Annunaki The Forgotten Creators

The Anunnaki are a group of deities of the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians.  The Anunnaki are deities in the pantheon, descendants of An and Ki, the god of the heavens and the goddess of earth, and their primary function was to decree the fates of humanity. The name Anunnaki is derived from An, the Sumerian god of the sky. The Anunnaki were believed to be the offspring of An and his consort, the earth goddess Ki who is very similar to the Sumerian mother goddess Ninhursag, The oldest of the Anunnaki was Enlil, the god of air and chief god of the Sumerian pantheon. Enlil split heaven and earth in two and carried away the earth while his father An carried away the sky.

The Anunnaki are chiefly mentioned in literary texts but, there is very little evidence to support the existence of any cult this is likely because each member of the Anunnaki had his or her own individual cult, separate from the others. No representations of the Anunnaki as a complete group has  been discovered, although a few depictions of two or three individual members together have been identified.

The earliest known usages of the term Anunnaki come from inscriptions written during the reign of Gudea (c. 2144–2124 BC) and the Third Dynasty of Ur. In the texts, the term is applied to the most powerful and important deities in the Sumerian pantheon: the descendants of the sky-god An.This group of deities probably included the "seven gods who decree": An, Enlil, Enki, Ninhursag, Nanna, Utu, and Inanna.

Although certain deities are described as members of the Anunnaki, no complete list of the names of all the Anunnaki has survived and they are usually only referred to as a cohesive group in literary texts. Furthermore, Sumerian texts describe the Anunnaki inconsistently and do not agree on how many Anunnaki there were, or what their divine function was. Originally, the Anunnaki appear to have been heavenly deities with immense powers.