The Sumerians are famous for the great cultural advances that bequeathed, including their advanced knowledge of astronomy.Around them there is a polemic: self-development or intervention extraterrestrial ? We open the debate.
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From the Sumerians we inherit many small traces of their passage through the world, However, it should be noted that they did not attract attention like the ancient Egyptians, since they did not extend their monuments or raise imposing obelisks, huge sphinxes or majestic sculptures.The archaeological discoveries tell us that they observed the cosmos to their way and they worshiped a very limited group of Gods These are:
Utu : God of the Sun. An (or Anu): God of heaven. Nammu : The goddess-mother. Inanna : The goddess of love and war (equivalent to the goddess Ishtar of the Akkadians). Enki : God of beneficence and fresh water from the deep underground. Nanna : God moon in Ur. Enlil : God of the wind. Nin.Mah : Lady Excelsa. Nin.hur.sag : Lady of the head of the mountain.
To understand the presence of the Sumerian Gods in the archaeological finds we must first know the symbols with those that are represented.The pantheon of the Sumerians was headed by An "star", whose sign was distinguished by being a vertical line that was crossed by others in horizontal and diagonal.The god of the Sun was accompanied by his sons Henil and EnKi, who together they formed the most powerful deity.
The relationship of the Sumerians with the" aliens "began from the first moment that this ancient civilization was known.Historians and enthusiasts of ancient peoples did not give I credit some of the archaeological treasures that were being found.It is interesting to highlight the discovery of the Sumerian skulls , whose skulls were unusually very different from the human ones.The skulls were more elongated than expected and represented some deformities.Even in the Middle East several statues of Sumerian gods were found whose skulls are much more elongated than ours.
These skulls were not only unearthed in the settlements where the Sumerians reigned, but were also discovered in much farther places, such as in Peru (they can be seen in the Archaeological Museum of Lima and in the Ica museum).Besides having form of or , the skulls show very different dimensions in the eye sockets, more round and oversized.Opinions dance from side to side; many believe that these are aliens who died next to the Sumerian people, while others argue that these deformations were performed on ancient rituals .Apparently, in the rites tablets with leather tapes were used to press the skull of the children, since they were still small and their bones were soft, easy to mold in the image of the Gods.
The Sumerians were one of the first civilizations to practice writing and show interest in the origin and destiny not only of their race, but of all the elements that surround them.
In The Middle East has found a Sumerian book called ' The Poem of Gilgamesh ', whose pages are considered today the oldest in history, although there were still more than 3,000 years before the birth of Christ and, for consequently, the arrival of the first Bible, the story of Gilgamesh has many similarities with the latter.It was a narrative of Mesopotamia of Sumerian origin, where Gilgamesh (fifth King of Uruk) and his friend Enkidu talked about immortality and the possible arrival of a flood to Earth.The book was written on arcill tablets a and cuneiform writing, which favored its preservation to this day.
So, for example, Erich von Daniken argues that certain constructions of some ancient civilizations are so impressive and so technologically advanced for their time that it is impossible that the people who lived at that time were the only ones responsible for their creation, because, according to him, they had neither the tools , nor the techniques , nor the necessary knowledge to make them a reality.Therefore, he defends that these constructions (including the famous pyramids of Giza, the Stonehenge complex or the famous Moai of Easter Island ) had to be made by other people's beings planets that if they had sufficient means to do so or by men who had received from these extraterrestrial beings everything necessary to make them a reality.
The so-called theory of the Sumerian aliens is It has become very popular among defenders of the existence of extraterrestrial beings who have arrived on Earth and has become very famous thanks to the Internet, being known even by people who have no special interest in the subject of the aliens or who consider the theories related to them little more than pure fantasy.It is especially linked to the interpretation that Zecharia Sitchin has made of some Sumerian remains that have reached us, although he also drinks from the ideas that we have presented in the previous paragraph , given the enormous cultural advance for the time presented by the Mesopotamian civilizations of Antiquity.Particularly, Sitchin defends that the gods worshiped by the ancient Sumerians were really "visitors" or "astronauts" from the planet Nibiru , that continues to exist and moves around the sun, although modern astronomers have never found any evidence of its existence.
This theory defends that the aliens coming from this planet populated the Earth long before the appearance of the man, with the main objective of getting raw materials to take to their planets of origin .Concretely, Sitchin speaks that it was 50 Anunnaki who arrived in the Mesopotamia area to get products like gold or the metal.To be able to help them in that task and to take charge of the heaviest work, they decided to create the human being .However, they did not manage to create a Homo Sapiens at the first attempt, but they carried out various trials until to reach modern man, to which the different fossils and remains found to date that represent the evolution of man over the millennia would correspond.
Once man was created with the aim of being little more that his servant was transmitted some of his superior knowledge, which would be engraved on the mysterious tablets found in the Sumerian zone.This transmission of knowledge is, according to the people who defend this theory, the main reason why the Mesopotamian civilization was able to star in enormous advances at a cultural, architectural and civil level that seemed impossible for its contemporaries, since they were not the ones who had advanced , but simply had put into practice the superior knowledge that the aliens had transmitted to them.Social advances such as the establishment of the monarchy, whose institution was intended to be an intermediation between humans and the Anunnaki, and the wonderful cultural advances linked to Mesopotamia, such as the creation of writing, would be linked directly to aliens.
Finally, according to this theory, after the destruction of their work on Earth, the Anunnaki decided to abandon it, leaving the human beings that they had created to govern themselves through the techniques and knowledge that they had transmitted to them.In this way, the gods and the myths of Mesopotamia that we know would be linked to those first extraterrestrial beings that created man and taught him what they knew, and whose second coming they kept waiting, however, this type of affirmation has no scientific basis at all and states Situations such as Sitchin's have been greatly criticized by all kinds of experts, and the scope of the pseudoscience is relegated.
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More than 5000 years ago
There is a somewhat disturbing image created by the Sumerians 5000 years ago.As you know, the Sumerians were one of the most ancient human civilizations.They settled on the low Mesopotamia , were observant observers of nature, and the first to develop the writing .
As for his worldview , frequently coincided with that of the Egyptians , whose culture was developing not far from theirs.Both cosmologies imagined a static world , where the predominant elements were heaven and earth , circled by the So ly la Luna.In that world, each town was thought of as the center of everything known, surrounded by the chaos of the foreigner.
Sumerian astronomy
The Sumerians , as well as the Maya or the Egyptians, were great sky watchers .The regularity of the stellar movement was something that everyone recorded with divine respect and studied with curiosity.However, the formulation of astronomical theories would be something typical of modern science, despite some exceptions.In general, the observation of the stars acquired religious nuances, or sometimes their annotations served for the temporalization of daily life.
That is why it is not surprising that That ancient peoples would record very well the movements of celestial objects such as Jupiter or the Moon , but that they would not develop the idea that there were planets rotating around the Sun They only observed and used their common sense, which told them of a quiet Earth , whose sky paraded stars of unknown origin.
That's why this image was disturbing for more than one.In it, as the background of a scene, you can clearly see a pointed star surrounded by small spheres that rotate around you.
There is hardly a clearer picture of what for us it's the Solar System .It doesn't get too far from the drawing we would draw to quickly explain a child's heliocentric system.That's not all, for some researchers, the spheres seem to coincide curiously in their proportions with the sizes of the nine planets of our system and their most important satellites.
Would it be possible that the Sumerians developed the heliocentric theory and known all the planets of our solar system? The answer is no.Beyond the epistemological limitations, the Sumerian astronomical observations registered the planets that we can only observe with our eye, a lens unable to capture the signals of Neptune , Uranus , and Pluton.
The Sumerians only had knowledge of what was seen with the naked eye on clear nights, so stars like Neptune, Uranus , and Pluto were called "igigi" or " vigilantes ", being Venus the goddess Inanna.On the other hand, Nannar was for them what for us is the Moon.Likewise and, for to separate different types of elements, they divided the space that was from their feet to the sky in 3 parts: The first was under the domain of Enki and represented the ground, the second symbolized the kingdom of An and symbolized the sky, while the third part was under Henil's control and already reached the sky.
Although this seems to be a compelling test to rule out that the image refers to the Solar System, the characters that invoke the extraterrestrial intervention in the matter.Such is the case of the Russian author Zecharia Sitchin , who argued that the image was inspired by the knowledge that only an alien race could have, and that it would have been in direct contact with the Sumerians, who would have also transmitted the principles of agriculture, metallurgy, and writing.
It is not difficult to take the Sumerian example and use common sense to explain the s things.The need to resort to external and fanciful factors to explain an engraving on a stone seal is something totally unnecessary from the point of view of logic ( Occam's razor ), and absurd from the common sense.However, the image is still a star surrounded by spheres of different Yorbite sizes, and its true interpretation will always be a mystery.
The Sumerian Gods
From the Sumerians we inherit many small traces of their passage through the world, However, it should be noted that they did not attract attention like the ancient Egyptians, since they did not extend their monuments or raise imposing obelisks, huge sphinxes or majestic sculptures.The archaeological discoveries tell us that they observed the cosmos to their way and they worshiped a very limited group of Gods These are:
Utu : God of the Sun. An (or Anu): God of heaven. Nammu : The goddess-mother. Inanna : The goddess of love and war (equivalent to the goddess Ishtar of the Akkadians). Enki : God of beneficence and fresh water from the deep underground. Nanna : God moon in Ur. Enlil : God of the wind. Nin.Mah : Lady Excelsa. Nin.hur.sag : Lady of the head of the mountain.
To understand the presence of the Sumerian Gods in the archaeological finds we must first know the symbols with those that are represented.The pantheon of the Sumerians was headed by An "star", whose sign was distinguished by being a vertical line that was crossed by others in horizontal and diagonal.The god of the Sun was accompanied by his sons Henil and EnKi, who together they formed the most powerful deity.
The relationship of the Sumerians with the" aliens "began from the first moment that this ancient civilization was known.Historians and enthusiasts of ancient peoples did not give I credit some of the archaeological treasures that were being found.It is interesting to highlight the discovery of the Sumerian skulls , whose skulls were unusually very different from the human ones.The skulls were more elongated than expected and represented some deformities.Even in the Middle East several statues of Sumerian gods were found whose skulls are much more elongated than ours.
These skulls were not only unearthed in the settlements where the Sumerians reigned, but were also discovered in much farther places, such as in Peru (they can be seen in the Archaeological Museum of Lima and in the Ica museum).Besides having form of or , the skulls show very different dimensions in the eye sockets, more round and oversized.Opinions dance from side to side; many believe that these are aliens who died next to the Sumerian people, while others argue that these deformations were performed on ancient rituals .Apparently, in the rites tablets with leather tapes were used to press the skull of the children, since they were still small and their bones were soft, easy to mold in the image of the Gods.
The Sumerians were one of the first civilizations to practice writing and show interest in the origin and destiny not only of their race, but of all the elements that surround them.
In The Middle East has found a Sumerian book called ' The Poem of Gilgamesh ', whose pages are considered today the oldest in history, although there were still more than 3,000 years before the birth of Christ and, for consequently, the arrival of the first Bible, the story of Gilgamesh has many similarities with the latter.It was a narrative of Mesopotamia of Sumerian origin, where Gilgamesh (fifth King of Uruk) and his friend Enkidu talked about immortality and the possible arrival of a flood to Earth.The book was written on arcill tablets a and cuneiform writing, which favored its preservation to this day.
The hypothesis of the astronaut or ancient alien
The one known as theory or hypothesis of the alien or ancient astronaut is a pseudoscientific idea that defends that, during Prehistory and Antiquity, the aliens established some kind of contact with human beings, transmitting certain knowledge that caused the development of different civilizations and that were the germ of different types of cultural, scientific and architectural advances.The defenders of this theory indicate that, following this idea, the gods of ancient cultures from the heavens or other realms parallel to the earth would not be divinities as we generally understand them, but that they would represent the beings from other worlds who had provided them with the knowledge that had improved their lives.So, for example, Erich von Daniken argues that certain constructions of some ancient civilizations are so impressive and so technologically advanced for their time that it is impossible that the people who lived at that time were the only ones responsible for their creation, because, according to him, they had neither the tools , nor the techniques , nor the necessary knowledge to make them a reality.Therefore, he defends that these constructions (including the famous pyramids of Giza, the Stonehenge complex or the famous Moai of Easter Island ) had to be made by other people's beings planets that if they had sufficient means to do so or by men who had received from these extraterrestrial beings everything necessary to make them a reality.
The so-called theory of the Sumerian aliens is It has become very popular among defenders of the existence of extraterrestrial beings who have arrived on Earth and has become very famous thanks to the Internet, being known even by people who have no special interest in the subject of the aliens or who consider the theories related to them little more than pure fantasy.It is especially linked to the interpretation that Zecharia Sitchin has made of some Sumerian remains that have reached us, although he also drinks from the ideas that we have presented in the previous paragraph , given the enormous cultural advance for the time presented by the Mesopotamian civilizations of Antiquity.Particularly, Sitchin defends that the gods worshiped by the ancient Sumerians were really "visitors" or "astronauts" from the planet Nibiru , that continues to exist and moves around the sun, although modern astronomers have never found any evidence of its existence.
This theory defends that the aliens coming from this planet populated the Earth long before the appearance of the man, with the main objective of getting raw materials to take to their planets of origin .Concretely, Sitchin speaks that it was 50 Anunnaki who arrived in the Mesopotamia area to get products like gold or the metal.To be able to help them in that task and to take charge of the heaviest work, they decided to create the human being .However, they did not manage to create a Homo Sapiens at the first attempt, but they carried out various trials until to reach modern man, to which the different fossils and remains found to date that represent the evolution of man over the millennia would correspond.
Once man was created with the aim of being little more that his servant was transmitted some of his superior knowledge, which would be engraved on the mysterious tablets found in the Sumerian zone.This transmission of knowledge is, according to the people who defend this theory, the main reason why the Mesopotamian civilization was able to star in enormous advances at a cultural, architectural and civil level that seemed impossible for its contemporaries, since they were not the ones who had advanced , but simply had put into practice the superior knowledge that the aliens had transmitted to them.Social advances such as the establishment of the monarchy, whose institution was intended to be an intermediation between humans and the Anunnaki, and the wonderful cultural advances linked to Mesopotamia, such as the creation of writing, would be linked directly to aliens.
Finally, according to this theory, after the destruction of their work on Earth, the Anunnaki decided to abandon it, leaving the human beings that they had created to govern themselves through the techniques and knowledge that they had transmitted to them.In this way, the gods and the myths of Mesopotamia that we know would be linked to those first extraterrestrial beings that created man and taught him what they knew, and whose second coming they kept waiting, however, this type of affirmation has no scientific basis at all and states Situations such as Sitchin's have been greatly criticized by all kinds of experts, and the scope of the pseudoscience is relegated.
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