Where did
Anu and his family arrive from? What planet is the "Great
Anu" known as Nibiru to the Sumerians?
Our scientists
are currently in search of the Planet they call "X".
Could this mysterious Planet X causing perturbations in our outer
solar system be the renowned Nibiru?
The Babylonians
were heir to the Sumerian culture and had an extensive written
history of the legends of their civilization. In the Babylonian
text, Enuma Elish, (2000 B.C.) translated by George Smith in the
1800's, we find a very detailed creation legend. It reads like
the traditional Star Wars battle of good against evil, one benevolent
god against an angry, destructive god. The hero of this tale appears
to be Marduk who was the main deity of the Babylonian culture.
Marduk is also another name for the planet Nibiru.
Zecharia Sitchin's
writings tell us that the Enuma Elish is the tale of the creation
of our solar system approximately 4.6 billion years ago. He believes
that Marduk was Nibiru, that the named gods in the epic were,
in fact, the planets and that the winds could be translated as
satellites.
This Babylonian
historical document contains a detailed list of the gods and begins
"When on high the heaven had not been named" - going
on to locate the gods in the same distributive positions as we
know the planets of our solar system to occupy today. The planet
Nibiru, Marduk, is seen as coming from "the heart of the
deep" thrust into our solar system by some unknown cosmological
event. It appears that Marduk's orbit was clockwise, opposite
to the orbit of the planets we are familiar with which is counterclockwise.
This gave him perfect striking position.
Passing through
the solar system's line up of planets and being affected by many
different gravitational pulls, Marduk's path was diverted into
the heart of our solar system and directed toward an inevitable
collision with Tiamat, a watery planet, where "he unleashed
at her face". We read further: "The Lord trod upon Tiamat's
hinder part; with his weapon the connected skull he cut loose.
. . and caused the North Wind to bear it to places that have been
unknown".
Sitchin's
interpretation of the upper part of Tiamat (the "skull")
is that of our present day Earth. Marduk then returned once again
in its orbit colliding with what remained of Tiamat wherein he
"bent Tiamat's tail to form the Great Band as a bracelet".
If we are to accept this interpretation, we will see that in two
orbits Nibiru/Marduk created the Earth (as we know it) and the
Asteroid Belt in our heavens.
What does
present day Earth tell us about the possibility of this tale?
Taking a look at the Earth's crust, we have evidence that the
continental crust is about 20 miles thick on dry land with some
mountains extending down "into" the earth another 40
miles or so. But beneath the watery depths of the ocean, the crust
is only a rough 5 miles thick. Some pieces of the crust are 250
miles beneath the Earth's surface. This theory becomes even more
interesting due to the fact that the oceanic crust's life span
appears to have begun about 200 million years ago while the crust
measured on dry land comes in at an ancient 4 billion years.
The Enuma
Elish may explain it for us. It describes Earth as the surviving
half of an ancient planet, cut in half by the clash of the gods
- Tiamat and Marduk.
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