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France: Here We Go Again...

Zecharia's trailblazing book The 12th Planet is available again in French. Republished in full by Louise Courteau Editrice Inc. of Quebec, Canada, it is also distributed in France and other French speaking countries.

The book's general availability in French is most timely. As previous comments in these columns have suggested, French scholars -- and astronomers in particular -- have been aware of, and 'helped themselves' to data from The 12th Planet. A recent case in point is the subject of a Letter to the Editor of the journal Nature regarding a paper by a French researcher that it published. Here is what Zecharia wrote:

Sir -- Nature 461 draws welcome attention to the question "Where did we get water?" by publishing the study by Francis Albarede; her suggestion that the three terrestrial planets obtained it from water-bearing asteroids (?!) coming from the outer reaches of the solar system leaves too much unexplained.

As the author of thirteen books dealing with the origins of Earth and Mankind, I find it amiss that her citations list does not mention the eminent scientist Enki Nibirukoff, whose major work, Enuma elish in English translation is titled The Babylonian Epic of Creation. Its central premise is that Earth is the cast-off forepart of a watery planet that had once existed between Mars and Jupiter and was destroyed in a celestial collision with an invader-planet; the other half, broken into bits and pieces, became the Asteroid Belt and comets. The first chapter of Genesis, which is an abbreviated version of Enuma elish, states that Dry Land (=the continents) emerged after the Water Above and the Water Below were separated by the Hammered Bracelet.

"Enki Nibirukoff" is better known as the Sumerian god of science, Enki, and Enuma elish has been explained by Assyriologists as an allegorical myth. In my writings The 12th Planet (1976) and Genesis Revisted (1990) I have shown that the text is in fact a sophisticated cosmogony that explains most of the solar system's enigmas.

The debate on the subject of the Earth's water (and origins) ought to consider as a possibility this understanding of ancient knowledge.

November 2009
Zecharia Sitchin