Greeks called such hybrid beings “heroes”.
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also, after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. GEN 6:4
Their Jewish subjects, however, with their derisive tale of Samyaza, may have turned such claims of divine descent against the foreign usurpers of their soil.
The Book of Watchers says pointedly that these greedy monsters:
“consume the produce of all the people until the people hated feeding them”
the monsters then turned directly to:
“devour the people.”
In all the histories of Lemuria and Atlantis, even those discussed of Sirius and Orion and other such planets, there is never one single reference to any form of cannibalism—until we come to talk about the Nephilim and the race known as the Anunnaki.
Even though many other races and the root races from which the Anunnaki seemed to come were ‘reptilian’, none are known to ‘eat the flesh’ of other races of Beings.
It becomes clearly obvious why then, although Enoch is used as an example of righteousness and was considered one of the main prophets of Biblical times, and the Book of Enoch is considered to be very reliable source, it has never been accepted as a part of the Christian Bible, being relegated instead to the Gnostic Scriptures.
It is to these “greedy monsters” in the Book of Enoch that Sitchin relates the various foundations of civilization throughout the world:
“The legends of the ascent heavenward of the Creator and his two sons, the Moon and the Sun, from the sacred rock on the Island of the Sun (Titicaca Island) may well be recollections of the departure of Anu, his son Sin and his grandson Shamash: having made a short trip by boat from Puma-Punku to a waiting airborne craft of the Anunnaki.”
This story is reminiscent, and perhaps archetypal, of the ascent by Muhammad the Prophet from the rock of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on his white steed called “Lightning.”
As with Enoch and other such ‘divine prophets,’ being lifted off by spacecraft is perhaps the ordained method of ascension.
Along with the Pharaohs of Egypt, fathered by the gods from Atlantis and not Sumer, even the legend of Quetzalcoatl, i.e. the Winged Serpent, gets related by Sitchin to the Anunnaki, Quetzalcoatl being in Sitchin’s eyes the equivalent of Anu, ruler of the Anunnaki planet of Nibiru.
“Why then not accept our suggestion that the arrival of Quetzalcoatl in his new realm was the occasion for starting the Long Count of the Mesoamerican calendar—especially since it was this very god who had introduced the calendar to these lands?” he asks.
One falsity builds upon another, much as any good science fiction or fantasy writer can build an entire world and people it with various races and creatures, all speaking their own language and having their own separate traditions.
All one needs to do to accept these fantasies is to accept the first original premise or premises.
The Zodiac that originated almost 100,000 years ago in Lemuria with the Earth religion that was the forerunner of the Sons of the Law of One, is credited by Sitchin to Sumer.
On the symbols to be found on the oval dolmen called ‘the Pedra Pintada,’ located in the Amazon Basin near the Brazil Guyana border, Sitchin says that such symbols as that of the two fishes (for Pisces), the two human images (the twins of Gemini) and the female holding a stalk of grain (Virgo, the virgin) are identical to the zodiacal symbols (and their names) that originated in Sumer and were adopted throughout the Old World.
That not all the symbols of the zodiac are identical to those that originated in Sumer is not unusual, says Sitchin, since in various lands (such as China) the zodiac (which means “animal circle”) was adapted to local fauna.
“. . . no less astounding than the decorative symbols and the zodiacal signs around the oval dolmen’s face is the depiction in the center of the pentagonal dolmen.
It shows a circle of stones surrounding two monoliths, between which there appears a partly erased drawing of a human head whose eye is focused on one of the monoliths.”
Such a “head with sighting eye” can be found in Mayan astronomical codices in which the sign depicts astronomer-priests, according to Sitchin.
As we have also already learned, however, the Mayans were a remnant of the Atlantean colonizing effort, one which became isolated after the Flood.
The symbolism of the pentagonal dolmen is also very Masonic, suggesting more that its origins were Atlantean than anything from Sumer.
We do not mean to cast doubts on all of Sitchin’s work, for indeed there is some truth in what he has written and in its overall intent.
We do not disagree that the ancient gods the Sumerians texts speak of, the Anunnaki, did in fact exist and did indeed have a long and incestuous relationship with mankind as we shall so soon find out.
It is also not disputed that almost half a million years ago they could travel in space and were coming and going between their ‘planet’ and Earth every 3,600 years, or thereabouts.
That the Anunnaki assigned to the African mines mutinied and that the Anunnaki therefore used genetic manipulation and in-vitro fertilization techniques to create “primitive workers,” the first Homo sapiens, to take over the backbreaking toil in the gold mines, is also essentially correct.
That the Anunnaki’s reason for deciding to give to NAM.LU.GAL.LU –“civilized mankind”– the knowledge of tools, not for the sake of Mankind, but “for the sake of the Gods,” to assure their satiation is also essentially correct and needs stressing.
These are basic truths which we both then agree upon.
To try and credit the Anunnaki with every visit by a member of a visiting alien race to any of the continents, however, is going a little too far.
Worse still, to trace the whole of human history over the past 500,000 years back to the Anunnaki and their presence on the planet, as Sitchin seems want to do, is an attempt to nullify the history we have already covered in this book, and to expunge from the record all the multitude of other:
- planets
- races
- Beings
who have also interacted with Earth during that period of time.
It just isn’t true.
Sitchin’s original book, The 12th Planet, relates how the Sumerian texts repeatedly and persistently state that it is from the planet Nibiru that the Anunnaki came to Earth—the term Anunnaki literally meaning:
“Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came.”
These are the beings spoken of in the Bible as ‘the Anakim,’ and in Chapter 6 of Genesis are also called ‘Nephilim,’ which literally means “The Watchers.”
Sitchin’s interpretation of the material on the Sumerian texts says that this planet of Nibiru is actually a member of our Solar System.
It is, according to his interpretation, a planet that has such a large and divergent orbit that it takes 3,600 years to orbit the sun and therefore sends it far out past Pluto on its long journey.
Much of the arrangement of the planets, such as Uranus’s position being laid on its side and the odd inclined orbit of Pluto, he attributes to the passage of Nibiru on its journey through this area of the solar system.
It also seems to be his intent to blame all of the many cataclysms that have occurred on Earth, including the Great Flood, to this strange orbit of Nibiru.
There are indeed some exciting ideas produced from the material with which Sitchin is presented, and his translation of the material may in fact be correct, however—there is no ‘planet’ Nibiru such as Sitchin and the Sumerian texts describe.
The story of the Anunnaki and their arrival is told, in part, by the ‘Enuma elish’ –known as the Epic of Creation (seven tablets of Creation), with other subsequent Sumerian texts detailing their stay here on Earth.
ANCIENT TEXTS: ENUMA ELISH – The Epic of Creation – Library of Rickandria
The Enuma elish tells how a group of fifty Annunaki,
“Those who from Heaven to Earth came,”
landed in the Arabian Sea or the Persian Gulf under the leadership of E.A (He whose house is water), and established E.RI.DU (“House in the Faraway Built”).
EXTRATERRESTRIALS: ANUNNAKI – Who is Ea? – Library of Rickandria
Ea not only gave his name to the planet Ea-rth, but also acquired another title EN.KI –“Lord of Earth.”
EXTRATERRESTRIALS: ANUNNAKI: Enki, the Mighty Creator God – Library of Rickandria
The text explains that they were here to obtain the gold they needed, ostensibly to create an atmospheric shield to protect their planet.
First, they tried getting it from distilling the waters of the Persian Gulf.
Their home planet, referred to as NIBIRU in the texts, needed more gold than they were able to achieve through this method, so these ‘prospectors’ were set the task of mining it in the AB.ZU—southeastern Africa.
More eventually arrived, in time totaling about 600, while yet another group, the IGI.GI (‘those who observe and see’) remained sky borne, presumably in a space station or mother ship, operating space shuttles back and forth.
The ruler of the planet NIBIRU, ANU (the Heavenly One), sent to Earth a supposed half-brother of Enki named EN.LIL (Lord of the Command) to help try and speed up the work.
Both, according to the texts, were Anu’s sons.
Enki was the firstborn, and thus the natural heir to the throne.
But Enlil, though born later, was born by the official spouse of Anu—a fact that made Enlil the legal heir to the throne.
Birthright clashed with succession rules, and although Enki accepted the outcome, the rivalry and anger between the two often burst into the open.
The mining of the gold in the Abzu was under the direction of Enki, while the refining of the gold was supervised by Enlil in a place called ED.IN, near to where they had landed in what then became ancient Mesopotamia.
The ‘Mission Control’ for their space shuttles was in Nippur –called DUR.AN.KI (“The Bond Heaven-Earth).
Atop a raised platform, the vital instruments, celestial charts, and orbital-data panels (“the Tablets of Destiny”), were kept in the DIR.GA, a restricted innermost holy-of-holies.
The texts also describe a number of what appear to be aerial battles between various flying craft.
Eventually EN.LIL took command of the Seven Cities of the Gods in the ED.IN (Home of the Righteous Ones).
Each city was assigned specialized functions: a Mission Control Center, a Spaceport, a center for metallurgy, and even a medical center under the supervision of NIN.MAH (Great Lady), a half-sister of both Enki and Enlil.
Have you ever seen Star Trek where on board the Starship Enterprise there are the captain, the first officer, the subordinates, Dr. Crusher or the original medical officer Bones?
How would one explain the technology of a massive Mothership such as those which might be seen in the movie Independence Day to the very primitive people of a backwards civilization?
A planet they would understand floating ‘in the heavens’.
How would you explain the hierarchy of command of such a ship to these very same people?
As relatives perhaps?
The texts describe the planet, Nibiru, as having a great elliptical orbit that lasts 3600 years (one SHAR).
Commanders on the mission had tours of duty lasting 8, 10, or even 12 SHARs (36,000 years)—supposedly just 8 to 10 of their years.
The Anunnaki, it was said, arrived 120 SHARs before the deluge –432,000 years, or about 441,000 BC.
RELIGION: The number 432 – Library of Rickandria
For forty SHARS they toiled mining the gold— 144,000 years, or until about 297,000 BC, but then the miners mutinied.
One must remember here that a race of beings do not send out their most elite to do the menial work of mining.
This is more likely often given to slave labor, to hardened ‘convicts’, or to the lower echelons of society.
Nor does one put the elite of their planet in the position to rule over this work or these types of people.
These people on Earth already had legends of the gods from previous contacts with alien races or those from Atlantis that were handed down to them or in their ‘archetypal memory’.
It took little to convince them of the grandiose lies of these less-than-well-to-do aliens.
A SHAR is also only the equivalent of 600 years, making the time they came to earth only 72,000 years ago, and the time they mined for gold only 24,000 years.
Consider how much modern man has done to the planet in the past 200 years.
If an advanced race were to mine this planet for 144,000 years, they would have been able to mine every continent down to bedrock and fill in the holes left behind.
Enlil was for punishment, but Enki was for leniency.
Anu sympathized, and the decision was made to use their knowledge of genetic manipulation and in-vitro fertilization to create a human worker to do the mining, using the primitive beings that were currently on the planet in that region.
EXTRATERRESTRIAL: ANUNNAKI: Anu, Enki & Enlil – Library of Rickandria
This is the basic story as told by the Sumerian texts and subsequently repeated in each of Sitchin’s books, only in far greater detail.
The truth is however, that the Anunnaki are a race of beings whose home planet is in the constellation of Canis Major, their home planet being in effect the planet spoken of by the Dogon tribe of Mali, West Africa –Sirius B—the ‘poorer neighbor’ of the Sirians and Sirius A.
The Dogon are believed to be of Egyptian decent and their astronomical lore goes back thousands of years to 3200 BC.
According to their traditions, the star Sirius has a companion star which is invisible to the human eye.
This companion star has a 50-year elliptical orbit around the visible Sirius and is extremely heavy.
It also rotates on its axis.
Alex Collier, quoted earlier, explains what he knows of the Nibiruans:
“What I know of them in terms of their genetic stock is that the word itself, Nibiru, is a word of Orion origin which I am told means “The joining of two tribes”.
Apparently, this original tribe was created as a marriage between a princess of reptilian-human ancestry from Orion and a group from Sirius of human origin.
It was a marriage of alliance, millions of years ago.”
And like the offspring of any good family, they moved into the neighborhood, occupying this mysterious white dwarf star known as Sirius B.
It is a planet smaller than Earth but one which is extremely, extremely dense.
Its inhabitants are fourth dimensional, interesting considering that the Sirians and Orions are all higher dimensional beings.
But we shall leave that puzzle for another day.
As Sitchin describes it, it does have many difficulties with its own atmosphere, with the vegetation that grows there, and with the waters upon it.
It is a very arid land, hence the need for the atmospheric shield, one on which the palm tree is the central means of survival, thus the references to it as the ‘Tree of Life’.
Water is also scarce, and making it drinkable is a time-consuming process, one which gave the Anunnaki plenty of skills in filtration of the seawater in search of gold.
This also explains the sacredness which they applied to the concept of the ‘Water of Life’ in their composing of the Sumerian texts.
Their choice of the Middle Eastern region to set up their colony was in part based on its similarity to their own home planet.
Just as they had almost done at times here on planet Earth, the Anunnaki, over the course of their history had almost destroyed their own environment, but it is NOT true that they came to planet Earth to mine the gold because of their environment.
The true purpose shall be discussed as we delve into the Old Testament and the works of Laurence Gardner later in chapter 17.
RELIGION: CHRISTIANITY – Exposing the Old Testament – Library of Rickandria
Their means of travel through space is fairly primitive in terms of other alien races, but they do have spacecraft which they are able to maneuver through the various wormholes and portals in space to get from one side of the galaxy to the other.
For this purpose, they have also established a waystation, as it were, on the planet Io, one of the moons of Jupiter.
This is located at the nearest end to one of the portals they use that leads into the area of space near to their own home planet.
What was written into the movie 2010 about Io was channeled material meant to awaken people to the possibility of these beings using planets or planetoids for their home bases in space.
Barbara Clow hints at this connection in her work also:
“Nibiru’s agenda is to access more feelings, and it is being drawn back into the solar system faster than usual. . .
My whole system has the reddish glow of passion, look at Io as it brightens like a diamond waiting for 2010.”
The Sumerian text The Legend of Adapa describes in more detail the actual route taken in the Anunnaki’s comings and goings to Earth:
“. . the route to Heaven passes between the planets named in Sumerian DIL.GAN (Jupiter) and APIN (Mars).
Mars is where a turning is made.”
Prior to the Flood, that Earth was basically a fourth dimensional planet, as were the Anunnaki.
Their frequent visits were relatively easy at that time.
The effect the planet Earth moving into the 3rd dimension had on the relationship between the two, was enormous, as we shall soon see.
The Anunnaki’s spacecraft varied in size depending on the needs of the circumstances.
They have what would be called ‘motherships’ large enough to transport them through the portals and back, as well as to get them from Io to the Earth and back.
They then have smaller craft which they use like shuttles to take them from the planet’s surface to their ‘space station’ circling with the Earth in a geosynchronous orbit, and then to their mother ships which did not stay in the area all the time the Anunnaki were on the planet.
It came and went at regular intervals, depending on the schedule of the opening and closing of the wormholes and their portals.
To a human being of today, let alone one in those days and of that primitive state of consciousness, a Nibiruan mothership of the Anunnaki would seem like a planet, especially in a culture where there weren’t already words for things such as UFOs.
The alignment of their temple-terrace and its ziggurat was a part of the ‘Bond Heaven-Earth’, what Sitchin calls incorrectly:
“one of the earliest if not the very earliest association of a temple with the zodiac.”
This alignment was needed not only to set up communications with their space station, mothership, and the base on Io, but also to help accurately determine the openings and closings of these wormholes and portals.
The movie Time Bandits is correct in the way it portrays the openings and closings of ‘time windows’ and portals, although they do however stay open for much longer periods of time than portrayed in the movie.
To facilitate the communications between bases on Io and those near and on the Earth (their temples acting as ground relay stations), the Anunnaki also set up relay stations, such as those mentioned by William Bramley in Gods of Eden:
“On November 22, 1966, The Washington Post ran a front-page headline proclaiming “Six Mysterious Statuesque Shadows Photographed on the Moon by Orbiter.”
The Post story, which was picked up later by The Los Angeles Times, described a lunar photograph snapped two days earlier by U.S. space probe Orbiter 2 as it passed twenty to thirty miles above the moon’s surface.
The photograph seems to reveal six spires arranged in a purposeful geometrical pattern inside a small portion of the Sea of Tranquility.
The pointedness of the lunar objects’ shadows indicates that they are all either cone-or pyramid-shaped.
Although the official NAA press release mentioned nothing unusual about the photograph, other people found the picture remarkable.
Dr. William Blair of the Boeing Institute of Biotechnology stated:
“If the cuspids (cone-shaped spires) really were the result of some geophysical event it would be natural to expect to see them distributed at random.
As a result, the triangulation would be scalene (three unequal sides) or irregular, whereas those concerning the lunar object led to a basilary system, with coordinates x, y, z, to the right angle, six isosceles triangles and two axes consisting of three points each.”
“In Argosy magazine, Soviet space engineer Alexander Abromov went a step further by stating:
“The distribution of these lunar objects is similar to the plan of the Egyptian pyramids constructed by Pharaohs:
- Cheops
- Chephren
- Menkaura
at Gizeh, near Cairo.
The Centers of the spires of this lunar “Abaka” (arrangement of pyramids) are arranged in precisely the same way as the apices (tips) of the three great pyramids.
(Wilson, Don. Secrets of Our Spaceship Moon. (Dell Publishing Co., 1979), p20.- 21)”
Many of the Anunnaki alignments have to do with the constellation of Taurus.
Willy Hartner, in his study titled ‘The Earliest History of the constellations in the Near East” (Journal of Near Eastern Studies), analyzed the Sumerian pictorial evidence & concluded that Numerous depictions of a bull nudging a lion (from the fourth millennium BC) or a lion pushing bulls (from about 3000 BC) are representation of the zodiacal time when the spring equinox was in the constellation Taurus & the summer solstice occurred in the sign of Leo, at which time the calendrical new year began.
The wormholes & portals through which the Nibiruans travel to get to & from our solar system are thus not always open as it were, & exact timing is needed to be able to travel from one area of space to the other.
The necessity for the correct and exact locating & alignment of the stars and the need for an accurate calendar are therefore obvious.
These allowed them to travel home on a regular basis, and also not to be stuck here on Earth at times when it was not beneficial to be here.
The cycle of these portals opening & closing is along the lines of 3600 years, & they remain open for periods of two to three hundred years at a time, sufficient time for the Anunnaki to come & go & still appear as the gods that everybody thought they were.
It is the opening of the portals that occurs every 3600 years, not the actual physical planet coming around & traveling through the solar system.
This is the reason for the alignment of most of their ‘sacred’ sites to the stars for the calculation of these times, especially to the planet Jupiter.
“Gudea was helped by a team of Divine Architects and gods and goddesses of astronomy to orient the temple and erect its observatories, how and when calendrical requirements were met, and the ceremonies which inaugurated the new temple. . .
The rising of Jupiter “is the god Ningishzida” meant to show the king the exact point in the skies to which the temple’s observatories should be oriented, indicating exactly where the Sun will rise on the day of the New Year in order to build the temple in accordance with the Holy Planet . . . various details of the temple’s architecture, including the design of the special enclosures for the Divine Black Bird and the Supreme Weapon; the Gigunu for the divine couple; an oracle chamber, and a place for the assembly of the gods.
Details of utensils and furnishings were also given . . .”
Even the sacred precinct itself was aligned to the zodiac as suggested by Marduk’s sacred precinct having 12 gates through which to enter.
The best picture we can get here of what it was like on board one of these motherships, and also how these Beings were treated by the Earthlings, comes from the Book of Enoch, considered a holy scripture by nearly all the writers of the New Testament.
RELIGION: CHRISTIANITY – Exposing the New Testament – Library of Rickandria
Enoch was also called EN.ME.DUR.AN.KI (Master of the Divine Tablets of the Bond Heaven Earth) in the Sumerian texts.
Enoch was the seventh in pre-diluvial patriarchs, ENMEDURANKIS was the seventh king on the Sumerian King List –he reigned for six shars –21,600 years in Sitchin’s estimation, 3,600 years in terms of ours.
He was made a priest,
“one who controls information,”
and thus an intercessor between man and Anu or the gods –
“Thus was the line of priests created those who are allowed to approach Shamash and Adad (son and nephew of Enlil).”
It is handy to keep in mind here again a vision of the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek, or perhaps one of the large battle cruisers from one of the Star Wars series of movies.
Especially keep in mind the bridge and its large screen and imagine what might be seen from the bridge if the ship were parked far out above the Earth.
Also keep in mind the map room, and the ‘core reactor’ room as a visitor might have seen them.
Then try and imagine the words a primitive visitor would have used to describe these places, in particular one who was not used to artificial lighting or any form of advanced technology.
Then imagine the description he would write of the journey he takes from the Earth to the mother ship, on board a small shuttle craft.
“Enoch tells his children Methuselah and Regim, “keep the faith of One Almighty God” . . . (then they) bore him up to the First Heaven where he saw a mighty sea (the Persian Gulf), then to the second heaven where he saw people being tormented for sins against the Lord (a destroyed area of land).
In the third Heaven he saw Paradise with the Tree of Life (the jungles of Africa); the Fourth heaven, the longest, where he was shown the secrets of the Sun and the Moon, of stars and constellations and the calendar (the outer layers of the atmosphere).
The Fifth Heaven was the end of Heaven and Earth and the banishment place of:
“The angels who have connected themselves with women”
. . . where he could:
“see seven stars of heaven bound together”
(A space station such as in 2001: A Space Odyssey, one where some of the Anunnaki were kept in space away from temptation.
A way station for the flight into deeper space).
The first part of the journey ended.
Passing through the seventh and eighth levels of heaven seeing all the different cherubims and angels and archangels (the hierarchy of command in their various hierarchical regalia) –there the stars that make up the constellations could already be seen (far into space) . . . the ninth heaven he could see the heavenly homes of the twelve signs of the zodiac . . . the Tenth heaven. . .where he was brought before the Lord’s face,”
(just the face as on the big viewing screen) –a sight too awesome to be described (in reality, they do not look like us) . . .
“The Lord says . . . stand before my face and gain eternity.”
For thirty days and thirty nights, the Archangel Pravuil was dictating, and Enoch was writing down the secrets of:
“the works of heaven, earth, sea, and all the elements, their passages and goings, and the thunderings of the thunder, and the Sun and the Moon, the goings and changes of the stars, the seasons, years, days, hours”
and
“all human things, the tongue of every human song and all things fitting to learn.”
It filled up 360 books.
He then returned to Earth for thirty days only to give these writings to his sons to pass from generation to generation. . .
Every thirty days –once a month—they made the trip to and from the outlying heaven—the mother ship.
Arriving in Heaven, Enoch described reaching a wall:
“Which is built of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire. . . He braved the fire and came upon a house made of crystals whose ceiling emulated the starry sky and showed the path of stars (the map room as seen in a Star Trek movie).
In his vision he then saw a second house, larger and more magnificent than the first. Braving the fires that enflamed it, he saw inside a throne of crystal resting upon streams of fire;
“its appearance was crystal and the wheels thereof as a shining sun.”
Seated on the throne was the Great Glory, but not even the angels could approach and behold His face because of the brilliance and magnificence of His glory.
Enoch prostrated himself, hiding his face and trembling.
But then:
“the Lord called me with His own mouth, and said, ‘Come hither, Enoch, and hear my words.”
Then an angel brought him closer and he heard the Lord tell that because he was a scribe and righteous, he would become an interceder for men and would be taught heavenly secrets.”
I cannot help when reading this to remember the scene from the Wizard of Oz where Dorothy and her companions are confronted by the large face of Oz, only to find out later that he was a scared old man hiding behind a screen.
It just seems to fit.
So much of what we are about to deal with fits into this metaphor of the Wizard of Oz, for so many of these Beings who have interfered with this planet and with its people have been like the little old wizard standing behind the screen.
They pull the strings, and the fear-making thought-forms make us all dance.
Until that is, the screen is finally knocked over and the wizard exposed for what he really is.
‘Smoke and mirrors’ is an expression we shall use a great deal throughout this history, for that is what most of it has been.
Now it comes time to blow away the proverbial smoke and smash threw those ‘oh-so-shiny’ mirrors.
If you begin to wonder how so much information was stored by Enoch, the Sumerian texts talk about the MEs which contained the information needed by the Anunnaki for their space flight information, and containing other sorts of data.
We like to think of these MEs as standing for “magnetic encoders” or “memory encoders,” because the information is magnetically encoded on the disks, just like a magnetic tape or computer disk.
They contained all the information that subsequently could then be given to the people on the planet to raise their level of civilization.
How else could one get so much information onto small “disks” that could teach a person such as Enoch all the elements of a specific subject.
Obviously, both the Anunnaki and the Sirians had the ability to store great amounts of information to bring with them in their advanced technology.
And they were indeed related to the Sirians (who are fifth dimensional beings) and to the Men from Orion (who are 7th dimensional).
It is a point to be made here that it is much simpler to control a race of people who are 3rd dimensional and believing that they are so, than it is to control a 5th dimensional race with 12th dimensional capabilities.
The bullies of the Universe pick on the ‘younger’ kids as well, just like they do here on Earth.
This relationship between the Anunnaki and their ‘masters’, was more in the form of lackeys or as a servile or subservient race, rather than as equals or competitors.
Stories of the wars upon Earth between these races are correct, the wars being caused by the jealousy the Anunnaki had for the level of technology of the Sirians, and also of the control the Sirians exercised upon the planet through their presence in the later stages of Lemuria’s existence, and most of the time in Atlantis.
In referring to Nibiru as the 12th planet, know that indeed there are twelve planets in this area of the solar system, not including the Moon, some which have yet to be classified as planets and some which have yet to be discovered.
Nibiru is not one of them.
The Anunnaki first came to Earth as prospectors for gold around 72,000 years ago.
Neanderthal man, wearing clothes and practicing ritual burials, with a brain very much comparable to ours was on the planet.
These are the ones who seemingly made no progress throughout the course of their history here on the planet.
A news article from the University of California at Berkeley of 3-29-00, addresses the kind of time the planet and its residents need to regain from major catastrophes such as pole shifts.
This is an important fact to keep in mind in explaining how ‘alien-intervention’ and star seeding could be the only possible explanation for the quick turnaround of civilization after such cataclysmic events as the Great Flood:
“Berkeley – The Earth needs, on average, about 10 million years to recover from a mass extinction of the planet’s species, far longer than most scientists thought, according to a new study by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Duke University.
“Moreover, the recovery time is the same whether the global die-off involves the loss of most life on Earth or wipes out far fewer species.”
Lemuria was an established empire at this time.
The miners rebelled after 24,000 years, bringing us to that all important time of about 50,000 BC when Lucifer set his eyes more firmly on this planet.
It took very little genetic sophistication for the Anunnaki to produce a more modern man out of Neanderthal Man by stripping him of his genetic makeup and synthesizing that more complex one of what we know of as Homo Sapiens—the one which joined Neanderthal man on the planet somewhere about 40,000 years ago, according to the latest scientific research just recently released.
This gave the Anunnaki their ‘worker race’, and for a long time this is how they remained.
You do not want your workers to ‘evolve’ as such, but rather to remain just where they are.
It was approximately 200,000 years ago that the mitochondrial research says that man had his original female ancestor— “Eve,” but this is one of the lies of science meant to cover up our uncommon genetic backgrounds and keep us all enslaved.
The Anunnaki’s genetic manipulation took extensive time, and, like Dr. Moreau, there were possibly lots of ‘failures’ along the way.
Like the manipulation done by the Grays, it is not always easy to mess with the intricate workings of Creation.
As Ramtha suggests, looking further back than about 100,000 years ago, the time of the Neanderthals, is not to be dealing with modern man as we now know Him.
It was in this period of approximately 50,000 years ago when the consciousness of the Earth born inhabitants had progressed sufficiently for the Anunnaki to create the ‘Adam and Eve’ that Sitchin talks about as the first ‘conscious’ human worker, one who was genetically similar to us, yet so much less than what Mankind had originally been created to be.
And the purpose for creating these new kinds of Human Being was not to act as a mine worker, but in fact to be a slave race for much more than the working in the mines.
Fifty thousand years ago is when Atlantis had its turning point.
Lemuria was in the last stages of its high civilization, before it sank about 30,000 years ago—it was growing toward the end of the Neanderthals years, when they ‘suddenly disappeared.’
The Anunnaki are a race of beings who fit into that part of history touched on by the Nine in their statement,
“Many things have been set into motion many thousands of years ago . . . there are things which were not part of the planning . . . that come about by greed and vanity and desire.”
The Nephilim were sent here at this later date by the dark Sirian warlords to help destroy the federations plans for constructing a ladder to heaven through the creation of one multi-dimensional human being.
They were also sent here to provide drugs for the Sirian-Orion Empire, drugs we shall deal with more later, but drugs all the same.
The drug wars and addiction problems we are having on this planet right now are archetypal of the drug wars that have gone on before and were not always the doing of Mankind Himself.
Just as the Nine spoke earlier of the Alteans being eternal, and the Hoovids living approximately one million of our years relative to the density of their home planets, so too do the Anunnaki live for very long periods of time in terms of earth years, enough to make it seem to the people on Earth that the Anunnaki were eternal.
However, to consider the great lengths of time that Sitchin talks about is also incorrect.
While not the Anunnaki perse, the Draconians are related to them, and their extraordinary lifespan is only 4,000 years at best.
Again, Alex Collier:
“The average life span of the Draconians extends from 1,800 to 4,100 years of age.
The ones that live as long as 4,100 years are the royal line of the Draconians . . .
The winged Ciakars.”
In their texts, the Sumerians described their civilization as a gift from the gods, the visitors to Earth who could roam the skies and were therefore often depicted as winged beings.
Here again it is good to remember the lessons of chapter one where so much of our history is clouded by metaphors and symbolism.
To a primitive person, any being that could fly was portrayed with wings, no matter in what sort of craft they flew.
Any kind of genetic cross between an animal and a human was portrayed with one half the body being human, and one half the other creature involved.
Those ‘gods’ portrayed with animal heads were wearing masks, or creating holographic images, so as not to confuse or scare the general populace.
Again—watch the two movies of ‘V’—see how the humanoid aliens disguised themselves in terms of their true frightening appearance.