Greek mythology suggests the god Uranus, Father Sky, cohabitated with Mother Earth, affectionately remembered as Gaea. Beings known as Titans came from this unnatural sexual union.1
Are Greek and Mediterranean mythologies merely a retelling of the Nephilim and antediluvian narrative from a polytheist perspective?
Gaea/Gaia was a giantess2 from whom her offspring accepted their name. Uranus was both husband and son to Gaea in Greek mythology.3 Gaea conceived the original twelve Titans, three cyclopes, and 300 giants from her sexual encounters with gods. Six of the Titans were male, while six were female, known as Titanides. They were regarded to be a new race of gods. The males were recorded as Coeus/Koios, Crius/Kreios/Creius, Kronos/Cronus, Hyperion, Japetus/Iapetus, and Okeanus/Oceanus. The Titanides were named Mnemosyne, Phoebe/Phiobe, Rhea/Rheia, Tethys, Theia, and Themis; their names and number vary in legends including: Euriba/Euribe, Clymene/Klymene, and Dion.4
One giant, Gyges, meaning “giant,” is the source word for “giant” and “gigantic.” Gyges was one of three Hekatoncheires that were created by a union between Uranus and Gaea.5 Boccacio, circa 1313–1375 C.E., listed other classes of giants that included Briareus, Typhon, Typheus, Enceladus, Egon, Atlas, Astreus, and Alous, who in some schools of thought were the siblings of the Furies, cyclopes, and the hundred-handed giants.6
Josephus first recognized at the turn of the first millennium C.E. that misdeeds of fallen angels closely paralleled the legends of the Greek gods and Titans7 recorded in epics like Theogany. Just as in its parallel Genesis 6 account, Theogany focused on the rise and fall of the antediluvian Golden Age, the coming of the giant races, and the universal flood.8 The word Gigantes, also known as Gegenius, translates as “earth born,” just as Gaea was “Mother Earth.”9 All Titans of old had the same origin; they were earth born (from Gaea) in Greek mythology10 and from the seed of the gods; they were beings from heaven (the spirit) and beings from the earth (the flesh), just as Nephilim were. This is the most important and most influential doctrine of antiquity to remember.
The Egyptian pantheon, too, included a similar legend with respect to antediluvian mythology and should be considered under the same light. Isis was considered the Mother Womb of the Earth. Isis was impregnated by the god Osiris/Re,11 producing the god Horus and the demigod dynasty of Egyptian prehistory, which ruled over the kingdoms of Egypt for millennia. Isis, too, according to Gardner, was known as The Great Mother.12
Ninharsag/Ninkhursag (also known as Nintu and Ninmah) was a person whose name translated as “Lady of the Mountain,” thereby suggesting that a god impregnated a lady of the mountain, producing demigods.13 Nintu was nothing more than an epithet for “Mother Goddess” that Ninkhursag was also known as.14 Ninkhursag merged with the earth goddess to become “Lady of the Mountain.”15 She was also the midwife to the gods, the Mother Womb.16 According to David Rohl, Ninkhursag was not only the midwife of the gods but also she was known as the Womb Goddess, just as her name, Ninkhursag, is Sumerian for “Mother Earth.”17 Therefore, Greek, Egyptian, and Sumerian mythology recorded various copulations of gods with Mother Earth, women of the earth. Just as they did in Genesis, these illicit sexual unions produced giants as their progeny.
Another name for “Ninharsag/Ninkhursag” was Nin-Ki, meaning “Lady Earth,” whose sons were the mighty men anointed into kingship, the (earthly) Anunnaki. Ki was the Earth Mother, the mother of Enki and consort to Anu,18 just as Uranus was both husband and son of Gaea. Ki, according to Sitchin, translates as “the earth.” Ninki/Ninmah was likely the earth goddess Ninkhursag merged with; thus, Ninkhursag was an epithet for Nin-Ki/ Ninmah.19 Ninkhursag was alternatively known as well as the Lady of Life, symbolic of the womb, and Lady of the Embryo, while a text called Enki and the World Order named Ninkhursag the Midwife of the Country.20
Ninkhursag was celebrated as the Serpent Lady in Sumerian literature, denoting her as the prevailing Grail/Dragon queen of the Ring Lords. Ninkhursag’s womb became famous within Grail, Dragon, Fairy, and Ring culture and with Legomin literature as the Messianic succession of the uterine womb, the Chalice of the Grail Queen, which marked the perpetual dragon succession and the maternal blood.21 Ninkhursag’s matrilineal blood, the Rosi Crucis, also known alternatively as the “Nectar of Supreme Excellence” and “Star Fire,”22 are additional important allegories that I will cover later.
The rings were the primary devices of the Anunnaki gods, who established earthly kingship from 4000 B.C.E.23 What is important to note here is that Ninkhursag/Mother Earth copulated with the god Anu or Enki, both gods at the apex of the Sumerian pantheon, producing mighty men of renown for kingships, which became in lore the earth born Anunnaki, very much like the Nephilim of Genesis. The Grand Assembly of the Anunnaki held the ring(s) of kingship at Nippur to bind the Anunnaki kings in unity.24 The earthly Anunnaki were the illegal, evil potentates and kings of the antediluvian epoch. The infamous rings of kingship were the basis for Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, as well as a plethora of alternative literature and tales, including the Gau’old’s transport rings allegorized into the Star Gate television series.
The Canaanites also held that Astarte was the wife of the god Bel/Baal. Astarte held appellations, including the Great Mother of Fertility, the Queen of Heaven, and the Great Mother,25 just as her other counterparts in the Greek, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian pantheons did. Astarte was also known in other Middle Eastern pantheons as Astoreth and Asherah,26 as well as Athtart, Ashtoreth, Ashtaroth, and most notably, Ishtar in Akkad,27 Assyria, and Babylon.28 Ishtar was further known in antediluvian Sumeria as Innana.29 Ishtar, not surprisingly, was the female human who slept with the fallen angel Azazel/Shemyaza, from whom she learned the true name of God.30 One then wonders whether Baal, the Canaanite storm god, or Uranus was Azazel.
The term “Mother Earth” represented in ancient mythology throughout the world was the female womb that produced a race of giants through a union with a (god-like) male force.31 Mother Earth is additionally affirmed in other cultures as the Spider Woman, Hard Beings Woman, and Earth Mother.32 All these legends and myths appear to be the same as the Genesis 6 account, and all appear to be Genesis-based. The same allegorical concept was underscored in the little known Sumerian epic Erra and Ishum: “When Anu, the king of the gods, impregnated Earth, she bore the seven gods for him, and he named them Sebetti,”33 the famous, divine (angelic) seven sages of mythology.
The Anunnaki were the unnamed sons of Anu, commonly known to be the Anunnaki gods, sons of God; they then fathered additional Titans on the mysterious Mountain of Heaven and Earth,34 again echoing the sexual violations that occurred at Genesis’s Mount Hermon. Anunnaki were thought to be of both heaven and earth,35 in the same manner that Nephilim were beings of the heavenly spirit and beings of earthly flesh. A full understanding of the Anunnaki appellation brings this to bear: An was Sumerian for “heaven,” just as Anu was the god of heaven, and ki was Sumerian for “earth.”36 All this Anunnaki etymological allegory coalesces with Ninkhursag’s various etymological metaphors to transliterate the creation of Sumerian giant demigods as being created from the gods of heaven and the women of the earth.
According to Gardner, 300 Anunnaki gods of heaven spawned 300 Igigi gods. The Igigi god remained on the earth (as the earthly Anunnaki), and the heavenly 300 Anunnaki resided in heaven,37 a legend very similar to the 200 watchers from heaven descending to Mt. Hermon to engage in sex with the daughters of Cain, producing the Nephilim. Rohl concluded the newly created Anunnaki/Igigi were indeed the earth-bound gods (Nephilim) that were of flesh and blood; they did not dwell with the heavenly Igigi/Anunnaki gods.38 Sitchin believes the heavenly Anunnaki contained two sects: the Anunnaki, who dwelled on earth, and 300 Igigi that dwelled on Mars. It was these 300 Igigi gods from Mars in Sitchin’s version who swore a solemn oath to kidnap human females to procreate another higher form of humanoid in the Cedar Mountains.39
The earthly Anunnaki were the mountain gods that Rohl said later descended to the plains to intermarry and dwell among the Cainites, becoming one people.40 In Sitchin’s version, the Children of the Rocketship were expelled to go live among the interbred Black Heads (of day six) led by the progeny of Cain.41 In Alford’s version, Anu gave birth to the Anunnaki/ Igigi gods in the Mountain of Heaven and Earth and then cast them down from the “Mountain of Heaven,”42 in a similar fashion that Rohl describes Enoch (the Evil) leading the giants down to the people of the plain. This, then, connects Enoch the Evil as a likely part of the first race of Nephilim and, distinct from the Nephilim of Genesis 6, as the nefarious individual who persuaded the Black Heads of day six to accept into their civilization the newly formed second race of Nephilim.
Anunnaki is further broken down to anu, or “father,” and nnaki, or “sons of Anu,” which would be the same as sons of God,43 for Anu was the head god of the Sumerian pantheon. Another variation to the meaning of Anunnaki was “those lofty ones” (angels), the heavenly Anunnaki, who came from heaven to earth44 again, just as Genesis recorded the watchers.
Sumerian legends insist upon the existence of the heavenly Anunnaki, crediting them with being patrons, founders, teachers, justices, technologists, and king makers,45 paralleling fallen angels of biblical legends. The title “Anunnaki” was applied to both the gods of heaven and their Igigi progeny. Baffling and unexplainable events from prehistory make it clear that dark angels and the Seven Sacred Sciences were clearly responsible for the rapid advancements that occurred in antediluvian Sumeria, Greece, and Egypt, as well as other mythical civilizations like as Atlantis and Mu.
According to Rohl, it was decided that in this new antediluvian society, the newcomers, the earthly Anunnaki, were to be the rulers or kings, while the Cainite progeny intermingled with the people of day six were to be the priests and sages, just as Enoch/Oannes was remembered as the high priest of Enki in Sumerian lore. The earthly Anunnaki were the Ring Lords of Nippur. The obligation of the luga/king, meaning “big man” (giant), was to govern and provide security for the land, while the Cainites/Enochians/Sumerians/ Black Heads (of a specific clan or Snake Order) were to be the spiritual leaders, communicating with the gods.46 Earthborn Anunnaki were regarded as archons and rulers, but not full-fledged gods,47 i.e. immortal Nephilim. Even though they were initially regarded as leaders, the Anunnaki eventually assumed the role of (earthly) gods.48 The earthly Anunnaki were the despotic potentates of Genesis, who imposed Enochian mysticism upon humankind through tyranny.
One wonders about the similarities recorded across the ocean by the Quiche Maya in the Popol Vuh. The father god, Qahol, and the mother god, Alom, produced a race, known as the Lords of Xibalba, who were the blood enemies of humankind and who incited all forms of evil and violence.49 Xibalba were a great race, holding great authority in the ancient days; the Lords of Xibalba were not gods, but they viewed themselves as gods.50 They possessed horrible countenances, resembling owls’ faces that frightened people; they were considered forms of vampires and demons living in a home for ghosts and phantoms.51
The Grand Assembly of the Anunnaki met at the temple of Nippur, where Ulligara and Zalgarra were created, and where their primary function was to appoint kings of the Ring Lord tradition. In fact, in the epoch before the flood, Gardner noted that operative kings of Sumer were all Nephilim (Igigi/Anunnaki), appointed by the heavenly Anunnaki (watchers from heaven). The mighty men of Sumer, just as Genesis 6 recorded Nephilim as mighty men and heroes of old, were all known as the sons of Lady Earth (Ninkhursag); they were all anointed into kingship52 at Nippur. Jim Marr writes that the Anunnaki of heaven created the concept of kingship to control the inferior humans;53 whereas, the Sethites had no kings. Enochian mysticism was invented for the purpose of controlling the mundane mortals in partnership with the Nephilim kings.
All legendary Sumerian city-states (that the Nephilim potentates reigned over) were created by the gods in time immemorial, according to Cahill.54 Thus, the Sumerians may have only inherited the cities, and if so, the antediluvian cities may have been much older than the epoch of Adam, which archaeology has relentlessly set forth. Jericho, for example, has been dated as far back as 10,000 B.C.E. This notion of an epoch of builder gods before the creation of humankind was recorded on Sumerian tablets:
After the lofty crown and the throne of kingship had been lowered from heaven, he perfected the rites and the exalted divine laws…. Founded the five cities…. In pure places, called their names, apportioned them as cult centers. The first of these cities was Eridu, the second Badtibira, the third Larak, the fourth Sippar, the fifth Shurrupak.55
We should not forget the city of Ur/Uruk in this august list of antediluvian city-states of Sumeria. Ur/Uruk was the home to the Temple of the Moon and the Sumerian moon cult.56
Now let us turn to the mysterious Myth of Zu for additional connections. Zu was an Anunnaki born of the earth; he brought chaos to heaven and earth by seizing the Tablets of Destiny from Nippur, taking away the Enlilship and suspending the norms. We are introduced in this legend to the god, Enlil, the legendary adversary to Enki, and the Sumerian god most instrumental in bringing about the flood. Pantheists disingenuously associate Enlil with Adonai, God of the Israelites and Christians.
The ancient city of E-Kur, meaning “mountain house,” contained the temple of Enlil. The E-Kur temple stood right beside the Dur-An-Ki, a ziggurat known as the “Bond of Heaven and Earth.”57 The place where heaven bonded with the earth was the center of the earth, known also as Nippur.58 The ancient Akkadians believed that Kharsag was a sacred mountain, and their myths connected it with the “Silver Mountain.” Kharsag was described in the Epic of Gilgamesh as a place where heaven and earth met.59 This then pulls all the Sumerian allegories neatly together, thus connecting all Sumerian mythologies with the balance of the Mediterranean and worldwide mythologies, where gods recognized as Father Sky, or mountains, spawned with human females known as Mother Earth.
Three closely related themes from all ancient allegories ring clear: first, that giants were all born of Mother Earth, and second, they were born of the Heavenly Mountain, a very sacred mountain located at the center of the earth, where heaven meets the earth. The compound term “the Mountain of Heaven and Earth” is merely the allegorical sexual union of the Mountain of Heaven and Mother Earth. Gods of the eastern sacred mountain were honored as the kings of The Heavenly Navel, in the Dao tradition, representing the center of the earth,60 in an identical manner to Nippur and Atlantis.
Gods of mythology were always symbolized to be planets (or stars) and closely associated with mountains, just as Zeus was equated with Jupiter and dwelled in Olympus. In a similar manner, Daoism recorded five Element Emperors that were five primordial gods; when the universe split into heaven and earth, they were transformed into five elements that represent the five planets of the sky and five sacred mountains of the earth.61 One wonders: could these five mountains have been the Mount Hermons scattered among the five continents?
Mountains associated with gods explains why ziggurats and pyramids were built in honor of their gods, after the image of mountains, where they could rejoin the heavens (the planets and or stars) with their earthly, allegorical counterpart, and also creating a gateway to the gods, just as Babel was built for the same purpose. Thus, ziggurats and pyramids were believed built to memorialize the famous giants and their fathers, the dark angels. Ziggurat is literally translated as “towers rising into the sky”; they were regarded and designated as sacred mountains, and/or hills of heaven.62
The fascinating translation to all this global allegory is that ostensibly in almost all pantheistic legends, angels acknowledged as gods, planets, stars, and mountains of heaven cohabitated with human women, known metaphorically in various manners as Mother Earth, which produced giant demigods as offspring of this unholy union. The offspring became antediluvian heroes, men of renown, just as Genesis testifies to, and all took place on holy mountains