Sitchin - There Were Giants Upon the Earth

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Cover illustration: Victory stela of king Naram-Sin, ca. 2250 B.C., now in the Louvre Museum, Paris.

There Were Giants Upon the Earth

Gods, Demigods, and Human Ancestry: The Evidence of Alien DNA

ZECHARIA SITCHIN

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Sitchin, Zecharia.

There were giants upon the Earth : gods, demigods, and human ancestry : the evidence of alien DNA / Zecharia Sitchin. p. cm. (Earth chronicles) Summary: "The crowning work of the best-selling Earth chronicles series" Provided by publisher. ISBN 978-1-59143-121-3 (hardcover)

1. Civilization, AncientExtraterrestrial influences. 2. Extraterrestrial beings. 3. DNA. 4. Heredity. 5. GodsHistory. 6. GoddessesHistory. I. Title. CB156.S585 2010 930dc22

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Contents

Introduction: And It Came to Pass 1

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII A Serf Made to Order 145

IX Gods and Other Ancestors 164

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XIII

XIV

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XVI The Goddess Who Never Left 328 Postscript: Mankind's Alien OriginsThe Evidence 343

INTRODUCTION

And It Came to Pass

And it came to pass,

When men began to multiply on the face of the Earth

and daughters were born unto them,

that the sons of God saw the daughters of men

that they were fair, and they took them wives

of all which they chose.

There were giants upon the Earth

in those days and also thereafter too,

When the sons of God

came in unto the daughters of men

and they bare children to them

the same Mighty Men of old,

Men of Renown.

The reader, if familiar with the King James English version of the Bible, will recognize these verses in chapter 6 of Genesis as the preamble to the story of the Deluge, the Great Flood in which Noah, huddled in an ark, was saved to repopulate the Earth.

The reader, if familiar with my writings, will also recognize these verses as the reason why many decades ago, a schoolboy was prompted to ask his teacher why it is "giants" who are the subject of these verses, when the word in the original Hebrew text is Nefilim which, stemming from

the Hebrew verb NaFoL, means to fall down, to be downed, to come downand in no way 'giants'.

The schoolboy was I. Instead of being congratulated on my linguistic acumen, I was harshly reprimanded. "Sitchin, sit down!" the teacher hissed with repressed anger; "you don't question the Bible!" I was deeply hurt that day, for I was not questioning the Bibleon the contrary, I was pointing out the need to understand it accurately. And that was what changed my life's direction to pursue the Nefilim. Who were they, and who were their "Mighty Men" descendants?

The search for answers started with linguistic questions. The Hebrew text does not speak of "Men" who began to multiply, but of Ha'Adam "The Adam," a generic term, a human species. It does not speak of the sons of "God," but uses the term Bnei Ha-Elohim the sons (in the plural) of The Elohim, a plural term taken to mean "gods" but literally meaning "The Lofty Ones." The "Daughters of The Adam" were not "fair," but Tovoth good, compatible... And unavoidably we find ourselves confronting issues of origins. How did Mankind happen to be on this planet, and whose genetic code do we carry?

In just three verses and a few wordsforty-nine words in the original Hebrew of Genesisthe Bible describes the creation of Heaven and Earth, then records an actual prehistoric time of early Mankind and a series of amazing events, including a global Flood, the presence on Earth of gods and their sons, inter-species intermarriage, and demigod offspring...

And so, starting with one word {Nefilim), I told the tale of the Anunnaki, "Those who from Heaven to Earth came"space travelers and interplanetary settlers who came from their troubled planet to Earth in need of gold, and ended up fashioning The Adam in their image. In doing so I brought them to liferecognizing them individually, unraveling their tangled relationships, describing their tasks, loves, ambitions, and warsand identifying their inter-species offspring, the 'demigods'.

I have been asked at times where my interests would have taken me were the teacher to compliment rather than reprimand me. In truth,

I have asked myself a different question: What if indeed "there were giants upon the Earth, in those days and thereafter too"i The cultural, scientific, and religious implications are awesome; they lead to the next unavoidable questions: Why did the compilers of the Hebrew Bible, which is totally devoted to monotheism, include the bombshell verses in the prehistoric recordand what were their sources?

I believe that I have found the answer. Deciphering the enigma of the demigods (the famed Gilgamesh among them), I conclude in this bookmy crowning oeuvrethat compelling physical evidence for past alien presence on Earth has been buried in an ancient tomb. It is a tale that has immense implications for our genetic originsa key to unlocking the secrets of health, longevity, life, and death; it is a mystery whose unraveling will take the reader on a unique adventure and finally reveal what was held back from Adam in the Garden of Eden.

Zecharia Sitchin

I

Alexander's Quest for Immortality

In the spring of 334 B.C., Alexander of Macedon led a massive Greek army across the Hellespont, a narrow straits of water separating Europe from Asia (now called the Dardanelles), and launched the first known armed invasion of Asia from Europe. His military forces, with some 15,000 elite foot soldiers and cavalry, represented an alliance of Greek states formed in response to repeated invasions of Greece by the Asiatic Persians: First, in 490 B.C. (when the invasion was repulsed at Marathon) and then in 480/479 B.C., when the Persians humiliated the Greeks by occupying and sacking Athens.

The two sides have been warring since then over Asia Minor, where Greek settlements (of which Troy had been the most storied) were proliferating, and clashed over the lucrative sea lanes in the eastern Mediterranean. While the Persians were organized in a mighty empire ruled by a succession of "King of Kings," the Greeks were fragmented into quarreling city-states; the devastating and humiliating Persian invasions coupled with the continuing clashes on land and sea finally served as an impetus to form a League under the leadership of Macedonia; and the task of leading the counterattack was entrusted to Alexander.