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Akkadian cylinder seal dating to c. 2300 BCE depicting the deities Inanna, Enki, and Utu, three members of the Anunnaki. The Anunnaki (Sumerian: ð’€ð’€€ð’‰£ð’ˆ¾, also transcribed as Anunaki, Annunaki, Anunna, Ananaki and other variations) are a group of deities of the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians.
Tall, scaly humanoids. Reptilian humanoid beings date back at least as far as Ancient Egypt, with the crocodile-headed river god Sobek. The reptilian conspiracy theory has been advocated by David Icke. Rods [20] or skyfish: Elongated visual artifacts appearing in photos and video recordings, sometimes claimed to be extraterrestrial beings.
Mesopotamia's image of the world, following the path Gilgamesh takes in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) cosmology refers to the plurality of cosmological beliefs in the Ancient Near East, covering the period from the 4th millennium BC to the formation of the Macedonian Empire by Alexander the Great in the second half of the 1st millennium BC.
The Testament of Solomon is a pseudepigraphical work, purportedly written by King Solomon, in which the author mostly describes particular demons who he enslaved to help build the temple, the questions he put to them about their deeds and how they could be thwarted, and their answers, which provide a kind of self-help manual against demonic activity.
In it are described the primeval state of an abyssal darkness and water, the two primeval beings existing therein, said to be of a twofold principle. The description then relates the creation of further beings, partly human but with variants of wings, animal heads and bodies, and some with both sex organs.
The name has unknown origin. It was originally spelt i-gi 4-gi 4, but was later also written as í-gì-gì.This latter may have been a play on words, as in Sumerian, the combination can be interpreted as numerals adding to 7 (the number of Great Gods), or multiplying to 600 (which in some traditions was the total number of gods).
Among the Archontics, Ophites, Sethians and in the writings of Nag Hammadi library, the archons are rulers, each related to one of seven planets; they prevent souls from leaving the material realm. The political connotation of their name reflects rejection of the governmental system, as flawed without chance of true salvation. [ 1 ]
These soulless men are first and foremost those of the four families who inhabit the four Elements: the nymphs, nymphae, daughters of the water; the sons of the earth, lemurs, who dwell beneath the mountains; the spirits of the air, gnomi; the genii of fire, vulcani. The other two families are made up of men who were also born without souls ...