The Sources
The Tablets
Everything known about the Anunnaki survives on baked clay: wedge-marks pressed with a reed stylus, buried in temple archives, and unread for two thousand years.
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The Sumerian King List
c. 2000 BCE · Sumerian, many recensions
Kingship descends from heaven to Eridu, and the first rulers reign for tens of thousands of years — the passage most often quoted, and most often misread, by modern theorists.
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Inanna's Descent
c. 1900 BCE, Sumerian · Sumerian, c. 410 lines
Inanna enters the underworld and is judged by the seven Anunnaki, who fix on her the eye of death. Her release costs a substitute: her husband Dumuzi.
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