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adjust the projector before the film begins.
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The volume and tone are identical with the soundtrack
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which follows. Across the world, the ruins
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still stand. Ziggurats rising from the
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deserts of Mesopotamia, temples carved in stone along the Nile,
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pyramids piercing the jungles of Mexico, columns broken and
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scattered across the hills of Greece.
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Civilizations separated by oceans and millennia.
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And yet they all tell the same story.
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They spoke of shining beings who descended from the heavens,
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gods, angels, or something stranger.
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They gave fire, law, and civilization to mankind.
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They taught astronomy, medicine, and war.
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They punished rebellion with floods and demanded worship in
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return. What were these beings, truly?
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Were they aliens from distant worlds?
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Interdimensional travellers slipping into our reality for
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reasons we still cannot grasp? Perhaps they were something
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beyond all of these categories, something outside of human
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comprehension. The Sumerians called them the
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Anunnaki, and their shadow lingers through every great
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civilization of the ancient world.
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Join us as we search for the truth.
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About where we came from on the Anunnaki connection.
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For more than 2000 years, these ruins remained undiscovered.
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For centuries, the only people who saw these remains were
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occasional nomads who camped near here.
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At the turn of this century, when archaeologists first came
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to Iraq, or as it was called then Mesopotamia, they were
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looking for the biblical city Babylon.
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But they uncovered even older civilizations.
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The digging started here in the Fertile Crescent.
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The land between the rivers looked promising because of the
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possibilities for irrigation agriculture.
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Archaeologists knew that early civilizations grew along the
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banks of major rivers. Here it was the Tigris and
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Euphrates. These rivers were fed by waters
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from the mountains to the north. Not far from here, ancient
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cities have been discovered. Around 2700 BC.
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They were populated by Sumerians in this area.
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Archaeologists have found proof that cereal agriculture was the
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basis of that civilization. Irrigated fields produced a
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dependable food supply for Sumerians.
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They dug ditches and brought river water to their dry lands,
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the first step toward large scale farming.
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Farmers have been irrigating this area for nearly 5000 years.
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Canal systems crisscrossed the whole land.
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The Sumerians turned the desert into a fertile delta with an
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abundant food supply. The population grew with summer,
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divided into several city states.
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This pattern was quite different from Egypt, which at the same
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time was developing into a unified country.
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We think about 200,000 people lived in a typical Sumerian city
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state. The temple was the center of
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Sumerian city life. At UR, archaeologists uncovered
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another temple called a ziggurat.
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Each city state was organized around the worship of the deity
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whose home was the temple. Mainstream archaeology tells us
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that summer was the birth place of civilization, the first
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cities, the first writing, irrigation canals, temples, and
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laws. But the Sumerians themselves
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never claimed credit for these breakthroughs.
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In their own tablets, they wrote that it was the Anunnaki who
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descended from the heavens and laid the foundations of culture.
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The word Anunnaki itself tells us who these beings were.
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It comes from 2 root words in the Sumerian tongue, Anu and Ki.
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Anu was the supreme God of the heavens, the father of the
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divine assembly, ruler of the sky.
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Ki was the earth, the realm of man.
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And so the Anunnaki were literally those who from heaven
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came to earth, beings who crossed the boundary between the
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divine and the mortal, who descended to shape the world of
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men. At the head of their pantheon
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was Anu, the distant Sky Father, seated in the highest heavens.
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Beneath him was his son Enlil, the Storm God, who cleaved
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heaven and earth in two. Enlil became Lord of the air and
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the atmosphere, and it was he who decided the fate of mankind.
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His brother was Enki, Lord of the waters, master of wisdom and
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creation, who dwelt in the AB Zoo, the subterranean deep.
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Enki was the God who shaped mankind itself and who later
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defied his brother to save humanity from the flood.
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Alongside them stood Ninherzog, the Mother Goddess, described as
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the nourisher of humanity and the womb of the earth.
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There was Inana, or Ishtar, goddess of love, war and
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fertility, both alluring and dangerous.
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There was UTU Shamash, the sun God, who brought justice and
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light and handed the laws to kings.
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Together these beings formed the great assembly of the Anunnaki.
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The tablets tell us that the Anunnaki chose who would rule
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and that the laws and boundaries of civilization were decreed by
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them. When Hammurabi inscribed his
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famous code of laws, he credited Shamash, the sun God, as the
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divine source of justice. Mainstream historians explain
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the fall of summer through conquest, soil exhaustion, and
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shifting rivers. But in the tablets, floods,
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famines, and plagues were punishments sent by the gods.
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When humanity grew noisy and rebellious, Enlil sought to wipe
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them out. It was Enki who intervened,
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warning a chosen man to build an ark and survive the deluge.
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The biblical Noah is only the later echo of this much older
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Sumerian tale. In Egypt too, we will find
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stories of gods who came from the stars, who ruled before the
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1st Pharaohs, and who shaped the destiny of mankind.
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Farming began to develop in the Middle East around 8000 BC and
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then spread after 3000 years into the Nile River Valley and
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the fertile land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
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There the Mesopotamian city states would evolve, but in the
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Nile Valley a unified Kingdom of Egypt would come into being.
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It's believed that the people who settled Egypt had been
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forced by the advancing deserts of North Africa into the Valley
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of the Nile. The people found the river, a
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plentiful source of water for their herds.
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They discovered that they could irrigate the land and grow
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crops. They were among the first of the
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ancient peoples to become food producers instead of food
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gatherers. They rapidly developed the
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science of agriculture. The more ambitious projects, the
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digging of irrigation ditches and canals, demanded large scale
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planning and the cooperation of many people.
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Beside this steppe pyramid lie many tombs of nobles.
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Inside these and other tombs, relics have been found clues to
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the way Egyptians lived and worked.
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Ancient hammers and chisels show us how they carved words and
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pictures into stone. Molds for making bricks show
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that ancient brickmakers work much like brickmakers still do
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in Egypt. Models of ancient Egyptian homes
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found in the tombs are similar to the mud brick homes in many
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villages today. Hoes like this relic were used
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by ancient farmers to cultivate the land.
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From the handheld ho, the Egyptians developed the plow
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that could be pulled by animals, a great step forward in the
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progress of civilization. The Egyptians celebrated the
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plow in tomb paintings. With the plow, they could
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cultivate more land and grow the large amount of food that was
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needed to support a great population.
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The Egyptians also developed a system of writing called
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hieroglyphics that was originally designed to be carved
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on stone and was also used later for recording important
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religious works such as the Book of the Dead.
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A simplified form of hieroglyphics was written on
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paper. Another ancient Egyptian
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invention, a dynasty of all powerful Pharaohs ruled the
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country. They claim their authority
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directly from the gods. Egyptians had many gods.
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Mainstream archaeology presents Egypt as the natural outgrowth
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of the Nile, a river that gave life to a desert, allowed
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agriculture to flourish, and fed the rise of a unified Kingdom.
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It speaks of the pyramids as tombs, of irrigation as
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ingenuity, and of Pharaohs as mortal kings who claimed divine
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favor. But beneath the sands lies
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another layer of the story, one where Egypt was not just the
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creation of men, but of gods who came from beyond.
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The Egyptian pantheon is vast, but at its heart are patterns
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that mirror the older Sumerian world.
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Osiris, Lord of the underworld and resurrection, carries echoes
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of Enki, the wise God who descended into the deep,
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associated with water in the renewal of life.
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Isis, Osiris's consort, mother, and magician, reflects
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Ninhersag, the Sumerian mother goddess who nourished humanity.
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Horus, the Falcon, sky God who Avengers his father, recalls the
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storm bearing heirs of Enlil, gods of rulership and warfare.
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And Thoth, scribe of the gods and keeper of hidden wisdom, is
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remembered in Mesopotamia as Ningush Zeta, the Serpent, Lord
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of the Tree of Truth, a mediator between heaven and earth.
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Even the great monuments bear the signature of a knowledge
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that seems to exceed their time. The pyramids, officially
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described as tombs, aligned with Orion's belt.
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And the stars of the heavens, the Sphinx, half man and half
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lion, points to the Zodiac itself, watching over the ages.
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To the Egyptians, these were not just stone, they were machines
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of eternity, bridges between the world of men in the realm of the
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gods. Pharaoh's ruled as divine kings,
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but their authority was never their own.
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Every inscription declares that kingship descended from the
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gods. The Pharaoh was Horus in life,
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Osiris and death, a living conduit of divine blood.
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This is the same claim made in Mesopotamia, that kingship
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itself was a gift of the Anunnaki.
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Egypt remembered it differently, but the theme is the same.
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Rulers on earth, legitimized by beings from heaven.
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The gods of Egypt, like those of summer, carried the marks of the
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Anunnaki. Anu, the distant sky Father,
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becomes RA, the shining sun at the highest point.
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Enlil, the Stormbringer becomes Set, the Chaotic force who rules
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the desert and the storm. Enki, the wise Lord of Water,
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becomes Osiris, drowned, dismembered, yet reborn as Lord
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of Life. The myth changes, but the
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pattern remains. Ancient texts speak of the
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Shemsu Hor, the followers of Horus, a race of divine kings
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who ruled before the 1st Dynasties.
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Some say they came from a lost island swallowed by the sea.
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Others claim they descended from the stars.
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The Sumerians would have recognized them as the Anunnaki.
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In Egypt, the Anunnaki wore new faces.
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They became gods of death and resurrection, of sun and flood,
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of the Nile and the sky. But their role remained the
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same, the givers of kingship, the masters of knowledge, the
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rulers who stood at the threshold between heaven and
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earth. India country stretching nearly
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2000 miles from north to South. A giant triangle separated from
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the rest of the world by vast stretches of ocean and the
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mountain barrier of the Himalayas across the flat desert
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land. India's early invaders coming
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down the mountain passes drove the original settlers to the
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South. These Aryan conquerors occupied
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northern India and ushered in the Hindu period of history.
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As they expanded, the Aryans settled in what are today Patna,
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Delhi and other northern cities. These ruins stand near Delhi to
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this day. It was near Delhi that according
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to legend, a mighty war was fought between rival forces of
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Hinduism. Out of it, a unique set of
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beliefs and rules emerged, touching upon all phases of life
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throughout India. Imposing temples stand witness
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to the deep religious feeling of the Hindu.
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To Hindus seeking religious knowledge, individual well-being
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and possessions are unimportant, and so a great part of the Hindu
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creative genius has turned to religion.
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Each of the many forms of the Supreme Being, to whom all
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Hindus pray, has its temples and its worshippers.
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Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva and the numerous forms and incarnations
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of these gods are rendered in stone.
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The highest art of India is seen in carvings made during the
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period of the Gupta dynasty. Gupta kings ruled northern India
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in the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries AD, and under the
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Guptas, some of the greatest masterpieces of Indian art were
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created. Although it lasted less than 300
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years, it is considered the classical age of India's
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culture. After the 8th century, new waves
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of invaders swept down on the plains, burning, fighting,
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pillaging Arabs. Afghans, Turks, all of them
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fanatic Muslims, littered the Indian countryside with ruins.
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Among the wreckage stands this wrought iron column of one of
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the Gupta kings as a reminder of the short glory of this proud
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Hindu dynasty. Not far from it, near Delhi, a
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Moslem tower of victory was erected.
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Made of carved Redstone and rising 238 feet above the
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ground, it symbolizes the might of the Moslem conquerors in
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India. The ancient Vedas and the
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Mahabharata preserve stories of gods who wielded immense power,
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weapons of fire and machines that could fly across the sky.
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To modern historians, these are just allegories, metaphors for
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storms, lightning and cosmic forces.
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But when read alongside the stories of summer in Egypt, the
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parallels are too close to ignore.
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The Rigveda describes the storm God Indra, possessor of the
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Thunderbolt, who battles serpents and demons with a
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weapon called the vajra, much like the Mesopotamian Enlil, a
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punishing storm God, and the Greek Zeus hurling thunderbolts
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from the sky. The power of the heavens was a
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weapon, devastating and precise, remembered in each tradition
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under a different name, Shiva the destroyer and Creator.
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His wrath, but also his role as renewer, sounds much like Enki,
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who could both preserve life and unleash the waters upon the
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earth. In the Mahabharata, the gods
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grant mankind celestial weapons called Astra, capable of
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levelling entire armies, a memory perhaps of technologies
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once wielded by the same beings, the Sumerians called the
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Anunnaki. Even the stars themselves are
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woven into the myths. The Vedic nakshatra of
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Mrigashira links to Orion, the cosmic hunter whose pursuit
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across the heavens shows up in Greek, Norse and Sumerian
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traditions. Was this constellation sacred
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across cultures because it was home to the same gods,
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remembered under different names?
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The Hindu tales also speak of flying machines, vimanas, that
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carried the gods across the sky, waging war between heavens and
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earth. Ancient astronaut theorists see
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in this the echo of Mesopotamia's sky Chariots, the
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vehicles of the Anunnaki. If the gods of India and the
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gods of summer are the same, then the memory of these
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machines may have been preserved across continents, retold as
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myth but rooted in reality. So where did these Anunnaki gods
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come from? Anthropologists tell us that
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religion began as a way to explain the unexplainable.
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Early humans, confronted with storms, floods, death and the
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stars, gave these forces names and personalities.
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Gods, they say, were born out of fear, ritual and imagination,
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tools for survival in a dangerous world.
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From this perspective, the Anunnaki were nothing more than
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symbols, mythic projections of human needs.
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But here's the problem. The Sumerians didn't tell us
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about theoretical ideas that they had just bouncing around in
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their heads. They wrote about beings, flesh
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and blood, rulers who descended from the heavens above them, who
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built cities, apportioned the land, and decreed the laws of
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civilization. These texts describe a time
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before the flood, when kingship was first lowered from heaven
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and when gods walked among men. Then came catastrophe, the great
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deluge that reset the world. Afterward, only fragments of
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memory remained. This fractured memory may be
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what later civilizations inherited, a recollection of a
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time before humanity was remade, or perhaps before the Earth
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itself was fully prepared for human life.
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Some have speculated this was not merely A mythic flood, but
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the echo of something larger, the terraforming of the planet,
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the reshaping of the earth by forces beyond human
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comprehension. The further back we look, the
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stranger it becomes. Our written records vanish past
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the 4th Millennium BC, before summer history dissolves into
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prehistory. And yet scattered clues remain.
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Megalithic sites like Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, older than
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Sumaya by millennia, show advanced astronomical alignments
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and architecture long before the so-called first civilization.
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The Sumerian King List describes reigns of 10s of thousands of
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years before the flood. Geological evidence hints at
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sudden shifts around 10,000 BC, when ice sheets melted and
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global seas surged. Something happened, something
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that broke the line of human memory.
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It all started many thousands of years ago.
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It started in the Garden of Eden, and I want to read you
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about it in the 3rd chapter of Genesis.
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It's all recorded, all the troubles, all the difficulties,
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all the problems, all the headaches, all the wars, all the
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confusions, all the greed and jealousy that we have today
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started in the Garden of Eden many thousands of years ago.
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In Genesis we are told that God placed man in Eden with one
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command, do not eat. From the tree of knowledge, a
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serpent appears, whispers to Eve and tempts her to defy the
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command She eats, gives to Adam and their eyes are opened.
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For this they are cursed, cast out, condemned to suffering.
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This is the foundation of the biblical story.
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Mankind is guilty forever, in need of obedience.
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But in the older Sumerian texts, the story is not one of sin, it
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is one of rebellion, of survival.
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The serpent is none other than Enki, Lord of Wisdom, who defies
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his brother Enlil by giving humanity forbidden knowledge.
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Just as Prometheus stole fire from the gods, Enki gave mankind
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the tools to live, to think, to see.
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It is Enlil, the storm God, the Punisher who wished to keep
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mankind ignorant, who later tried to wipe humanity out in
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the flood. In this older version it is not
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the serpent who lies, but the so-called God.
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The biblical authors twisted the story.
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The serpent was not the villain, instead a protector.
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Enki was cast as Satan because he gave humanity what the ruling
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gods wanted to withhold. Knowledge, freedom, the spark of
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civilization. And this is where religion
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begins. From the start, it was about
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control, a system to keep mankind in line, to turn fear of
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the divine into obedience to rulers who claim to speak for
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the gods. Whatever the Anunnaki were,
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alien or Angel, they knew our weakness, our hunger for
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meaning, our tendency to worship.
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Did they take advantage of that, Or did they plant it in US
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deliberately, a feature, not a flaw, programming us to kneel
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before them? Modern science has even found
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hints of this in our biology. Some researchers speak of a God
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gene, suggesting that spirituality, even the urge to
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worship, is hard wired into our DNA.
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Is that evolution or engineering?
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Were we designed to seek gods? To crave authority, To hand over
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our power? Does a built in bias towards
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spirituality live in our DNA? The phrase God gene came from
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geneticist Dean Hammer, who argued in 2004 that variation in
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a neurotransmitter gene called VMAT 2 helps tilt some people
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towards self transcendence, the trait psychologists use as a
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proxy for spirituality. It works as a transporter that
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loads dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, and histamine
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into synaptic vesicles, the machinery that shapes reward,
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salience, awe, and motivation. The spirituality knob can be
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measured as self transcendence in Cloninger's Temperament and
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Character inventory. This trait does show genetic
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influence. If the Anunnaki were real,
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divine, alien, or otherwise, they didn't need to invent
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religion from scratch. They could simply lean on human
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wiring that was already there and install a bias toward
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reverence as a feature rather than a bug.
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Religion is a way of life that describes the duties and
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relations of man to his God. Adherence of all religions join
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in the belief that man's coming into the world necessarily
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brought wish, and with God, man and his primitive state sought
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ways of overcoming his environment.
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The fire of the sky, the wrath of the sea, the fury of the
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winds and the heat of the desert for sure, which he tried to
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control or appease. Some primitive men attempted to
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curb such forces with magic. Others turn to a kind of nature
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worship. As time passed, man tried to
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invoke the aid of the primeval forces.
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Eventually, in most religions, man associated these forces with
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someone great Spirit or God. Through the ages, different
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religions have arisen and some have declined. 5 of the great
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religions endure and continue to guide millions upon millions of
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people the world over. These five had their beginnings
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in southwestern Asia. It was here that Hinduism arose.
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Arabia cradled Judaism. Out of Hinduism grew Buddhist
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and out of Judaism developed Christianity.
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Most recently, Islam has developed.
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Where did our stories come from? If humanity was reset, what are
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we actually remembering? Mainstream chronology begins
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when clay meets stylus. Push past five or 6000 years and
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written memory dissolves, But the Earth keeps receipts.
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At the end of the last Ice Age, shorelines weren't where they
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are now. Seas were lower by more than 100
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meters as the ice collapsed, water rushed in and coastline
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sprinted inland. Whatever harbors, shrines or
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villages clung to those Paleo coasts now sleep under the
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continental shelves. That alone explains why deep
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time feels like silence. Much of it is underwater.
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On August 21st, 2025, Egyptian authorities revealed the
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recovery of 2000 year old artifacts from a sunken city in
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Abu Kir Bay near Alexandria. Beneath the waves of the
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Mediterranean, just off Alexandria's coast lies a city
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swallowed by the sea. For centuries it was thought
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lost until divers began pulling its treasures back into the
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light. Statues of gods and kings,
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ancient coins, and even a Sphynx bearing the name of Ramses the
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Second, all resting in silence for nearly 2000 years.
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What if this sunken city hides A deeper story, one that ties into
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the legacy of the gods themselves?
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The finds tell us this wasn't a small trading outpost.
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It was a place of wealth, ceremony, and power.
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The city fell after earthquakes shook the delta and rising
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waters buried its streets. A story we've heard before.
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Civilizations rising, then vanishing under the waves.
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The flood myths of summer, the deluge of the Hebrews, even
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tales from India and the Americas.
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Always the same pattern, right on the hinge where before
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becomes after around 10,000 BC Gobekli tape appears.
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Stone enclosures and T pillars built by hunter gatherers with *
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awareness and engineering nerve. If an industrial civilization
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had risen thousands or even millions of years before us,
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would we even know? After a few 100,000 years?
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Cities crumble and metals oxidize.
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What remains are only geologic whispers.
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Odd carbon isotope jolts, synthetic residues, peculiar
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sediments, anoxic ocean layers. When that world broke by climate
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whiplash, volcanism impact or something we don't have language
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for. The ocean took the edges,
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forests reclaimed the middle, and memory collapsed to myth.
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The survivors did what survivors always do.
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They rebuilt shrines first, then cities. 2 possibilities branch
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from that moment. Caretakers.
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The Anunnaki arrived to a wounded planet, stabilize it,
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and reboot. They seed soils, dam rivers, and
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stand up a cultural operating system.
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Calendars, law, temple LED agriculture, kingship.
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They compress knowledge into rituals so it will survive the
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next shock. Civilization restarts on rails,
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Conquerors the Anunnaki trigger or exploit the collapse, clear
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the board and install themselves as gods.
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They redirect the old animist current away from river and
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ancestor and into ziggurat and throne.
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Obedience becomes holiness, tribute becomes rainfall.
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The same awe circuits, fire, new endpoint.
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Every civilization remembers the moment the human first opened
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their eyes. Across languages and continents,
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the story is told with the same 3 tokens, earth, blood and
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breath. In Mesopotamia, Enki and
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Ninhersag shape a body from clay and spike it with divine
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essence, the blood of a God, so that a living worker can carry
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the load of heaven. Some retelling say Marduk.
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The older tablets point to Kingu or the sacrificed God Geshtu A.
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In Egypt the ram headed canoe turns people on a Potter's wheel
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and brings them to term like vessels from the Nile mud.
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In Greece, Prometheus presses man from clay and Athena leans
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close with the animating breath. In China, Nua needs yellow earth
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into figures and breathes life into them.
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Among the Yoruba, Obitallah sculpts the forms and Ola Dumare
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grants the breath. In the Bible, God lifts dust
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from the ground and breathes a soul into Adam.
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Even the popal Vu remembers failed prototypes, mud and wood
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before the successful people of maize.
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The variables barely change. There is always the earthy
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substrate shaped by a hand, the drop of essence that binds the
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new being to its makers, and the moment of activation when the
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lights come on. The recipe for a human being.
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Could these ingredients be metaphors for a genetic
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procedure? Clay and dust are the local
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genome, the best available substrate on this planet.
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Modern Homo sapiens emerges in Africa roughly 200,000 years
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ago. Around that window, the planet
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carries a whole cast of near humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans
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and Homo erectus lingering in Southeast Asia, Homo naledi in
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southern Africa, and other archaic sapiens and
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heidelbergensis grade populations in Africa and the
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Levant. We know later it mixture
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happened. Living people outside Africa
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carry Neanderthal DNA. Some carry Denisovan proof that
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these lineages were compatible at the genetic level.
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If someone wanted a leap, the raw material was already walking
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around. This leap wouldn't hinge on a
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single miracle gene. It would be a tuning of systems.
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You would nudge the networks that pattern the developing
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brain, so working memory and abstraction get a longer leash.
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You would tighten the feedback loops that bind breath to voice,
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cortex to tongue, so language can ride the air.
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You would soften or sharpen the chemistry of salience and reward
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so teaching ritual and cooperation leave deeper tracks.
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You would fortify immune systems and metabolism for crowding
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grain and animals, directed hybridization and back crossing
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planned unions among compatible hominins with donor gametes to
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concentrate traits across a handful of fast generations.
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Why the blood? Because essence is transmitted
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in blood. Why the breath?
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Because breath is voice and voice is mind shared.
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Why the dirt? Because everybody is of the
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earth. If you had to explain a lab to a
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village, you would use the materials they know.
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That's why the story repeats across time and culture.
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We do not know what the Anunnaki truly were.
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Some see craft in the sky and call them aliens.
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Others see that theory as a bridge too far.
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Both views can hold their ground.
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Perhaps they were human survivors from an advanced cycle
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so old it's become geology, who came back after a planetary
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disaster and restarted the clock.
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Perhaps they were off world engineers who seated A breakaway
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civilization here to bred a hybrid species to inherit the
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surface and then withdrew to wherever home is.
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Or perhaps they were not beings in any way.
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We're prepared to accept predators or patrons from
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another layer of reality who put on the mask of God and learn to
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eat from our devotion. We don't have the final answer.
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What we do have is a pattern and a choice.
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We can look away or we can look harder.
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We aren't here to convert you. We are here to ask the question.
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To ask why the same patterns surface in far places and deep
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time. To ask who benefits when
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information is kept hidden. Maybe the Anunnaki were our
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teachers. Maybe they were our.
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Jailers. Or maybe.
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They were us, TuneIn next time, as we peer deeper into the abyss
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on the Anunnaki connection. Why are you a thrin Taba fida
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kratimahududi? For centuries, mankind has gazed
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at the stars, wondering if we are alone.
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Ancient texts. What if the cradle of
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civilization was also the site of our first encounter?