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Zecharia Sitchin Page I
THE CASE OF ADAM’S ALIEN GENES

Zecheria Sitchen Writes: As my readers know, what I have said in
my books went beyond the common origin of Life (=DNA) on Earth and elsewhere in
the Universe. I showed that according to the Sumerian texts (on which the
biblical account of Genesis was based), Evolution took its course both on Nibiru
and on Earth. Beginning much earlier on Nibiru, it produced the advanced
Anunnaki on Nibiru but only early hominids on Earth when the Anunnaki had come
here some 450,000 years ago. Then, I wrote, the Anunnaki engaged in genetic
engineering to upgrade the hominids to Homo sapiens (to be in their likeness and
after their image, as the Bible says).....As detailed in my books, beginning
with The 12th Planet (1976) and even more so in Genesis Revisited and The Cosmic
Code, the Anunnaki came to Earth some 450,000 years ago from the planet Nibiru –
a member of our own solar system whose great orbit brings it to our part of the
heavens once every 3,600 years. They came here in need of gold, with which to
protect their dwindling atmosphere. Exhausted and in need of help in mining the
gold, their chief scientist Enki suggested that they use their genetic knowledge
to create the needed Primitive Workers. When the other leaders of the Anunnaki
asked: How can you create a new being? He answered: "The being that we need
already exists; all that we have to do is put our mark on it.” The time was some
300,000 years ago. What he had in mind was to upgrade genetically the existing
hominids, who were already on Earth through Evolution, by adding some of the
genes of the more advanced Anunnaki. That the Anunnaki, who could already travel
in space 450,000 years ago, possessed the genomic science (whose threshold we
have now reached) is clear not only from the actual texts but also from numerous
depictions in which the double-helix of the DNA is rendered as Entwined Serpents
(a symbol still used for medicine and healing)
From The Gnostic Liberation Front:
The Research And Immense
Knowledge Of Zecharia Sitchin Is Simply Put "Breath-taking"! All The More Though,
Since It Opens Possibilities Of The Gnostic Creation Myths Finding Their Origin
In Sitchin's Invaluable Interpretations Of The Ancient Babylonian Texts...The "Beyond, Beyond"
God of The Gnostics...The Good God Who Is Too Good To Even Know Of Earthly,
Material Creation...Has NOTHING At All To Do With Yahweh-Jehovah Of The Old Testament Who
Was Indeed Our Creator As He Is Symbolic Of Our Anunaki Creators,...Was NOT The True
God, The God of The Gnostics.... Jesus, Of Course, Understood By The Gnostics
As Emissary Of The TRUE "Beyond" GOD, Who Is Infinite Spirit And
Uncontaminated By Matter, Came To Teach LIBERATION From The Rules And Doctrines
Of The Imposter God And The Enslavement Of Mankind Through Religion, Priest-craft and "Divine"
Royalty And Their Bloodlines Of Privileged Hierarchical Rulership...
Thus, There Never Could Have
Been A "Divine" Requirement For Jesus' Sacrifice To "Redeem" And "Save"
Mankind With His Blood...Only A Sadistic False "God", As Taught To Mankind By Their Alien-Anunaki
"Creators," Would Ever Require Anything As Gruesome And Brutal As Any Form Of
Blood-Sacrifice, Human Or Animal....This Belief Was Imposed Upon Mankind By
Their Alien "Creators" In Order To Instill Fearful Submission To Their
Slavery And Exploitation...Jesus' Teaching Of A Loving And Forgiving
Compassionate God, Has Nothing Whatsoever In Common With The Blood-Thirsty,
Sadistic God Jehovah-Yahweh Of The Torah-Old-Testament...As Orthodox
Christianity Claims....The Teachings Of Jesus Were Obfuscated And Falsified And
Brought Into The "Authority" Of The Torah-Old-Testament Jehovah
Worship By The Same
"Brotherhood"...The Priesthood Of Old, Which Is Known Today As The "Illuminati"
And Is A Perversion Of "The Brotherhood Of The Snake" Which Originally
Began As
A Secret, Initiatory Spiritual Liberation Movement During The Time When "The Gods Still Walked The Earth" ...
When The Aliens Were Still On Earth (Openly) Exploiting Their "Creation,"
Mankind, Like Cattle...This "Brotherhood Of The Snake" Became Infiltrated By
Alien Collaborators For The Purpose Of Undermining Their Teachings And Thus Of
Perverting Their Knowledge...The False "Illuminati" Of Our Age As Well As The
Freemasons, Rosecrucians And Assorted Brotherhoods And Lodges Are All Derived
From The PERVERTED Teachings Of "The Brotherhood Of The Snake"....
.... Of Course This
Is OUR Interpretation Of Sitchin's Writings And Zecheria Sitchen Has Never Drawn
This Conclusion....
Gnostic Liberation Front
Sensational Human Genome
Discovery
THE CASE OF ADAM’S ALIEN GENES
In whose image was The Adam
– the prototype of modern humans, Homo sapiens – created?
The Bible asserts that the
Elohim said: “Let us fashion the Adam in our image and after our
likeness.” But if one is to accept a tentative explanation for enigmatic genes
that humans possess, offered when the deciphering of the human genome was
announced in mid-February, the feat was decided upon by a group of bacteria!
“Humbling” was the
prevalent adjective used by the scientific teams and the media to describe the
principal finding – that the human genome contains not the anticipated 100,000 -
140,000 genes (the stretches of DNA that direct the production of amino-acids
and proteins) but only some 30,000+ -- little more than double the 13,601 genes
of a fruit fly and barely fifty percent more than the roundworm’s 19,098. What
a comedown from the pinnacle of the genomic Tree of Life!
Moreover, there was hardly
any uniqueness to the human genes. They are comparative to not the presumed 95
percent but to almost 99 percent of the chimpanzees, and 70 percent of the
mouse. Human genes, with the same functions, were found to be identical to
genes of other vertebrates, as well as invertebrates, plants, fungi, even yeast.
The findings not only confirmed that there was one source of DNA for all life on
Earth, but also enabled the scientists to trace the evolutionary process – how
more complex organisms evolved, genetically, from simpler ones, adopting at each
stage the genes of a lower life form to create a more complex higher life form –
culminating with Homo sapiens.
The “Head-scratching” Discovery
It was here, in tracing the vertical evolutionary record
contained in the human and the other analyzed genomes, that the scientists ran
into an enigma. The “head-scratching discovery by the public consortium,” as
Science termed it, was that the human genome contains 223 genes that do not
have the required predecessors on the genomic evolutionary tree.
How did Man acquire such a
bunch of enigmatic genes?
In the evolutionary progression from bacteria to
invertebrates (such as the lineages of yeast, worms, flies or mustard weed –
which have been deciphered) to vertebrates (mice, chimpanzees) and finally
modern humans, these 223 genes are completely missing in the invertebrate phase.
Therefore, the scientists can explain their presence in the human genome by a
“rather recent” (in evolutionary time scales) “probable horizontal transfer from
bacteria.”
In other words: At a relatively recent time as Evolution
goes, modern humans acquired an extra 223 genes not through gradual evolution,
not vertically on the Tree of Life, but horizontally, as a sideways insertion of
genetic material from bacteria…
An Immense Difference
Now, at first glance it
would seem that 223 genes is no big deal. In fact, while every single gene makes
a great difference to every individual, 223 genes make an immense difference to
a species such as ours.
The human genome is made up
of about three billion neucleotides (the “letters” A-C-G-T which stand for the
initials of the four nucleic acids that spell out all life on Earth); of them,
just a little more than one percent are grouped into functioning genes (each
gene consists of thousands of "letters"). The difference between one individual
person and another amounts to about one “letter” in a thousand in the DNA
“alphabet.” The difference between Man and Chimpanzee is less than one percent
as genes go; and one percent of 30,000 genes is 300.
So, 223 genes is more than
two thirds of the difference between me, you and a chimpanzee!
An analysis of the
functions of these genes through the proteins that they spell out, conducted by
the Public Consortium team and published in the journal Nature, shows
that they include not only proteins involved in important physiological but also
psychiatric functions. Moreover, they are responsible for important
neurological enzymes that stem only from the mitochondrial portion of the DNA –
the so-called “Eve” DNA that humankind inherited only through the mother-line,
all the way back to a single “Eve.” That finding alone raises doubt regarding
that the "bacterial insertion" explanation.
A Shaky Theory
How sure are the scientists
that such important and complex genes, such an immense human advantage, was
obtained by us --“rather recently”-- through the courtesy of infecting bacteria?
“It is a jump that does not
follow current evolutionary theories,” said Steven Scherer, director of mapping
of the Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine.
“We did not identify a strongly preferred bacterial source
for the putative horizontally transferred genes,” states the report in Nature.
The Public Consortium team, conducting a detailed search, found that some 113
genes (out of the 223) “are widespread among bacteria” – though they are
entirely absent even in invertebrates. An analysis of the proteins which the
enigmatic genes express showed that out of 35 identified, only ten had
counterparts in vertebrates (ranging from cows to rodents to fish); 25 of the 35
were unique to humans.
“It is not clear whether
the transfer was from bacteria to human or from human to bacteria,”
Science
quoted Robert Waterson, co-director of Washington University’s Genome Sequencing
Center, as saying.
But if Man gave those genes
to bacteria, where did Man acquire those genes to begin with?
The Role of the Anunnaki
Readers of my books must be
smiling by now, for they know the answer.
They know that the biblical verses dealing with the
fashioning of The Adam are condensed renderings of much much more detailed
Sumerian and Akkadian texts, found inscribed on clay tablets, in which the role
of the Elohim in Genesis is performed by the Anunnaki – “Those Who From Heaven
to Earth Came.”
As detailed in my books, beginning with
The 12th
Planet
(1976) and even more so in
Genesis Revisited
and
The Cosmic
Code, the Anunnaki came to Earth some 450,000 years ago from the planet
Nibiru – a member of our own solar system whose great orbit brings it to our
part of the heavens once every 3,600 years. They came here in need of gold, with
which to protect their dwindling atmosphere. Exhausted and in need of help in
mining the gold, their chief scientist Enki suggested that they use their
genetic knowledge to create the needed Primitive Workers. When the other
leaders of the Anunnaki asked: How can you create a new being? He answered:
"The being that we
need already exists;
all that we have to do is put our mark on it.”
The time was some 300,000
years ago.
What he had in mind was to
upgrade genetically the existing hominids, who were already on Earth through
Evolution, by adding some of the genes of the more advanced Anunnaki. That the
Anunnaki, who could already travel in space 450,000 years ago, possessed the
genomic science (whose threshold we have now reached) is clear not only from the
actual texts but also from numerous depictions in which the double-helix of the
DNA is rendered as Entwined Serpents (a symbol still used for medicine and
healing) -- see illustration ‘A’ below.
When the leaders of the Anunnaki approved the project (as
echoed in the biblical ”Let us fashion the Adam”), Enki with the help of
Ninharsag, the Chief Medical Officer of the Anunnaki, embarked on a process of
genetic engineering, by adding and combining genes of the Anunnaki with those of
the already-existing hominids.
When, after much trial and
error breathtakingly described and recorded in antiquity, a “perfect model” was
attained, Ninharsag held him up and shouted: “My hands have made it!” An ancient
artist depicted the scene on a cylinder seal (illustration ‘B’).
And that, I suggest, is how we had come to possess the
unique extra genes. It was in the image of the Anunnaki, not of bacteria, that
Adam and Eve were fashioned.
A Matter of Extreme Significance
Unless further scientific
research can establish, beyond any doubt, that the only possible source of the
extra genes are indeed bacteria, and unless it is then also determined that the
infection (“horizontal transfer”) went from bacteria to Man and not from Man to
bacteria, the only other available solution will be that offered by the Sumerian
texts millennia ago.
Until then, the enigmatic 223 alien genes will remain as
an alternative – and as a corroboration by modern science of the Anunnaki and
their genetic feats on Earth.
ZECHARIA SITCHIN
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Was
I.D. an E.T.?
THE CASE OF THE
"INTELLIGENT DESIGNER”
In March 1925 the Tennessee legislature outlawed the teaching of any doctrine
denying the divine creation of Man as taught by the Bible. In July of that
same year, John T. Scopes, a high school teacher, was brought to trial for
teaching Evolution in violation of the state law. The ensuing Scopes Trial
(or, deridedly, the "Monkey TriaI”) drew worldwide attention to the seemingly
irreconcilable conflict between Creationism (the old fashioned belief in the
biblical account) and Evolution (based on Darwin's findings of Natural
Selection).
John Scopes was found guilty
and was fined $100; the Tennessee law was repealed in 1967; but the debate has
not ended: Is Man, Homo sapiens, solely the product of a long process
of natural selection (“Evolution"), or the result of a divine decision, a
deliberate act by a Creator ("Creationism”)?
The Evolutionists cannot fathom
how the other side can ignore the overwhelming evidence for life’s beginnings
billions of years ago and claim that it is all the result of six days of
creation; the Creationists, pointing out that a complex watch required a
watchmaker, cannot see how the sudden appearance of Homo sapiens as the most
complex life form can deny the Hand of God.
Enter “Intelligent Design”
In the past several years the
debate has manifested itself again, with greater vigor, not only in the
so-called Bible Belt states, but also in unexpected places as the Michigan
House of Representatives and the Pennsylvania education system. The most
recent instance is Ohio, where the arena is the state's Board of Education.
Reports of these
developments in the liberal media do not hide a degree of alarm at these
developments -- not so much because they continue to occur, but because the
attack on Darwinian teachings now come from “Creationism in disguise,” and “a
good disguise” at that (Time magazine). The disguise is called
"Intelligent Design” (“I.D.” for short); Its proponents, by and large, do not
take a position on how Life got here; they just deny that natural selection
(i.e. evolution) alone could have brought us about. Somewhere along the way,
they hold, there had to be an Intelligent Designer.
What alarms the media and the
scientific community is the fact that the proponents of ID are not
Bible-waving old ladies, but intellectuals and academics from varied
disciplines in science, philosophy and theology. Their concerted attack on
Evolutionism has been called by the established scientific community “a wedge
strategy to restore Creationism in disguise” (Science magazine).
Identifying the Intelligent
Designer
The proponents of the new
version of Creationism, one must conclude from a study of their writings and
arguments, find it easier to make a case for Intelligent Design than to answer
the question: If so, who was the Intelligent Designer?
While many scientific critics
of ID hold that the neo-Creationists are conservative Christians upset about
the displacement of God from school curricula, “the fact is that many leaders
of the new movement prefer to skirt the question, or even allow an abstract
“God” to be embedded in the very beginning of the universe: “No one really
knows how the universe got built with DNA that can replicate itself,” (in the
words of William Demski, a professor of mathematics).
A New York Times Puzzler
In its issue of April 8, 2001,
The New York Times, in a page-one article by James Glanz, informed its
readers that in spite of some wins by Evolutionists in Kansas, Michigan and
Pennsylvania, they “find themselves arrayed not against traditional
creationism, with its roots in biblical liberalism, but against a more
sophisticated idea: the Intelligent Design theory.”
But who, if so, was the
Intelligent Designer? As I was reading the article on that Sunday morning, I
was delighted to learn that
The designer may
be much like the biblical God, proponents say, but they are open to other
explanations, such as the proposition that life was seeded by a meteorite
from elsewhere in the cosmos, or the new age philosophy that the universe
is suffused with mysterious but inanimate life force.
That proponents of ID
consider the bringing of life to Earth by a meteorite as one explanation, I
felt, was close enough to my Sumerian explanation that the Seed of Life (what
we now call DNA) was imparted to Earth by the invading planet Nibiru during
the collision (“Celestial Battle”) some four billion years ago.
But it turned out from
examining the newspaper’s website and earlier editions, that the New York City
edition that I was reading excised an intriguing and key sentence from the
original article. Here is what the paragraph had read in its original
version, with the omitted sentence highlighted:
This designer may be
much like the biblical God, proponents say, but they are open to other
explanations, such as the proposition that life was seeded by a meteorite
from elsewhere in the cosmos, POSSIBLY INVOLVING EXTRATERRESTRIAL
INTELLIGENCE, or the new age philosophy that the universe is suffused with
a mysterious but inanimate life force.
"An Advanced Civilization
from Another World"
As my readers know, what I have
said in my books went beyond the common origin of Life (=DNA) on Earth and
elsewhere in the Universe. I showed that according to the Sumerian texts (on
which the biblical account of Genesis was based), Evolution took its course
both on Nibiru and on Earth. Beginning much earlier on Nibiru, it produced
the advanced Anunnaki on Nibiru but only early hominids on Earth when the
Anunnaki had come here some 450,000 years ago. Then, I wrote, the Anunnaki
engaged in genetic engineering to upgrade the hominids to Homo sapiens (to be
in their likeness and after their image, as the Bible says).
While I was still wondering how
the extraterrestrial angle was excised from the Times article in April
2001, I was delighted to read thus in its editorial on March 17, 2002.
Headlined Darwinian Struggle in Ohio, the editorial explained:
Adherents of
intelligent design carefully shun any mention of God in their proposals.
They simply argue that humans, animals and plants are far too diverse and
complex to be explained by evolution and natural selection, so there must
have been an intelligent designer behind it all. Whether that designer is
God, AN ADVANCED CIVILIZATION FROM ANOTHER WORLD, or some other creative
force, is not specified.
The emphasis of the astounding
statement is mine.
Back to Enki?
This is quite an advance in
acknowledging the Sumerian data – from the general possibility of an
involvement by “Extraterrestrial Intelligence” in cosmic life, to an
Intelligent Designer from “an advanced civilization from another world.”
It is progress spanning the
tale of the collision that spread the Seed of Life to the genetic engineering
by the Lord Enki.
Have the editorial
writers of the New York Times read my latest book,
The Lost Book of Enki?
ZECHARIA SITCHIN
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GENETICS: SO WHAT ELSE IS NEW?
The
January 26, 2004 issue of Newsweek magazine, featuring photos of
babies on its cover illustrating the main story on “The New Science of Sex
Selection” – advances in genetic and fertilization technologies that make it
possible to predetermine the sex of one’s baby; not just to find out the
baby’s sex once pregnancy is in progress, but to decide ahead of time
whether the baby should be a male or a female to begin with.
That indeed sounds like a New Science, as the magazine calls it.
But
a detail in the ten-page long report caught my eye; it sounded as a line out
of millennia-old Sumerian texts, inscribed on clay tablets, which described
how the gods created Man!
Seven and Seven
Newsweek’s report begins with the story of a couple from Gilette, Wyo.,
“who always wanted a baby girl, but the odds seemed stacked against them.”
They kept having boys. Then they found out about a fertility institute in
California that developed an in-vitro fertilization technique called PGD –
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosys. “By creating embryos outside the womb,
then testing them for gender, PGD could guarantee, with almost 100 percent
certainty, the sex of the baby.”
Then came the eye-catching detail:
“Last
November Sharla’s eggs and Shane’s sperm were mixed in a lab dish, producing
14 healthy embryos, seven male and seven female."
The
lab transferred three of the female embyros into Sharla’s uterus, where two
implanted successfully. If all goes well, the run of the Miller boys will
end in July with the arrival of twin baby girls.
The Sumerian Creation Texts
In
my very first book, The 12th Planet, 1976, I dealt at
length with the Sumerian creation texts which provide a highly sophisticated
scientific narrative dealing with the creation of our solar system, the
formation of the Earth, the evolution of life on Earth, the coming to Earth
of the Anunnaki from their planet Nibiru, and their employment of genetic
engineering to fashion Homo sapiens from a primitive human species. In
The 12 Planet and later in Genesis Revisited (1990), I showed how
the Bible summed up that very scientific tale in the Book of Genesis; and
how modern science was only catching up with ancient knowledge.
In
a chapter titled “The Creation of Man” I quoted passages from various
clay-tablet texts that provided details of the Creation of Man process – How
Enki, the chief scientist of the Anunnaki, suggested that an already
existing being could be upgraded by mixing Anunnaki genes with the humanoid
ones; how Ninti, the chief medical officer of the Anunnaki (and Enki’s
half-sister) performed the gene-mixing; and how the resulting “clay” was
used to impregnate fourteen “birth goddesses,” to become pregnant
with seven males and seven females!
Using the “essence” of young male Anunnaki (extracted in a “purifying
bath”) to prepare the proper “mixed clay,”
Ninti ripped off fourteen pieces of clay;
Seven she deposited on the right,
Seven she deposited on the left…
The Wise and Learned,
Twice-seven birth-goddesses had assembled.
Seven brought forth males,
Seven brought forth females…
In pairs were they completed,
In pairs were they completed in her presence.
The created ones were People –
Creatures of the Mother Goddess.
While many other aspects of similarities between in-vitro and other genetic
engineering procedures now developed and what the ancient texts describe
have been dealt with in my writings, the precise number of fourteen
sperm/embryos divided into seven male, seven female is – to say the least –
an amazing coincidence.
ZECHARIA SITCHIN
THE CASE OF THE GENETICALLY MODIFIED
PRIMATE
"Ninharsag and her crew are closer to being
vindicated as time passes, and soon your theories will no longer be theories!"
So wrote to me a fan (Jack Byrd in Virginia) in a
congratulatory letter accompanying a newspaper clipping headlined "Genetically
modified primate is world's first." It was the report about the successful
birth of ANDi ('inserted DNA' spelled backward), a baby rhesus monkey "created"
by a group of researchers at the Oregon Regional Primate Center, whose genetic
makeup was modified to include the genes from a jellyfish that make it glow in
the dark.
Mice have been previously genetically modified for
medical research. But because the rhesus monkey is roughly 95 percent akin to
humans genetically, "I think we are at an extraordinary moment in the history of
humans, " said the chief researcher Dr. Gerald Schatten.
I was of course pleased to be congratulated. Yet, I
wrote back to my fan with thanks coupled with an admonition. "While it is nice
to get such reassuring compliments," I wrote to him, "I am trying to get my fans
to write about it to others, and first and foremost to the newspapers that
carried the reports. In this case, the Associated Press report stresses that it
is the world's FIRST genetically modified primate; what a Letter to the Editor
should point out is that according to Sumerian texts reported by Zecharia
Sitchin in his books The 12th Planet and Genesis Revisited, ADAM was the first
genetically modified primate, some 300,000 years ago!"
The news about the genetically modified rhesus
monkey was just one item in an avalanche of reports on human genetics, cloning
etc. in which the names of Enki and Ninharsag could well replace the names of
Dr. Schatten, Dr. Phyllis Leppert (and their other modern colleagues). So
please -- TELL IT TO THE NEWSPAPERS!
February 2001
Z. Sitchin
WILL BIBLICAL PROPHECIES BE FULFILLED?
The War in Iraq and The Earth Chronicles
“War has come to the cradle of civilization, “ current headlines have
been announcing; and both fans and interviewers have asked me what is my
“take” on these events. “How strange that 6000 years of human history keep
leading us to devastation in this ancient place; I wonder if you have any
thoughts on this issue,” asked a fan from England. “Is this the fulfillment
of biblical prophecies?” asked an interviewer.
Indeed, today’s Iraq encompasses ancient Mesopotamia, the Land Between
the Rivers where Assyria and Babylon and long before them Sumer had
flourished. It is there,
geographically, where the first known
civilization had blossomed out, giving Mankind the firsts in writing and
literature, the wheel and the kiln, art and music, mathematics and
astronomy, kingship and laws, temples and religion, and the first Cities of
Man, among them the famed Ur whence Abraham had come.
Preserving The Legacy
The issue of preserving and respecting that ancient legacy is perhaps
best illustrated by Ur’s mighty ziggurat (step pyramid) whose ruins still
dominate the landscape. In the first Gulf War, the Iraqis placed their
aircraft next to the ziggurat, expecting (correctly!) that the Americans
would not risk bombing the planes for fear of damaging the ziggurat; the
Iraqis did it again this time – but this time (according to unconfirmed
reports) the airfield was captured by Special Forces without a bomb dropped.
While the Iraqis converted a
symbol of Sumer’s legacy into a military target, it is known that in
Washington panels of archeologists and other scholars have been advising the
campaign planners on the location and importance of ancient sites. It has
been pointed out, however, that various dam and irrigation projects have
obliterated potential archeological sites; and although in the first Gulf
War war-damage was minimal, post-war looting of sites and museums was
rampant
The Wars of Men
War – any war – entails carnage and destruction, and a time of No More
Wars was deemed already in biblical times as the idyllic time when swords
shall be made into ploughshares. Yet wars accompanied Mankind from the
earliest times, and the Lands of the Bible, encompassing today’s Iraq, have
known war after war after war.
Today’s Iraq was artificially put together by the victorious Allies after
World War I, in the 1920’s. Today’s capital, Baghdad (which is not ancient
Babylon) was established by invading Arabs in AD 750 and was overrun by
Mongol hordes in AD 1469. Greeks (under Alexander the Great), Persians,
Medians, Sassanians, Parthians warred there. And the great international
war recorded in the Bible, of the Kings of the East against the Kings of the
West, took place in the time of Abraham.
The kingdoms that followed Sumer, Babylonia and Assyria, turned war into
a permanent state policy; their kings boasted in their annals of one
campaign after another. Killings, annihilations, destruction, pillaging,
subjugation fill the records.
In Who’s Footsteps?
While ancient Sumer knew wars (its monuments indeed depict soldiers and
war chariots), its kings boasted of assuring peace, and the highest epithet
for a ruler was to be called a Righteous Shepherd. The present ruthless
ruler of Iraq chose as his model, however, not a Sumerian king but the
Babylonian Nebuchadnezzar, the one who captured Jerusalem and destroyed the
Temple that Solomon built for Yahweh.
Saddam Hussein
rebuilt (on a reduced scale) Babylon, not Ur or Nippur; and like the olden
kings had each brick stamped with an honorific inscription – paying homage
to “Saddam Hussein, protector of civilization, who rebuilt the palace which
belonged to Nebuchadnezzar.”
Like that
Babylonian king, Saddam Hussein spoke of Iraqi domination from the Persian
Gulf (the ancient “Lower Sea”) to the Mediterranean (the “Upper Sea”), of
capturing Jerusalem, of destroying the “Zionist State” (alias ancient Zion).
Biblical Prophecies
By comparing Iraq to ancient Babylon and himself to Nebuchadnezzar,
Saddam Hussein inescapably brings to mind the biblical prophecies concerning
the kingdom that turned greatness to evil and the king whose rule brought
slaughter and destruction.
The prophet
Isaiah foretold the demise and destruction of Babylon by armies from a
distant land, even from the skies (!) (Chapter 13) and prophesied the fate
of Babylon’s king and his sons (!) (Chapter 14). The prophet Jeremiah,
recording the evils of Babylon and its rulers, foretold the coming
punishment: “A sound of battle is in the land and a great destruction… A
sword is upon the Chaldeans and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, upon her
princes and upon her counselors; a sword is upon her liars… a sword is upon
her mighty men.”
As much as the
biblical prophets were for Peace, they deemed war in punishment of evil as
justified.
Of First Things and
Last Things
Do biblical prophecies hold true just for the time they were uttered, or
are they of eternal validity, holding true for posterity whenever the
circumstances are the same? Was evil punishable only then, not now? Were
messianic expectations valid only B.C. and not AD? The question has filled
volumes; I tend to agree with those who view biblical prophecies as
eternally valid.
The New
Testament’s Book of Revelation’s assertion “I am Alpha and I am Omega,” I am
the First and I am the Last, re-expressed the more encompassing Old
Testament (or Hebrew Bible) credo of all the prophets that
The First
Things Shall Be The Last Things. Indeed, it was the knowledge of what
had been that was the basis for foretelling what will be; or, as I put it in
my lectures, the Past is the Future.
That history
will repeat itself, there should be no doubt. What remains a mystery is
what chapter of history will be repeated when – are we still in the middle
of the what I named The Earth Chronicles, or is the grand cycle
nearing completion and the very First Things shall fulfill the prophecies of
The Return? In this regard it behooves us to recall that before the Cities
of Man there had been cities of the gods and before the wars of men there
were the wars of the gods – including the one in 2024 B.C., when the use of
nuclear weapons caused the demise of the Sumerian civilization.
I
do recommend that my fans re-read my books, especially
The 12th
Planet,
The Wars of Gods and Men, and
The Lost Book of Enki.
April 2003
ZECHARIA
SITCHIN

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Dialogue in
Bellaria
SITCHIN AND VATICAN THEOLOGIAN
DISCUSS UFO's,
EXTRATERRESTRIALS, ANGELS, CREATION OF MAN
Report by Zecharia Sitchin
The death of Pope John Paul
II has occasioned widespread discussions about his own stand and the Vatican's
position regarding a variety of subjects, from purely theological to social
issues. Completely lacking has been any reference to an issue of concern to
many, and especially to those interested in the subjects of UFO's, Life on other
planets, and Extraterrestrials in general, and in Zecharia Sitchin's writings in
particular.
As it happened, it was
exactly five years ago, in April 2000, that Zecharia engaged in a public
discussion of those very issues with a leading theologian of the Vatican,
Monsignor Corrado Balducci, during an international conference held in Bellaria
(Bimini) in Italy. The historic dialogue was reported at the time on this
official website of Zecharia Sitchin; hereunder is the full text of that report
which speaks for itself.
In what must be a historic
first, a high official of the Vatican and a Hebrew scholar discussed the issue
of Extraterrestrials and the Creation of Man, and though different from each
other in upbringing, background, religion and methodology, nevertheless arrived
at common conclusions:
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Yes, Extraterrestrials can and do exist on other planets
* Yes, they can be more advanced than us
* Yes, materially, Man could have been fashioned from a pre-existing
sentient being.
The
Participants
The high Vatican official was Monsignor Corrado Balducci, a Catholic
theologian with impressive credentials: A member of the Curia of the Roman
Catholic Church, a Prelate of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
and the Propagation of the Faith, leading exorcist of the Archdiocese of Rome, a
member of the Vatican's Beatification Committee, an expert on Demonology and the
author of several books. Appointed in the Vatican to deal with the issue of
UFO's and Extraterrestrials, he has made in recent years pronouncements
indicating a tolerance of the subjects; but he has never before met and had a
dialogue with a Hebrew scholar, and gone beyond prescribed formulations to
include the touchy issue of the Creation of Man.
The Hebrew scholar was me -- Zecharia Sitchin: A researcher of ancient
civilizations, a biblical archaeologist, a descendant of Abraham…
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The Monsignor and I almost met for
such a dialogue last December, but it did not come about. This time we
were scheduled to meet in Bellaria, Italy, at a conference whose theme was
“The Mystery of Human Existence.” I arrived there with my wife and a
score of fans from the USA, on March 31st, scheduled to address the
audience of over a thousand the next day. The Monsignor was nowhere in
sight; but he was there the next morning to hear my presentation. “I
drove the whole night from Rome to hear you,” he said.
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Sitchin’s Presentation
My talk, ably translated by my Italian editor Tuvia Fogel, included a slide
presentation that added a pictorial dimension to the evidence from ancient times
in support of Sumerian texts, on which my eight books based the following
conclusions:
We are not alone -- not just in the vast
universe, but in our own solar system; There is one more planet in our solar
system, orbiting beyond Pluto but nearing Earth periodically; Advanced
"Extraterrestrials” -- the Sumerians called them Anunnaki, the Bible Nefilim --
started to visit our planet some 450,000 years ago; And, some 300,000 years
ago, they engaged in genetic engineering to upgrade Earth's hominids and fashion
Homo sapiens, the Adam. In that, they acted as Emissaries for the Universal
Creator -- God.
The
Dialogue
"We have much to talk about,” Msgr.
Balducci said to me as he came forward to congratulate me on my presentation;
"I have great esteem for your scholarship," he said.
We returned to the hotel for lunch. Our
table was surrounded in a semi-circle by my American fans, intent on not missing
a word of the forthcoming dialogue. In the hours-long session, Msgr. Balducci
outlined the positions he was going to state, from a prepared text, in his talk
the next day. While my approach was based on physical evidence, his was a
purely Roman Catholic theological-philosophical one, seeking the spiritual
aspects. Yet, our conclusions converged.
Msgr.
Balducci's Positions
ON UFO's.
"There must be something in it." The hundreds and thousands of eyewitness
reports leave no room for denying that there is a measure of truth in them, even
allowing for optical illusions, atmospheric phenomena and so on. As a Catholic
theologian such witnessing cannot be dismissed. "Witnessing is one way of
transmitting truth, and in the case of the Christian religion, we are talking
about a Divine Revelation in which witnessing is crucial to the credibility of
our faith.”
ON LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS:
“That life may exist on other planets is certainly possible... The Bible does
not rule out that possibility. On the basis of scripture and on the basis of
our knowledge of God's omnipotence, His wisdom being limitless, we must affirm
that life on other planets is possible." Moreover, this is not only possible,
but also credible and even probable. '"Cardinal Nicolo Cusano (1401-1464) wrote
that there is not a single star in the sky about which we can rule out the
existence of life, even if different from ours.”
ON INTELLIGENT EXTRATERRESTRIALS: "When I
talk about Extraterrestrials, we must think of beings who are like us -- more
probably, beings more advanced than us, in that their nature is an association
of a material part and a spiritual part, a body and a soul, although in
different proportions than human beings on Earth." Angels are beings who are
purely spiritual, devoid of bodies, while we are made up of spirit and matter
but still at a low level. "It is entirely credible that in the enormous
distance between Angels and humans, there could be found some middle stage, that
is beings with a body like ours but more elevated spiritually. If such
intelligent beings really exist on other planets, only science will be able to
prove; but in spite of what some people think, we would be in a position to
reconcile their existence with the Redemption that Christ has brought us.”
The
Anunnaki and the Creation of Man
Well then, I asked Msgr. Balducci, does it mean that my presentation was no
great revelation to you? We appear to agree, I said, that more advanced
extraterrestrials can exist, and I use science to evidence their coming to Earth
...I then quote the Sumerian texts that say that the Anunnaki (“Those who from
heaven to Earth came”) genetically improved an existing being on Earth to create
the being that the Bible calls Adam.
My conclusion regarding your presentation, Msgr. Balducci answered, is that
more than anything else your whole approach is based on physical evidence, it
concerns itself with matter, not with spirit. This is an important distinction,
"because if this distinction is made, I can bring up the view of the great
theologian, Professor Father Marakoff, who is still alive and is greatly
respected by the Church. He formulated the hypothesis that when God created Man
and put the soul into him, perhaps what is meant is not that Man was created
from mud or lime, but from something pre-existing, even from a sentient being
capable of feeling and perception. So the idea of taking a pre-man or hominid
and creating someone who is aware of himself is something that Christianity is
coming around to…The key is the distinction between the material body and the
soul granted by God."
From Anunnaki to God
Yes, I responded to the Vatican
theologian, in my writings I deal with the physical evidence; but already in my
first book
(The 12th Planet), the very last sentence of the last
paragraph raises the question: If the Extraterrestrials "created" us, who
created them on their planet?
From this my own thinking and the contents
of my subsequent books evolved toward the spiritual or "divine" aspects. The
Anunnaki, I have explained, were just emissaries (and that is what the Hebrew
word Malachim, translated Angels, means). They thought that it was their
decision to come here for selfish reasons and to fashion us because they needed
workers; but in truth they only carried out the Almighty God's wishes and plans.
If such Extraterrestrials were so involved, Msgr. Balducci said, even by your
own interpretation they had to do with Man's physics, body and rationality: but
God alone had to do with the Soul!
My second book, that deals with Man's
aspiration to ascend the heavens, is titled The Stairway to Heaven, I
told Msgr, Balducci, "it seems to me that we are ascending the same stairway to
heaven, though from different steps," I said.
We ended the dialogue as
friends, determined to stay in touch and continue.
Reproduction is permitted if
accompanied by the statement
© Z. Sitchin 2000
Reproduced by permission.
“Zecharia Sitchin makes a surprising connection,” the magazine Atlantis
Rising announced on its November/December 2002 cover, introducing
Zecharia’s article “The Ancients and the Power of Water”:

“Will water be the fuel of the
future to power aircraft and spacecraft?” Zecharia’s article asked, and
gave the startling answer, “If so, mankind will be employing a ‘technology
of the gods’ and, as in other fields, modern science will be only catching
up with ancient knowledge”.
The full text of the article
follows:
WATER: THE ULTIMATE PROPELLANT
By
Zecharia Sitchin
Will
water be the fuel of the future to power aircraft and spacecraft?
If
so, mankind will be employing a “technology of the gods” and, as in other
fields, modern science will be only catching up with ancient knowledge.
The
news of the possible use of water – an abundant and clean resource – as the
“fuel” for jet propulsion comes from the Tokyo Institute of Technology that
has been developing technologies for powering small un-piloted planes by
subjecting their “engines” to laser beams fired from the ground or from
satellites. In what has been hailed as a great success, the Tokyo team
reported in the June 10 issue of Applied Physics that they made a
tiny paper “plane” fly by subjecting its “motor” of aluminum plates to laser
beams. Causing minute amounts of the metal to vaporize, a jet stream was
achieved that cause the plane to soar.
The
experiment thus attained the trick of creating an ejected jet of some mass
that pushed the plane forward. In regular jet planes, the jet is created by
burning petroleum fuel and ejecting the hot gas. In the Tokyo experiment,
the heat was provided by the laser beam, the jet by the evaporated
aluminum. To scale the propulsion system up to full size, Takashi Yabe,
head of the Tokyo team, proposed using water as the propellant.
“Water can be harvested from the atmosphere as the plane flies,” he said.
Reporting the experiment and the water-use idea, the journal New
Scientist (15 June 2002) illustrated the futuristic “water engine” thus:

“Water An Intriguing Fuel”
Reporting the series of experiments, The New York Times science
editor Kenneth Chang stated that “water is the more intriguing fuel. The
paper airplane received only a single push before the water propellant was
used up, but Dr. Yabe speculated that a larger plane using this technology
could continually replenish the water from the air, “so we don’t need to
carry large amounts of water,” he said.
A
Technology of the Anunnaki
I
admit to having broadly grinned when I read the above news reports, because
in my latest book, The Lost Book of Enki, I described the use of
water for the propulsion of the spacecraft of the Anunnaki (“Those
who from heaven to Earth came” in Sumerian).
Enki,
the great chief scientist of the Anunnaki, was the leader of the first team
of Anunnaki to come to Earth. His name, EN.KI, meant “Lord of Earth” in
Sumerian. But that title was granted to him only later, after the arrival
of his half-brother Enlil (EN.LIL = “Lord of the Command”). The original
Epithet-name of Enki was E.A., commonly taken to mean “He whose home is
water.” He was depicted by the Sumerians as a seated deity outpouring
streams of water (see PIC). He was the prototype of the Water Bearer
Aquarius and his zodiacal constellation (see PIC).

At first I accepted the explanation that his
epithet reflected his love of waters, for sailing and fishing. As the scope
of my research and writings expanded, increasingly involving the
“technologies of the gods,” I was increasingly astounded to discover that
modern science is only catching up with ancient knowledge. This was true in
astronomy, then in genetics, and now in space propulsion.
The Role of Mars
The Sumerian
incredible knowledge of the heavens applied not only to recognition of all
the planets we know of today (plus Nibiru), but also to their descriptions
and roles. Thus, Mars was spoken of as The Way Station. NASA’s own
photographs from the 1970’s, shown in my book Genesis Revisited,
reveal the remains of artificial structures on Mars. But the argument has
been that Mars could not have served as an astronauts’ base because it is a
lifeless, atmosphere-less and a dry, waterless planet.
Well, all of a sudden we hear from the same space experts that oh, yes, Mars
not only had rivers and lakes and oceans in the past – it still has vast
quantities of water frozen at its poles and lying inches below the surface
elsewhere…
So
Mars could not only sustain a Way Station: It could serve to re-supply the
spacecraft of the Anunnaki with their fuel: Water.
Did
the engine devised by Enki have to evaporate the water to create a jet?
Probably not: The water itself could be ejected – an idea as simple as the
lawn sprinkler…
© Z. Sitchin 2002
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