cosmology of the tale as actually being Sumerian. Using this new approach, and in a labor of over
50 years Sitchin, has since painstaking pieced the story together from fragments of Sumerian,
Babylonian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Hittite, Canaanite, Egyptian and Hebrew sources into a most
remarkable and scientific account of our real beginnings.
The story that Sitchin found emerging from these tablets was so controversial, the implications
so explosive for mankind that many people have found it extremely difficult to take the story at
face value. Yet every single anomaly we are faced with about our Earth, our Solar System, and
ourselves is mentioned and explained in these 6000 year Sumerian accounts. The enormous bulk
of evidence he also presents to support his conclusions is literally, quite overwhelming.
Coincidence?
The thing I love the most about Sitchins books, as ponderous as they may sometimes become
due to the sheer volume of information and research they contain, is just that – the meticulous and
detailed research the reader is presented with to support the conclusions that are reached.
Sitchin will inform you that something is so, in a short passage. But nothing is taken at face
value and the explanation as to why it is so may run into many pages of detailed research and
cross referencing. And this fact is also why Sitchins conclusions are so credible, because of his
meticulous attention to detail
Have you ever noticed that when ever anyone releases a book that contains radical ideas that
disagree with mainstream academia, there is always a veritable storm of writers and scholars who
strive to prove them wrong and point out the holes in their various theories? Just look at the
berating that Erich Von Daniken received for the ridiculous lack of research in his book ‘the
Chariots of the Gods’. Von Daniken was actually thought provoking, but his lack of research and
disregard for facts really was appalling.
One very notable point about Zechariah Sitchins works however, is that, as controversial as
they are, since his first book was published in 1975, no-one has yet come forth with a valid
argument to disprove his interpretations of the texts or his conclusions. While there are many who
disagree with his interpretations, as much as they may find the story hard to swallow, no-one has
been able to dispute the events the Sumerians describe. In regards to this, Sitchin himself has
always stated that the story of creation he has presented in the Earth Chronicles is not his, it’s the
story as it was related by the Sumerians and if anyone has a problem with the tale then their
arguments should be directed at the Sumerians and not at him. All he has done is present us with
what he believes to be an accurate translation of the texts. As I previously mentioned, these
translations represent a personal labor to Sitchin of over 50 years.
Much of the earlier Sumerian Tale can still be gleaned from studying the Christian story of
Genesis in particular the Hebrew version but of course much of the translation is open to
interpretation and it is mainly in this respect that the tales differ, though the earlier Sumerian
version is undoubtedly more complete. In his book ‘the 12th Planet’ Sitchin aptly points out
translational errors. For example: The Christian story tells us that
“In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth”.
But if we look at it in the Hebrew what is actually written is:
“In the beginning God created the Rakia and the Earth”.
Sitchin points out that the Hebrew word Rakia also has several possible translations depending
on its context and one of those translations is ‘firmament.’ Therefore in the Christian tale, the
word Rakia has been translated as ‘firmament’ and is interpreted as ‘heaven.’
As in the Sumerian story, in the Babylonian tale, via an awful lot of metaphor, we are informed
as to the order of birth of all the planets but in respect to the earth, we are told that it was the god
‘Marduk’ who slew the ‘haughty dragon’ Tiamat and did the creating. Marduk was a supreme
God of ancient Babylon so in many ways the statement is virtually identical to what is said in the
Christian Bible if you want to take it that way. However in the Sumerian version of events we are
basically told that it was the ‘Celestial Lord’ Nibiru who created the Rakia and the Earth.