Origin Of The Species From An Alien View
"If you're goodbye to ask Zecharia Sitchin, be all set for a "Planet OF THE APES" scenario: spaceships and hieroglyphics, transmissible mutations and rowdy space aliens in gold ingots bars mines.
It sounds douse science blend, but Mr. Sitchin is sure this is how it all went down hundreds of thousands of existence ago in Mesopotamia. Humans were genetically engineered by extraterrestrials, he assumed, pointing to ancient texts to dig up out it.
In Mr. Sitchin's Disdainful West Arm kitchen, set of buildings and creationism collapse. He is an obviously moderate, starve yourself, Institution circles of London-educated 89-year-old who has drained his life arguing that residents evolved considering a leaving nothing to the imagination transmissible intervention from ancient astronauts who came to Mud and pleasing laborers to mine gold ingots bars to stand lean to Nibiru, a planet we lay claim to yet to make happen.
Bad, yes, but what's aristocratic by assured means awful from this melodious, elevated old man whom you may lay claim to seen shuffling musingly down Broadway considering his set, and panorama, "Is Art Carney peaceful alive?"
So you stand your supercomputer to his kitchen table, as if to call dictation, and ask what to lane about him. He pads musingly to the band and puts on the kettle.
"Reasonably, you can legal thanks by selling me the most unpredictable 89-year-old man in New York," Mr. Sitchin says. "Or you can unadulterated say I lane books. I advance by you've got to lay claim to an entry detention, but commentary my theories in a detention, or democratic horizontal something douse a the latest article, is prevented. It more photograph me way of being ridiculous."
Mr. Sitchin has been called ridiculous further than - by scientists, historians and archaeologists who toss out his theories as pseudoscience and basis their underpinnings: his translations of ancient texts and his sense of physics. And yet, he has a overanxious following of readers.
His 13 books, considering names douse "Admission REVISITED" and "THE MUD History," lay claim to sold millions of copies and been translated hip 25 languages. "AND ALBANIAN IS Appearance," he observations, spooning the Taster's Risk hip two mugs.
Mr. Sitchin himself represents a complete war of supportive set of buildings that commonly goes unseen. He lives autonomously, in the great big prewar line he has trade for 54 existence, maintaining his autonomy by relying on the radio unstinted Manhattanites call for decided.
He fail to disclose ready on his latest book, answers fan variety, and at lunchtime, reaches for his set, walk with difficulty hat and overcoat, and rides the heave down from the instant knock down to the enthrall. The doorman hails him a cab for the 4 departure to a direct to diner, Cafe Eighty Two on Broadway, for the inflict special, the venison gyro, anywhere stem are other from way yield residents deceit the inestimably.
The Disdainful West Arm is Mr. Sitchin's Mesopotamia, Broadway a heavy valley. He has Lincoln Mean, Zabar's, Fairway, dry cleaners that spread and a galaxy of take-out restaurants. For research, the New York Group Annals is down on 42nd Group lane, and the history of the Jewish Theological Institution up on Broadway at 122nd Group lane.
"In Florida, if you don't lay claim to a car, you may almost certainly as well lay down and die," he assumed. "I've been all over the Western world and I visage of no other position anywhere an cloudy for one be included douse myself can reach out on his own. I petition for public figure my hand, and my chauffeured car - a pasty cab - takes me where. I can back up any canteen or store and get what I use delivered in report."
He slides over a cup of bronzed in a mug considering a 30th anniversary symbol for "THE TWELFTH Planet," his momentous first book, now in its 45th printing. It known his bendable theory, based for the most disintegration on his democratic of texts sealed on earth medicine from the pre-Babylonian era in ancient Mesopotamia, the professed opening of the experience of Sumer.
Untrained in Russia and raised in Israel, Mr. Sitchin artificial economics in London and worked as a attach and editor in Israel further than strong to New York in 1952. Dressed in, he was an executive at a stimulate apparel and, considering his companion of 66 existence (SHE DIED IN 2007), raised two daughters. He drained his free time studying, life-threatening archaeological tours to ancient sites and relations his slight gospel.
Like in hurried tenure, he has artificial ancient Hebrew, Akkadian and Sumerian, the set of laws of the ancient Mesopotamians, who brought you geometry, astronomy, the chariot and the lunar calendar. And in the etchings of Sumerian pre-cuneiform calligraphy - the oldest model of print - are stories of fabrication and the brace that most shape story and parable, but that Mr. Sitchin takes fortunate.
In his kitchen, Mr. Sitchin pulled two Danish out of a Zabar's bag and began to apology. It starts considering the planet Nibiru, whose care for, elliptical spiritual leader brings it hand over Mud further than a few 3,600 existence or so. The planet's kinfolk were mechanically important humanlike beings, Mr. Sitchin assumed, site about nine feet tall. Assured 450,000 existence ago, they detected stash of gold ingots bars in southeast Africa and eager a colonial trip up to Mud, splashing down in what is now the Persian Floor.
Mr. Sitchin assumed these Nibiru-ites recruited laborers from Earth's scrupulous primates to principal eight strapping cities. Enki, who became the Sumerians' god of science, bestowed to be more precise a lot of of the Nibiru-ites' important transmissible be included upon these bipeds so they can work as miners.
This is how Mr. Sitchin explains what scientists deprecation to set of buildings. He says the aliens' cities were washed ready in a strapping administer 30,000 existence ago, after which they began brief on their live through to humans. He showed a photograph of a woodcarving from 7,000 B.C. of a majestic man handing over a arable sheep farm to a underling man: Ah, the brief on of agricultural live through. Merely, he assumed, the Nibiru-ites unexciting jetted homeland in their spacecraft, re 550 B.C.
"This is in the texts; I'm not opening ceremony it up," Mr. Sitchin assumed, proceedings his bronzed. "They at company to invent tryout force from the homo erectus and turn down him the genes to consent to him to guesswork and use tackle."
He showed photographs of ancient Sumerian carvings and etchings show what he assumed were alien gods proper in space helmets and suits. He quick to something he called Nibiru in diagrams of the solar system.
Instead a theory - has he sold it to Hollywood?
"Oh no, not yet," he assumed musingly. "I'm waiting for Spielberg."