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Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.99,0:00:13.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,static noise effect
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.35,0:00:25.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mysterious music
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.54,0:00:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been a preacher for more than 30\Nyears. I've studied and taught through
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.73,0:00:38.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the book of Genesis many, many times\Nin churches all around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.54,0:00:42.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I've trained pastors in the skills of\Ninterpreting texts,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.54,0:00:46.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's very clear they're not stories\Nabout Gods.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.29,0:00:49.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're stories about the powerful ones in\Nthe Bible.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.77,0:00:53.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the sky people, the Anunnaki\Nand the Sumerian tablets.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.83,0:01:08.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,static noise effect
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.60,0:01:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] In 1896 eminent scholar\NNathaniel Schmidt
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.52,0:01:18.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was fired from his position\Nas Professor of Semitic languages
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.96,0:01:21.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at Colgate University.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.68,0:01:26.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For eleven years, this American University\Nhad enjoyed Nathaniel Schmidt erudition
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.74,0:01:28.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Semitic Languages.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.58,0:01:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He delivered numerous courses in Hebrew,\NAramaic, Coptic, Arabic, Syriac
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.12,0:01:37.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other ancient languages besides.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.42,0:01:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, Nathaniel Schmidt was one of\NAmerica's leading scholars in the field.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.38,0:01:46.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So why, after eleven years\Nof outstanding achievement
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.57,0:01:48.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was he tried for heresy,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.77,0:01:53.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fired from his tenure in 1896?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.33,0:01:56.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Though a devout Christian\Nand a Baptist pastor,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.08,0:01:58.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the authorities considered\Nthat his recent
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.53,0:02:01.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,theological papers had struck\Nat the very roots
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.58,0:02:03.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of two world religions
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.87,0:02:06.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christianity and Judaism.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.12,0:02:09.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What Nathaniel Schmidt had done wrong
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.66,0:02:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was read the Sumerian and Babylonian
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.76,0:02:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Assyrian text and notice\Nthat they were full
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.60,0:02:20.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of fascinating parallels.\NStories that occurred there
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.76,0:02:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were uncannily similar to all\Nthe stories and beginnings
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.48,0:02:26.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Bible.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.37,0:02:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stories like: Adam and Eve
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.06,0:02:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Fall, Cain and Abel
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.66,0:02:33.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Flood, the limiting of human life,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.96,0:02:36.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the event of the Tower of Babel,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.29,0:02:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Schmidt's work demonstrated that
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.58,0:02:42.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Sumerian accounts
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.99,0:02:47.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those that follow it\Nfrom nearly 6000 years ago
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.74,0:02:50.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where in all probability\Nthe source of all those familiar
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.99,0:02:52.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,biblical stories.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.94,0:02:55.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, that was a problem\Nin the 1890's
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.82,0:02:57.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because if you think about it
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.35,0:03:00.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Church was still reading from\Nthe after effects of
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.09,0:03:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Charles Darwin's\N"On the Origin of Species"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.87,0:03:04.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is busy\Nputting together
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.77,0:03:06.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,new doctrinal basis
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.24,0:03:09.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and new doctrines\Nof biblical inherency
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.35,0:03:10.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to shore up the ship.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.71,0:03:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the idea that the Bible
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.56,0:03:15.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might actually be based\Non somebody else's stories
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.71,0:03:18.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a bit of an embarrassment.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.48,0:03:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It shouldn't have been
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.58,0:03:22.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because Judaism\Nand Christianity
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.03,0:03:23.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both find their roots
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.78,0:03:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the story of a Sumerian family.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.25,0:03:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The family of Abraham and Sarah.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.70,0:03:32.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Abraham and Sarah\Ngrew up and spent
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.89,0:03:35.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the best part of their lives\Nin Ur of the Chaldees,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.82,0:03:37.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a Sumerian culture
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.59,0:03:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so when they emigrated\Nfrom there>
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.94,0:03:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's hardly surprising that\Nthey would carry with them
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.46,0:03:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the stories of beginnings
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.32,0:03:47.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they had\Ngrown up with.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.12,0:03:50.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they had\Ngrown up with.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.03,0:03:52.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of what was to become
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.41,0:03:53.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their culture
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.82,0:03:55.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their religion
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.22,0:03:56.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their Bible.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.14,0:03:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, it shouldn't be a surprise\Nthat in the Bible
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.88,0:04:03.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have a summary version\Nof all these stories
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.65,0:04:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that pepper the Sumerian, Babylonian\Nand Assyrian texts.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.24,0:04:10.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The problem and the shock horror
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.52,0:04:13.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that the original versions,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.31,0:04:18.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Sumerian versions of these stories,\Nmake no mention of God at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.29,0:04:22.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the Sumerian originals,\Nthese are stories
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.10,0:04:26.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our ancestor's contact\Nwith another species.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.50,0:04:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A species called\NThe Anunnakki.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.78,0:04:32.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] Could Judaism\Nand Christianity,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.76,0:04:34.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,familiar stories of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.25,0:04:38.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really be a retelling of our\Nancestor's close encounters
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.09,0:04:40.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with extraterrestrials?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.17,0:04:47.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The cuneiform tablets which has fascinated\NNathaniel Schmidt were first on Earth in 1500.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.46,0:04:52.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As colonial powers began to escalate the \Nancient sites of Mesopotamia.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.38,0:04:59.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the decades had followed some \N200,000 clay tablets were uncovered.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.65,0:05:03.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tablets were adorned with \Nstrange etchings or glyphs
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.63,0:05:06.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made when the clay was soft.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.05,0:05:11.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scholars of the day divided us to \Nthe meanings of these markings.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.72,0:05:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some believe that the glyphs to \Nbe an unknown written language.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.82,0:05:17.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Others refuse to accept this,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.75,0:05:21.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since the tablets appear to \Npredate any known language.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.17,0:05:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They presume the markings to be \Nno more than decoration.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.08,0:05:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the tablets were archived,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.28,0:05:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the secrets were locked away \Nfor three centuries.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.50,0:05:37.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until in 1835,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.28,0:05:42.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Henry Rawranson arrived.\NIn south western Iran.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.62,0:05:47.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rawranson was a military man. He was \Nemployed by the East India Tea Company.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.94,0:05:51.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he was in Iran helping the \NShah of Iran to train his troops.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.73,0:05:55.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As worth pausing there for a moment \Nbecause if you thought that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.27,0:05:59.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,corporations rivaling nations states \Nwas something new
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.90,0:06:03.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take a look at the East India Tea company.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.27,0:06:06.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A tea company that's able to \Nmove a standing army
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.99,0:06:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around the world and train \Nthe armies of nation-states.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.01,0:06:16.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's quite a tea company.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.12,0:06:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, Rawranson presence in Iran wasn't\Npart of quid pro quo for trading rights.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.03,0:06:27.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was there for access to \Nthe district of Behistun.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.11,0:06:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wanted to find the Behistun inscription
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.27,0:06:37.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] the Behistun inscription was \Nan ancient royal proclamation
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.33,0:06:40.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carved into a cliff face.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.34,0:06:47.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was written in three known languages \NPersian, Elamite and Akkadian.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.22,0:06:51.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which was the common language of \NMesopotamian cultures.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.44,0:06:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The inscription expressed all three \Nlanguages in cuneiform script.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.89,0:07:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the translation key that cuneiform \Ntablets have been waiting for.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.41,0:07:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The memories of the Mesopotamian ancient \Ncultures was suddenly an open book.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.50,0:07:12.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The glyphs were not made \Ndecoration after all.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.66,0:07:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were banking records
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.90,0:07:15.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,business agreements,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.46,0:07:16.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shopping lists,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.86,0:07:18.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,contracts,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.29,0:07:19.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recipes,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.66,0:07:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inventories,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.90,0:07:27.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,royal histories and the most ancient narrative in the history of the world
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.42,0:07:33.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was in these ancient narratives that \Nthe source of the bibles familiar stories
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.33,0:07:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,began to emarge.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.27,0:07:41.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At an academic level Nathaniel Schmidt \Nwas in good company,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.52,0:07:46.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was one of the small number who began \Nconfronting us with this new layer of our history.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.55,0:07:50.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I should mention just to reassure you that \Nshortly after Colgate university fired him
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.96,0:07:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he did get a new job with Cornell University. and he \Nwas a professor of Semitic languages for full 36 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.38,0:08:00.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, he did land on his feet.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.48,0:08:06.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His work continued to argue that \Nthe cuneiforms reveal that our
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.02,0:08:13.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,earliest history are not about god. They are \Nabout a prehistoric contact with the Anunnaki
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.08,0:08:22.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] In the 20th century, the writer Zecharia\NSitchin began pouring over the cuneiform texts.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.25,0:08:26.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He highlighted the clear implications \Nof the Sumerian's stories.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.50,0:08:32.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That the Anunnaki were powerful and \Nadvanced extraterrestrial species.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.86,0:08:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their arrival on planet Earth put them at \Nthe top of the terrestrial food chain.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.40,0:08:44.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To create a local work force, the Anunnaki\Nused sequences of their own genetic code
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.18,0:08:53.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to hybridize a primed ancestor into a human,\Nready to put to work for their Anunnaki masters.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.76,0:09:01.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Such one argued, the word Anunnaki means \N"those who came from the heavens to Earth".
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.60,0:09:05.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A phrase that made clear that their\Nextraterrestrials origin.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.12,0:09:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Zecharia Sitchin was not an academic. \NHe was not a PHD or a professor.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.68,0:09:15.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had a degree from the London School \Nof Economics and worked in commerce.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.40,0:09:19.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The LSE, I should say, is a pretty \Naugust institution.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.42,0:09:23.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wrote at a popular level, \Nlet's to say, for a general audience.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.74,0:09:27.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And not with the kind of \Nreferencing and footnotes
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.51,0:09:31.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you'd expect to see in an \Nacademic kind of tome.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.04,0:09:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And academic critics don't like that. \NThey think that´s slack.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.93,0:09:40.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some might identify mistakes or \Nbias in his work.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.57,0:09:44.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's then their pretext to \Ndisregard his contributions
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.28,0:09:46.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is an important one.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.57,0:09:51.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, some writers in the field reject \NSitchin's translation of the word Anunnaki
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.60,0:09:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they would contend that the word usage
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.05,0:09:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it simply means nobility or royalty.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.82,0:10:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rulers.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.34,0:10:05.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not persuaded by that. \NIt's not that that's not true.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.30,0:10:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just a very partial answer. \NIt's a very lazy explanation.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.96,0:10:12.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It simply doesn't ask enough of questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.77,0:10:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who were the rulers \Nidentified by this word?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.08,0:10:19.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why is that word associated \Nwith the rulers?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.30,0:10:24.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see if yo look at the etymology of \Nthe word, at it's roots meanings
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.39,0:10:26.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,look at the component parts \Nyou have Anu
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.65,0:10:28.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which means heavens
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.34,0:10:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ki which means Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.63,0:10:34.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anunnaki are those who came from \Nthe heavens to the earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.10,0:10:38.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can follow the logic ,but even if you \Ndidn't have the narrative
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.14,0:10:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imbedded in the word itself
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.18,0:10:43.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as soon as you read the cuneiforms, \Nthe stories themselves
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.80,0:10:47.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unpack that that's exactly \Nwhat was going on.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.44,0:10:51.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the glyph that they used to \Nindicate the rulers
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.16,0:10:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who come down from the heavens at \Nthe beginning of the story
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.98,0:10:57.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that glyph simply indicates the sky.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.90,0:11:01.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, these Anunnaki are from the heavens.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.96,0:11:03.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sky people.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.41,0:11:11.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] Many of the world's \Noldest mythologies claim
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.78,0:11:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the governance of human society began
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.27,0:11:21.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with dominance over human beings, being\Nestablished by superior beings or gods.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.78,0:11:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the job of rulership is \Nhanded over, at a later stage,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.09,0:11:28.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to human governors or kings.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.100,0:11:32.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Egyptian mythology holds such a narrative.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.00,0:11:36.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Similarly, The Bible speaks of King Sol
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.11,0:11:38.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the first human king over \Nthe people of god.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.00,0:11:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Sumerian cuneiforms
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.16,0:11:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also name their first \Nhuman king Gilgamesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.52,0:11:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be more accurate, \NGilgamesh is a transition king.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.20,0:11:55.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A hybrid of human and annunaki.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.13,0:12:00.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His name appears on one of the \Nmost famous of Mesopotamian artifacts,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.95,0:12:02.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Sumerian King's list.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.31,0:12:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Among the shopping lists, \Nlegal agreements, business contracts
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.00,0:12:10.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all the rest of the cuneiform tablets,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.70,0:12:13.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There appears what on first inspection
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.35,0:12:15.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a dry record of a succesion of kings
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.85,0:12:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Sumeria.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.61,0:12:23.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most recent entries record \Nreigns of 6 to 36 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.60,0:12:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we go further back on the timeline
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.73,0:12:30.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the kings list starts running with \Nsome odd looking information
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.44,0:12:31.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because, out of the blue,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.62,0:12:33.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we suddenly read of a dynasty
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.58,0:12:39.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that lasted 24,510 years, 3 months \Nand 3 and a half days.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.79,0:12:43.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that precision absolutely \Nbefits Sumerian culture
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.70,0:12:46.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because its from Semerian culture that
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.10,0:12:48.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we get 360 degrees in a circle,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.33,0:12:51.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,60 seconds in a minute,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.42,0:12:52.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,60 minutes in an hour,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.39,0:12:55.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the precision doesn't surprise us.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.76,0:12:59.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is odd is that
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.42,0:13:05.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that dynasty of 24,500 years, 3 months \Nand 3 and a half days
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.93,0:13:12.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was divided across no more than 23 kings
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.58,0:13:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thats an average range of more than \Na thousand years each
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.27,0:13:20.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and its not a one off
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.79,0:13:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the dynasty concluded by the great flood
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.30,0:13:28.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lasted 241,000 years shared \Nby no more than 8 kings
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.06,0:13:33.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's an average range of more than 30,000 years
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.21,0:13:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, some have tried to \Nmake the dates symbolic
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.26,0:13:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or have interpreted their \Nunit of timedifferently
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.09,0:13:44.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that doesn't quite work \Nwhen its an unbroken record
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.94,0:13:48.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of 6 to 36 year reigns uh
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.49,0:13:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to 36,000 years reigns
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.87,0:13:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all in the same unit of time
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.04,0:13:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all in the same narrative
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.95,0:13:58.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the narrative begins with non-human kings
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.17,0:14:01.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who then hand over to human kings
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.64,0:14:05.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this elasticity of \Nthe length of their dynasty's
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.54,0:14:09.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is another suggestion \Nthat the non-human kings
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.38,0:14:12.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are something quite \Ndifferent to juman beings
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.28,0:14:15.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's like comparing the lifespan \Nof a human being
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.85,0:14:17.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the lifespan of an ant
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.33,0:14:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] the king's list \Nis not the only evidence
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.14,0:14:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pointing to an extraterrestrial hypothesis
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.93,0:14:30.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Sumerian version of The Tower of Babel
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.34,0:14:34.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaks of 50 technicians \Nwho employ mysterious technology
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.33,0:14:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to dispatch 300 observers to \Ntheir stations in the stars
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.05,0:14:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right along side the genesis account
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.13,0:14:44.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the two narratives confirm one another
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.08,0:14:47.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and paint a vivid picture
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.70,0:14:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Babel, was a stargate
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.18,0:14:54.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,providing the observers \Nrapid access to space stations
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.50,0:14:58.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thing that got me into \Nthis whole field of research
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.24,0:15:01.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was an anomalous word \Nin the book of genesis
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.66,0:15:05.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been a preacher \Nfor more than 30 years
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've studied and talked through \Nthe book of genesis
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many, many times in \Nchurches all around the world
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I've trained pastors \Nin the skills of interpreting texts
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I've long known about \Nthis anomalous word
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well finally i allowed myself \Nthe time to sit down
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and really drill into what was going on
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genesis uses two words for god
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One is Elohim and one is Yaweh or Jehovah
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, Yaweh is the holy name given to Moses
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a time, centureis or millenia \Nafter all the action described
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the stories of beginnings
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the fact that the word Yaweh \Nappears in those much older stories
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that clues us that we're not reading \Nthe original version of the stories
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sotries are being retold by \Nsomeone after the time of Moses
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, there's a broad consensus \Namong biblical scholars
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the current version of \Nthe old testament
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Hebrew scriptures \Nwas edited or redacted
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometime in the sixth century B.C.E.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that the redacter, \Nby putting the name Yaweh
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into these older stories, the stories that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Abraham and Sarah have brought with them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was telling the reader to \Nregard them as God's stories
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by using the later name
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's also telling the reader, \Nthis is not the original version
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Originally, they were Elohim's stories
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that word Elohim is \Na very interesting word because
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a plural form word
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it often exhibits plural behaviors, \N"Let us make,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let us make the humans to \Nlook like one of us,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we dont want them to \Nbecome to much like one of us etc".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The word Elohim often \Ntakes plural verb forms
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its sometimes translated as \Ngod but in other places
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it gets translated as false gods or demons
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or angels or cheiftans or land barons
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so why this enormous elasticity \Nin the words meaning
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well again, we have to go back to \Nthe roots of the word
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ask why is it used that way and \Nwhy does it behave like a plural
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you look at its \Ncomponent parts the word Elohim
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means the powers or the powerful ones
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now when you read genesis \Ntranslating the word that way
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the texts change and suddenly \Nline up with the Sumerian texts
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One by one they confirm \Neach others stories
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and its very clear they're \Nnot stories about gods
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're stories about \Nthe powerful ones in the bible
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the sky people, \Nthe Annunaki in the Sumerian tablets
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrarator] but is there any \Nmaterial evidence that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a non-human ruling presence \Never occupied planet earth
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one might reasonably ask
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why have no physical remains of \NAnnunaki been found?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,firstly i would note that \Nthe more we dig up ancient sites
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the greater a diversity of \Nancient peoples were finding
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you think about the hobbits that \Nwere found in Indonesia
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We called them hobbits think \Nthe proper name is homoforensis
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the giants of noble county
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the red-haired giants of North America
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the long skull of piraka etc.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a great range of people that we're
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beginning to come across as \Nwe dig into our ancient past
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so how would we know if \Nwe found an Anunnaki
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well one obvious possibility \Nis by DNA testing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so if Gilgamesh really was \Na human Anunnaki hybrid
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then all we have to do is find \Nthe royal tomb and DNA test him
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well I believe that's exactly \Nwhat happened in Iraq
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in 2003 a team went in \Nprotected by American troops
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in 2003 a team went in \Nprotected by American troops
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and found Gilgamesh's tomb.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fassbender spoke to the BBC \Nyou can go on his website
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can read all about it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now the officail story is that having located
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the probable tomb site 16 years ago \Nwe decided not to investigate any further.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Similarly in 1927 the British \Narcheologist Leonard Woolley
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,discovered a person known as Queen Puabi
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now she was a high ranking Sumerian \Nleader who lived around 2500 BCE
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they had found her remains
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so agian here's another find which \Nwith today's technology
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,provides us with \Nthe oppurtunity to DNA test
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can now test Sumerian \Nroyalty to comfirm
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether it was entirely human, the result,\Napparently we've decided not to investigate any further
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now what do you make of that?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wouldn't you want to know?