The Twelfth Planet The Earth Chronicles, #1 by Zecharia Sitchin, 1920-2010 Published: 1976 J J J J J I I I I I Table of Contents Author‘s Note Prologue Genesis. & Chapter 1 … The Endless Beginning. Chapter 2 … The Sudden Civilization. Chapter 3 … Gods of Heaven and Earth. Chapter 4 … Sumer: Land of the Gods. Chapter 5 … The Nefilim: People of the Fiery Rockets. Chapter 6 … The Twelfth Planet. Chapter 7 … The Epic of Creation. Chapter 8 … Kingship of Heaven. Chapter 9 … Landing on Planet Earth. Chapter 10 … Cities of the Gods. Chapter 11 … Mutiny of the Anunnaki. Chapter 12 … The Creation of Man. Chapter 13 … The End of All Flesh. Chapter 14 … When the Gods Fled from Earth. Chapter 15 … Kingship on Earth. Sources About the Series Acknowledgements * * * * * Illustrations 1-1 Flintstones 1-2 Man has been preserved [attached] 1-3 Wearing some kind of goggles 2-4 Alphabets 2-5 Winged Globe 2-6 Layout of City 2-7 Cuneiform 2-8 Storage of Grains 2-9 Measuring rod and rolled string 2-10 Tablet of Temple [attached] 2-11 Ziggurat (Stairway to Heaven) 2-12 Cylinder Seal 2-13 Mathematical System 2-14 Surgical Thongs 2-15 Medical Radiation Treatment 2-16 Toga-style Clothing 2-17 Headdress 2-18 Head Jewelry 2-19 Horse Power 2-20 Harp Playing 2 Ancient Cities [attached] 3-21 Battle between Zeus and Typhon 3-22 Aphrodite 3-23 Jupiter 3-24 Taurus, Celestial Bull 3-25 Hittite Warriors 3-26 Hittite Warriors and Deities 3-27 Hittite Male and Female Deities 3-28 Meeting of Great Gods 3-29 Deities Meeting, Beit-Zehir 3-30 Eye Goggles of Gods 3-31 Goggles on Rocket-Like Objects 3-32 Teshub, God of Thunder and Lightning 3-33 Evil Serpent-God 3-34 God Tesheba Standing on a Bull 3-35 El, Senior Canaanite Deity 3-36 Goddess Anat 3-37 God with Horned Headgear 3-38 The Winged Globe 3-39 Horus, a Winged and Horned Deity 3-40 Gods Arriving by Boat 3-41 Investiture of the King Zimri-Lim 3-42 Hands clasped in Prayer 4-43 AN = Star = Heavens = God 4-44 Anu and Antu being carried 4-45 Enlil and Ninlil being served 4-46 Lord Bright-Eye 4-47 Ninhursag, the Chief Nurse 4-48 The Cutter of Mammu 4-49 Who launched Bolts of Light 4-50 Marduk 4-51 Hammurabi receiving the Laws 4-52 Ishtar showing her Body 4-53 Ishtar as War Goddess 4-54 Inanna in an unseemly Place 4-55 Blessing by Adad and Ishtar 4-56 The God Ishkur 4-57 God Battling God 5-58 A decorative Attachment to the God‘s Clothing 5-59 Inanna/Ishtar with Wings 5-60 The Goddess with a Vase 5-61 Goggles and Helmet 5-62 Helmet‘s Visor 5-63 Studded Uniform 5-64 Conical Helmet with elliptical Visors 5-65 Eye Figurines for Gods 5-66 Whirlwinds of Antiquity 5-67 Platform of Mu 5-68 Standing and Cruising Rockets 5-69 Propelled Rocket in the Sky 5-70 Various Space Rockets 5-71 Chamber Decorated by Twelve Globes 5-72 Stelae as Eternal Abode 5-73 Opening of Mouth Ceremony 5-74 Confrontation between Armed Gods 5-75 Humans advancing on a Shem 5-76 Guardians of Gods 5-77 Underground Rocket Shaft 5-78 Eagle with Launch Tower 5-79 Emblem of Apollo 11 5-80 Eagle Men Saluting a Shem 5-81 Eagle Men with Tree of Life 5-82 Utu/Shamash with eagle Costume 5-83 A Multistage Space Rocket 6-86 A Circular Cluster of Petals Radiating from a Central Point 6-87 Gateway of Anu 6-88 Gateway of Anu on Cylinder Seal 6-89 View of Central Celestial Body 6-90 The Vault of Heaven 6-91 Sphere with Zodiacal Constellations on Atlas 6-92 Two Bull-Men Holding up a Globe 6-93 Pictorial Representations of the Zodiac 6-95 The Celestial Sphere 6-96 Entering the Age of Aquarius 6-97 Constellations of Taurus (Bull) and Leo (Lion) 6-98 Signs of the Zodiac and the Solar System 7-99 Depiction of the Solar System 7-100 Drawing of the Solar System 7-101 Solar System on Cylinder Seal 7-102 In the Beginning: Sun, Mercury, Tiamat. 7-103 The Inner Planets—the „Gods in the Midst“—come forth. 7-104 The SHAR‘s—the Giant Planets—are created, together with their Emissary. 7-107 The Celestial Battle, A 7-109 Marduk Shooting Lightning at Tiamat 7-110 New Solar System 8-111 Orbit of Marduk 8-112 The Winged Globe 8-113 Twelfth Planet in the Sky 8-114 The Re-appearance of the Twelfth Planet 8-115 The Radiant Planet 9-116 Esarhaddon with Gods Depicted 9-117 Enlil’s Seven-Pointed Star 9-118 Pictograph of Pioneer 10 9-119 Venus/Ishtar as Eight-Pointed Star 9-120 Mars as Six-Pointed Star 9-122 Tablet with Planisphere 9-123 Route Map 9-124 Directional Indications 10-126 Oannes 10-127 A Lonely Outpost on an Alien Planet 10-128 Enki in His Boat 10-129 Structure with Antennas 10-130 Landing Site on Ararat Meridian 10-131 Nippur Marked on Map 10-133 (133a-133c) Various Forms of Antennae 10-134 Portable Communication Box 10-135 Radar/Observation Scanner 10-136 Ziggurat with Antennae 10-137 Measurements of Ziggurat 10-138 Directional System of Ziggurat 11-139 Excavation Shaft 11-140 Ea, Teacher of Mining Techniques 11-141 Ingot 11-142 Ea with Bearers of Ingots 11-143 Depictions of Mine Shafts 11-144 Other Depictions of Mine Shafts 11-145 Round-trip around Africa 11-146 Ea with Miner‘s Rock Saw 11-147 Ea with Flowing Waters 11-148 God Toils Underground 12-149 Ape-Man among his Animal Friends 12-150 Artificial Human Mix-ups 12-151 Preparing the Mixtures 12-152 Urging Each Other to Proceed 12-153 Presenting the Newborn 13-154 Man Serving Naked 13-155 Man Toiling Naked 13-156 Sexual Intercourse with Animals 13-157 Products from the same Mold 13-158 A Serpent Entwined on a Tree 13-159 Enki with Reproduction Gods 14-160 Ea Reveals the Secret 15-161 Indus Valley Civilization 15-162 Pyramids as Ziggurats 15-163 Human Looking Gods wearing Horned Headdresses 15-164 Cross Symbol J J J J J I I I I I Author‘s Note The prime source for the biblical verses quoted in The Twelfth Planet is the Old Testament in its original Hebrew text. It must be borne in mind that all the translations consulted—of which the principal ones are listed at the end of the book—are just that: translations or interpretations. In the final analysis, what counts is what the original Hebrew says. In the final version quoted in The Twelfth Planet , I have compared the available translations against each other and against the Hebrew source and the parallel Sumerian and Akkadian texts/tales, to come up with what I believe is the most accurate rendering. The rendering of Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Hittite texts has engaged a legion of scholars for more than a century. Decipherment of script and language was followed by transcribing, transliterating, and finally, translating. In many instances, it was possible to choose between differing translations or interpretations only by verifying the much earlier transcriptions and transliterations. In other instances, a late insight by a contemporary scholar could throw new light on an early translation. The list of sources for Near Eastern texts, given at the end of this book, thus ranges from the oldest to the newest, and is followed by the scholarly publications in which valuable contributions to the understanding of the texts were found. Z. SITCHIN Prologue Genesis. At a time when our own astronauts have landed on the Moon and our unmanned spacecraft explore other planets, it is no longer impossible to believe that a civilization on another planet more advanced than ours was capable of landing its astronauts on the planet Earth at some time in the past. Indeed, a number of popular writers have speculated that ancient artifacts such as the pyramids and giant stone sculptures must have been fashioned by advanced visitors from another planet. There is, however, little novelty in such intriguing speculation. Even the ancient peoples themselves believed that superior beings "from the heavens"—the ancient gods—came down to Earth. What no popular writer on the subject provides is answers . If, indeed, such beings did come to Earth, when did they come, how did they come, from where did they come, and what did they do here during their stay? What we propose to do is to provide answers to these questions. Using the Old Testament as our anchor, and submitting as evidence nothing but the texts, drawings, and artifacts left us by the ancient peoples of the Near East, we will go beyond the intriguing questions and the provocative suggestions. We will prove that Earth was indeed visited in its past by astronauts from another planet. We will identify the planet from which these astronauts came. We will decipher a sophisticated ancient cosmology that explains better than our present sciences how Earth and other parts of the solar system came into being. We will lay bare ancient reports of a celestial collision, as a result of which an intruding planet was captured into the Sun's orbit, and show that all the ancient religions were based on the knowledge and veneration of this twelfth member of our solar system.