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I have read almost all of Zecharia Sitchin works on Anunnaki, the ancient astronauts, this year. Still have couple of books to go. I read the 12th planet when i

by hknmtt 4y ago

I have read almost all of Zecharia Sitchin works on Anunnaki, the ancient astronauts, this year. Still have couple of books to go. I read the 12th planet when in elementary school a long time ago and always wanted to read more on this. So I finally did and am very glad. Best things is that he is merely interpreting in his own way all the found sumerian, akkadian, babylonian... literature and jewish writings and bible. So no one can say he is wrong because there is no authority on interpretation of those writings and translations. You can choose to go along with his ideas or not. He does not force-feed you anything, which I like. And in the end, his version of our history makes the most sense to me from anything to this day, however weird it might be at first. Scientists also confirmed the mathematically expected existence of the famous Nibiru so with time, more and more proof is confirming his views, along with new discoveries of writings and artefacts. One negative sides of his writing, after the first 12th planet s that it becomes too abstracts - descriptions of land, locations, structures... with lacking images in the books the reader becomes a bit lost and disconnected. But when he is talking about stories and events that took place in the past, that's when you're hooked in. Also the first book has about 80% of everything, the rest of the books is a lot of repetition for new readers and not much new information. Still worth reading but one will get most out of the 12th planet and I'd say the Anunnaki chronicles which is kind of a summary of his work and i think the last book released by his estate put together fro all his previous released and unreleased works.

MonkeyClub 4y ago
Onwards to Jordan Maxwell, then? If so, also check Michael Tsarion. Keep in mind, all this stuff is fiction, sort of magic realism in the garb of documentary exposition, and scholarly dubious research. But much more enjoyable than hollow earth or flat earth stuff! My favorite bit of it is the presaging of the Dyson sphere in the “energy grid” that surrounds the earth, limiting life form travel. Even better than their theory of the moon as a manufactured satellite. Goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: make sure you don’t treat fiction as fact too much :) This stuff can be mentally corrosive.
- hknmtt 4y ago
  i have noticed a lot of bs attached to anunnaki when i wanted to research more on this. a bunch of ufo, lizard-people... crap. i am interested in facts, not fiction.
  - MonkeyClub 4y ago
    I agree, it's a legitimately interesting subject in the history of religions (and history overall), but there's little to go by that's not, eh, scholarship-free. But to be fair, mythical accounts of deities, and the impetus for such accounts, is a very difficult subject to approach. E.g., in the end of the first rhapsody of Odyssey, the goddess Athena is described having "the splendour of the sun" and departing from her meeting with Telemachus by ascending in the sky like an eagle. I'll accept (and do accept, I'm not mad, I tell ya) all the reasonable explanations - poetic liberty, theatrical engineering with cranes and ropes, and whatnot. At the same time, it's very interesting (and useful) to try and recreate the mental model that allows for such a metaphor to emerge, to be thought up in the first place, and to identify the cultural and technological triggers that might have caused such a dea ex machina description. But Graham Hancock-style "research" (read up, smoke up, come up) really doesn't cut it, and I'd rather accept that there's no reachable answer with the currently available archaeological and textual evidence, than try and force one. So (to close the digression), I think your only avenue is to learn Sumerian and Akkadian and go to the tablets. Shouldn't be too hard, really - I'm not being sarcastic - go for it, they are well-researched languages, grammatical and lexicographical resources are available, and the absolutely best reason to start learning a language is to have a specific question in mind or a specific text that you want to read, it'll push you onward. Not to mention that by coming into contact with the original texts is the only way to approach whatever of the original meanings is still accessible.
    - hknmtt 4y ago
      Yep, sumerian cuneiform is ahead of me. Still have some books i want to read before that but i am certainly interested in reading the old text myself.

by hknmtt 4y ago

MonkeyClub 4y ago

Onwards to Jordan Maxwell, then? If so, also check Michael Tsarion. Keep in mind, all this stuff is fiction, sort of magic realism in the garb of documentary exposition, and scholarly dubious research. But much more enjoyable than hollow earth or flat earth stuff! My favorite bit of it is the presaging of the Dyson sphere in the “energy grid” that surrounds the earth, limiting life form travel. Even better than their theory of the moon as a manufactured satellite. Goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: make sure you don’t treat fiction as fact too much :) This stuff can be mentally corrosive.

hknmtt 4y ago
i have noticed a lot of bs attached to anunnaki when i wanted to research more on this. a bunch of ufo, lizard-people... crap. i am interested in facts, not fiction.
- MonkeyClub 4y ago
  I agree, it's a legitimately interesting subject in the history of religions (and history overall), but there's little to go by that's not, eh, scholarship-free. But to be fair, mythical accounts of deities, and the impetus for such accounts, is a very difficult subject to approach. E.g., in the end of the first rhapsody of Odyssey, the goddess Athena is described having "the splendour of the sun" and departing from her meeting with Telemachus by ascending in the sky like an eagle. I'll accept (and do accept, I'm not mad, I tell ya) all the reasonable explanations - poetic liberty, theatrical engineering with cranes and ropes, and whatnot. At the same time, it's very interesting (and useful) to try and recreate the mental model that allows for such a metaphor to emerge, to be thought up in the first place, and to identify the cultural and technological triggers that might have caused such a dea ex machina description. But Graham Hancock-style "research" (read up, smoke up, come up) really doesn't cut it, and I'd rather accept that there's no reachable answer with the currently available archaeological and textual evidence, than try and force one. So (to close the digression), I think your only avenue is to learn Sumerian and Akkadian and go to the tablets. Shouldn't be too hard, really - I'm not being sarcastic - go for it, they are well-researched languages, grammatical and lexicographical resources are available, and the absolutely best reason to start learning a language is to have a specific question in mind or a specific text that you want to read, it'll push you onward. Not to mention that by coming into contact with the original texts is the only way to approach whatever of the original meanings is still accessible.
  - hknmtt 4y ago
    Yep, sumerian cuneiform is ahead of me. Still have some books i want to read before that but i am certainly interested in reading the old text myself.