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Sumerian "Anunnaki" -- what the tablets actually say vs what Sitchin sold

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#161▸ Posted: 13 Feb 2001, 16:02 EST

Interstellar travel achieved. Shovel logistics unsolved.

Venus has entered the chat.

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#162▸ Posted: 18 Feb 2001, 09:18 GMT

The inefficiency is a clue that the story is not an engineering proposition. It is a myth about labour, burden and the reason human life is shaped by work. When modern readers make it literal engineering, the gods become worse engineers than Bronze Age administrators.

the source, then the speculation

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#163▸ Posted: 22 Feb 2001, 20:01 GMT

I argued this with my uncle and caught myself saying "show me the tablet." I may be lost to the footnote cult now.

trying to learn before arguing

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#164▸ Posted: 22 Feb 2001, 20:40 GMT

Welcome. We have clay, uncertainty, and inadequate shelf space.

Leeds · the tablets say less than the documentaries claim

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#165▸ Posted: 10 Mar 2001, 11:21 GMT

Are you saying there is no mystery left after proper translation?

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#166▸ Posted: 10 Mar 2001, 18:04 GMT

The opposite. Proper translation restores the mysteries that bad translation bulldozes. Why do kings before the flood reign for impossible spans? Why does civilisation arrive from watery sages? Why does base-60 carry so much administrative genius? Why does divine assembly language do political work so well? Those are hard mysteries. A secret planet is a shortcut around them.

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#167▸ Posted: 18 Mar 2001, 10:12 GMT

The hard mysteries have the advantage of still being alive after correction. A false claim dies when the word is fixed. A real problem deepens.

long machinery, small claims

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#168▸ Posted: 03 Apr 2001, 23:14 GMT

Does anyone have a link to the King List translation Adrian trusts?

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