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The Twelfth Planet
by Z. Stichin
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GENESIS
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.
THE OLD TESTAMENT has filled my life from childhood. When the seed for this book was planted,
nearly fifty years ago, I was totally unaware of the then raging Evolution versus Bible debates. But as a
young schoolboy studying Genesis in its original Hebrew, I created a confrontation of my own. We were
reading one day in Chapter VI that when God resolved to destroy Mankind by the Great Flood, "the sons
of the deities", who married the daughters of men, were upon the Earth. The Hebrew original named
them Nefilim; the teacher explained it meant "giants"; but I objected: didn't it mean literally "Those Who
Were Cast Down", who had descended to Earth? I was reprimanded and told to accept the traditional
interpretation.
In the ensuing years, as I have learned the languages and history and archaeology of the ancient Near
East, the Nefilim became an obsession. Archaeological finds and the deciphering of Sumerian,
Babylonian, Assyrian, Hittite, Canaanite and other ancient texts and epic tales increasingly confirmed
the accuracy of the biblical references to the kingdoms, cities, rulers, places, temples, trade routes,
artifacts, tools and customs of antiquity. Is it not now time, therefore, to accept the word of these same
ancient records regarding the Nefilim as visitors to Earth from the heavens?
The Old Testament repeatedly asserted: "The throne of Yahweh is in heaven" - "from heaven did the
Lord behold the Earth". The New Testament spoke of "Our Father, which art in Heaven". But the
credibility of the Bible was shaken by the advent and general acceptance of Evolution. If Man evolved,
then surely he could not have been created all at once by a Deity who, premeditating, had suggested "Let
us make Adam in our image and after our likeness". All the ancient peoples believed in gods who had
descended to Earth from the heavens and who could at will soar heavenwards. But these tales were
never given credibility, having been branded by scholars from the very beginning as myths.
The writings of the ancient Near East, which include a profusion of astronomical texts, clearly speak of a
planet from which these astronauts or "gods" had come. However, when scholars, fifty and one hundred
years ago, deciphered and translated the ancient lists of celestial bodies, our astronomers were not yet
aware of Pluto (which was only located in 1930). How then could they be expected to accept the
evidence of yet one more member of our solar system? But now that we too, like the ancients, are aware
of the planets beyond Saturn, why not accept that ancient evidence for the existence of the Twelfth
Planet?
As we ourselves venture into space, a fresh look and an acceptance of the ancient scriptures is more than
timely. Now that astronauts have landed on the Moon, and un-manned 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 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 - for surely
primitive man could not have possessed by himself the required technology? How was it, for another
example, that the civilization of Sumer seemed to flower so suddenly nearly 6,000 years ago without a
precursor? But since these writers usually fail to show when, how and, above all, from where such
ancient astronauts did come - their intriguing questions remain unanswered speculations.
It has taken thirty years of research, of going back to the ancient sources, of accepting them literally, to
re-create in my own mind a continuous and plausible scenario of pre-historic events. The Twelfth Planet,
therefore, seeks to provide the reader with a narrative giving answers to the specific questions of When,
How, Why and Wherefrom.
The evidence I adduce consists primarily of the ancient texts and pictures themselves.
In The Twelfth Planet I have sought to decipher a sophisticated cosmogony which explains, perhaps as
well as modern scientific theories, how the solar system could have been formed, an invading planet
caught into solar orbit, and Earth and other parts of the solar system brought into being.
The evidence I offer includes celestial maps dealing with space flight to Earth from that Planet, the
Twelfth. Then, in sequence, follow the dramatic establishment of the first settlements on Earth by the
Nefilim: their leaders were named; their relationships, loves, jealousies, achievements and struggles
described; the nature of their "immortality" explained.
Above all, The Twelfth Planet aims to trace the momentous events that led to the creation of Man, and
the advanced methods by which this was accomplished.
It then suggests the tangled relationship between Man and his lords, and throws fresh light on the
meaning of the events in the Garden of Eden, of the Tower of Babel, of the great Flood. Finally, Man -
endowed by his makers biologically and materially- - ends up crowding his gods off the Earth.
This book suggests that we are not alone in our solar system. Yet it may enhance rather than diminish
the faith in a universal Almighty. For, if the Nefilim created Man on Earth, they may have only been
fulfilling a vaster Master Plan.
Z. SITCHIN New York, February 1977
THE ENDLESS BEGINNING
OF THE EVIDENCE that we have amassed to support our conclusions, exhibit number one is Man
himself. In many ways, modern man - Homo sapiens - is a stranger to Earth.
Ever since Charles Darwin shocked the scholars and theologians of his time with the evidence of
evolution, life on Earth has been traced through Man and the primates, mammals, and vertebrates, and
backward through ever-lower life forms to the point, billions of years ago, at which life is presumed to
have begun.
But having reached these beginnings and having begun to contemplate the probabilities of life elsewhere
in our solar system and beyond, the scholars have become un-easy about life on Earth: Somehow, it does
not belong here. If it began through a series of spontaneous chemical reactions, why does life on Earth
have but a single source, and not a multitude of chance sources? And why does all living matter on Earth
contain too little of the chemical elements that abound on Earth, and too much of those that are rare on
our planet?
Was life, then, imported to Earth from elsewhere?
Man's position in the evolutionary chain has compounded the puzzle. Finding a broken skull here, a jaw
there, scholars at first believed that Man originated in Asia some 500,000 years ago. But as older fossils
were found, it became evident that the mills of evolution grind much, much slower. Man's ancestor apes
are now placed at a staggering 25,000,000 years ago. Discoveries in East Africa reveal a transition to
manlike apes (hominids) some 14,000,000 years ago. It was about 11,000,000 years later that the first
ape-man worthy of the classification Homo
appeared there.
The first being considered to be truly manlike - "Advanced Australopithecus" - existed in the same parts
of Africa some 2,000,000 years ago. It took yet another million years to produce Homo erectus.
Finally, after another 900,000 years, the first primitive Man appeared; he is named Neanderthal after the
site where his remains were first found.
In spite of the passage of more than 2,000,000 years between Advanced Australopithecus and
Neanderthal, the tools of these two groups - sharp stones - were virtually alike; and the groups
themselves (as they are believed to
have looked) were hardly distinguishable.
Then, suddenly and inexplicably, some 35,000 years ago, a new race of Men - Homo sapiens ("thinking
Man") - appeared as if from nowhere, and swept Neanderthal Man from the face of Earth. These
modern Men - named Cro-Magnon - looked so much like us that, if dressed like us in modern clothes,
they would be lost in the crowds of any European or American city. Because of the magnificent cave art
which they created, they were at first called "cavemen." In fact, they roamed Earth freely, for they knew
how to build shelters and homes of stones and animal skins wherever they went.
For millions of years, Man's tools had been simply stones of useful shapes. Cro-Magnon Man, however,
made specialized tools and weapons of wood and bones. He was no longer a "naked ape," for he used
skins for clothing. His society was organized; he lived in clans with a patriarchal hegemony. His cave
drawings bespeak artistry and depth of feeling; his drawings and sculptures evidence some form of
"religion," apparent is the worship of a Mother Goddess, who was sometimes depicted with the sign of
the Moon's crescent. He buried his dead, and must therefore have had some philosophies regarding life,
death, and perhaps even an afterlife.
As mysterious and unexplained as the appearance of Cro-Magnon Man has been, the puzzle is still more
complicated. For, as other remains of modern Man were discovered (at sites including Swanscombe,
Steinheim, and Montmaria), it became apparent that Cro-Magnon Man stemmed from an even earlier
Homo sapiens who lived in western Asia and North Africa some 2500000 years before Cro-Magnon
Man.
The appearance of modern Man a mere 700,000 years after Homo erectus and some 200,000, years
before Neanderthal Man is absolutely implausible. It is also clear that Homo sapiens represents such an
extreme departure from the slow evolutionary process that many of our features, such as the ability to
speak, are totally un-related to the earlier primates.
An outstanding authority on the subject, Professor Theodosius Dobzhansky (Mankind Evolving), was
especially puzzled by the fact that this development took place during a period when Earth was going
through an ice age, a most unpropitious time for evolutionary advance. Pointing out that Homo sapiens
lacks completely some of the peculiarities of the previously known types, and has some that never
appeared before, he concluded: "Modern man has many fossil collateral relatives but no progenitors; the
derivation of Homo sapiens, then, becomes a puzzle."
How, then, did the ancestors of modern Man appear some 300,000 years ago - instead of 2,000,000 or
3,000,000 years in the future, following further evolutionary development? Were we imported to Earth
from elsewhere, or were we, as the Old Testament and other ancient sources claim, created by the gods?
We now know where civilization began and how it developed, once it began. The unanswered question
is: Why - why did civilization come about at all? For, as most scholars now admit in frustration, by all
data Man should still be without civilization. There is no obvious reason that we should be any more
civilized than the primitive tribes of the Amazon jungles or the inaccessible parts of New Guinea,
But, we are told, these tribesmen still live as if in the Stone Age because they have been isolated. But
isolated from what? If they have been living on the same Earth as we, why have they not acquired the
same knowledge of sciences and technologies on their own as we supposedly have?
The real puzzle, however, is not the backwardness of the Bushmen, but our advancement; for it is now
recognized that in the normal course of evolution Man should still be typified by the Bushmen and not
by us. It took Man some 2,000,000 years to advance in his "tool industries" from the use of stones as he
found them to the realization that he could chip and shape stones to better suit his purposes. Why not
another 2,000,000 years to learn the use of other materials, and another 10,000,000 years to master
mathematics and engineering and astronomy? Yet here we are, less than 50,000 years from Neanderthal
Man, landing astronauts on the Moon.
The obvious question, then, is this: Did we and our Mediterranean ancestors really acquire this advanced
civilization on our own?
Though Cro-Magnon Man did not build skyscrapers nor use metals, there is no doubt that his was a
sudden and revolutionary civilization. His mobility, ability to build shelters, his desire to clothe himself,
his manufactured tools, his art - all were a sudden high civilization breaking an endless beginning of
Man's culture that stretched over millions of years and advanced at a painfully slow pace.
Though our scholars cannot explain the appearance of Homo sapiens and the civilization of Cro-Magnon
Man, there is by now no doubt regarding this civilization's place of origin: the Near East. The uplands and
mountain ranges that extend in a semiarc from the Zagros Mountains in the east (where present-day Iran
and Iraq border on each other), through the Ararat and Taurus ranges in the north, then down, westward
and southward, to the hill lands of Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, are replete with caves where the evidence
of prehistoric but modern Man has been preserved.
One of these caves, Shanidar, is located in the north-eastern part of the semiarc of civilization.
Nowadays, fierce Kurdish tribesmen seek shelter in the area's caves for themselves and their flocks
during the cold winter months. So it was, one wintry night 44,000 years ago, when a family of seven
(one of whom was a baby) sought shelter in the cave of Shanidar.
Their remains - they were evidently crushed to death by a rockfall - were discovered in 1957 by a
startled Ralph Solecki, who went to the area in search of evidence of early Man (Professor Solecki has told me that
nine skeletons were found, of which only four were crushed by rockfall.) What he found was more than
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