SITCHIN TSUNAMI (10,900 B.C.E.)

THE "TSUNAMI" OF 10,900 B.C.

Major catastrophes that befall Mankind are sometimes spoken of as being of "biblical proportions" to describe their immensity. The words have been used these days to convey the immensity of the calamity that befell the peoples and lands of the coastlines of the Indian Ocean, when an underwater earthquake caused a "Tsunami", a tidal wave that spread across thousands of miles of ocean waters and, hitting land, crushed all before it.

Few if any of the news reporters who used the "biblical proportions" terminology may have realized how appropriate the analogy is; for some 13,000 years ago a huge tidal wave, a "Tsunami" if you will, overwhelmed the ancient lands and their inhabitants; except that that time, the tidal wave rose not thirty feet but many thousands of feet and more!

Then, as now, it was a news story that dominated all news. The Bible, in fact, treated it to be such a major story that it devoted to it three full chapters in Genesis. It is the record of the Deluge -- the Great Flood -- that overwhelmed the Earth and came close to wiping Mankind off the face of the Earth.

Not Rain But a Tidal Wave

The ancient catastrophe, for centuries known only from the Bible, is now known to have been first recorded by the Sumerians. Their writings on the subject have been rendered in my very first book, The 12th Planet. Those sources make clear that the Anunnaki 'gods' -- unlike the modern scientists who failed to predict the current Tsunami -- were aware of the looming calamity. Their leader, Enlil, saw it is an opportunity to get rid of Mankind and its evil doings; his brother Enki connived to save the "seed of Mankind" by instructing his faithful devotee, Utnapishtim (the biblical Noah) to build the submersible boat and save himself and his family.

The Anunnaki were aware of what is about to happen, I wrote in The 12th Planet and then in Divine Encounters, because they were monitoring the buildup of the ice sheet over Antarctica, and anticipated that the next passage of their planet Nibiru near Earth would cause the ice sheet to slip and slide off the Antarctica continent -- creating an immense tidal wave that will overwhelm near and far landmasses:

Quoting the Sumerian, Akkadian and biblical texts, I pointed out that although heavy rains did follow as Earth's ice age abruptly ended, it was a tidal wave that caused the Great Flood. It was a tidal storm from the south, from Antarctica, that sent walls of water crushing over all the ancient lands, taking more than a year to subside.

December 2004 Zecharia Sitchin

On The Trail of “Planet X”

THE CASE OF THE FRENCH ASTRONOMER

In ancient Sumer the highlight of the New Year celebration was the public reading of Enuma Elish, the “Epic of Creation.” Scholars have treated the long text (inscribed on seven clay tablets) as an allegory of a struggle between good and evil, between a benevolent celestial god and a celestial monster.

In my books I treated the ancient text as a sophisticated scientific cosmogony about the formation of our solar system, and a celestial collision in which a planet called “Tiamat” was destroyed by the invading planet “Nibiru,” bringing about the Earth and the Moon. Nibiru (renamed “Marduk” by the Babylonians) itself was caught into permanent elongated orbit around the Sun, becoming the twelfth member of our Solar System (the Sumerians counted the Sun, the Moon, and – with Nibiru – ten planets).

The Unavoidable Collision

Many astronomers and astrophysicists, struggling to explain the Asteroid Belt (between Mars and Jupiter) and the origin of our Moon, find it unavoidable to include a celestial collision in their explanatory theories.

The British weekly New Scientist devoted the cover of a recent issue to “The Planet That Stalked the Earth.” The long lead article offers theories about a “rogue planet” involved in the collision. What I found most fascinating in the article’s suggestions is its calling the enigmatic planet THEIA – without explaining why. Was someone thinking of Tiamat?

A ‘Phantom Planet’
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While checking the links on the FAVORITES page of: http://www.truthquestonline.info , for updates I came across this on the Zecharia Sitchin website. It goes well with one of the topics added to the RESEARCH page this month: "ATLANTIS-Lost Continent, Found. Of course it helps if you have read some of his books. I have a lot of them in our home library, and they are listed on the LIBRARY page. If you are interested in borrowing-by-mail, any let me know.
Best wishes, Bob