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Earth Chronicles #1
The 12th Planet
Over the years, startling evidence has been uncovered, challenging established notions of the origins of life on Earth - evidence that suggests the evidence of an advanced group of extraterrestrials who once inhabited our world.
The first book of the revolutionary Earth Chronicles series offers indisputable documentary evidence of the existence of the mysterious planet of Nibiru and tells why its astronauts came to Earth eons ago to fashion mankind in their image.
The product of more than thirty years of meticulous research, The 12th Planet treats as fact, not myth, the tales of Creation, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel, and the Nefilim who married the daughters of man.
The first book of the revolutionary Earth Chronicles series offers indisputable documentary evidence of the existence of the mysterious planet of Nibiru and tells why its astronauts came to Earth eons ago to fashion mankind in their image.
The product of more than thirty years of meticulous research, The 12th Planet treats as fact, not myth, the tales of Creation, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel, and the Nefilim who married the daughters of man.
438 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1976
About the author
Zecharia Sitchin
136 books671 followersSitchin was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, and was raised in Palestine. He acquired knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew, other Semitic and European languages, the Torah, and the history and archeology of the Near East.
He was one of the few scholars able to read and interpret ancient Sumerian and Akkadian clay tablets.
Sitchin graduated from the London School of Economics, University of London, majoring in economic history.
A journalist and editor in Israel for many years. His books have been widely translated, converted to braille for the blind, and featured on radio and television.
He was one of the few scholars able to read and interpret ancient Sumerian and Akkadian clay tablets.
Sitchin graduated from the London School of Economics, University of London, majoring in economic history.
A journalist and editor in Israel for many years. His books have been widely translated, converted to braille for the blind, and featured on radio and television.
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August 6, 2016
A friend recommended Sitchin to me, and at first I sort of laughed because of how the media portrays people who believe in aliens and because science-fiction makes them into gray creatures with big eyes that probe humans.
Also, the fact that I saw his name next to David Icke's a lot...
To fully enjoy this book, you have to shake off all stereotypes and just absorb the words on the page, and if you're able to do that, there is no reason you shouldn't enjoy what you're reading.
I thought this book was wonderful, informative and beyond interesting. Having no firm religious beliefs, it was probably a bit easier for me to look at this with little opposition, so again, I'd recommended reading it with a very open mind.
One of the many criticisms I've seen here and other websites is that the theories are outrageous or too far-fetched, but I'd like to remind everyone (who has read this book or is about to read this book) that this man spent the majority of his life translating the cuneiform of the first (known) intelligent civilization, not writing his own theories.
Whether you choose to believe any of it or not is irrelevant, the fact is, only a handful of people in the world are able to read these tablets.
I've also seen a lot of nasty things written by doctors and professors regarding the entirety of Sitchin's work, but I have seen no evidence that they themselves are able to understand the cuneiform. So, I would like to suggest that detail to anyone slightly put-off by such reviews.
Another criticism I've seen is that there is too much information on each page, but this is not a book you're supposed to breeze through. Quite honestly, I appreciate Sitchin's attention to fine detail and even though it does feel repetitive at times, I appreciate how he shows all connections to the Sumerian tablets.
Overall, this is a book you have to invest time in, it's not a book you can just pick up, put in your bag and read when the mood strikes you. In doing so, hopefully you'll enjoy it as much as I did.
Also, the fact that I saw his name next to David Icke's a lot...
To fully enjoy this book, you have to shake off all stereotypes and just absorb the words on the page, and if you're able to do that, there is no reason you shouldn't enjoy what you're reading.
I thought this book was wonderful, informative and beyond interesting. Having no firm religious beliefs, it was probably a bit easier for me to look at this with little opposition, so again, I'd recommended reading it with a very open mind.
One of the many criticisms I've seen here and other websites is that the theories are outrageous or too far-fetched, but I'd like to remind everyone (who has read this book or is about to read this book) that this man spent the majority of his life translating the cuneiform of the first (known) intelligent civilization, not writing his own theories.
Whether you choose to believe any of it or not is irrelevant, the fact is, only a handful of people in the world are able to read these tablets.
I've also seen a lot of nasty things written by doctors and professors regarding the entirety of Sitchin's work, but I have seen no evidence that they themselves are able to understand the cuneiform. So, I would like to suggest that detail to anyone slightly put-off by such reviews.
Another criticism I've seen is that there is too much information on each page, but this is not a book you're supposed to breeze through. Quite honestly, I appreciate Sitchin's attention to fine detail and even though it does feel repetitive at times, I appreciate how he shows all connections to the Sumerian tablets.
Overall, this is a book you have to invest time in, it's not a book you can just pick up, put in your bag and read when the mood strikes you. In doing so, hopefully you'll enjoy it as much as I did.
June 21, 2008
I thought this one was great! At first I thought maybe the author was a bit off, with his extra planet theroy. But I was amazed at what I learned from this one. Mostly about how the Bible stories are in fact true, but based on MUCH older stories from an ancient Sumerian civilization. It is astonishing just how much these ancients recorded and how much they knew. How advanced they were! Where did all the intelligence go that those who came before us had? Hummmm makes a person wonder!
June 2, 2019
The 12th Planet is a dangerous book. Misuse of information is how power falls into the wrong hands. False information breeds ignorance. And ignorance spreads like fire when profits can be made.
The lack of citations takes away what little credibility Sitchin has. Quoting out of context and choosing specific facts while ignoring relevant information is not how to build an argument.
Sitchin admits in the prologue that he is taking ancient myths and interpreting them literally and creating a narrative of his own to answer questions about the origin of humanity.
Zecharia Sitchin is a good writer. He is capable of creating a convincing narrative. But please do not read The 12th Planet as fact. Read the academic criticisms surrounding this book that reference the incorrect translations and the biased interpretations of myth. Read this as you would The Silmarillion: as a work of cosmological inspiration and nothing more.
The lack of citations takes away what little credibility Sitchin has. Quoting out of context and choosing specific facts while ignoring relevant information is not how to build an argument.
Sitchin admits in the prologue that he is taking ancient myths and interpreting them literally and creating a narrative of his own to answer questions about the origin of humanity.
Zecharia Sitchin is a good writer. He is capable of creating a convincing narrative. But please do not read The 12th Planet as fact. Read the academic criticisms surrounding this book that reference the incorrect translations and the biased interpretations of myth. Read this as you would The Silmarillion: as a work of cosmological inspiration and nothing more.
August 13, 2010
It's difficult for me to believe many of the theories laid out in this book as pure fact or non-fiction when the author doesn't site his sources on the ready as I'm reading. If the author claims something seemingly outrageous as fact, then I'd like to be able to see a footnote and double check that statement easily. Also, I'd like to be able to know where all the drawings of clay tablets included throughout the book are located, and how I can see for myself that it is real and true. I understand Z. Sitchin is an expert on all things ancient Sumerian, but don't expect your readers to just take your word as fact.
This is not to say that I hated the book because regardless of all that, I found it extremely interesting. If you soldier on through some of the dry spots and especially the many eye-brow raising theories, there will be moments when the reader may say "Hmmm, I never thought about it that way" or "I could totally see that being true". To be honest, I'd like to see Hollywood try to make this into a movie someday.
This is not to say that I hated the book because regardless of all that, I found it extremely interesting. If you soldier on through some of the dry spots and especially the many eye-brow raising theories, there will be moments when the reader may say "Hmmm, I never thought about it that way" or "I could totally see that being true". To be honest, I'd like to see Hollywood try to make this into a movie someday.
August 7, 2011
I attended Christian Jr/Sr. high schools and studied the Bible extensively every day throughout those years. When I went to college I minored (more or less) in religious studies. I'm also a massive lover of history. In order to be able to learn you have to ALWAYS remain open minded. Granted, the theories and concepts brought forth by Sitchin, while at times seem outlandish on the surface, are no more so then believing in a one, true almighty being who made man from clay and woman from a rib, has angels and demons battling it out in some war of good and evil.
The belief systems we have in place today began THOUSANDS of years ago. Perhaps many more thousands of years ago then mainstream conventional science is willing to accept. Certainly more than religious zealots who still believe Earth is only 6,000 years old (which science as proven to be false time and time again) are willing to accept. Over those thousands of years, as man became more "civilized" and "educated," those belief systems evolved... dramatically.
Don't always take things for face value. Open your mind to the possibility that what we've been taught may not actually be "the truth."
Such as... many of the key stories and figures found in the "Holy" Bible - the very foundation of the Christian belief system (i.e., the creation story, Adam & Eve, the Flood, Noah, the Tower of Babel, etc.) were plagiarized, almost verbatim, from much, much older NON-CHRISTIAN texts. This fact is not up for debate. Look it up.
If you're into alternative liens of thinking about who we are and where we came from... give Sitchin a read. (FYI, book 2 of this series... not nearly as good.)
The belief systems we have in place today began THOUSANDS of years ago. Perhaps many more thousands of years ago then mainstream conventional science is willing to accept. Certainly more than religious zealots who still believe Earth is only 6,000 years old (which science as proven to be false time and time again) are willing to accept. Over those thousands of years, as man became more "civilized" and "educated," those belief systems evolved... dramatically.
Don't always take things for face value. Open your mind to the possibility that what we've been taught may not actually be "the truth."
Such as... many of the key stories and figures found in the "Holy" Bible - the very foundation of the Christian belief system (i.e., the creation story, Adam & Eve, the Flood, Noah, the Tower of Babel, etc.) were plagiarized, almost verbatim, from much, much older NON-CHRISTIAN texts. This fact is not up for debate. Look it up.
If you're into alternative liens of thinking about who we are and where we came from... give Sitchin a read. (FYI, book 2 of this series... not nearly as good.)
January 24, 2012
Zachariah Sitchins books are detailed with actual translations of Ancient Cuniform (clay tablet) writings. They are Sumerian Writings , the language which brought about Aramaic, which in turn brought about Hebrew and Arabic. He is an Archeologist, and ancient script interpreter/translator. He delves into ancient texts, and clay tablet writtings, religious scriptures, artifacts, and drawings & visits museums, and sights of actual historical significance mentioned in various world scriptures, to get an up-close, hands on grasp of what happened. His books are filled with historical facts, with awesome translations, actual pictures of the cuniforms themselves, many of which are pictorial in nature (they appear in his books). Each of the books is a veritable treasure-house of knowledge, of scientific breakthroughs into understanding what has happened in ancient civilizations, regarding gods (alien races), and their meaning present in our scriptures today.
April 23, 2011
An interesting book. The author takes all the relics- all the antiquities of history- all the religious texts- all the mythologies from Rome, Greece, Israel, India and Sumer.... and weaves them into an incredible tale about how earthlings came to be on the planet.
Some points are interesting- some points are plausible- and some points leave you scratching you head saying... huh... you've got to be kidding me.
I was about to put it down several times but kept with it through the end. The author has eleven other books on this subject... Will I read another??? Probably not. I think I have the gist of what he's trying to say.
This book is listed under non-fiction... well that's debatable. I would call it a cross between historical fiction and sci-fi.
As a note: it would be really nice to have sited some "reputable" sources rather than just other authors who view the topic the same as him.
Some points are interesting- some points are plausible- and some points leave you scratching you head saying... huh... you've got to be kidding me.
I was about to put it down several times but kept with it through the end. The author has eleven other books on this subject... Will I read another??? Probably not. I think I have the gist of what he's trying to say.
This book is listed under non-fiction... well that's debatable. I would call it a cross between historical fiction and sci-fi.
As a note: it would be really nice to have sited some "reputable" sources rather than just other authors who view the topic the same as him.
January 28, 2019
I like it only because it's such an over-the-top piece of pseudo-scientific clap trap that it's one of the most fun reading experiences I've ever had. It's a constant source of entertainment when I've got nothing else to do and have to kill some time.
January 9, 2012
While many people look at Zecharia Sitchin as a kook who used questionable anthropology and archaeology as a way to sell "alien astronauts" as the basis of sentient life on earth, I find his works to be passionate and well informed studies of Sumerian lore. Even if you discount entirely the concept of the Annunaki as aliens, this series is still a masterful work of bringing some of the most ancient tales to modern man.
January 8, 2015
Having already read Graham hancock’s ‘Fingerprints of the Gods’ and ‘Underworld’; Christopher Dunn’s ‘The Giza Power Plant’, Elisabeth Haich’s ‘Initiation’ , this was book was in my reading bucket list for too long.
Though a bit dated, 12th Planet by Zecharia Sitchin, translated now into more than 25 languages, manages to sit us on the front row to raise the curtain over the celestial epic of creation and mankind’s history. Dismissed by some as mere science fiction, but revered by many, Sitchin was one of the few scholars able to read the Sumerian cuneiform tablets –at least in the 70’s when the book was written, and has taken great pain to combine Biblical narrative with ancient Sumerian clay-tablet texts to give an alternate version of pre-history.
Outrageous, controversial, literalism of myth, a story of False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religion: take your pick from the ever-increasing criticism against Sitchin and his works, but one can not miss his scholarly minute interpretations of obscure texts and engaging decipherment of the ancient pre-history – disguised as an entertaining read to infatuate the reader. At the very least, it does just that – an entertaining and mind-bending attempt to find the perfect Cindrella-shoe-fit for mankind’s evolution – another alternate-history version trying to find common ground in mythology – a mindgame of interpreting mythology.
Better still, it will drive one into reading more about ancient pre-history of the Near-East. Sitchin can not be the final stop in one’s quest for knowledge on pre-history.
Finally, as Graham Hancock –the famous author- says : ”One of the problems with the game of interpreting myth : the meaning ascribed may be more in the eye of the beholder than anything else..”
For a long time, at least the Western world believed that the modern human civilization is a gift of Greece and Rome. As the counter-argument, Sitchin painstakingly arranges the pantheon of 12 Greek Gods along side the 12 Roman Gods, and the Egyptian pantheon of 12 Gods headed by Ra, and even Vedic Gods, to postulate the uncanny similarity between all of them pointing to a single Sumerian source of origin-to the highland region between Tigris and Euphrates. That the principal Greek deity “the master of the celestial fire”- , Zeus is comparable to Roman Ju-Pitar ( Jupiter) associated with Bull or Taurus constellation; and also to the head of the Rig-Vedic proto-Indo-European pantheon of Gods- Dyaus Pita; and proving that Zeus arrived in Greece from still older Sumer across the Mediterranean Sea via the Minotaur-worshipping island of Crete , the author proposes their coincidences pointing to a common root in Sumerian high culture and its pantheon of Gods.
Day & Night each divided into 12 hours each, the three skies each divided into 12 zodiac constellations, the annual cycle made up of 12 months , and even our decimal counting system has the first 12 numbers as unique before reverting to decimal numbers ( thirteen, fourteen, etc): indicating to an ancient sexagesimal counting system of the Sumerians.
1. Why the outer-most planet Pluto is having an orbital plane dramatically different than other planets?
2. What is the origin of the neat belt of asteroids , arranged like a bracelet, separating the inner planets from the outer ones?
3. How could the ancients ever observe and conclude the exceptionally long celestial events , such as the precession cycle, the Great Year of 25,920 years that is divided into twelve constellations of 2160 years each for the twelve Zodiac signs – the process where the very axis of our wobbling planet makes a circular clock-wise rotation around its own axis once in 25920 years, , i.e. 72 ( =25920/360 degrees) years to traverse 1 degree, and 2160 ( 72 x 30) years to traverse one zodiac sign of 30 degrees, and 4320 for two signs or 60 degrees , and so on.
4. Why the number “7” is so important in our folklore?
5. What is the origin of iconography associated with the Cross, and a winged planet found throughout religious texts?
6. What can be the common source of the “ great flood” that is recorded in the cultural mythologies of almost all religions such as Noah of Ark story, the story of Matsya Avatar in Hinduism, story of Viracocha and Quetzalcoatl arriving in Central America from the far eastern sea on rafts of serpents, etc?
7. What historical event is represented by the mythological description of Adam & Eve’s tasting of the forbidden fruit?
8. What can be the reason of exact mathematical separation of 3600 years marking the spurts in mankind’s march to civilization : the Mesolithic period circa 11000 BC, the pottery phase circa 7400 BC, and the sudden cultures of Mesopotamia circa 3600BC, followed by Egyptian & Indus Valley ?
Sitchin proposes answer to each of these and many more questions in building his founding citadel of proofs of an alien connection to our planet: That there existed a lost Planet Tiamat in the early stage of planetary evolution, which was collided and broken by a rogue Planet Marduk pulled into the solar system by gravitational force, resulting in creation of planet Earth and the asteroid belt. The planet Marduk is the 12th planet that orbits the sun in a highly elliptical orbit once only every 3600 years. Around 4,45,000 years ago, the highly intelligent Nefilim or Anunnaki race of the 12th planet descended on the earth, counted by them as the 7th planet from the outer-most edge of Solar System- and set up permanent earth stations in Mesopotamia. These were the Gods that once ruled our planet- a pantheon of 12 Gods who shaped earth’s sudden evolution: Anu, Enki, Enlil, Ninhursag,Marduk, Ishkur, Nannar, Ninurta, Nabu, Inanna, Utu & Nergel. Our lives and civilization is not evolved linearly from lesser life forms to monkeys to man as proposed by Darwin: it is the result of a planned scientific experimentation by these Gods.
The pioneer of such inter-planetary exploration was Enki, or Ea ; son of Anu – the chief deity of the 12th planet. After 50,000 years; Enlil – brother of Enki- is descended down on earth to establish the inter-planetary mission control center at Nippur, Mesopotamia; while Enki – synonymous with Greek God Poseidon – is given the charge of the Lower World – Southern Africa, to establish gold mining operations, and establish sea-routes from Africa to Mesopotamia, where the mined gold was refined into ingots at the Bad-Tibira metallurgical center in the fossil-energy rich Mesopotamia, and transported to the 12th planet from the spaceport at Sippar. About 1,00,000 years pass by, and the workers at the gold mining facility revolt and complain to Anu about the never-ending hard work in the dark depths of the mines . The Gods decided to create a robot-force to carry out the mundane work; and the homo-sapien was created by artificial fertilization of God’s male-sperm into the female-egg of an ape-woman, and the ovum of the homo-erectus was then implanted within the womb of a female God. The ‘thinking man’ was born.
After repeated experimentation, the perfect “model” – Adam & Eve were created, and thereafter mass production by genetic engineering was started, with Birth Goddesses. However, the mass produced perfect mankind was sterile and without the reproductive genes. Adam and Eve, it is reported, were the first homo sapiens who -with help from the friendly God Enki – were mutated from this deficient reproductive genes and were able to reproduce. This revolutionary event in man’s history is mythologically depicted as Adam & Eve’s tasting of the forbidden fruit of “knowledge” in the Garden of Eden, causing further friction among Enki and Enlil. Starting from this event, earth’s population multiplied boundlessly, and more-seriously, from the God’s view, rampant inter-mingling of the Gods and now-compatible Humans ensued. What infuriated Enlil & his assembly of Gods, was not any of moralistic concerns for the human species, but the degradation of the Gods themselves to nothing more than “flesh”. Enlil then ordered to completely wipe-off the human race by cutting off the food-supply – by introducing wide-ranging famines and starvation deaths.
Around 11000 BC, when the Gods –specially Enlil- were planning to completely destroy the human race by starving them to death, they foresaw the coincidence with a forth-coming greatest natural disaster on the planet – the massive Deluge caused by earth’s crustal displacement of the Antarctic ice layer, triggered by massive weight of ice layers, and influenced by the 12th planet’s next orbital fly-by across earth, marking the end of the Ice Age. The Global Floods is reported by every religious texts, and mankind’s dramatic survival in the post-Deluvial world.
Enky- however could not keep such a secret only to himself and provided all the design details to construct a submarine to Noah, who was able to sustain the Great Flood, and re-establish life after the floods receded. The Gods, fled the earth during the Deluge in spacecrafts, and when the earth was being devastated by unthinkably massive floods, were sky-born and pressed against the glass-windows of the rockets looking down, unable to control their emotions seeing the race they had created themselves getting wiped out. As the floods receded, the Gods found an unexpected sight – Noah & few others have been able to save themselves – and they returned to Noah’s abode and helped mankind to establish the first city at Kish, followed by flowering of “sudden” high civilizations at Mesopotamia, Egypt and at Indus Valley around 3600BC.
Though a bit dated, 12th Planet by Zecharia Sitchin, translated now into more than 25 languages, manages to sit us on the front row to raise the curtain over the celestial epic of creation and mankind’s history. Dismissed by some as mere science fiction, but revered by many, Sitchin was one of the few scholars able to read the Sumerian cuneiform tablets –at least in the 70’s when the book was written, and has taken great pain to combine Biblical narrative with ancient Sumerian clay-tablet texts to give an alternate version of pre-history.
Outrageous, controversial, literalism of myth, a story of False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religion: take your pick from the ever-increasing criticism against Sitchin and his works, but one can not miss his scholarly minute interpretations of obscure texts and engaging decipherment of the ancient pre-history – disguised as an entertaining read to infatuate the reader. At the very least, it does just that – an entertaining and mind-bending attempt to find the perfect Cindrella-shoe-fit for mankind’s evolution – another alternate-history version trying to find common ground in mythology – a mindgame of interpreting mythology.
Better still, it will drive one into reading more about ancient pre-history of the Near-East. Sitchin can not be the final stop in one’s quest for knowledge on pre-history.
Finally, as Graham Hancock –the famous author- says : ”One of the problems with the game of interpreting myth : the meaning ascribed may be more in the eye of the beholder than anything else..”
For a long time, at least the Western world believed that the modern human civilization is a gift of Greece and Rome. As the counter-argument, Sitchin painstakingly arranges the pantheon of 12 Greek Gods along side the 12 Roman Gods, and the Egyptian pantheon of 12 Gods headed by Ra, and even Vedic Gods, to postulate the uncanny similarity between all of them pointing to a single Sumerian source of origin-to the highland region between Tigris and Euphrates. That the principal Greek deity “the master of the celestial fire”- , Zeus is comparable to Roman Ju-Pitar ( Jupiter) associated with Bull or Taurus constellation; and also to the head of the Rig-Vedic proto-Indo-European pantheon of Gods- Dyaus Pita; and proving that Zeus arrived in Greece from still older Sumer across the Mediterranean Sea via the Minotaur-worshipping island of Crete , the author proposes their coincidences pointing to a common root in Sumerian high culture and its pantheon of Gods.
Day & Night each divided into 12 hours each, the three skies each divided into 12 zodiac constellations, the annual cycle made up of 12 months , and even our decimal counting system has the first 12 numbers as unique before reverting to decimal numbers ( thirteen, fourteen, etc): indicating to an ancient sexagesimal counting system of the Sumerians.
1. Why the outer-most planet Pluto is having an orbital plane dramatically different than other planets?
2. What is the origin of the neat belt of asteroids , arranged like a bracelet, separating the inner planets from the outer ones?
3. How could the ancients ever observe and conclude the exceptionally long celestial events , such as the precession cycle, the Great Year of 25,920 years that is divided into twelve constellations of 2160 years each for the twelve Zodiac signs – the process where the very axis of our wobbling planet makes a circular clock-wise rotation around its own axis once in 25920 years, , i.e. 72 ( =25920/360 degrees) years to traverse 1 degree, and 2160 ( 72 x 30) years to traverse one zodiac sign of 30 degrees, and 4320 for two signs or 60 degrees , and so on.
4. Why the number “7” is so important in our folklore?
5. What is the origin of iconography associated with the Cross, and a winged planet found throughout religious texts?
6. What can be the common source of the “ great flood” that is recorded in the cultural mythologies of almost all religions such as Noah of Ark story, the story of Matsya Avatar in Hinduism, story of Viracocha and Quetzalcoatl arriving in Central America from the far eastern sea on rafts of serpents, etc?
7. What historical event is represented by the mythological description of Adam & Eve’s tasting of the forbidden fruit?
8. What can be the reason of exact mathematical separation of 3600 years marking the spurts in mankind’s march to civilization : the Mesolithic period circa 11000 BC, the pottery phase circa 7400 BC, and the sudden cultures of Mesopotamia circa 3600BC, followed by Egyptian & Indus Valley ?
Sitchin proposes answer to each of these and many more questions in building his founding citadel of proofs of an alien connection to our planet: That there existed a lost Planet Tiamat in the early stage of planetary evolution, which was collided and broken by a rogue Planet Marduk pulled into the solar system by gravitational force, resulting in creation of planet Earth and the asteroid belt. The planet Marduk is the 12th planet that orbits the sun in a highly elliptical orbit once only every 3600 years. Around 4,45,000 years ago, the highly intelligent Nefilim or Anunnaki race of the 12th planet descended on the earth, counted by them as the 7th planet from the outer-most edge of Solar System- and set up permanent earth stations in Mesopotamia. These were the Gods that once ruled our planet- a pantheon of 12 Gods who shaped earth’s sudden evolution: Anu, Enki, Enlil, Ninhursag,Marduk, Ishkur, Nannar, Ninurta, Nabu, Inanna, Utu & Nergel. Our lives and civilization is not evolved linearly from lesser life forms to monkeys to man as proposed by Darwin: it is the result of a planned scientific experimentation by these Gods.
The pioneer of such inter-planetary exploration was Enki, or Ea ; son of Anu – the chief deity of the 12th planet. After 50,000 years; Enlil – brother of Enki- is descended down on earth to establish the inter-planetary mission control center at Nippur, Mesopotamia; while Enki – synonymous with Greek God Poseidon – is given the charge of the Lower World – Southern Africa, to establish gold mining operations, and establish sea-routes from Africa to Mesopotamia, where the mined gold was refined into ingots at the Bad-Tibira metallurgical center in the fossil-energy rich Mesopotamia, and transported to the 12th planet from the spaceport at Sippar. About 1,00,000 years pass by, and the workers at the gold mining facility revolt and complain to Anu about the never-ending hard work in the dark depths of the mines . The Gods decided to create a robot-force to carry out the mundane work; and the homo-sapien was created by artificial fertilization of God’s male-sperm into the female-egg of an ape-woman, and the ovum of the homo-erectus was then implanted within the womb of a female God. The ‘thinking man’ was born.
After repeated experimentation, the perfect “model” – Adam & Eve were created, and thereafter mass production by genetic engineering was started, with Birth Goddesses. However, the mass produced perfect mankind was sterile and without the reproductive genes. Adam and Eve, it is reported, were the first homo sapiens who -with help from the friendly God Enki – were mutated from this deficient reproductive genes and were able to reproduce. This revolutionary event in man’s history is mythologically depicted as Adam & Eve’s tasting of the forbidden fruit of “knowledge” in the Garden of Eden, causing further friction among Enki and Enlil. Starting from this event, earth’s population multiplied boundlessly, and more-seriously, from the God’s view, rampant inter-mingling of the Gods and now-compatible Humans ensued. What infuriated Enlil & his assembly of Gods, was not any of moralistic concerns for the human species, but the degradation of the Gods themselves to nothing more than “flesh”. Enlil then ordered to completely wipe-off the human race by cutting off the food-supply – by introducing wide-ranging famines and starvation deaths.
Around 11000 BC, when the Gods –specially Enlil- were planning to completely destroy the human race by starving them to death, they foresaw the coincidence with a forth-coming greatest natural disaster on the planet – the massive Deluge caused by earth’s crustal displacement of the Antarctic ice layer, triggered by massive weight of ice layers, and influenced by the 12th planet’s next orbital fly-by across earth, marking the end of the Ice Age. The Global Floods is reported by every religious texts, and mankind’s dramatic survival in the post-Deluvial world.
Enky- however could not keep such a secret only to himself and provided all the design details to construct a submarine to Noah, who was able to sustain the Great Flood, and re-establish life after the floods receded. The Gods, fled the earth during the Deluge in spacecrafts, and when the earth was being devastated by unthinkably massive floods, were sky-born and pressed against the glass-windows of the rockets looking down, unable to control their emotions seeing the race they had created themselves getting wiped out. As the floods receded, the Gods found an unexpected sight – Noah & few others have been able to save themselves – and they returned to Noah’s abode and helped mankind to establish the first city at Kish, followed by flowering of “sudden” high civilizations at Mesopotamia, Egypt and at Indus Valley around 3600BC.
September 14, 2014
I have a hard time how to categorize this book: fiction or non-fiction?
It is definitely an interesting read. Zecharia Sitchin (1920-2010) spent most of his life understanding the Sumerian language and interpreting the cuneiform. His hypothesis is that men were created from the image and likeness of alien visitors some 400,000 years ago from the planet called Nibiru that is near Neptune and revolves our orbit in a strange slit-like fashion so astronomers have been missing it. So, if you are a religious person, you will definitely dismiss this book because it runs against the Biblical teaching that we were created in the image and likeness of God via Adam and Eve as mentioned in the first book of the Holy Bible, Genesis.
But what if the God of Adam and Eve actually came from an unknown planet? We don't know where God the Father actually came from, right? There is no telling about his story in the Bible. He just happens to be there and he created the world in 7 days. What if he and Jesus and Mary and all the angels and saints are not in heaven but in some planet that cannot be detected by even the most powerful telescope?
I used to think about it that way when I was a kid.
Now, I know better. Faith is something not to think about. Faith is something that you feel. It is in your core. It is in your soul. Although you think and you are ready to defend your belief (I do, always ready that's why I am a self-declared apologist lol), it is hard to argue with people who would like to always be rational when it comes to faith. There are just so many things in the Catholic faith that is not in the Bible because they are parts of the Catholic tradition: dogma, teachings that have already been part of the church for so many centuries that they are already "bible truths" so to speak.
Overall, this book feels like a non-fiction and I think it should be categorize as that. However, my Catholic faith still says that there is some fiction (fantasy) in it but I will not argue which parts.
That, actually, depends on what you believe is true.
It is definitely an interesting read. Zecharia Sitchin (1920-2010) spent most of his life understanding the Sumerian language and interpreting the cuneiform. His hypothesis is that men were created from the image and likeness of alien visitors some 400,000 years ago from the planet called Nibiru that is near Neptune and revolves our orbit in a strange slit-like fashion so astronomers have been missing it. So, if you are a religious person, you will definitely dismiss this book because it runs against the Biblical teaching that we were created in the image and likeness of God via Adam and Eve as mentioned in the first book of the Holy Bible, Genesis.
But what if the God of Adam and Eve actually came from an unknown planet? We don't know where God the Father actually came from, right? There is no telling about his story in the Bible. He just happens to be there and he created the world in 7 days. What if he and Jesus and Mary and all the angels and saints are not in heaven but in some planet that cannot be detected by even the most powerful telescope?
I used to think about it that way when I was a kid.
Now, I know better. Faith is something not to think about. Faith is something that you feel. It is in your core. It is in your soul. Although you think and you are ready to defend your belief (I do, always ready that's why I am a self-declared apologist lol), it is hard to argue with people who would like to always be rational when it comes to faith. There are just so many things in the Catholic faith that is not in the Bible because they are parts of the Catholic tradition: dogma, teachings that have already been part of the church for so many centuries that they are already "bible truths" so to speak.
Overall, this book feels like a non-fiction and I think it should be categorize as that. However, my Catholic faith still says that there is some fiction (fantasy) in it but I will not argue which parts.
That, actually, depends on what you believe is true.
September 21, 2010
This was terrible. It starts off well enough---think Eric von Daniken's Chariot of the Gods. Makes you think. And then Stitchin takes off on hugely conflicting tangents. On the one hand, he claims that the 12th planet took x thousands of years to orbit through the solar system compared to one year for Earth and that's why so much could be accomplished on Earth with, as the Bible claims, people living or ruling for thousands of years. Then he goes on to claim that the Earth itself was created when the 12th planet blew up.
Give me a break! I struggled to get through this boring and conflicting pack of stories and would have to be paid a heckuva lot of money to consider reading any more in the series.
Do not make me go there!
Give me a break! I struggled to get through this boring and conflicting pack of stories and would have to be paid a heckuva lot of money to consider reading any more in the series.
Do not make me go there!
June 16, 2014
This book by Zecharia Sitchin was a very lengthy and enjoyable read, especially towards the final 100 pages. This book is definitely for an open-minded type person that is knowledgeable in quite a few areas. The ideas and suggestions about aliens generally gets a lot of people worked up about how plausible or unbelievable they are, however Sitchin incorporates science, archaeology, the Bible, Sumerian creation stories, etc. into a beautifully woven understanding. When looking at stories of Noah, Adam & Eve, creation, etc., the uncanny resemblance of the Bible and Sumerian works is difficult to deny. The author does an excellent job of helping define an exact time table for all the dates starting with the arrival of the Nephillim and Enki, who bares strong resemblances to a mixture of YHWH and even Satan, helping to create man. Whether you dub this as ridiculous nonsense mixed in pseudo-science or take it as completely verifiable, this book is worth a read for people and at the very least would make a better summer blockbuster than the garbage I have seen over the years. I personally feel there is a bit of truth in what Sitchin has proposed, and not many people are cuneiform scholars, so it is difficult to verify or refute his claims.
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July 28, 2011Sumeria is the father off all our civilization. Mankinds alphabet, vocabulary, legends and science. The Sumerians also had vwery advanced knowledge of astronomy. They were a civilized high point amongst a time of very primitive people. Too advanced to be explained away by such a term as evolution or natural growth. Te author uses Sumerian legend and the bible to figure it all out, in those works lies the key. The twelve Gods are present in Sumerian,Mesopatamian, Greek and Roman Lore.
Who were these Sumerian gods? Where did they originate? Why are they so human like in their behavior? Due the cuneiforms etched in stone offer us any clues? Yes says Dr. Sitchin. They do. Back wheh the solar system was just forming and the planets had different names. A rogue planet called Nabiru or Marduk was sailing acoss the universerve when all of the sudden it got sucked into our solar system by a strong gravitational pull. As it sailed into our solar system it collided with a planet called Tiamat. The Planet broke in half leaving the other half to roam our solar system as Asteroids. These asteroids have an eliptical pattern. Nabiru also has an eliptical pattern. It does one revolution around our sun once every 3,600 E#arth Years.
Many years later inhabitants of Nabiru would visit Earth and settle their. These astronaughts from Nabiru were called Anunaki or Nephillim the fallen ones ones. They came to our planet after the ice age. THey found harsh conditions and the only area they could really settle was the plains of Mesopotamia. This plain was called Edin which meant plain. It was in Mesopatamia that they built spaceports for their space ships. There main puose was not settlement but mining for gold. Whcih was done off the Southern Horn of Africa. Many Anukaki worked in harsh work conditions until thjey finally rebelled. It was at this point that Anu the leader of planet Nabiru decided to vote in favor of the worker. THe anunaki then took indigenous Homo Erectus and performed genetic experiments. This created Homo-Sapeins the perfect worker. Later the flood would come leaving few human survivors. It was after this that the Anunaki chose to teach humans the rudiments of civilization.
Who were these Sumerian gods? Where did they originate? Why are they so human like in their behavior? Due the cuneiforms etched in stone offer us any clues? Yes says Dr. Sitchin. They do. Back wheh the solar system was just forming and the planets had different names. A rogue planet called Nabiru or Marduk was sailing acoss the universerve when all of the sudden it got sucked into our solar system by a strong gravitational pull. As it sailed into our solar system it collided with a planet called Tiamat. The Planet broke in half leaving the other half to roam our solar system as Asteroids. These asteroids have an eliptical pattern. Nabiru also has an eliptical pattern. It does one revolution around our sun once every 3,600 E#arth Years.
Many years later inhabitants of Nabiru would visit Earth and settle their. These astronaughts from Nabiru were called Anunaki or Nephillim the fallen ones ones. They came to our planet after the ice age. THey found harsh conditions and the only area they could really settle was the plains of Mesopotamia. This plain was called Edin which meant plain. It was in Mesopatamia that they built spaceports for their space ships. There main puose was not settlement but mining for gold. Whcih was done off the Southern Horn of Africa. Many Anukaki worked in harsh work conditions until thjey finally rebelled. It was at this point that Anu the leader of planet Nabiru decided to vote in favor of the worker. THe anunaki then took indigenous Homo Erectus and performed genetic experiments. This created Homo-Sapeins the perfect worker. Later the flood would come leaving few human survivors. It was after this that the Anunaki chose to teach humans the rudiments of civilization.
October 4, 2017
Riveting…plausible….intensely captivating.
Sitchin’s 12th Planet, the first book in the revolutionary Earth Chronicle series presents irrefutable documentary evidence of the existence of the mysterious planet Nibiru, home of the Nefilim/Anunnaki. After a lifetime of the research, Zecharia Sitchen weaves the story of man’s origins by means of biblical narrative, archaeology, mythology and ancient Sumerian and Babylonian clay –tablet texts, a story as told by the Gods themselves. He displays how Babylonian, Canaanite, Hittite, Hurrian’s, Aryans, Amorites, Egyptian and Greek civilizations are an exact replica of the early Sumerian civilization of when the Gods first landed on earth and established the first cities of ancient Mesopotamia 445,000 thousand years ago. These ancient astronauts upon the creation of their first colonies began mining the earth’s minerals with a critical priority on gold which was needed for their dying atmosphere on Nibiru. After an Anunnaki mutiny deriving from the laborious mining operations the leaders answered the plea, the result was the genetic manipulation of the savage Homo erectus with the genes of the Gods (Nefilim) resulting in the creation of a primitive worker, Homo sapiens - modern man.
A dazzling and amazing read, I recommend reading this book with an open-mind and let go of any tendencies to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s preexisting beliefs or hypotheses (confirmation bias).
Genesis 6:4: “There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.”
Sitchin’s 12th Planet, the first book in the revolutionary Earth Chronicle series presents irrefutable documentary evidence of the existence of the mysterious planet Nibiru, home of the Nefilim/Anunnaki. After a lifetime of the research, Zecharia Sitchen weaves the story of man’s origins by means of biblical narrative, archaeology, mythology and ancient Sumerian and Babylonian clay –tablet texts, a story as told by the Gods themselves. He displays how Babylonian, Canaanite, Hittite, Hurrian’s, Aryans, Amorites, Egyptian and Greek civilizations are an exact replica of the early Sumerian civilization of when the Gods first landed on earth and established the first cities of ancient Mesopotamia 445,000 thousand years ago. These ancient astronauts upon the creation of their first colonies began mining the earth’s minerals with a critical priority on gold which was needed for their dying atmosphere on Nibiru. After an Anunnaki mutiny deriving from the laborious mining operations the leaders answered the plea, the result was the genetic manipulation of the savage Homo erectus with the genes of the Gods (Nefilim) resulting in the creation of a primitive worker, Homo sapiens - modern man.
A dazzling and amazing read, I recommend reading this book with an open-mind and let go of any tendencies to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s preexisting beliefs or hypotheses (confirmation bias).
Genesis 6:4: “There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.”
August 21, 2013
One of the problems of most historic disciplines has been tunnel vision. A microscopic focus on one particular area, region, problem and no grand horizon or synthesis of other disciplines or knowledge. It is akin to focusing on one small tree, without taking into consideration the forest in which it sits, the region in which the forest hides, or the circumstances that first caused the seeds from a distant forest to be replicated in that region...
In some instances, the search for knowledge has also been hampered by regional, national, or intellectual bias. The areas were divided into false paradigms of "civilized" and "primitive" and false assumptions of the lineal, but ever increasing, level of cultural development.
As various regions of the globe have begun to examine their own past, through their greater understandig of their past (via language, customs, etc.) it had become apparent that societies rise and fall with regularity. All have been barbaric and primitive several times. These episodes are broken by war, natural disaster, and other calamity.
Our own demise is but a calamity or two away. It then appears to be the upmost hubris to make claims to know everything and very apparent we know next to nothing...
A challening and provocative book but highly recommended for those wishing to see a "big picture" image of the progress and retrenchment of civilization and to wonder as to the meaning and source of its commonalities.
In some instances, the search for knowledge has also been hampered by regional, national, or intellectual bias. The areas were divided into false paradigms of "civilized" and "primitive" and false assumptions of the lineal, but ever increasing, level of cultural development.
As various regions of the globe have begun to examine their own past, through their greater understandig of their past (via language, customs, etc.) it had become apparent that societies rise and fall with regularity. All have been barbaric and primitive several times. These episodes are broken by war, natural disaster, and other calamity.
Our own demise is but a calamity or two away. It then appears to be the upmost hubris to make claims to know everything and very apparent we know next to nothing...
A challening and provocative book but highly recommended for those wishing to see a "big picture" image of the progress and retrenchment of civilization and to wonder as to the meaning and source of its commonalities.
July 14, 2022
12. Gezegen: Dünya Tarihçesi 1-Dünya Tarihcesinin İlk Kitabı
The 12th Planet, 1976
Zecharia Sitchin (1920-2010)
okuduğum bazı farklı kaynaklardan, insanlığın uygarlık yolculuğunu şöyle bir kronolojiyle not almışım:
ilk insan Vega'da 6 milyon yıl,
Hiborniya/Hyperborea medeniyetinin kuruluşu,
Dünyada ilk insan, Hiborniya'da 2 milyon yıl,
Lemurya/Mu/Mukalia imparatorluğu, M.Ö 900.000-25.000,
Atlantis, Yü (agarta-şambala), Libya/Mısır kolonilerinin kuruluşu, M.Ö 500.000-11.000,
Atlantisin Lemuryayı yok edişi MÖ 25.000,
Atlantisin yok oluşu, M.Ö: 11.000
kaynak:
-Lemurya Yolu,
-Galaktik insan,
-Ra bilgileri 1-2-3-4
-Kaskopya celseleri 1994-2014.
The 12th Planet, 1976
Zecharia Sitchin (1920-2010)
okuduğum bazı farklı kaynaklardan, insanlığın uygarlık yolculuğunu şöyle bir kronolojiyle not almışım:
ilk insan Vega'da 6 milyon yıl,
Hiborniya/Hyperborea medeniyetinin kuruluşu,
Dünyada ilk insan, Hiborniya'da 2 milyon yıl,
Lemurya/Mu/Mukalia imparatorluğu, M.Ö 900.000-25.000,
Atlantis, Yü (agarta-şambala), Libya/Mısır kolonilerinin kuruluşu, M.Ö 500.000-11.000,
Atlantisin Lemuryayı yok edişi MÖ 25.000,
Atlantisin yok oluşu, M.Ö: 11.000
kaynak:
-Lemurya Yolu,
-Galaktik insan,
-Ra bilgileri 1-2-3-4
-Kaskopya celseleri 1994-2014.
November 1, 2012
Why did I do this to myself.
August 17, 2012
I found this book quite boring, even compared to von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods. The introduction went on for a looong time, although I suppose that was a necessity. I knew hardly anything about the fertile crescent and its civilisations (sumer, arcadia, etc) before reading, and I consider myself quite well read in stuff like that. It’s quite indicative of the author that the introduction, despite its length was actually more fun than the literature-analysis proper. Basically I found most of Sitchin’s points to be taking his sources too literally. Three quotes to illustrate:
{great introduction and intriguing suggestions}
This pertains not only to the very sophisticated astronomical methods that were used - who in ancient Sumer really needed to establish a celestial equator, for example? - but also to a variety of elaborate texts that dealt with the measurement of distances between stars.
...
Astronomical information from ancient times contained in hundreds of detailed texts lists celestial bodies, neatly arranged by their celestial order or by the gods or the months or the lands or the constellations with which they were associated. One such text, analyzed by Ernst F. Weidner (Handbuch der Babylonischen Astronomie), has come to be called "The Great Star List." It listed in five columns tens of celestial bodies as related to one another, to months, countries, and deities. Another text listed cor-rectly the main stars in the zodiacal constellations. A text indexed as B.M.86378 arranged (in its unbroken part) seventy-one celestial bodies by their location in the heavens; and so on and on and on.
{poor follow-through over-analysing texts}
“When to the Primeval Source for assembly you shall ascend, There shall be a restplace for the night to receive you all. When from the Heavens for assembly you shall descend, There shall be a restplace for the night to receive you all.”
Realizing that such two-way travel between Earth and the Heavenly Abode was both contemplated and practiced, the people of Sumer did not exile their gods to distant galaxies. The Abode of the Gods, their legacy discloses, was within our own solar system.
{ovverrr-anaalyssse}
Since other epithets described Marduk as the "Great Heavenly Body" and the "One Who Illumines," the theory was advanced that Marduk was a Babylonian Sun God, parallel to the Egyptian god Ra, whom the scholars also considered a Sun God. Texts describing Marduk as he "who scans the heights of the distant heavens . . . wearing a halo whose brilliance is awe-inspiring" appeared to support this theoiy. But the same text continued to say that "he surveys the lands like Shamash [the Sun]." If Marduk was in some respects akin to the Sun, he could not, of course, be the Sun.
September 30, 2015
12. Gezegen, çoktan beri merak ettiğim, gökten gelen tanrılar, düşen melekler ve dünya üzerinde aklımın almadığı bazı şeyleri biraz daha anlaşılır kılmak üzere Mehmet Mollaosmanoğlu tarafından tavsiye edildi. Yıllar önce okuduğum ve hayran kaldığım Tanrıların Arabaları kitabının ardından ufkum iyice açıldı.
Kitap dünyamızın çok ama çok uzun zaman önce Nefilimler adı verilen bir ırk tarafından sömürge gezegen olarak seçildiğini, uzun süre dünyamızda faaliyet gösterdikten sonra, ağır işlerde kullanmak üzere insan ırkını yarattığını ve sonra çeşitli nedenlerle Tanrı Enlil'in bizden kurtulmak isterken kardeşi Enki'nin bizi nasıl savunduğunu anlatıyor. Yazılı tarihin Sümerliler ile ortaya çıkmasından öte, dünya üzerinde ilk yaratılan insanların (homo sapiens) bizzat Sümerliler olduğunu öne sürüyor. Bunu ispatlamak için tabletler (ipad değil, kil tablet), kazılar, Eski Ahit, Tevrat ve İncil gibi kitaplardan yararlanıyor. Ayrıca tanrı, adak, ibadet gibi kavramların ne şekilde ortaya çıktığı, insana tarımı, hayvan evcilleştirmeyi kim, nasıl öğretti bunlardan da bahsediliyor.
http://ucalisan.blogspot.com.tr/2015/...
Kitap dünyamızın çok ama çok uzun zaman önce Nefilimler adı verilen bir ırk tarafından sömürge gezegen olarak seçildiğini, uzun süre dünyamızda faaliyet gösterdikten sonra, ağır işlerde kullanmak üzere insan ırkını yarattığını ve sonra çeşitli nedenlerle Tanrı Enlil'in bizden kurtulmak isterken kardeşi Enki'nin bizi nasıl savunduğunu anlatıyor. Yazılı tarihin Sümerliler ile ortaya çıkmasından öte, dünya üzerinde ilk yaratılan insanların (homo sapiens) bizzat Sümerliler olduğunu öne sürüyor. Bunu ispatlamak için tabletler (ipad değil, kil tablet), kazılar, Eski Ahit, Tevrat ve İncil gibi kitaplardan yararlanıyor. Ayrıca tanrı, adak, ibadet gibi kavramların ne şekilde ortaya çıktığı, insana tarımı, hayvan evcilleştirmeyi kim, nasıl öğretti bunlardan da bahsediliyor.
http://ucalisan.blogspot.com.tr/2015/...
September 2, 2011
The first book in Zecharia Sitchin's, the Earth Chronicles, remains as controversial today as in the year 1972 of its release. The author's fascinating claims of ancient astronaut visits to Earth, a twelfth planet in our solar system and the origin of the human species are incredible but supported by ancient texts discovered in Mesopotamia dating to circa 4000 BCE. Intertwining these ancient clay tablets, of which Sitchin could proudly claim the largest private collection thereof, with Biblical texts from the Old Testament, the author spins a marvelous tale of interplanetary travel, family rivalries, and an ancient quest for gold. Defined as a nonfiction piece, readers of this classic can enjoy the book as a wonderful story, full of adventure, or as an alternative history to what science teaches in schools today. I highly recommend it either way.
June 26, 2012
I enjoyed reading the book and I find it quite fascinating.
It would be a wonderful dream to go back to the past and really see the past. I have so many questions and wouldn't it be wonderful to travel to the past and go to the future to see if it really happen again?
It is definitely interesting...if adam and eve was created. How do the other ethnicity occur??
I truly believe the past is more advance in some area of the fields compare to this generation.
There are some parts in the books that fits some of the questions I had in the past and it makes me wonder.
To read this book you should be open-minded.
It would be a wonderful dream to go back to the past and really see the past. I have so many questions and wouldn't it be wonderful to travel to the past and go to the future to see if it really happen again?
It is definitely interesting...if adam and eve was created. How do the other ethnicity occur??
I truly believe the past is more advance in some area of the fields compare to this generation.
There are some parts in the books that fits some of the questions I had in the past and it makes me wonder.
To read this book you should be open-minded.
August 4, 2013
The world mythology aspects to this book were great, and in itself make this worth reading. I suppose the scenario is plausible, although I have misgivings about certain aspects, including the technology, and the possible cause of the Deluge. All in all this was a fun book to read, but if Sitchin was correct, it would only mean that the bible, and all the world mythologies and gods and goddesses, were not really divinely inspired after all, nor were these beings ever well intended in regards to our well being. I suppose that fits with all the smiting, seductions, angels of wrath, wars, exclusivity etc, that saturate religions and faiths.
December 27, 2020
Regarded as total pseudoscience, and reading it makes it sound no less so. Completely unjustified speculation about implausible aliens and astronomy based on such ingenious observations as "Australopithecus and Neanderthal Man look the same to me" and "This ancient picture shows inexplicably accurate knowledge of the number and order of the planets of the solar system, except that both are wrong, but that just proves they used to be different!"
Entertaining enough, but if you're looking for knowledge about the past, you're entirely in the wrong place.
Entertaining enough, but if you're looking for knowledge about the past, you're entirely in the wrong place.
September 10, 2018
Intriguing sourced information on the Nephilim who according to ancient text from antiquity created civilizations and mankind, which modern science is also in agreement with. Their ancient cultures of Sumer and Mesopotamia begot the ancient civilizations that we know of today such as Egypt. How the ancient Sumerian text and those of the bible are in sync with each other on mankind's origins from the Sons of God the Annunaki which actually means the fallen ones. Very interesting read.
May 22, 2019
Huge info dump of translations. Got interesting near the end so I will continue with series...just not now.
August 27, 2017
How did civilization begin seemingly out of nowhere? And how did humanity evolve so fast in comparison to what had happened before? These are the questions that Zecharia Sitchin set to answer in his book, The 12th Planet, in which he purports that he found said answers in cuneiform text dating from time of Sumerians over 5000 years ago.
Sitchin begins by going over the spurts of cultural development that lead to the beginning of Sumerian civilization and how modern man appeared so soon in terms of evolution to even develop the civilization that we are a part of. Sitchin then describes all the firsts that Sumer did in, many of them were not continuous since then through to our day, and then asked where the Sumerians learned this knowledge to he responded that the Sumerians learned it from the gods. Using the Sumerian Creation myth, Enuma Elis, Sitchin details the beginnings of the solar system including how a rogue planetoid entered the developing solar system and began circling the sun in a 3,600 year long orbit. This planet, named Nibiru, created havoc in the early solar system resulting in the asteroid belt and Earth, seeded with the building blocks of life from this planet. Eventually humanlike beings eventually developed technology to explore the solar system and find Earth habitable and with resources they needed. These beings, the Annunaki or Nephilim, began travelling to Earth and mining for resources but bringing with them their own politics and grudges that eventually led to the “creation” of modern humans then the Deluge in an effort to destroy them. But in the aftermath were thankful that some survived so they could help them rebuild their operations.
Sitchin’s work was one of a number “ancient astronaut” books throughout 1970s and his influence within the community is immeasurable still almost a decade after his death. Yet, this book is rife with many scientific errors related to astrophysics, celestial mechanics, cosmology, and plate tectonics to name a few and is out-of-date in human evolutionary thought. While those are big drawbacks, Sitchin’s focus on Sumerian & Akkadian cuneiform on the reported Annunaki influence on early Earth and human history is very interesting and thought-provoking even if you disbelieve it. This focus on Sumerian myth, or record of history, is the most important part of the book as well as it’s relation to other mythological traditions along with the Bible.
While many might discount this book because of the incorrect scientific propositions put forward and disagree with the “ancient astronaut” theory. The best argument for reading Zecharia Sitchin’s The 12th Planet is the focus on Sumerian history and myth, which is one of the oldest and little known compared to many other cultures. Agree or disagree with Sitchin, this book is just one you have to say that you’ve read.
Sitchin begins by going over the spurts of cultural development that lead to the beginning of Sumerian civilization and how modern man appeared so soon in terms of evolution to even develop the civilization that we are a part of. Sitchin then describes all the firsts that Sumer did in, many of them were not continuous since then through to our day, and then asked where the Sumerians learned this knowledge to he responded that the Sumerians learned it from the gods. Using the Sumerian Creation myth, Enuma Elis, Sitchin details the beginnings of the solar system including how a rogue planetoid entered the developing solar system and began circling the sun in a 3,600 year long orbit. This planet, named Nibiru, created havoc in the early solar system resulting in the asteroid belt and Earth, seeded with the building blocks of life from this planet. Eventually humanlike beings eventually developed technology to explore the solar system and find Earth habitable and with resources they needed. These beings, the Annunaki or Nephilim, began travelling to Earth and mining for resources but bringing with them their own politics and grudges that eventually led to the “creation” of modern humans then the Deluge in an effort to destroy them. But in the aftermath were thankful that some survived so they could help them rebuild their operations.
Sitchin’s work was one of a number “ancient astronaut” books throughout 1970s and his influence within the community is immeasurable still almost a decade after his death. Yet, this book is rife with many scientific errors related to astrophysics, celestial mechanics, cosmology, and plate tectonics to name a few and is out-of-date in human evolutionary thought. While those are big drawbacks, Sitchin’s focus on Sumerian & Akkadian cuneiform on the reported Annunaki influence on early Earth and human history is very interesting and thought-provoking even if you disbelieve it. This focus on Sumerian myth, or record of history, is the most important part of the book as well as it’s relation to other mythological traditions along with the Bible.
While many might discount this book because of the incorrect scientific propositions put forward and disagree with the “ancient astronaut” theory. The best argument for reading Zecharia Sitchin’s The 12th Planet is the focus on Sumerian history and myth, which is one of the oldest and little known compared to many other cultures. Agree or disagree with Sitchin, this book is just one you have to say that you’ve read.
July 17, 2013
Sono sempre più, ormai, gli studiosi e gli scienziati che sostengono la teoria degli antichi astronauti convalidando, almeno in parte, le ipotesi di Sitchin.
Dalle tavole Sumere fino ai reperti archeologici, dagli antichi testi (Sacra Bibbia, compresa)... un viaggio verso il nostro passato che potrebbe essere stato "alternativo" a quello che ci hanno raccontato.
Non ho iniziato queste letture per smentirlo o credergli ciecamente, ma per ascoltare un nuovo e diverso punto di vista. E l'ho trovato estremamente interessante.
L'unico difetto, se così si può definire, è che ogni tanto è dispersivo nel narrare gli avvenimenti.
Porterò a termine il ciclo "Cronache terrestri" di cui questo è il primo volume. Per ora, promosso e consigliato.
Dalle tavole Sumere fino ai reperti archeologici, dagli antichi testi (Sacra Bibbia, compresa)... un viaggio verso il nostro passato che potrebbe essere stato "alternativo" a quello che ci hanno raccontato.
Non ho iniziato queste letture per smentirlo o credergli ciecamente, ma per ascoltare un nuovo e diverso punto di vista. E l'ho trovato estremamente interessante.
L'unico difetto, se così si può definire, è che ogni tanto è dispersivo nel narrare gli avvenimenti.
Porterò a termine il ciclo "Cronache terrestri" di cui questo è il primo volume. Per ora, promosso e consigliato.
February 10, 2020
Ummmm.........no. The entire premise is based upon the Summarian Epic of Creation. Mr Sitchen pretty much says, "Imagine all of the Gods are actually the planets", and VIOLA! a boring book. The whole book is based off of presumtion.
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