Ancient Sumerian Vodun Resurrected

Re-Rooting the Anunnaki of "Mesopotamia" in their proper African context

Ever since the Sumerian cuneiform tablets were deciphered in 1857, the fabled “land of the civilized kings” has never failed to garner the attention, and feed the imagination, of cult leaders, artists, adepts, mad men, linguists, science fiction writers, and dedicated dreamers from all walks of life.

For novices who’ve only dabbled in the study of ancient Sumerian history and mythology by watching reruns of the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens series, or read books by New Age psychonauts Zecharia Sitchin and Erich Von Daniken, the Anunnaki gods are flesh and blood extraterrestrials who flew through interstellar space in droptop pink caddies with a gangsta lean.

I don’t have a reason to doubt that flesh and blood extraterrestrial aliens exist in this vast cosmos we occupy. In fact, I think that Black people have a unique relationship to some of them.