The Anunnaki Tablet That Says Certain Humans Carry a Mark — And It Activates at a Specific Age

A 26-minute video from the channel Hidden Annunaki with Thomas, which sets ancient texts beside modern science. It argues that Babylonian tablets describe a divine component placed in humans at creation, shared out unequally and switched on at set ages, and that genetics has since measured the same thing.

It starts with Atrahasis, the Old Babylonian flood poem that W. G. Lambert and A. R. Millard published in 1969. Worn out by digging canals, the junior gods strike, and the great gods make humans to take over the work: a god “who had intelligence” is killed, and his flesh and blood are mixed with clay. The video says the Akkadian word eṭemmu names what passed from the god into us, a kind of operating system for consciousness and for hearing the gods, and that some people carry more of it than others. It finds the same thread in Enuma Elish (humans made from the blood of the rebel god Kingu), in the Sumerian myth of Enki and Ninmah (flawed early humans as failed prototypes), and in the Sumerian King List, where reigns of tens of thousands of years shrink after the flood. The component, it says, was throttled.

Then the screening. Babylonian diviners, the bārû, are said to have read the body with the omen series Šumma ālu and Šumma izbu and the medical series Sakikkû, where a mark means one thing or another depending on where it sits and the age at which it appears. People whose marks showed enough of the component went into temple service, en priests among them. The celestial omens and the astrological reports sent to Assyrian kings are presented as the same watch, kept by the stars.

It gives the sceptics a hearing (Michael Heiser against Zecharia Sitchin’s genetic reading, Jean Bottéro, Francesca Rochberg), then says they leave the pattern unexplained. The pattern is Steve Horvath’s epigenetic clock (2013), the kisspeptin switch that starts puberty, the part of the genome left by ancient retroviruses and the Hayflick limit on cell division, which it calls structurally identical to the tablets. It adds the Book of Enoch, the Hindu upanayana and Yoruba, Dogon and Hopi traditions as parallels, and ends by asking whether whatever activates in us was designed to.

The texts are real, and the outline of Atrahasis holds. The key word does not. Eṭemmu is the ordinary Akkadian word for the ghost of a dead person. In Atrahasis it is a pun on ṭēmu, the slain god’s intelligence, and the ghost is there so the sacrifice is not forgotten; nothing in the poem says it differs between people or wakes at an age. Lambert taught at Birmingham and Millard was at Tyndale House, Cambridge; only the publisher was in Oxford. Thorkild Jacobsen, whose 1976 The Treasures of Darkness the video quotes, taught at Chicago and Harvard, not Yale, which was his publisher. The king list’s reigns are round multiples of the Sumerian sar (3,600 years), and the Weld-Blundell Prism is clay, not stone. In Enki and Ninmah, Enki gives each flawed human a place, as a musician or a servant of the king.

The screening system is not in the sources. Šumma ālu is a series of terrestrial omens, “if a city is situated on a height”. Moles and body marks belong to Alamdimmû, a physiognomic series, and nothing found there reads a mark by the age it appears. Šumma izbu, edited by Erle Leichty of Penn in 1970, reads anomalous births at delivery, often as signs for the king and the country. Sakikkû is the 40-tablet Diagnostic Handbook of Babylonian medicine. Its first tablets do read omens on the way to the patient’s house, but its editions are by René Labat, Nils Heeßel and JoAnn Scurlock; Markham Geller, whom the video credits, is a UCL historian of Babylonian medicine. The bārû read the livers of sacrificed sheep. En priestesses were usually kings’ daughters, and Nabonidus says he chose his only after divination. The reports Hermann Hunger edited apply celestial omens to the king and the state, and the first Babylonian horoscopes date from about 410 BCE, centuries after them.

The modern names are misplaced too. Heiser’s 2004 Wisconsin dissertation is about the divine council in Second Temple Jewish literature; his case against Sitchin is a website. Mauro Biglino, introduced as a former Vatican translator, translated for a Catholic publisher in Rome. Horvath’s clock is a statistical estimate of age from 353 methylation sites, with a median error of 3.6 years, and does not show genes switching on at puberty. Puberty’s timing is not sealed off from the body either: nutrition explains up to a quarter of the variation. Retroviral remnants make up 5 to 8% of the genome. Hayflick found his limit in 1961, but telomeres were proposed as its cause in 1971 and shown to shorten in 1990.