Book Review: Slave Species of God

Author: Michael Tellinger

Genre: Conspiracy/Adult-fiction

Publisher: Zulu Planet Publishers

Year: 2005

Rating: 3 reading glasses 

In the icy cold outer fringes of our solar system, floats Nibiru, a red planet several times larger than Earth which is inhabited by giant, highly intelligent and technologically advanced humanoids called the Annunaki who possess incomprehensible life spans.

The Annunaki

Every 3 600 years, Nibiru’s protracted elliptical orbit brings it blazing through the inner solar system like a wild comet, cutting through the orbits of Mars and Jupiter at its perigee. But millions of years ago, one of Nibiru’s moons collided with Tiamat, a planet which existed between Mars and Jupiter, shattering it to pieces (creating the debris field known as the Asteroid Belt today) and damaging Nibiru’s fragile ozone layer, leaving its surface life exposed to lethal solar radiation.  

Prompted by this natural disaster, the Niburuans dispatched astronauts to Earth to search for gold which they would crush to a fine powder and scatter in their upper atmosphere in order to create an artificial ozone layer to save their world.  They found an abundance of gold in Southern Africa but after tens of thousands of years of toiling in the mines, the Annunaki miners staged a Marikana style revolt which brought their inter-planetary mining mission to a halt for some time.

As a solution, one of the mission commando’s Enki proposed; “let us create a primitive worker” to lessen the Annunaki’s workload. This primitive worker was created by splicing Annunaki DNA with the DNA of large African apes. After much trial and error they created the first Earthling 250 000 years ago whose clones were sent into the gold mines to work as genetically engineered slaves, hence the book title Slave Species of God.

So where is the originality?

If you think Michael Tellinger used this book to add an original theory to the ancient astronaut hypothesis think again. Those who’ve read not only Zecharia Sitchin’s material, but books written by other extra-terrestrial ‘experts’ like Eric von Donaken or UFO cult leader Rael in the 60s and 70s about aliens coming to Earth in remote times and creating humans through DNA synthesising won’t find much that will surprise them in this book.

Moreover, the book almost reads like a transcript from an episode of Ancient Aliens on theHistory Channel, which has cranky looking UFO experts like Giorgio Tsoukalis crediting aliens for unexplained technological marvels in distant history, because we all know people in those times were too primitive to do it by themselves.  “Who built the pyramids? Aliens!”

“How could savage man have known about distant solar systems? Duh, aliens!”  

Michael Tellinger (left) and Giorgio Tsoukalis from the Ancient Aliens TV series. Who took this picture? Probably aliens! Source: facebook

Face palm slap moments

Tellinger also applies that ‘aliens made everything modern Europeans can’t explain’ mind set. E.g. he admits Africans sailed to Mexico thousands of years before the Spanish, siting the giant Olmec stone heads in South America as evidence, but there is no way Blacks were smart enough to navigate the Atlantic on their own so long ago , so he proposes one logical explanation… Bingo, aliens!

The racial subjectivity later contradicts itself. At one point he states how the Annunaki created the Si-ga-ga  or the Black Headed People which was Sumerian for Africans, ‘in their image and likeness’, which would mean the Annunaki had prominent African racial features. However, later on he says the Annunaki were definitely Caucasian, because the Sumerian description of the biblical Noah (who was apparently a human/Annunaki hybrid) describes him as having skin as white as snow and eyes as blue as the sky i.e. Aryan features. With this info I would deduct that the Annunaki were a multi-racial people at the very least. But that’s something Tellinger evidently can’t digest.

Let me guess, aliens cut that rock? Source: Facebook

Moreover, on the last page of the book which is a map of Africa and the Middle East, Tellinger labelled regions like Southern African as Monomotapa and Middle Eastern empires as Mesopotamia and Anatolia, which is what the natives living in those regions called their kingdoms. Yet he omits calling Egypt by what its inhabitants of the same time period called it; Khemit which means The Black Land. If he could research the original names of Southern African and Middle Eastern empires, why continue calling Khemit, an African nation, by what its Greek invaders called it, Egypt?

But you should still read it

Slave Species didn’t become a South African bestseller for nothing. Even if you don’t necessarily believe in extra-terrestrials, UFOs or any contemporary texts about aliens meddling with human DNA in our remote past, this book is an excellent bite size starter to satisfy any curiosity you have about the UFO/ET phenomenon currently sweeping the world by storm.

Apparently Tellinger is a qualified pharmacist. This slightly diminishes his nutter demeanor and adds weighty credibility to his facts about human physiology the opening chapters discuss in detail. (They psychologically prepare readers for later chapters which might be too horrific for squeamish readers to absorb).

Tellinger's Ubuntu political party failed dismally in this years national elections. He doesn't blame aliens but he says the Reserve Bank rigged the results so Ubuntu couldn't get a seat in parliament...Yep, sure they did. Source: facebook

In conclusion

Slave Species is a good summary of many ancient astronaut texts, a simple go to book for curious people who want to know about the subject in one sitting without having to painstakingly read different books or watch an entire season of Ancient Aliens.

Thanks to fossil evidence the world now knows for a fact that the first human was South African, and it’s about time local writers instead of arrogant Westerners write books detailing this incredible creation of our species here, even though the local writer in this case is a white Englishman with tinges of racial and religious bias. Nonetheless Slave Species provides an excellent African point of view of humanity’s origins and future.