Sumeria

 Herein:
• Source of Information
• Zecharia Sitchin's Background
• Facts on Sumer
• Zecharia Sitchin on Planet Nibiru and Anunnaki's
• Sumerian Literature 
• Religion of the Chaldeans

• Tiamat - Sumerian Texts
• Tiamat - Babylonia myths
  
  
  Ancient civilization thought to be one of the first ever. It is thought that the use of the wheel started there. The Sumerian people were certainly the first to gather in city-states and develop a system of writing, as well as many other "firsts." Based on the lowlands around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the Sumerians were vulnerable to attack. They were eventually conquered by the Akkadians. Major city-states included Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash.

Source of Information
Most of the knowledge on Sumeria comes through the theology studies by the Jewish scholar/researcher Zacharia Sitchen, who has brought to life the translations of ancient Sumerian cuneiform writings which he has devoted most of his life to understanding. His theories open doorways into ancient times, and are his theories, based on the interpretation of his translations and pictograms he has studied. What is presented here is therefore not based on the Ascended Masters' teachings, but does collaborate with them and will be noted the source so as not to confuse theory from fact.

Zecharia Sitchin's Background
Zecharia Sitchin was born in Russia and raised in Palestine, where he acquired a profound knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew, other Semitic and European languages, the Old Testament, and the history and archeology of the Near East. He is one of the few scholars who is able to read and understand Sumerian. Sitchin attended and graduated from the University of London, majoring in economic history.

See "The 12th Planet: Book I Chronicles of a Planet" by Z. Sitchin for more information.

Facts on Sumer
The Sumerian speaking people settled in the land they called Sumer, in a region of the Fertile Crescent that lay along the southern portions of the valley of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers.  The area is located just before those great tributaries dump their waters into the Persian Gulf -- in an area which is now known as southeastern Iraq.  The Greeks later called the area “Mesopotamia”, meaning “between the rivers”.  To the northeast (modern day Iran) was the Zagros Mountains, while to the southwest was the Arabian Desert.

What occurred there some 6,000 years ago, has been called “the most crucial event in human history.” *  Literally, seemingly out of nowhere, a highly advanced, thriving culture appeared sometime after 4000 B.C.E. (although some argue the Sumerians may have arrived as early as 8500 B.C.E., or even much, much earlier).  What is clear is that the Sumerians developed a highly sophisticated system of irrigation and agriculture, which took full advantage of the waters of the two rivers.  They quickly established magnificent cities, advanced governing laws, and a written language.

The Sumerian language is the oldest sophisticated form of writing in existence, and dates from at least 3400 B.C.E. The language itself has been an enigma to linguists and scholars ever since the first tablets of that ancient language were re-discovered in the nineteenth century.  It bears no relation, for example to ancient Arabic, Assyrian, Canaanite, Egyptian, Indian, Jewish, Persian, or Phoenician, nor to any language from contemporaneous African, Asian or European dialects.

Records left us by the Niburans include stone-carved star charts that map Neptune, Uranus, Pluto--three planets beyond eye-range from Earth. The maps show routes through our solar system. They show Earth's geographical details, including the landmass under the Antarctic icesheet predicted to show from the sky when, in 11,000 B.C., the sheet slid into the Antarctic Ocean, causing the Deluge.

Zecharia Sitchin on Planet Nibiru and Anunnaki's

His Theory:
Sitchin believes that beings came from a planet in our solar system starting a half million years ago, and did many of the things about which we read in the Bible, in the book of Genesis.

He calls this planet Nibiru, which tranverses near our planet earth about every 3,600 years. The planet is inhabited by intelligent human beings who come and go between their planet and our planet and created Homo sapiens. We look like them and he calls them the Anunnaki.

"The starting point for my research goes back to my childhood and school days. I wondered about the Nephilim, who are mentioned in Genesis, Chapter six, as the sons of the gods who married the daughters of Man in the days before the great flood, the Deluge.

The word Nephilim is commonly, or used to be, translated giants. There were the days when there were giants upon the Earth. I questioned this interpretation as a child at school, ....I questioned an interpretation that seemed inaccurate, because the word, Nephilim, the name by which those extraordinary beings, the sons of the gods were known, means literally, "Those who have come down to Earth from the heavens."

"All the ancient scriptures, the Bible, the Greek myths, the Egyptian myth and texts, the pyramid texts, everything, led to the Sumerians, whose civilization was the first known one six thousand years ago. I focused on Sumer, the source of these legends and myths and texts and information. I learned to read the cuneiform Sumerian texts and came upon their persistent and repeated statements that those beings, whom the Sumerians called Anunnaki, came to earth from a planet called Nibiru."

"Once I realized that this was the answer, that there is one more planet, everything else fell into place. The meaning of the Mesopotamian Epic of Creation on which the first chapters of Genesis are based and all details about the Anunnaki, who they were and who their leaders were and how they traveled from their planet to Earth and how they splashed down in the Persian Gulf and about their first settlement, their leaders and so on and so on, everything became clear. The Sumerians had immense knowledge."

"They knew about Uranus and Neptune and described them and they knew about Pluto. They were proficient in mathematics and, in many respects, their knowledge surpassed modern times. They said, "All that we know was told to us by the Anunnaki."

The Nibiruans allegedly landed on Earth, colonized it, mining the Earth for gold and other minerals, establishing a spaceport in what today is the Iraq-Iran region.

These aliens allegedly created a human slave-race to work their mines, farms, and other enterprises creating man as Homo Sapiens, through genetic manipulation with themselves and ape man Homo Erectus.

The Great Flood allegedly was an attempt to destroy the slave races of humanity by a battle between the Nibiruans - Enlil and Enki. Enlil and Enki were involved in a heated dispute over whether to destroy or preserve the slave races and this power struggle resulted in war.

Sumerian Literature

There is a literature that is called "The Me," “the holy laws of heaven and earth.”  We see a glimpse into their culture in some of the titles to this writing:

• kingship and priesthood
• “the holy measuring rod and line”,
• art of love making, art of prostitution, procreation
• truth, the art of being forthright
• slanderous and adorning speech
• arts of power and treachery,
• deceit, plundering of cities
• lamentations and rejoicings of the heart
• holy purification rites
• fear, dismay, consternation
• counseling, giving of judgments, making of decisions
• and even:
  the making of beer!  

Most open-minded historical and theological scholars agree the old and new books of Genesis were extracted from the older Sumerian records, if only because of the similarity in their Comparative Religions.  The "Enuma Elish" the Sumerian Epic of Creation, and Genesis have a variety of common elements.  Stories of a Great Flood and Deluge, among other stories, are also common to both Sumerian and Biblical accounts.  The conclusion is that the Anunnaki were as real as Biblical Noah, Moses and Abraham.  

Religion of the Chaldeans

Chaldea was a region in ancient Babylonia and the first recorded Chaldean king was around 612 B.C.

Chaldeans living before Christian era believed that the chief god was APSU, the water god. APSU and TIAMAT, the she dragon; begot ANU, the lord of the heavens and the highest of the gods; ENLIL lord of the winds; and ENKI, the ruler of the sweet waters. The most important deity in the ancient Chaldean religion was MARDUK, the son of EA, who championed the rest of the gods in the plot by the evil she god TIAMAT to destroy the gods. MARDUK defeated TIAMAT, split her in half and formed her into the sky and the earth. He also destroyed her consort KINGU and from his blood formed the first man and woman. In Chaldean mythology, men were created to serve the gods and die because the gods retained life for their own keeping. Religion is a response to the search for an answer to the most fundamental and important questions about the meaning of life, death, the universe, and the creation of all that exists through the gods.

Tiamat - Sumerian Texts
Ancient Sumerian texts indicate that Tiamat was struck by a large planet, which moved it into its present orbit, and also created the Earth's moon and the Asteroid Belt. In Sitchen's book, The Twelfth Planet and The Cosmic Code, Sitchin outlines this "celestial battle" as described in the Babylonian text Enuma elish.

The planet "Marduk" (the Sumerian "Nibiru"), as it came into the solar system on its 3,600-year clockwise (retrograde) elliptical course, struck Tiamat, which was moving in its ordained counterclockwise orbit.
According to Sitchin's well-known translations, one of Marduk's satellites struck Tiamat first, followed by two more of Marduk's moons. Then Marduk itself, an enormous cosmic entity, struck Tiamat, smashing one half of the planet into pieces, which became what the Sumerians called the Great Band.

The remaining half of the planet, which was struck by a smaller moon of Marduk, was catapulted into a new orbit, along with a chunk of material which became its moon. According to the Enuma elish, Tiamat's original moons were dispersed, many changing the direction of their orbits and rotations.

There is indeed evidence of this great cataclysm in our solar system today. Tom van Flandern, a specialist in Celestial Mechanics at the US Naval Observatory, has suggested that the great rift on Mars may be the impact site of a former moon, the moons of Neptune show evidence of violent disruption, Mercury was originally a moon of Venus, Mars once had many more moons, and Pluto and Charon are escaped moons of Neptune.

Van Flandern finds the retrograde rotation of Venus peculiar, he believes that our moon originated from the Pacific Basin of the Earth, and he agrees that there is probably an undiscovered planet beyond Pluto which belongs to our solar system. In addition, Hubble recently investigated one of the largest asteroids, Vesta, and found evidence of differentiated layers similar to the terrestrial planets, distinctive light and dark areas like the face of our moon, and a geology similar to the Earth, including evidence of ancient lava flows.

Tiamat - Babylonia myths
In Babylonian myths, Tiamat is a huge, bloated female dragon that personifies the saltwater ocean, the water of Chaos. She is also the primordial mother of all that exists, including the gods themselves. Her consort is Apsu, the personification of the freshwater abyss that lies beneath the Earth. From their union, saltwater with freshwater, the first pair of gods were born. They are Lachmu and Lachamu, parents of Ansar and Kisar, grandparents of Anu and Ea.

In the creation epic Enuma elish, written around 2000 BCE, their descendants started to irritate Tiamat and Apsu so they decided to kill their offspring. Ea discovered their plans and he managed to kill Apsu while the latter was asleep. Tiamat flew into a rage when she learned about Apsu's death and wanted to avenge her husband. She created an army of monstrous creatures, which was to be led by her new consort Kingu, who is also her son. Eventually, Tiamat was defeated by the young god Marduk , who was born in the deep freshwater sea.

Marduk cleaved her body in half, and from the upper half he created the sky and from the lower half he made the earth. From her water came forth the clouds and her tears became the source of the Tigris and the Euphratus. Kingu also perished, and from his blood Marduk created the first humans.

*The Age of God-Kings, Time Life Books, New York, 1987

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