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Genesis Revisited

Genesis Revisited, published in 1990, is Zecharia Sitchin's "fourth" book in the Earth Chronicles series (though it was published between The Wars of Gods and Men and When Time Began). It revisits the themes of The 12th Planet in light of new archaeological and scientific discoveries of the 1980s, particularly in genetics, astronomy, and space exploration.

Overview

The book is structured as a series of correlations between modern scientific discoveries and ancient Sumerian knowledge:

  1. The Sumerian Legacy — Reaffirming the advanced knowledge of the Sumerians
  2. The Earth as a Planet — Geological and astronomical confirmations
  3. The Celestial Collision — New evidence for the Tiamat catastrophe
  4. Genesis: A Planet's Birth — Earth's formation from Tiamat's remains
  5. The Moon: A Necessary Satellite — The Moon's role in Earth's stability
  6. The Creation of Man — Genetic engineering confirmed by modern biology
  7. The Golden Age — The Anunnaki settlement of Earth
  8. The Missing Links — Hominid evolution and the "missing link"
  9. The Day the Gods Fled — The nuclear destruction of Sumer
  10. The Return of the Planet — Nibiru's expected return

The Revised Arguments

Sitchin devotes significant attention to the discovery of "Mitochondrial Eve" (1987), which placed the most recent common female ancestor of all living humans at approximately 200,000 years ago. He connects this to his dating of the Anunnaki's genetic creation of Homo sapiens approximately 300,000 years ago.

"Modern genetics has confirmed what the Sumerian texts have always said: that humanity was 'mixed' — created from the genetic material of an existing hominid and the 'essence' of the Anunnaki."

Space Exploration

Sitchin notes that the Voyager missions discovered previously unknown moons and rings around the outer planets, details he claims were already known to Sumerian astronomers who depicted them in cylinder seals.

The Demotion of Pluto

The discovery of the Kuiper Belt and the reclassification of Pluto (1999, formally 2006) as a dwarf planet supported, in Sitchin's view, the Sumerian understanding of the solar system: there is a "Planet of the Crossing" beyond Pluto whose orbit brings it into the inner solar system.

See Also

Sources

  • Sitchin, Z. (1990). Genesis Revisited. New York: Avon Books.
  • Cann, R. L., Stoneking, M., & Wilson, A. C. (1987). "Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution." Nature.
  • Sitchin, Z. (1976). The 12th Planet.