The ten primary gods are known in ancient Babylonian and Sumerian tablets as "the Anunnaki" - but there are alternative spellings which include Anunaki, Anunna, Anunnaku, Ananaki and other variations.
This group of deities in ancient Mesopotamian cultures (i.e.Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian) were a mixture of three primary genetic traits which would evolve and become the three most dominant and well developed species groups on our planet: HUMAN, AMPHIBIAN and REPTILIAN. Anunaki or Anunna means "princely offspring". Chris EVerard has taught himself Sumerian from studying the writings of the famous Manchester scholar John Marco Allegro, who published the ground-breaking and controversial book The Sacred Mushroom & the Cross.
During his research, Chris Everard discovered a collection of clay and terracotta fragments which had been overlooked by Babylonian scholars at the British museum and also at a museum in the USA. Chris has travelled thousands of miles to Egypt and has been corresponding with professors at the Baghdad university. He interviewed an Egyptologist trained at the University of Edinburgh and discovered that legends of these peculiar gods which are a combination of human, amphibian and reptilian traits existed in ancient Saudi Arabia too. Chris is presently investigating if the permanently flooded ancient temples found in central Egypt were specifically constructed as the dwelling places of these partly amphian 'Gods'. The big question is this: Did these gods ever actually exist in physical form?
According to The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, the Anunnaki "are the Sumerian deities of the old primordial line; they are chthonic deities of fertility, associated eventually with the underworld". Later in Egypt, there were EIGHT [not ten] of these Creator gods - and Chris is the foremost expert on the so called OGDOAD. There were four humanoid females with serpent-like heads - and also four humanoid males with heads of frogs.
The Anunnaki appear in the Babylonian creation myth, Enuma Elish. Chris believes that later on in the medieval era, the Ogdoad and their consort spirits and demons became part of the infamous GOETIA and writings of King Solomon. Chris has been filming at the Egyptian temple at Eridu, the site at which the creation was thought to have occurred. Chris says that Pharaohs were essentially a race of interbred magicians, and they used hallucinogenic and soporific plants - including the Blue Lily of the Nile, cocaine, hashish and tobacco to create a telepathic trance-like state where they would communicate with these 'gods'. Chris is currently piecing together more overlooked fragments and is building a digital online manuscript library where HD video clips and high resolution images of the faces of the gods will be viewable by everyone worldwide for free. Chris has made several full length documentaries about Brotherhoods, cults and religious orders - check out his website here