Zecharia Sitchin: Sumeria, the Anunnaki & Nibiru

We regret to inform you that Zecharia Sitchin passed away on the morning of October 9th, 2010.

A small, private family funeral was held the next day.

“That Mankind’s progression from Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) to Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) to Neolithic (New Stone Age) and then the great Sumerian civilization, had occurred in intervals of about 3600 years is a fact.

That Anu visited Earth, approved the grant of civilization (knowledge, science, technology) to Mankind is certain.

But as I have tried to explain in my recent Seminars (though not yet in a full-length book), the visits to Earth and the nearing (at what is called perihelion) of Nibiru do NOT coincide.

This is a point of immense significance, which those who have only read
my first book somehow ignore.” – Sitchin

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Excerpted and edited from “Interview with Zecharia Sitchin” from CONNECTING LINK issue 17

Zecharia Sitchin was born in Russia and raised in Palestine, where he acquired a profound knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew, other Semitic and European languages, the Old Testament, and the history and archeology of the Near East.

He is one of the few scholars who is able to read and understand Sumerian.

Sitchin attended and graduated from the University of London, majoring in economic history.

A leading journalist and editor in Israel for many years, he now lives and writes in New York.

His books have been widely translated, converted to Braille for the blind, and featured on radio and television.

The first book, THE TWELFTH PLANET, refers to the probability that there is one more planet in our solar system.

That there are twelve members, counting sun, moon and ten planets, not the nine we know of.

That people from that planet came to earth almost half a million years ago and did many of the things about which we read in the Bible, in the book of Genesis.

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But that was not my starting point at all.

My starting point was, going back to my childhood and schooldays, the puzzle of who were the Nephilim, that are mentioned in Genesis, Chapter six, as the sons of the gods who married the daughters of Man in the days before the great flood, the Deluge.

The word Nephilim is commonly, or used to be, translated giants…

Those were the days when there were giants upon the earth. I questioned this interpretation as a child at school, and I was reprimanded for it because the teacher said:

“You don’t question the Bible.”

But I did not question the Bible; I questioned an interpretation that seemed inaccurate, because the word, Nephilim (or Nefilim), the name by which those extraordinary beings, “the sons of the gods” were known, means literally, “Those who have come down to earth from the heavens.”

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So, what did it mean?

This led me to biblical studies and then to mythology and archeology and all the other subjects, including the study of ancient languages, which became my education and avocation.

So, my research and my decision to write about it started with a question:

Who were the Nephilim?

All the ancient scriptures, the Bible, the Greek myths, the Egyptian myth and texts, the pyramid texts, everything, led to the Sumerians, whose civilization was the first known one — six thousand years ago.

I focused on Sumer, the source of these legends and myths and texts and information.

I learned to read the cuneiform Sumerian texts and came upon their persistent and repeated statements that those beings, whom the Sumerians called Anunnaki, came to earth from a planet called Nibiru.

The planet was designated by the sign of the cross and Nibiru meant “planet of crossing.”

The question thus shifted in my research from who were the Nefilim and the Anunnaki, to what planet is Nibiru?

Forced to become proficient in astronomy, I had to learn enough about it to deal with the subject. I found out that the scholars were divided.

Some said it (Nibiru) was Mars, which of course was described and known to the ancient people, and others said, no, it was Jupiter.

Those who said it was Jupiter and not Mars, had very convincing arguments why it could not be Mars. And those who said it was Mars and not Jupiter had very convincing arguments also.

Being able to go directly to those ancient sources, clay tablets and cuneiform scripts, it seemed to me that neither was right, because the description of Nibiru and its position when it nears the Sun indicated that it could not be Mars, and it could not be Jupiter.

And then one night I woke up with the answer:

Of course, it is one more planet that comes periodically between Mars and Jupiter; it is sometimes nearer to Mars and sometimes nearer to Jupiter, but it isn’t Mars or Jupiter.

Once I realized that this was the answer that there is one more planet, everything else fell into place.

The meaning of the Mesopotamian Epic of Creation on which the first chapters of Genesis are based and all details about the Anunnaki, who they were, who their leaders were, how they traveled from their planet to Earth, and how they splashed down in the Persian Gulf and about their first settlement, their leaders and so on and so on everything became clear!

The Sumerians had immense knowledge.

They knew about Uranus and Neptune and described them, and they knew about Pluto.

They were proficient in mathematics, and, in many respects, their knowledge surpassed modern times.

They said,

“All that we know was told to us by the Anunnaki.”

The first book’s innovation, its impact, was the realization that the ancient peoples, beginning with the Sumerians, knew of and described and spoke of one more planet in our solar system.

It was not a discovery like that of Pluto in the 1930s (of which the Sumerians knew six thousand years ago).

Pluto was a very interesting astronomical discovery; textbooks had to be revised.

But to the average person, the man on the street, it really made no difference.

Nibiru, on the other hand was a different story.

If Niburu exists, (and this is the planet that astronomers nowadays call Planet X) then the Anunnaki exist.

So the existence of Nibiru is not a matter of just one more globe in our solar system.

This is different, because if Nibiru exists, and the Anunnaki exist, then the Sumerian claim that they come back to our vicinity every 3,600 years, at which times in the past they gave us civilization, then we are not alone and there are more advanced people than us in our solar system.

Who knows how they will feel about us when they come back?

Will they decide to give us more knowledge again, and more technical advancement and more civilization, or will they decide that we are no good, as happened at the time of the Deluge, and try to get rid of us?

Book five, Genesis Revisited, a companion book, was really written because in the fifteen years since the first book was published, there have been many scientific advances, especially in astronomy and all the discoveries of the Voyager Spacecraft, in geology, biology, the discovery of DNA, the ability to create babies in a test tube, linguistics, and [in unlocking the secrets of] the origin of languages.

Each such discovery corroborated what the Sumerians had known and had written, and therefore fully confirmed what I said in my first book.

And each time there was such a discovery I would literally jump out of my seat and say,

“My god, this is exactly what the Sumerians said six-thousand years ago!”

If you read the relevant page in the Twelfth Planet, you will see that I quote a Sumerian text that says exactly how the Adam, the first Homo sapiens, was created.

You will see that this is a process that today we call the test tube baby process.

I quote a text that describes Uranus and Neptune as Voyager 2 saw them in 1986 and 1989.

I finally sat down and put together all this scientific evidence, all these scientific discoveries to show how they match and corroborate ancient knowledge.

Hence the subtitle of Genesis Revisited: Is Modern Science Catching Up with Ancient Knowledge?

So, this is a review of the five books.

The knowledge that we have acquired corroborates what the Sumerians knew six thousand years ago.

You wonder how is it possible, how could they know?

How, as another example, could their symbol of the entwined serpents, that we still use today to denote medicine and healing and biology have been, 6,000 years ago, the symbol of Enki, who engaged in genetic engineering to bring about the Adam?

That was a symbol of their DNA, the double helix of DNA.

Now, who were the Anunnaki and where were they from?

The Sumerians say,

“They came here from Nibiru.”

And you say,

“What is Nibiru?”

So they say,

“It is one more planet in our solar system.”

Now, if you say,

“I’m really impressed by the Sumerian knowledge, and, maybe they knew what they were talking about regarding the Anunnaki.

But I don’t think there is another planet with these advanced beings on it near Earth.”

If so, what is your explanation of who Anunnaki were?

Was there really a race of giants who existed on Earth half a million years ago?

Do you believe there was a civilization on Earth half a million years ago that surpassed our own and disappeared?

When the focus shifts to explaining those other people, you have no explanation.

I then say, if you have no explanation, why not accept the word of the Sumerians?

The second aspect of the answer is this.

Nowhere in all these books do I use a text, or do I refer to a tablet and say,

“I went to this or that place in the Near East and as I was visiting that place, I shifted the soil with my foot or with a stick and look what I found!

I found this tablet and look what it says!

It says that there was somebody called Enki who traveled from Nibiru to Earth and splashed down in the Persian Gulf.”

No, nowhere do I say,

“Look what I found.”

All the time I say,

“There is a tablet in the British Museum, its catalog number is such and such; it was discovered in this and this place; the text was first published by this and this scholar, here is what it says.”