Sumerian tablet with complete solar system
Before making any comments as to the validity of some of the arguments presented, I would suggest reading the **official** translations of the sumerian texts, as archived by global inter-university projects. http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/ is a good place to start.
I will leave you to make your own opinions, but in my opinion there is a certain level of viability to the idea that the Sumerians believed Nibiru to be a planet, and that the Anunaki came from there. For example, the Anunaki were explicitly said to have come from a place called Nibiru, and were alternately spoken of as coming from the sky, or an earth in the sky. The word Anunaki is a compound of Anu (sky) + na (and) + ki (earth), which in Sumerian can mean many things, including those who come from the sky to the earth.
Also, the Anunaki were referred to as "goatfish", and represented in the earlier picture engravings as being reptillian -- a statement supported by the (albeit weak and often discredited, though still viable as a psychological statement) "observations" of those who have claimed to have been abducted by UFOs.
The house of Enki (the most beloved of the gods, and the one who was the primary go-between for the humans and the Anunaki) was said to "roar like a bull" and "give advice", and it was made of "silver and lapis lazuli". This seems very much like how an ancient human would describe a spacecraft. It also had a retractable staircase and a landing platform, if one buys into this assumption.
The Sumerians in fact had more advanced astronomy and mathematics than many of the civilizations whose achievements are more credited (for example, the Egyptians). The Sumerians were also the first civilization to be documented as having a writing system, which they believed was taught to them by Enki. Enki, who was considered the "troubleshooter god", has also made statements in various documents that hint towards a knowledge that the average Sumerian (from our modern-day, western, non-Sumerian perspective) likely could not have known. He demonstrates the qualities of present day hackers and engineers, valued elegance and functionality, and often solved problems in profound ways. There is one document I have a translation of (though I have never seen the original Sumerian text, transliterated or otherwise, so it may be a fake -- if someone can find the Sumerian for me I shall be eternally greatful) in which he seems to be describing object orientation, including multiple inheritence, polymorphism, encapsulation, and typecasting -- although he uses terms that are understandable in Sumerian, and thusly his explanation is restricted to metaphor in the language of the ancient every-day. Ergo, it is possible that even if it is not a fake, it may not have originally intended to refer to anything remotely like OO paradigms (after all, OO is based upon the percieved structure of "real life").
Additionally, the nam-shub (a sort of incantation) that are attributed to Enki have a hypnotic quality, even when translated into English. This only seems to work when read aloud, so I'm not entirely sure if it's just an artifact of certain literary devices that works only in English. I tried reading the Sumerian out loud, and it had some of that quality but not enough to be truly disorienting. It may be the fact that the meaning has to come through naturally, or it may be, as I said above, and artifact of the translation from Sumerian to English.
Now, all of this has alternate explanations, but Occam's Razor doesn't account too well for such a coincidence in my opinion. There could be another theory that explains it all away and makes more sense -- if someone can come up with a good one that takes into consideration the fact that all this coincides, it would be appriciated (this may involve the recent hypothesis that the ancestors of Homo Sapiens had an evolutionary battle with snakes and lizards which advanced then significantly, something I believe was also posted here on Digg).
Well, enough of my babeling (pun intended ;-). Great discussion here; Digg on!
I will leave you to make your own opinions, but in my opinion there is a certain level of viability to the idea that the Sumerians believed Nibiru to be a planet, and that the Anunaki came from there. For example, the Anunaki were explicitly said to have come from a place called Nibiru, and were alternately spoken of as coming from the sky, or an earth in the sky. The word Anunaki is a compound of Anu (sky) + na (and) + ki (earth), which in Sumerian can mean many things, including those who come from the sky to the earth.
Also, the Anunaki were referred to as "goatfish", and represented in the earlier picture engravings as being reptillian -- a statement supported by the (albeit weak and often discredited, though still viable as a psychological statement) "observations" of those who have claimed to have been abducted by UFOs.
The house of Enki (the most beloved of the gods, and the one who was the primary go-between for the humans and the Anunaki) was said to "roar like a bull" and "give advice", and it was made of "silver and lapis lazuli". This seems very much like how an ancient human would describe a spacecraft. It also had a retractable staircase and a landing platform, if one buys into this assumption.
The Sumerians in fact had more advanced astronomy and mathematics than many of the civilizations whose achievements are more credited (for example, the Egyptians). The Sumerians were also the first civilization to be documented as having a writing system, which they believed was taught to them by Enki. Enki, who was considered the "troubleshooter god", has also made statements in various documents that hint towards a knowledge that the average Sumerian (from our modern-day, western, non-Sumerian perspective) likely could not have known. He demonstrates the qualities of present day hackers and engineers, valued elegance and functionality, and often solved problems in profound ways. There is one document I have a translation of (though I have never seen the original Sumerian text, transliterated or otherwise, so it may be a fake -- if someone can find the Sumerian for me I shall be eternally greatful) in which he seems to be describing object orientation, including multiple inheritence, polymorphism, encapsulation, and typecasting -- although he uses terms that are understandable in Sumerian, and thusly his explanation is restricted to metaphor in the language of the ancient every-day. Ergo, it is possible that even if it is not a fake, it may not have originally intended to refer to anything remotely like OO paradigms (after all, OO is based upon the percieved structure of "real life").
Additionally, the nam-shub (a sort of incantation) that are attributed to Enki have a hypnotic quality, even when translated into English. This only seems to work when read aloud, so I'm not entirely sure if it's just an artifact of certain literary devices that works only in English. I tried reading the Sumerian out loud, and it had some of that quality but not enough to be truly disorienting. It may be the fact that the meaning has to come through naturally, or it may be, as I said above, and artifact of the translation from Sumerian to English.
Now, all of this has alternate explanations, but Occam's Razor doesn't account too well for such a coincidence in my opinion. There could be another theory that explains it all away and makes more sense -- if someone can come up with a good one that takes into consideration the fact that all this coincides, it would be appriciated (this may involve the recent hypothesis that the ancestors of Homo Sapiens had an evolutionary battle with snakes and lizards which advanced then significantly, something I believe was also posted here on Digg).
Well, enough of my babeling (pun intended ;-). Great discussion here; Digg on!
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