Who was sitchin?
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Who was sitchin?
Zecharia Sitchin (1920-2010), an eminent Orientalist and biblical scholar, was born in Russia and grew up in Palestine, where he acquired a profound knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew, other Semitic and European languages, the Old Testament, and the history and archaeology of the Near East.
What is the Anunnaki book about?
About The Book Cuneiform texts found on clay plates in Mesopotamia tell us about an extraterrestrial race, called the Anunnaki, who came from space to exploit our planet. Through genetic manipulation, they created modern humans from existing earthly life forms to serve them as slaves.
What did the Sumerians call Mars?
In the beginning…
| English | Sumerian | Babylonian |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Utu | Shamash |
| Mars | Gugulanna | Nergal |
| Jupiter | Enlil | Marduk |
| Saturn | Ninurta | Ninurta |
Who is Ea god?
Ea, the Akkadian counterpart of Enki, was the god of ritual purification: ritual cleansing waters were called “Ea’s water.” Ea governed the arts of sorcery and incantation. In some stories he was also the form-giving god, and thus the patron of craftsmen and artists; he was known as the bearer of culture.
Who were Enki and enlil?
Enlil was part of a triad of deities, which also included An and Enki. These three deities together were the embodiment of all the fixed stars in the night sky. An was identified with all the stars of the equatorial sky, Enlil with those of the northern sky, and Enki with those of the southern sky.
Who was Adad?
Adad, weather god of the Babylonian and Assyrian pantheon. The name Adad may have been brought into Mesopotamia toward the end of the 3rd millennium bc by Western (Amorite) Semites. His Sumerian equivalent was Ishkur and the West Semitic was Hadad.
Who named our planet?
The Greeks and Romans named most of the planets in the Solar System after particular gods, and we have kept those names in English. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, all unknown in classical times, were named by the modern astronomers who discovered them, but still after Greek and Roman gods.
What did the Egyptians call the planet Saturn?
For example, the ancient Egyptians named the planet we call Saturn after their god of light, Horus, who often appeared in the form of a hawk. Many of the star names that astronomers use today are an- cient Arabic names.
What does Anunnaki mean in Hebrew?
Anunnaki, Enukinoun. any of a group of powerful Babylonian earth spirits or genii; servitors of the gods.
What is the symbol for Enki?
Enki’s Symbols Within Mesopotamian art, Enki is represented or depicted involving symbolism such as water, goat-fish, turtles, or a scepter with a ram’s head.
