The Anunnaki: The First Family of Gods?

Before Jesus and the God of the Hebrews, before Jupiter and Zeus, before even the gods of the Egyptians, there were the Anunnaki. And, as far as we can tell, these were the group of gods that were worshipped in the earliest of civilizations like the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians.

In the earliest writings about them from the Sumerians in the third millennium BC, writing after the Akkadian period, the Anunnaki are a pantheon of gods that are descended from the god of the heavens An and the goddess of the Earth Ki. Their primary function was to dictate the fates of humanity, a tradition which appears to have lasted far further into the past.

The word Anunnaki word can be translated into “princely seed” in Sumerian but as a term it remains poorly defined. There is also little evidence of an exact number of these gods and their various functions as the historical texts all deviate from each other. However, they are fascinating as the first family of gods ever.