ZECHARIA SITCHIN PASSES Z
echaria Sitchin, longtime advocate for the idea that human advancement on Earth is a product of ancient extraterrestrial intervention, died on October 9, 2010. He was 92.
Author of the Earth Chronicles series, Sitchin first gained interna- tional fame in 1976 with publication of the best- selling book 12th Planet which made the case that ancient cuneiform texts, which he could translate, told the story of interactions between alien over- lords and human slaves who served as virtual guinea pigs for genetic experimenta- tion. He would ulti- mately use every an- cient source available, from the Bible to the Popul Vuh, to defend his thesis which in- cluded a fairly comprehensive theory of plane- tary develop- ment in the solar system. According to
Sitchin, there is an
undiscovered planet beyond Neptune which follows a long, elliptical orbit, entering the inner solar system about every 3,600 years. This planet is called Nibiru (although Ju- piter, according to conventional scholarship, was associated with the god Marduk in Baby- lonian cosmology) and is the home of an ex- traterrestrial race called the Anunaki. Those of them who “fell” to Earth were called the Nefilim. Nibiru, said Sitchin, collided catas- trophically with Tiamat (a goddess in the
Babylonian creation myth the Enûma Eli?), who he considered to be another planet lo- cated between Mars and Jupiter. This colli- sion, he argued, formed planet Earth, the as- teroid belt, and the comets.
In some ways Sitchin’s work resembled that of Immanuel Velikovsky and even Erich von Daniken—at least in terms of the opposi- tion it generated—but he clearly had an immense and loyal following all his own. Probably no figure in the world of al- ternative archaeology is more criticized and more venerated. Sitchin was first interviewed for an ar- ticle in Atlantis Rising in 1995. The piece was later republished in our book Forbidden
History. Subsequently he wrote several arti- cles for this publication, most recently, the cover story for issue #83 “Ancient Giants & Alien DNA,” based on his last book There Were Giants Upon the Earth (Inner Traditions,
2010) which argued that alien DNA would be found in human remains taken from ancient tombs near Ur in modern-day Iraq. He cer- tainly had many avid fans and followers among the readers of this publication. On the Internet many notable voices, saddened by the news of his passing, have been hon- oring his memory, including Alan Boyle from MSNBC’s Cosmic Log,
DailyGrail.com, and
BeliefNet.com.
F
or over 60 years the Dead Sea Scrolls have been at the center of much debate over the origins of Christianity and its relationship to ancient Ju- daism. All discussions were at the mercy of the few scholars who had access to the scrolls, and the result was consider- able controversy. All of that will soon be history, as some- time early in 2011 the scrolls are set to be published on the Internet where any interested
Dead Sea Scrolls On the Web and multispectral imaging
technology, the scrolls now reveal words once invisible in natural light, and scholars are able to read previously undecipherable portions of the text. All of that will be available on line.
person with a computer will be able to Google them in great detail.
Newly digitized using the latest infrared See Our Great 8-page Catalog Beginning on Page 74
Consisting of 30,000 sep- arate fragments forming 900 manuscripts of biblical texts and religious writings from the time of Jesus, the Scrolls were found between 1946 and 1956 in the ruins of the ancient village of Khirbet Qumran in 11 caves near the West Bank.
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