This would be destabilizing to the current world order
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Related: When I first began researching the Anunnaki, I came across an item buried incredibly deeply in etymology that did a lot towards convincing me of their reality.
Ingrained so far down in culture that it has become subconscious is the separation between work and worship. There was a time in living memory when Christians called Sunday, "God's day". Chick-fil-A is still closed on that day, and that's an assload of chicken money to give up just to respect something no human is holding you to. Orthodox Jews live in buildings where the elevators run automatically during the Sabbath. The concept is in there deep.
Nor is it only a modern way of getting out of work. Two followers of Jesus were gathering wood on the Sabbath and the Jews wanted to f-ing kill them for it. Sure, we're largely fallen from the purer faith, but people take this concept really seriously.
So how surprised was I to find that the ancient Hebrew word "avodah" means both "work or service" and "worship or prayer". These two diametrically opposed concepts had been one and the same in the mists of the past. How could that be?
Well, to be brief, the Anunnaki created us as a slave species. These powerful aliens were as gods to these new humans. We can't really get in their heads as to how they thought about it, but their writing seems to indicate so. Does your dog think of you as a god? You sure have god-like powers and do things in mysterious ways.
There's the explanation of how work and worship were originally one and the same. They were literally doings gods' work.
I like this theory but how would it benefit humanity for the Anunnaki to give their slaves a day off?
Oh, there were no days off, any more than there are days off for the robots in "Westworld". Wouldn't even make sense as a concept in that context. Not just a useful comparison, either, since (long story) They were using that show to allegorically tell us how it used to be.
There is no clear and universal consensus on when the idea of a "sabbath" day came into human culture, but I found this passage quite intriguing:
In another incredibly long story, it turns out the whole world changed drastically around 600 BC, the same dating as this origin of the sabbath. It goes back once again to the Anunnaki, and the settlement of what is loosely known and widely misunderstood as the "war in heaven". The "peace treaty" went into effect at that time.
So in that scenario, the sabbath just came into being along with a couple of hundred other things that humans started thinking up, such as the very idea of writing down history. Big changes all around.