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Summary: going beyond sitchin
Review: At the beginning of my quest for answers to the Universe, i found sitchin's books. they are all full of intriguing ideas and possible answers to the origins of humankind on earth. i see strong hints of his theories in X-Files and the Star Trek series. and i say this as a fan of these shows.readers, keep this in mind, sitchin's works DO NOT complete your search for answers to The Origins of Life or the Universe. sitchin's works are truely interesting and can be exciting. BUT BEWARE: do not let your searchings and readings stop here with Sitchin. go ahead and read Sitchin, but continue to search for answers with more reading and research to satisfy your intellect and soul. i would suggest other authors such as Peter Russell (White Hole in Time, Global Brain) for academic and philosophical theory on the evolution of life on earth. And Ken Carey(The Third Millenium) for further answers to the cosmic origins of mankind that comes with satisfying prose on the spiritual essence and the Universe's purpose in humans. whether your try these authors and others, i hope you find other material to further your personal search for Answers.
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Summary: An interesting rewrite of history
Review: How did an ancient civilization move quarried stones in the mountains of Lebanon that weighed in excess of 2 million pounds each? Who really built the Great Pyramids of Giza, and when? Why are ancient Sumerian cities arranges in precise geometric positions? What did the quests of Giglamesh and Alexander the Great really find? This book attempts to shed true light on many of these historical misconceptions. This book has been exhaustively researched, translated from the ancient texts by Sitchin himself, and it shows in Sitchin's writing. He is a brilliant historain of ancient Sumeria, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. It is rather hard to keep all of the names straight in this book, because he covers so much ground. It might take me a second third read before I can fully digest the book. But it is worth the effort because the implications are so profound. At times his writing style is a bit dry. This is a recommended read for people of scientific mind who would like to shed the lies that they may have been force fed in todays closed-minded institutions.
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Summary: Sitchin and the Past
Review: I have read all of Mr. Sitchin's books. They are an eye opening interpretation of Biblical events. I strongly recommend that you begin with The Twelth Planet and read them in sequence. It is much to easy to read one in the middle and get very confused. If they are read in order they are far easier to understand.
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Summary: Man's search for the immortality of the gods
Review: In this second entry in the Earth Chronicles series, Sitchin focuses on man's eternal and perpetual search for immortality and ties his findings in with his theories of ancient Sumer and the Annunaki who originally colonized earth. In particular, he discusses Alexander the Great's desperate search for a way to escape an early death as well as Gilgamesh's epic search for everlasting life; more importantly, he provides a map of their quests, identifying their most important destinations with the ancient Sumerian sites he wrote about in The 12th Planet. Basically, the ultimate destinations of the men of legend corresponded to the areas from which the Annunaki journeyed back and forth between earth, their orbiting spacecraft, and their home planet. Having described an intricate grid system accounting for the specific locations of the ancient cities both before and after the Deluge, he makes some fascinating arguments. I was most struck by his conclusion that the new, post-Deluge space port was actually Jerusalem. As always, Sitchin incorporates Biblical texts into his story, revealing compelling connections between the books of the Bible and the ancient records of the earliest Middle Eastern cultures. I found myself plodding to some degree through the first half of the book, even laying the book aside for a few days, but the latter sections here are quite interesting because they focus on ancient Egypt. Sitchin's discussions of the ancient Egyptian monuments, particularly the Great Pyramids at Giza are enlightening and fascinating. He forcibly argues that the pyramids were never meant to serve as burial places of ancient Egyptians and that the Great Pyramids and the majestic Sphinx were built long before Khufu, Chefren, and other pharaohs of the 4th Dynasty came to power. Egyptologists dispute this conclusion, of course, but the evidence as presented by Sitchin and other scholars is quite strong on this point. Sitchin lays waste to the only real evidence we have that Khufu built the Great Pyramid. The masons' markings found in the chambers above the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid purportedly show that Khufu was the builder, but Sitchin puts forth a very convincing argument that those marks were forged (and rather unconvincingly in fact) by an unscrupulous pseudo-archaeologist. I try to read these books with an open mind. I can't say if Sitchin is correct or not in his theories, but I can say that he breathes life into an ancient world I would otherwise know very little about, and he tells a fascinating story in a very engaging manner.
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Summary: Land of Gods, But Where Did They Come From?
Review: Increasingly, examination of our past reveals that there once was a Golden Age of mankind. Did its origins lay in some fantastic acount of ancient spaceports and alien intervention, or did man, by himself, achieve great things in his remote past? Sitchin opts for the fantastic, and reviewer Paul Stets writes, "It is not important whether Sitchin's writings are true... (Sitchin) creates an illusion of scientific research." Is illusion or entertainment enough? To many of us truth matters.
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Summary: Not such a stretch if you Think!
Review: Mr. Sitchin has nothing to gain by espousing pseudoscience or pseudohistory. He would only stand to lose. Ancient History as a discipline has been proclaimed true to a great extent by proclamation that the "ancients"told us all. This is all well and good as a baseline. I have no quarrel with Herodotus or Tacitus.
Read the bibliographies in this series. These ARE NOT the idle ramblings of a 'crank". If you truly pay attention, you will see the obvious scholarly work that has been done. Only the intellectually insecure will be intimidated and resort to common mockery. If nothing else, this should send you into deeper studies of the ancient Near East. You won't be sorry. This is thought provoking at the very least and definitely entertaining to the casual reader and the more imaginative history buffs. Look at and think about civilization, pre-Egyptian, pre-Indus Valley(?) and you will learn quite a bit. Better yet, you will be driven to learn more by yourself!
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Summary: Try to meet our ancestors
Review: Part II of the Earth Chronicles deals with some of the most monumental buildings on the Earth (pyramids, Jupiter's temple at Baalbek, sacred city of Heliopolis...) and it also gives explanations, why (and by whom) these buildings were built. It makes sense, because it is really quite unexplainable, why have buildings that followed that time deteriorated that much in terms of quality and size. It is obvious that people have learned something from outside but after part of the knowledge was lost, they were not capable of surpassing their predecessors. Sitchin claims that Baalbek and Sinai peninsula were spaceports of Gods. Pyramids were designed for directioning of spaceships as for precise measurements of the planet. This also explains the fact that all great pyramids are not inscribed while newer are. This assumptions are given on the basis of studying ancient texts, especially Epic of Gilgamesh who was claimed to be of semidivine origin and wanted to join Gods in Immortallity, but was finally bitterly disappointed as he found out that he should be invited in the immortal club as it was fact with the Utnapishtim and that immortality cannot be gained. Reading is really fascinating, not too scholarly, but certainly not pure fiction. Highly recommendable.
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Summary: Typical Sitchin reading
Review: Stair Way To Heaven is a typical Sitchin book; it's great. More talk about the Annunaki,pyramids and connecting legends and myths with those beings from niburu.
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Summary: Definitely one of his best.
Review: The second offering of Sitchin's landmark Earth Chronicles series,this book offers more startling revelations than the initial spark of the "12th Planet".Here,discussed in the same scholarly & well researched way the author is known for,with a personal twist,are musings on the fountain & dates of life,the pharaoh's journey to the afterlife(with stunning ancient drawings to document it),the riddle of the sphinx,the forgeries commited on the pyramids & many more.This book also afforded me a diff. view & a rising interest on Alexander The Great.The faults are the same,including the author's exuberant generalizations,but nevertheless is still a mind-bending & probable life-changing read.
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Summary: DOCUMENTATION PLEASE
Review: You've read the orthodox, conventional, sanitized view of the past. Now read linguist and scholar Zecharia Sitchin for the rest of the story. Only he provides a framework in which all becomes intelligible.
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