Anunnaki & Ancient Astronauts

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Anunnaki and ancient astronauts links Mesopotamian deities to modern claims of prehistoric extraterrestrial intervention, an interpretation rejected by specialists.

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Sep 4
All this new woo woo tie in with consciousness and religion is making me question everything as a lifelong atheist.
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What UFO story(ies) do you hate because it has been proven fake, lack of evidence, or lack basic logic but the community still perpetuates as fact or credible?
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Photos of the studied "Aztlan collection" artifacts, plus one unstudied one
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New photos of the controversial alien artifacts and interview
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The Anunnaki were a group of deities in ancient Mesopotamian religion. Cuneiform sources use related terms such as Anunna and Anunnaku in ways that vary across periods and cities, often for major gods who decree fates. They belong to the religious and literary world of Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, and Babylonia; the ancient texts do not describe them as visitors from a hidden planet operating a technological mining colony.

The extraterrestrial version is modern. Erich von Däniken popularized a general “ancient astronaut” framework in the late 1960s, arguing that gods and monuments preserved memories of alien contact. Zecharia Sitchin’s 1976 book The Twelfth Planet recast the Anunnaki as beings from Nibiru who engineered humans to mine gold. Those claims became a major source for later television, internet mythology, and some readings of ancient mysteries.

Assyriologists and archaeologists do not accept Sitchin’s translations or chronology. Specialist reference projects identify the Anunnaki as divine figures within a changing pantheon, not a biological species. Archaeological evidence explains Mesopotamian cities, writing, agriculture, and monuments through human societies and their material history. Similar ancient-astronaut arguments about pyramids and megaliths often detach objects from excavation context and underestimate documented human engineering.

The topic remains relevant because it shows how authentic ancient names can be repurposed into a modern origin story. Mesopotamian religion, the Book of Enoch, biblical giants, and UFO narratives are frequently blended despite coming from different languages, periods, and traditions. Separating the source texts from twentieth-century reinterpretation preserves both the real ancient culture and a clear account of how the extraterrestrial claim developed.

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I'll just say that modern religion has been absolutely tainted by humans and people with their own agenda, but every culture from all parts of the planet are more or less telling a similar story. I'm starting to think the ancient aliens theory is real. I am starting to think that religion is trying to explain something that has been otherwise beyond our comprehension and we are just now developing the tools to detect some weird shit. Anyone else?

I have two. 1. Jim Penniston’s Binary Code Message- Jim Penniston was an airman that was involved with the Rendlesham Forest incident. He claimed that he saw a flash of light and binary code was downloaded into his brain. He later wrote it into a notebook and didn’t say anything about in any other interviews up until 2010ish for Ancient Aliens (or some History Channel UFO show). I call BS for multiple reasons. First, when I watched that Ancient Alien episode, I immediately recalled the X File...

The Aztlan collection are a group of artifacts allegedly ancient which depict paleocontact between aliens and humans. There's a number of claims around them, mostly as a result of independent researcher Trevor Hawke who purports to have evidence they're genuine. Here's his paper: https://www.academia.edu/167025997/Prehistoric_artifacts_of_Mesoamerica_anthropological_evidence_of_ET_paleocontact Here's a paper that alleges all his research methodology is poor and doesn't prove his conclusions:...

More photos: https://x.com/i/status/2087629286220202371 New interview: https://x.com/i/spaces/1RJjpbzpVBdKw Research paper: https://www.academia.edu/167025997/Prehistoric_artifacts_of_Mesoamerica_anthropological_evidence_of_ET_paleocontact

More photos: https://x.com/i/status/2087629286220202371 New interview: https://x.com/i/spaces/1RJjpbzpVBdKw Research paper: https://www.academia.edu/167025997/Prehistoric_artifacts_of_Mesoamerica_anthropological_evidence_of_ET_paleocontact

Epstein tried to meet with Zecharia Sitchin (the man who Popularized Ancient Aliens and Nibiru)

Is there some kind of alternative tour I can take that can point out the inconsistencies regarding the construction of these structures and the link between ancient Egypt and extraterrestrials/higher beings? I will be doing the generic tour with the Zahi Hawass narrative "it was the national project of Egypt".. they rolled the stones on logs and cut the stones so precisely with the crude tools of the time... Which I don't buy into. I believe the great pyramid and all of the older ones were bu...

Very interesting video about the Epstein Files and his connection to "Ancient-astronaut" writers

Tomorrow at 12pm et, Jason Quitt joins me in the SCIF. (Available now for members) Jason Quitt is a Canadian author, researcher, and lecturer whose work explores mysticism, consciousness, out-of-body experiences, ancient civilizations, and sacred geometry. He has spent over two decades studying energy healing, meditation, Qi Gong, and shamanic traditions, and is known for books including Forbidden Knowledge, Astral Genesis, Egyptian Postures of Power, and Gates of the Anunnaki.

👽 The Annunaki Explained by Kerry Cassidy 🛸 Ancient Aliens or Myth?

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