Anunnaki

Anunnaki, "Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came" (from Nibiru to Earth).

Historiography
Anunnanki (Akkadian) derives from the Sumerian Anunna. The Sumerian word first appears in some Gudea inscriptions, and in a few Ur III texts, and can be translated as "Those of princely seed" (Falkenstein 1965: 129; Edzard 1965: 42). It continues in its Akkadian forms Anunnaku and Anunnaki until the.

Mythology
The Anunna (Sumerian) indicate a group of gods in the Mesopotamian pantheon. After the Old Babylonian period, a distinction was made from underworld gods -ki (earth); as opposed to the gods of heaven, the Igigi (also Anunna gods).

The so-called Babylonian Creation Story, Enūma eliš TT (Tablet VI, lines 39-44), narrates how Marduk assigned 300 Anunna gods for duty in the heavens, and the same number for duty in the netherworld, giving a total of 600 Anunna gods (Foster 2005: 470).

One of the main functions of the Anunna gods was to decide the fates, as attested in the Sumerian myth Enki and the World Order (ETCSL 1.1.3, l. 207).