Recently, UFO Magazine attended a seminar held in Los Angeles, conducted by noted Orientalist and Biblical scholar Zecharia Sitchin. The seminar came upon the heels of the publication of the author's ninth book in his "Earth Chronicles" series, The Lost Book Of Enki: Memoirs and Prophecies of an Extraterrestrial God. If you are not familiar with Sitchin, you may wonder who he is-and who "Enki" is, and why tens of thousands of Sitchin fans are excited. In short, Sitchin is a name synonymous with uncovering humanity's hidden history. With that in mind, the following will bring you up to date.In 1976 a rather amazing book was published.
To call up an overripe metaphor, a small stone was thrown into the middle of a pond, and the ripples traveled far and wide. As time wore on, the implications of the book became apparent to a wider audience, and the author/scholar continued to expand his works.The book was The 12th Planet, and it was but a harbinger of the extensive Sitchin studies to come. Close on the heels of the first book, Sitchin wrote The Stairway to Heaven, followed by The Wars of Gods and Men, The Lost Realms, Genesis Revisited, Divine Encounters, The Cosmic Code, and now, The Lost Book Of Enki.
What is it that Sitchin maintains, and why has his massive work been translated into over 70 languages? And why does Sitchin make the mainstream scientific establishment so "antsy and shrill" in claiming his work has no credence?
In explaining ancient beliefs, author Zecharia Sitchin says the Sumerians made an important distinction between fate and destiny.
In this voluminous body of work, Sitchin has laid out a major revision concerning all of human history. His research is even more impressive when one realizes that Sitchin is one of only about 200 scholars who can read and translate the ancient Sumerian language. (An interesting point is that his translations have never been refuted, only his conclusions.)
According to Sitchin's interpretation of ancient manuscripts, about 430,000 years ago Earth was visited by extraterrestrials who came here to mine minerals and metals that were needed for their survival. These extraterrestrials came from an as-yet-undiscovered planet in our solar system, the planet Nibiru, which has, says Sitchin, a 3,600-Earth-year orbit. Nibiru, the name bestowed by the ancients, means "Planet of the Crossing." These extraterrestrials, according to the ancient Sumerian texts, genetically altered the indigenous species of early humans and bequeathed all the arts of civilization to them, such as government, astronomy, mathematics, animal husbandry and agriculture.
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