The 12th Planet (65 page)

Authors: Zecharia Sitchin

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Exactly such phenomena are described in the ancient texts.

As commanded by Enki, Atra-
H
asis sent everybody aboard the ark while he himself stayed outside to await the signal for boarding the vessel and sealing it off. Providing a "human-interest" detail, the ancient text tells us that Atra-
H
asis, though ordered to stay outside the vessel, "was in and out; he could not sit, could not crouch ... his heart was broken; he was vomiting gall." But then:

... the Moon disappeared....

The appearance of the weather changed;

The rains roared in the clouds....

The winds became savage ...

...the Deluge set out,

its might came upon the people like a battle;

One person did not see another,

they were not recognizable in the destruction.

The Deluge bellowed like a bull;

The winds whinnied like a wild ass.

The darkness was dense;

The Sun could not be seen.

The "Epic of Gilgamesh" is specific about the direction from which the storm came: It came from the south. Clouds, winds, rain, and darkness indeed preceded the tidal wave which first tore down the "posts of Nergal" in the Lower World:

With the glow of dawn

a black cloud arose from the horizon;

inside it the god of storms thundered....

Everything that had been bright

turned to blackness....

For one day the south storm blew,

gathering speed as it blew, submerging the mountains....

Six days and six nights blows the wind

as the South Storm sweeps the land.

When the seventh day arrived,

the Deluge of the South Storm subsided.

The references to the "south storm," "south wind" clearly indicate the direction from which the Deluge arrived, its clouds and winds, the "heralds of the storm," moving "over hill and plain" to reach Mesopotamia. Indeed, a storm and an avalanche of water originating in the Antarctic would reach Mesopotamia via the Indian Ocean after first engulfing the hills of Arabia, then inundating the Tigris–Euphrates plain. The "Epic of Gilgamesh" also informs us that before the people and their land were submerged, the "dams of the dry land" and its dikes were "torn out": the continental coastlines were overwhelmed and swept over.

The biblical version of the Deluge story reports that the "bursting of the fountains of the Great Deep" preceded the "opening of the sluices of heaven." First, the waters of the "Great Deep" (what a descriptive name for the southernmost, frozen Antarctic seas) broke loose out of their icy confinement; only then did the rains begin to pour from the skies. This confirmation of our understanding of the Deluge is repeated, in reverse, when the Deluge subsided. First the "Fountains of the Deep [were] dammed"; then the rain "was arrested from the skies."

After the first immense tidal wave, its waters were still "coming and going back" in huge waves. Then the waters began "going back," and "they were less" after 150 days, when the ark came to rest between the peaks of Ararat. The avalanche of water, having come from the southern seas, went back to the southern seas.

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How could the Nefilim predict
when
the Deluge would burst out of Antarctica?

The Mesopotamian texts, we know, related the Deluge and the climatic changes preceding it to seven "passings"
—
undoubtedly meaning the periodic passage of the Twelfth Planet in Earth's vicinity. We know that even the Moon, Earth's small satellite, exerts sufficient gravitational pull to cause the tides. Both Mesopotamian and biblical texts described how the Earth shook when the Celestial Lord passed in Earth's vicinity. Could it be that the Nefilim, observing the climatic changes and the instability of the Antarctic ice sheet, realized that the next, seventh "passing" of the Twelfth Planet would trigger the impending catastrophe?

Ancient texts show that it was so.

The most remarkable of these is a text of some thirty lines inscribed in miniature cuneiform writing on both sides of a clay tablet less than one inch long. It was unearthed at Ashur, but the profusion of Sumerian words in the Akkadian text leaves no doubt as to its Sumerian origin. Dr. Erich Ebeling determined that it was a hymn recited in the House of the Dead, and he therefore included the text in his masterwork
(Tod und Leben)
on death and resurrection in ancient Mesopotamia.

On close examination, however, we find that the composition "called on the names" of the Celestial Lord, the Twelfth Planet. It elaborates the meaning of the various epithets by relating them to the passage of the planet at the site of the battle with Tiamat
—
a passage that causes the Deluge!

The text begins by announcing that, for all its might and size, the planet ("the hero") nevertheless orbits the Sun. The Deluge was the "weapon" of this planet.

His weapon is the Deluge;

God whose Weapon brings death to the wicked.

Supreme, Supreme, Anointed ...

Who like the Sun, the lands crosses;

The Sun, his god, he frightens.

Calling out the "first name" of the planet
—
which, unfortunately, is illegible
—
the text describes the passage near Jupiter, toward the site of the battle with Tiamat:

First Name: ...

Who the circular band hammered together;

Who the Occupier split in two, poured her out.

Lord, who at Akiti time

Within Tiamat's battle place reposes....

Whose seed are the sons of Babylon;

Who by the planet Jupiter cannot be distracted;

Who by his glow shall create.

Coming closer, the Twelfth Planet is called SHILIG.LU.DIG ("powerful leader of the joyous planets"). It is now nearest to Mars: "By the brilliance of the god [planet] Anu god [planet] La
h
mu [Mars] is clothed." Then it loosed the Deluge upon the Earth:

This is the name of the Lord

Who from the second month to the month Addar

The waters had summoned forth.

The text's elaboration of the two names offers remarkable calendarial information. The Twelfth Planet passed Jupiter and neared Earth "at
Akiti
time," when the Mesopotamian New Year began. By the second month it was closest to Mars. Then, "from the second month to the month Addar" (the twelfth month), it loosed the Deluge upon Earth.

This is in perfect harmony with the biblical account, which states that "the fountains of the great deep burst open" on the seventeenth day of the second month. The ark came to rest on Ararat in the seventh month; other dry land was visible in the tenth month; and the Deluge was over in the twelfth month
—
for it was on "the first day of the first month" of the following year that Noah opened the ark's hatch.

Shifting to the second phase of the Deluge, when the waters began to subside, the text calls the planet SHUL.PA.KUN.E.

Hero, Supervising Lord,

Who collects together the waters;

Who by gushing waters

The righteous and the wicked cleanses;

Who in the twin-peaked mountain

Arrested the....

... fish, river, river; the flooding rested.

In the mountainland, on a tree, a bird rested.

Day which ... said.

In spite of the illegibility of some damaged lines, the parallels with the biblical and other Mesopotamian Deluge tales is evident: The flooding had ceased, the ark was "arrested" on the twin-peaked mountain; the rivers began to flow again from the mountaintops and carry the waters back to the oceans; fish were seen; a bird was sent out from the ark. The ordeal was over.

The Twelfth Planet had passed its "crossing." It had neared Earth, and it began to move away, accompanied by its satellites:

When the savant shall call out: "Flooding!"
—

It is the god
Nibiru
["Planet of Crossing"];

It is the Hero, the planet with four heads.

The god whose weapon is the Flooding Storm,

shall turn back;

To his resting place he shall lower himself.

(The receding planet, the text asserts, then recrossed the path of Saturn in the month of Ululu, the sixth month of the year.)

The Old Testament frequently refers to the time when the Lord caused Earth to be covered by the waters of the deep. The twenty-ninth Psalm describes the "calling" as well as the "return" of the "great waters" by the Lord: