The Anunnaki Connection: Sumerian Gods, Alien DNA, and the Fate of Humanity

I had a very difficult time putting this book down. It is well written and researched. The author challenges the reader to open their minds and look at the evidence and consider an alternative to the alternative. I loved this book and highly recommend it

Everyone NEEDS TO KNOW THIS INFORMATION/HISTORY of HUMANS!If you don't know about the Annunaki (Those who from Heaven to Earth came) then you don't really know about human history. Ms. Lynn does a good introduction. Soft and not as broad based as Zacharia Sitchin's 16 +2 (Niece summation) books. Religious and Academic historians are usually full of fertilizer and what they tell you is their fear induced products. Religious "EGO-MANIACAL FANATICS" have deceived us since the beginning of the Catholic church which is the oldest Christian religion after the Iranian religion of Zoroastrianism. Zoroastrianism helps build a foundation of Gratitude, the most valuable habit a human can develop. This book is a great soft point to start. Every author may have slightly different perspectives about some details. I've seen a lot of experts I question based on Zach's books. UCLA, per Billy Carson on youtube video, has Clay tablets for free to read at CDLI.The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform inscriptions dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC.

There were parts I didn't care for, or agree with - but isn't that the case with most books? I feel she did make the case for alternative archeology/history (which is what I'm interested in anyway), but it would've been easier reading if she'd broken those 40-page chapters in half!

Anyway you take this book, at face value or as fiction, nonetheless a great read and thought provoking. Do you take the blue pill and all is right with the world and you know what is right and wrong and who are the good guys and the bad guys, or do you take the red pill and see how deep the the rabbit hole goes?

Very interesting book, lots of insightful information.

Dr. Lynn carefully lays out the evidence of advanced living beings who settled in the Near East around 8200 BCE giving the arts and sciences along with the many concepts of civilization to the primitive people living there. There is a lot missing from this account (such as the origin of these beings) but there is almost nothing to challenge in her review of this history which has been so ignored by mainstream archeology.

Unbelievable, an interesting and beautiful mind with lots to learn, you can tell through this book hands down. Great references to other authors, the amount attention she can grab with such a pallet of information all at once can be overwhelming and make you just dig down deeper and feel in interested for more. One of my favorites I've read in a long time. Book of enoch has sent me on a journey and this gave me the horse and a map to it back in time with a heading. Absolutely love it. And in love with it all. Will follow!

Africa maybe the birthplace of humanity but Sumeria was the birthplace of civilization. This book explore the possible origins of Sumerian society and the possible Genesis of mankind. As of late there has been much speculation as to who the Annunaki were and where they come from. Dr. Heather Lynn explores the different behind the issue.The Sumerians kind of popped up from like the Middle of nowhere and planted themselves in what is today Southern Iraq. It was all of the sudden because at that point humanity consisted of hunter gatherers and then all of the sudden we have an advanced society.Sumerian language was totally different from the surrounding languages and not too many other languages are quite like it. They had the first form of writing. They also built massive building and ziggurats that to this day cannot be replicated.Where did they come from ? What are the origins of humanity? Erich Von Danniken, Zecharia Sitchin and others will tell you that the Annunaki come from another planet called Nabiru and that Ancient Aliens helped build our advanced societies of old. Other theorists suggest panspermia. Panspermia state that potentially life bearing molecules or atoms arrived to earth attached to a meteorite or Asteroid. There is also directed panspermia where in alien intelligence attached molecule or atoms to a meteor or asteroid to begin life. You also have creationist theory and the theory that life spontaneously arose.Dr. Heather Lynn’s hypothesis is that the Annunaki came from somewhere further north fleeing an event that probably impacted the entire planet. They were far more advanced then the surrounding semites. They viewed the semitic tribes as inferior and enslaved them into a workforce that could build these monuments. Annunaki were not to marry the black headed natives. Some of the Annunaki like Enki were favorable to humanity or the natives and shared what they had and blended with them. Enlil looked at them like chattel and could have cared less for them. It was said that after the flood they left but Enki left behind 7 sages who would teach the natives things so they could build a society. The people with the most power in old Sumeria were the scribes that they had the connection to the gods.By learning to write the scribes learned math, oratory and administration. They copied various works including instruction of herbs and building. The second class of scribes were formed into mystery schools. That used meditative techniques to reach extra terrestrial intelligence. The Sumerian knowledge of astronomy is unbelievable. No way they should have known this. This line of thinking is much in line with Graham Hancock’s view that before Sumeria there was an advanced civilization that spread it’s culture and technology prior to some disaster. Her view also subscribes to the view that shaman with the use of herbs or meditative techniques to contact other worldly intelligence.The book encourages critical thinking that the author does not claim to have the right theory. Rather she suggests that her theory is one of many and that all need top be explored.

A very different slant to the Anunnaki than Michael Telling or Sitchin.Written in an easy to understand down to earth style Heather Lynn is not out to make conspiracies from the Sumerian culture or Anunnaki but to give her viewpoint as a Historian.Would recommend anyone who has an interest in the Anunnaki and Mesopotamian life and the Sumerians.

Before getting this book I had seen some other sources, and was aware of disputes concerning the actual meaning of Sumerian texts. Translation is challenging, and whole theories may hang on what a word signifies in a modern language that may not be applicable in that ancient time. In the video of Irving Finkel's lecture, given at the British Museum, I learned that the breakthrough for translating the clay tablets was similar to the discovery of the Rosetta stone which had cracked open the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs.In the case of the Sumerian cuneiform writing, it was the King Darius three-language inscription on the side of a mountain that provided a bridge from a known early language to the unknown even-earlier one.So Heather Lynn does acknowledge the translation issue in a central way. One interesting point she brought up called into question Stitchin's entire 12th-planet theory because the word he took to mean a planet could also have several other interpretations.Thus it was wise for this author to take a more 'agnostic' type of stance concerning the identify of the mysterious and apparently-technologically-advanced founders of the Sumerian culture — the folks known as Annunaki. The fact that they disappeared from Sumeria 'like migrating birds' (possibly by air), and that people seeming to be like them appeared (apparently from the air) in Ireland during that era, is intriguing. However, though dot-connecting is entertaining, it does not constitute proof.This author also tends to put more weight into literary history, and the work of other authors who are translating or trying to translate these texts. So her book provides an overview of what scholars are saying. One aspect I did not care for, and for which I mark this book down a bit, is a tendency to throw in a speculative statement as if it were part of the argument. If I re-read this, I think I will cross those out, and see how well the overall thesis stands up without those small annoyances.The later chapters commence with a warning, which is well founded. There are some disturbing aspects to this history that is slowly being un-covered and dis-covered: the Annunaki who were deified may not have deserved being put on this kind of pedestal.A challenging book overall, but a good counterbalance to the Jeremiah Stitchin saga which may not be valid just on linguistic grounds.

Great researched material on the subject without the ancient aliens hysteria. Parts where heavy with academic style content but that could be my naivety of the sections discussed. Will highly recommend.

Friend says fabulous read

A really engaging, fascinating, well written book that has curiosity, great knowledge, some wonderful quotes of wisdom, convincing intuition and instincts... as well as wonderful objectivity.The last quarter becomes a little less focussed, that would be a minor criticism, starting with the publication of a long, rambling letter received by the author from a stranger proposing a giant, somewhat incoherent, soul-sucking conspiracy by both aliens and elites. Why it is given such prominence here remains baffling, because it’s not really followed up, interrogated, or assimilated into the overall flow.If I was the editor, I would have put a big, long, red line through all of that and said, “Sum that up in two sentences max and move on.” There are many such strands thrown up in the last quarter which are not tied together as cohesively, organically and relevantly as the first three quarters of the book. Also, typos pop up in the last quarter of the book, it just seems not as rigorous.Overall though, there is so much depth of knowledge and thought provoking historical information provided throughout, along with some very objective analysis and hypotheses which makes this most definitely a must read for anyone interested in the subject matter.In my opinion, as technology advances, (impacting previously held beliefs about archaeology, such as dating), as climate change unearths previously hidden artifacts, as religions and religious conflicts cause continued angst, there is a looming battle to rewrite and reframe Earth’s origin story, led by the USA for geopolitical reasons.One strand I wished the author had expanded upon and followed through with was an earlier observation of hers that “civilised” bureaucratic organisation of humanity became somewhat a poison chalice. A “weapon of mass destruction.” By the end of the book she champions co-operation of the species over falling over each other to position oneself and control knowledge — and to me that is the central theme which highlights humanity’s wrong turn. We pursued personal status and materialism, what I call individual exceptionalism. Taken to its conclusion, this ideology ultimately eats itself and inevitably destroys the planet which sustains it. Another race on the same path of knowledge might have chosen consciousness and cooperation of the species at the same fork in the road. Gone left, where we went right.The higher intelligence, or others, that seem to have engaged us and our planet, during all of history, may be here today to remind us of just that.