Part One: Blood, Clay, and the Earthborn Vessel
And it came to pass one hundred and fifty thousand cycles ago Enlil descended upon Tiamat as a savior of all Amadonnian empires. And Enki also established the first gold mining and research outpost on Earth to capture the powerful beasts found in its wilderness.
Therefore the Anunnaki established their first mining outposts upon the Earth.
They raised stations in the mountains.
They opened shafts beneath the ground.
They measured rivers.
They marked fault lines.
They carved hidden temples above the mines and sealed machines beneath the soil.
But the labor was grievous.
The work was deep.
The heat of the Earth was harsh.
The mines devoured strength.
And the Anunnaki, though mighty, did not desire to spend their own royal blood in the dust of a servant world.
Therefore they brought with them the Igigi.
The Igigi were a lesser celestial race, strong enough to labor, obedient enough to be commanded, and close enough to the Anunnaki to serve beneath them.
And for ages, the Igigi worked the landscape of Tiamat and of mines of Earth. Though the Earth was a beautiful paradise the work on was exceptionally difficult.
The Igigi descended into the dark places for mining. They carried gold from the belly of the planet. They maintained the machines of refining and transport.
Above them sat the Anunnaki lords, who measured the harvest and sent the resources to Nibiru, and on through Xenomax, then to the first Dominion of Amadonnia.
And by Anunnaki decree the Igigi built the first five extraction cities. Eridu was built by decree of Enki, Bad-tibira by decree of Inanna, Larak by cree of Ninurta or Pabilsag, Sippar by decree of Utu and Shuruppak as the final great extraction city.
But the burden of mining and extraction was much heavier on Earth than on Tiamat and the process to liquify diamonds was laborious and dangerous. The health of the Igigi declined and they grew weary.
Their hands were broken by labor. Their backs were bent beneath command. Their spirits were filled with resentment. And at last they lifted their voices in rebellion.
They cried out against the Anunnaki, saying, “Why should we, who came from the stars, be buried beneath the earth? Why should our hands be consumed in the mines while the high ones sit in splendor? We were made servants, yet we are treated as beasts.”
And the rebellion of the Igigi troubled the Anunnaki.For the gold was still needed. The mines could not cease. The worlds of the first Dominion still hungered.
Then the high council of the Earth expedition gathered in secrecy.
Enki brought the matter before the Dominion Council of the Nebulous and the Cosmic Architects of Amadonnia.
And they said,
“Let there be made a worker suited unto Earth. Let the creature be born of Earth, that Earth may not reject it. Let it bear enough of our image to understand command, yet enough of the beast to endure labor. Let it multiply. Let it serve. Let it gather the gold and let it liquify diamonds.”
Then the eyes of the Anunnaki turned toward the primates.
The creatures were strong. They were adaptable.
They learned by imitation.They possessed hands fit for tools.
They possessed fear enough to obey. They possessed enough fortitude to survive.
And unknown to man was within them, the essence of the gods chambered in their soul. The spark of the divine had been forever embedded in their lineage.
Thus the Enki took the seed of Earth’s primates and gave it to the goddess Ninmah to grow it in her womb, imbuing the seed of man with the divine essence of the Anunnaki.
The body of man had been shaped near the likeness of the gods.
Awakened its mind, improved its stature, sharpened its vision, stirred language within its throat.
Placed longing within the heart. Gave memory enough to learn, but not enough to remember the making, and gave obedience enough to serve, and desire enough to grow.
And from this blending came mankind.
Then the Enki looked upon the beginnings of man and said,
“Behold the Earthborn vessel. It is formed from the womb of Ninmah possessing the divine spark and us lords on high, but diminutive in stature from its primate nature, and made beautiful and intelligent.
Our creation shall henceforth be referred to as man. And we shall name the first Adamu, his companion will be named Chavah. Enki decreed that man shall bear the burden of labor, and serve at our pleasure. The Igigi shall be relieved from the deepest mines and shall become overseers of man.”
Thus humanity was born, not in the palaces of kings, but from necessity in the steppe garden of Edenu.
Not as rulers. Not as priests. Not as free nations.
But as laborers and as creatures of servitude beneath the hand of the Anunnaki.
And the Igigi, who had once been laborers, became overseers.
They stood between the Anunnaki and the human workers.
They commanded the labor camps.They guarded the mines.
They taught the first humans to carry, dig, build, obey, fear, and worship.
Yet from the beginning there was danger in the creation.
For the Anunnaki had placed too much of themselves within the vessel of man.
Humanity was not merely beast. Neither was it truly divine.
It was both hunger and imagination. It was clay and fire. It was obedience by design and rebellion by nature, bound and conflicted in one body.
It could kneel before power, yet desire to control power. It could serve the gods, yet desire to become as gods. And the wisest among the Anunnaki feared what had been made.