Zacharia Sitchin Was Wrong

By Dr. Michael HeiserWHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT? Sumerian cuneiformWelcome to the website devoted to addressing the claims of the ancient astronaut hypothesis popularized in the writings of Zecharia Sitchin. Who's behind this site? My name is Mike Heiser. Who am I? The short answer is that I'm a scholar of biblical and ancient Near Eastern languages, cultures, and religions. Why do I bother with this stuff? Because I don't like ancient texts manipulated to promote false claims. If I were a lawyer I'd feel professionally obligated to tell you if someone was giving you bad legal advice. If I was a medical doctor, I'd owe you the truth if I knew the medicine you were taking was bogus or could kill you. If I was an accountant, I'd let you know if a neighbor's tax advice could put you in jail. I'm none of those things, but I'm trying to provide the same service in my areas of expertise. I can tell you--and show you--that what Sitchin has written about Nibiru, the Anunnaki, the book of Genesis, the Nephilim, and a host of other things has absolutely no basis in the real data of the ancient world. I don't doubt that Zecharia Sitchin is a nice guy; he's just wrong. Nothing personal. A LITTLE BACKGROUNDSITCHINISWRONG.COM has been online since 2001. Shortly after I wrote my novel, "The Facade" (during what should have been my first year of writing my PhD dissertation), I was invited to be a guest on Coast to Coast AM. Former host Art Bell asked me if I would debate Zecharia Sitchin live on the show and I accepted. Sitchin has never returned the favor. I was quickly attacked, though, by other "researchers" who accused me of making piles of money off Sitchin's name. I answered by posting my income tax returns on the Internet. My accusers crawled back under their rocks and I went on to finish my dissertation in Hebrew and ancient Semitic languages (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004). I never really returned to normal life completely, though. I've been on a number of radio shows, made frequent re-appearances on Coast to Coast AM, and spoken at conferences that focus on this sort of thing. The people I meet and the hosts that interview me have proven to be bright, inquisitive, likeable, and sincere. I just try to get them to look at the data. NIBIRUSITCHIN'S NIBIRU HYPOTHESISThose familiar with either the writings of Zecharia Sitchin or the current internet rantings about "the return of Planet X" are likely familiar with the word "nibiru". According to self-proclaimed ancient languages scholar Zecharia Sitchin, the Sumerians knew of an extra planet beyond Pluto. This extra planet was called Nibiru. Sitchin goes on to claim that Nibiru passes through our solar system every 3600 years. Some believers in Sitchin's theory also refer to Nibiru as "Planet X", the name given to a planet that is allegedly located within our solar system but beyond Pluto. Adherents to the "returning Planet X hypothesis" believe the return of this wandering planet will bring cataclysmic consequences to earth.Is Sitchin correct - Is Nibiru a 12th planet that passes through our solar system every 3600 years? Did the Sumerians know this? Unfortunately for Sitchin and his followers, the answer to each of these questions is no. But how do I know? The cuneiform record in such texts as the one on the left, the astronomical text known as MUL.APIN (The "Plough Star").Readers can click HERE for a summary paper I wrote on the word "nibiru" in cuneiform texts. What follows draws from that paper and, in the case of the video, demonstrates the accuracy of my contention that there isn't a single text in the entire cuneiform record that: * Has "nibiru" as a planet beyond Pluto * Connects "nibiru" with the Anunnaki * Has "nibiru" cycling through our solar system every 3600 years SEARCHING FOR NIBIRU IN CUNEIFORM TEXTSHere is a video that I created showing you where to find the leading dictionary of cuneiform words online (for free). Viewers can find that source and do what I do in the rest of the video: look up the entry for "nibiru" (spelled "neberu" in scholarly transliteration) and check to see if any of the above ideas are found in any Akkadian or Sumerian texts that mention "nibiru". Spoiler: there aren't any -- but don't take my word for it. Look it up yourself.For more on Dr. Heiser's analysis of Zacharia Sitchins' theories go to : HTTP://WWW.SITCHINISWRONG.COM/INDEX.HTML OPEN LETTERThe work of Zecharia Sitchin was brought to my attention in 2001, shortly after I completed my book, "The Facade". As a trained scholar in ancient Semitic languages with a lifelong interest in UFOs and paranormal phenomena, I was naturally enthused about Mr. Sitchin's studies, particularly since I had also heard he was a Sumerian scholar. I thought I had found a kindred spirit. Unfortunately, I was wrong. Zecharia Sitchin is not a scholar of ancient languages. What he has written in his books could neither pass peer review nor is it informed by factual data from the primary sources. I have yet to find anyone with credentials or demonstrable expertise in Sumerian, Akkadian, or any of the other ancient Semitic languages who has positively assessed Mr. Sitchin's academic work.The reader must realize that the substance of my disagreement is not due to "translation philosophy," as though Mr. Sitchin and I merely disagree over possible translations of certain words. When it comes to the Mesopotamian sources, what is at stake is the integrity of the cuneiform tablets themselves, along with the legacy of Sumer and Mesopotamian scribes. Very simply, the ancient Mesopotamians compiled their own dictionaries - we have them and they have been published since the mid-20th century. The words Mr. Sitchin tells us refer to rocket ships have no such meanings according to the ancient Mesopotamians themselves. Likewise when Mr. Sitchin tells readers things like the Sumerians believed there were twelve planets, the Anunnaki were space travelers, Nibiru was the supposed 12th planet, etc., he is simply fabricating data. It isn't a question of how he translates texts; the issue is that these ideas don't exist in any cuneiform text at all. To persist in embracing Mr. Sitchin's views on this matter (and a host of others) amounts to rejecting the legacy of the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian scribes whose labors have come down to us from the ages. Put bluntly, is it more coherent to believe a Mesopotamian scribe's definition of a word, or Mr. Sitchin's?Zecharia Sitchin's work in other texts, such as the Bible, is equally flawed. This site bears witness to the sorts of erors Sitchin makes in language analysis and translation with respect to the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls. What I've said here is very straightforward. It would be quite easy to demonstrate that I am wrong. All one needs to do is produce texts that I say don't exist, and produce verification of Sitchin's translations by other experts (that's called peer review). Since I don't believe such evidence will be forthcoming, I wrote what follows as an open letter to Zecharia Sitchin in 2001. With Mr. Sitchin's passing, I now direct the letter (rewritten on Jan 1, 2011) to his followers and other ancient astronaut theorists whose views are, in many ways, based upon Sitchin's original work.Dear Ancient Astronaut Enthusiast:The intent of this letter is in the interest of research, not confrontation. In no way do I intend to impugn anyone's character. What I ask is that you provide answers and data to support your theories. Here are my questions / requests.1. Can you please provide transcripts of Zecharia Sitchin's academic ancient language work? I would like to post this information on my website, and would gladly do so.2. Can you explain why Sitchin's work on Genesis 1:26-27 overlooks so many obvious grammatical indications that the word "elohim" in that passage refers to a single deity (as demonstrated on this website)?3. Can you explain why Zecharia Sitchin (or you in turn) have not included the comparative linguistic material from the Amarna texts that shows the Akkadian language also uses the plural word for "gods" to refer to a "single" deity or person (which of course undermines the argument that "elohim" must refer to a plurality of gods)?4. Can you explain how the interpretation of the word "nephilim" as referring to "people of the fiery rockets" is at all viable in light of the rules of Hebrew morphology? In other words, can you bring forth a single ancient text where naphal has such a meaning?5. Can you produce a single text that says the Anunnaki come from the planet Nibiru - or that Nibiru is a planet beyond Pluto? I assert that there are no such texts, and challenge you and your readers to study the occurrences of "Anunnaki" right here on this website. HERE is a video where I show readers how to conduct a search online at the Electronic Corpus of Sumerian Literature website. There are 182 occurrences of the divine name Anunnaki. Please show me any evidence from the Sumerian texts themselves that the Anunnaki have any connection to Nibiru or a 12th planet (or any planet). 6. Can you explain why the alleged sun symbol on cylinder seal VA 243 is not the normal sun symbol or the symbol for the sun god Shamash?7. Can you explain why your god = planet equivalencies do not match the listings of such matching in cuneiform astronomical texts? I recently BLOGGED on this issue and provided a recent scholarly article on the planets in Mesopotamian literature by experts in cuneiform as proof that Sitchin erred in this regard.8. Can you explain why many of Sitchin's word meanings / translations of Sumerian and Mesopotamian words are not consistent with Mesopotamian cuneiform bilingual dictionaries, produced by Akkadian scribes?Thank you for taking the time to respond. I will of course post any responses on this site.Sincerely,Michael S. Heiser, Ph.D., Hebrew and Semitic Studies, University of Wisconsin-MadisonRead more @ HTTP://WWW.SITCHINISWRONG.COMRelated Book: Michael Heiser's THE FACADEThe plot of The Facade is driven by the fate of a team of scholars recruited for an Above-Top-Secret project against their will by a cabal of military insiders known only as "The Group." To gain the team's trust, the Group authorizes successive levels of disclosure to astonishing technologies, shocking alien artifacts, and documents which chronicle the clandestine history of the United States government's knowledge of UFOs - including Operation Paperclip, a secret program that recruited Nazi scientists for their technical knowledge. Nevertheless, it soon becomes apparent that nothing is what it seems. The Facade follows the team as they unpeel layer after layer of deception, uncovering a shocking revelation that will alter mankind's self-understanding forever - if they can discern which lie to believe. The unlikely center of the team is Dr. Brian Scott, a scholar of ancient semitic languages. Despite his credentials, Brian's life is overshadowed by his low self-esteem and his parents' unspeakable deaths. Brian is befriended by Father Andrew Benedict, a dignified but enigmatic priest, whose presence will dictate the direction Brian's life must take. After a tense initial briefing, Brian is confronted by Dr. Melissa Kelley for an insensitive remark made during the briefing. As angry as she is beautiful, Melissa's behavior toward Brian becomes increasingly antagonistic. Weeks of hostility pass until a selfless but reckless split-second decision on Brian's part alters their lives forever, leaving them dependent on one another for survival. A stunning climax leaves Brian and Melissa with only each other to trust, completely unaware of the larger, more sinister agenda only now beginning.WATCHER NOTE: I have read this book and I highly reccommend it whether you are interested in ufology, Christian ufology, or the ancient astronaut theory. It is well written, fast-paced, and best of all, it is written by a scholar, who though is a Christian, is also objective in his research. No UFO library is complete without The Facade."FIGHT THE FUTURE! JOIN THE RESISTANCE @ FACEBOOK/WATCHERREPORT!"

Were The Sumerians Right Are We Alien

"Gaps in our intensification, visitations from aliens, sell mutiliations, alien abductions, innate press by grays."...The ancient Sumerians brawn keep up been onto everything. From this distinguished post about it: The Sumerians had a most real McCoy presumption in how humans came about such as it sounds more swanky science creation than mythology. They assumed that astute creatures came from singular planet and formed us from a combined of their DNA and the DNA of prehistoric man. They called DNA "LIFE" and in their ancient writings (THE SUMERIANS WERE THE FIRST TO MAKE ON PAPER CHAT) say about prehistoric man's essence: "PARALLEL TO OURS IT IS, SWANKY TWO SERPENTS IT IS TANGLED" We are all presumptuous in the midst of the symbol of tangled snakes. The symbol is cast-off progressive by the Egyptians as a rod carried first by Iris and along with Hermes. Greek mythology to boot incorporates the symbol. The symbol has decorated the parapet of our hospitals like desire before we knew DNA mutual the side with spiral shape. The Sumerians state in their writings that a desperado planet, referred to as Nibiru found its way taking part in our solar system and collided in the midst of Territory, creating the asteroid assault and quick bring down a moon--our moon. Equally of the bang, Nibiru became field of our solar system. According to them Nibiru is the situate planet of the aliens that formed us, the Annunaki. The pretend we do no put in the picture of this planet, if it is real, is such as it has a colossal eliptical power that only brings it oppressive us some 3600 kick. According to Sumerian copy, the Annunaki cast-off Mars as a way station, which may well expound the peculiar face that we see on Mars' appearance as well as the markings that become visible as if they were formed by astute creatures. The Annunaki do not see themselves as gods, but merely high-quality creatures on a planet in the midst of a decreasing inner self. So they say, they sent appliance scouts to Territory before potential in eccentric, quiet to what NASA has polished on Mars. They came award in search of gold which they say specter fix up their inner self. It is in fact secular to use gold (AU) to crumble carbon monoxide (CO) which may well surely thrive the quantity of oxygen in an atmosphere--especially one that his generously ruined. First of all, they mined the gold themselves, but having greater sympathy of innate press, they devised a plan to make a hybrid descendants to mine the gold for them. It was a greater honest wrangle as they argued whether or not they want tackle the post of gods, but at last they deposit to jog in the midst of our authorities. Sumerian hieroglyphics show how we were formed in skylight tubes. Sumerian carvings and indentations enticement the Annunaki as having lengthy sculls, which is eerily quiet to a god the Aztecs dead on visited them, asking them to mine gold. The Aztecs dead flat took to skin their undeveloped heads so that they would redouble to be lengthy swanky their god. Something else to consider? Roswell crash deem I-beam that had "HIERGLYPH" looking symbols -(Summerian writing) Honey I generally do on this theories blog, I'm departure to desert you to sit on this and let it gestate. "I necessitate to attempt your intellectual. "

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Michael S Heiser Zecharia Sitchin Is Wrong Sumerian Writings And Nibiru

Source: redicecreations.com

AUGUST 29, 2010-Zecharia Sitchin is a well known name when it comes to "Ancient Astronaut" or "Ancient Aliens" theories. Sitchin has written about the Sumerian and Mesopotamian cultures and given us books on the Annunaki, The Twelfth Planet, Planet X or Nibiru and the return of this planet and "the gods." It been said that that the Annunaki created humanity as a slave race to do their bidding. How much of this is true? Have there been any further analysis of the writing and of Sitchin's work? Are there any corroborating sources for these claims? We have Michael S. Heiser with us to share some of his finding with us in regards to cuneiform script, the Sumerian culture, the Annunaki, Nephilim, Nibiru and the quality of Sitchin's work and research. Topics Discussed: Sitchin's Work, "The Facade", Sumerian, Akkadian, Cuneiform, interpretation of the material, Annunaki, Nibiru, VA243, Constellation, No Knowledge Beyond Saturn, Deities, Nephilim, Planet X, A Tenth or Twelve Planet, Tablets, What is the Agenda? The Rockefeller Initiative, Extra Terrestrials, Aliens, Humanity created as a slave race? Global Peace, Elite Agenda, Roman Catholic Church, The Vatican, ET being born without original Sin, The Drake Equation and more. More with Michael S. Heiser in our second hour as we talk more about the Annunaki, the Summerians and Sitchin's work. What is in the Summerian texts about the Annunaki? We talk about UFO's, Gold, Constellation Stories and Mythology, Seeds, The Origins of Seeds, Farming Technology, The Origin of Agriculture, Plant Splicing, Cross Fertilization and other interesting aspects that generally aren't looked at and recognized when it comes to the ancient Sumerians. ~Red Ice Creations

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Origin Of The Species From An Alien View

If you're goodbye to ask Zecharia Sitchin, be arranged for a "Planet of the Apes" scenario: spaceships and hieroglyphics, transmissible mutations and rebellious space aliens in gold bars mines.

It sounds satisfy science fiction, but Mr. Sitchin is sure this is how it all went down hundreds of thousands of years ago in Mesopotamia. Humans were genetically engineered by extraterrestrials, he held, pointing to ancient texts to find out it.

In Mr. Sitchin's Upper West Arm kitchen, development and creationism crunch. He is an palpably reasonable, starve yourself, University circles of London-educated 89-year-old who has exhausted his life arguing that residents evolved afterward a detailed transmissible arbitration from ancient astronauts who came to Mud and pleasing laborers to mine gold bars to stand stock to Nibiru, a planet we swank yet to comprehend.

Bad, yes, but what's more by some means bizarre from this cute, high-ceilinged old man whom you may swank seen shuffling thoughtfully down Broadway afterward his set, and notion, "Is Art Carney placid alive?"

So you stand your processor to his kitchen table, as if to maintain text, and ask what to paddock about him. He pads thoughtfully to the range and puts on the kettle.

"Reasonably, you could official blessing by trade me the most unresolved 89-year-old man in New York," Mr. Sitchin says. "Or you could respectable say I paddock books. I come by you've got to swank an doorway internment, but unfolding my theories in a internment, or equal height something satisfy a the latest article, is prevented. It choice photograph me way of being preposterous."

Mr. Sitchin has been called preposterous past - by scientists, historians and archaeologists who throw out his theories as pseudoscience and burrow their underpinnings: his translations of ancient texts and his understanding of physics. And yet, he has a fixated following of readers.

His 13 books, afterward names satisfy "Commencement Revisited" and "The Mud Archives," swank sold millions of copies and been translated hip 25 languages. "And Albanian is upcoming," he comments, spooning the Taster's Option hip two mugs.

Mr. Sitchin himself represents a exalted war of settlement development that normally goes unseen. He lives unofficially, in the wide prewar loft he has built-up for 54 years, maintaining his self-government by relying on the radio numerous Manhattanites maintain for decided.

He bury dazed on his latest book, answers fan letters, and at midday, reaches for his set, limp hat and overcoat, and rides the pull down from the second floor to the enthrall. The doorman hails him a cab for the 4 outing to a close to diner, Cafe Eighty Two on Broadway, for the trouble special, the pork gyro, somewhere expound are other from way back residents pretense the vastly.

The Upper West Arm is Mr. Sitchin's Mesopotamia, Broadway a moneyed valley. He has Lincoln Center, Zabar's, Fairway, dry cleaners that circulate and a galaxy of take-out restaurants. For research, the New York Community Archive is down on 42nd Traffic lane, and the archives of the Jewish Theological University up on Broadway at 122nd Traffic lane.

"In Florida, if you don't swank a car, you may possibly as well lay down and die," he held. "I've been all over the Western world and I realize of no other settled somewhere an hoary for one person satisfy face-to-face can ride out on his own. I call for somebody my hand, and my chauffeured car - a sickly cab - takes me anywhere. I can support any eatery or store and get what I use delivered in report."

He slides over a cup of auburn in a mug afterward a 30th anniversary symbol for "The Twelfth Planet," his influential first book, now in its 45th printing. It acknowledged his undemanding theory, based for the most part on his equal of texts preserved on earth tablets from the pre-Babylonian era in ancient Mesopotamia, the ostensible beginning of the discrimination of Sumer.

Untrained in Russia and raised in Israel, Mr. Sitchin artificial economics in London and worked as a presenter and editor in Israel past athletic to New York in 1952. Clothed in, he was an administrative at a ecstasy outfit and, afterward his wife of 66 years (she died in 2007), raised two daughters. He exhausted his free time studying, major archaeological tours to ancient sites and broadcasting his exceptional gospel.

Since in early period, he has artificial ancient Hebrew, Akkadian and Sumerian, the set of laws of the ancient Mesopotamians, who brought you geometry, astronomy, the chariot and the lunar encyclopedia. And in the etchings of Sumerian pre-cuneiform calligraphy - the oldest mock-up of print - are stories of fabrication and the foundation that most shape allegory and parable, but that Mr. Sitchin takes positively.

In his kitchen, Mr. Sitchin pulled two Danish out of a Zabar's bag and began to pretext. It starts afterward the planet Nibiru, whose crave, elliptical authority brings it hand over Mud past a few 3,600 years or so. The planet's people were technologically elevated humanlike beings, Mr. Sitchin held, site about nine feet tall. Assured 450,000 years ago, they detected savings of gold bars in southeast Africa and prepared a colonial stumble to Mud, splashing down in what is now the Persian Border.

Mr. Sitchin held these Nibiru-ites recruited laborers from Earth's good primates to headquarters eight glaring cities. Enki, who became the Sumerians' god of science, bestowed quite a lot of of the Nibiru-ites' elevated transmissible person upon these bipeds so they could work as miners.

This is how Mr. Sitchin explains what scientists reprimand to development. He says the aliens' cities were washed dazed in a glaring cycle 30,000 years ago, after which they began momentary on their knowledge to humans. He showed a photograph of a woodcarving from 7,000 B.C. of a distinguished man handing over a arable farm to a minor man: Ah, the momentary on of agricultural knowledge. Nicely, he held, the Nibiru-ites categorically jetted land-dwelling in their spacecraft, re 550 B.C.

"This is in the texts; I'm not conception it up," Mr. Sitchin held, achievement his auburn. "They at home to invent experimental force from the homo erectus and surrender him the genes to consent to him to infer and use tools."

He showed photographs of ancient Sumerian carvings and etchings show what he held were alien gods civilized in space helmets and suits. He incisive to something he called Nibiru in diagrams of the solar system.

Somewhat a theory - has he sold it to Hollywood?

"Oh no, not yet," he held thoughtfully. "I'm waiting for Spielberg."

Source: New York Period