Zecharia Sitchin

This page serves as an easy access point for my thoughts about Zecharia Sitchin’s erroneous teachings related to ancient astronauts (Anunnaki). You can also find comments about Sitchin’s teachings in the PaleoBabble ancient astronauts archive.

VIDEOS

  • VIDEO 1: a video of me searching the Hebrew Biblewith the LOGOS Bible software for:
    • all occurrences of elohim in the Hebrew Bible;
    • all the places where elohim is demonstrated as singular through the grammar of subject-verb agreement;
    • all the places where elohim could legitimately be translated as a plural because of the verb.
    • all the places in the Hebrew Bible where the word elohim is identified as Yahweh–the singular God of Israel–showing that elohim is singular for context reasons.
    • (18.2 MB; 11:27 time)

PDF FILES

1. PDFs from Video 1

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  • L.Aubuchon

    Dear Dr Sir, aliens may or may not have visited Dirt in the past but to think that we are the smartest and only civilization in existence I believe is nuts (and a bit sad).

    • MSH

      well, once you prove another intelligent civilization actually exists, then you’ll have something to talk about. Until then, you’ve got nothing.

  • Sin

    Your feeble attempt to invalidate the brilliant work of the late Zecharia Sitchin is not only deplorable but is disrespectful to the highest degree.

    As one example of many, consider your “debunking” of his use of the term Anunnaki. Type it in a search box, and voila! Magically disproven. Right? Wrong.

    What you foolishly entered in your search box as ‘Anunnaki’ derives, in fact, from the Sumerian Tetragramaton ‘An.Nu.Na.Ki’ which means literally translates as “Star/Sky/God- Them/Many – Decend- Earth” or “those who from heaven to earth came”,

    Just as the term Nefilim derives from the Semetic root ‘npl’, meaning “to fall” or “to descend” and translates as “ones who have descended”.

    Zecharia Sitchin was one of a handful of scholars who could actually read Sumerian Cuneiform. Unless you dedicate your life to learning the language, stop bashing it or his ingenious nights such as ‘Din.Gir’, (which means ‘deity’) representing a multiple stage rocket ship. Just look at a picture of it for crying out loud:

    http://www.google.com/imgres?q=din.gir&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1024&bih=718&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=DOvEV3TwspAP3M:&imgrefurl=http://cumulus.planetess.com/Obelisk/ch7.htm&docid=vIVbtPmZDYYSLM&imgurl=http://cumulus.planetess.com/Obelisk/ch7.htg/dingir2.gif&w=331&h=249&ei=fhAjUJm1GYbciQLjs4DYDg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=287&vpy=163&dur=10&hovh=195&hovw=259&tx=97&ty=83&sig=115675625002141100569&page=1&tbnh=162&tbnw=215&start=0&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:78

    • MSH

      you know nothing about Sumerian and neither did Sitchin. Show me the tablet citations for his ET ideas. It’s soooo simple.

      And there are more than a handful of Sumerian scholars. I just spent the week with one (Dick Averbeck, who did his dissertation on the Gudea cylinders). We had some good laughs about Sitchin.

  • haibane13

    Have you heard of Mauro Biglino ? He’s apparently the new Stichin in town , although people give him more credit because he did some Hebrew translating work for the Vatican . Apparently anyone who can translate some words can be given the title of “Bearer of Truth” .

    • MSH

      yes; he’s as clueless as Sitchin if he doesn’t know the difference between morphology (the form of a word) and semantics (the meaning of a word). He repeats the same blundering comments about elohim meaning plural deities all over the place — like grammar doesn’t matter, and semantics isn’t separable from morphology.

  • http://paleobabble del

    evidence of the type you refer to may be forthcoming from a gentleman named lloyd pye. perhaps you’ve heard of the starchild skull and the preliminary dna test that shows it will almost certainly prove to be totaly alilen and totaly unlike any dna found in any creature on earth. i also notice you ridicule the idea that aliens came to earth to mine gold. since over 2000 ancient gold mines have been discovered in africa perhaps you can explain why our caveman ancestors needed gold.

    • MSH

      I know of two geneticists (one is public, one is a contact of my own) who aren’t at all impressed with Pye’s genetics testing. Funny how the Mesopotamian texts don’t mention this *need* for gold for *sustenance* for these presumed aliens. (I marked the key terms, anticipating a distortion of my statement).

  • http://palobabble del

    sorry if i asked an inconvient question about the gold mines. seems there’s a lot of inconvient questions about our history main stream science would rather not deal with. i didn’t mean to imply the gold mines fit with the sitchin timeline since they are dating these sites at 150000 years old. i’m dissapointed to read you embrace other peoples opinion about the starchild skull instead of looking at the evidence yourself. if its not alien it will prove to be a totally different kind of human. mr. pye states a common response to his work is the statement” i can’t support you officially because i might lose my job”.sad.
    ps. gold is becoming quite usefull as an air purifier.

    • MSH

      where are the ancient Mesopotamian texts to support this need for gold? It’s simple. Put up the texts, or admit he’s making it up.

      And the comment about depending on others makes you sound pretty stupid. The point is I’m not a geneticist — it’s a little thing I like to call “honesty” — and so I ask a geneticist what he thinks of a GENETICS test. Seems to make good sense to me. Would you ask a pastry chef to wire your house or an electrician?

  • http://paleobabble del

    lets seperate the starchild from sitchin for the moment and consider this .the starchild skull is real and the facts are proveable, but like your friend mainstream science is terrified to actually look at the evidence. to enumerate just a few very provable factors there are over 50 physiological differences between the starchild and human. the skull is one half as thick and twice as hard with strands of a type of reinforcement running through the bone not found in any creature on earth. dna testing is incomplete but the samples tested show itis definitely not human.you wanted hard physical evidence, this is it.

    • MSH

      If the genetics is junk, it isn’t what he claims it to be. It’s pretty simple.

  • http://paleobabble del

    IF is a very big word. i agree with you on that point, the completion of the genetic testing will tell the story and it will be undeniable.

    • MSH

      Genetics isn’t guesswork. Non-human DNA would be detectable.

  • http://paleobabble del

    whats the world comming to? we agree on something, probably short lived . doc i do not fault you for forming an opinion based on what geneticist told you but you did not factor in today’s scientific and academic climate that from what i’ve heard and read borders on the rediculous. i could tell you about a female archeologist being blackballed from her chosen profession for refusing to falsify the date on her findings because it did not fit current scientific dogma. lloyd pye’s own people will not let their name be publicly associated with the project until they’ve check everything 1,000 times.what i’m saying is that reputation and popular belief trumps open minded investigation.supose your guy had said pye might be correct and you posted that ,even without his name someone would figure it out. what i’m saying is your very question dictated the response you got. are the powers that be open minded ? objective? not from where i sit. so i’m not suprised at the response you got. the facts as i know them are this; 10% of the working dna has been recovered. in a similar sample of chimp/ human the base pair difference is two. in the starchild the base pair difference is 56. more than twice as much as any animal ever tested. the extreme physiological and genetic differences certainly show me which way the evidence is headed.remove the name starchild present the above facts as a hypothetical and you will get a different response(if you even care about this subject) when all the dna evidence is in some people are going to say” yeah, but if he’s really alien where’s the spaceship he crashed in?” because no amount of proof will change a closed mind. right doc?

    • MSH

      Oh, trust me; I’m *eagerly* waiting for Pye to put out his material for the review of experts.

      But he actually won’t do that.

      He’ll hand pick someone, then sift the data for some ambiguity, then tout that as proof, and (here’s the critical part) NEVER allow the skull to be subject to a round of peer review — people he cannot pick, cajole, or influence in any way.

      If my guy said, hey, this looks good, that would be cool. I have no problem with their being aliens. My problem is with bogus data, cloak and dagger testing, non-sequitur conclusions, that sort of thing.

  • http://paleobabble del

    well i still think pye’s secrecy is more about the scientific community nazi heiarchy.we will know eventually won’t we ? glad to hear you say you would be cool with the existance of aliens. some people i talk to seem to equate that with an attack on their religion. just read some of your stuff about how the pyramids could have been built, nice job on that by the way. my viepoint has gone from it couldn’t have been done by man to it possibly could have. the reason i’m still having a problem is the math. so maybe you can help me out here .let’s say unlimited manpower and unlimited ox power is a given. let’s even say multiple roads from the quarry site to the construction site.i assume those guys were not union back then so lets say they worked daylight hours make it an even 12 hours a day. now maybe i got the wrong info but i put down the great pyramid was built over a period of 100 years and i assume that was based on the estimated lifetimes of the pharro’s. so based on the number of stones in the pyramid, a work schedule of 12 hours a day for 100 years- are you starting to my problem here doc? i make it a stone would have to go in place about every 5 minutes or less. details like this could drive a guy nuts so for the sake of my sanity i hope you can tell me where i’m going wrong .thanks for your reply.

    • MSH

      yep; let’s appeal to conspiracy to hide the failure and fear.

  • http://paleobabble del

    oops. looks like i had the number of stones wrong . still even 5 or six stones per hr leaves me skeptical that it happened that way.

  • laz

    oh people sooooo want to believe…my take on all this:

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.

  • Maria

    Is there anywere I can read a correct translation of the Sumerian clay tablets?
    I´m really intrested in Sumerian history.

    • MSH

      sure; there are several anthologies. Which texts in particular?

      • Maria

        Thanks for your answer. I´m intrested in the Epic of Creation, The Kings List and the tablets that Sitchin translated as Lost Book of Enki, don´t know which they are though…maby they don´t exist:)

        • MSH

          I’ve lost track of this discussion. Send me an email with what you want or are asking for so I have it all in front of me.

  • Maria

    Hi again.
    Just read the interesting pdf about Cylinder Seal VA 243. You mentioned that the 11 dots might be a constellation of 11 stars. There is a constellation of 11 stars, visible to the naked eye, called Corvus. It is modeled on the Babylonian Raven (MUL.UGA.MUSHEN) and was sacerd to Adad (Ishkur), the god of rain and storm. In the second Millennium it would have risen just before the start of the autumnal rainy season. This according to Wikipedia.
    Maby the Cylinder Seal is an offering to Adad to let it rain for some reason?

    • MSH

      could be; hard to know exactly what it’s referencing without textual material that points in a given direction.

  • val

    Hi Michael,

    I listened to you on coast to coast with George the host.

    Thank you for the information regarding annunaki, also known as fallen angels. Thank you for debunking. All the apostasy generated by people for profit. 12/21/12. Is a blatant. Example.

    • MSH

      thanks for listening!

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