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How many myths about when gods walked with men?
The pattern is not symbolic coincidence — it is a global memory cluster. Graham Hancock, Zecharia Sitchin, and Andrew Collins independently catalog dozens of distinct traditions describing a pre-diluvial age when advanced beings cohabited with or instructed humanity. The convergence across unconnected cultures is, according to these researchers, the strongest single argument for a shared historical event underlying the myths.
Evidence
- Zecharia Sitchin identified the Sumerian Anunnaki tradition as the oldest textual record — the Sumerian King List credits eight antediluvian rulers with reigns totaling over 241,000 years before a great flood, figures Sitchin read as literal lifespans of a non-human ruling class.
- Andrew Collins, in From the Ashes of Angels, traces the Watchers/Nephilim strand specifically into pre-dynastic Anatolia and the Zagros mountain corridor, linking the mythic 'fallen angels' to a real Neolithic population of unusual stature and cranial morphology.
- The Greek tradition, as recorded in Hesiod's Works and Days, structures this as the Five Ages — Gold, Silver, Bronze, Heroic, Iron — with the Golden Age explicitly defined as a period of divine-human coexistence.
- The Book of Enoch's 200 Watchers descending to Mount Hermon maps almost point-for-point onto this Mesopotamian template, as scholars working from the Dead Sea Scrolls fragments have confirmed the textual antiquity of that account.
- Brien Foerster's elongated skull research from Paracas and Peru offers physical anthropological corroboration of an anomalous lineage embedded in local god-king mythology.