The Forbidden Sumerian Tablet That Reveals a Sun Inside the Earth — And Who Lives There
In 1909, a geologist named David Hanna unearthed a clay tablet from a site in southern Iraq. It was four thousand years old. He had it translated. The translator read the text three times, wrote his report, and asked that his name not be published.
That report disappeared from the British Museum's records sometime between 1920 and 1935. The tablet is still cataloged under the number K.8538. The report, however, is not.
What that text described was a sun. But not the sun above. One inside the Earth. With heat, with light, with cycles, and with inhabitants. And it's not the only Sumerian text that says so.
The Descent of Inanna describes seven levels with specific materials—lapis lazuli hinges, the text says. The Enuma Elish speaks of guardians stationed inside. The Descent of Ishtar mentions, in a footnote left undeveloped by 19th-century translators, "the place where the light comes from the ground." The text of Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Underworld describes structures, hierarchies, and a phrase that scholars have been debating for decades: a light that comes from within the rock.
In 1974, Samuel Noah Kramer published in the appendix to Sumerian Mythology that the texts distinguish two groups of Anunnaki: those of the sky and those of the underworld. He wrote that this distinction "raises questions that comparative mythology has not yet satisfactorily answered." Fifty years later, those questions remain in the appendix.
In this video, we analyze exactly what the texts say, why the standard academic explanation doesn't fit with how the Sumerians wrote when describing the physical world, and what's on tablet K.8538 that was never published.
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