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Was the god of the holy Bible an alien?
According to Mauro Biglino, a former Vatican translator of ancient Hebrew texts, the word 'Elohim' is a plural noun consistently mistranslated as a singular God — it more accurately describes a council of physical, non-human beings who interacted with early humanity. Zecharia Sitchin's decades of Sumerian-biblical cross-analysis identify these same beings as the Anunnaki, an extraterrestrial civilization from a body he calls Nibiru. Researcher Mauro Biglino and scholar Sitchin converge on the same core finding through separate philological and archaeological routes: the biblical deity is a composite memory of flesh-and-blood non-human administrators.
Evidence
- Mauro Biglino, who translated fifteen books of the Old Testament for the Vatican's Edizioni San Paolo press, argues that the original Hebrew presents Elohim as plural physical entities — beings who ate, walked, smelled sacrifices, and held territorial jurisdictions over human populations.
- Zecharia Sitchin's twelve-volume Earth Chronicles series cross-references the Hebrew Genesis with Sumerian cuneiform tablets — particularly the Enuma Elish and Atrahasis epic — to argue that Yahweh/El and the Elohim are literary echoes of Anunnaki administrators, specifically Enlil and Enki.
- His reading of the Nephilim narratives, the Book of Numbers, and the covenant structure suggests not divine revelation but a managed colony under non-human oversight.
- Per IBTimes UK (Aug 2026), Biglino claims scriptures describe 'multiple beings' functioning as 'alien rulers' — a position he has elaborated across multiple Italian-language volumes now available in translation.
- The genetic engineering of Homo sapiens described in Genesis 1:26 ('Let us make man in our image') maps, in Sitchin's reading, directly onto Sumerian accounts of the Adamu creation project.