Question: Ask The Nuwaupians, Did The Anunnaki Mine For Gold As Malachi York Has Claimed?
Answer: The Nuwaupians will make up some lie rather than cite a primary source.
This question is asked because many Nuwaupians when challenged on this "Gold Theory" of York, will not answer the question with citations from ancient Mesopotamian literature, rather, they will take the focus away from Mesopotamia and direct you to York's claims where he mentions South African gold mines, something totally unrelated to ancient Sumer. This is the predictable tactic of Nuwaupians which is to simply duck and hide because deep down they know York didn't know what he was talking or writing about, he gave NO proof, thus they have to grab anything they think sounds convincing to hold their audience.
In the tract called, Enki as Creator, from the Actual Facts series, York in keeping with the teachings of one of his favorite fiction writers Zecharia Sitchin, York writes the following.
"Ba-Anunnaki, Paa-Nazdiru, Ha-Eloheem, the Gods were complaining about having to work the mines for the Nubt "Gold" in Abzu "South Africa" as being too difficult."
York's comment is mixing truth with a fallacy. To be clear, there are various Akkadian narratives which mentions a "complaint" and "hard work", however there are no such text speaking about working gold mines and certainly nothing mentioning "South Africa". York failed to present an accurate picture of what one text was conveying. In the text known as The Atrahasis, the text tells you where these Anunnaki and Igigi were working.
After Anu had ascended to the heavens and Enki had descended to the watery abyss (Apsu), [the seven great divinities imposed labor on the other deities. . . .]
They dug the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, [to supply life-giving water to the land]
-Translation by, Assyriologist: W.G. Lambert and A.R. Millard 1969
Atrahasis Tablet 1 Lines 21-25:
(21) The gods were digging watercourses,
canals they opened, the life of the land.
The Igigi-gods were digging watercourses
canals they opened, the life of the land.
(25) The Igigi-gods dug the Tigris river
and the Euphrates thereafter.
-Translation by Assyriologist Benjamin R. Foster 1993
The gods had to dig out canals,
Had to clear channels, the lifelines of the land.
The gods dug out the Tigris river
And then dug out the Euphrates.
-Translation by, non Assyriologist: Stephanie Dally 1991.
Here we have 3 translations with the same general theme, the Igigu(i) were forced to do the work of digging out watercourses and digging the Tigris & Euphrates rivers, there's no mentioning of gold or any metal for any reason. In spite of the fact that there is no reference to gold, York insist upon keeping that lie in the minds of his readers.
"Ba-Anunnaki, Paa-Nazdiru, Ha-Eloheem, the Gods were complaining about having to work the mines for the Nubt "Gold" in Abzu "South Africa" as being too difficult".
Again, this comment is a case of mixing truth with falsehood. Yes the story speaks of the Igigu(i) "complaining" of the "heavy burden..." then York adds the "mines" and "abzu South Africa" something clearly not mentioned in the text. The source regarding a "complaint" of working" can be found in the Atrahasis.
(35) ... the vast marsh.
They counted years of drudgery,
... and forty years, too much!
... forced labor they bore night and day.
They were complaining, denouncing,
(40) muttering down in the ditch:
"Let us face up to our foreman the prefect,
he must take off our heavy burden upon us."
Atrahasis Tablet 1 Line 35-40
In the above text, there is no mention of the Anunnaki or Igigi digging, mining or looking for gold which in Sumerian is Kug.sig17. So where was York getting these poor interpretations and why are they trying to get the reader to believe that there was a gold mission by the Anuna(ki) Anunnaki? It's certainly not from the text.
There are several words used for gold in Sumerian language, however in the context of this narrative, the term for the shinny yellowish or gold colored metal is /kug/sig/
We see this word in the following example text below easily researched using the largest online database for transliterated and translated Sumerian tablets by way of Oxford University, called The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL).
Transliteration:
49A. kur tu-/uk-ri-iš\ki kug-sig17 ḫa-ra-li
49B.na4za-gin3 [X X] X-ga ḫu-mu-ra-bal-bal-[e]
49C.kur me-luḫ-ḫaki na4gug niĝ2 al di kal-la
Translation:
May the land of Tukriš hand over to you gold from Ḫarali, lapis lazuli and ……. May the land of Meluḫa load precious desirable cornelian, meš wood of Magan and the best abba wood into large ships for you.
-Enki and Ninḫursaĝa (c.1.1.1), line c111.49A Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
It was Zecharia Sitchin started this Gold mining myth in his Earth Chronicles bookseries, and he like York, failed (in many cases) to cite the primary sources mentioning a mining for gold or how they even used the source to arrive at their conclutions. Zecariah Sitchin writes the following, taken from one of his books called The Wars of Gods and Men.
"The metal, with it's unique properties, was needed back home for a vital need...as best as we can make out, this vital need could have been for suspending the gold particles in Nibiru's wanting atmosphere and thus shield it from critical dissipation"
-Zecariah Sitchin: The Wars of Gods and Men pg. 78
In other words, he's relying on conjecture, guessing about the gold story. The above comments from Sitchin is where York plagiarizes the idea that Anu sent the Anunnaki to earth to gather gold to take back to York's falacious planet he calls "Rizq" and repair it's ozone layer;
30.) The planet RIZQ has three suns Utu, Afsu and Shamesh that all have damaging ultraviolet rays and has a much faster rotation than that of this planet, so the depletion of the ozone layer occurred at a faster rate.
31.) We needed to build a protection, a dome of gold dust particles suspended in the atmosphere, to protect the planet from the damaging ultraviolet rays".
-Malachi York: Holy Tablets Chapter 2 Tablet 1:30-31
In York's plagiarizing of Zecharia Sitchin's misinformation, York changed it from Nibiru needing gold protection in it's atmosphere to it being planet Rizq's atmosphere.
In number 11 of the same tract Enki as Creator, York makes the following assertions void of evidence;
"gold in Abzu 'South Africa..Abzu' is South Africa!"
The above comment is totally ridiculous. It has no basis in fact, no linguistic, no geographical nor any literary evidence backing this claim. This demonstrates without a doubt that York knew nothing about the basic fundamentals of Mesopotamian history and language and location. Abzu can be found in Sumerian literature. It's not difficult to research and gain a better overview on what is means and how it's used in context. Abzu (an Akkadian word) also read as Zu.Ab and Ap.Su was a reference to the sea or deep ocean.
abzu "water" Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Old Babylonian) written as abzu; abzux(|UMUM×KASKAL|) "(cosmic) underground water; a ritual water container in a temple" also in Akkadian, apsû. So this Sumerian word has a water association, how in the world is this related to South Africa"
-The Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
There are so many errors and total lies found within the Enki As Creator tract, for example we read the following.
(41) "Anu, An descended from the nine. He as the Heavenly one was the ruler of Nibiru"
NO text mentions that Anu (Akkadian) An (Sumerian) was ruler of Neberu (Nibiru).
Nibiru is called Marduk's star in the Enuma Enlish Tablet 7, and nowhere does it mention Anu ruling Nibiru and NEVER is ANU mentioned with Nibiru in any capacity. This is all nonsensical and designed for one reason, book sales, so buyer BEWARE of colorful books, booklets and tracts, although interesting as a cover at a glance, they hold a more sinister purpose, deception for profit.
