Question: Ask The Nuwaupians, Who and what are the Anunnaqi?
Answer: They will give you a baseless claim that they are space aliens who eat black people.
Before explaining what the Anunnaki are or were in Mesopotamian literature, let's establish what the Anunnaki are not.
- space alien cannibals with a taste for human flesh
- Flying a giant space ship called Nibiru
- passengers onboard the "planet sized ship" Nibiru
- The ancient Egyptian nTr
- workers who mined looking for gold
- Nephilim of the bible
- flying around the Universe waiting for the right moment to abduct the 144,000 of the bible
- men from from Rizq
Malachi York, in keeping with another career pseudo scholar Zecharia Sitchin, York parrots the fallacy that the "Anunnaqi" are people that "Anu sent to Earth."
-Is God An Extra-Terra-Astral (Extraterrestrial?) pg. 113
-Leviathan 666: The Beast as the Anti-Christ Part One of Four
The above statements are a confirmation that York was totally lost and knew nothing about this subject which misinformed his readers about Anun.na.qi "those who Anu sent down from heaven to earth"
The Sumerian tradition, as with the Akkadians, has many different names for their various god-groupings. To these belong,
1) dingir-an-na ―the gods of the sky,
2) dingir.kia ―the gods of the earth,
3) dingir-an-ki-a ―the gods from the [land] and the sky,
4) dingir-kur-kur-ra ―the gods of foreign lands,
5) dinger-hur-sag-ga ―the gods of the mountains
6) dingir-sar-sar-ra ―the uncountable gods,
7) dingir-ki-lagaski-a ―the gods from the region of Lagas,
8) dingir-galgal ―the great gods,
9) da-nun-na The second member of the Akkadian opposition pair
10) danunnaku: digigu Sumerian dnun-gal-e-ne, is rarely testified to until at least the old-Babylonian era.
The supporting documents for d-a-nun-na, also those for dingir-gal-gal and the rest of the mentioned titles are exclusively characterized in literary texts. They are not mentioned in numerous administrative documents that have to do with the offerings given to various gods. There are also no temples that were made holy to the Anunna or any other of the various god groupings. This shows that those associated with the veneration of the Anunna didn't have a big influence on culture practices.
-The Anunna in the Sumerian Tradition: A. Heidelberg Falkenstein, pg. 127
dingir-a-nuna =NUN, before the plural suffix of the personal form –ene a-nuna-ke-ne31. Sporadic spellings without god-determinative appear in the inscriptions of Gudea with two exceptions. They are also found in texts which for us lie within the old-Babylonian tradition. However, one does not find them when examining the incantation texts of the Ur III era, and only seldom in later texts. The spelling danuna, which is native to the old-Sumerian orthography, appears twice in the Gudea-inscriptions, and is even more prevalent in the old-Babylonian transcriptions. The texts of later origins are occasionally written in accordance with the younger normal form of the Akkadian, dingir-a-nun-na-ki instead of d-a-nun-na-ke-(e-) ne da-nun-na-ke
-The Anunna in the Sumerian Tradition: A. Heidelberg Falkenstein, pg. 129
Anuna ―(Gods, the) seeds/semen of the First are, satisfies the claim that the genitive relationship must exist. To answer the question, who are the first and what is their relationship with NUN,‘ one is lead to Enki from Eridu. He carries the epithet of NUN. His city is also identified with NUNki . Those who are mentioned in an old invocation called a-nun-na-eriduki...danuna of the area of Lagas‖ and the danuna from Nippur were by that time already attested to.
As father of the Anuna, "An", Anu in Akkadian, the highest god of the Sumerian ruling pantheon had to inevitably appear. A passage from the "Lamentation of Aruru", seven of the chief gods, An, Enlil, Ninlil, Enki, Ninmah, Nanna, and Utu went to the female gods.They could not, please them (nu-mu-ni-in-hun-e).
-The Anunna in the Sumerian Tradition: A. Falkenstein, Heidelberg pg. 129
We find the Anuna spoken of in high honor in the Sumerian epics,
Sumerian Transliteration:
1. ud re-a-ta ud an ki-bi-ta ba-an-[dim2-ma-ba
2. ji6 re-a-ta ji6 an ki-bi-ta /ba\-[an-dim2-ma-ba]
3. [mu re]-a-/ta\ mu nam ba-[tar-ra-ba]
4. [da]-/nun\-na-ke4-ne ba-tu-ud-da-a-ba
5. dama-dinana nam-NIR.PA-ce3 ba-tuku-a-ba
6. dama-dinana an ki-a ba-hal-hal-la-a-ba
7. dama-dinana [...] ba-a-pec u3-tud-da-a-ba
8. dijir kurum6-ma-bi A X X unu2?-bi-ce3 ba-ab-kece2-a-<ba>
9. dijir car2-car2 kij2-ja2 al-sug2-ge-ec dijir tur-tur du2-lum im-il2-il2-e-ne
10. dijir id2 <im> dun-dun-u3-ne sahar-bi ha-ra-li im-dub-dub-be2-ne
11. dijir im ar3-ar3-re-ne zi-bi inim am3-ma-jar-re-ne
English Translation:
1-11. In those days, in the days when heaven and earth were created; in those nights, in the nights when heaven and earth were created; in those years, in the years when the fates were determined; when the Anuna gods were born; when the goddesses were taken in marriage; when the goddesses were distributed in heaven and earth; when the goddesses …… became pregnant and gave birth; when the gods were obliged (?) …… their food …… dining halls; the senior gods oversaw the work, while the minor gods were bearing the toil. The gods were digging the canals and piling up the silt in Ḫarali. The gods, crushing the clay, began complaining about this life.
-Enki and Ninmaḫ - The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
The Anuna in this and other Sumerian tablets doesn't use the term, "Anunnaqi" and there is NO Sumerian text mentioning, Anun.na.qi "those who Anu sent down from heaven to earth"
d-anuna as a Sumerian cuneiform sign 
is the same for sky, heaven or deity, Anu also bares this sign. It's used in the preposition as a determinative (classifier) before divine names.
Example, d-Enki, d-enlil, d-Inana, d-Dumuzi
This is the same in the case of danuna because it's a divine name. We consulted Sumerologist Dr. John Halloran and he informs us that,
"My lexicon has: a-nun-na(-k): noble stock; fear, dread ('offspring' + 'master' + genitive).
da-nun-na(-ke4-ne): the gods as a whole; the gods of the netherworld, as compared to the dnun-gal-e-ne, the great gods of heaven." John Halloran
The use of this cuneiform determinative is applied to stars as well,
For example, mul.sag.me.gar, the planet Jupiter can seen this way, 
In Akkadian, Jupiter (Neberu), written mul-Ne2-be-ru, can mean Jupiter in culmination or in other specific positions, but can also denote the North Star and Canopus, and even the constellation Perseus or a meteor. This is also confirmed in numerous dictionaries on this topic.
The term Igigi(u) another term used in York doctrine are NOT extraterrestrial creatures either, the name is under item 861 in Borger's new Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon, as dingir i2-gi3-gi3, a phonetic reading of the signs for 5 1 1, symbolic of the number 7, which is a number that meant 'uncountable, infinite' in Mesopotamian theology. It can also be interpreted as 5 x (60 + 60) = 600, which was the number of great gods in some traditions.
As a divine name it appears 182 times in Sumerian literature which is available for review in the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL).
So anuna/Anunnaki/Anunaku are Anthropomorphic gods. Living in a supernatural universe populated with divine beings: gods and demons. They are portrayed in an anthropomorphic way as superior humans, imaging the ruling class of society. They are, however, more powerful, freed from human miseries and mishaps and they live endless lives.
Sources ETCSL, EPSD, The Sumerian Lexicon by John A. Halloran, UCLA Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning Richard Hinckley Allan 1963.
