By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA), co-author (with Janet Kira Lessin) of ANUNNAKI, LEGACY OF THE GODS*
NORMANS WON AND OPPRESSED BRITAIN
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By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA), co-author (with Janet Kira Lessin) of ANUNNAKI, LEGACY OF THE GODS**
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To watch the video that goes with this post, click the video entitled The Normans on the post below this post.
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BRITAIN, 871 CE
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Alfred became King of Wessex in 871 CE. His family’s subjects were the West Saxons, and his kingdom was one of several Anglo-Saxon
realms vying for dominance in Britain. The people inhabiting Britain at the time included SAXONS, ANGLES, JUTES, ROMANO-BRITONS, WELSHMEN, PICTS, SCOTS, and invading VIKINGS.
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KING ALFRED’S HEPTARCHY
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Before Viking invasions in the 9th century, Anglo-Saxon England was an alliance of independent kingdoms, calling themselves the Heptarchy.
King Alfred
Alfred, from Nobles of the West Saxons of Wessex in southwestern England, dominated the coalition, extending his control over 1) Kent (a kingdom of Jutes in the southeast, including Canterbury, 2) Ercia: An Anglian kingdom in the Midlands, 3 East Anglia: An Anglian kingdom in the east, which included the modern Norfolk and Suffolk, 4) Essex: An East Saxon kingdom that included London, 5) Sussex: A South Saxon kingdom lon the south coast, and 6) Northumbria: An Anglian kingdom in the North.
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NATIVE BRITONS
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Native CELTS also lived in Britain. Anglo-Saxon migrations that began in the 5th century pushed the Celts to the edges of Britain.
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The Celts lost ground to:
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7) WELSHMEN: Britons in the western regions of Wales. Welsh rulers were powerful enough for Alfred to form alliances with them
during his reign.
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8) The CORNISH (WEST WELCH), who lived in Cornwall in Britain’s far southwest.
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9) PICTS AND SCOTS: additional Celtic tribes; they lived in Scotland.
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VIKING INVADERS AND SETTLERS
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From the 8th century onward, Viking invaders—primarily Danes—invaded Britain and conquered most of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
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ALFRED BEAT THE VIKINGS AND DIVIDED BRITAIN & ESTABLISHED DANELAW
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The Vikings threatened Alfred’s Heptarchy. Vikings from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden raided Alfred’s alliance. By 865, a “Great Heathen Army” conquered most of the Anglo-Saxon realms until Alfred beat them, and called the area he ruled Danelaw. He let the Vikings keep the North.
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During the 8th century, the people of Scandinavia struggled to grow enough food. This scarcity led to internal wars over arable land and
triggered a wave of sea invasions by warriors known as the Vikings.
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Initially, these raids focused on pillaging and acquiring food. Still, when the Vikings discovered that European soil was more suitable for agriculture and livestock, some chose not to return to Scandinavia.
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NORMANS WERE VIKING IMMIGRANTS TO BRITAIN FROM FRANCE
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Vikings settled in the territories they conquered. The Vikings who settled in what is now France became known as the Normans.
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The Duchy of Normandy was created in 911 by the Viking leader ROLLO, later known as Rollo of Normandy. After participating in many raids along the Seine River, including the siege of Paris in 886 CE, King Charles III of France defeated Rollo.
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A peace treaty followed, in which Rollo converted to Christianity, was baptized as Robert, and was granted land around Rouen in northwestern France. Rollo and his immediate successors became Dukes, starting with Richard II, Duke of Normandy, a descendant of Rollo.
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The Normans married local French women, adopted the French language, and sometimes supported the French king—but they remained largely independent, loyal primarily to their own leaders.
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They became skilled farmers, yet their tradition of primogeniture (inheriting property only through the eldest son) often compelled younger sons to seek fortunes elsewhere, fueling further conquests.
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In the 10th century, a distinct Norman identity blended Norse and French cultures. The Normans made sure Brits honored their military prowess, Catholic piety, and martial spirit. The Norman rulers, worried about divine punishment for their crimes of conquest, murder, and theft, tried to compensate. They invested wealth in building churches and monasteries, hoping to atone through religious patronage.
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WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
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William the Conqueror, also known as William the Bastard because he was the illegitimate son of Robert I, Duke of Normandy, inherited Robert’s duchy in 1035. He got control of Normandy around 1060.
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William believed he should inherit the English throne because he was a second cousin of Edward the Confessor, King of England. However, Edward, on his deathbed, named HAROLD GODWINSON, an English earl, as his successor. William, enraged, built a fleet and invaded England in September 1066.
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William’s forces met Harold’s army at the Battle of Hastings, which William won. He was crowned King of England on Christmas Day, 1066, in London, ending over 600 years of Anglo-Saxon rule and making himself England’s first Norman King.
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NORMAN EXPANSION
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By 1099, the Normans had also conquered much of southern Italy. They built schools, cathedrals, churches, and monasteries across Italy, England, and Ireland. They also built castles to protect their new territories.
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Norman influence spread beyond Europe. Norman dukes held lands in Sicily, North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, Lebanon, and Israel.
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FALL OF NORMANDY
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In 1204, King Philip II of France seized the Duchy of Normandy from King John of England, incorporating it into the French crown. The Treaty of Paris (1259) saw Henry III of England recognize this loss, ending the duchy’s history as an independent political entity.
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BRITAIN
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Alfred became King of Wessex in 871; his family’s subjects were the West Saxons, and his kingdom was one of several Anglo-Saxon realms vying for dominance in Britain. The people inhabiting Britain at the time included Saxons, Angles, Jutes, Romano-Britons, Welshmen, Picts, Scots, and invading Vikings.
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ANGLO-SAXON PEOPLES & THE HEPTARCHY
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Before Viking invasions created political upheaval in the 9th century, Anglo-Saxon England was a fluid collection of independent kingdoms, sometimes referred to as the Heptarchy. Alfred was part of the royal dynasty of the West Saxons, who inhabited Wessex in southwestern England. By the time he was born, this kingdom had already begun asserting dominance over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, including:
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Kent: A Jutish kingdom in the southeast, which included the city of Canterbury.
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Mercia: An Anglian kingdom in the Midlands.
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East Anglia: An Anglian kingdom in the east, which included the modern-day counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.
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Essex: An East Saxon kingdom that once included London.
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Sussex: A South Saxon kingdom located on the southern coast.
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Northumbria: An Anglian kingdom in the North.
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NATIVE BRITONS
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The island was also home to native CELTIC BRITONS, whose ancestors had been pushed to the edges of the island by the Anglo-Saxon
migrations that began in the 5th century. These groups included the:
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Welsh: Britons in the western regions of Wales. Welsh rulers were powerful enough for Alfred to form alliances with them during his reign.
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Cornish: Another group of Britons, known as the West Welsh, who lived in Cornwall in the far southwest.
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Picts and Scots: Celtic tribes in what is now modern Scotland.
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INVADERS AND SETTLERS
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From the 8th century onward, Viking invaders—mostly Danes—became a significant force in Britain, eventually conquering most of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and posing an existential threat to Wessex.
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VIKINGS (Danes): Vikings from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden began to launch devastating raids on England in the late 8th century, disrupting the existing Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. By 865, a “Great Heathen Army” conquered most of the Anglo-Saxon realms, leaving only Wessex to continue resisting.
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The Danelaw: After defeating the Vikings at the Battle of Edington in 878, Alfred negotiated a treaty that formally divided England. The Vikings, many of whom had already settled on the island, were permitted to remain in control of the North and east, an area that became known as the Danelaw.
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FRANCE TOOK NORMANDY FROM ENGLAND; WILLIAM TOOK ENGLAND ITSELF
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In 1204, King PHILIP II of France seized the Duchy of Normandy from King John of England. Philip declared Normandy a French province. Britain’s King Henry III acknowledged the transfer of Normandy from England to France in the Treaty of Paris in 1259.
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Edward died in January 1066 and was succeeded by his brother-in-law Harold Godwinson. The Norwegian king Harald Hardrada invaded northern England in September 1066 and was victorious at the Battle of Fulford on 20 September, but Godwinson’s army defeated and killed Hardrada at the Battle of Stamford Bridge on 25 September.
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William of Normandy took the whole of England. He divided England among his Norman lords. The Domesday Book recorded every acre, every ox, and every peasant to clarify who now owned what; the Normans owned everything.
William lands and will conquer Britain for the Normans.
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A once-free Saxon farmer found himself answering to a foreign baron who spoke no English and demanded rent in grain or labor. “My father sowed this field,“ a peasant might whisper, “but now I till it for a man from Rouen.”
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Norman castles rose like stone fists across the land—symbols of domination. Norman lords burned villages to clear hunting preserves for themselves. Whole regions, like the North after the 1069 revolt, were laid to waste. Crops rotted, Normans slaughtered and stole Saxon livestock. Tens of thousands of Saxons starved.
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In the 10th century, a distinct Norman identity arose from the blend of Norse and French cultures. The Normans became known for their military prowess, Catholic piety, and martial spirit. Concerned about divine punishment for their crimes, especially theft and conquest, they invested their wealth in the building of churches and monasteries, seeking to atone through religious patronage.
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NORMANS BROUGHT THE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LAW TO BRITAIN
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The Norman conquerors brought the French language to Britain. French became the language of court, law, and power; English survived only in the cottages of peasants. An Englishman pleading before a Norman judge often could not even understand the words condemning him.
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Over time, the two languages blended—giving birth to Middle English—but for two centuries, the commoner‘s voice remained unheard in his own kingdom.
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RELIGION AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH THAT THE NORMANS IMPOSED ON THE BRITONS
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William replaced English bishops with Normans loyal to Rome and himself. They had English stonemasons build cathedrals in Durham, Winchester, and Canterbury to replace the wooden churches that burned in Williams triumph. The new Church bosses demanded obedience to the Catholic Pope and ordered sermons instead of the English sermons their fathers had enjoyed in their own tongue. Englishmen’s ancient saints and shrines were declared “unorthodox“ or pagan remnants. To England’s Saxons, heaven now seemed as foreign as their king.
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WEALTH AND TAXATION
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The Norman rule brought crushing taxes. The Danegeld—once a levy to bribe Viking raiders—became a permanent royal income. Peasants who had little more than a cow or a patch of barley faced collectors with iron seals and Latin scrolls.
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Gold and grain flowed south to London and across the Channel to Normandy. England, once a patchwork of self-sufficient communities, became an occupied province, enriching its conquerors.
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RESISTANCE AND ASSIMILATION
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There were rebellions—brief, bloody, and futile. The sons of Harold Godwinson fled to Ireland; Hereward the Wake held out in the fens of Ely. But one by one, the Norman rulers crushed Saxon resistance.
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In time, marriages between Norman lords and Saxon women softened the sharpest edges of conquest. The children born of both peoples began to speak a mixed tongue and pray to the same saints. Yet memory lingered—of lost lands, burned villages, and the day England‘s old freedom died beneath the mailed fist of Normandy.
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THE DOMINATOR PATTERN REBORN IN NORMAN ENGLAND
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What followed William’s conquest was not merely political conquest—it was the re-imposition of an ancient pattern. The Normans rebuilt the Anunnaki hierarchy in medieval form. The king stood as god-representative, his barons as lesser deities, the Church as priestly intermediary, and the peasantry as engineered labor caste.
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The Anunnaki legacy of hierarchy—dominate, divide, control—re-emerged in stone and script. Castles became their ziggurats, Latin their sacred tongue, tithes their tribute. Those who once knelt before Enlil’s overseers now bowed to Norman lords who claimed divine right by conquest.
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The people’s spirits bowed too. The village church no longer belonged to its congregation but to a foreign abbot appointed by a king who owed allegiance to Rome. Obey your lord as you would obey God, the priest intoned, echoing the same creed the Anunnaki bred into humanity when they made kings intermediaries of heaven.
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But within the same dark order glowed the seed of partnership. English monks preserved the old tongue in their chronicles. Peasants gathered in secret, sharing the songs and stories of freedom. Women healers, though branded witches, kept alive the compassion of Ninmah and Inanna beneath the iron rule of men.
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In this struggle between domination and compassion, England became another mirror of Earth’s long war between Enlil’s hierarchy and Enki’s partnership vision—a contest repeated in every age. The same story in different clothes, whispers the spirit of history, until humanity awakens to remember its true ancestry and shared soul.
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*Reference: See U in History – History Channel.
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**ANUNNAKI, LEGACY OF THE GODS
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Fire the gods of hierarchy, war, slavery & religion.
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The giant gods of the ancient world and the rulers they chose created mindsets that shackle us to short, desperate lives. These so-called gods rocketed to Iraq from a planet they called Nibiru. The Nibirans who came to Earth called themselves “Anunnaki,” which means “Those who descended to Earth from the sky.”
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The Anunnaki, who bade us call them “gods,” stand way taller and live way longer than we. They said they bred us as short-term slaves and soldiers. We killed in their names: Allah (Sumerian, Nannar and sometimes Marduk/Satan), Yahweh (sometimes Enlil, sometimes Adad, Lucifer/Enki), and Ishtar (Inanna)–mining expedition personnel all, all Nibirans. They bred us to slave in mines, armies, businesses, schools, governments, farms, factories, brothels, and building projects.
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The gods made us serve them and the “royal” lines of ever-murderous hybrid rulers and priests–the elite–they begat. The ruling elite that the gods left to govern us–especially those whom Satan controls–keep us warring with weapons and trade. The elite give all contraposed social units credit to arm and trade. They also run religions to bring back the god of their faith and defeat the gods and followers of other religions.
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Study ANUNNAKI, LEGACY OF THE GODS, and help end the power of the lies of rulers to enslave, program, impoverish, and decimate us. See how the elite manipulate us into war. Realize how the matrix they modeled makes us recklessly exploit our resources and pollute our environment. The elite have, until recently, ensured we never experience our unity as a peaceful planet. Lies of the Church and state have hidden technology, knowledge of our ET heritage, and information about the Galactic Federation.
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At last, we see Enlil/Yahweh, Marduk/Satan, and Gabriel, the Hegseth of the Arabian Peninsula, murdering murdering masses in the name of Allah [aka Nannar]. These Anunnaki bigshots hated women. They lacked compassion, showed no love, and exhibited no divinity.
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When we embrace the oneness of all Earthlings and stop warring, our allies among the gods can show us the advanced astronomy, medicine, energy, rocket science, and survival strategies we need now, as space debris nears Earth. We can forgive them and synergize our gifts and theirs.
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LEGACY OF THE GODS documents our planet-wide kinship. All of us Earthlings descended from the same genitors. We are kin. Anunnaki gods and their hybrid overseers, “the elite”–imprinted on us the same greed, one-upmanship, and dominator consciousness that ran them.
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Our Nibiran mentors modeled, dictated, and indoctrinated avarice, domination, competition, hate, and violence in us.
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Some 4,000 years ago, as most of them left Earth, the Nibiran leaders dictated their worldview to their Earthling scribes. The perverse perspective they perpetrated prevails until we see the matrix, then nullify it. Then we create a civilized world that honors everyone’s consciousness.
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The clay tablets left by the scribes say a royal military dictatorship ruled Nibiru. From 450,000 years ago until 300,000 years ago (when they created us to work their gold mines), the Nibirans modeled a hierarchic, male-run gold-extraction monopoly.
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This book shows everyone on Earth as family, all descended from the same ancestors from space. We can trash the master-slave-enemy mental matrix that the gods scripted. We can transcend the legacy of the so-called gods.
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When we Earthlings remember our oneness, we survive together. We plan together for the periodic returns of Nibiru and the Anunnaki, who plan to migrate to Earth when Nibiru becomes uninhabitable.
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*Reference: See U in History – The Normans: From Vikings to Conquerors (YouTube), Britannica (2024), and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
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**ANUNNAKI, LEGACY OF THE GODS
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Fire the gods of hierarchy, war, slavery & religion.
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The giant gods of the ancient world and the rulers they chose created mindsets that shackle us to short, desperate lives. These so-called gods rocketed to Iraq from a planet they called Nibiru. The Nibirans who came to Earth called themselves “Anunnaki,” which means “Those who descended to Earth from the sky.”
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The Anunnaki, who bade us call them “gods,” stand way taller and live way longer than we. They said they bred us as short-term slaves and soldiers. We killed in their names: Allah (Sumerian, Nannar and sometimes Marduk/Satan), Yahweh (sometimes Enlil, sometimes Adad, Lucifer/Enki), and Ishtar (Inanna)–mining expedition personnel all, all Nibirans. They bred us to slave in mines, armies, businesses, schools, governments, farms, factories, brothels, and building projects.
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The gods made us serve them and the “royal” lines of ever-murderous hybrid rulers and priests–the elite–they begat. The ruling elite the gods left to govern us–especially those whom Satan controls keep us warring with weapons and trade. The elite give all contraposed social units credit to arm and trade. They also run religions to bring back the god of their faith and defeat the gods and followers of other religions.
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Study “ANUNNAKI, LEGACY OF THE GODS“, and help end the power of the lies of rulers to enslave, program, impoverish, and decimate us. See how the elite manipulate us into war. Realize how the matrix they modeled makes us recklessly exploit our resources and pollute our environment. The elite have, until recently, ensured we never experience our unity as a planet of peace.
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