Zecharia Sitchin's The 12th Planet: Chapters 5 and 6

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[4th of 9 Parts]

Chapter 5 - “The Nefilim: People of the Fiery Rockets”

Sitchin starts the chapter with a reference to Sumerian and Akkadian texts that "leave no doubt that the peoples of the ancient Near East were certain that the Gods of Heaven and Earth were able to rise from earth and ascend into the Heavens, as well as roam the Earth’s skies at will” with their “fiery rockets” (128).

He goes on to describe one of the goddesses to illustrate his point: Inanna, also known as Ishtar.

Innana flew by mechanical means from Aratta to Uruk (biblical Erech), as well as to “Enki in Eridu”, to “Enlil in Nippur,” to her brother “Utu…in Sippar,” and to her sister Ereshkigal in the Lower World (129-130).

Innana was depicted as having used seven “objects”--or what Sitchin terms as "seven ME's"--relative to her “skyborne travels”: 

(1) a SHU.GAR.RA, on her head; 

(2) “Measuring pendants, on her ears”; 

(3) “Chains of small blue stones, around her neck”; 

(4) “Twin stones, on her shoulders”; 

(5) a “golden cylinder, in her hands”; 

(6) “Straps, clasping her breast”; and a 

(7) “PALA garment, clothed around her body” (130).

Sitchin makes a brief digression to point to the possibility that the “three men” who visited Abraham (in the Bible) were skyborne travelers who were “instantly recognizable as angels” due to “their helmets or uniforms—or what they carried—their weapons” (133). 

(Sitchin would explore this issue at length-- 22 years later--in his Divine Encounters. A Guide to Visions, Angels, and Other Emissaries [1998] ).

Sitchin stresses that the Gods of Heaven and Earth were “divine aeronaut(s)” (134)/

He adds that their temples had an “inner, sacred enclosure” for a mu, which was “an oval-shaped, conical object,” or rocket (140). 

In charge of the rockets and their landing place in Sippar was the god Utu, also called Shamash.            

             An ancient coin depicting a rocket at the 

upper right hand corner

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Chapter 6 - “The Twelfth Planet”

Sitchin remarks that the ancient Sumerians used such terms as “Heavenly Abode,” a “pure place,” or a “primeval abode” in referring to Nibiru (173). 

He goes on to state that a cylinder seal--cataloged as VA/243--now kept in the Berlin Museum of the Ancient Near East, indicates that to the Sumerians the solar system consists of twelve celestial bodies, namely: the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Earth’s Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Nibiru (Marduk in Babylonian).

Cylinder seal VA/243 showing the 12 celestial bodies

(near upper left corner)

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