Review
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“Janet Sitchin’s collection The Anunnaki Chronicles is
a worthy successor to her uncle Zecharia Sitchin’s life’s work.
It expands and enhances our understanding of who the Anunnaki
were, why they came here, and why they may someday return.”, Mike
Bara, author of Ancient Aliens and Secret Societies
“It is almost impossible to quantify the effect that Zecharia
Sitchin had on our understanding of the origins of our species
and the mysterious activity of the Anunnaki on planet Earth. His
work inspired millions; his research shattered our rigid belief
system and caused our history to be rewritten by many that
followed him. Zecharia remains one of my key inspirations and a
valuable source of critical information in the area of ancient
human history and the enslavement of the human race.”, Michael
Tellinger, author of Slave Species of the Gods: The Secret
History of the Anunnaki and Their
“A breathtaking chronicle of Sitchin’s works, and the newly
published material validates his theories concerning Planet X.”,
Xaviant Haze, author of Aliens in Ancient Egypt
“Well researched and persuasive . . . Sitchin brings to [The 12th
Planet] the logic and scholarship so often lacking. . . . He
demonstrates the flaws in established theories and exposes a few
ancient hoaxes.”, Library Journal
“In Mr. Sitchin’s [work], evolution and creationism collide.”,
New York Times
“A dazzling performance. . . . Sitchin is a zealous investigator
into man’s origins . . .”, Kirkus Reviews
"An excellent selection of texts highlighting the key
breakthroughs of Zecharia Sitchin about the Sumerians’ feats in
bioengineering, microchips, and astronomy, and how these are
corroborated by new scientific discoveries. A must read for any
one interested in the high-tech civilization that preceded our
own by a few millennia at least.", Chris H. Hardy, PhD., systems
scientist, author of of the God and The Sacred Network
"Providing an insider’s look into the decades of research behind
Sitchin’s complete works as well as an in-depth overview of his
theories, this collection includes carefully selected chapters
from the Earth Chronicles series as well as
never-before-published letters, articles, and lectures.",
Watkins’ Mind Body Spirit, Issue 44, December 2015
About the Author
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Zecharia Sitchin (1920-2010), an eminent Orientalist
and biblical scholar, was born in Russia and grew up in
Palestine, where he acquired a profound knowledge of modern and
ancient Hebrew, other Semitic and European languages, the Old
Testament, and the history and archaeology of the Near East. A
graduate of the University of London with a degree in economic
history, he worked as a journalist and editor in Israel for many
years prior to undertaking his life’s work--The Earth Chronicles.
One of the few scholars able to read the clay s and
interpret ancient Sumerian and Akkadian, Sitchin based The Earth
Chronicles series on the texts and pictorial evidence recorded by
the ancient civilizations of the Near East. His books have been
widely translated, reprinted in paperback editions, converted to
Braille for the blind, and featured on radio and television
programs.
Janet Sitchin, niece of Zecharia Sitchin, served as her uncle’s
lecture assistant at his many seminars and is the webmaster for
www.sitchin.com. A data-integration expert with a degree in
computer science, she lives outside Miami, Florida.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
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Chapter 3
UFOs, Pyramids, and the Twelfth Planet
Lecture at the UFO Conference at the Great Pyramid, January 1992
Over the years, Zecharia Sitchin was often asked to speak at
various conferences. In January 1992, he spoke at the UFO
Conference at the site of the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt. Not
only does he mention biblical references to UFOs, but he also
explains who built the Giza Pyramids--and why--and tells us a bit
about what the Anunnaki were doing here on Earth.
Whenever I am asked about UFOs--What do I think about UFOs, do I
think they exist, do I believe the people who encountered them--I
am ready with my own UFO story.
It is one about a young man who was hiking from his hometown to
another place. As it got dark at the end of the day, he lay down
to in the field. In the middle of the night he was
awakened--not by noises but by bright lights. Half a, half
blinded by the bright light, he saw a UFO. It was hovering above
the ground. A ladder or steps were coming down from an open hatch
or doorway, reaching to the ground. Some of the occupants of the
UFO were going up and down this ladder.
He could see their commander, standing at the open door
silhouetted against the light inside. And, overcome with awe and
fear, the young man fainted. When he came to, the UFO he had seen
was gone. But the young man knew what he had seen. Here is what
he had realized: “Indeed,” he said to himself, “the Lord is
present in this place, and I knew it not. . . . How awesome is
this place! It must be the place of the gods, and this is their
gateway to heaven!” Now, what should we make of this story? What
would you think if the young man rushed in here and told us all
that? What would the media make of it? Would they ridicule it, or
report it as a truthful experience?
As it happens, the tale has been reported in a publication that I
consider very, very reliable. It is called the Bible. And, as
some of you might have guessed, the story that I told you is the
so-called Jacob’s dream. It is one UFO encounter about which I
have no doubts, because I am a great believer in the veracity of
the Hebrew Bible.
This UFO report, in chapter 28 of Genesis, contains a great deal
of important information. It shows us that in biblical times
people were awed, but not mystified, by the phenomenon that
nowadays is called the UFO enigma. To Jacob what he had seen was
not a UFO, an UNidentified Flying Object, but one that he did
identify at once. He knew what it was, and he realized at once
that he had inadvertently chosen as his rest place for the night
a spot that was adjacent to a UFO base. He knew that the vehicle
was operated by “The gods”; and he realized that “this was their
gateway to heaven.”
Jacob’s vision is not the only biblical tale of flying craft
coming from and disappearing into the skies. There is the story
of the fiery chariot that carried the Prophet Elijah to heaven,
and the story of the flying machine that the Prophet Ezekiel had
seen. Such stories illustrate the point that I wish to impress
upon you: If you believe in the Bible, you must accept the
possibility of UFOs.
One who was certain that the tales were true was the famed Greek
conqueror Alexander the Great. In the fourth century B.C. he came
to these lands in search of immortality. He did so because he was
convinced that he was entitled to live as long as the gods; and
the reason was the rumors in the Macedonian court that the real
her of Alexander was not his her Phillip, but an Egyptian
god who, disguised, came one night into Alexander’s mother’s
quarters and there hered the future conqueror. The name of
that Egyptian god was Amon-Ra, meaning “RA, the Hidden One.”
Fighting his way through Asia Minor (today’s Turkey) and the
lands that are now Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, Alexander reached
Egypt. His first stop, his very first stop, was at a city called
by the Egyptians ANU, and known to us from the Hebrew Bible by
the name ON. The Greeks called it “City of the Sun,” Heliopolis.
There, in a shrine dedicated to the great god, there was on
display the actual object in which the god had come to Earth from
the heavens, his so called celestial boat. It was a well-known
shrine, and once a year its Holy of Holies was opened to admit
the Pharaoh to see the sacred object. Thousands of pilgrims were
gathered at Heliopolis at that time, not unlike the thousands who
come once a year to Mecca to venerate the Ka’aba, the sacred
black stone.
No one knows where that object had vanished to, or when it
disappeared. Indeed, one theory is that it was taken to Mecca and
that it was placed within the large boxlike structure that houses
the Ka’aba and which no one can ever enter. But we do know how
that object had looked, because a small stone replica of it was
discovered by archaeologists.
I show a picture of this replica above. Clearly, what Alexander
went to see and what he did see was a UFO. . . . Except that for
him, as for Jacob 1,500 years earlier, it was not an
UN-identified Flying Object but the remains of a very
identifiable command module of a spacecraft.
