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>> We have to know where we come from if we're going to have

a clear idea of where we're going.

If we have illusions and false ideas about who and what we are

and how we got here, then that illusory state

is just going to continue into the future.

We need to understand the forces that were involved

in shaping the modern world.

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>> Ancient Sumeria.

According to mainstream scholars,

this is the birthplace of civilization as we know it.

The birthplace of religion, the first science, the first war,

and the first written word.

Now all that is left is a message

buried beneath the sand.

>> It's one of Iraq's most famous archaeological sites,

rising from the desert near Nasiriyah in the southeast.

The Ziggurat of Ur, a massive, 4,000-year-old temple pyramid,

and the surrounding ruins of an ancient Sumerian city.

>> Archaeologists and scholars have been piecing evidence

together for centuries in this area of the world,

hoping to prove the biblical stories of the Garden of Eden.

>> Most people think, well, we're interested in the Middle

East because of the oil.

And there's a lot of truth to that.

But at the same time, you're going

to find people who are very interested in these different

esoteric philosophies, like the Freemasons in government,

the Christians in government.

All of these people have long had a strong interest

and also believe that there may be some kind of power

or some sort of connection there that if you make it,

it empowers you in some way.

>> What kind of power could these groups have if they could

prove how humanity started?

The search for something more powerful

than our own current reality isn't a modern concept,

but rather an ongoing search for the location

of the Garden of Eden, the proverbial beginning.

>> There's been a fixation amongst biblical scholars,

early archaeologists that everything in the Middle East

began on the Euphrates and the Tigris,

down in what is today lower Iraq.

And that this is where the Garden of Eden was,

this was where everything emerged, good and bad

in the Genesis tradition.

>> In 1922, English archaeologist C.

Leonard Woolley went to southern Iraq to hopefully find

the Garden of Eden based on early discoveries of Sumerian

cuneiforms.

However, what he actually uncovered instead

was the exact location of the ancient Sumerian city of Ur.

Was he getting close?

>> The early archaeologists were trying to prove the Bible.

And they were funded by biblical societies.

And that's-- in other words, they had to come up with

the proof.

And it ignored a lot of legends and traditions

which suggested that these cities were elsewhere.

>> Could Woolley have ignored some important information that

was revealed several years before?

In 1849, almost 75 years earlier,

thousands of Sumerian cuneiforms were found northwest of Ur

at the ancient cities of Sippar and Nippur.

>> In 1849, Henry Layard performed many excavations

on the Sippar site and discovered about 20,000

tablets, Sumerian and Akkadian.

And amongst all the tablets discovered, about a dozen

of them are about the Garden of Eden.

>> Could this be the location of the Garden of Eden,

or was this just another clue leading researchers to another

location?

>> Subsequent cultures, whether the Assyrians;

whether the Babylonians, who rose to prominence in that

area; who were not Sumerians, nevertheless venerated

and highly valued everything that the Sumerians did.

And that's why we can read the Sumerian language,

because those later cultures made

a project of taking Sumerian texts

and translating them into their language.

And those are languages that the scholars

could read because they were Semitic languages.

They belong to a language family where

the code could be cracked.

Whereas Sumerian was an isolate.

And without those translations done

by later cultures who nevertheless had contact

with Sumer, we would not be able to read those Sumerian

texts at all.

>> Were these later cultures able to decipher the beginning

of humanity?

Sumero-Akkadian researcher and author

of eight books regarding Sumerian translation, Anton

Parks, believes that for hundreds of years,

we have been translating these tablets wrong.

>> [SPEAKING FRENCH]

>> Gary Zeitler, who is a scientist who worked

on the SETI project for many years and collaborated with

NASA, he was very interested in the Sumerian translations.

And he provided me with these 10 tablets found at Sippar

to check symbols one-by-one.

I noticed one translation saying one thing and the other

saying sometimes the complete opposite.

The true translations did not comply.

I persistently did research on Hebrew,

but nothing was coming out of it.

And then completely by chance, I came

across a Sumero-Akkadian lexicon.

And this is when I could finally, slowly

start to translate the tablets.

>> What Anton Parks began to translate was a completely

different version of the Garden of Eden than we've heard

before.

Not only had the words been mistranslated,

the actual location had been overlooked.

>> In biblical text, we constantly read about this idea

of heaven or paradise.

This comes from the Greek paradeisos.

And this literally means "enclosure for wild animals,"

not paradise, a term that was later transcribed as "garden"

during the Hellenistic era.

If we go back to the original translation in the Sumerian

tablets, it says, "the men who serve the gods

work for them in the garden and are treated like animals."

It is a very clear and recurrent theme.

They are slaves who serve the divine community.

In Hebraic text, we understand that the humans seemed happy

in this so-called paradise, which is, in fact, more

like a concentration camp, according to Sumerian text.

In my translations, we also discovered

the word "Kharsag," which translated

to "city of the gods."

It's interesting that all the highest points in Turkey

are named "Karadag," which strangely resembles "Kharsag."

Karadag translates to Black Mountain,

and also refers to the highest mountains in Turkey.

The only summit with the name Karadag

that is close to the Mesopotamian

plain and tributary of the Tigris,

and only a few kilometers from the Euphrates,

stands 29 kilometers south of the city Sirte,

and 19 kilometers southwest of the city of Ur.

Is this the paradise described in the Sumerian text?

>> Jerry sent me images of this site from Google Earth.

And at the back on the mountainside,

there is a little plain.

This is where I think the Garden of Eden of the gods

was located based on my translation of the text.

>> The Garden of Eden was where the four rivers emerged from,

two of which are easily identified as the Euphrates

and the Tigris, which do, indeed,

obviously flow through modern Iraq and empty out

into the Arabian sea.

But they rise in southeast Turkey.

And the other two rivers can be identified

as rivers that also rise in southeast to eastern Turkey.

All of these rivers emerge in the same general part

of the world which we know today as either eastern or

southeastern Turkey.

>> With the decoding of the Sumerian cuneiforms

and the location of these four rivers,

could this be the actual location for the Garden

of Eden?

The closest paved road to the proposed location

is Highway 5651.

As easy as it may seem to get to this location to excavate,

scholars and archaeologists consider

this area highly politically unstable

and it has remained untouched.

All we have at the moment is the language

to decode from the Sumerian cuneiforms, the cuneiforms that

describe a different kind of paradise.

These 10 tablets, according to Anton Parks,

tell the Sumerian version of how the Garden of Eden was created.

>> [SPEAKING FRENCH].

>> From my translations, I discovered when the Sumerian

gods arrived on Earth, they settled on this mountain

in order to create a colony and be able to survive.

Apparently, they suffered damage and ended up

on this mountain because of a war, and they found shelter.

Many experts believe that they came from the Pleiades star

cluster.

My opinion is that they came from there.

Maybe the war broke out around there.

But I really believe that this is

where the Anunnas were created.

During this conflict, on one side

you have a matriarchal regime, and on the other side

a patriarchal one with all these new gods.

There are conflicts in space.

Those new landscapes, like it says on the genealogy

of the land tablet.

These gods are going to change the way

life gets implanted on Earth.

The gods are going to create new conditions for life

to bloom, for their colony to thrive.

>> But who are these gods that hope to make Earth their home?

>> The epic of Atrahasis and others,

they talk about that the Earth was actually administered

by a conference of gods, or a group of gods in an assembly.

It wasn't just one god.

Yeah, they would have like their equivalent

of the prime minister or the CEO who would

be in charge of this group--

Enlil, Enki-- that were the primary members

of this congress there.

>> Well, Enki and Enlil in the Sumerian system are

an interesting pair.

Enlil is this rather sort of overarching, domineering,

angry, dangerous entity.

And he doesn't really care about humanity.

Humanity are not very important to him.

But then we have Enki, the trickster, and the god

of wisdom, actually.

And he does care about humanity.

And he intervenes on the human level.

>> They are called gods, but they were humanoid beings

of a rather reptilian type.

The text of Eden that I translated

depict clearly and quite frequently

the reptilian features of the gods.

I personally estimate that the gods

arrived approximately 300,000 years ago.

And this derives from the fact that Homo sapiens

arrived shortly after.

I say this because throughout the text,

genetics and the transformation of the human being

are recurrent themes.

The two particles that compose the word Eden

are "E," which means home, and "Den" or "Ten," which is life.

But indeed, they are not alone.

Humans are already on Earth.

Who are these human beings?

>> If the Sumerian gods realized that they were not alone,

what might have been their interaction with these kinds

of humans?

>> What can be noted in the Sumerian tablets when they

clearly speak of creating workers to serve the Anunnas,

the main geneticist is always Enki.

He works with the genome that is on the planet

to create a new kind of human.

He's usually helped by priestesses

that we often call the [? Nintees, ?]

who are the priestesses of life.

They know how to clone with him.

He can change the human genomes according

to what Enlil asks of him.

Which would be left-brained, well-disciplined humans.

>> When we look at the Sumerian tradition,

it is a group of beings, rather than one being,

that creates humankind.

So it is not a single creator, but a group

of intelligent, technologically advanced beings.

Where the Sumerian creation varies

from the Christian traditions, for example, and some

of the native traditions, is in the Sumerian traditions,

humankind began with the sacrifice

of the life of an advanced being; of a god from Sumeria,

so that that god's DNA, or the blood is what the texts say,

could be mixed with the elements of the Earth to create

the first viable human.

>> These are the people who have the knowledge to clone.

They can clone themselves and then humans.

In the text it says they take the genes

from their opponents, who they consider inferior,

who they name as Kingu.

They use their blood, and they will go on

to create the new human who is going

to serve them with these genes.

>> Researchers like Gregg Braden stumbled across some research

that has connected the Sumerian translations to an actual

genetic change in our chromosomes.

>> Shedding new light on these creation stories is with

the mystery of human chromosome number two.

Human chromosome number two is the second largest chromosome

in the human body.

It forms about 8% of the DNA in every cell.

And what makes it such a mystery is

that it appears to be the result of an ancient fusion

of preexisting chromosomes from primates that have been fused

in a very precise way.

And the fusion site has been modified and stabilized

so that human chromosome number two is as optimized for us

today.

This has happened in a way that cannot be explained

by evolution as we know it today.

Now, why is this important?

Human chromosome number two contains

the genes that largely set us apart

from all other forms of life.

The cortex of the human brain that

gives us the ability for things like logic, empathy, sympathy,

compassion; the ability to consciously trigger

conscious states of self-healing within our bodies.

These are possible because of what

has happened with human chromosome number two.

>> Could chromosome number two be the work of a master

geneticist, otherwise known as Enki from the Sumerian text?

>> [SPEAKING FRENCH]

>> It is said that Enki secretly modifies the human genes

by group or by location and imbues some humans with

a knowledge that is different.

To the point where the other gods turn against him.

His experiment will change the human genes

to enlighten mankind.

And throughout this cloning process

that the Anunnas and Enlil are overlooking,

I think that some humans filter through all of this

and start becoming independent.

>> Anton Parks points out that this is something that the gods

did not expect from these new humans that keeps appearing

in the ancient texts, and that is the human ability to be more

than just slaves.

This forms a division of the gods, a division that

causes a war, a war that has set the tone for humanity today.

>> There are certain very interesting parallels with

the story of the Sumerian origin of modern humanity and what we

see in modern dialogues about AI.

>> Humans fancy that there's something special about the way

we perceive the world, and yet, we live in loops as tight

and as closed as the hosts do.

Seldom questioning our choices.

Content for the most part to be told what to do next.

>> We now have the rebooted Westworld in which something

that originated as the idea of a robotic consciousness turns

into, essentially, a flesh and blood creation,

which is then infused with a consciousness.

Thus asking the question, if they can reproduce,

if they are self-aware, is this not the next level of humanity?

>> [SPEAKING FRENCH]

>> An interesting and very important name in the biblical

text and the Sumerian text is the word Adam from the Garden

of Eden.

Extensive tests have been conducted

to see where this word came from, consistently looking

for Hebrew roots.

But it is a Sumerian word which means animals.

Again, we understand that human beings were considered

to be animals by the Sumerian gods,

and this is where lies the conflict between two gods, Enki

and Enlil.

Enki wants to treat them like the other gods.

>> These two Sumerian gods have a conflict over the use

of humans.

And it is to be the root of the biblical story

of the serpent in the garden.

As the story unravels, the riddle

starts with the origin of the word "Satam,"

or Satan in English.

>> [SPEAKING FRENCH]

>> "Satam" in Sumerian means "the administrator."

For years, everybody has been looking

to find where this word came from.

Books revolve around this issue.

It is a Sumerian term.

I don't understand how nobody saw it.

It is very clear.

We find it in ancient lexicons.

Enlil is often referred to as the Great Satam,

the master administrator.

In Sumerian text, Enlil systematically

asked Enki to go negotiate and talk with humans.

He is always the one to deal with them.

Remember, he is a humanoid with reptilian features.

And in Sumerian tablets, he is always, or very often,

called the serpent, just like in the Bible.

He's the only one that the humans are going to see,

and when they see him, they see a serpent-like humanoid.

I reckon this is why he is called

the serpent in the garden.

He is a friend of the humans.

>> In the biblical text, the serpent tempts Eve with

an apple from the forbidden tree of knowledge.

Yahweh, or God, from the Bible forbids the humans

in the garden to partake from this tree.

According to Parks, the Sumerian version of this story

translates Yahweh, or the biblical God,

into the Great Satam, which according to Sumerian text,

is Enlil, and the serpent in the garden as Enki, who has

become a friend of the humans.

>> [SPEAKING FRENCH]

>> It is interesting to wonder why the serpent in Sumerian

text, just like in the Bible, comes to the woman.

I think there are two reasons.

The first one is that I think the woman was

more accessible and available when she was in the garden.

Therefore, he was more often around women

who were collecting food for the colony.

The second reason is that I think women

are the future of mankind.

They raise their children.

They transmit their knowledge to their children.

Enki is going to tell the women the secret of toolmaking.

This is expressed as "Gneesh" in Sumerian, which means tree.

This means for the first time, mankind

could have two sides of the tool.

The side that's fundamentally good

so that they can take care of themselves

and the tool that is fundamentally bad, which they

could use to defend themselves.

One could wonder why Enki insists

on getting this particular secret through to the humans.

Well, he has the desire to set them free.

>> If, indeed, the knowledge that Enki portrays

to the humans is a tool, is this an actual ancient weapon that

some believe certain organizations are looking

for, or is this Enki teaching the humans about the infinite

abilities they possess through their DNA?

>> [SPEAKING FRENCH]

>> There's a spectacular scene where humans take up arms

and go up the mountain of the gods to revolt,

and even maybe try to kill all the gods.

What happens is an abomination.

They put back on track the few survivors.

Indeed, from what we can grasp from his personality,

Enki was all about peace and wouldn't use tools

in order to kill, as he was perfectly

aware of what would happen.

So this scene of humans rebelling against the gods

is quite special.

And it cannot be found anywhere in the Bible.

Each time I see the first movie of the Planet of the Apes,

It makes me think of this story.

Let's put this back into context.

Replace the apes with reptilian gods

and you have the exact same story.

It is the exact same story.

It stayed somewhere in our brain,

and this is why we can find similar elements in movies.

We can find similarities as well in human behavior.

>>Could this situation be the biblical fall of man?

Some scholars, like Graham Hancock

believe that free will to decide was the real purpose

of Enki's intervention.

>> We are here at this plane, at this level of existence

to learn the lessons of duality, to make choices between good

and evil.

And it's very clear in the ancient Egyptian system

that those choices were important,

and that they would define us ultimately and set out

the route map for our immortal destiny in a way.

I would say that in Enki and Enlil,

we are looking at a dualistic pair.

And what's interesting about that dualism

is its intense focus on the future of humanity

and what happens to us.

That matters to Enki.

It doesn't matter to Enlil.

The Sumerian problem is that we don't

know where the Sumerians came from or who they were,

their language.

I mean, we have endless Sumerian artifacts and endless Sumerian

tablets, but their language is actually not

related structurally to any other known language family.

It's completely isolated and unique.

>> But could the Sumerian problem have been a way

for Yahweh to install his own rules so the humans would not

revolt again?

Is this why we don't find any of these translations

anywhere else and why we have the establishment

and religious beliefs surrounding

our existence today?

>> [SPEAKING FRENCH]

>> The book of Genesis was really written between 200

and 300 BC.

It is important to know that the Bible, where

we find the most complete book of Genesis,

is dated from 400 AC, which brings us to this idea

that when scholars are compiling the book of Genesis,

they must have made a choice.

A deliberate choice to keep or take out some elements in order

to make the Bible as we know it today.

>> Is it possible that modern-day religion

and government structure have been mistranslating our human

past to keep us under the control of Enlil, or Yahweh?

Experts like Billy Carson still believe

that the knowledge from these gods

were able to further our human imprint on this planet.

>> When you look into the ancient Sumerian tablets,

they talk about these gods that came here to Earth

and basically rose them to a higher level of civilization

and taught them everything that they know.

Now, these gods didn't do the labor themselves,

but they imparted this wisdom and information

onto the humans that actually did the labor.

>> Could these gods have created us in their likeness?

Was the Garden of Eden the beginning for not only

the gods' reign on Earth, but also humans?

And could the constant search for the Garden of Eden

be a programmed loop we hope to understand?

>> The symbolism is very important in our sense

of ourselves collectively and personally.

There is something lost.

We don't know quite what it is, but the story

suggests it's the lost connection

with the transcendence.

And so we wish we could go back, not only to the Garden of Eden,

but in other ways go back to some earlier time.

Nothing is more significant in the received

wisdom than the story of the Garden of Eden.

>> Graham Hancock believes that not all is lost when you look

to other ancient texts that tell a similar story.

>> What's dynamite in the gnostic system is that

the gnostics believe that we have been hoodwinked.

That that entity that we have been taught to call God

and worship is no such thing.

>> Up next, we unearth the Nag Hammadi and the gnostic version

of the Garden of Eden.