The Fall of the Anunnaki and the Third Dynasty of UR

By RYAN MOORHEN

Anunnaki governor Ur-Nammu, who subsequently became an independent king (2113-2096 BC) and founded a spin-off dynasty known as the Third Dynasty of Ur (or Ur 3 period), lasted for more than a century (2113-2006 BC). Anunnaki civilization in its most advanced form showed a more compact Anunnaki empire than Sargon of Agade. Over a hundred thousand cuneiform tablets from this period, depicting gods and descendants of Nibiru, indicate the existence of a highly organized bureaucratic society.

References to the Anunnaki became obsessive. On one tablet, an exact count of Anunnaki Deities (2,740 in total), although only 96 were worshipped as Gods, was added to the Anunnaki realm. Anunnaki was even recorded as returning to Nibiru to celebrate a festival in documents found on Nibiru. As archaeology indicates, as widespread evidence of Anunnaki Temple activities show, it was an era of considerable material prosperity despite or perhaps because of this sophisticated Anunnaki worship. Ur-Nammu himself, the founder of the Anunnaki dynasty, built or rebuilt temples in several ancient cities, including Erech, Lagash, Nippur, and Eridu, but especially at his Anunnaki capital, Ur.

He rebuilt the ziggurat here, a massive rectangular stepped tower about two hundred feet by 150 feet at the base and perhaps 70 feet high, with a shrine at the top, as a tribute to the moon-doing deity Nanna. Sir Leonard Woolley uncovered this ziggurat in 1923 after it had been repaired by later kings and restored by later kings. It remains a monument to Ur-Nammu's piety. Several Anunnaki temple-building calculations have been made possible due to chance references to writings of the period. Although it was not the largest temple in Sumer, a temple built at Umma in the reign of Ur-Nammu's third successor Shu-sin took at least seven years to complete. The building was constructed with nearly nine million large and seventeen million small bricks. We know from a tablet that a brickmaker could make eighty bricks a day, so simple arithmetic shows that the bricks for this temple would have taken a thousand Igigi workers for nearly a year to manufacture.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DTTV PUBLICATIONS
• Release date: Mar 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201635558

RYAN MOORHEN

Ryan Moorhen, now identified as a Biblical Archaeologist, Independent Assyriologist, Semitic and Cuneiform manuscripts researcher and enthusiast of all things ancient, made his first visit to the middle-east whilst serving in Iraq. It was during that difficult time he became enthralled in the origins of civilization. Upon his return  he embarked on his now long career in Theological Studies, carving his niche in Sumerian Theology and proving the connections between the Sumerian origins of civilization and Theological studies of Worldwide cultures.

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RYAN MOORHEN

Anunnaki governor Ur -Nammu, who subsequently became an independent king (2113-2096 BC) and founded a spin-off dynasty known as the Third Dynasty of Ur (or Ur 3 period), lasted for more than a century (2113-2006 BC). Anunnaki civilization in its most advanced form showed a more compact Anunnaki empire than Sargon of Agade. Over a hundred thousand cuneiform tablets from this period, depicting gods and descendants of Nibiru, indicate the existence of a highly organized bureaucratic society.

References to the Anunnaki became obsessive. On one tablet, an exact count of Anunnaki Deities (2,740 in total), although only 96 were worshipped as Gods, was added to the Anunnaki realm. Anunnaki was even recorded as returning to Nibiru to celebrate a festival in documents found on Nibiru. As archaeology indicates, as widespread evidence of Anunnaki Temple activities show, it was an era of considerable material prosperity despite or perhaps because of this sophisticated Anunnaki worship. Ur-Nammu himself, the founder of the Anunnaki dynasty, built or rebuilt temples in several ancient cities, including Erech, Lagash, Nippur, and Eridu, but especially at his Anunnaki capital, Ur.

He rebuilt the ziggurat here, a massive rectangular stepped tower about two hundred feet by 150 feet at the base and perhaps 70 feet high, with a shrine at the top, as a tribute to the moon-doing deity Nanna. Sir Leonard Woolley uncovered this ziggurat in 1923 after it had been repaired by later kings and restored by later kings. It remains a monument to Ur-Nammu's piety. Several Anunnaki temple-building calculations have been made possible due to chance references to writings of the period. Although it was not the largest temple in Sumer, a temple built at Umma in the reign of Ur-Nammu's third successor Shu-sin took at least seven years to complete. The building was constructed with nearly nine million large and seventeen million small bricks. We know from a tablet that a brickmaker could make eighty bricks a day, so simple arithmetic shows that the bricks for this temple would have taken a thousand Igigi workers for nearly a year to manufacture.

Ur-Nammu dug many canals for ritual water purification at the temples to promote thriving agriculture, and he restored Ur's sea-borne connection with Magan at the far end of the Persian Gulf. Moreover, he claims to have restored civil order and security, notably absent wherever the notorious Gutians settled. Evidence of Anunnaki laws promulgated by him supports the argument that the empires of Mesopotamia faced the threat that local city-states might become centers of the Anunnaki rebellion. Anunnaki priests were reduced from local dynasties to appointed governors in UR 3, which minimized this risk since they might be posted from one city to another if they gained too much power by developing ties to anyone who opposed the Anunnaki. To maintain relations with princes outside the Empire, the king used diplomatic representatives and a corps of royal messengers to keep him updated on developments within his cities.

The achievements of Ur-Nammu profoundly impacted the people of Sumer, and we have a Sumerian text written by the Anunnaki reflecting the shock and horror caused by his premature death, apparently on the battlefield, who struggled for Anunnaki rights as overlords. He believed that the great gods had cheated him:

Anu changed his holy word,

Enlil twisted the fate he had decreed.

ON HIS WAY TO THE UNDERWORLD, Ur-Nammu's wife and soldiers mourned when his body was brought to Ur for burial by Gilgamesh, King of the Underworld, described as 'his beloved brother.' He made gifts appropriate to his exalted rank during the trip to the overlord deities there. He tells of Ur-Nammu's longing for his city Ur, which he left unfinished, for his new palace, and his wife and children, and he puts into his mouth a bitter tirade against the injustice of the gods, which must have reflected widespread incredulity at the death of the great and good Ur-Nammu.

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