İlahi Karşılaşmalar - Melekler, Vizyonlar ve Elçiler

Earth Chronicles #5.5

by Zecharia Sitchin, Yasemin Tokatlı (Çevirmen), Ferda Gürsoy (Kapak)

İlahi Karşılaşmalar - Melekler , Vizyonlar ve Elçiler
Cennetin Kapıları

İnsanoğlu ve ruhsal varlıklar arasındaki etkileşimin, yani İlahi Karşılaşmalar’ın metinlerde ve kadim yazıtlarda yer alan kayıtları Gök ve Yer’i mekan alıp ibadeti ve bağlılığı, ebediyeti ve faniliği, aşkı ve sevgiyi, kıskançlık ve cinayeti içeren etkileyici bir dramı gözler önüne sermektedir. Ama bunların hangisini gerçek olaylara, hangisi mitlere dayanır?

Dünya Tarihçesi dizisinin yazarı Zecharia Sitchin kendisine dünya çapında ün kazan-dıran titiz araştırmacılığıyla bu kez, insanoğlu ile kozmik gezginlerin karşılaşmalarını ele alıyor. Geleceği bildiren rüyalardan tutun da UFO gözlemlerine dek pek çok sıra dışı olayda aslında insanoğlunu aydınlatmak, rahatlatmak, cezalandırmak ve yönlendirmek amacıyla çok uzak alemlerden gelmiş olan bu galaksiler arası gezginlerin imzası olduğunu anlatan Sitchin bu kitabıyla sizi zamanın başlangıcından üçüncü bin yılın başlangıcına dek tarih içinde muhteşem bir yolculuğa çıkarıyor.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Aliens, Ancient History, Spirituality, Metaphysics, Mythology

416 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Sitchin 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.

Reviews

[Matt · Rating 3 out of 5]

As usual, Stichin provides some interesting interpretations of history and the writings and myths of the past. I understand that his translations may be a little/lot different than other scholars and that's how he makes his assumptions about our past. Interesting if you like this stuff- but it gets a little tedious after awile. He gives account after account of seeemingly the same type of encounter. I read the paperback and I can honestly say that the pictures/ddrawings/ illustrations are total crap... you often can't make out the points they are supposeed to illustrate.

[Matt · Rating 2 out of 5]

The interaction between the Divine and man are considered some of the most important and inspiring moments within each of the Abrahamic faiths, yet the question always is who was the Divine? Zecharia Sitchin reviews Divine Encounters throughout the ancient Near East whether recorded in the Bible or on cuneiform tablets in this companion volume to his series, The Earth Chronicles.

Through the first three-quarters of the book, Sitchin reviews numerous encounters that he has previously written about. Among these topics are the Creation of Man (the “first encounter”) and the Fall, the sexual encounters between the divine and man, the Flood, and man’s search for immortality all with their own specific chapters. Sitchin also covers visions, oracle dreams, and angels which he has previous mentioned and written about in his books, but never dedicated time to looking into them before. Where Sitchin really covers new material is the theophany at Mount Sinai, discussing the Prophets of the Old Testament, and finally an essay in which Sitchin examines which Annunaki was the God of the Old Testament.

For those that have read most of Sitchin’s books before, the majority of this book is a review of the previous five books he had written at the time of the publication. The only new ground that Sitchin covered was in the last quarter of the book in which he really examines Exodus, the Old Testament Prophets, and he examination of which Annunaki was the God of the Old Testament which resulted in a surprising conclusion especially for those reading this book for the first time.

Divine Encounters is a book geared for people who have never read any of Zecharia Sitchin’s work, but included material at the very end that was new for long time readers. While I liked the new material, the fact I had to reread nearly 300 pages of topics I’ve read over the course of five books was annoying. So if you’re a longtime read of Sitchin’s, get this book to complete your collection but read it last. If you’re a first time reader of Sitchin, the vast majority of the book will give insight into Sitchin’s theories which are fully fleshed out—except what is covered in the last quarter of the book—in The Earth Chronicles series.

[Omid Mankoo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Zachariah Sitchins books are detailed with actual translations of Ancient Cuniform (clay tablet) writings. He is an Archeologist, and ancient scirpt translator. He delves into ancient texts, and clay tablet writtings, religious scriptures, artifacts, and drawings & visits museums, and sights of actual historical significance mentioned in various world scriptures, to get an up-close, hands on grasp of what happened. His books are filled with historical facts, with awesome translations, actual pictures of the cuniforms themselves, many of which are pictorial in nature (they appear in his books). Each of the books is a veritable treasure-house of knowledge, of scientific breakthroughs into understanding what has happened in ancient civilizations, regarding gods (alien races), and their meaning present in our scriptures today.

[Michael Alford · Rating 3 out of 5]

For starters, let me say that I appreciate the fact that men like Mr. Sitchin are willing to look into archaeological anomalies that mainstream researchers ignore. However, Mr. Sitchin has an issue, a blind spot that runs throughout this book; he doesn't believe the Bible as a stand-alone work. He claims to believe the Bible, but is more than wiling to supplement or even correct the text with poorly understood hieroglyphics or ancient Sumerian oral traditions. As a result, he takes God, and turns Him into an alien. As a very basic example, he cites legends where a serpent god of some kind is given credit for being the 'good guy' in the creation story; the entity who helped man achieve wisdom and a degree of sentience. Mr. Sitchin proceeds with this legend as if it is true, and portrays the author of Genesis as a backwards simpleton who simply didn't get the whole story. Since Mr. Sitchin begins with a faulty assumption (the Bible is true except where it differs from fragmented faded legends and pictographs) its almost impossible for him to establish a credible or consistent world view from what he finds.
To those of us who take the Bible as true and correct, the anomalies he encounters are easily explained without resorting to a long-absent race of extraterrestrials for an explanation of our origins, or our future.
Interesting stuff though.

[David E.P. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still reading this, but I must say that the style of writing can sometimes be difficult to keep up with. Perhaps it is Sitchin's choice of words... Still reading this, so I don't want to judge it just yet.

[Ashok Kumar]

This book better be called as historical instead of religious. Of course after reading this book I am wondering the "The old testment" itself is an history book of Sumer & middle eastern lands. Very good reading.

[Dominique Sambiani · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love how this books takes me into the saga of history

[Andrea Pighin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Le teorie di Sitchin mi affascinano da quando ero un bambino, che sognava di fare l'archeologo e che amava Star Wars. Sitchin univa le due cose e mi faceva sognare. Crescendo, mi sono distaccato da quelle suggestioni, ma di recente ho voluto leggere il suo 'La Bibbia degli dèi' (il titolo originale, 'Divine Encounters', è molto più fedele al contenuto).
Ancora una volta, sono rimasto colpito dalla sua prosa, dalla capacità di mescolare àmbiti diversi del sapere. Con occhi critici, però, ciò che racconta rischia di essere solo un'intuizione incompleta. Non trattandosi di un testo scientifico, nel senso che manca di un apparato di note e di fonti esauriente, il lettore - quello che non vuole limitarsi ad accettare 'una verità per sentito dire' - deve necessariamente andare alla ricerca dei testi e dei reperti citati dall'Autore. Una ricerca che richiede molto tempo e conoscenze linguistiche, storiche e letterarie non indifferenti.
In definitiva, è difficile comprendere dove inizi la realtà e dove la fantasia. Ciò che rimane, però, è un senso di stupore di fronte a una possibilità, quantomeno verosimile, sulle nostre origini.

[Kakha · Rating 4 out of 5]

The man who created all these fascinating books seems like a good person to me. He believed in what he sought, researched, and wrote about. I respect it. Although, of course, one must be skeptical about everything that is expounded in this and other books by this author. We must not rush to believe in the theories that are set forth in them. Despite the fact that everything in the book is written very interestingly, first of all, one must love and respect real, academic science. And do not forget that it is the world-renowned scientists who are the real, deep dreamers, and it was they who, first of all, believed in the miracles that are set forth in such books, if there were real, scientifically proven evidence.

[O'Murphy · Rating 4 out of 5]

La historia antigua de las religiones que hubo en Oriente Medio y algunas partes de América no es como nos lo han contado la biblia ni fruto de la imaginación de los protagonistas.
Los habitantes de otros mundos influyeron claramente en el desarrollo de pueblos como el hebreo,el baibilonio,el Sumerio y solo hay que repasar su legado en piedra para darse cuenta.

[Dan Zarfati · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good book, though most of it is recycled material, it would be worthwhile to read the first four Earth Chronicles books first, then if you are a hardcore fan or if you want an introduction read this one. Very little new material there. It is not a bad book though, that is why three stars, but be prepared for Gilgamesh again and again...

[Mr S Jarvis · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book. The author reflects on some interesting questions, that shows a search for truth. You need to ready some of the Earth Chronicles or similar books to understand the name and places mentioned in this book.

[Darren High · Rating 5 out of 5]

A spaceport with each block weighing thousands of tons. That's what really stood out to me in this book of the series. It's the same with The Pyramid of Giza and other sites all around the world that were built thousands of years ago. No way did humans construct these all by themselves.

[Andrei · Rating 5 out of 5]

To sum it up Hystorical book not at all Religious. Excellent!!!

[Rob Hendriks · Rating 2 out of 5]

very repetitive, too many Enki/bible quotes

[Soren Kerk · Rating 4 out of 5]

easy to read. quite fun - provocative.

[Project Cognition · Rating 4 out of 5]

The author does an excellent job referencing stories of visions, dreams and divine encounters from ancient texts and scriptures.

[Denise K. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked it a lot, along with The Unseen Realm.

[AttackGirl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty sure I’ve read this before going to have to see if it was released under a different title. Now I have Goodreads to keep track for me so now won’t read stuff 5 and 10 times …

Regardless reinforcement of good information.

[Tim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Who was Yahweh? The Biblical god? This book provides decent evidence that he was from the Pantheon of Enki in Mesopotamia, Ptah in Egypt, amongst other divine names... A good and interesting read...

[Joshua Friesen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I didn't really like these books as much as I thought I would. But I'm giving five stars because the books made me think on things.