They were the Sumerian equivalent to the Greek Olympians or the Norse Asgard ..... in other words, the name given to their main group of gods.
That's it.
However, a chap called Zecharia Sitchin wrote a series of books in which he claimed to have re-translated sumerian scripts completely differently to
everyone else, and claimed that the Sumerian gods were actually space aliens from an unfeasibly improbably planet - which passed close to the Earth in
2003 with devastating consequences (what do you mean, you don't remember?) A good sci fi idea but with no basis in reality.
en.wikipedia.org...
Also, Sitchin's website: www.sitchin.com...
And a more sceptical take on his 'theories' www.geocities.com...
More recently, some people have alluded to the Annunaki in all manner of other bizarre theories, few of which have any credibility.
No one has ever explained why they think the Sumerian Gods were real, but not the Greek or Norse Gods (or for that matter any of the hundreds of
other pantheons that have been believed in different times and places throughout history).


