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00:00Μουσική
00:30Μουσική
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04:29Could Judaism and Christianity's familiar stories of God really be a retelling of our ancestors' close encounters with extraterrestrials?
04:39The cuneiform tablets which had fascinated Nathaniel Schmidt were first unearthed in the 1500s as colonial powers began to excavate the ancient sites of Mesopotamia.
04:52Over the decades that followed, some 200,000 clay tablets were uncovered.
04:59The tablets were adorned with strange etchings or glyphs made when the clay was soft.
05:05scholars of the tablets were divided by the tablets were divided as to the meanings of these markings.
05:10Some believed the glyphs to be an unknown written language.
05:14Others refused to accept this since the tablets appeared to predate any known language.
05:21They presumed the markings to be no more than decoration.
05:25And so the tablets were archived, their secrets locked away for three centuries.
05:31Until, in 1835, Henry Rollinson arrived in southwestern Iran.
05:42Rollinson was a military man.
05:45He was employed by the East India Tea Company.
05:47And he was in Iran helping the Shah of Iran to train his troops.
05:51Now, it's worth pausing there for a moment because if you thought that corporations rivaling nation states was something new,
05:59take a look at the East India Tea Company.
06:02A tea company that is able to move a standing army around the world and that trains the armies of nation states.
06:12That's quite a tea company.
06:14In fact, Rollinson's presence in Iran wasn't part of a quid pro quo for trading rights.
06:22He was there for access to the district of Behistun.
06:27He wanted to find the Behistun inscription.
06:33The Behistun inscription was an ancient royal proclamation carved into a cliff face.
06:39It was written in three known languages, Persian, Elamite and Arcadian, which was the common language of the Mesopotamian cultures.
06:51The inscription expressed all three languages in cuneiform script.
06:57It was the translation key that cuneiform tablets had been waiting for.
07:02The memories of Mesopotamia's ancient cultures were suddenly an open book.
07:07The glyphs were not mere decoration after all.
07:11They were banking records, business agreements, shopping lists, contracts, recipes, inventories, royal histories and the most ancient narrative in the history of the world.
07:26It was in these ancient narratives that the source of the Bible's familiar stories began to emerge.
07:36At an academic level, Nathaniel Schmidt was in good company.
07:40He was one of a small number who began confronting us with this new layer of our history.
07:45And I should mention, just to reassure you, that shortly after Colgate University fired him, he did get a new job with Cornell University.
07:53And he was professor of Semitic languages there for a full 36 years.
07:58So he did land on his feet.
08:00His work continued to argue that the cuneiforms reveal that our earliest histories are not about God.
08:08They are about our prehistoric contact with the Anunnaki.
08:14In the 20th century, the writer Zechariah Sitchin began poring over the cuneiform texts.
08:21He highlighted the clear implications of the Sumerian stories, that the Anunnaki were powerful and advanced extraterrestrial species.
08:32Their arrival on planet Earth put them at the top of the terrestrial food chain.
08:38To create a local workforce, the Anunnaki used sequences of their own genetic code to hybridize a primate ancestor into a human.
08:49Ready to put to work for their Anunnaki masters.
08:54Sitchin argued the word Anunnaki means those who came from the heavens to Earth.
09:01A phrase that made clear their extraterrestrial origin.
09:05Zechariah Sitchin was not an academic. He was not a PhD or a professor.
09:10He had a degree from the London School of Economics and worked in commerce.
09:15The LSE, I should say, is a pretty august institution.
09:19He wrote at a popular level. That's to say for a general audience.
09:24And not with the kind of referencing and footnotes that you'd expect to see in an academic kind of tome.
09:31And academic critics don't like that. They think that's slack.
09:36Some might identify mistakes or bias in his work.
09:40And that's then their pretext to disregard his contribution, which is an important one.
09:46Now, some writers in the field reject Sitchin's translation of the word Anunnaki.
09:51And they would contend that the words usage tells us that it simply means nobility or royalty, the rulers.
10:01I'm not persuaded by that. It's not that that's not true. It's just a very partial answer.
10:07It's a very lazy explanation. It simply doesn't ask enough questions.
10:12Who were the rulers identified by this word? Why is that word associated with the rulers?
10:19You see, if you look at the etymology of the word, at its root meanings, look at the component parts.
10:25You have Anu, which means heavens. Ki, which means earth.
10:30Anunnaki are those who came from the heavens to the earth. You can follow the logic.
10:35But even if you didn't have that narrative embedded in the word itself, as soon as you read the cuneiforms, the stories themselves unpack that that is exactly what was going on.
10:47And the glyph that they use to indicate the rulers who come down from the heavens at the beginning of the story, that glyph simply indicates the sky.
10:57So these Anunnaki are from the heavens. They're sky people.
11:03Many of the world's oldest mythologies claim that governance over human society began with dominance over human beings being established by superior beings or gods.
11:21And then the job of rulership is handed over at a later stage to human governors or kings.
11:28Egyptian mythology holds such a narrative.
11:32Similarly, the Bible speaks of King Saul as the first human king over the people of God.
11:39The Sumerian cuneiforms also name their first human king, Gilgamesh.
11:46To be more accurate, Gilgamesh is a transition king, a hybrid of human and Anunnaki.
11:55His name appears on one of the most famous of Mesopotamian artifacts, the Sumerian kings list.
12:03Among the shopping lists, legal agreements, business contracts and all the rest of the cuneiform tablets, there appears what on first inspection is a dry record of a succession of kings of Sumeria.
12:18The most recent entries record reigns of six to 36 years.
12:23As we go further back on the timeline, the king's list starts running with some odd looking information because out of the blue, we suddenly read of a dynasty that lasted 24,510 years, three months and three and a half days.
12:39Now that precision absolutely befits Sumerian culture because it's from Sumerian culture that we get 360 degrees in a circle, 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour.
12:52So the precision doesn't surprise us.
12:56What is odd is that that dynasty of 24,510 years, three months and three and a half days was divided across no more than 23 kings.
13:13That's an average reign of more than a thousand years each.
13:19And it's not a one off the dynasty concluded by the great flood lasted 241,000 years shared by no more than eight kings.
13:29That's an average reign of more than 30,000 years.
13:34Now, some have tried to make the dates symbolic or have interpreted their unit of time differently.
13:41But that doesn't quite work when it's an unbroken record of six to 36 year reigns to 36,000 year reigns, all in the same unit of time, all in the same narrative.
13:55The narrative begins with non-human kings who then hand over to human kings.
14:01And this elasticity of the length of their dynasties is another suggestion that the non-human kings are something quite different to human beings.
14:12It's like comparing the lifespan of a human being with the lifespan of an ant.
14:21The king's list is not the only evidence pointing to an extraterrestrial hypothesis.
14:27The Sumerian version of the Tower of Babel speaks of 50 technicians who employ mysterious technology to dispatch 300 observers to their stations in the stars.
14:39Read alongside the Genesis account, the two narratives confirm one another and paint a vivid picture.
14:46Babel was a stargate providing the observers rapid access to space stations.
14:55The thing that got me into this whole field of research was an anomalous word in the book of Genesis.
15:00I've been a preacher for more than 30 years.
15:03I've studied and taught through the book of Genesis many, many times in churches all around the world.
15:09And I've trained pastors in the skills of interpreting texts.
15:13So I've long known about this anomalous word.
15:18Well, finally, I allowed myself the time to sit down and really drill into what was going on.
15:24Genesis uses two words for God.
15:27One is Elohim and one is Yahweh or Jehovah.
15:31Now, Yahweh is the holy name given to Moses in a time centuries or millennia after all the action described in the stories of beginnings.
15:42So the fact that the word Yahweh appears in those much older stories that clues us that we're not reading the original version of the stories.
15:52The stories are being retold by someone after the time of Moses.
15:57Now, there's a broad consensus among biblical scholars that the current version of the Old Testament, the Hebrew scriptures, was edited or redacted sometime in the sixth century BCE.
16:09And that the redactor, by putting the name Yahweh into these older stories, the stories that Abraham and Sarah had brought with them, was telling the reader to regard them as God's stories.
16:24And by using the later name, he's also telling the reader this is not the original version.
16:30Originally, they were Elohim stories.
16:37Now, that word Elohim is a very interesting word because it's a plural form word.
16:44It often exhibits plural behaviors.
16:46Let us make.
16:47Let us make the humans to look like one of us.
16:50We don't want them to become too much like one of us, etc.
16:54The word Elohim often takes plural verb forms.
16:57It's sometimes translated as God, but in other places it gets translated as false gods or demons or angels or chieftains or land barons.
17:09So why this enormous elasticity in the word's meaning?
17:14Well, again, we have to go back to the roots of the word and ask why is it used that way?
17:22And why does it behave like a plural?
17:26When you look at its component parts, the word Elohim means the powers or the powerful ones.
17:33Now, when you read Genesis translating the word that way, the texts change and suddenly line up with the Sumerian texts.
17:41One by one, they confirm each other's stories.
17:45And it's very clear they're not stories about gods.
17:48They're stories about the powerful ones in the Bible and the sky people, the Anunnaki in the Sumerian tablets.
17:58But is there any material evidence that a non-human ruling presence ever occupied planet Earth?
18:06One might reasonably ask, why have no physical remains of Anunnaki been found?
18:13Firstly, I would note that the more we dig up ancient sites, the greater a diversity of ancient peoples we're finding.
18:21If you think about the hobbits that were found in Indonesia, we called them hobbits.
18:27I think the proper name is Homo florensis.
18:30Or the giants of Noble County.
18:32Or the red-haired giants of North America.
18:35Or the long skulls of Paracas, etc.
18:37There's a great range of people that were beginning to come across as we dig into our ancient past.
18:43So how would we know if we found an Anunnaki?
18:48Well, one obvious possibility is by DNA testing.
18:52So if Gilgamesh really was a human Anunnaki hybrid, then all we have to do is find the royal tomb and DNA test him.
19:04Well, I believe that's exactly what happened in Iraq in 2003.
19:10A team went in protected by American troops at the beginning of the 2003 Iraq invasion and found Gilgamesh's tomb.
19:21Fassbinder spoke to the BBC.
19:23You can go on his website.
19:24You can read all about it.
19:26Now, the official story is that having located the probable tomb site 16 years ago, we decided not to investigate any further.
19:37Similarly, in 1927, the British archaeologist Leonard Woolley discovered a person known as Queen Puabi.
19:45Now, she was a high ranking Sumerian leader who lived around 2500 BCE and they had found her remains.
19:54So again, here's another find which with today's technology provides us with the opportunity to DNA test.
20:04We can now test Sumerian royalty to confirm whether it was entirely human.
20:12The result?
20:14Apparently, we've decided not to investigate any further.
20:19Now, what do you make of that?
20:22Wouldn't you want to know?
20:25But why would an extraterrestrial species be interested in governing a human population on planet Earth?
20:34Why would advanced beings from another planet have any interest in interfering with human evolution and managing a human population?
20:43Why would they teach prehistoric humans about mathematics, reading, legal and banking systems, contracts of employments, money and pricing mechanisms?
20:54And why would they then withdraw?
20:58I wonder if our own behavior as a species on our own planet might give us an insight on what such colonization might look like.
21:07Because when we colonize, we go in with force.
21:11We show our superiority and we take over.
21:14We provide the police.
21:16We provide the army, the education.
21:19We put the locals to work.
21:21We cream off the profits and the natural resources and basically enjoy all the benefits of sitting at the top of the economic tree with a powerful visible presence to keep control.
21:34But after a while, you can get the locals to do their own policing and their own school teaching.
21:40Let the locals become the lawyers and the bankers and appoint a local as the governor.
21:46As long as you have some control of the value of the money and as long as you set all the commodity prices and exchange rates, you don't really need to maintain a visible presence anymore.
21:58And so you can go home, you can live in another country and still enjoy all the benefits of sitting at the top of the economic tree.
22:07Now that's how we do it.
22:08It's how we've done it from the Roman Empire to the Spanish to the Dutch, the Portuguese, the British, the American.
22:14That's how we do it.
22:15Is it possible that an ET presence may have colonized the world in our prehistoric past in a way that's analogous to that?
22:27That another species came and resided on planet Earth for a while.
22:32They sat at the top of the economic tree and enjoyed all the benefits of it and then withdrew in exactly the kind of way I've just mapped out.
22:41You know, I wonder how much like the Anunnaki we are.
22:47And as for what they were looking for, it could have been minerals.
22:51I believe it was.
22:52I think there's strong evidence of prehistoric mines in southern Africa.
22:56It may well have been minerals.
22:58But it could have been something else, something to do with the properties of planet Earth.
23:03And it might have been something to do with ourselves, our uniqueness as homo sapiens.
23:17Were our ancestors really engineered as workers, toiling for the colonizers?
23:23Were the Anunnaki only interested in our planet's resources and coldly indifferent to the progress of the human race?
23:32Other ancestral narratives speak of our human origins in exactly the same terms.
23:38And yet there are other strands to the story.
23:42The Greek Babylonian narrative of Oannas and the Apkalu speak of the visitors helping and educating our human ancestors.
23:51Native American memory reports interdimensional and extraterrestrial visitors, nurturing the beginnings of human society.
24:01Zulu mythology speaks of our ancestors being nurtured by advanced beings.
24:08Might the Anunnaki have had a more generous motivation towards their human workforce?
24:16My book, Escaping from Eden, argues that our ancient texts recall a range of species that bumped up against our ancestors.
24:26And the stories in our world mythologies tell of conflicting ideas among the visitors as to how conscious and how intelligent they wanted humans to be.
24:39Now certainly there are some cold agendas towards humanity that play out in our world's stories of beginnings.
24:49The limiting of human life.
24:51A flood to kill them all.
24:53A neurological interference to take the power of speech from us and dumb us down.
24:59A bombing that destroys our engineering and technology.
25:03And neurological interference to lower our perceptual and cognitive abilities.
25:09Now in the Sumerian version of these stories, it's the senior Anunnaki Enlil who actions and pushes all these negative agendas that are somewhat hostile to human beings.
25:23But there is another agenda in the Anunnaki community.
25:28There is a figure called Enki who appears to be the leader of the Earth project.
25:34And he is junior to Enlil.
25:37He's described as Enlil's brother.
25:40So in the Sumerian story, humanity gets caught in the crossfire of these mysterious beings in conflict.
25:49A number of our so-called creation myths begin with a rehabilitation of a devastated and flooded planet shrouded in darkness.
25:59And that arrival is a positive interaction with this other species because they begin to nurture life on the planet.
26:07They nurture animal life.
26:08They nurture human life.
26:10Then later in the Sumerian account, it's Enki, the one who's in charge of the Earth project, who wants to upgrade human beings for a more enjoyable, a better, a more conscious kind of life.
26:23And there's a conflict between Enlil and Enki over whether that should happen.
26:29Enlil, the CEO, does not want that.
26:32And so Enki breaks ranks to achieve that upgrade for us.
26:39When Enlil wants to destroy the human experiment by devastating the planet.
26:44Again, it's Enki who seeks out a favored family, the family of Atrahasis, a.k.a. Zisudra, a.k.a. Utnapishtim, a.k.a. Noah,
26:55and gives him instructions as to how to construct an escape pod for his family and his farm so they can reboot the project.
27:03So I think we can say the Anunnaki presence is a mixed bag for humanity.
27:08We're really caught in the crossfires of this conflict among a species who are ambivalent about the progress of human society.
27:19There is oppression and slavery in the Anunnaki narrative.
27:24But there's also a concern for human welfare and a nurturing of human beings.
27:30So it's a mixed story.
27:33Today's reports of ET contact reflect a similar range of agendas.
27:40Some harmful, some indifferent, and some nurturing.
27:45Are these contemporary experiences connected with the Anunnaki narratives?
27:50Or are people today experiencing something or someone different?
27:57What difference does the Anunnaki narrative make to human beings today?
28:02If you and I are part primate and part Anunnaki, how does that help us?
28:08And are the Anunnaki still present?
28:11Or are we now our own masters?
28:14Does the Anunnaki narrative give us an explanation of our original separation from all other animal forms on planet Earth,
28:23but leave us with no word about our future?
28:29My hope is focused not so much on external interventions as on our own capabilities.
28:35Our ancestral narratives all speak of higher consciousness being downgraded in our prehistoric past.
28:43And to my mind, that raises the possibility that our cognitive abilities can be upgraded and our consciousness can be heightened.
28:53Our mythologies speak of our perceptual field being limited.
28:58Now, to my mind, that suggests we might be able to expand it.
29:02The Anunnaki narrative speaks of us laboring for superiors, and you can see that we're hardwired to do that.
29:12But what if we were able to break down that programming and start working for one another instead of those above us?
29:20What if we de-engineered all our neurological slave settings and allowed ourselves to live freer, less fearful lives?
29:31What would that look like?
29:37Many of the cultures that have curated these stories of beginnings have also curated modalities, methods
29:47that are designed to reawaken a higher state of consciousness.
29:50So ancient Greek culture, which had this narrative, also had the modality of a Kaikion ritual.
29:58Kaikion was a kind of tea ritual aimed at heightening the person's state of consciousness.
30:03In Mesoamerica, we find another tea ceremony with exactly the same purpose.
30:09If we go to indigenous Australia or to Native America, we find smoke and smoking ceremonies.
30:16and similar activities in the ancient Indian cultures that produced the Vedas.
30:23Eastern monastic traditions have disciplines of stillness and conscious breathing.
30:29And in my experience, they really do have purchase in terms of altering our state of consciousness
30:37and heightening our abilities for a better human experience.
30:42If the Anunnaki stories represent our true origins as a species, and human beings are part earthling and part higher being,
30:53what does that mean for our potential as human beings today?
30:58Are we bound to the contracts of employment, systems of money and banking, and the tyranny of hours, minutes and seconds,
31:07first taught to the ancient Sumerians more than 5000 years ago?
31:13Or are other ways open to us as human beings?
31:17Might higher forms of consciousness help us achieve a new freedom from the legacy of our enslaved past
31:26and provide a pathway to a better human experience?
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