Bau, Princess of Nibiru – Healer of Gods and the Black-Headed People
Janet Kira Lessin & Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. | Research: Claudia Lenore | © 2026 Aquarian Media
IMAGE PROMPT: Ancient Sumerian fired clay figurine of a non-human mother with an elongated reptilian skull, almond-shaped eyes, tapered face, nursing a lizard-headed infant, warm terracotta tones, museum artifact lighting, archaeological photography style, 7000 years old, southern Iraq, ultra-detailed texture
“Lady Who Brings the Dead Back to Life” — Sumerian epithet of Bau, daughter of Anu, King of Nibiru
The Clay That Remembers
In the early decades of the twentieth century, archaeologists working the sun-baked mounds of southern Iraq pulled something extraordinary from the earth. At Tell Al’Ubaid, at ancient Ur, and at Eridu — the oldest confirmed city in the world — they recovered small fired-clay figurines unlike anything the archaeological record had previously produced. The figures stood upright. They held scepters. Some wore helmets with shoulder padding, suggesting rank and authority. Others sat quietly, nursing infants at their breasts.
The faces looking back at the excavators carried no human geometry.
Elongated skulls. Tapered faces. Almond-shaped eyes set wide and flat. Noses that pressed forward like a reptile’s snout. The nursing infants, tenderly held at the breast, shared every feature of their mothers. Both mother and child are rendered in the same non-human geometry, pressed into clay by artists who had developed writing and possessed something more immediate: living memory.
Mainstream archaeology labels these artifacts “ophidian figurines” — serpent-headed — and files them under ritual objects of unknown purpose. The Anunnaki research framework developed by the late Zecharia Sitchin and expanded by scholars including Dr. Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA), proposes a more precise answer. These figurines depict the Anunnaki: the royal extraterrestrial lineage from the planet Nibiru who established Earth’s first civilization, engineered the human workforce through genetic science, and left their imprint so deeply in human memory that pre-literate artists reached for clay and pressed the truth of what they had witnessed into permanent form.
Among those Anunnaki figures, one stands at the intersection of medicine, governance, and divine lineage with particular clarity. Her name was Bau. Those nursing mother figurines from Eridu — a non-human mother cradling a non-human child — may encode her specific story, her specific face, and the specific tenderness of a physician-princess who spent millennia caring for a species she helped create.
IMAGE PROMPT: Ancient city of Eridu at sunset, first city on Earth, mud-brick ziggurat temple rising from flat Mesopotamian marshland, Persian Gulf in the distance, golden hour light reflecting on water channels, tall reeds, sacred precinct, cinematic wide shot, rich amber and gold tones
The Royal Household of Nibiru on Earth
Eridu — The First City
Eridu, located in what is now southeastern Iraq near the ancient Persian Gulf coastline, holds the distinction of being the oldest continuously occupied urban site in Mesopotamian history. Sumerian king lists identify it as the city where kingship descended from heaven — the first seat of divine governance on Earth. In the Anunnaki framework, Eridu belonged to Enki, the eldest son of Anu, king of Nibiru.
Enki’s name encodes its meaning: E.A., he whose home is water. He arrived before the main wave of colonization, established Eridu in the marshlands of southern Mesopotamia, and named it the Place of the Water. The great freshwater aquifer beneath the Mesopotamian plain, the Abzu, fell under his dominion. Enki served as a scientist, geneticist, and keeper of the ME — the tablets that encoded the fundamental sciences and arts of civilization. The Ubaid people placed their lizard-headed figurines in temple precincts because they believed those figures represented the beings who had governed them.
The Generational Structure
The Anunnaki royal family operated across clearly defined generations, each carrying specific roles in the Earth mission. Anu, king of Nibiru, stood at the apex. His eldest son, Enki, and his heir, Enlil — rival half-brothers whose conflict shaped all of human history — constituted the founding elder cohort alongside their half-sister, Ninhursag, also called Ninmah, the chief medical officer of the Earth mission. These three arrived with the colonizing wave and directed operations from their respective cities: Enki at Eridu, Enlil at Nippur, Ninhursag at her mountain domain in the Sinai.
Bau belonged to that same founding generation — a direct daughter of Anu through his consort Urash, the earth goddess. Cuneiform texts in the Nergal and Ereshkigal cycle identify Nammu as Bau’s mother in some traditions. Both Urash and Nammu appear as consorts of Anu in the ancient records, confirming Bau’s status as a full member of the first generation on Earth.
A crucial clarification belongs here. Ereshkigal — queen of the underworld and older sister of Inanna — belongs to an entirely different generation. Ereshkigal was the daughter of Nannar, who was himself a son of Enlil, making her a great-granddaughter of Anu. She, Inanna, and their twin brother, Utu, were all children of Nannar and his consort, Ningal. The confusion between generations reflects the complexity of Anunnaki genealogy across multiple consorts and centuries, but the reliable textual tradition places Bau firmly in the founding cohort, a peer of Enki and Enlil rather than a descendant.
Bau and Ninsun — Sisters of Anu
Here, the family structure produces one of its most beautiful revelations. Ninsun — the goddess known as Lady of the Wild Cows, wife of the deified king Lugalbanda, and mother of the hero Gilgamesh — also names Anu and Urash as her parents in cuneiform texts. Both Jacob Klein and Claus Wilcke interpret this as a literal statement of parentage. Bau and Ninsun were full sisters, both daughters of Anu and Urash.
Ninsun carried the healer tradition in her own right. Later theological texts equate her with Gula, the Babylonian name for the great healing goddess who descended from Bau. Two sisters, both daughters of Anu, both connected to the healing arts that defined Bau’s entire identity on Earth.
Ninsun married Lugalbanda, a semi-divine king of Uruk. Their children were Gilgamesh and Nin Puabi. That lineage makes Puabi the granddaughter of Anu through Ninsun, the niece of Bau, and the earthly heir of the healing tradition both sisters carried.
The Meaning of Nin
Puabi’s cylinder seal carries the title Nin alongside her name. Scholars most often translate Nin as lady, and most bearers of the title were female. The Sumerian sign itself encodes something more precise: divine royal authority, the bloodline of the gods, the status of one who stands in direct descent from Anu’s house.
Nin appears in the names of male figures as well. Ninurta — Bau’s own husband — carries the prefix with the meaning lord rather than lady. Ningishzida, Ningirsu, Ningal — all carry Nin as a marker of divine lineage rather than female gender. The title announces: this being stands in the royal bloodline of Nibiru. When Puabi’s seal reads Nin, it declares her Anunnaki heritage as directly as any DNA test ever could.
Ninurta — Bau’s Husband
Bau married Ninurta, warrior-son of Enlil and Ninhursag, and next in line for the throne of Nibiru following his father. Their union consolidated the two dominant Anunnaki factions at the highest dynastic level: the physician-princess paired with the military heir of the Enlilite command. She brought the healing arts. He brought martial force. Together, they represented the full administrative spectrum of Anunnaki governance — medicine, law, and power operating as a unified household.
IMAGE PROMPT: Majestic Anunnaki goddess Bau seated on an ornate Sumerian throne, elongated noble skull, large almond-shaped luminous eyes, tall horned headdress of gold, holding a staff of healing, a large sacred dog resting at her feet, temple interior with carved stone columns, warm torch light, divine and serene expression, detailed Mesopotamian regalia, deep jewel tones
The Lady Who Brings the Dead Back to Life
Her Names, Her Powers
The cuneiform record preserves Bau across multiple name-forms and city cults. In Sumer, she appeared as Bau or Baba. In Isin, she became Nininsina, Lady of Isin. In Akkadian tradition, she was known as Ninnibru, Queen of Nippur. The Babylonians knew her as Nintinugga. The Greeks mapped her qualities onto Artemis; the Romans onto Diana. Behind every name stood the same essential identity: a daughter of Anu, a physician of extraordinary power, and a ruler of extraordinary scope.
Her Sumerian epithet states her power without ambiguity: Lady Who Brings the Dead Back to Life. In a civilization where medicine and sacred knowledge occupied the same domain, Bau’s mastery of biological restoration carried the full weight of resurrection. She served as physician to both the Anunnaki council and the black-headed earthlings — the Sumerian term for humanity. She carried the titles Lady of Health, herb grower, she who makes the broken up whole again, and azugallatu — the great healer. She also served as warden to the wicked, guardian of prisons. A combination of healer and enforcer that reflects the full administrative scope of Anunnaki governance: Bau restored life and maintained order, sometimes in the same breath.
The Dog and the Science of Healing
Bau’s most distinctive symbol — the dog — reflected precise observation rather than arbitrary choice. Ancient Mesopotamians noticed that wounds licked by dogs healed unusually quickly. Modern research has confirmed the mechanism: canine saliva contains nerve growth factor, histatins, and nitrate compounds that accelerate cell regeneration, inhibit infection, and reduce inflammation. The Ubaid and early Sumerian healers arrived at the same conclusion through empirical observation, millennia before biochemistry became a discipline.
Temple precincts dedicated to Bau welcomed live dogs to roam freely among the sick. Dogs who died near her temples received burial in consecrated ground. Her main temple at Isin carried the name E-u-gi7-ra — the Dog Temple. Her sacred guard dog Tuni-iu-sag accompanied her in iconography. Physicians invoked Bau before treating patients. Her son Damu served as the divine intermediary who channeled her healing power to human doctors — a sacred chain of medical transmission that preserved, in religious form, the original Anunnaki technology of biological repair.
Ningishzida and the Caduceus
Bau’s healing lineage extended through the broader Anunnaki family, encoding their greatest scientific achievement in plain sight for five thousand years.
Ningishzida — son of Enki, lord of the underworld, associated with serpents and sacred knowledge — carried as his primary symbol two intertwined serpents climbing a staff. Researchers, including Dr. Sasha Alex Lessin, identify Ningishzida as the figure later known as Thoth in Egypt and Hermes in Greece: the keeper of sacred knowledge, the measurer, the divine architect, the messenger who moved between worlds. That double-serpent staff became the caduceus — the symbol doctors carry to this day.
Two intertwined serpents climbing a vertical axis. A double helix. The precise visual structure of DNA — the molecule at the center of the genetic engineering project that produced humanity — is encoded in the healing symbol of the civilization that conducted that project. The Anunnaki who engineered human genetics placed their greatest scientific achievement in the symbol of their medical tradition, and it traveled intact through Greek medicine, Roman culture, and the entire history of Western healing practice, arriving in the twenty-first century still bearing the signature of its origin.
The healing bloodline from Bau through Ninsun to Puabi, and the healing knowledge from Enki through Ningishzida to every physician who has ever touched a caduceus — these are two tributaries of the same river, flowing from the same source, arriving in the present moment bearing the unmistakable genetic and symbolic signature of Nibiru.
IMAGE PROMPT: The caduceus symbol rendered in ancient Sumerian style, two serpents intertwining around a staff, revealing the double helix DNA structure beneath, golden and lapis lazuli colors, ancient and modern simultaneously, the genetic code hidden in the medical symbol, dramatic lighting
The Evil Wind and the End of Days
The Nuclear Catastrophe of 2024 BCE
The civilization Bau helped build gradually came to an end. It ended in fire.
The Anunnaki civil wars between the Enlilite and Enkiite factions — the same rivalry between Enlil and Enki that had shaped Earth’s history since the original colonization — reached their catastrophic conclusion in the second half of the twenty-first century BCE. Marduk, son of Enki, pressed his claim to supremacy over the Earth mission with increasing aggression. His rivals responded with the most devastating technology in the Anunnaki arsenal. Nuclear weapons struck the Sinai spaceport. Five cities of the Jordan plain, including Sodom and Gomorrah, were vaporized.
Then came the consequence that the Anunnaki, in their fury and certainty, had failed to reckon with fully. They had used nuclear weapons before, on Nibiru, in the distant wars of their own planetary history. Generations had passed since those wars. The knowledge of what a nuclear detonation truly unleashed had faded from living memory. They understood the blast. They had forgotten the wind.
The toxic cloud that rose from the strikes — what the Sumerian lament texts called the Evil Wind — did stay where the bombs fell. It moved. It spread. It traveled east on the prevailing atmospheric currents, carrying radioactive poison across hundreds of miles of open plain. It moved toward Sumer. It moved toward Ur. It moved toward every temple and every healing precinct and every city that Bau and her household had spent millennia constructing. The Anunnaki who ordered the strikes had calculated the destruction of their enemies. They had failed to calculate the destruction of their own civilization alongside it. The Evil Wind made no distinction between Enlilite and Enkiite, between god and earthling, between the guilty city and the innocent one. It moved east and killed everything it touched.
The Lost Book of Enki records Enki’s own lamentation over what followed: how smitten the land, its people delivered to the Evil Wind, its stables abandoned, its sheepfolds emptied, its cities’ people piled as dead corpses. The Sumerian civilization, which had stood for thousands of years, dissolved within a generation under radioactive fallout.
Bau’s Departure
Bau departed with the Anunnaki withdrawal. The texts describe the gods leaving their cities in their celestial craft as the Evil Wind approached — a drama-filled evacuation replete with divine grief and human abandonment. As Anu’s daughter and Ninurta’s consort, Bau stood firmly within the Enlilite hierarchy that directed the withdrawal. Her father’s authority commanded it. Her husband’s military command organized it. Her own medical expertise told her precisely what the Evil Wind meant for any being who remained in its path.
She departed. The Lady Who Brings the Dead Back to Life left a world full of the dead she could bring back no longer. The Anunnaki used remaining spaceport facilities in Mesoamerica — Nazca and Teotihuacan — to depart first for Mars, then for Nibiru, as the contaminated clouds consumed their civilization in Mesopotamia.
Bau left no tomb. She left no remains. She left no skull in a museum basement awaiting a DNA test that institutional gatekeepers decline to authorize. She left only the memory encoded in clay by the people of Eridu who had seen her face — the elongated skull, the almond eye, the nursing mother holding a child of her own non-human kind — pressed into fired clay seven thousand years ago and waiting in the soil for archaeologists who had yet to learn to ask the right questions.
IMAGE PROMPT: Ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur being consumed by a vast dark toxic cloud on the horizon, citizens fleeing through reed-lined canals, massive ziggurats silhouetted against an apocalyptic sky of orange and black, distant figures ascending into a luminous craft above the clouds, dramatic chiaroscuro lighting, cinematic horror and grandeur, oil painting style, the Evil Wind of Sumer, 2024 BCE
Nin Puabi and the Unfinished Test
The Niece Who Stayed
Bau departed. Her lineage remained on Earth, carried in the genetics of the demigod descendants her family left behind. Among those descendants, one stands above all others as the earthly continuation of the Bau healing tradition: Nin Puabi, queen of Ur, Bau’s own niece through their shared bloodline of Anu and Urash.
Puabi’s mother was Ninsun — Bau’s full sister, daughter of the same Anu and the same Urash, herself equated in later theological texts with the healing goddess Gula, who descended from Bau’s tradition. Puabi’s father was Lugalbanda, the semi-divine king of Uruk, whom Inanna also loved. Her brother was Gilgamesh, the great hero king, two-thirds divine and one-third human. Puabi herself carried the Nin title on her cylinder seal — the announcement of Anunnaki royal lineage that placed her above ordinary human royalty and connected her directly to the divine house of Anu.
Sitchin noted in There Were Giants Upon the Earth that Puabi’s burial goods included jewelry from Grandmother Inanna, placing Inanna in the role of family elder rather than abstract deity. The family of the gods walked the earth, buried their dead in Ur, left their headdresses and their lapis lazuli to their granddaughters, and waited in the soil of Iraq for someone to ask why one of those granddaughters had a skull 250 cubic centimeters larger than the European female average.
The Anomalous Skull
Sir Arthur Keith analyzed Puabi’s remains following Leonard Woolley’s excavation in the 1920s and recorded that her cranial capacity could fall below 1600 cubic centimeters. That figure sits 250 cubic centimeters above the mean for European women — a significant statistical anomaly in any human population sample. Within the Anunnaki framework, it represents something more specific: the physical signature of hybrid genetics, the same enlarged skull geometry encoded in those Ubaid figurines from Eridu, persisting in a living lineage into the third millennium BCE.
Puabi’s longevity presents an equally significant dimension. If she carried Anunnaki maternal lineage as Sitchin argued — and her skull measurements, her Nin title, her connection to the divine family of Gilgamesh and Ninsun all support that argument — the lifespan available to her extended far beyond ordinary human parameters. The Sumerian king lists record pre-flood rulers reigning for tens of thousands of years. Even substantially diluted Anunnaki genetics could plausibly sustain centuries rather than decades.
A Puabi who lived from 2600 BCE into the nuclear aftermath of 2024 BCE — roughly six hundred years — represents the most conservative possible expression of that biological inheritance. She carried enough Anunnaki longevity to witness the destruction of the civilization her ancestors built, and as Bau’s earthly heir in the healing tradition, she would have done exactly what Bau herself would have done: stayed with the sick, tended the dying, applied every medical skill the goddess had passed through the family line. Eventually, the Evil Wind claimed her, too.
Sitchin’s Dying Request
Zecharia Sitchin spent the final years of his life pursuing what he believed represented the single most important scientific test in human history. In his last book, There Were Giants Upon the Earth, published in 2010 shortly before his death in October of that year, he identified Nin Puabi’s remains — held at the Natural History Museum in London, a location often misreported as the British Museum — as physical evidence capable of confirming or disproving everything he had written across forty years of research.
The test required only a small bone sample. Mitochondrial DNA analysis — the kind routinely conducted on ancient remains by research laboratories worldwide — would reveal whether Puabi’s maternal genetic line matched known human haplogroups or carried anomalies consistent with non-terrestrial origin. Sitchin offered funding from his own family foundation. He asked for no predetermined conclusion. He stated plainly that ordinary human DNA results would compel him to publicly accept that verdict. He was, in his own words, staking his life’s work on the outcome.
The Natural History Museum responded that any such request would require a researcher with recognized credentials and access to appropriate ancient DNA analysis facilities. The museum confirmed that Puabi’s remains had never undergone DNA analysis and that plans for such analysis did exist.
Lloyd Pye and the London Mission
After Sitchin’s death, researcher Lloyd Pye — best known for his work on the Starchild Skull and his investigation into evidence for human-extraterrestrial genetic interaction — traveled to London to advance the cause directly. Janet Kira Lessin and Dr. Sasha Alex Lessin, who knew Pye personally through years of shared work in the Sitchinite research community, carry firsthand knowledge of what the public record only partially captures.
Pye met with Dr. Margaret Clegg, head of the Natural History Museum’s Human Remains Unit — the same official Sitchin had corresponded with before his death. He obtained from her a list of the museum’s protocols for invasive DNA testing, which he described as strict but technically achievable. He reported that the Sitchin family trust was moving to satisfy those protocols and urged the research community to allow the formal process to proceed rather than flooding the museum with pressure correspondence.
Shortly after his return from London, Lloyd Pye fell ill. A fast-moving lymphoma diagnosis followed. He died in December 2013. His death removed one of the most tenacious advocates for the Puabi DNA test from the field at precisely the moment when institutional momentum might have been buildable. The Sitchin community, already diminished by the loss of its founder three years earlier, found itself again without its most active champion of this specific cause.
As of this writing in 2026, Puabi’s remains sit in London. The DNA remains untested. The museum has announced no change in its position. The bones that may carry the mitochondrial signature of a non-terrestrial maternal lineage — the physical evidence that could transform the entire history of human origins from theory into confirmed science — wait in institutional storage while the Disclosure movement has yet to fully turn its attention here.
IMAGE PROMPT: Reconstruction of ancient Sumerian Queen Nin Puabi lying in state in the Royal Cemetery of Ur, elaborate golden headdress of leaves and lapis lazuli, rich burial goods surrounding her, warm candlelight, elongated noble skull visible beneath the crown, ethereal and reverent atmosphere, photorealistic archaeological reconstruction, deep golds and midnight blues, 2600 BCE
Epilogue: The Lady Who Has Not Left
Bau departed approximately four thousand years ago. Within the Anunnaki framework, departure carries a different meaning for a being of her nature and biological constitution. The Nibiruian longevity that sustained Anunnaki rulers for tens of thousands of years accompanied her on the flight back to Nibiru. Bau — the Lady Who Brings the Dead Back to Life, the physician-princess who arrived on Earth when Eridu was new and the Ubaid people still walked in living contact with their creators — may live today on Nibiru, awaiting the 3,600-year orbital cycle that Sitchin identified as the mechanism of Anunnaki return.
The cosmological framework that Sasha Alex Lessin and Janet Kira Lessin have developed across decades of research identifies the current era as precisely such a threshold. Marduk’s four-thousand-year authorized dominion over Earth reaches its terminal point. The Age of Pisces — the final two millennia of his sanctioned rule — closes. Enki’s era begins. The beings who built this civilization, who pressed their faces into the clay of Eridu for artists who would remember them, who established the healing tradition that Nin Puabi carried into the nuclear catastrophe as their earthly inheritance — those beings have reason now to return.
Bau left no tomb because she required none. She left no remains in any museum basement because she left Earth alive. She left instead a tradition of healing so deeply encoded in human civilization that it survived the Evil Wind, survived the fall of Sumer, survived three thousand years of cultural transformation, and arrived intact in our medical practices, our dog symbols, our goddess traditions, and our persistent intuition that someone, somewhere, once knew how to bring the dead back to life.
Her niece Puabi stayed. Stayed through six centuries of her people’s history. Stayed through the rise and the glory and the final catastrophic fall. Stayed until the Evil Wind took everything. Then lay down in the soil of Ur with her golden headdress and her ninety-eight companions and waited.
She waits still. In a drawer in London. With her anomalous skull and her untested mitochondrial DNA and her Nin title that announces to anyone who can read it: I am of the bloodline of Anu. I am of the house of Bau. Test me and know the truth.
The Ubaid artists of Eridu knew Bau’s face. They pressed it into clay so that we would remember. Seven thousand years later, we finally ask the questions their fired clay was built to answer.
The test that Sitchin requested, that Lloyd Pye traveled to London to advance, that the Natural History Museum has declined to authorize, and that the bones of Nin Puabi still await — that test remains the single most important scientific act available to the Disclosure movement today. Puabi’s mtDNA could bridge the gap between ancient memory and molecular confirmation. Between the clay of Eridu and the laboratories of the twenty-first century. Between the physician-goddess who departed and the hybrid queen she left behind to carry her work forward until the world ended.
The world ended. The work survived. The bones wait.
IMAGE PROMPT: A luminous Anunnaki goddess with elongated noble skull standing at the viewport of a spacecraft departing Earth, looking back at the burning Mesopotamian plain far below shrouded in dark toxic clouds, golden robes, one hand pressed to the glass, the planet Nibiru visible as a large sphere in the star field ahead, emotional and majestic, cinematic science fiction realism, teal and gold color palette
Janet Kira Lessin & Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. | Research: Claudia Lenore | © 2026 Aquarian Media
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