At an early age, I got caught up in several theories about
man’s origins. During Sunday school I got introduced to the bible stories about
the wondrous miracles and magic that happened thousands of years ago. I used to
love hearing about men who lived for hundreds of years and how angels visited us.
In my mind, they were glorious, winged creatures sent to protect and aid us, as
well as to give us guidelines on the right way to live.
And what would happen to us if we didn’t (Sodom and Gomorrah
anyone)?
After reading those stories, my only thought was… well,
where are they now? How come they left? Are they ever coming back?
As I got older, I came across Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Däniken, which I found fascinating. In that book, he hypothesis that alien astronauts gave ancient civilizations their advanced technologies to build several monolith structures along with astronomical knowledge.
From there I stumbled on the various works by Zecharia
Sitchin. In his novels, he states that the ancient Sumerian culture included a
race of exterrestrials called the Anunnaki who came from a planet beyond
Neptune named Nibru. This planet had an elongated, 3,600-year-long elliptical
orbit around the sun. He wrote its estimated they entered our inner solar
system around 450,000 years ago, looking for minerals, especially gold. Which
they found and mined in Africa.
Sitchin explains how these aliens, the Anunnaki (“those who
from heaven to earth came”), came here to replenish their dying atmosphere with
gold. One of their leaders, a fellow by the name of Enki (Sumerian god of water
and human culture) who suggested a way to relieve the mutinied Anunnaki who revolted
against harsh working conditions in the gold mines. To help them out, they took
slices of the Homo erectus genome on Earth and combined those genetics with the
Anunnaki, thus creating a supposedly dim-witted creature called the primitive
workers (Homo sapiens).
Then there’s the series on the History Channel called Ancient
Aliens. That show started in 2009 and is still going strong. One of the
episodes in season one was about Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods. That helped to
launch and create the popular motif of Ancient Astronaut Theory.
Over the years, Sitchin, Däniken and the Ancient Alien show
have been soundly rejected by scientists, academics, and historians. They claim
those theories have no basis in truth. All the same, a lot of those same folks
agree they can’t be ignored either.
I’ll be honest with you. I don’t really have an opinion about
the theory one way or the other. What excited me was the possibility of these
ancient astronauts coming back. What would happen if they did? With the planet Nibru
having an elliptical orbit of 3,600 years, how would they react if they came
back to Earth now that we have over eight billion inhabitants? Would they still
need gold for their atmosphere? What would happen if they came here, expecting
to “harvest” whatever they wanted from Earth?
That’s when a plot for a new SciFi Romance series percolated
in my brain.
Ancient Alien Descendants – The Series
Like with most authors, I took an idea and warped… er…
morphed it into my own world. I changed the name of Nibru to Akurn. I kept the
elliptical orbit for 3,600 years and made those aliens lifespans tie into the
orbit. That makes one year for them around 3,600 years to us.
This made my aliens for all practical purposes... immortal.
To give it some depth, I created their society to have a male-dominated
social system. There, the women are considered weaker, both physically and
mentally. As a general rule, they considered women were incapable of making
important decisions for themselves or others. Their unwavering obedience was expected
and enforced. With death if necessary.
I began the series with the prologue (free when you sign up for my newsletter!) called The Day Behind Tomorrow. I created a monarchy where the only legitimate heir to the throne had
to be between the king and his “First Queen”. While King Du-Uru could have as
many wives or concubines as he wanted, the only legitimate heir was his child
with the First Queen. Since their only child was a daughter named Inanna, only
she was allowed to inherit the monarchy, but she had to be mated to a male to
assume the throne. Because First Queen Asta died (under mysterious
circumstances), Inanna’s sadistic father intended to claim her as First Queen
to give him a needed male heir.
Which made his first-born son (from a lowly slave) Sub
Prince Murduk, furious since he’d previously declared his half-sister as wife
to solidify his claim to the throne.
Because I like to write about strong-willed women, Inanna
wasn’t about to stick around for either of them. She sneaks down to Earth to
avoid a life of enslavement. There she meets the love of her life, a hybrid
human/alien called Adapa.
The other thing I wanted different in this story is those with the “superpowers” are the humans, not the aliens. Because of the mixing of the genetic material between them and us, they created human “gods” with strong psychic powers: telekinetic, mind-reading, teleporting, shapeshifting, and empathic manipulation capabilities. Just for fun, I threw in a vampire with all the trappings of being one.
The Final Installment - Alien Legacy: The Mage
Desperate to find Inanna to make her his wife, Sub Prince
Murduk (after the unexpected death of King Du-Uru) needs her to assert his
position as the new king. He orders unscrupulous scientists to create women as
a trap for Inanna’s sons. If he has them, he can threaten their lives to force
Inanna back to Akurn. The plan fails when rebels kidnap the young girls as
toddlers and hides them from Murduk.
This last installment of the series is about the eldest son
of Inanna and Adapa (he’s the firstborn in a set of boy quintuplets). Raiden is
gifted with an extraordinary array of psychic abilities that surpasses even
those of his brothers. His powers are so strong that he often worries about
losing control and causing harm unintentionally. He struggles to maintain an ironclad
control over his powers, never allowing them to slip for one moment. A single mistake
could be catastrophic, and the stakes are too high for any hesitation or doubt.
In comes Jazmi, one of those hybrid/alien females whose
psychic powers rival Raiden’s. As the eldest of five women, Jazmi vows to
resist her genetic programming to protect Raiden and his brothers from the
Akurns. She knows that their fate - and the fate of the entire world - hangs in
the balance. She’ll do whatever it takes to keep them safe and prevent the
Akurns from finding them. With her fierce determination and unbreakable will, Jazmi
fights tirelessly to keep them and her loved ones out of harm's way. And the
only way to save Earth from the destructive invasion of the Akurns was to work
closely with Raiden.
But Jazmi is plagued by her own inner demons. As the weight
of the world rests on her shoulders, she knows there isn’t room for personal terrors.
As mounting pressures build with each passing moment, she’s confronted with the
only way to emerge victorious was to confront her personal fears head on. She’s
terrified that’s something she can’t do.
And falling in love was never part of the plan.
