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Study Guide for Tablet 5b Z. Sitchin's The Lost Book of Enki, pages 117 - 121 
Anzu and the Igigi Rebel 
 Sasha Lessin, Ph.D.

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By 400,000 years ago, Enlil establishes seven Mission Centers (Sippar the Spaceport; Nippur, Mission Control; Badtibira, Metalurgical Center; Shurrupak, Med Center).  

Anzu, the interplanetary pilot Ninmah put in charge of Marsbase, commands 300 Nibirans there.  He also runs the shuttle service.  Anzu's kin the deposed Nibiran King, Alalu, to whom the monument on Mars is dedicated.  

Anzu's men, the Igigi, rocket gold from Mesopotamia, where Enki's ships bring it from Africa.  Anzu's men on Mars transfer the gold to spaceships to Nibiru, where scientists powder it and seed it in the air.   "Slowly was the breach in the heavens healing." [op. cit., 117]  

The Igigi, led by Anzu, demand Enlil grant them better working conditions, more elixer from the fruit Ninmah grows and a rest facility on Earth.  Anu beams orders from Nibiru: Anzu is to go to Enlil on Earth. Enlil will show Anzu the entire mining operation so he'll understand why the Igigi must persevere.  

 

Mission Control, Nippur 

[Sitichin, 1985, The Wars of Gods and Men, page88]

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When Anzu arrives at Nippur, Enil's Capitol, he finds Commander Enlil reluctant to cooperate. Enlil's challenged by the Igigi's demands and Anzu’s leadership of them.  Enlil believes that he alone has authority over the entire gold operation; Anzu and the astronauts should obey, not challenge. 

Ea, however, persuades Enlil to go ahead and explain the gold mining, refining and transport system to Anzu. "Our father, King Anu," says Enki, "says to convince Anzu to keep his men on the job." So Enlil admits Anzu to his chambers.

But when Enlil takes off his clothes and sets down the key to his control room, Anzu grabs the key. He sneaks in the control room and steals the computer crystals that run the spaceport and the astronaut cities in Mesopotamia. He forces Ea’s pilot Abgal to take him to the spaceport, Shu.ru.pak. There, Anzu's men declare him king of Earth and Mars. He shuts down vital services at headquarters (Nibru-ki) and cuts communication between Earth and Nibiru.  

Ninurta (Enlil and Ninmah's son) shoots Anzu down in an spectacular air battle, frees Abgal, captures Anzu and retrieves the crystals. 

 

Ninurta, with laser weapons, fighting Anzu (wearing the winged symbol of the Astronaut Corps (Igigi) [Sitchin, Z., 1995, The Cosmic Code, page 67]

Ninurta, Enlil's Eldest Son, "Foremost Warrior" brings Anzu before Enlil [copied from Sitchin, Z., 1985, The Wars of Gods and Men, page124--Drawing of cylinder sealVA/243, Berlin Museum]

The Seven Who Judge--Ea/Enki, Damkina/Ninki, Marduk/Ra, Nannar/Sin, Enlil/Yawheh, Ninmah and Ninurta--order Anzu executed "with a killing ray."         

NNinurta executes Anzu [Sitchin,Z., 1985, The Wars of Gods and Men, page 99]

Astronaut Corps (Igigi) wearing eagle helmet/masks and winged capes.  They flank the Tree of Life and hold the Fruit and Water of Life Sitchin, Z,. 2003,  The Anunnaki Playing Playing Cards, 9 of Clubs 

Marduk sympathizes with the Igigi complaint that made them revolt–no R&R facilities on Earth, infrequent rotations back to Nibiru, little elixer. So Enlil gives Marduk the Mars command. "Bury Anzu on Mars, improve conditions there and boost morale among the Igigi," orders Enlil.*

*  Sitchin shows that Ea, allied through his marriage to Alalu's daughter Damkina and their son Marduk to the Alalu's lineage (matrifiliated), was part of the plot.  "It was with Ea's connivance" that Anzu, kinsman of Alalu, is admitted to Enlil's inner sanctuary for energy source crystals, vital computer chips, orbital data panels, and control buttons for Earth and Earth-Nibiru, Mars communication.   Ea suggested Enlil entertain Abzu as a stall to responding to the demands of the Igigi.

Sitchin, in The 12th Planet had earlier said the role of Anzu in The Lost Book of Enki's account of the revolt of the Igigi [pages 117 - 121] was actually the role of Nannar (Enlil's son by his half-sister and legal wife, Sud) is Legal Heir on Earth.  Nannar's is a challenge to Ninurta (Enlil's Firstborn, but not of a marriage.) to succeed to Enlil's command of Earth.  In The Wars of Gods and Men, too, Anzu, the leader of the revolt is a descendent of Alulu (his grandson); in this version Anzu's an orphan adopted by the Mars Service, rather than Anzu the pilot who took Ea to Earth and stayed on Mars to die with Alalu [page 97].   

Both Nannar and Ea would have benefitted if Anzu vanquished Ninurta.  But it's Nannar, not Ea, that Enlil exiles in the aftermath of the Igigi revolt. [The 12th Planet, pages 107 -116].  

This is an incipient system of segmentary patrilineages (agnatic lineages).  In segmentary patrilineages, collateral lines (like those that descend from Ea and Enlil) cite alliance through different mothers to other royal patrilineages.  The Ea lineage within the Anu clan,and especially the Marduk line of the Ea's lineage, is allied with the Alalu clan for leverage against the Enlilites within the Anu clan). Matrifiliated alliances give lineages external allies as they vie for precedence in authority. 

** Sitchin, in The Wars of Gods and Men, 1985, page 97, says Ninurta's mother was Sud, not Ninmah.  Since The Lost Book of Enki is later, it's probably correct, incorporating newer translations. Ninurta's mother was Ninmah.

SELF-STUDY

1.  What was the basis for the rebellion of Anzu and the Igigi?  

2.  How did Anzu gain the initial advantage in his contest with Enlil?

3.  How was the struggle of Nannar and Ninurta like that of Enlil and Enki? 

Next episode, Tablet 5c: Nibiran Miners' Mutiny Over Work Conditions
  Enki Grafts Nibiran and Homo Erectus Genes for New Miners

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