◆ PARALLAX

Do we have any actual Sumerian word for planet as opposed to star?

Astral terminology shifts and later Babylonian astronomy becomes much more technical. In earlier material, divine names, stars, planets, omens and cultic associations overlap in ways that make modern categories slippery. That slipperiness is real. Sitchin treats it as permission to be precise in exactly his preferred direction.

Ancient sky work is not primitive astronomy waiting to become modern astronomy. It is omen, clock, calendar, theology and statecraft together. Split it apart too soon and the living animal becomes labelled meat.

I came to say "Jupiter is not a spaceship" and accidentally learned about statecraft. Rude thread.

New TV special says the Anunnaki needed gold to repair their atmosphere. Any textual basis at all?

No textual basis for that narrative. Gold exists in Mesopotamian texts and material culture, obviously. Divine labour and human creation exist in myths. A heavenly realm exists. Sitchin welds those pieces into an atmospheric-engineering plot. The weld is modern.

This is the blender again: ingredient one exists, ingredient two exists, therefore smoothie is ancient. No.

Why would aliens mine gold with humans anyway? Seems inefficient.