Thank you, Paul, for your amazing work and for working with Mauro Biglino. Can you tell us why the Powerful Ones left the planet so abruptly?

Hi.
There were two races of E.T.s.
There were the familiar Anunnaki, and there were another E.T. race who guided mankind in the upper sources of the Tigris and Euphrates.
These second E.Ts, who, were here before the Anunnaki were called the 'Lugulyra' by the people in Anatolia and Armenia.
In Turkish, lug means 'Great' and Ulyra means 'Ultra', so the Lugulyra were The Ultra Great ones.

They are still here, and go by the name Nordics in modern ufology. The Greys are their synthetic servants.
Some departed Anatolia and settled in Scandinavia.
Paul suggests this.
There is a Celtic god called Lugh, which I believe was one of them, naming himself 'The Great one' in Anatolian.

The Anunnaki departed Earth about 700 BC. Their spaceship was on a 3600 year orbit of the sun.
The gold they desired was used as a radiation shield inside the hull of their ship.

I'm new to in depth exploration of ancient contact outside of what I've seen on Ancient Aliens. Ive been watching the 5th kind on YouTube for about a week and a half and just signed up today for 5th Kind TV.

That being said, forgive me if my interpretation is wrong, but my understanding is Annunaki created us to mine resources for them after they fixed the earth from the great flood? Then the prepped man to govern and take a back seat. Then they left and everyone made up their own religions to forget the Annunaki?

I'm generally good at putting things together, but im still a bit confused. What makes sense to me is that ancient man wanted to hide our true origins because what if there was a greater rebellion of the labor force like in the opening of Stargate. They use human kings to govern and the gods get their tribute behind the scenes. We'd be their lessers so human kings are expendable, when we rebel they're the faces we can blame.

I think the war of the gods is still on going and we're their proxies like chess pieces on a board. There seems to be 2 sides. 1 faction getting rid of the traditional royal bloodlines that were "ordained by god" and another faction that wants to install themselves. Each side gives their patron their tribute behind the scenes. History repeats itself. If you look at the Georgia Guidestones it tells of a culling, new religion and a new living language and a world government. So could the Annunaki or 1 of the Annunaki be getting upset enough to wipe the board and start over like a sore loser?