text: who is anu?   an.u was the ruler of the annanaki, or "those from heaven to earth came"; he was the first to set foot on earth according to ancient sumerian tablets. he piloted a craft from niburu to earth to look for gold to mine and grind into a powder to form an orbiting cloud of gold dust, probably to protect its atmosphere from dissipating into space anymore than it already had from its very elliptical solar orbit. consult zacharia sitchin's "the 12th planet".