Who Were The Anunnaki?

Ancient Astronaut Theory Examined In Soon-To-Be Released Supernatural Thriller...more below.

Linguist and talmudic scholar Zecharia Sitchin spent more than twenty years deciphering thousands of Sumerian cuniform texts. The result is the wildly popular Earth Chronicle series books, in which Sitchin links various ancient myths and calendars--such as Stonehenge and Tiahuanacu in Peru--to the Sumerians. Sitchin claims that the Sumerian texts report a visitation of planet earth by Nibiruans, a.k.a. the Anunnaki and Nephilim of Old Testament fame. He further claims the alien visitors excellerated human evolution by enhancing hominid DNA and thus created Homo sapiens.

In the soon to be released supernatural thriller Anunnaki, Thomas and Juanita Horn tell the incredible fictional story of two teenagers (Joe and Donna) who discover information connecting the U.S. government with UFOs, the Face on Mars, and the Anunnaki.

Although fictional, the book Anunnaki addresses real-life and prophetic possibilities in the style of the mega-popular Left Behind series by Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins.

Were the Anunnaki advanced extraterrestrial scientists? Were they fallen angels disguised as interdimensional humanoids? Were they responsible for the Giants of the Old Testament? Are they still around? If so, what are they up to?

Midway through chapter three Joe and Donna visit Dr. Donald "Indiana" Jones and ask similar important questions. They show Jones an image that was recovered from a “UFO” crash site. A portion of the story follows.

“Let’s go to the staff lounge!” Jones said with a smile, and darted off like a man on a mission. Joe and Donna followed as Indy practically jogged through the labyrinth of halls and doorways. “There’s nobody here at this time of night to bother us” he continued, “Just a custodian and some cleaning ladies, but they won’t be on this side of the building until very late tonight.”

Although Joe had been around Indy before, he couldn’t help but notice what a giant of a man he was. He guessed his size at 6’4’ and his weight at about 280 pounds. Most impressive was how agile he was for a man of his stature. He appeared to be in excellent health.

“This is it, the blessed staff lounge,” Jones said with a smile while pointing at the sign above the door. “This is where the re-e-al thinking occurs.”

Something about Jones’s comment made Donna giggle. It was a refreshing sound to Joe’s ears.

Indy raced into the room and sat on his favorite staff recliner, being certain that neither Joe nor Donna got to it first. He leaned back, threw his arms behind his head, and said playfully, “Ok now, you kids come in here and tell old Jones what’s on your mind.”

Joe moved just as quickly to a floral lounge sofa and sat down next to Donna. He positioned himself so that Indy could look directly at him above a glass coffee table. Joe didn’t waste any time getting started and for nearly 2 hours rehearsed the story of his father’s discovery and the events leading up to that moment. As he went along he skipped many of the fantastic elements and added only an occasional bizarre detail when it seemed to interest Jones. At last, Joe came to the end of his comments. He waited for Jones to respond but nothing happened. For what seemed to be an inordinate period of time Indy just sat there, quietly staring at Joe and Donna. Finally, Jones rubbed his beard and said “I see.”

Donna noticed Joe’s bewilderment and wanted to help. “So, Indy, what do you think? Do you want to look at the image and give us your expert opinion?”

A sheepish grin came across Jones’ face as he squinted his eyes and studied Joe and Donna. “You kids wouldn’t be trying to play a trick on old Indy would you? My students didn’t put you up to this did they?”

Joe barked, “Indy, I swear to you, this is legitimate. I need guidance and an expert’s opinion. That’s why I came to you! All I’m asking is that you look at the image and judge for yourself, ok?”

“Alright,” Indy replied after a slight pause, “I’ll look at it, but if this is a trick I’ll be calling your mom about this.”

Joe sat forward on the sofa and made a hand gesture toward Donna’s purse. “Like I said, it’s legit.’”

Donna reached inside her purse and pulled out the small image. She placed it on the coffee table in front of Dr. Jones and said, “Well, what do you think?”

The smile on Indy’s face was immediately replaced by a look of sophistication as ‘Dr. Jones the scholar’ leaned forward and picked up the little image. A moment later he pulled a micro cassette from his inside coat pocket and turned it on.

With the skills of a trained physician he began describing every detail of the image, down to the cracks and crevices.

As Joe and Donna sat quietly listening, Jones spoke of the image’s facial qualities and mentioned “a headdress strikingly similar to those worn by Egyptian and Mayan royalty.” He continued, pointing out length, width, and approximate weight. After a few more moments he flipped the image over and began a cerebral postulation about the crystalline formation protruding from the backside of the image. Then suddenly Jones paused, saying, “Well well, what do we have here?”

Joe and Donna watched as Dr. Jones hurriedly withdrew a pair of reading glasses from his shirt pocket and placed them over his eyes. He rubbed frantically up and down on the back of the image with his fingers as if he were trying to clean something off. Then he stood up, walked over to a lamp, and turned it on. He held the image beneath the lamp and immediately complained that he still couldn’t “be sure.”

“Come with me,” Jones said, and he turned and ran out of the room. Joe gave Donna a puzzled look and they both jumped up and followed Jones out into the hall. Once again, Joe couldn’t help but be amazed at how fast the big man was. A few doors down and to the right Jones stopped. He pulled a set of keys out of his pocket and opened a door with a ‘Laboratory’ sign on it. Once inside the room, Jones pulled a small bottle of sterile cleaner from a cabinet. “This should do the trick,” he said, and poured the liquid directly onto the image while holding it with his left hand above a stainless steel sink. With his right hand he pulled another drawer open and removed what appeared to be a fancy toothbrush. “Diggers brush,” he said, noticing Joe and Donna’s curiosity. “My pupils use these when they participate in student archaeological digs. Now I’ll be careful, so don’t worry, I just want to get a little of the buildup off the back of here…wouldn’t want to jump to any conclusions…”

Jones continued to mumble about something as he gently scrubbed the back of the image. But he might as well have been talking to himself. Joe and Donna didn’t have any idea what he was so excited about or what he was looking at. They had studied the back of the image too and had noticed something that looked like ancient Chinese writing. But Joe had thought whatever was there was too short to be very important.

After a little more cleaning and a close up visual inspection Jones carefully placed the image on the laboratory countertop and said, “Well, Joe, you have either found one of the great discoveries of our time, or a brilliant fakery, and I’m not sure which, yet. The facial image on the front appears to be wearing a headdress similar to those worn by the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs, but the writing on the back is definitely Sumerian…”

“The writing is Sumerian?” Joe interrupted, “Do you know what it says?”

Donna walked over to where Joe and Indy was standing and took a closer look at the backside of the newly cleaned mysterious object. “What does Annanockaby or whatever you said mean?”

“It depends on who you ask. Authors like Eric Von Daniken and Zecharia Sitchin believe the Anunnaki were ancient astronauts who came from a planet called Nibiru. They believe the Anunnaki were intergalactic scientists who performed genetic experiments on early hominids, changing their DNA and creating Homo sapiens.”

“That’s absolutely right. Ape-people, for want of a better term, hominids, had their evolution greatly advanced according to the theory, resulting in Homo sapiens. Von Daniken and Sitchin interpret Sumerian Cuneiform Anunnaki myths as literal, and they believe that such myths tell the story of an advanced race of human-like aliens that lived on a mysterious 12th planet. Every 3500 years or so these Anunnaki supposedly swing past the earth in their flying machines and check up on us. They also believe the Nephilim of the Old Testament were Anunnaki or at least a hybrid offspring of the Anunnaki and human women…”

“Whoa, wait a minute, what are you saying?” Joe asked excitedly. “Are you saying that a flying disc like the one my dad saw in the area where he recovered this image (Joe points at the image) might have actually come to earth from another planet with these Anunnaki, and that the Anunnaki had babies with women?”

“Well…why in the world would a woman want to marry a little green man or one of those lanky looking gray dudes with a big bug head?”

Indy couldn’t help but laugh out loud. “Joe, your crazy boy! The idea wasn’t that an antediluvian woman walked the isle with a gray, but that women were forced into breeding. They were abducted if you will. Or perhaps they were put into deep sleep and genetic experiments were performed on them. Either way, Nephilim were produced through the intermingling of human and alien DNA. These were the giants of the Old Testament.”

“Well, I believe the earth was visited by creatures from heaven and that the Nephilim were produced by them, but I do not believe they were advanced extraterrestrial humanoids. If I understand the Bible and other extra-biblical literature correctly, the Anunnaki were fallen angels that left their assigned habitation and took women for wives. Nephilim were the mutant offspring of their unholy matrimony. In my opinion the Anunnaki are the Sumerian equivalent of the Jewish ‘Watchers.’ That is, they were part of a powerful angel group that ‘from heaven to earth came’ and generated the Nephilim through physical intercourse.”

“Look, in Genesis chapter six the Bible says that when men began to increase on the earth and daughters were born to them, the Sons of God, angels, noted their beauty and took wives from among them. When we compare this scripture with numerous ancient texts, including the books of Enoch, Jubilees, Baruch, Genesis Apocryphon, Philo, Josephus, and others, an incredible tale emerges whereby we learn that the giants of the Old Testament, such as Goliath, were the half-human half-demon offspring of angelic and human union. The word for giant in the Old Testament is Nephilim and the root meaning is ‘the fallen ones’ or ‘those who from heaven to earth came.’

“Now according to some apocryphal books these Nephilim filled the earth with violence and sought to corrupt and to destroy the chosen Hebrew people. Some scholars believe this was ultimately an attempt by Satan to cut off the birth line of the Messiah.”

“That’s right. Satan knew about the protoevangelium—the promise in Genesis 3:16 that a Savior would be born, the seed of the woman, and that He would destroy Satan’s power. So Satan’s followers, those who were called Anunnaki, Tchatcha, Anakim, Watchers, and several other titles by various ancient cultures, intermingled with antediluvian women as a conspiracy to stop the birth of the Messiah. They probably thought that if human DNA could be universally corrupted there would be no way for a spotless Son of God to be born. That would have been true. If the bloodline leading to the time of the Messiah would have included universally demonized DNA, no Savior could have been born. Mankind would have been lost forever.”

“Well, a couple of things. First, God commanded Israel not to intermarry with the heathen populations. This was so there might be a pure bloodline in Israel. Secondly, He commanded Noah to build an ark and to prepare for a flood that would destroy every living thing. The fact that God had to send such a universal fiat of judgment like the flood illustrates how widespread the altered DNA eventually became. In fact the Bible says that only Noah, and therefore by extension his children, were found perfect in their generation. The Hebrew word for perfect in this case is the same word that was used in Leviticus to describe an unblemished sacrificial lamb. The meaning therefore was not moral perfection, but that Noah was physically untainted. His DNA had not been corrupted or altered by the Anunnaki, as apparently the rest of the world had been.”

Suddenly the light went on in Joe’s head. “So, what you’re saying is, God had to send the flood because every human on earth except for Noah’s family had been genetically altered through a corrupted bloodline that led back to fallen angels having se…or, er, I mean going to bed with women?”

“According to some people, yes. And I happen to agree with a large part of that theory.”

“But wait a minute!” Donna piped in. “I thought Jesus said the angels couldn’t get married or have babies?!”

“Actually, what Jesus said was that in the resurrection we would neither marry nor be given in marriage but that we would be as the angels in heaven. Keep in mind, Jesus was talking about angels ‘in heaven.’ We’re discussing fallen angels that, like Peter and Jude described in their epistles, abandoned their dwelling place ‘in heaven’ and took up an alternative lifestyle. Another thing, look at the angels who visited Abraham in the plains of Mamre. They looked like men, they walked and talked like men, they even ate food with Abraham. So, as far as scholars know, angels can take human form and carry out normal human functions. It appears from the historical record that the fallen ones also engaged in sexual activity.”

“Bizarre!” Joe said. “Now, I have another question. If the disc thing my dad saw was the remains of a physical spaceship, why would angels be flying around in that? Angels don’t need spaceships to go places…do they?”

“I don’t see why not. The theological term transmogrification and poltergeist tell us that spirits can manipulate energy and matter. They can mold existing materials and move things around. That being true, maybe they produce what you and I think of as Unidentified Flying Objects.”

Donna raised her hand and said, “So…uhm…just how would UFO’s deceive us concerning our origins?”

“Well, If people believe UFOnauts are advanced extraterrestrials scurrying about in UFO’s, and that these same creatures visited the earth in ancient days and tinkered with our DNA, that disturbs our Judeo-Christian doctrines concerning the age of the earth and Biblical creation. Satan would love for people to believe that we are nothing more than an alien zoology program. Of course there’s also the Indy Theory.”

Jones smiled. “Well, according to the Bible the Rapture of the Church will be accompanied by ‘fearful sights and great signs from heaven.’ What if these fearful sights from heaven include Satan contriving an ‘alien invasion’ to explain the disappearance of so many people at once! With eighty percent of the population believing in the possibility of extra-terrestrial intelligence, wouldn't that be a powerful form of deception? I mean think of it. If the Rapture was followed by hundreds of ‘space craft’ landing on earth piloted by creatures who appeared to be advanced humanoids, couldn’t these beings claim to have removed the Christians into some kind of a high-tech ‘rapture’ and simultaneously present their leader, the antichrist, as the messiah?”

Jones paused momentarily to see if Joe and Donna understood his rationale. “Furthermore,” he continued, “in 2 Thessalonians it says when the Antichrist is revealed he will be accompanied by ‘lying wonders.’ What are the lying wonders that will be part of his coming? Perhaps they are UFO’s. Even the prophecies of Daniel seem to support this possibility. Daniel said that the Antichrist will be a worshiper of Baal. That’s important because Baal was originally the lord of the sky. As Baalbamoth he was the lord of the aerial regions. As Baalzebub he was the lord of those who fly or that flit about in the sky. In the New Testament Satan is referred to as the lord of those who fly and as the prince of the powers of the air. So both the Old and New Testament lead me to believe that the obscure aerial phenomena you and I interpret as UFO activity could easily be part of an end time delusion perpetrated by evil atmospheric forces.”

Joe took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. “Hmmm” he said, staring at the image. “So, when it comes to these Anunnaki, you kinda’ believe the same thing that this Sitchin guy believes, but instead of the visitors being aliens from another planet, you think they were fallen angels?”

“Correct. And it’s interesting that we’re talking about this tonight. Recently a student of mine brought Zecharia Sitchin’s book The Earth Chronicles to class and talked about how convincing Sitchin’s Anunnaki theories would be to an agnostic or humanist.”

“Actually, it provided a unique classroom opportunity to illustrate how easily a linguist like Sitchin can fool people just because he sounds so scholarly. He employs technical language and stretches astronomical data in order to make his arguments sound convincing. It’s the oldest trick in the book! Educators often coin polysalavic phrases in order to overstate their cerebral and field credentials. For instance, If I tell you that I seem to progressively possess no pholical apendeges upon the cutanious apex of my cranial structure, posterior to the landoil suture and anterior to the sigical suture upon which said pholical apendeges habitually germinate, would you know what I was talking about?”

“It’s simple. All I said is that I’m going bald. But writers and educators often choose the most difficult 16-cylinder phrases to impress the reader. If the argument is not as sound as you want people to believe it is, you stretch the vocabulary and toss in a few pseudo scientific or archaeological fantasies and, ‘ta-da!’ It works every time!”

Joe spoke up, “So how does this relate to our little image here. What do you think this thing is and why does it say Anunnaki?”

“I can’t answer that, yet. And to be honest, I’ve never seen anything like it before. If it’s not a fake I would…”

Joe was momentarily insulted and defensive of his deceased father’s claim. “I told you, it’s real, and my dad told me so.”

“Oh, Joe, don’t be offended by my comments. I’m a professor. We’re paid to be cautious and skeptical. But I have no doubt that your dad was sincere.”

Jones continued. “Now listen. I have a friend who runs an independent laboratory. He does all kinds of sub contract work for the state and federal government, mostly DNA and crime lab stuff, but he also does radio carbon and metallurgy testing. If you would let me borrow this thing for a couple of days I would really like to have him run it through a series of tests and see if we can determine the age and material makeup of it. We could also do a photo analysis and database search to see if any comparable artifacts have ever been discovered or described. I really believe this would be the best way to follow up on the object, and could provide you with an authoritative answer. With your permission Joe I’d like to take it to him right away.”

“Well, I agree with Dr. Jones. I mean, he is the expert. You want to know what this is all about, don’t you?”

“Yeah, I guess. I just want to make sure this lab guy doesn’t submerge it in acid or something.”

Indy laughed again. “Joe, you crack me up! You worry too much for a young man.”

Dr. Jones might have understood Joe’s trepidation if he had been told the entire story. But Joe didn’t want to scare Indy with all that ugly chase and gunfire business. Besides, Joe thought, Indy probably would have thought they made it all up.

“Yeah, I guess I do worry a lot. So let your friend look at the image and I’ll be back in contact with you in a couple of days. It’s probably best if you don’t try to contact me. You understand, don’t you? Let’s just keep this between ourselves, ok?”

“Whatever you say boss.” Jones said with a huge smile, obviously elated with the opportunity to further study the artifact...

"As far as the UFO establishment is concerned, those who combine Christian thinking with the subject of UFOs are religious fanatics. That is because they have reached the conclusion that the UFOs are either a government "New World Order" deception or are demonic. So let me state that I view this attitude as a genuine possibility worthy of intellectual pursuit and some of the best UFO literature I've read ie. Missler/Eastman, David Lewis, forcefully argues these positions. And I'm not the only secular researcher who feels this way, the late Jim Keith viewed UFOs as an "illuminati deception." Yet the mainstream UFO world welcomes the superstitious magic-believers of the New Age with open arms while rejecting anything that smells of genuine theology. I may not be Christian or a very pious Jew but I recognize thoughtful scholarship when I read it and the rejection of traditional religion by the UFO publishers and conference organizers is a huge mistake." Barry Chamish http://members.tripod.com/~ufoisrael/barry12.html