Heather Lynn - The Anunnaki Connection: Sumerian Gods, Alien DNA, and the Fate of Humanity

This edition first published in 2020 by New Page Books, an imprint of

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Copyright 2020 by Dr. Heather Lynn

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Dedicated to those
who stay up late to dream
when the rest of the world remains
asleep in the darkness.

A s finite humans in an infinite cosmos, we continually seek to understand our place therein. To the ancients, the human experience was dual in nature, whether as good vs. evil, light vs. dark, or heaven vs. earth. According to the great mythologist and scholar Joseph Campbell, everything in the field of time are pairs of opposites (Campbell, 2012, 125). Our history is rooted in duality, but as Campbell also points out, mythic thought transcends duality. It is through mythic thought that we can fully appreciate our deep connection to the Anunnaki. This book will treat the subject of the Anunnaki, the origins of humankind, and extraterrestrials with the respect and seriousness it deserves. But before attempting to understand this study's proposed connections, we must first address what is meant by the term myth.

It is commonly accepted that myth was how ancient people explained the unexplainable. However, this interpretation is not entirely satisfactory and gives insufficient credit to our distant ancestors. I argue that myth is not the search for meaning, as meaning is a product of the rational mindmore specifically, the left hemisphere. It is this part of the brain that is logical, connecting details from the present to categorize and organize information. The left hemisphere thinks in terms of language and is our inner voice that makes meaning between our internal world and external world. Myth, by its very nature, has the power to transcend even this inner duality. The language of myth is by no means rational, but neither is it irrational. It is pre-rational. Myth is the language of dreams, symbols, and archetypes. It is how the ancients shared their universal truths and worldviews with each otherand eventually us. Thus, the gods and myths of the ancient past should not be judged on rationality alone. Rather, myth should be cherished for its ability to transcend both time and space. It is this transcendent nature of myth that can open the door to humanity's own ascension.

I would first like to thank everyone at Red Wheel/Weiser, especially my editor for New Page Books, Michael Pye, whose faith and patience will never be forgotten. Thank you to the many alternative researchers who have inspired me to ask more far-reaching questions, especially Michael Cremo for encouraging me to push the envelope. Thank you to Gary A. David, for his devotion to his research and sharing it with me and the world. Thank you to Dr. John DeSalvo, who has been a sage and, more importantly, a friend. Thank you also to the incomparable Edmund Marriage. Finally, but most importantly, thank you to my readers for being brave enough to venture outside of the established historical narrative to explore radical ideas and earth-shattering possibilities.

The omission is the most powerful form of lie,
and it is the duty of the historian to ensure that those lies
do not creep into the history books.

GEORGE ORWELL, British novelist.

F or the past two hundred years, ancient Egypt has captured our imaginations. Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign in the Ottoman territories of Egypt and Syriaan expedition that led to the discovery of the Rosetta Stoneset in motion a phenomenon known as Egyptomania. This widespread fascination with ancient Egypt swelled with Howard Carter's discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. And Egyptomania is still recognizable in postmodern culture in everything from entertainment to architecture.

In this new millennium, a different and more ancient civilization known as the Sumerians has also captured the imaginations of people all over the world, launching us into another mania: Sumer-mania. Information about the Sumerians, particularly their pantheon of gods known as the Anunnaki, is everywhere, thanks to the internet. At the time of the writing of this book, one search of Sumerian on YouTube resulted in over 762,000 hits, with the term Anunnaki offering over 509,000 results. It is a burgeoning fascination in almost all media. What was once a subculture is becoming increasingly mainstreamand for good reason. The Sumerians were truly exceptional in ways that you will discover throughout this book. They were so exceptional that even academia has been haunted by unresolved questions about who the Sumerians really were and where in the world they came from. Scholars believe that all groups of known people in Mesopotamia spoke Semitic languages, but the Sumerians did not. This leads us to The Sumerian Problem.

First proposed by Professor Jonathan Ziskind in 1972, the Sumerian Problem addresses how the Sumerian language could be unique among the peoples of the ancient Near East: they must have migrated from somewhere far away (Ziskind, 1972, 41). But the Sumerian language is not the only thing that sets this ancient civilization apart from all others. Their knowledge of the cosmos was mind-blowing in its accuracy, so much so that it would later influence advancing civilizations like the Egyptians, Greeks, and even our own modern culture. It is easy to understand why the Sumerians are so fascinating!

However, the growing obsession with the Sumerians and Anunnaki provides more questions than answers. While self-proclaimed experts have proposed intriguing alternative theories about the Anunnaki, many of these theorists do one of a handful of things that undermine their arguments. First, they support, without question, the work of Zecharia Sitchin, an economist and amateur Assyriologist who gave a unique interpretation of the Sumerian myths that promoted paleocontact theory, or as some in the mainstream entertainment industry now call it ancient astronaut theory. There are also conventional academics studying the Sumerians and Anunnaki, most of whom are employed in tenured positions at universities and do not entertain alternative ideas. The absolute debunking put forward by those few researchers does little to connect the dots for the growing number of people demanding to know the true history of the Anunnaki. This sort of close-minded view only serves to further divide the issue. It also makes it appear that they are hiding something deep within the Ivory Tower. The only thing gained by this type of secrecy is increasingly extraordinary speculation.