I might suggest flipping around the thesis of your title: the mystery schools were set up to preserve and--more importantly--to control the knowledge that was given to the Sumerians by the Anunnaki.
And let me add a note on Michael Heiser, the chief "debunker" of Sitchin: I once watched a few minutes of one of his main presentations, where he sought to show that you could completely dismiss the Anunnaki. He said something like, "Go to the Oxford Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature and search on the term 'anunnaki'. You won't find it anywhere because the Sumerians never mentioned the Anunnaki."
Strictly speaking, this is true. Sitchin came up with the term himself. HOWEVER, the Sumerians used the term "Anuna gods" instead of "Anunnaki", and they refer to the same group. There is no way Heiser was unaware of this. It's a deliberate lie.
I've only ever read a couple of paragraphs of Sitchin's work, but from what I understand of it I've come to many of the same conclusions independently.
Seriously, I can only describe a few things about it from a "meta" perspective. The Anunnaki were greatly advanced technologically, as we can see in all the ancient monuments and "antiquitech" laying around all over the world, which I assume originally came from them. Certain of the Anunnaki gave advanced tech to certain humans to secure their loyalty. And note here that, as we are told by Arthur C. Clarke, we could call it either high tech or magic, so we should keep in mind that these are not distinct.
So what tech was this exactly? Well, I believe only some handful actually know. But the Bible warns strongly against practicing "sorcery", and I believe this tech is what is being referred to. (And yes, the "elohim" of the Bible are the Anunnaki.)
Why warn us off? One reason is that it's probably powerful and therefore inherently dangerous if not used properly. A second is that it may be inherently negative or evil (like it's hard to imagine constructive uses for chemical weapons.) A third is hard to describe, but I have the suspicion that use of it may somehow make one vulnerable to negative influences. An example here is the "tech" of the ouija board, of which you will find many warnings against "opening a door you don't know how to close".
I wish I knew more but as a final note, always remember that "mystery" does not mean what most people think it does, which is "something that no one knows". It actually means "secret", or "something that few know".
Really appreciate your lengthy response here. I think the bible was written strictly to make humans and the earth into an obvious prison planet of slaves who wont fight back and think that 1 book their slaver elites printed for them has the answers. But i agree with the rest of your points in that the anuna etc gave tech to a few AND that occult rituals and their objects likely links up with this tech or magic .. i wonder how the bloodlines could play into this Anuna theory. Like maybe they mated with some of them and gave the tech to them only so as to keep it in the family and foster extreme loyalty that would last hundreds of generations up to now? Strange we all know their was some kind of ancient other species but our schools and political leaders refuse to explore this huge known ancient fact?
Yes, I believe you've pretty much nailed the basic idea on the interbreeding. And once you accept that as a working hypothesis, you finally start looking through the correct end of the telescope.
There are numerous things, quite diverse and scattered throughout history and even current affairs, that are puzzling and even bizarre on their own but find a succinct explanation with the Anunnaki bloodlines idea. Why were so many ancient kings and notables said to be giants? Why do kings say they have the "divine right" and emperors say they have the "mandate of Heaven"? Why do so many claim to have descended from the gods? Why are the Elite so obsessed with bloodlines? Why did pharoahs wear the uraeus? Why is there all this serpent worship everywhere? Why are Jupiter and Moses and others often portrayed with horns? Well, it goes on and on.
You might like to give some reconsideration to the Bible. As I have been able to understand and "decode" it, it mainly concerns certain human interactions with the Anunnaki. There are many aspects of it which Biblical scholars simply wave away like that bad smell that can be explained quite precisely with an understanding of the Anunnaki and their relationship to humans.
I might suggest flipping around the thesis of your title: the mystery schools were set up to preserve and--more importantly--to control the knowledge that was given to the Sumerians by the Anunnaki.
And let me add a note on Michael Heiser, the chief "debunker" of Sitchin: I once watched a few minutes of one of his main presentations, where he sought to show that you could completely dismiss the Anunnaki. He said something like, "Go to the Oxford Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature and search on the term 'anunnaki'. You won't find it anywhere because the Sumerians never mentioned the Anunnaki."
Strictly speaking, this is true. Sitchin came up with the term himself. HOWEVER, the Sumerians used the term "Anuna gods" instead of "Anunnaki", and they refer to the same group. There is no way Heiser was unaware of this. It's a deliberate lie.
I've only ever read a couple of paragraphs of Sitchin's work, but from what I understand of it I've come to many of the same conclusions independently.
What do you think that anuna knowledge or mystery knowledge is?
I don't know, it's a mystery!
Seriously, I can only describe a few things about it from a "meta" perspective. The Anunnaki were greatly advanced technologically, as we can see in all the ancient monuments and "antiquitech" laying around all over the world, which I assume originally came from them. Certain of the Anunnaki gave advanced tech to certain humans to secure their loyalty. And note here that, as we are told by Arthur C. Clarke, we could call it either high tech or magic, so we should keep in mind that these are not distinct.
So what tech was this exactly? Well, I believe only some handful actually know. But the Bible warns strongly against practicing "sorcery", and I believe this tech is what is being referred to. (And yes, the "elohim" of the Bible are the Anunnaki.)
Why warn us off? One reason is that it's probably powerful and therefore inherently dangerous if not used properly. A second is that it may be inherently negative or evil (like it's hard to imagine constructive uses for chemical weapons.) A third is hard to describe, but I have the suspicion that use of it may somehow make one vulnerable to negative influences. An example here is the "tech" of the ouija board, of which you will find many warnings against "opening a door you don't know how to close".
I wish I knew more but as a final note, always remember that "mystery" does not mean what most people think it does, which is "something that no one knows". It actually means "secret", or "something that few know".
Really appreciate your lengthy response here. I think the bible was written strictly to make humans and the earth into an obvious prison planet of slaves who wont fight back and think that 1 book their slaver elites printed for them has the answers. But i agree with the rest of your points in that the anuna etc gave tech to a few AND that occult rituals and their objects likely links up with this tech or magic .. i wonder how the bloodlines could play into this Anuna theory. Like maybe they mated with some of them and gave the tech to them only so as to keep it in the family and foster extreme loyalty that would last hundreds of generations up to now? Strange we all know their was some kind of ancient other species but our schools and political leaders refuse to explore this huge known ancient fact?
Yes, I believe you've pretty much nailed the basic idea on the interbreeding. And once you accept that as a working hypothesis, you finally start looking through the correct end of the telescope.
There are numerous things, quite diverse and scattered throughout history and even current affairs, that are puzzling and even bizarre on their own but find a succinct explanation with the Anunnaki bloodlines idea. Why were so many ancient kings and notables said to be giants? Why do kings say they have the "divine right" and emperors say they have the "mandate of Heaven"? Why do so many claim to have descended from the gods? Why are the Elite so obsessed with bloodlines? Why did pharoahs wear the uraeus? Why is there all this serpent worship everywhere? Why are Jupiter and Moses and others often portrayed with horns? Well, it goes on and on.
You might like to give some reconsideration to the Bible. As I have been able to understand and "decode" it, it mainly concerns certain human interactions with the Anunnaki. There are many aspects of it which Biblical scholars simply wave away like that bad smell that can be explained quite precisely with an understanding of the Anunnaki and their relationship to humans.