18:00 Sure. Well, let's talk about what is in there? You know, what do they actually say because they do still have some pretty compelling information you know about the rebel god of Enki being appointed to create humans and it's also funny that when you look at like when scholars translate old texts it's like if it seems pretty run-of-the-mill and normal then it would be history but if it seems fantastical than it would be religion It's kind of funny how they just have two separate categories based on, you know, how things...how they perceive what they're reading. I would agree with you on that. Umm..I think what you've got in the store-you have to go first of all back to the cuneiform texts. I don't read cuneiform, I'll be very honest with you. I have not made a life and career of ancient Middle Eastern linguistics so i have to rely on those who have
18:51 I picked up a book that is the ancient Mesopotamian mythologies and stories, as translated as recently about 15 to 20 years ago by Stephanie Daly. You can pick this book up anywhere. She has just simply gone to the cuneiform text and interpreted them or translated them directly into more modern English so we can understand that, and newer if you will scholarship on the linguistics of those periods. So what I did was, I went there and read the stories. And you find that – by the way these stories are exciting! I remember laying in bed one night with a small lamp on and reading this book. It's about 2 in the morning when I woke up my wife and said,
19:38 You have got to hear this. Listen to this story." And she sat up, much to her credit on there on her elbow with her chin in hand and listened very intently and she gave me a quick... That's fascinating! And she said, I'm going back to sleep now. But it's fascinating stuff when you start reading the interpretation they sound very biblical like biblical legends, biblical mythologies, biblical accounts when you get to the tale of Atrahasis, the human king who is looking for freedom from the gods there under this yoke of bondage to Elil, the chief God of the Anunnaki
20:19 And he prays to the patron god of his city, Eridu. And he prays to Enki who is also known as Iya but he prays and says Lord Enki hear the words of your servant your betrothed's servant and do bend your ear to us and bow down and release us from this heavy yoke of bondage And Enki hears his cry and says, I will bend down my ear to you. You are my faithful servant Atrahasis and I will come down and I will deliver you. This is the kind of text that's written there. It's very poetic the way it's written as well. To back this up a little bit though go back a little further. You've got Elil who is the chief god of the Anunnaki
21:04 Nowhere in any of these cuneiform texts does it say that the Anunnaki are reptilian in nature. There is nowhere it says that, but what they've done, the people who are proponents, Zacharias Sitchin, they have extrapolated that information from other source points that talk of reptilian connections, little reptilian statuettes things like this that they assume are the Anunnaki. There's a lot of stretching and a lot of squeezing and a lot of fitting to make these theories work One of the basic theories that they go to is that Enki, Ia who comes to deliver the humans from the bondage to the gods and he's one of the gods himself. He's an Anunnaki god
21:46 And he, what he does is he lives in the great Abzu, the underground underworld sea. He comes up to the Euphrates River backwaters all of the marshes around the city of Eridu where he is the patron god and he rides on his boat and loves this place. It's known as The Serpent's Marsh because it's filled with serpents And it still is today if you go to that region around the ancient city of Eridu. He is then quickly associated with the serpent marsh, he becomes known as the Serpent's Den, Ea's Den which there are some obvious connections to biblical stories there with that word. Ea's Den eventually becomes known as Iaden
22:33 And the interesting story is this, El-Lil chief of the Anunnaki gods just like Zeus is the chief god of the Olympians. This is their pantheon of gods He says we're so tired of digging our own trenches and our own canals and tilling our own ground and harvesting our own crops and mining our own resources let us therefore...and it says exactly this in the translation Let us therefore create primeval man to do our work for us And he conscripts Enki, and Enki gets a betelutu... I can't ever pronounce her name unless I've got it in front of me. The goddess and they create primeval mankind humanity to be a slave race to the Anunnaki
23:17 And then, as I mentioned, Atrahasis calls out after some time says we you know please take this yoke of burden off of us. Enki hears his cry comes down to the city of Eridu with his mighty men of valor and they teach Atrahasis and the humans how to rebel against the gods and fight for them and Atrahasis, and the humans win their freedom from the Anunnaki. And Enki is then because of this deed he and all his godly followers are condemned by the chief god Elil to dwell in the subterranean caverns of the earth forever as punishment.