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The Wars of Gods and Men Book III Publisher: Harper
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Published January 1, 2006
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Zecharia Sitchin
192 books779 followersSitchin was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, and was raised in Palestine. He acquired knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew, other Semitic and European languages, the Torah, and the history and archeology of the Near East.
He was one of the few scholars able to read and interpret ancient Sumerian and Akkadian clay tablets.
Sitchin graduated from the London School of Economics, University of London, majoring in economic history.
A journalist and editor in Israel for many years. His books have been widely translated, converted to braille for the blind, and featured on radio and television.
He was one of the few scholars able to read and interpret ancient Sumerian and Akkadian clay tablets.
Sitchin graduated from the London School of Economics, University of London, majoring in economic history.
A journalist and editor in Israel for many years. His books have been widely translated, converted to braille for the blind, and featured on radio and television.
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August 23, 2023
THE THIRD BOOK IN SITCHIN’S ‘EARTH CHRONICLES’ SERIES
Author Zecharia Sitchin wrote in the Foreword to this 1985 book, “Long before man warred with man, the gods battled among themselves. Indeed, it was as the Wars of the Gods that the Wars of Man began. And the Wars of the Gods, for control of this Earth, had begun on their own planet. It was thus that mankind’s first civilization succumbed to a nuclear holocaust. This is fact, not fiction; it has all been written down long ago---in the Earth Chronicles.”
He begins the first chapter with the statement, “Iin the spring of 1947, a shepherd boy searching … in the barren cliffs overlooking the Dead Sea, discovered a cave that contained Hebrew scrolls hidden within earthenware jars. Those and other scrolls … the Dead Sea Scrolls---had lain undisturbed for nearly two thousand years… One of the longest and most complete scrolls, and perhaps the most dramatic, deals with a future war, a kind of Final War.
Sitchin’s books appeal to most fans of ‘ancient astronauts’ theories. Titled by scholars ‘The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness,’ it envisages spreading warfare---local battles that will first involve Judea’s immediate neighbors, which shall increase in ferocity and scope until the whole ancient world would be engulfed.” (Pg. 1)
He states, “Other inscriptions of Ashurbanipal suggest that this weapon, which emitted an intense, blinding brightness, was worn by the gods are part of their headgear… The Old Testament, too, refers to such a Weapon of Brilliance that could blind. When the Angels (literally, emissaries) of the Lord same to Sodom prior to its destruction, the populace attempted to break down the door of the house in which they were resting. So the Angels ‘smote the people at the entrance of the house with blindness… and they were unable to find the doorway.’” (Pg. 18-19)
He asks, “Was it a sad commentary on the history of warfare that the messianic Essence envisioned the Final War of Men as one in which the Company of the Divine would join the Congregation of the Mortals, and the ‘war cries of gods and men’ would mingle on the battlefield? Not at all. What ‘The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness’ had envisioned was simply that human warfare shall end just as it had begun: with gods and men fighting side by side.” (Pg. 25)
He notes, “As is the similarities of the genealogies and warfare between the Greek and Hindu gods were not enough, tablets discovered in the Hittite myal archives… contained more tales of the same story; how, as one generation waned unto the other, one god fought another for supremacy.” (Pg. 70)
He summarizes, “it is by now established beyond doubt that it was in Sumer that the tales of gods and men were first recorded. It was there that numerous tests---more numerous than can be imagined, more detailed than could be expected---were first inscribed. It was there that the written records of history and prehistory on our planet Earth had originated. We call them THE EARTH CHRONICLES.” (Pg. 75)
He asserts, “scholars and theologians alike have come to recognize that the Creation Tales of the Old Testament [Gen 1-5]… are condensed and edited versions of original Sumerian texts… in our work, ‘The 12th Planet,’ we have shown that these texts were no primitive myths, but depositories of advanced scientific knowledge with which modern scholars are only now beginning to catch up. The unmanned space probes of Jupiter and Saturn confirmed many ‘incredible’ facets of the Sumerian knowledge regarding our Solar System, such as that the outer planets have numerous satellites and that water is present on some of them…. What, then, of the existence of a twelfth member of our Solar System… a planet whose existence was a basic and far-reaching conclusion in ‘The 12th Planet’?” (Pg. 109)
He says, “Thus began the tale inscribed on the temple walls in the ancient Egyptian city of Edfu. It is the tale, we believe, of what could only be called the First Pyramid War---a war thathad its roots in the never-ending struggle for control over Earth and its space facilities and in the shenanigans of the Great Anunnaki, especially Enki/Ptah and his son Ra/Marduk.” (Pg. 153)
He states, “In addition to the Spacrport and the guidance facilities, there was also a need after the Deluge for a new Mission Control Center, to replace the one that had existed before in Nippur. We have shown (in ‘The Stairway to Heaven’) that the need to equidistance this center from the other space-related facilities dictated its locating on Mount Moriah… the site of the future city of Jerusalem.” (Pg. 156)
He asserts, “With the discrediting of the Amraphel-Hammurabi notion, the verification of the Age of Abraham became a free-for-all, some suggesting such late dates that made the first patriarch a descendant of the later kings of Israel… But the exact dates of his time and events need no guessing: the information is provided by the Bible itself; all we have to do is accept its veracity.” (Pg. 286)
He concludes, “Babylon, then Assyria, rose to greatness. Sumer was no more; but in a distant land, the baton of its legacy passed from the hands of Abrham and Isaac his son unto the hand of Jacob; the one renamed Isra-El.” (Pg. 344)
Sitchin’s books appeal to most fans of ‘ancient astronauts’ theories.
Author Zecharia Sitchin wrote in the Foreword to this 1985 book, “Long before man warred with man, the gods battled among themselves. Indeed, it was as the Wars of the Gods that the Wars of Man began. And the Wars of the Gods, for control of this Earth, had begun on their own planet. It was thus that mankind’s first civilization succumbed to a nuclear holocaust. This is fact, not fiction; it has all been written down long ago---in the Earth Chronicles.”
He begins the first chapter with the statement, “Iin the spring of 1947, a shepherd boy searching … in the barren cliffs overlooking the Dead Sea, discovered a cave that contained Hebrew scrolls hidden within earthenware jars. Those and other scrolls … the Dead Sea Scrolls---had lain undisturbed for nearly two thousand years… One of the longest and most complete scrolls, and perhaps the most dramatic, deals with a future war, a kind of Final War.
Sitchin’s books appeal to most fans of ‘ancient astronauts’ theories. Titled by scholars ‘The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness,’ it envisages spreading warfare---local battles that will first involve Judea’s immediate neighbors, which shall increase in ferocity and scope until the whole ancient world would be engulfed.” (Pg. 1)
He states, “Other inscriptions of Ashurbanipal suggest that this weapon, which emitted an intense, blinding brightness, was worn by the gods are part of their headgear… The Old Testament, too, refers to such a Weapon of Brilliance that could blind. When the Angels (literally, emissaries) of the Lord same to Sodom prior to its destruction, the populace attempted to break down the door of the house in which they were resting. So the Angels ‘smote the people at the entrance of the house with blindness… and they were unable to find the doorway.’” (Pg. 18-19)
He asks, “Was it a sad commentary on the history of warfare that the messianic Essence envisioned the Final War of Men as one in which the Company of the Divine would join the Congregation of the Mortals, and the ‘war cries of gods and men’ would mingle on the battlefield? Not at all. What ‘The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness’ had envisioned was simply that human warfare shall end just as it had begun: with gods and men fighting side by side.” (Pg. 25)
He notes, “As is the similarities of the genealogies and warfare between the Greek and Hindu gods were not enough, tablets discovered in the Hittite myal archives… contained more tales of the same story; how, as one generation waned unto the other, one god fought another for supremacy.” (Pg. 70)
He summarizes, “it is by now established beyond doubt that it was in Sumer that the tales of gods and men were first recorded. It was there that numerous tests---more numerous than can be imagined, more detailed than could be expected---were first inscribed. It was there that the written records of history and prehistory on our planet Earth had originated. We call them THE EARTH CHRONICLES.” (Pg. 75)
He asserts, “scholars and theologians alike have come to recognize that the Creation Tales of the Old Testament [Gen 1-5]… are condensed and edited versions of original Sumerian texts… in our work, ‘The 12th Planet,’ we have shown that these texts were no primitive myths, but depositories of advanced scientific knowledge with which modern scholars are only now beginning to catch up. The unmanned space probes of Jupiter and Saturn confirmed many ‘incredible’ facets of the Sumerian knowledge regarding our Solar System, such as that the outer planets have numerous satellites and that water is present on some of them…. What, then, of the existence of a twelfth member of our Solar System… a planet whose existence was a basic and far-reaching conclusion in ‘The 12th Planet’?” (Pg. 109)
He says, “Thus began the tale inscribed on the temple walls in the ancient Egyptian city of Edfu. It is the tale, we believe, of what could only be called the First Pyramid War---a war thathad its roots in the never-ending struggle for control over Earth and its space facilities and in the shenanigans of the Great Anunnaki, especially Enki/Ptah and his son Ra/Marduk.” (Pg. 153)
He states, “In addition to the Spacrport and the guidance facilities, there was also a need after the Deluge for a new Mission Control Center, to replace the one that had existed before in Nippur. We have shown (in ‘The Stairway to Heaven’) that the need to equidistance this center from the other space-related facilities dictated its locating on Mount Moriah… the site of the future city of Jerusalem.” (Pg. 156)
He asserts, “With the discrediting of the Amraphel-Hammurabi notion, the verification of the Age of Abraham became a free-for-all, some suggesting such late dates that made the first patriarch a descendant of the later kings of Israel… But the exact dates of his time and events need no guessing: the information is provided by the Bible itself; all we have to do is accept its veracity.” (Pg. 286)
He concludes, “Babylon, then Assyria, rose to greatness. Sumer was no more; but in a distant land, the baton of its legacy passed from the hands of Abrham and Isaac his son unto the hand of Jacob; the one renamed Isra-El.” (Pg. 344)
Sitchin’s books appeal to most fans of ‘ancient astronauts’ theories.
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