Nuclear Destruction¶
Selected quotations from Sumerian lamentations and other texts describing the destruction of Ur and Sippar, which Zecharia Sitchin interpreted as a nuclear event.
The Lamentation over Ur¶
"O city, your walls are broken! The people mourn. The great house of Nannar is empty. The city is destroyed, the city is destroyed!"
"The storm that destroys everything came from the horizon — an evil wind, a storm that knows no mercy."
"Like the burning of a great torch, the fire consumed the city. The people were as if turned to stone."
The "Evil Wind"¶
"The evil wind, the terrible storm, came upon the land. The cities were destroyed in a single day. The rivers ran with poison. The fields were burned." — Sumerian text
"The great Anunnaki heard the cry of the land. The king of the gods wept. But the weapon had been unleashed, and none could stop it."
The Aftermath¶
"The goddess of the city fled. The temple was abandoned. The people were killed or scattered. The land was desolate."
"No more did the ships come to the harbor. No more did the markets hum. The voice of the people was silenced."
Biblical Parallel — Sodom and Gomorrah¶
"Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground." (Genesis 19:24-25)
See Also¶
- Nuclear Destruction — The event in Concepts
- Nuclear Weapons — The weapons
- Sippar — The destroyed spaceport
- Ur — The destroyed city
- Nergal — The god of destruction
- Sinai Nuclear Holocaust — Evidence of ancient nuclear events
Sources¶
- Sitchin, Z. (1985). The Wars of Gods and Men.
- Sitchin, Z. (2007). The End of Days.
- Kramer, S. N. (1963). The Sumerians.