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Revision as of 07:35, 6 September 2005 by Mirv (talk | contribs) (removing to talk some ramblings without the least stated connection to the subject of the article)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The best-selling writer Zecharia Sitchin has adopted Nibiru (the planet associated with Marduk) as the name for an unseen planet he suggests is in a highly elliptical orbit which causes catastrophic changes when, at long intervals, it enters the inner solar system at the perihelion of its orbit.
The Myth
In Sitchin's The 12th Planet, he discusses the planet "Nibiru; on a long, elliptical orbit, reaching the inner solar system every 3600 years and causing pole shifts and various other dramatic earth changes. From his knowledge of Sumer, Semitic, and other ancient languages, and his research and study of the archaeological and Biblical data which has been acquired over the last 150 years he put forth his thesis that the transcultural gods known to all the ancient cultures were not mythological but real flesh and blood humanoid aliens, very much like humans, who had come here from the tenth planet in our solar system, called Nibiru by the Sumerians. According to Sitchin they subsequently genetically engineered our species, originally as slave animals to work in their gold mines, by crossing their genes with those of Homo erectus.
The events involving the "gods" of ancient times and the technology attributed to them, has been considered myth and naive legend for most of human history, and this continues to be the mainstream view. Sitchin and others however claim confirmation for their theories from artifacts and documents from the great library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh and other sources, claiming they show technology and advanced scientific knowledge out of place for their time period. Sitchin claims that these ancient records report that a human civilization in Sumer of Mesopotamia was set up under the tutelage of these "gods" and human kings were inaugurated as go-betweens, foremen of the human populations answering to the Annunaki. It should be noted that the ancient civilizations did not call the Anunnaki "gods" but rather they referred to them as masters, lords, in the sense of rulers.
Zecharia Sitchin has recently put forth his own date for the next passage of Nibiru in the year 2085, but the date most talked about is 2012 which marks the end of the Maya calendar.