By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA)
Durkheim: Elementary Australian rituals reveal religion’s origins ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CLANS RELATED TO SPIRIT TOTEMS Durkheim sought the origins of religion—the first spark that led humans to feel a force greater than themselves. He found it among Australian clans, who gathered around painted poles, engraved rocks, the bodies of dancers charged with color and symbol.
The people felt something rising; it moved through their chests. Durkheim called this surge collective effervescence—the group becoming more than the sum of its parts. He insisted that this power was not supernatural; it was society itself, felt as a living force. Their poles were not only clan symbols—they were faded memories of Extraterrestrials that developed them as proto-Earthlings on Earth long before the Anunnaki arrived in Iraq from the planet Nibiru.
Background: DRACO REPTILIANS WARRED WITH HUMAN LYRAN-VEGANS
Many millions of years ago, Draco-Reptilians from the Draco constellation formed a massive empire from the planet Thuban in Alpha Draconis. They colonized a vast empire with humanoid worlds they conquered or which joined voluntarily. The Dracos colonized Alpha Draconis, Epsilon Bootes, Zeta II Reticuli, Polaris, Rigel (Orion), Bellatrix (Orion), and Capella (Alpha Aurigae).
The Lyran-Vegans fought the Dracos in the Ring Nebula over planets each sought for themselves. Dracos attacked the Lyran home planets and killed millions of Lyrans. Lyrans from Orion hit Reptilian colonies there; the Dracos hit back. Vegan settlers and local Reptilians on Orion-neighborhood planets joined Lyrans against the Dracos. All these forces became the present FEDERATION OF PLANETS from Lyra, Andromeda, Pleiades, Hyades, Iumma [Wolf 424], Procyon, Tau Ceti, Alpha Centauri, and Epsilon Eridani, all of Lyran-Pleiadian heritage.
A million years or so ago, Draco Reptilians had settled the planet Venus and then built Luna, a hollow, unspinning moon that they maneuvered into orbit around Earth. From the moon, they colonized Lemuria on Earth.
The Dracos stocked Earth’s Lemuria Continent with Dinosaurs, the Draco food-source life form. The dinosaurs migrated and evolved further throughout most of the Earth.
The Galactic Federation of Lyran refugees decided to clear the Solar System of Dracos. The Federation sent the Lyran Atlans and refugees from Maldek [a planet Dracos had blown into the bits we call the Kuiper Asteroids] against the Dracos on Earth. The Atlans settled Atlantis (under the Caribbean Basin now; its peaks are now the Azores and the Canary Islands, and the U.S. northeast coast). Earth’s Dracos attacked the Atlans; Maldekians landed and settled in the Gobi Desert, India’s north and, Iraq and joined the Atlantean attacks on Earth’s Dracos.
Atlanteans bombarded Lemuria with electromagnetic pulses, sinking it. The Hawaiian Islands, California’s Coast, Australia, New Zealand, South Pacific Islands, Japan, the Philippines, and Taiwan stayed above water. Federation forces ousted the Dracos from Luna and Venus. “Inner Earth became the homeland for most surviving Reptilians of Lemuria.” On Atlantis, “whenever the Atlanteans detected underground Reptilian activity, they blasted the inner Earth Underground, the Dracos built the cities–HYPERBOLEA, SHAMBALLA, AGARTHA, AKKADIA and ran speed shuttles among them.
On Atlantis, “whenever the Atlanteans detected underground Reptilian activity, they blasted the inner Earth with lasers and electromagnetic pulses. This weakened the Earth’s upper crust and mantle. After several millennia, the Atlantean continent started to break up.”
The COUNCIL OF HATONA
Beings from the Andromeda Galaxy convened the Council of Hatona. Earth’s Atlanteans, other human and Reptilian groups on Earth, and Reptilians from Earth’s caverns attended. Contenders colonizing Earth swore peace. They agreed to separate genetic and conditioning experiments on a prototype-Earthling each would begin, to see which they could create as hardiest. Twelve human and one Reptilian group contributed to the original Earthling prototype in areas they controlled. [Swerdlow, 2002: 17-19]
EACH AUSTRALIAN CLAN DANCED FOR ITS TOTEM SPIRIT LIKE MODERN AMERICAN FUNDAMENTALISTS POSSESSED BY THE DIVINE
THE SACRED v. PROFANE: ENLIL’S BOUNDARY AND NINMAH’S
Durkheim discovered that all religions divide life into two domains:
Profane – ordinary tasks, daily living
Sacred – set apart, surrounded by rules, danger, power
This split shaped human consciousness itself. Durkheim saw it as the foundation of religion. Sitchin saw the sacred-profane split as the moment where Anunnaki governance imprinted itself upon human minds. Humans embracing Judaism, Islam, Baha’i, Hinduism, Catholicism, and Protestantism saw the sacred-profane split as their window on spiritual reality. They then judged the beliefs of other faiths as superstition.
Enlil emphasized prohibition, taboo, danger, and obedience.
Ninmah emphasized healing rites, shared food, group renewal, and ecological balance.
WHEN THE CLAN GATHERED, SOCIETY BECAME “GOD”
Durkheim wrote that the sacred force people felt in ritual was not external at all—it was the clan’s own power. He saw that:
The totem represents the group
The god represents the group
Thus, god and clan are the same
When dancers painted the image of the kangaroo, they did not simply paint an animal—they painted themselves. When the clan surged in ritual unity, the psychic field they generated resembled, faintly but truly, the aura-fields humans once experienced in the proximity of Anunnaki visitors.
Collective effervescence felt like contact because, at its core, it was contact with the collective self—and the collective self had been shaped for hundreds of thousands of years under the influence of beings humans mistook for gods.
Durkheim saw humans worshipping themselves. You see humans worshipping a hybrid memory: part themselves, part Anunnaki, part the social bonds they forged to survive domination.
MANA: THE PRIMAL FORCE WAS SOCIAL… AND TECHNOLOGICAL
Durkheim used “mana”—the Polynesian term for sacred force—as the primal seed of divinity. For him, mana was:
Impersonal
Powerful
Everywhere
Activated by ritual
Not yet a “god,” but a force humans feel.
Mana’s the resonance of people in religious fervor in the presence of socially generated energy fields. Durkheim believed mana arises from society alone. Mana is both the internal power of collective human unity and a cultural echo, a re-awakening of the literal energies humans encountered long ago in the presence of the extraterrestrials who ran the area that the Council of Hatona assigned to them.
RITUAL CREATED ORDER: RELIGION AS THE FIRST POLITICAL SYSTEM
Durkheim argued that religion supplies:
- Stability
- Morality
- Shared meaning
- The categories of thought
- Group identity
What he described matches precisely the earliest human-Anunnaki administrative systems. Ritual was how humans learned:
- Obedience or cooperation
- Competition or partnership
- Submission or mutual covenant
Every ritual was a negotiation between currents:
- Enlilite rituals enforced hierarchy (kneeling, silence, prohibition).
- Enkite rituals fostered unity (healing feasts, communal chants, joint labor).
Over thousands of years, humans internalized both currents and reproduced them even after the Anunnaki withdrew. Thus, when Durkheim says religion created society, your lens adds: Religion preserved the psychosocial patterns humans learned under their Anunnaki tutors. Religion became the first social operating system.
WHEN RITUAL FAILS: ANOMIE, SUICIDE, AND THE MODERN CRISIS
Durkheim warned that when societies lose shared rites and shared meaning, individuals fall into anomie—normlessness, disconnection, despair. This is the throughline that links the clan’s vanished rituals, collapse of partnership societies, Cromwell’s England, Irish famine, draft riots, class turmoil, loss of community under monopoly capitalism, rising suicide, alienation, and despair. Durkheim saw anomie as the cost of losing religion. I see anomie as the cost of losing partnership consciousness.
Under Aunnaki domination-consicienceness, that Yahweh/Enlil and Marduk (posing as Yahweh) produced, sacred power becomes punitive, social meaning cracks, people detach, weaken, and collapse.
Under partnership/cooperative/compassionate consciousness, Ninmah-Great Goddess consciousness, sacred power circulates, rituals affirm dignity, community strengthens, and despair dissolves.
WHAT DURKHEIM MISSED AND WHAT HE REVEALED
Durkheim was right: Religion arises from the collective, not from outside it. But what he missed—and what our overview restores—is this:
The collective itself was shaped by long ages of human-Extra-Terrestrial entanglement. The sacred emerged where memory, biology, awe, fear, and group unity converged. Thus, Durkheim’s discovery becomes even more powerful:
- The sacred, aka the holy, is social.
- The social was engineered.
- The sacred is both human and ET in origin.
The partnership vs domination polarity shaped:
- Who became sacred
- Who became taboo
- Who could speak
- Who could feast
- Who could lead
- Who suffered
- Who survived
Durkheim’s work reveals the bones of the ancient struggle beneath the rituals of every culture.
REFERENCES
Durkheim, É., 1912, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. English Translation, George Allen & Unwin / Macmillan editions.
Swerdlow, S. , 2014, True World History, Expansions
