Updated Nov. 21, 2003

This page is about the history of Earth, humans, the Anunnaki (Nefilim), Nibiru and the Sumerians.  All based on the information in Zecharia Sitchin's books known as the Earth Chronicles (the first of which is "The 12th Planet")

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I’ll start this off with some background information:

The Sumerians, Anunnaki and Nibiru:

The Sumerians were Earth’s first known civilization, suddenly appearing out of nowhere about 6,000 years ago.  The wheel, boats & ships, animal pulled vehicles, buildings, kiln, brick, schools & writing & scribes, laws, kingship and citizens, music, art, chemistry, textiles, religion & temples all begin there.  So did astronomy, constellations/zodiac, using the number 12 as of divisions of time, and the calendar.

Sumerian illustrations such as cylinder seal “Plate B”, which is at least 4,500 years old, (and kept in the Near Eastern Section of the East Berlin State Museum , under catalog number VA/243) shows a complete solar system with planets in correct size in relation to each other.  However Sumerian cosmological & astronomical tests insist there is an additional planet in our solar system, a planet that follows an extremely elliptical/elongated orbit, unlike the seemingly circular orbits of the planets as we know them now (NASA has named this planet "Planet X".)  It takes 3,600 “Earth years” for this planet to complete one orbital rotation around our Sun.  This other planet also travels retrograde, in the opposite direction of the known planets in our solar system.  The Sumerians called this planet NIBIRU, “planet of the crossing” (the Babylonians called it Marduk), as it came into and crossed the orbits of the planets between Mars and Jupiter. 

From this planet the Sumerians over and over again persistently stated, that the ANUNNAKI (“Those who from Heaven to Earth came”) reside.  The Bible mentions them as the “Anakim”, and in Chapter 6 of Genesis they are also called the “Nefilim” (which is Hebrew for “Those Who Have Come Down, from the Heavens to Earth.”)  And it was these beings that taught the Sumerians what they know (the stuff in paragraph one, among others.)

Sitchin has translated from the Sumerian tests that the Anunnaki came to Earth around 445,000 years ago. 

Our Solar System and Earth

Ok, now to back track a little (actually a lot.)  In the beginning before Earth existed as we now know it, the solar system was quite different.  It consisted of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn, Uranus, Neptune , and a large planet called Tiamat (which ends up being Earth.)  and of course, Nibiru.  Its gravitational pull affected the other planets as it passed by.  As it passed near Neptune , the gravitational pull broke off part of Nibiru which was to become Neptune ’s moon Triton.  More moons were created as Nibiru passed by Uranus, and also gained a few during the encounter.  Nibiru continued to be pulled into Saturn and Jupiter, during so a moon of Saturn was pulled away in the direction of Mars and Venus (to later become the small planet Pluto.)  Now Nibiru was heading towards Tiamat, they didn’t collide but the moons of Nibiru smashed into Tiamat breaking it in two.  One of these pieces broke up even more and scattered out to be what we now know as the asteroid belt (the Sumerians called it the “hammered bracelet”)  The remaining half of Tiamat, over time would become planet Earth as we know it and during the collision one of Nibiru’s moons ended up being trapped in the gravitational forces to later become Earth’s moon.  This grand collision also created the comets that we see from time to time in the night skys.  On Nibiru’s way back out, it continued to affect the outer planets with its gravitational pull, putting Pluto into the orbit it now follows. 

All this information so far is the “in my own words” version I got from looking back over the first part of Sitchin’s book “Genesis Revisited”.  In the book, there are much more details and Sumerian translations that make the story a “Celestial Battle” epic.  His book and “The 12 Planet” also retell this story and much more.  I also recall seeing a Discovery Channel television show in which scientist used a computer program that demonstrated all this as the most reasonable explanation as to why our solar system is the way it is.  Let it be known that the Sumerians knew this 6,000 years ago, and Zecharia Sitchin has brought it back to the mainstream since the late 1970’s. 

The Lost Book of Enki & Genesis

Now I’m going to continue the story by telling some of Sitchin’s latest book, “The Lost Book of Enki”, in my own words.  This is a wonderful book, it’s like reading Genesis the way it was meant to be read.  First of all, I’ll need to give a bit more background information.

Now that I have explained who the Anunnaki are and where they come from, you need to know that there was a king or president or leader of Nibiru and all its people (the Anunnaki) named Anu.  Anu is the leader of the pantheon of twelve (think Greek mythology’s Zeus—the pantheon being Nibiru’s government.)  Anu has two sons, Enlil and Enki.  Though Enki was the first born, Enlil holds the rights to take over after his father due to his blood line.  Needless to say, battles occur between Enki and Enlil’s families over time (though this isn’t important right now.)  Ok, now on to the “The Lost Book of Enki”

Problems on Nibiru

Due to the elliptical orbit of Nibiru, the planet (reddish in radiance) spent long amount of time in the cold (away from the sun) and some time in the hot (near the sun.)  The thick atmosphere of Nibiru sustains life on the planet, like a warm coat the atmosphere keeps the planet warm with its inner heat (partly volcanic activity) when it is away from the sun and when near the sun the atmosphere shields the planet from the harmful rays.  From long periods of evolution, the Anunnaki came to be.  After time the Anunnaki fought wars against each other, until it was decided that a king and government should be made to keep the land civil.  As I mentioned earlier, Anu eventually became this king or leader and with his pantheon/government controlled the land.  As time went on, the atmosphere began to weaken, the cold spells were colder and the heat was hotter, they started experiments to see what was going on with their atmosphere and attempt to fix it, which all failed.  The councils learned that gold suspended in the atmosphere as a powder could fix their problem, but such mineral was extremely rare on Nibiru.  (Think of modern astronauts helmet visors, coated with gold for protection…) However they knew that the inner planets did have abundance of such mineral (they examined and studied the planets as the orbit of their own passed by them.)  Meanwhile one of the Anunnaki by the name of Alalu was the leader of Nibiru and Anu challenged him for the throne by hand to hand combat.  Alalu lost and Anu was hailed as king.  Alalu sneaked off to the place of celestial chariots, also called celestial boats (space ships, whatever you want to call them...), and into one which “throws missiles” he took off into space, with a destination set to planet Earth.  Apparently, he was afraid for his life and was very embarrassed at the loss of the battle against Anu so he fled.  His plan was to get to earth (which no one had done before) and find the gold that Nibiru’s atmosphere needed.  In the hopes of doing so, he thought he would be granted kingship over Nibiru for saving the planet.  When he got to the asteroid belt he shot a missile at it to open a hole for which he could enter.  His “ship” had a beam which could analyze the contents of the Earth to find the gold he needed.  When he got to Earth he used the beam and found that Earth indeed does contain the precious mineral.  He crash landed in the marsh land and survived; he surveyed the land and found it fit to sustain life, he found fish in the water and vegetation.  He went out into the sea and found some pieces of gold and then radioed back to Nibiru his achievements and demanded that because of them he should be ruled king of Nibiru upon his return.  Anu appointed a team with Enki in command to go to earth and verify Alalu’s achievements.  Enki and his team made it to Earth and searched for Alalu’s beacon signal to land.    

Genesis

Now this is a part of the book which first brings to mind the words of Genesis in the Bible:  On their first day on Earth, they found the landing spot where the ocean met the dry land, where four rivers were swallowed by marshes and so they landed there and then sent word to Nibiru of their successful arrival.  Then they set up a place for encampment and watched in amazement at the setting sun; and then too excited to sleep they waited to marvel at the rising sun.  On this second day, they tested the waters and purified them for drinking and set up rain water gathering places.  Enki appointed Enbilulu to be in charge of the marshes and put him in charge of setting ditch and dike as a boundary for the marshes.  On the third day, they examined the orchards, herbs, fruits and discovered a honey plant for eating.  Enki appointed Guru in charge of distinguishing the good of the food that grows.  On the fourth day, they took their tools from the chariots and fashioned clay and bricks for building their abodes, Enki appointed Kulla to be in charge of mold and brick for the clay bricks to be fashioned; and that night they made note of the lesser light of the moon.  On the fifth day, they made a reed boat and set up traps for catching fish and fowl.  Enki appointed Ulmash to be in charge of distinguishing the good and bad of the fowl that fly.  On the sixth day, they took into account the creatures of the orchards, that of which creeps and walks on feet, Enki appointed Enursag to be in charge of this task; they also set up a fence for protection.  On the seventh day, Enki recapped all they have done and set this day to be a day of resting and said “the seventh day hereafter will be a day of resting always to be.”  And he named their encampment Eridu, meaning Home in the Faraway.  As a promise Enki proclaimed Alalu to be commander of Eridu (however it is made clear when they first landed that Enki said to all those assembled:  “Enki words of command spoke.  Here on Earth I am the commander!” He said.)

[This version of early Genesis makes much more sense to me than the Bibles version of a seemingly all powerful, all knowing “God” who “creates” or “makes” all of things of the Earth, seemingly at will.]

Collecting the Gold

Now that the encampment of Eridu was set up and food obtainable, Enki’s next task was to start gathering the gold.  At first they found gold and other minerals in the waters.  They would gather these minerals and then separate the metals.  They ended up with a lot of iron and copper but not much gold.  As they were doing this Enki was monitoring the moon during the nights.  As it waxed and waned, Enki learned the pattern of the circuit and called it the month.  He then watched and learned as the sun gave seasons to the Earth about every six months, and he called them summer and winter.  At the years end they counted their collected gold and came to the conclusion that there was just not enough of it in the waters to fulfill their purpose.  Enki appointed Abgal and Anzu to deliver the gold they did have back to Nibiru.  They repaired Alalu’s ship and removed its weapons, Enki hid the weapons (seven of them) in a secret place so no more destruction could be caused by them.  The ship with its baskets of gold returned to Nibiru.  The gold was tested and ground into a fine powder then launched into a part of the atmosphere that needed healing.  The gold worked, it fixed that part of their atmosphere, now they needed more gold to heal the rest of it.  Back on Earth, Enki surveyed the lands until he found a land mass in the shape of a heart ( Africa ) which contained much abundance of gold (mixed in with rock and soil), Enki named this place Abzu (“of Gold the Birthplace”).  Anu then sent Enki’s brother, Enlil, to Earth with his pilot, Alalgar, to devise a plan for obtaining the gold from the hardened Earth.  Landing places for the shyships and chariots needed to be set up, someone needed to be appointed commander of these places and of the Abzu, and someone needed to be put in charge of the settlements of the growing Eridu.  So Enlil decided that Anu should come to Earth to offer guidance on the issues.  A grand royal welcoming was given to Anu upon his coming to Earth.  Since this day happened to fall on a seventh day (by the count begun by Enki) they rested and celebrated the king’s arrival.  The next day Enki and Enlil presented their findings to Anu.  Anu decided that a method should be found as to how to separate the gold from the mixture of rock and soil so that pure gold could be sent to Nibiru.  He also offered that more Anunnaki should come to Earth to set up and be in charge of more landing places for the ships.  Anu was also thinking of devising way stations in the heavens.  So in Eridu, they held a council to assign the duties.  It was decided that Anu would return back to Nibiru to remain on the throne, Enlil was allotted to be the commander of Edin (Enki before gave the name Edin to the other settlements in the surrounding areas of Eridu—Edin meaning, “Abode of the Upright Ones”—the Anunnaki on Earth.)  For more settlements to be established and of the shyships and their operators Enlil was allotted command.  Enki was allotted command of the seas, oceans and land beyond the bar of the waters, also he was to be the master/commander of the Abzu, with ingenuity of the gold to procure.  (All the way up to this point Enki has been going by the name Ea.  At this point Anu declared that Ea shall now bear the title Enki—meaning Earth’s Master.)  Anu declared, let it be known that “I Anu, am Lord of the Command”.  So with the tasks assigned, Anu was getting ready to return to Nibiru when Alalu stepped forward. 

Alalu vs. Anu Round 2 and the Mars Connection

Alalu demanded another wrestling match, of which the winner would take the throne on Nibiru and again Alalu lost.  Anu declared that Alalu shall never be allowed to return to Nibiru, upon hearing this Alalu desperately & unsuspectingly managed to bite off the malehood of Anu.  Enlil wanted to punish Alalu by death but Enki stepped up and shouted “No! justice is within him, in his stomach poison has entered!” (Since Alalu also swallowed it.)  Alalu was in great pain, his stomach swollen with the poison.  Back on Nibiru seven judges were deciding on Alalu’s punishment, they decided to exile Alalu by sending him to Mars to live out his days in pain.  So Anzu piloted Alalu’s chariot to Mars and stayed with Alalu until his death, in which he also buried him.  Anu declared Anzu to be the commander of the planet Mars (called Lahmu in the book) and to set it up as a way station for delivering the gold from Earth to Nibiru.  Soon after Alalu landed he died from the poisoned stomach.  Anzu found a great rock, like a mountain, and in the rock he found a cave.  He hid Alalu’s corpse in the cave and covered the entrance with stones.  In remembrance of Alalu (since he was a king on Nibiru earlier in his life and was the one who first discovered Earth's gold) they carved an image of him in upon the great rock mountain, they showed him wearing an Eagle’s helmet, his face they made uncovered.  The image of Alalu gazes forever toward Nibiru and toward the Earth whose gold he discovered.

The face on Mars is that of Alalu, maybe someday an excavation of it will discover the tomb and possibly his remains...

Mining for gold is Hard Work

So now to skip forward a little bit… The landing places for ships have been constructed at their needed places, various abodes for the gods have been fashioned, gold ore crunching and crushing machines are made, and way stations on Mars and possibly the moon are set up.  By this time six hundred Anunnaki were on Earth and three hundred Igigi (“Igigi” i.e. Anunnaki on Lahmu—Mars) were at the way station on Mars.  These were the “Heroes of Nibiru”, their home planet’s saviors.  In the Edin a “ Metal City ” (by the name of Bad-Tibira they called it) was established so that the gold could be smelted and refined, so that more of it could be sent to Nibiru. 

[Remember that Edin was an entire area, not just a garden as in the Garden of Eden, hence the Garden of Eden is just as it says, a garden IN (or in part OF) Eden.  This area of Eden has been confirmed in other research such as that found in the book “Legend” by David Rohl, in which he has located this actual “area” and the garden within it (In which he says:  “The biblical Garden of Eden is to be identified with the Adji Chay valley in north-west Iran at the heart of which is the regional capital of Tabriz, an area known as Armenia—slightly north west of Kurdestan”)  “Legend—The Genesis of Civilization” is a great book on this subject, I highly recommend it.  Ok now back to the story.] 

So in Bad-Tibira the gold ore was smelted and refined, then by rocketships to Mars (Lahmu) it was sent, then in celestial chariots from Mars to Nibiru the pure gold was delivered.  On Nibiru the breach in the atmosphere was slowly being healed.

About this time Enki decided to learn more about the Earth, its cycles, atmosphere, and indigenous life on the planet.  He was especially interested in the creature that lived among the tall trees, with their front legs as hands they were using [I assume these to be monkeys or apes.]  And in the tall grasses of the steppes “odd creatures were seen; erect they seemed to be walking” [perhaps Homo erectus or a Neanderthal beings.]  Meanwhile the Anunnaki workers in the gold mines were complaining and a mutiny was beginning.  The mine-working heroes were shouting hostilities, demanding relief, and setting fire to their tools and axes, and they seized their Chief Officer of Mining.  Then surrounded Enlil’s dwelling and declared to him their hostilities of excessive toil, heavy work and great distress.  Enlil consulted with Anu on the matter and Enki was later brought in to help.    

And God Created Man

After some thought and discussion, Enki responded that a Primitive Worker should be fashioned to take over the hard work.  The leaders were all astounded and speechless.  They have never heard of creating a Being before.  The “one who of healing and succor was much knowing”, Ninmah, was summoned.  She said to Enki “The task is unheard of, all beings from a seed have descended.  One being from another over eons did develop, none from nothing ever came!”  Enki replied with a smile, “How right you are!  A secret of the Abzu let me reveal to you all:  The Being that we need already exists!  Creatures in the Abzu there are that walk erect on two legs, their forelegs they use as arms with hands they are provided.  They live among the animals of the steppe.  They know not dressing in garments, they eat plants with their mouths and drink water from the lake.  Shaggy with hair is their whole body.  All we have to do is put on it the mark of our essence.  Thereby a Primitive Worker shall be created, by the mark of our essence to fashion him!”  Enlil disbelieving said, that no creature like that has ever been seen in the Edin.  And Ninmah replied, “Eons ago, on Nibiru, our predecessors like that might have been!  To behold such a being must be a thrill!”  Enki then led them to the “House of Knowledge of Life on Earth” and had some of the beings in cages.  The beings jumped at the sight of Enki and the others and pounded their fists against the cage bars.  They would grunt and snort but couldn’t speak.  Enki pointed out that they are male and female and can procreate.  [At this point in the book a statement reads:  “…their Fashioning Essence has been tested; akin to ours it is, like two serpents it is entwined; When their with our life essence shall be combined, our mark upon them shall be...”  Now this may be hard to believe but they are talking about DNA here.  And why not?  They are attempting to jump the evolution of these primitive beings by adding/combining some DNA.  It’s not too hard to believe really, is it?  After all they are advanced enough to travel through space, heal illness, even bring someone back from the dead.  To this day the entwined serpent symbol stands for Medical Practice and DNA, it always has for even over 4000 years ago.  Anyways, back to continue with the story.]  Enlil and Enki argue over the matter.  Enlil says, “The matter is of great importance in that long ago back on Nibiru slavery has been abolished, tools are the slaves, not other beings!  A new creature, beforehand nonexisting, you wish to bring into being; Creation is alone in the hands of the Father of All Beginning/Being” [in the hands of God in other words.]  Enki responded by saying that they would not be slaves, just workers.  Just as the Anunnaki heroes were not slaves, but workers as well.  [I was going to leave this part out, but because they mention God in their terms, I thought it was important enough to leave in.]  “Not a new creature, but one existing more in our image made!”  Enki said.  “With little change it can be achieved, only a drop of our essence is needed!”  Nevertheless, Enlil didn’t like the idea saying that our purpose was not to replace the Father of All Beginning/Being.  Ninmah responded by saying that the Father of All Beginning/Being endowed us with the wisdom and understanding to carry out the act.  Anyways after they consulted with Anu on this matter, it was decided to go ahead with creating (or “changing” the being to) a Primitive Worker.

So now that the “go ahead” had been given Enki and Ninmah began to fashion the new being.  They started out by testing their theories on animals out in the fields.  They ended up with strange creatures that had foreparts of one animal and hindparts of another.  They kept testing until they learned how to combine essences correctly.  They did this by mixing the Earth being female’s egg and male Anunnaki’s blood essence, at first they created the admixture in a crystal vessel.  They later learned that to correctly make the admixture, they would have to use a clay vessel.  Then they had to figure out which womb should be used for conception to begin.  They started by using a surrogate Earth being female to carry out conception.  They got better results but it still wasn’t perfect and the trial & error continued until finally they decided to use a surrogate Anunnaki female to carry out conception.  Ninmah herself decided that she would be the one to carry the conception.  Finally Ninmah gave birth to a boy, Enki held the boy in his hands; the image of perfection he was.  He slapped the newborn on his hindparts and the newborn uttered the proper sounds!  The newborn’s visage and limbs were examined, the ears were in proper shape, the limbs, hindparts, legs, foreparts and hands were all proper.  He had dark black hair and smooth skin like dark red blood was the color, like the clay of the Abzu was its hue.  It’s malehood was odd shaped, by it had a foreskin, not like the Anunnaki.  By the foreskin let the Earthling from us Anunnaki be distinguished, Enki announced.  Enki named him Adamu, meaning “One Who Like Earth’s Clay Is”.  Enki announced, A model Primitive Worker we have indeed attained!  A model indeed he shall be; as for himself, like a Firstling he shall be treated, From toil he himself shall be protected, his essence alone as a mold shall be!

Now seven female Anunnaki stepped forward to be the next surrogate mothers.  “To a unity shall the two essences, one of Heaven, one of Earth, together be brought”, Ninmah said.  In which in seven clay vessels, ovals of the two-legged female Earth beings and the blood essence of Adamu were mixed.  Then the fertilized ovals were inserted into the seven female Anunnaki volunteers.  After the conception, birth-givings occurred and seven male Earthlings were born.  Again all their features and everything was perfect.  It was taking to long for the Earthlings to be produced in this manner so female counterparts for males needed to be fashioned.  The new mixture was made and Enki’s wife, Ninki volunteered to be the birth-mother.  And by Ninki a female Earthling was born, Ninki named the newborn Ti-Amat, “Mother of Life”.  After this seven female Earthlings were brought into being. 

The Garden of Edin Story

So now Enki, Adamu and Ti-Amat were taken to the city of Eridu , in the Edin.  An abode in an enclosure for them was built, to roam therein they could.  As time went on the Anunnaki waited anticipating for their maturing.  Yet no conceiving among them occurred, no birth-giving happened.  They seemed to be mating but conceiving and birth-giving there was not.  Distressed on the situation, Enki and Ninmah thought up a solution.  From the rib of Enki some life essence was extracted, into the rib of Adamu the life essence of Enki inserted.  From the rib of Ninmah some life essence was extracted, into the rib of Ti-Amat the life essence was inserted.  To their Tree of Life [DNA] two branches [chromosomes] have been added.  With procreating powers their life essences are now entwined.  Let them freely roam, as one flesh let them know each other.  So in the Edin’s orchards, to freely roam Adamu and Ti-Amat were placed.  They instantly became aware of their nakedness and of animal skins and leaves clothes were fashioned.  Meanwhile without expectation Enlil was strolling through the orchard and noticed Adamu and Ti-Amat’s aprons and loins.  Enlil was angry with what he saw and summoned explanation from Enki.  Enki explained how the seven and seven had failed and that additional essence combining was needed.  Enlil was furious saying that now the Earthlings are just as the Anunnaki, like us in procreation knowing, perchance our life cycles have been bestowed upon them.  [In other words, the Earthlings now contained the ability to procreate and gain knowledge just as the Anunnaki could.  Enlil wanted the Earthlings to be an inferior race compared to the Anunnaki, just good enough to work in the mines.  By life cycles, he meant do the Earthlings now live as long as the Anunnaki do?]  Ningishzidda assured to Enlil that only the branch [DNA] of knowing was given to Adamu and Ti-Amat, not the branch [DNA] of Long Living.  So with anger Enlil expelled them away from the Edin. 

[This is only one version of the Garden of Edin story which I have read from Sitchin’s books.  This version is very metaphorical in its use of the tree of knowledge and tree of life.  I think it was Sitchin’s book The 12^th Planet, where it is explained more parallel to the biblical Genesis version.  In which Enlil tells Adamu and Ti-Amat not to eat from the tree of knowledge and then later on Enki (who’s symbol or epithet is that of a serpent because of his medical knowledge) then tells them to eat the fruit of the tree, in which they gain knowledge of realizing they are naked and then are able to procreate.  (In this version DNA is still involved but in the way of eating the fruit changed their DNA—not a swapping of essence from a rib operation.)  Then when Enlil comes back he sees that they have gained the knowledge from the tree and banishes them away so that they can not eat from the fruit of the tree of life, which would make them live as long as the Anunnaki too.  So the stories are pretty close, just worded differently.]

Still more to come, to be continued…