Ancient Sumerians
It should be considered that the Sumerian writing suddenly appeared, as if out of nowhere, already perfectly codified. The Sumerians also had some astronomical knowledge, for example they knew that Neptune was blue-green in color, and their mathematics was based on a strange numbering system: the sixtieth system and, in its simplest form, the twelfth system.
Today we retain from the Sumerians (or from the Akkadians?), the division of the day into 24 hours, of the hour into 60 minutes and of the angle around it into 360 degrees, and the "dozen", i.e. the quantity 12.
For us modern men, a decimal arithmetic (based on 10), i.e. based on the ten fingers of our hands, is "natural", and also twentiethesimal Mayan mathematics (based on 20) is logically consistent, assuming that they used also the fingers of the feets to count, while the Sumerian numbering system based on the sixty or the dozen (i.e. based on 60 or 12) is totally incomprehensible, unless they had six fingers on each hand ...
Some American scientists who have studied the cases of people with six fingers in the United States have discovered that many of their ancestors came from a population settled in a region of present-day Turkey, and in this population it is not uncommon for people to be born with six fingers. Why did the genetic blueprint for this population include this six-fingered hand structure? Perhaps they are reminiscent of ancient hybridizations with the ancient gods?
The Sumerian myths: Marduk, Assur, Tiamat and Gigamesh
The tablets of Nineveh report, in the Enuma Elish poem, the Sumerian religious myths relating to the creation of the world. Marduk was the hero of the poem (which originally comes from a Sumerian original text from the 2nd millennium B.C. but arrived to us in a 7th century B.C. Assyrian version) where he is told how he overpowered the goddess Tiamat. The Assyrians instead credited, within the same legend, the god Assur for the death of Tiamat, so it is possible to think that Assur and Marduk were actually the same deity
In the beginning they were Apsu and Tiamat, gods of the oceans, sweet and bitter. Tiamat is also remembered as "the Monster of Chaos". From them were born Lahmu and Lahamu, brother and sister, husband and wife, and Anshar and Kishar, who surpassed their parents in strength, beauty and ability. Anshar and Kishar, as well as many other gods, begat Enlil, the god of wind, and Anu, the god of the sky, who begat Enki or Ea, the god of wisdom and magic, much greater than his father. Anu, though supreme in theory, had little influence in human affairs, and it was Enlil, his right-hand man, who ruled the Earth.
But the young gods were noisy and disturbed the sleep of old Apsu, who went to his wife and said: I will destroy them, so I can sleep. Tiamat was shocked and cried out in anger: Let us not destroy what we ourselves have created! But Apsu wanted to have his way and set out to take revenge on his children and grandchildren. Ea however, greatest of the gods, wrapped him in his magic and killed him, turning him into a mountain where Ea majestically resided with his wife Damkina. There was born Marduk/Assur, god of the sun and vegetation, the greatest of the gods and protector of Babylon (and, like Assur, of Nineveh).
Meanwhile Tiamat had meditated on the fate of her husband Apsu and her heart was filled with anger. He therefore decided to attack the gods and destroy them, and even Ea was seized with terror. Finally, only Marduk dared to engage Tiamat in combat, and with the help of a strong wind that blew into the goddess's mouth so as to prevent her from closing it, Marduk shot an arrow that entered her throat and struck her to her heart. When Tiamat was dead, Marduk cut her body in two, creating the sky with one half and the earth with the other. And Marduk was exalted as King of the gods.
Marduk then organized the universe and created man from the clay and blood of the goddess Tiamat.
Each spring, the priest and the people recited the creation myth, along with the myth dealing with the death and resurrection of Marduk.
Marduk received the attribute of god of vegetation, Tammuz, husband and son of the mother goddess Isthar. Isthar also appears in Jewish mythology and merges with the goddess Isis in the late Hellenistic world. Later, under Assyrian rule, Marduk was eclipsed by Assur (Ashshur) but later power again shifted to Babylonia and Marduk was rehabilitated.
The Assyrian and Babylonian writings show very clearly that the people regarded those political changes in Mesopotamia as the result of the upheavals in the realm of the gods.
Although the spring festivals were related to the Egyptian myth of Osiris, the Sumerian religious attitude toward death was quite different. The Sumerians identified with the dying and resurrecting Tammuz - Marduk in order to restore health rather than to ensure immortality. Indeed, the epic poem Gilgamesh demonstrates that they eventually adapted to the idea of the death of the body. The hero Gilgamesh, after seeing his dead companion Enkidu, motionless and breathless, sets out in search of Ut-Napishtim, the Babylonian correspondent of Noah, to whom Enlil had revealed the secret of immortality, a gift that the Mesopotamian gods kept with great care hidden from men: Ut-Napishtim was therefore the only man who possessed eternal life.
He tells Gilgamesh about a plant that gives eternal youth, and Gilgamesh finally finds the plant, only to be robbed by a snake; he is forced to make his way back and face the inevitability of death. The same conception appears in the myth of Adapa, which represents the human race: Adapa offends Anu, the god of the sky, and goes to him to explain his act, after having received from Ea, god of the waters, the warning of do not drink or eat anything. Anu is impressed by Adapa to such an extent that he offers him the food and water of life, but Adapa refuses them without realizing thus losing his immortality.
Gilgamesh also obtained from the gods of the underworld that the spirit of Enkidu returned to speak to him of the condition of the deceased, saying: "He (the god of the underworld) leads me to the house of darkness..., from which once you enter you never leave, by the road from which there is no return, to the house whose inhabitants are deprived of light, where dust is their nourishment and clay their food. They are clothed in wings like birds and do not see the light, dwelling in the darkness".
Mesopotamian documents describe the afterlife as a sad, dark country inhabited by beings "clothed in wings" who feed on earth and clay.
Jewish scholar, Dr. Zecharia Sitchin, one of the few scholars in the world capable of reading the Sumerian cuneiform script, offers an explanation of the myth of Tiamat. He claims to have found news, in ancient Sumerian tablets, of a planet of the solar system, Nibiru, renamed "Marduk" by the Babylonians, the twelfth planet, still unknown to astronomers, whose orbit approaches that of the Earth every 3600 years (a Shar), and during one of these approaches, in the Sumerian era, a multitude of two hundred "angels", called "Anunnachi" was seen swarming towards the Earth, from which the class of giants, of which the Bible also speaks, who calls them Anachim, the descendants of Anak, and who were adversaries of Jahveh, the God of Israel.
Greek mythology also speaks of the Titans, anthropophagous giants who devoured the god Dionysus and for this were electrocuted by Zeus. The Titans, six males and six females, were children of Gea (goddess of the Earth) and of Uranus (god of the sky), and Homer also tells of Polyphemus, an anthropophagous cyclops with only one eye.
It is therefore easy to see, in the Titans, the product of hybridizations between terrestrial beings and celestial beings, in this case the Anunnachi.
Furthermore, the planet Nibiro-Marduk, according to Zecharia Sitchin, in one of its previous orbits, now distant in the past, had destroyed Tiamat, the planet shattered in the asteroid belt, and the Anunnachi, the gigantic inhabitants of Nibiro-Marduk brought news of it on the earth, where they had risen to divinity, and this memory had been engraved on the most ancient clay tablets which later became the myth of Tiamat...
