The Ancient Mesopotamian City Nibiru

There is a lot of mystery surrounding the Sumerians and their beliefs, like where they came from and who were the Anuna/Anunnaki? Many people have claimed to be scholars in the language and history of Sumer, and some of those people wrote books on it.

For example.

The Experts

Samuel Noah Kramer was one of the world’s leading Assyriologists and world-renowned experts in the Sumerian language and its history. Samuel Noah Kramer shares his knowledge through the many different books he has written, including History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History and The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character. With his credentials, including a Ph.D., I am confident that what I’ve read from him is pretty accurate.

When I first read the seven-book series, The Complete Earth Chronicles (The Earth Chronicles) by Zecharia Sitchin, I was amazed by the idea of how Zecharia Sitchin felt that aliens/extraterrestrials/ancient astronauts were the ones responsible for the creation of humanity and how they were here on earth because they needed gold for their home planet Nibiru. Whether I believed it or not, researching what he shared through his 30 years of intensive research about the Anunnaki was well worth reading the many books that Zecharia Sitchin has written.

Dr. Michael S. Heiser has a website called https://sitchiniswrong.com/index.html, and it goes into how he believes Zecharia Sitchin is wrong about the Anunnaki. From my personal experience, many people believe what Zecharia Sitchin has written in his books about the Anunnaki being from a planet named Nibiru. And from reading many books from Zecharia Sitchin myself, he makes some interesting points about who the Anunnaki are. But Dr. Michael S. Heiser disagrees with Zecharia Sitchin. And through his website, he breaks down exactly what he disagrees with about Zecharia Sitchin and his theories about the Anunnaki.

This is from Dr. Michael S. Heiser’s website, “Mike Heiser earned an M.A. (1998) and Ph.D. (2004) in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His dissertation was entitled, “The Divine Council in Late Canonical and Non-Canonical Second Temple Jewish Literature” (English translation: the dissertation dealt with the presence of a pantheon in the Hebrew Bible and the binitarian nature of ancient Israelite religion and Judaism, a backdrop for the belief in the deity of Christ in the New Testament). Before going to the UW-Madison, Mike also earned an M.A. in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania (1992; major fields, Ancient Syria-Palestine and Egyptology). Mike can do translation work in roughly a dozen ancient languages, among them Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Greek, Aramaic, Syriac, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Phoenician, Moabite, and Ugaritic cuneiform. He has also studied Akkadian and Sumerian independently.”

What The Experts Say

I’ve read many different books from Zecharia Sitchin. Zecharia Sitchin had used what is known as cylinder seal VA 243 as an example of what he would consider the 12 dots representing celestial objects, including the earth and the home planet of the Anunnaki being, Nibiru, and then the sun. And having seen cylinder seal VA 243 and having read Sitchin’s material, I can see for myself how he came up with the idea about planet Nibiru and the Anunnaki gods that supposedly came from there.

However, there is an unknown number of celestial bodies in our solar system, so that extra dot representing Nibiru could be anything. But when I went to Dr. Michael S. Heiser’s website, I had learned what was considered the sun by Zecharia Sitchin on seal cylinder VA 243 is actually not the sun because there’s no known depiction of that type of sun anywhere in the records from ancient Mesopotamia. And even though Zecharia Sitchin could back up his claim, people like Dr. Michael S. Heiser still disagree with Zecharia Sitchin and the theories he presented in his books.

Using information from Samuel Noah Kramer and even Dr. Michael S. Heiser, I can determine for myself precisely what may be exaggerated and what wasn’t.

I’ve read and learned a lot from many scholars, including those already named who are said to be experts on the Anuna/Anunnaki. And the most crucial factor that I’ve learned from each of them is that each of them presents their information based on their own interpretation along with what they may have also seen from the many artifacts they’ve had the chance of coming in contact with, such as cylinder seal VA 243.

Thinking outside the Box

When it comes to the Anunnaki, I learned that the term Anunnaki was initially an Akkadian term, and the Sumerian version was Anuna (spelled different ways like Anunna, for example).

But many people honestly believe what Zecharia Sitchin presented in his books about the Anunnaki being gods from Nibiru. This is no different than anyone who believes in God and Heaven.

I first learned about Nibiru, the planet, from Zecharia Sitchin from reading the book series The Complete Earth Chronicles (The Earth Chronicles). With Nibiru and how Zecharia Sitchin puts his theory together about it being the home planet to the Anunnaki is fascinating, but having read that “Nibiru” may be assigned to any visible astronomical object brings me back to the many celestial objects in our solar system.

Even though I’ve learned a lot from scholars such as Samuel Noah Kramer, Dr. Michael S. Heiser, and Zecharia Sitchin and including many others that are said to be experts on the Sumerian history and the Anunnaki, my favorite go-to resource for information that has anything to do about the Sumerians and their gods and goddesses comes from this website ETCSLhomepage (ox.ac.uk). I’m able to read the translations made from the Sumerian cuneiform tablets from this website.

Go to that website and search Enki or Enlil, and you’ll see a lot of translations from the cuneiform tablets.

But because I was familiar with Zecharia Sitchin’s interpretations, I researched Nibiru for myself for verification. And what I learned is not only that it wasn’t originally known as a planet by the Sumerians, but instead, it was a Sumerian city in ancient Mesopotamia.

Many people I come in contact with believe that Nibiru was a planet, even though no written text actually comes out and says it; either way, people really think that the creators of humans came from a world that orbits the earth every 3600 years.

But because I want to make sure I know as much as I can about any subject I’m interested in, whether I believe it or not, I have researched the origins of Nibiru and learned another exciting piece of information which is that Nibiru was the Akkadian version and Nibru which was the Sumerians version.

When I go to this website, The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ox.ac.uk), I can’t find any indication of Nibiru/Nibru being a planet; however, I did read how it is a city.

But I must point this out. The Sumerian civilization dates range somewhere around 3200-1900 B.C.

I’ve learned that many Sumerian artifacts, like the cuneiform tablets, were severely damaged and too hard to read to translate. But what may be missing on one cuneiform tablet from the Sumerians may be recorded on an Akkadian tablet or seal or any artifact, for that matter.

From my understanding, the Sumerians were the founders of the first writing system, and at the very least, that gives me a place to start when wanting to know the beginning history of Nibiru.

People will interpret things differently.

Closing out

This is from my experience, with all the books that I’ve read so far, which can be found here on my website https://rebirthoftheword.com/books-and-classes/. Through conversations with people, whenever the Anunnaki is brought up, Zecharia Sitchin seems to be the one who is mainly credited for the idea that the Anunnaki came from a planet called Nibiru. Many people believe what he wrote in his books because he shared some evidence that brought him to his theory about the Anunnaki.

Even though there can be arguments made about the extraterrestrial theories or gods/goddesses or God theories, and even alien theories, one thing is for sure, from the beginning of what’s considered civilization, there has always been a fascination with gods, also known as celestials.

There is one planet that was indeed named Nibiru, and that was Marduk’s star Jupiter, and Jupiter was also identified as Nibiru when observed in the month of Tisritum.

Now, I’m not saying the Anunnaki came from Jupiter or Nibiru or anything like that, I’m just sharing what I’ve learned, and I feel this is very interesting to know. And understanding the many different theories about Nibiru/Nibru, I can’t help but wonder if there were really extraterrestrials, gods, goddesses, or God that came from a place known as “Heaven or Nibiru.” And if it wasn’t beings from outside earth’s atmosphere, then were humans responsible for the building of the pyramids in Africa?

As of this publication article, no cuneiform tablet from the Sumerians indicates the planet Nibiru.

Until next time, Knowledge is Power.