Zecharia Sitchin's The 12th Planet: Chapters 7 and 8

“Neo-Assyrian cylinder seal impression from the eighth century 

BCE identified by several sources as a possible depiction of

 the slaying of Tiamat (in) the Enûma Eliš” 

(Wikipedia, citing Geoffrey W. Bromily, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1988, p.1) 

and Roy Willis, World Mythology (2012, p. 62).

[5th of 9 Parts]

Chapter 7 - “Epic of Creation”

Sitchin refers to an ancient “Akkadian text, written in the Old Babylonian dialect," that accordingly recounts the solar system's evolution, including "the Creation of Heaven and Earth” (as well as the Creation of Man, which Sitchin discusses at length in chapter 11).

Known as the Enuma elish (after the first two words in its opening line), translator L.W. King's “authoritative text” rendered it as The Seven Tablets of Creation. 

It is more popularly known today as the “Epic of Creation.”

In comparing the Creation epic with the Bible’s Creation account in Genesis, Sitchin observes that while the biblical story “begins with the creation of Heaven and Earth,” the Mesopotamian epic deals “with prior events” that take its readers “to the beginning of time” (210).

This is how Sitchin views the epic's characters and events:

The Enuma elish tells of Apsu (the Sun) and Tiamat (the primordial Earth) as the “two primeval celestial bodies” in the solar system. 

They were next joined by Mummu (Mercury), after which the other planets followed: Lahmu (Mars) and Lahamu (Venus), Anshar (Saturn) and Kishar (Jupiter), then Anu (Uranus) and Nudimmud (Neptune). 

Gaga or Pluto, in this account, was Saturn's former satellite. 

Pluto gained its independent (planetary) orbit around the sun when Nibiru (called Marduk by the Babylonians) passed by Saturn's vicinity of Saturn as it (Nibiru) moved “along its path towards an inevitable collision with Tiamat”—which was then, or orignally, between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars.

As gleaned in the foregoing, the ancient Sumerians counted twelve celestial bodies that compose the solar system: the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Earth’s Moon (called Kingu in the epic),  Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Nibiru. 

As is now known, all the planets revolve clockwise around the sun. 

But Nibiru, Sitchin states, has a clockwise orbit, and visits the solar system once every 3,600 years.  

Moving on within the vicinity of Anu/Uranus, Nibiru sprouted four moons from “chunks of matter” due to the gravitational pull of the former. 

Nibiru grew three more satellites when it was “subjected to the tremendous gravitational pull” of Anshar/Saturn and Kishar/Jupiter (222). Nibiru, thus, had a total of seven satellites--which were termed "seven winds" in earlier translations.

These satellites, not Nibiru itself, “smashed into Tiamat” and rendered her “lifeless” (225). 

Tiamat’s then “ten, smaller satellites” “reversed their direction”—and, Sitchin figures that they became, or were the origin of,  comets (225). 

Kingu (Earth’s moon) was Tiamat’s largest moon (the 11^th then); as indicated above, it had started—but failed—to gain independent orbit when Nibiru/Marduk was approaching Tiamat.

When Nibiru made another return orbit--that is, 3, 600 years after the dramatic  collision--its satellites and its own “electric bolts” split Tiamat in two.

Tiamat’s upper part, which became “Earth,” was carried to “an orbit where no planet had been orbiting before”--between Venus and Mars.

Tiamat's lower part was smashed into pieces by Nibiru itself and became the “Heavens” (of the Old Testament)—that is, “the Hammered Out Bracelet” now known as the Asteroid Belt, where Tiamat or its orbit used to be: between Mars and Jupiter.

 

Illustration Copyright by Zecharia Sitchin

Reprinted by Permission

Illustration Copyright by Zecharia Sitchin

Reprinted by Permission

  

 Illustration Copyright by Zecharia Sitchin

Reprinted by Permission

  

  

Chapter 8 - “Kingship in Heaven”

The Solar System, By Beinahegut

Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar-System.pdf

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Sitchin points to the “ ‘central position’ ” that Nibiru/Marduk occupies in the solar system--between the inner celestial bodies (Mercury, Venus, Earth and its Moon, and Mars) and the outer (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto). 

In short: between Mars and Jupiter, or the Asteroid Belt.

Interestingly, Sitchin observes that the Old Testament has, in fact,  made quite a number of references to this central planet: “Lord of Hosts” is Isaiah’s term for it; it has “marked out an orbit” in the “farthest limit," says the Book of Job; it is “the glory of the Lord” that “emanates” from “the end of heavens,” according to the Psalms. All of these, Sitchin states, are references that imply the apogee of Nibiru’s orbit (239-240).

Towards the end of the chapter, Sitchin reiterates what scientists have been baffled with (he has called attention to this early in the book—in chapter 1): that life on Earth began too soon (“within a few hundred million years”) after the Earth was formed (“some 4,500,000,000 years ago”) (255).

The implication is that life on Earth “was itself a descendant of some previous life form, and not the combination of lifeless chemicals and gases” (255). 

In short, life “did not, in fact, evolve on Earth” (255)—as suggested for instance, Sitchin observes, in 1973 by Nobel prize winner Francis Crick and by Dr. Leslie Orgel (255-256).

Sitchin stresses that life on our planet was a result of Earth's collision with a “life-bearing planet, the Twelfth Planet (Nibiru) and its satellites” (255).

During the collision, Sitchin continues, “the life-bearing soil and air of the Twelfth Planet ‘seeded’ Earth, giving it the biological and complex early forms of life for whose early appearance there is no other explanation” (255).


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