In the leapfrog of arguments and counterarguments, it was somehow forgotten that the man, thanks to whom the myth of Nibnru gained a modern sound - the American researcher Zachariah Sitchin, who died in October 2010, - called a completely different date for the rapprochement of our planet and Marduk, namely: 2085.
Zakharia Sigchinwas born on July 11, 1920 in the city of Baku - the capital of the young Soviet Azerbaijan, Grew up in Palestine, his parents crossed a miracle. There Zachariah received knowledge in the field of modern and ancient Hebrew, other Semitic and European languages, as well as in the Old Testament, in the history and archeology of the Near East. Later he graduated from the London School of Economics and the University of London. But the main interest in Sitchin's life was ancient history, to which he gave very peculiar interpretations. Having worked for many years as a journalist and editor in Israel, Zachariah later lived and worked in New York.
Few could compare with this person in the knowledge of ancient languages. One of the few linguists able to read Sumerian cuneiform texts, he was also considered a recognized authority on Hebrew and Egyptian hieroglyphics. But Sitchin's unusual method of interpreting ancient texts still raises numerous objections from people of science.
Regardless of whether it is about biblical, Sumerian, ancient Egyptian or other texts, Zechariah insisted that they should not be taken allegorically, like myths, but literally, like modern journalism. “If someone says that a group of 50 people have landed in the Persian Gulf under the leadership of Enki,” he argued. - and wade to the shore, built a settlement, so why should I say that this never happened, that this is a metaphor, a myth. imagining that someone just came up with such a thing.
Who made people
Beginning with the book The Twelfth Planet, published in 1976, Zechariah Sitchin has developed his unique interpretation of ancient texts. In the end, it developed into an extensive and fascinating story that could well serve as the plot of more than one science fiction film. But according to the writer, these are the events that actually took place at the dawn of mankind.
Sitchin proves that there is another planet in the solar system that is extremely remote from the star and moving in an elongated ellipsoidal orbit - Nibiru or otherwise, Marduk. The period of its rotation around the Sun is about 3600 3760 years. From there, in ancient times, paleoastronauts came to Earth - the biblical giants, or the Anunnaki, who were described by the Sumerians as being three and a half to five meters tall with a life span of up to 360 thousand years.
It was the creature with Nibiru that artificially created modern humanity, using genetic engineering to combine its genes with the genes of Homo erectus - Homo erectus, that is, Pithecanthropus. This hypothesis Sitchin developed in a whole series of books: "Stairway to Heaven", "Wars of Gods and Men", "Lost Worlds" and "When Time Began". The texts of the series received the general name "Chronicles of the Earth" and were supplemented by one more work - "The Revised Being".
The researcher found confirmation of his ideas in the materials of the International Consortium for Sequencing (Deciphering) the Human Genome, which discovered 223 unique genes in this very genome, which, as it seemed at first, had no predecessors in evolution. But the further the work of the consortium proceeded, the more biologically plausible explanations were given to the revealed paradons. In particular, it turned out that man inherited about 40 of the aforementioned mysterious genes from the so-called prokaryotes - unicellular living organisms that do not have a formed cell nucleus, that is, bacteria. After all, these tiny creatures reigned supreme on our planet 3.6 -1.6 billion years ago.
From the shards of Tiamat
The Sumerians' ideas about the origin of the Universe were that, in their opinion, then only water existed and terrible chaos reigned. The first gods were born from him. Over time, some gods wanted to establish order in the universe. This provoked the outrage of the god Abzu and his wife Tiamat - the goddess of chaos, the mother of all dragons. But the adherents of order united under the leadership of the wise god Ea and killed Abzu. Tiamat decided to avenge her husband's death. Then the rebels, led by Mardun, in a bloody battle, slayed the goddess of chaos, and her gigantic body was cut into two parts, of which one part became the earth, and the other - the sky. The blood of the Abzu was mixed with clay, and from this mixture the first man appeared.
In Sitchin's interpretation, Tiamat is a large planet, formed after the formation of the solar system and orbiting the current asteroid belt. After the collision with the satellite of Marduk, the planet was split into two halves. During the next passage through the inner regions of the solar system, Nibiru-Marduk itself collided with one of the halves of the "goddess of chaos" and turned it into an asteroid belt. The second part of Tiamat, after "meeting" head-on with another satellite, Nibiru, fell into a new orbit, where it is now found under the name "Earth". Despite the fact that scientists are convinced that such a scenario is impossible, the supporters of the Sitchin hypothesis are confident that it explains the reason for the division of continents on our planet and the nature of the layers in sedimentary rocks. Confirmation of the correctness of the American writer is also found in the factthat the continents of the Earth are concentrated on one side of it, and on the other there is a huge ocean.
Abducted by the Gods
Sitchin's book Divine Aliens, in accordance with the theory of paleocontact, retold stories from biblical, Sumerian and Egyptian sources, from the Garden of Eden to Gilgamesh. The writer is convinced that all references to deities actually point to the Anunnaki, and does not distinguish between modern cases of abductions of earthlings by aliens and the same actions on the part of paleoastronauts. Emphasizing that he was never personally kidnapped, Sitchin points out: if in our time such an experience is viewed as negative, associated with painful experiences, then “in ancient times, joining the deities was a great and unique privilege. Only a few have been honored with this."
Descendants from close contacts of people and deified aliens were perceived in ancient times as demigods. In the Bible, according to Zechariah Sitchin, it is clearly said that the Anunnaki chose their wives from the daughters of a person and had children from them, as a rule, very prominent personalities. Similar demigods are described in Mesopotamian literature, and in ancient Egyptian mythology, and, to a certain extent, in ancient Greek sources. After all, the same Alexander the Great believed that the sons of the gods entered into a relationship with his mother.
Older than the Anunnaki?
The argument that the Sumerian and Egyptian civilizations had an extraterrestrial source does not exclude for Sitchin the likely presence of earlier and possibly more advanced cultures on Earth. In these conclusions, he starts from the Sumerian and Assyrian legends. King Ashurbanipal, for example, said that he could read texts dating back to antediluvian times, and talked about cities and people destroyed by a global cataclysm. So for a researcher, only a firm "yes" becomes the answer to the question of the existence of an unknown civilization before the Sumerians and even before the Great Flood.
Zechariah Sitchin and the works of the ancient Greek Plato take it just as literally as Mesopotamian and Egyptian mythology, although he emphasizes that he is somewhat confused about the location of Atlantis. “Was she in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in the Pacific Ocean, which later became known as My, or in Antarctica? It is unclear which of the above is actually reported by [Plato]. But no questions arise - once upon a time there was a certain civilization that was destroyed or disappeared as a result of a terrible catastrophe, the Great Flood or other similar phenomenon."
Valdis PEYPINSH
Mystery of the XX century № 47 2011
