To determine if 3,600 pertained to its orbital revolution, Sitchin examined the Sumerian King List (text W-B/144). According to Berosus, a Babylonian priest astronomer, ten prehistoric pre-deluge Sumerian kings ruled for a total of 432,000 earth years; or 120 shars on planet Nibiru. He noticed that the reign of each monarch occurred in multiples of 3,600 years. For example: King Alulim ruled for 28,800 earth years (3,600 x 8). King Alalgar ruled for 36,000 earth years (3,600 x 10); while Enmenluanna ruled 43,200 earth years (3,600 x 12), etc. Sitchin deduced that the shars of ruler ship were directly related to the orbital period of the planet whose epithet was shar (supreme). The planet (according to the Sumerians), from which kingship, or political rule was lowered to earth -- Nibiru/Marduk!67
Since no mortal could rule 36,000 years, these kings were definitely not average human beings. Of course, if they had come from a planet where one year in their time equals 3,600 earth years, their metabolisms would be adjusted to a much longer cycle than ours. Thus, they would appear to us to be immortal, everlasting beings; gods if you like. (NE.BI.RU in ancient Farsi means: "They never die").
If such alien beings were living and ruling on earth, then they would have continued to measure time in their own understanding of a year; periods of 3,600 earth years equivalent to one Nibirian year, or shar. Therefore the rules of these pre-diluvial Sumerian sovereigns would have been eight, ten, or twelve years in their own measurement of time. (Interestingly, the Persians called their king Shah, obviously a slightly different pronunciation of the same word. Shar means "golden ball” in Farsi, the language spoken in modern day Iran. The Hebrew word, “shânâh” (shaw-naw) means “a year as a revolution of time.”) The Hebrew word, “sar” means a head person or ruler. The word, “sar” in Farsi means “head.” It appear that the Babylonian “sar” or year is synonymous with the orbital period of those who rule, those whose year is equivalent to 3,600. The people of Nibiru. This concept of tying the orbital period to the “rulers” from Heaven was borrowed by the Persians and Hebrews from the Babylonians.
Is there archaeological evidence for the existence of the legendary planet Nibiru/Marduk? When the ancients created cylinder seals depicting the solar system, a mysterious planet usually appeared above the figures of gods or humans.68 This "winged globe" symbol was also carved upon the facades of temples in ancient Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries.69 An Akkadian seal from the third millennia B.C. catalogued as VA/243 actually represents our solar system as it was known to the Sumerians; with twelve celestial bodies.70
According to Sitchin's interpretation of the Babylonian creation epic "Enuma Elish," the texts describe how a rogue planet wandered into our newly formed solar system, destroying a large planet called Tiamat that once existed between Jupiter and Mars. Half of the destroyed planet was hurled into a new orbit and became earth, while the other broken up half remained to form the asteroid belt; or the hammered bracelet of the Sumerians. The invader, eventually ensnared by our own sun, became subject to a highly elliptical orbit that takes it way beyond Pluto, then back in towards the sun. Sitchin writes that it was also responsible for knocking Uranus on her side; shunting tiny Pluto into her erratic orbit, and placing the moon into orbit around earth. As it travels along in its peculiar circuit, its periodic passage between Jupiter and Mars dislodges asteroids and debris directing them toward the inner planets where they create havoc.71
Our solar system does seem to reflect the physical disaster described in the Enuma Elish. Until recently, it was believed that the moon was a lifeless, dead hunk of matter that had separated from earth in the remote past.72 Through a study and analysis of soil samples brought back from the moon by American astronauts, it was discovered that its chemical and mineral makeup are somewhat different from earth.73 In addition, the moon has a peculiar, erratic gravitational field. It is as though large chunks of heavy matter such as iron, have not been compressed into its core; but are scattered, distorting its field. Ancient rocks of the moon are magnetized, appearing to have had their magnetic fields reversed. What agency is responsible for such phenomena? The astronauts also found many rocks called breccias; resulting from the shattering of solid rock and its refusion by extreme sudden heat.
NASA reports that the moon and earth were formed at roughly the same time from similar elements; but as two separate celestial bodies. They believed the moon evolved normally as a single planet for the first five hundred million years; then later, some horrendous catastrophe occurred. Gigantic celestial bodies crashed into the moon and formed huge basins and towering mountains. The massive amounts of radioactive materials left by the collisions heated the rock beneath the surface. Convolutions occurring during and after the tremendous cosmic event described above, continued for millions of years; until the moon finally became the bleak, desert world it now is; about 3.2 million years ago.74 What unknown catalyst brought about the catastrophic reshaping of our moon?
The orbits of the outer planets in this solar system deviate somewhat from a perfect circle. However, the planet Pluto had the most extended and elliptical orbit. The other planets orbit on about the same plane, except for Pluto that is off the orbital plane by some 17 degrees. Because of its unusual course, Pluto is extremely small, only 3,600 miles across, and is about the size of a small moon. Some scientists maintain that it was once the satellite of some other planet that escaped and began its own revolution about the sun.75 This would account for the unusual orbit of Pluto, and could be a direct result of the cataclysm that revamped the moon.
More evidence for the celestial battle is the fact that the planet Uranus lies in a tilted position, as though something has knocked it over on its side. The moons of Uranus swirl around its equator in an unusual tilted position, with a revolution of only about 8 hours -- a speed that is twice that of the planet's own revolution around its axis!76 Did some large body traveling through space strike Uranus, causing it to tilt over, never to upright itself again?
Bodes Law is a mathematical theory which proposes that the planets should have formed at regular intervals from the sun; if the formula is manipulated by multiplying by 3, adding 4, and dividing by 10. Using the astronomical unit (AU) (the distance of earth from the sun), there should be a planet at least twice the size of earth lying between Jupiter and Mars; in the region now occupied by the asteroid belt. It is possible that the asteroid belt is the remnant of a destroyed planet. When adding the mass of the asteroids and other debris together, we account for only half of the mass needed to create such a body. If however, we add the earth's mass to the material of the asteroid belt, we arrive at a viable planet of predicted mathematical distance.77 It is possible that the celestial collision described in the Enuma Elish was responsible for the break up of such a planet. (Notice that earth does not appear to belong in this planetary progression).
It would appear from the evidence discussed thus far that the solar system was once involved in a destructive catastrophe that remodeled it significantly. Scientists have not as yet determined the causative force of this holocaust; yet, our remote Sumerian and Babylonian ancestors had the answer to this enigma in their Enuma Elish, an ancient tale of a celestial battle that describes the first appearance of a mysterious planet into the solar system.
According to this ancient record, Pluto was once the satellite of Saturn. It was ripped from Saturn by Marduk (planet Nibiru); and repositioned beyond Neptune. This may be why it deviates 95.5% from its predicted position; because it did not naturally form there. The Enuma Elish catastrophe would also explain why Marduk does not fit in with Bodes Law either; it came from another solar system and was pulled in by our own sun.
After studying cuneiform clay tablets more than six thousand years old, Thomas Van Flandern (an independent astronomer), assumed that all the asteroids and comets of our solar system could have been created by the explosion of Tiamat; the large planet that once existed between Jupiter and Mars, and that their total mass should equal that of the former planet. He knew the precise p
osition and orbital data of several hundreds of these comets and asteroids. He then decided to feed this information into a computer, run it backwards and see if they were all reunited again at the same time, and the same latitude and longitude in the sky.
What the computer displayed before the surprised eyes of Van Flandern was absolutely fantastic! It revealed that the cosmic collision occurred about 10 million years ago; and that the approximate position of Tiamat at the same time of the disaster was 2.8 astronomical units from the sun, on the ecliptic at latitude zero and longitude 280. The planet would have been between the present position of the stars Facies and Pelagus in the constellation of Capricorn.78 According to Bode's Law, 2.800 is the present position of the asteroid belt!
It appears that the asteroid belt is really the remains of that smashed planet. The asteroid Ceres, which is 2.735 A.U. from the sun, and has a sidereal revolution period of 1,652 days, or 4.523 earth years, could be a remnant of the destruction of Tiamat. If this information is correct, it might mean that part of the fossil remains of early life on earth, are actually remnants of life found on planet Tiamat. This might account for the larger sizes of animal and plant life flourishing in very remote times.
Akkadian-Babylonian tablets present a strong argument for the planet earth having been created from the collision of a "red planet Marduk" with a planet called Tiamat; that preceded earth in existence, and from whose wreckage earth was formed.79 If such ancient records are correct, Planet X makes a wide sweeping elliptical orbit of 3,600 earth years equivalent to one year on that world; and could have a major axis of between 200 and 360 A.U. Marduk is a large body of mass, and would exert, even from a great distance, considerable gravitational attraction. The existence, and subsequent disastrous passings of the planet, might explain some of the periodic natural calamities plaguing earth which sometimes result in mass extinctions.
6.1. Foot Notes
59 Goldsmith, Donald, Nemesis The Death Star and Other Theories of Mass Extinction, The Berkeley Publishing Group, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, pages 56-65.
60 Goldsmith, Donald, Nemesis The Death Star And Other Theories of Mass Extinction, The Berkeley Publishing Group, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, pages 131-132.
61 Sitchin, Zecharia, The 12th Planet, Stein and Day, Scarborough House, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510, pages 224-227. 62Schellhorn, Cope, Extraterrestrials In Biblical Prophesy, Horus House Press, Inc. Madison, Wisconsin, page 288.
63 Goldsmith, Donald, Nemesis The Death Star And Other Theories of Mass Extinction, The Berkeley Publishing Group, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, page 118. Ardley, Neil, The Outer Planets, page 40.
64Goldsmith, Donald, Nemesis The Death Star And Other Theories of Mass Extinction, The Berkeley Publishing Group, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, pages 118-119.
65Sitchin, Zecharia, The 12th Planet, Stein And Day, Scarborough House, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510, page 224, 216-217. See also the biblical book of Job 9:8-9.
66Sitchin, Zecharia, The 12th Planet, Stein And Day, Scarborough House, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510, page 224.
67Sitchin, Zecharia, The 12th Planet, Stein And Day, Scarborough House, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510, pages 224-226.
68Sitchin, Zecharia, The 12th Planet, Stein And Day, Scarborough House, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510, pages 217-219.
69Sitchin, Zecharia, The 12th Planet, Stein And Day, Scarborough House, Briarcliff Manor, NY. 10510, page 217-218.
70Sitchin, Zecharia, The 12th Planet, Stein And Day, Scarborough House, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510, pages 187-189.
71Sitchin, Zecharia, The 12th Planet, Stein And Day, Scarborough House, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510, pages 187-213.
72Sitchin, Zecharia, Genesis Revisited, Avon Books, A division of The Hearst Corporation, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, 10019, pages 116-118. According to a newspaper article titled: "Ice pond discovered in lunar crater on darkened south pole, scientists say" from the Associated Press in the Ft. Worth Star Telegram, the moon contains frozen water.
73Shoemaker, Eugene, Moon, The World Book Encyclopedia, Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, page 648.
74Shoemaker, Eugene, Moon, The World Book Encyclopedia, Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, pages 646b-648.
75Sitchin, Zecharia, The 12th Planet, Stein And Day, Scarborough House, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510, pages 190-191.
76Sitchin, Zecharia, Genesis Revisited, Avon Books, A division of the Hearst Corporation, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York, 10019, pages 26-27.
77Sitchin, Zecharia, Genesis Revisited, Avon Books, A division of the Hearst Corporation, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York, 10019, page 39.
78Chatelain, Maurice, Our Ancestors Incredible Scientific Knowledge, Part II, The Marduk Mystery, Ancient Skies, Volume 18 (4).
79Schellhorn, Cope, Extraterrestrials In Biblical Prophesy, Horus House Press, Inc. Madison, Wisconsin, page 89.
7. The Day Of The Lord
If we search earth's geologic history, traveling backward in time, we find that there is evidence for earth conflagration in 3,600 year cycles. Intriguingly, Heraclitus of Ephesus (540-475 B.C.) reported that disaster destroyed the world every 10,800 years (3,600 x 3 =10,800). It appears from the empirical evidence, that every third orbit of Nibiru spells disaster for mankind in the form of a pole shift. Professor G. Cope Schellhorn, author of Extraterrestrials in Biblical Prophesy, writes that on every third orbit of Nibiru (Marduk to the Babylonians), the earth and Nibiru are on the same side of the sun. Without the sun as a shield, Earth is exposed to the full force of Nibiru's terrible gravitational force and intense brightness.80
Before we can calculate backwards in time to check for earth conflagration of the past, we must first determine when the next approach of Nibiru-Marduk will take place. Ancient peoples understood that there was a "Day of the Lord," or time period in which the "Planet of Kingship" would come near to earth by passing between Jupiter and Mars. This was a monumental event anticipated, realized, and recorded in Mesopotamian texts, and Hebrew Old Testament writings. In fact, the New Testament echoes ancient man's expectations of the arrival of the "kingdom of the heavens," a frightening, but often prodigious time for mankind.81
John the Baptist, the son of a Hebrew priest, equated the arrival of the Son of God with its approach: "Repent for the kingdom of the heavens has come near." Matthew 3:2, NAS (Literal interpretation of the text. See also Matthew 10:7, literal interpretation). Was Christ alluding to the arrival of the "kingdom of the heavens" when questioned about the time of his return to earth in the following verses?
"There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, men fainting from fear and the expectations of the things which are coming upon the inhabited earth; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And they will see the Son of Man Coming in a cloud with power and great glory. But when these things begin to take place, straighten up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near." A further allegory was made by Christ with this parable: "Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; as soon as they put forth leaves, you see it and know for yourselves that summer is now near. Even so you, too, when you see these things happening, recognize that the kingdom of God is near." (Or the planet of God is approaching). Christ warned that "this generation will not pass away until all things take place." Luke 21:25-32, NAS.
If planet Marduk is the "kingdom of God," or the "kingdom of the heavens," it would tend to explain the "signs in the sun and moon and stars." Clearly if a large body enters the solar system and travels between Jupiter and Mars, the gravitational fields of each celestial body will be effected, and will in turn effect conditions here on earth. In fact, a mysterious "cloud" was prophesied by the prophet Ezekiel that would block out light in such a way that even the sun, moon, and stars will not be seen. Many prophetic verses describe signs in these particular celestial bodies: "
When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken the stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light. All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over your land," declares the Lord God." Ezekiel 32:7-8, NAS.
Is this "cloud" the result of meteoric impact on the earth caused by asteroids, or other debris, dislodged from the asteroid belt by the passing of Marduk? And, as Marduk passed near earth, wouldn't its powerful gravitational field distort the earth's? Couldn't this gravitational attraction cause tectonic plate slippage on earth, and thus volcanic activity which might suspend volcanic ash above the tropopause? If this became thick enough, the sun, moon and even the stars could literally be "darkened."
Nibiru/Marduk's predicted effect on the moon is obvious -- any large body with a powerful gravitational force near the moon would have an effect on the tides here on earth, since the gravitational effects of the moon control earth tides. Wouldn't this cause "dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves?" Again, gravitational effects of an approaching celestial body could trigger earthquakes and volcanic activity, which could also be responsible for the "roaring of the sea and waves." Bearing all this in mind, wouldn't the signs in the sun, moon, and stars, be enough to cause "men to faint from fear and the expectation of the things which are coming upon the world?" Using a powerful telescope such as the Hubble, maybe scientists would know in advance that the "powers of the heavens will be shaken." Or, the orbits of all the planets in our solar system were soon to be disturbed by a large, mysterious planetary body. They will understand what negative effects this body will have on earth, and the other planets.
The Old Testament prophets, and priests, like their Mesopotamian forbears, had access to "secret" writings contained in ancient clay tablets and parchment scrolls, some of which may have been brought with them from Mesopotamia. Therefore, they would have had special classified information regarding planet Nibiru, the world from which the Elohim had originated, based on observations made by those who had witnessed its passing before.82 They would have understood that the "kingdom of the heavens" was a planetary body moving through space; and what to expect when it again returns to earth's vicinity. Could this be why so many of the Old Testament prophets, and even Christ in the New Testament, mention celestial phenomena associated with its return? Strangely enough, its arrival is predicted to coincide with the reappearance of Christ: "...But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near." (Luke 21:28, see also Luke 21:25-27).
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