Characters
This folder catalogs the key figures in Zecharia Sitchin’s Anunnaki narrative — the gods, demigods, and heroic humans who populate the Earth Chronicles. These beings are not mythological abstractions but, in Sitchin’s reading, real historical actors from Nibiru and Earth.
The Leadership of Nibiru
Character Role Anu King of Nibiru, patriarch of the Anunnaki Antum Anu’s consort Tiamat Primordial planet-goddess Kingu Tiamat’s champion, first leader of the Igigi
The Principal Anunnaki on Earth
Character Role Domain Enki Chief Scientist, Creator of Humanity Eridu , Abzu Enlil Commander, Executive Officer Nippur , Earth CommandNinmah Mother Goddess, Geneticist [[Tilmun Marduk Enki’s firstborn son, Lord of Babylon Babylon Nergal Lord of the Underworld Kutha , Irkalla Ereshkigal Queen of the Underworld Irkalla Inanna Warrior Goddess of Love and War Uruk Utu Sun God, Spaceport Commander Sippar Nannar Moon God, Timekeeper Ur Ninurta Warrior, Enlil’s son Lagash Nabu God of Writing and Records Borsippa Ishkur Storm God, Weather Controller Karkara Gibil God of Fire and Metallurgy — Dumuzi Shepherd God, Inanna’s consort Bad-tibira
Humans and Demigods
Character Role Adamu First genetically engineered human Adapa The Sage, Enki’s assistant Gilgamesh King of Uruk, two-thirds divine Etana Early Sumerian king who flew to heaven Abraham Patriarch from Ur Noah (Ziusudra )Flood survivor
Celestial Bodies
Character Role Nibiru The twelfth planet, home of the Anunnaki Tiamat The destroyed planet, became Earth and asteroid belt
“The gods of antiquity were not figments of primitive imagination. They were real beings — flesh and blood — who came from another world.”