yoga from Near East, not Just South Asia; the year 2012

[Guest guest]

Sat nam, ji.

 

In my studies two civilization compete for the oldest - the 3700 BC

Sumerians, and the 2900 BC Harappans (Indus River/South Asians).

According to the translation of the clay cuneiform tablets by scholar

Sitchin, the goddess Inanna - called other names by other

civilizations, such as Ishtar - brought the yoga to the Harappan

civilization. That's one theory. David Frawley disagrees in his

focus on the ancient Vedic civilization.

 

Below is the complete summary of Sitchin's translations of the

Sumerian ancient civilization. This is too fantastic to cut. For

more info, go to www.sitchin.com. For more on Frawley's Vedic

interpretation, go to http://www.vedanet.com/.

 

P.S. Another reason to read what follows is kundalini yoga's inclusion

of the discussion of 2012, both as the official beginning of the

Aquarian Age and as the time when the cosmic vibration will be such

that kundalini yoga practice will be even more important than it is now.

 

Enjoy,

Amar Atma

 

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In 1990 I met with Zecharia Sitchin when we appeared on a television

talk show, in Long Island, hosted by Bill Knell. I found Mr. Sitchen

to be one of the most informed people I had every met. The next time

we met was in 1993 at NYU where we lectured together on ancient

astronauts and related information.

 

Reality is myth, math, and metaphor - with a sprinkle of magic.

Sitchen's theories - as with all others - is filled with metaphoric

content - from 3600 years to Sumerian Gods creating a Biogenetic

Program. It's all part of the alchemy of time and consciousness

through which we experience and evolve.

 

Biography

 

Zecharia Sitchin (born 1920?) is a best-selling author promoting the

ancient astronaut theory of mankind's origins. He attributes the

creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Nephilim from Nibiru.

 

He also argues that the asteroid belt was once a planet which the

Sumerians called Tiamat.

 

Although his 'planetary collision' theory superficially resembles a

theory which is seriously entertained by modern astronomers - the

giant impact theory of the Moon's formation about 4.5 billion years

ago by a body impacting with the newly-formed Earth - Sitchin's

proposed series of rogue planetary collisions post-dating the early

formation of the solar system finds little or no support within the

scientific arena.

 

As with Immanuel Velikovsky's earlier Worlds in Collision trilogy,

Sitchin finds evidence of ancient human knowledge of rogue celestial

motions in a variety of mythological accounts. In Velilovsky's case,

these interplanetary collisions were supposed to have taken place

within the span of human existence, whereas for Sitchin these occurred

much earlier, but entered the mythological account passed down via the

purported alien survivors of these encounters. In neither case are

their respective interpretations of mythology held to be reliable by

the great majority of scholars in the field.

 

Zecharia Sitchin was born in Russia and raised in Palestine, where he

acquired a knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew, other Semitic and

European languages, the Old Testament, and the history and archaeology

of the Near East. Sitchin attended and graduated from the University

of London, majoring in economic history.

 

A journalist and editor in Israel for many years, he now lives and

writes in New York. His books have been widely translated, converted

to Braille for the blind, and featured on radio and television.Sitchin

claims that his research coincides with many biblical texts and that

the biblical texts come originally from the Sumerian writings of their

history.

 

Theories

 

Sitchin has recently put forth his own date for the next passage of

Nibiru in the year 2085, but the date most talked about is 2012 which

marks the end of the Maya calendar.

 

Nibiru (the planet associated with Marduk in Babylonian cosmology) is

a central element of Sitchin's theory. He claims it was a tenth planet

(twelfth to those who included the Sun and Moon) which followed a

long, elliptical orbit, reaching the inner solar system every 3600 years.

 

According to his theories of Sumerian cosmology, Nibiru was the

twelfth member in the solar system family of planets (which includes

10 planets, the Sun, and the Moon). Its catastrophic collision with

Tiamat, a planet that was between Mars and Jupiter, would have formed

the planet Earth and the asteroid belt and comets.

 

It was the home of a technologically advanced human-like alien race

Anunnaki of Sumerian myth, who, Sitchin claims, survived and later

came to Earth. According to Sitchin, they subsequently genetically

engineered our species, originally as slave animals to work in their

gold mines, by crossing their genes with those of Homo erectus.

 

Sitchin says some sources speak about the same planet, possibly being

a brown dwarf star and still in a highly elliptic orbit around the

Sun, with a perihelion passage some 3,600 years ago and assumed

orbital period of about 3,600 to 3,760 years or 3,741 years.

 

However, scientists argue that a planet with such an orbit would

eventually either develop a circular orbit or fly off into space and

overwhelmingly consider Sitchin's claims to be pseudoscience. Sitchin

attributes these figures to astronomers of the Maya civilization.

 

However, a brown dwarf with a period of 3,760 years would be clearly

evident through infrared and gravitational observations.In a recently

published book, titled 2012: Appointment With Marduk, Turkish

writer/researcher Burak Eldem presents a new theory, suggesting a

3,661 years orbital period for the planet and claiming a " return date "

in the year 2012 AD.

 

According to Eldem's theory, 3,661 is one-seventh of 25,627, which is

the total time span of " 5 World Ages " according to Mayan Long Count

Calendar system. The last orbital passage of Marduk, he adds, was in

1649 BC and caused great catastrophes on earth, including the Thera

eruption.

 

Tiamat Planet Theory

 

Tiamat, as outlined in the Enûma Elish, is a goddess. According to

Sitchin, however, she may have been what we now know as Earth, when

one of Marduk's (Nibiru) moons struck Tiamat and broke her into two

separate pieces, on a second pass Marduk himself struck the broken

pieces and one half of Tiamat was crumbled and became what we now know

as the asteroid belt. The second half being struck again by one of

Marduk's moons was pushed into a new orbit and created what we now

know as Earth. Although most scientists argue that the scenario is

improbable, Sitchin's supporters argue that it would explain how the

Earth's continents were divided and would also explain why the Earth

is layered in sediments.

 

Annunaki

 

Sitchin claims that artifacts and documents from the great library of

Ashurbanipal at Nineveh and other sources, show technology and

advanced scientific knowledge out of place for their time period. This

he claims as proof for the following theory.

 

According to Sitchin in his book The 12th Planet, the Annunaki were

extraterrestrials related to the Biblical Nephilim. He claims that

they first arrived on Earth probably 450,000 years ago, looking for

minerals, especially gold, which they found and mined in Africa.

According to Sitchin, the " gods " of the Anunnaki were the rank and

file workers of the colonial expedition to earth from the 12th planet,

also known later, through the Babylonians, as Marduk.

 

Sitchin claims that ancient records report that a human civilization

in Sumer of Mesopotamia was set up under the tutelage of these " gods "

and human kings were inaugurated as go-betweens, foremen of the human

populations answering to the Annunaki. The Nephilim " gods " were the

commanders of the operation. The Anunnaki performed the menial labor,

mining ores and building bases, while the Nephilim issued the orders

setting these tasks into motion. It was only due to an uprising by the

Anunnaki against the Nephilim in protest of these conditions that the

Anunnaki 'workers' revolted against their overseers. Because of this

the Nephilim and Anunnaki came together in a project to blend the DNA

of Homo erectus with that of their own, thus giving rise to the Homo

sapiens. He proposes that fallout from the nuclear weapons used during

this struggle was the " evil wind " that destroyed Ur c. 2000 BCE, as

recorded in the Lament for Ur.

 

Sitchin's claims are strongly disputed by archeologists and

astronomers. Nevertheless, they have proven popular reading if only as

science fiction, and they are a novel way of handling the enduring

legacy of Mesopotamian mythology and astrology. His series of books

has led directly to other works of popular fiction, such as the

successful Stargate movies and TV films that have adapted his fanciful

(and perhaps fun) theory that the Mesopotamian gods were in fact

strange, resource hungry mortals. If not credible to mainstream

scholars, his theory is at least an intriguing interpretation of the

related phenomena of religious belief in the divine.

 

Academic opposition to Sitchin's theories focuses on various

fundamental questions that are not answered in his research. First, if

planet Nibiru's orbit takes 3,600 years, then its aphelion would be

further away than Pluto. At such a distance from the Sun, temperatures

are so low that water would exist as ice, life as we know it would be

impossible. If a form of life can exist in such conditions, then it

would not be water-based and could conceivably perish at Earth's much

warmer temperatures. Sitchin counters that Nibiru has an internally

generated heat source.

 

Secondly, if alien visitors to Earth created humans, then evidence for

this would have been found by now within our DNA. Since DNA sequencing

is now cheap and easy, the conspiracy theory idea that our true DNA

sequences have been suppressed would seem to be discounted, the idea

being that since almost anyone can sequence our genes, if there was

any extraterrestrial DNA to be found it would have been by now.

 

Additionally, humans and chimpanzees share up to 99% of their DNA and

the remaining 1% is posited by to some to be of bacterial origin.

Thus, present-day genetics fails to produce evidence that supports

Sitchin's theories and more readily supports the idea that humans

evolved through a series of DNA mutations from a precursor ape-like

species.

 

Sitchin counters that the 223 genes " do not have the required

predecessors on the genomic evolutionary tree " . Citing the journals

" Nature " and " Science " , Sitchin holds that there is not a strongly

preferred bacterial source for the putative horizontally transferred

genes. Thus, these genes are of unknown origin.

 

for more go to www.Sitchin.com

 

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