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NIBIRU - Ancient Documents III |
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| Diego Antolini |
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Before closing this section we deem it mandatory to illustrate, in brief, the study and the researches of Zecharia Sitchin about Nibiru. In his book, "The Twelfth Planet", he connects the Sumerian mythology with that of Greece (we should talk, more appropriately, of cosmology): in the beginning there was chaos; then Gea (Earth) and Uranus (the Heavens) were created. They begot twelve Titans (six males and six females).
"...It also appears that the number twelve was a requirement...There could be no more than twelve Olympians, but no fewer than twelve, either. The original Olympus was described by the Odyssey as lying in the "pure upper air." The original Twelve Great Gods were Gods of Heaven who had come down to Earth; and they represented the twelve celestial bodies in the 'vault of Heaven.'..."
The Latin names the Romans gave to the Greek gods confirm this astral association: Gaea = Earth, Ermes = Mercury, Aphrodite = Venus, Ares = Mars, Cronus = Saturn, Zeus = Jupiter.
Sitchin then talks about the Greek civilization, placing it geographically into the island of Crete, where the Minoan civilization flourished. On that island the people worshiped the bull under the mythological form of the Minotaur:
"...Archaeological finds have confirmed the extensive Minoan worship of the bull, and some cylinder seals depict the bull as a divine being accompanied by a cross symbol, which stood for some unidentified star or planet...."
This leads to interpret the worshiping of the bull as the terrestrial symbol of the constellation of Taurus, assuming that the cult stemmed from some event occurred "when the Sun's spring equinox appeared in that constellation, circa 4000 B.C."
The Greek Pantheon's roots are to be found, according to Sitchin, in Asia Minor.
According to the Veda (various compositions regarding the deity), the god all belonged to only one family:
"...The gods Rahu ("demon") and Ketu ("disconnected") were once a single celestial body...but the God of Storms hurled his flaming weapon at him, cutting him into two parts - Rahu, the "Dragon's Head," which unceasingly traverses the heavens in search of vengeance, and Ketu, the 'Dragon's Tail.'..."
The Hindu Pantheon, in the same way as the Greece, was composed by 12 principal gods. Sitchin highlights the connection between the mythology of those civilizations found near Mesopotamia, such as the Greeks and the Hindu, and the Sumerians cosmology. The relationship between the gods and the planets is so important to represent the key, says Sitchin, to unravel the mystery of the creation of our Solar System.
"...THE SUGGESTION that Earth was visited by intelligent beings from elsewhere postulates the existence of another celestial body upon which intelligent beings established a civilization more advanced than ours...The Sumerians accepted the existence of such a "Heavenly Abode," a "pure place," a "primeval abode." While Enlil, Enki, and Ninhursag went to Earth and made their home upon it..."
The Sumerian texts clearly state that the Mesopotamian people saw their gods "landing" on Earth, and then going back up to their "Heavenly Abodes" at will; this can only meant that these gods didn't come from far away galaxies but, rather, they were coming from within our Solar System.
Sitchin continues outlining how the Sumerians were absolutely certain that our Solar System was composed of twelve planets (they included the Sun and the Moon as well), and that the Twelfth (or Tenth) Planet was the place of origin of the Anunnaki and the Nephilim.
"...We must remember that up to 1871 [date of the discovery of Uranus] was believed that our Solar System was composed by only seven planets including the sun and the moon. The earth was not included in the count because it was set at the center, while the other celestial bodies were orbiting around it [geocentric vision of the Universe]...
Franza Kugler analyzed some Chaldean texts finding 'mulmul ul-shu 12' (mulmul is a belt of 12), ten of which formed an independent group..."
According to Sitchin, Mulmul was our Solar System.
Again, on the importance of number twelve among the people in the Ancient World:
"To explain the three Chaldean 'ways' and the list of 36 celestial bodies, the Greek scholar Diodorus stated that 'of those heavenly gods, twelve hold the utmost authority...'
Several studies show that the division of the year in twelve months was connected since the beginning with twelve great gods; that the twelve months are deeply linked to the twelve constellations, and that both originated from twelve main celestial bodies..."
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Although number ten is the most commonly used unit of measurement, says
Diodorus, the number twelve was the foundation for al the celestial and
divine questions for long time. Through the reading of the Sumerian
tablets, and by deciphering the star maps and other astronomical
figures, Sitchin reasserts that civilizations from all over the world
looked at the sky and, in certain periods of time, expected cataclysms and catastrophes to fall upon them. These events coincided with the
arrival of Nibiru:
"...Indeed, all the peoples of the ancient
world considered the periodic nearing of the Twelfth Planet as a sign of
upheavals, great changes, and new eras...R. Campbell Thompson (Reports
of the Magicians and Astronomers of Nineveh and Babylon) reproduced
several such texts, which trace the progress of the planet as it "ringed
the station of Jupiter" and arrived at the point of crossing, Nibiru,"
"When from the station of Jupiter"
the Planet passes towards the west,
there will be a time of dwelling in security.
Kindly peace will descend on the land.
When from the station of Jupiter
the Planet increases in brilliance
and in the Zodiac of Cancer will become Nibiru...
...the king of Akkad will grow powerful.
When Nibiru culminates...
...The gods will receive prayers and hear supplications."
Although
this fragment sounds rather mild, there are other which speak of heavy
rains and flooding around the earth, and other upheavals caused by
Nibiru's intense gravitational pull:
"When the Planet..."
...will grow brighter,
there will be floods and rains...
When Nibiru attains its perigee,
the gods will give peace...
...Rains and floods will come."
We
believe these passages to hint on something not entirely comforting,
especially the first one, if we consider their implicit meaning: the
sentences "...the gods will receive prayers and hear supplications..."
and "the gods will give peace..." if read through the effects that the
arrival of Nibiru would bring with it, does not leave much room for
positivism. What does "the gods will give peace" means in connection
with upcoming catastrophes and cataclysms?
Zecharia Sitchin touches upon the relationship Nibiru-Earth as an inter-subjective bond:
"...Mesopotamian
texts exalted the [Twelfth] planet's radiance and suggested that it
could be seen even at daytime: "visible at sunrise, disappearing from
view at sunset..."
...the Mesopotamian and biblical sources present
strong evidence that the orbital period of the Twelfth Planet is 3,600
years..."
"...The Sumerians believed that Nibiru was a 'living'
planet. Life, therefore, was created within the external farther reaches
of our Solar System.
Nibiru arrived, looking like a reddish planet with its own which generated its own heat."
But what about the evidence?
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Sitchin
writes of the existence of a document which would contain a message
from deep space. In it, a complete description of the Earth's position,
the coordinates and the direction to reach Earth is explained..
"...such
extraordinary evidence does exist....The evidence is a clay tablet
found in the ruins of the Royal Library in Nineveh. Like many of the
other tablets, it is undoubtedly an Assyrian copy of an earlier Sumerian
tablet. Unlike others, it is a circular disc; and though some cuneiform
signs on it are excellently preserved, the few scholars who took on the
task of deciphering the tablet ended by calling it "the most puzzling
Mesopotamian document...the disc, which is divided into eight
segments...bears geometric shapes unseen on any other ancient artifact,
designed and drawn with considerable precision. They include arrows,
triangles, intersecting lines, and even an ellipse - a
geometric-mathematical curve previously assumed to have been unknown in
ancient times..."
The names of the celestial bodies carved into
the eight segments of the disc prove the astronomical function of the
tablet. The disc has been analyzed with a more or less degree of
accuracy in the past, giving unsatisfactory results, partly because of
the superficiality of the analyses, and partly because of the dogmatic
approach used by scholars.
Sitchin's interpretation, instead, seems to reveal something more:
"...Ernst
F. Weidner, first in an article published in 1912 (Babyloniaca: "Zur
Baby-lonischen Astronomic") and then in his major textbook Handbuch der
Babylonischen Astronomie (1915), thoroughly analyzed the tablet, only to
conclude that it did not make sense. His bafflement was caused by the
fact that while the geometric shapes and the names of stars or planets
written within the various segments were legible or intelligible (even
if their meaning or purpose was unclear), the inscriptions along the
lines (running at 45-degree angles to each other) just did not make
sense. They were, invariably, a series of repeated syllables in the
tablet's Assyrian language..."
Sitchin, however, reading the disc
as Sumerian syllable-words, gave meaning to such repetitions, revealing
thus the nature of the document: a route map designed to guide and
coordinate a landing on Planet Earth:
"...The line represents a
route...The starting point is the triangle on the left, representing the
farther reaches of the solar system; the target area is on the right,
where all the segments converge toward the landing point..."
Next,
Sitchin goes on in reading the other segments of the disc, interpreting
them as planetary coordinates (ascending and descending). According to
Sitchin, the Nibiruans drew landing points and routes in order to
undertake periodical voyages to Planet Earth, when Nibiru was close to
it, that is, within the orbital point intersecting our Solar System (the
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Sitchin elaborated a chronology of the event occurred on Earth before the Great Deluge:
445,000
The Nefilim, led by Enki, arrive on Earth from the Twelfth Planet.
Eridu - Earth Station is established in southern Mesopotamia.
430,000 The great ice sheets begin to recede. A hospitable climate in the Near East.
415,000 Enki moves inland, establishes Larsa.
400,000
The great interglacial period spreads globally. Enlil arrives on Earth,
establishes Nippur as Mission Control Center. Enki establishes sea
routes to southern Africa, organizes gold-mining operations.
360,000
The Nefilim establish Bad-Tibira as their metallurgical center for
smelting and refining. Sippar, the spaceport, and other cities of the
gods are built.
300,000 The Anunnaki mutiny. Man - the "Primitive Worker" - is fashioned by Enki and Ninhursag.
250,000 "Early Homo sapiens" multiply, spread to other continents.
200,000 Life on Earth regresses during new glacial period.
100,000 Climate warms again. The sons of the gods take the daughters of Man as wives.
77,000 Ubartutu/Lamech, a human of divine parentage, assumes the reign in Shuruppak under the patronage of Ninhursag.
75,000 The "accursation of Earth" - a new ice ago begins. Regressive types of Man roam Earth.
49,000 The reign of Ziusudra ("Noah"), a "faithful servant" of Enki, begins.
38,000
The harsh climatic period of the "seven passings" begins to decimate
Mankind. Europe's Neanderthal Man disappears; only Cro-Magnon Man (based
in the Near East) survives. Enlil, disenchanted with Mankind, seeks its
demise.
13,000 The Nefilim, aware of the impending tidal wave
that will be triggered by the nearing Twelfth Planet, vow to let Mankind
perish.
The Deluge sweeps over Earth, abruptly ending the ice age.
Zecharia
Sitchin observed that the periodical return of Nibiru into our Solar
System marked the crucial events of post-diluvian humanity (three
intervals so far, each 3,600 years apart)
1. Agriculture, circa 11,000 B.C.,
2. The Neolithic culture, circa 7500 B.C.
3. The sudden civilization of 3800 B.C.
Following Sitchin's trail, then, is Nibiru's arrival bound to happen in AD 3,400?
- END OF PART III -
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