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| One of the reprint editions of Sitchin's The 12th Planet , the basis of this article and preceding ones..
[6th of 9 Parts]
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Among
the chapter’s highlights are:
First,
Earth is the 7th planet from Pluto. This is, according to Sitchin, how
the Anunnaki counted the planets as they came out of outer space towards the
outer planets (Pluto, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, and Jupiter) and maneuvered their
way towards the inner planets—passing Mars by and landing on Earth.
Sitchin,
thus, solves one puzzle regarding Enlil, supreme commander on Earth, who has
been termed by King Gudea of Lagash as “the celestial 7 is 50” (259).
As
Sitchin states, “The god Enlil, whose rank number” among the Anunnaki “was fifty,
had as his celestial counterpart the planet that was seventh” (260).
Second,
the voyage of the Anunnaki towards Earth is embedded in the text of the Epic of
Creation, which was recited in ancient Mesopotamia’s Babylon at the New Year
festival called the Akitu.
Third,
Sitchin's discussion on an ancient text that purportedly showed the flight path of
the Anunnaki as they descended on Earth (Figure 122, page 274; the illustration
is reproduced below).
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| Fig. 122, page 274, The 12th Planet
Illustration Copyright by Zecharia Sitchin
Reproduced with Permission |
Chapter 10 - “Cities of
the Gods”
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| Illustration
Copyright by Zecharia Sitchin Reproduced with Permission |
The
chapter specifies that the Anunnaki first landed on Earth “some 450,000 years
ago,” in search of gold that they needed for their planet’s waning atmosphere.
Specifically, they landed when “about a third of Earth’s land was covered with ice sheets and glaciers” (284).
Thus, the “sea levels were also lower”—“as much as 600 to 700 feet lower
than at present”—since “so much water had been captured as ice on the land
masses” (284).
Sitchin remarks that these first settlers intended
Earth “to be a permanent ‘home away from home’ ” (283).
These settlers were called by the ancient Sumerians--not as “gods” but--as DIN.GIR, “the
righteous/just ones of the rockets.”
Sitchin surmises that the Anunnaki must
have taken into consideration such factors as climate, water, fuel/energy, and
landing site when they were thinking of settling on Earth.
Mesopotamia had all
these factors to a tee.
It “offered proximity to not one but two seas—the
Indian Ocean to the south and the Mediterranean to the west” (285-286).
As “the
first landings occurred during the second glacial period, when today’s Persian
Gulf was not a sea but a stretch of marshlands and shallow lakes,” the Anunnaki
took into account an Indian Ocean splashdown (287).
The Anunnaki’s first home was called E.DIN, “home of the righteous
ones,” from which the word Eden is derived.
Their first settlement on our
planet was “at the edge of the marshes” in Mesopotamia (287). They called it E.RI.DU
(“house in faraway built”), a term which we now use to call our planet Earth.
As Sitchin further states, the
term—Eridu—has entered into “all languages”:
To
this very day, the Persian
term ordu means
‘encampment.’ It is a word whose meaning has taken
root in all languages: The settled Earth is called Erde
in German, Erda in Old High German, Jordh in Icelandic,
Jord
in Danish, Airtha in Gothic, Erthe in Middle English;
and, going back geographically and in time,
“Earth” was
Aratha
or Ereds in Aramaic, Erd or Ertz in Kurdish,
and Eretz in Hebrew. (288)
Sitchin adds that the Anunnaki
established Earth’s first seven cities, namely, Eridu, Bad-tibira, Larak,
Sippar, Shuruppak, Larsa, and Nippur.
Related Articles:
An Overview of The Twelfth Planet
Chapters 1 and 2 of The Twelfth Planet
Chapters 3 and 4 of The Twelfth Planet
Chapters 5 and 6 of The Twelfth Planet
Chapters 7 and 8 of The Twelfth Planet
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