Why did the reign durations of kings on the king list drastically shorten after the Great Flood, yet remain much longer than those of modern humans? What does this signify in the Anunnaki theory?

Okay, let's talk about this fascinating topic. It's like watching an epic sci-fi series, and the Sumerian King List is its "episode list."

About the Sumerian King List, the Great Flood, and Kings with "Super Long Battery Life"

Imagine you have an ancient list of kings called the Sumerian King List. This list is remarkable because it's sharply divided into two parts by a major event: Before the Flood and After the Flood.

Before the Flood: The kings listed ruled for absurdly long periods, often tens of thousands of years. For example, the first king, Alulim, reigned for 28,800 years. That doesn't sound human at all, right? It seems more like mythical gods.
After the Flood: The Flood acted like a reset button. After it, the reigns of kings plummeted dramatically to a thousand years, or several hundred years. Take the famous Gilgamesh, for instance; his reign was 126 years. While still much longer than our lifespans, compared to the tens of thousands of years before the Flood, it's a "precipitous drop."

So the question arises: Why is this? The Anunnaki theory offers a mind-bending explanation.

The Anunnaki Theory Interpretation: A Cup of "Divine Blood" Constantly Diluted

In the story told by the Anunnaki theory (particularly according to Zecharia Sitchin), it goes like this:

1. The "Pure-Blooded" Rulers Before the Flood

Those "kings" before the Flood weren't "humans" as we understand them today. They were pure Anunnaki.

Who were they? Alien visitors from the planet Nibiru.
Why did they live so long? Because their physiology and life scales were completely different from ours on Earth. Their home planet might take thousands of years to orbit its sun, so for them, spending tens of thousands of years on Earth might feel like just a few decades to us.

Therefore, those astronomically long reigns listed before the Flood in the King List actually record the period when Anunnaki deities ruled Earth directly.

2. The "Hybrid" Rulers After the Flood – Dilution of "Divinity"

The Great Flood was a massive catastrophe that nearly destroyed civilization on Earth. After the Flood, the Anunnaki decided to manage humanity differently. They stopped ruling directly and instead began granting kingship to human descendants who carried their bloodline, commonly known as "Demigods."

This is the key!

Think of this process like a cup of very concentrated juice (pure Anunnaki genes).

Early Post-Flood Period: The Anunnaki interbred with the humans they had created, producing the first generation of "demigods." These demigods had a very high concentration of "divine blood." For example, the legendary Gilgamesh was said to be two-thirds divine and one-third human. So, while they didn't live as long as pure Anunnaki, living for a thousand years or several hundred years was still possible. This explains why the first kings after the Flood still had reigns far exceeding those of modern humans.
Over Time: These demigod descendants continued to marry and reproduce with ordinary humans. It's like constantly diluting that concentrated juice with water. With each generation, the concentration of "divine blood" (i.e., the Anunnaki longevity genes) became weaker.

Therefore, the phenomenon you see in the King List – kings' reigns shortening from over a thousand years, to several hundred, then to a hundred-plus years, and finally becoming similar to ordinary people – represents, in the Anunnaki theory, the process of "divinity" gradually diluting and fading within the human royal bloodline.

To Summarize

From the Anunnaki theory perspective:

Pre-Flood rulers had super-long reigns: Because the kings were pure Anunnaki "gods," operating on their life scale.
Post-Flood reigns shortened drastically: Because kingship was handed to "demigod" descendants whose lifespans were intermediate between gods and humans.
But still much longer than modern humans: Because the early demigod kings still had a high concentration of "divine blood," and the longevity genes were still potent.
Reigns became progressively shorter: Representing the continuous dilution of "divine blood" through successive generations, until the royal bloodline returned to that of mortals.

So, this ancient King List, in the view of theory proponents, is not just a list of kings. It's more like the encoded record of a grand epic, chronicling how the "gods" gradually exited the stage of history, handing the world over to humanity. Pretty interesting, isn't it?