Genesis Revisited

Author: Zechariah Sitchen

reviewed by Theresa Welsh

Is the human race the product of deliberate genetic manipulation performed by an alien race from our own solar system? YES, says author Zechariah Sitchen who bases his ideas on his research into the civilization of ancient Sumeria

Aliens Visit Ancient Sumeria

Once you start reading in this genre, you’ll have to read a book by Zechariah Sitchen. He is quoted by everyone else because he is one of the few to do original research. Sitchen’s books are all about the ancient Sumerian civilization, the first known to history. He has learned to read the ancient script and has translated a great many old tablets and inscriptions from which he has developed a theory of history that is unique to him (although borrowed by lots of the other writers). Basically, he says the earth was visited by aliens about 200,000 years ago. They were looking for gold which would somehow help restore the atmosphere on their planet. They needed miners and found primitive hominids on earth and genetically altered them to be smarter, using their own genes. The result was… us! An alien woman called Ninhirsag was actually the “mother” of humanity. Sitchen has written about these ideas in great detail in his series of books The Earth Chronicles.

These aliens, called Annunaki, are the “giants in the earth” mentioned in the Bible. They come from the planet Nibiru (called Marduk by the Babylonians), which is part of our solar system. It is an as-yet undiscovered planet and has a very elliptical orbit that takes it way out far beyond Pluto. That’s why we don’t know about it. But, of course, it’s coming back our way and the same characters will be coming with it because they are either immortal or have very long life spans (their “year” of course is extremely long -- 3600 of our years, so maybe their lifespan in years is about the same as ours). you’ll learn the history of the solar system according to Sitchen, including a version from ancient legends of how the earth itself was formed.

Alein "gods?"

Sitchen’s books all tie events in ancient history to these aliens, who were the original “gods” and who were the cause of the great flood of the Noah story. Sitchen does not seem to believe in any spiritual dimension. These Annunaki are only called gods because of their superior knowledge and mankind’s ignorance and because they were literally the creators of our present human form. Although he also wrote a book called Divine Encounters, Sitchen seems not to believe in anything truly divine. His drama takes place only in this material world, without any guidance as to our spiritual nature. His works do, however, have tremendous scope, encompassing the entire solar system. His aliens have bases on Mars. They are behind the failures of our space probes to Mars and the 1989 failure of a Soviet-launched satellite called Phobos 2. This satellite was named for a real Mars moonlet (Mars has two very small moons called Phobos and Diemos) and its mission was to enter an orbit that shadowed the real Phobos, which it did in January1989. However, the Soviets lost contact with their satellite right after receiving some bizarre photos from it. One shows anomalous features on the surface of Mars, strange geometric shapes that look artificial; the other shows a shadow of something that must have been between the satellite and Mars. Could it have been an alien space ship and could it have destroyed Phobos 2? Sitchen thinks that’s exactly what happened.

NASA conspiracies?

Genesis Revisited combines Sitchen’s interpretation of the Sumerian culture with his ideas on what NASA knows but isn’t telling us, including what it knows about Mars and Phobos 2. He recounts the history of UFO sightings and says the US government wants us to think it has lost interest in tracking UFOs when it actually has a very big interest. In fact, NASA may be aware that the moonlet of Mars called Phobos could be a space station for other intelligent beings. One Soviets writer speculated that Phobos was an artificial satellite put in orbit millions of years ago (or much more recently?). Sitchen leaves us with much speculation that Mars and its tiny moon, Phobos, may already be in use by the same Annunaki who launched the human race thousands of years ago.

Looking for Nibiru

Does planet Nibiru really exist? There are scientists who think there is another planet, and they’ve called it for now “Planet X.” Sitchen calls it the “twelfth planet,” using the Sumerian system of counting planets which includes our own moon and the sun. Our planet earth, according to Sitchen’s interpretation of Sumerian legends, was formed from an earlier planet called Tiamat which was broken up, and its fragments form the asteroid belt. The whole theory is complicated and steeped in ancient mysteries. There are also scientists (including Nobel Laureate Sir Francis Crick) who believe life on earth originated from an extraterrestrial source. However, considering the possibility that life in its simplest form may have originated from outside earth is different from endorsing the existence of an alien race from the planet Nibiru who performed genetic manipulation on the primitive hominids to create the human race. But as long as there is no definitive answer to how life came to be and how the human race originated, speculative ideas are worth our consideration. Sitchen gives us much to think about.

While Sitchen’s ideas of alien presence on Mars, connected to a long-ago seeding of planet earth, might seem far out, he is a good researcher and does have data to back up what he says (although one can certainly question his interpretation of some of the data). I respect him for having actual scholarship in the culture of Sumeria. The book is full of drawings of Sumerian depictions of what look like space ships. There are also many illustrations of Mars and Phobos. My paperback copy suffers from poor editing. The illustrations all have only numbered captions and you are forced to search through the text for references so you know what the pictures are about. I have hand-written my own captions under many of them in my copy. I wish publishers would NEVER do this! Please, publishers, write real captions and put them under the picture.

The Sumerians knew their “gods” came from the sky and knew about vehicles that soared above the earth. You will learn a great deal from his books, even if you don’t agree with Sitchen’s interpretation of some of the material. Genesis Revisited is a good book to begin with if you want to know something of the ideas of Zechariah Sitchen. If you find it compelling, you can get the rest of his books. They are all available in inexpensive paperback editions.


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