proven. Such unique calendar systems for example prove that they had contact with and retained
tales from the civilization that existed in ancient Sumer. For example as with the calendar started
in Sumer, the Mayan calendar has 52 weeks and there is also the sacred cycle of 52 year. The
sacred number of Thoth was also 52 and there is a legend of a special ‘game of 52’ that Thoth
would play.
The ancient Sumerians had knowledge of all the planets of our solar system, even the one
whose presence has only just been confirmed in late 2005. They even knew the positions and
relative sizes of them as depictions of them on cylinder seals and clay tablets clearly show and
these claims can be readily confirmed by simply studying the Sumerian seals. Very notably the
Sumerians always depicted Earth by the number 7.
Consider for a moment a depiction of our solar system. In modern times the planets are always
depicted in a straight line counting from the sun outwards as shown previously in fig.103, but
what if one was draw them in their relative sizes but in a circular fashion going around the sun
with an arrow pointing in the direction of their orbits. With our knowledge up to this point and
our newly discovered planetary body not yet included, would the drawing not look something like
this? (fig.137) So, armed with knowledge of the new body that indeed does exist in our solar
system, now compare it to this rendition of an ancient Sumerian depiction found on a cylinder
seal (based on Sitchins own illustrations) (fig.138).
As the diagrams show, the only real discrepancy is in the Sumerian placement of Pluto which
is shown between Saturn and Uranus, however if one considers that Pluto used to once be a
satellite of Saturn and that it now has an elliptical orbit that overlaps that of Saturn then the
placement of it in the Sumerian diagram is easily explained. The extra planet depicted on the
Sumerian seal is placed noticeably more distant that the other planets also indicating an elongated
orbit similar to that of Pluto and is shown to be quite a large planetary body.
Fig.137 Fig.138
Since evidence has shown the people of ancient Sumer have achieved a substantial degree of
scientific accuracy with every other claim they have made, including the relative sizes of the
planets (as can be seen in the diagram), it is quite reasonable to assume that they may well be
accurate in their depiction of the relative size of our newly found solar member too.
Modern scholars always refer to the Earth as the third planet as we number our solar system
from the Sun outwards. However the legends told by the Sumerians and Mesoamericans
repeatedly state that their knowledge of astronomy came from their Gods and the Sumerians
inform us that their Gods reside on the newly found member of our solar system that they name
as Nibiru, the planet of the crossing. Sitchin notes that for those who live on Nibiru the solar
system was counted from the outer planets inwards and so Earth was always referred to as the
seventh planet and was thus depicted by the Sumerians by the number 7, seven dots or sometimes
a seven pointed star, Venus was shown with 8 points, Mars with 6 points, Jupiter with 5 etc.