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It was reported as “unsold and destroyed” to the publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this “stripped book.” TABLE OF CONTENTS Update vi Foreword 1 1 El Dorado 3 2 The Lost Realm of Cain? 20 3 Realm of the Serpent Gods 43 4 Skywatchers in the Jungles 65 5 Strangers from across the Seas 86 6 Realm of the Golden Wand 111 7 The Day the Sun Stood Still 132 8 The Ways of Heaven 155 9 Cities Lost and Found 175 10 “Baalbek of the New World” 206 11 A Land of Which the Ingots Come 228 12 Gods of the Golden Tears 253 Sources 276 Index 287 — UPDATE The Lost Realms, the fourth book of The Earth Chronicles series, has become a must-book for travelers to the lands of the pre- Colombian civilizations in the New World, not only because it describes in meticulous detail their key archaeological sites, but also because it does so in the context of their links to the “Old World” and the overall tale of gods and men on the planet they have come to share. As with other volumes in this series, discoveries and scientific advances since the book’s first publication have corroborated and enhanced its underlying tenets and inescapable conclusions. In regard to prehistoric times, they affirmed—in the face of immense Establishment resistance—that the earliest settlers of the Americas did not arrive overland in the north during an ice age, but came by boats across the Pacific Ocean in the south. This has been what this book had held on the basis of the legends or “myths” of the Mesoamerican and South American peoples. Those new scientific findings fortified this author’s long-held belief that Mankind’s pre- historic tales, which scholars dismiss as imagined myths, are in fact retained memories of actual events and ancient knowledge. Regarding historic times, the new discoveries affirmed the book’s conclusions about millennia L old links between the New World and Old World, and the identity of the gods credited with granting the New World civilization—the Sumerian/Hittite god Adad/Teshub as “Viracocha” of South America, and the Sumerian/Egyptian god Ningishzidda/Thoth as “Quetzalcoatl” of Mesoamerica. Two unconnected yet related events illustrate the validity of our conclusions regarding the mystery of the African Olmecs. I wrote that they arrived with Thoth in Mesoamerica in 31 13 b.c. Confirmation came when, in 2000, in his book Leap of Faith, the astronaut Gordon Cooper described how an assignment took him to Mexico and his team stumbled on Olmec ruins. Government archaeologists were called in; “the age of the ruins,” he wrote, “was confirmed: 3000 b.c.” He joined me in a radio interview, in which the Olmec date of 3000 b.c. was reaffirmed. The enigma of the Bearded Ones—obvious Near Eastern people remains, but the evidence for their presence in Mayan times is over- whelming. Perhaps it was they who brought back to the Mediterranean lands the tales about Atlantis. If so, the legend of Atlantis may well be one more echo of Mankind’s memories—as this book is. Zecharia Sitchin New York, October 2006 FOREWORD In the annals of Europe the discovery of the New World bears the imprint of El Dorado — the relentless search for gold. But little did the conquistadores realize that they were only replay- ing a search, on Earth and in these new lands, that had taken place eons earlier! Buried under the records and tales of avarice, plunder, and wanton destruction that the newly found riches had triggered, there is also evidence in the chronicles of that time of how be- wildered the Europeans had been to come upon civilizations that were so akin to those of the Old World: kingdoms and royal courts, cities and sacred precincts, art and poetry, sky-high tem- ples, priests — and the symbol of the cross and a belief in a Cre- ator of All. Last but not least, there were the legends of white and bearded gods who had left but did promise to return. The mysteries and enigmas of the Maya, the Aztecs, the Incas, and their predecessors that puzzled the conquistadores still baffle scholar and layman alike five centuries later. How, when, and why did such great civilizations arise in the New World, and is it mere coincidence that the more that is known about them, the more they appear to have been molded after the civilizations of the ancient Near East? It is our contention that the answers can be found only by accepting as fact, not as myth, the presence on Earth of the Anunnaki, “Those Who From Heaven to Earth Came.” This book offers the evidence. 1 — 1 EL DORADO Nowadays Toledo is a quiet provincial city situated about an hour’s drive south of Madrid; yet hardly does a visitor to Spain miss seeing it, for within its walls there have been preserved the monuments of diverse cultures and the lessons of history. Its beginnings, local legends tell, go back two millennia be- fore the Christian era and its foundation is attributed to the biblical descendants of Noah. Its name, many hold, comes from the Hebrew Toledoth (“Generational Histories”); its olden homes and magnificent houses of worship bear witness to the Christianization of Spain — the rise and fall of the Moors and their Moslem dominion and the uprooting of the splendid Jew- ish heritage. For Toledo, for Spain, and for all other lands, 1492 was a pivotal year, for a triple history was made therein. All three events took place in Spain, a land geographically known as “Iberia”— a name for which the only explanation can be found in the term Ibri (“Hebrew”) by which its earliest settlers might have been known. Having lost the greater part of Iberia to the Moslems, the warring splintered kingdoms in the peninsula saw their first major union when Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile married in 1469. Within ten years of the union they launched a military campaign to roll back the Moors and bring Spain under the banner of Catholicism; in January 1492 the Moors were decisively defeated with the fall of Granada, and Spain was made a Christian land. In March of that same year, the king and queen signed an edict for the expulsion from Spain, by July 31 of that year, of all Jews who would not convert to Christianity by that time. And on August 3 of that same year, Christopher Columbus—Cristobal Colon to the Spaniards sailed under the Spanish flag to find a western route to India. He sighted land on October 12, 1492. He returned to Spain in January 1493. As proof of his success he brought back four 3 4 THE LOST REALMS “Indians”; as corroboration of his contention that a larger, sec- ond expedition under his command was justified, he brought with him a collection of golden trinkets obtained from the na- tives and tales of a city, a golden city, where the people wore golden bracelets on their arms and legs and adorned their necks and ears and noses with gold, all this gold coming from a fabu- lous mine near that city.