Anunnaki

The Anunnaki are a group of deities. the Anunnaki are the most powerful deities in the pantheon,
descendants of An, the god of the heavens. In Inanna's Descent into the Netherworld, the Anunnaki are
portrayed as seven judges who sit before the throne of Ereshkigal in the Underworld. Later Akkadian texts,
such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, follow this portrayal. During the Old Babylonian period, the Anunnaki were
believed to be the chthonic deities of the Underworld, while the gods of the heavens were known as the
Igigi.

Cuneiform list of the names of major deities in the Sumerian pantheon, in order of seniority: Enlil, Ninlil,
Enki, Nergal, Hendursanga, Inanna-Zabalam, Ninebgal, Inanna, Utu, and Nanna

The name is variously written "da-nuna", "da-nuna-ke4-ne", or "da-nun-na", meaning "princely ospring" or
"ospring of An".

By her consort An, Ki gave birth to the Anunnaki, the most prominent of these deities being Enlil, god of the
air. According to Sumerian mythology, heaven and earth were once inseparable until Enlil was born;[3] Enlil
cleaved heaven and earth in two.[3] An carried away heaven and Enlil carried away the earth.[4]

Some authorities[who?] question whether Ki was regarded as a deity since there is no evidence of a cult
and the name appears only in a limited number of Sumerian creation texts. Samuel Noah Kramer identifies
Ki with the Sumerian mother goddess Ninhursag, and states that they were originally the same figure.[5]

Deities in ancient Mesopotamia were almost always depicted wearing horned caps,[8][9] consisting of up to
seven superimposed pairs of ox-horns.[10] They were also sometimes depicted wearing clothes with
elaborate decorative gold and silver ornaments sewn into them.[9]

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The god Enki, one of the Anunnaki, as shown on the Akkadian Adda Seal[11]

One text mentions as many as fifty Anunnaki associated with the city of Eridu.[13] In Inanna's Descent into
the Netherworld, however, there are only seven Anunnaki, who reside in the Underworld and serve as
judges.[14] Inanna stands trial before them; they deem her guilty of hubris and condemn her to death.[

In the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh, Utnapishtim describes the Anunnaki as seven judges of the Underworld,
who set the land aflame as the storm approaches.[16] Later, when the flood comes, Ishtar and the Anunnaki
mourn over the destruction of humanity.[17] In the Atra-Hasis epic, the Igigi are the sixth generation of the
gods who are forced to perform labor for the Anunnaki.[18] After forty days, the Igigi rebel and the god Enki,
one of the Anunnaki, creates humans to replace them.[18]

Babylonian

The Anunnaki appear in the Babylonian creation myth, Enuma Elish.[21] In the late version magnifying
Marduk, after the creation of mankind, Marduk divides the Anunnaki and assigns them to their proper
stations, three hundred in heaven, three hundred on the earth. In gratitude, the Anunnaki, the "Great Gods",
built Esagila, the splendid: "They raised high the head of Esagila equaling Apsu. Having built a stage-tower
as high as Apsu, they set up in it an abode for Marduk, Enlil, (and) Ea." When that was finished they built
their own shrines.[22]

According to later Assyrian and Babylonian myth, the Anunnaki were the children of Anu and Ki, brother and
sister gods, themselves the children of Anshar and Kishar (Skypivot and Earthpivot, the Celestial poles),
who in turn were the children of Lahamu and Lahmu ("the muddy ones"), names given to the gatekeepers of
the Abzu (House of Far Waters) temple at Eridu, the site at which the creation was thought to have
occurred. Finally, Lahamu and Lahmu were the children of Tiamat (Goddess of the Ocean) and Abzu (God of
Fresh Water).

Genesis 11New International Version (NIV)

The Tower of Babel
11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[a] they
found a plain in Shinar[b] and settled there.

3 They said to each other, Come, lets make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They used brick instead of
stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to
the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the
whole earth.

5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, If as
one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be
impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each
other.

8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why
it was called Babel[c]because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the
Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Genesis 1New International Version (NIV)

The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now
the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface
of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. 4 God saw
that the light was good, and he separated the light from the
darkness. 5 God called the light day, and the darkness he called
night. And there was evening, and there was morningthe first
day.

6 And God said, Let there be a vault between the waters to

separate water from water. 7 So God made the vault and
separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it
was so. 8 God called the vault sky. And there was evening, and
there was morningthe second day.

9 And God said, Let the water under the sky be gathered to one
place, and let dry ground appear. And it was so. 10 God called the
dry ground land, and the gathered waters he called seas. And
God saw that it was good.

Star Prophecy
The "Star Prophecy" (or Star and Scepter prophecy) is a
Messianic reading applied by Jewish Zealots and early Christians
to Numbers 24:17:

"I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh:
there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise
out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy
all the children of Sheth."