CAVE DWELLINGS-ON MARS-4 microbes?Or shelters 4real astronauts?

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“CAVE DWELLINGS” ON MARS http://www.sitchin.com/ The discovery of new startling features on Mars that holds intriguing implications for the possibility of Life on Mars, was recently reported by U.S. government scientists. It could also corroborate an aspect of Zecharia Sitchin’s writings - that a leading “ancient astronaut” was buried on that planet. A team of scientists from the United States Geological Survey reported at the recent annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas, that images taken by NASA’s Mars-orbiting spacecraft Mars Odyssey show what appear to be cave entrances where primitive life forms – “past or present microbial life” – could have been sheltered, and where water could exist in liquid form.A more detailed perusal of the report reveals that the spacecraft actually photographed, in both visual and infrared, puzzling dark circular structures associated with these caves - structures ranging in size from 100 to 250 meters (330 to 825 feet). Picking up the hardly-noticed story in its June 2007 issue, the prestigious journal Scientific American has now provided additional information: Seven such “football size” caverns were identified; they are 425 feet deep. They could “serve as havens from radiation on the surface and so would be the most likely areas to harbor life.” The journal then added that the caverns “could also accumulate ice, which could support future human exploration” (by astronauts from Earth). And then Scientific American augmented the report’s intriguing aspects by headlining the story MARTIAN CAVE DWELLINGS: “Cave dwellings” for microbes?? Or does the journal envision shelters for real astronauts? Back to the Face on Mars While Scientific American has probably in mind future astronauts, the new discoveries have important implications for the presence on Mars of “ancient astronauts,” and have a bearing on the issue of the famed (and controversial) Face on Mars. In his various volumes of The Earth Chronicles series, Zecharia Sitchin has provided ancient evidence, both texts on clay tablets and illustrations from cylinder seals, showing that Mars served as a way station for the Anunnaki “gods” in their space travels from Nibiru to Earth. (See also the article “Was the ‘Face’ depicted 4,500 years ago?” on this website). In The Lost Book of Enki (2004) Zecharia wrote in regard to the Face on Mars that it marked the burial place of an Anunnaki leader named Alalu - that a great rock, fashioned in the image of his face wearing an astronaut’s helmet, covered a cave in which the dead Anunnaki leader was laid to rest.The existence on Mars of large caves (‘caverns’) topped by shaped rock structures – now revealed by NASA’s new discoveries – was thus actually written about first in Zecharia’s The Lost Book of Enki three years earlier. Z. Sitchin 2007 Permission to reprint is hereby granted on condition that the following is prominently stated:© Z. Sitchin Reprinted with permission. "A Talk From The Heart"Here is some "Sitchin Memorabilia" news:The long appreciated video "An Evening With Zecharia Sitchin" is out of print and will no longer be available. If you possess a copy, it is now a "Sitchin collectible." The mass-market paperback (Avon Books) editions of Zecharia's "Earth Chronicles" series, that culminated after 30 years with the record 45th printing of The 12th Planet, are out of print and are also "Sitchin collectibles" now. Instead, the major publishing house Harper Collins, which acquired Avon Books, has republished all the books with added material by Zecharia, with redesigned covers, and with a "teaser chapter" of the just-published The End of Days. "Sitchin memorabilia" collectors should buy the First Printing now! A "first" - a DVD! When close friends and fans of Zecharia gathered in New York last November, they were privileged to hear him explain why, after avoiding the subject of The Return for all those years, he decided to provide the answers in The End of Days. In an emotion-filled personal revelation, Zecharia disclosed that the decision was triggered by extraordinary occurrences during his heart surgery in 2004. His talk was videotaped; and in response to numerous requests, what was intended at the time only for the intimate audience is now available on DVD titled "A Talk From The Heart." This is the first ever DVD of Zecharia. For a copy, go to wingeddisk.com. THE JERUSALEM CHALICE: A CLUE TO PIVOTAL EVENTS As excited anticipation for the release of The End of Days on April 3rd rises, questions have been asked about the central image on the cover design – an ancient coin on which a chalice is depicted: What is it, what does it signify, and why does it suggest a nuclear device? Readers of the book will find the explanation in the chapter titled “Jerusalem: A Chalice, Vanished,” which deals with the epic events of the Last Supper – the traditional meal ushering the Passover holiday which Jesus celebrated with his disciples in Jerusalem – immortalized in Da Vinci’s famed painting. “The presence of a wine goblet dedicated to the prophet Elijah is an essential part of the ceremonial meal,” Zecharia Sitchin, author of The End of Days, said. “So, as in a famed Sherlock Holmes mystery where the clue to solving the crime was the question. Why did the dog not bark, I realized that the clue to the painting’s message or ‘code’ is the question: Why is this ritual wine goblet, that scriptures mention, not shown?” Equally enigmatic is the appearance of a chalice’s image on a Freedom Coin struck by the Jewish rebels against the Roman rulers in Jerusalem, not long after Jesus was accused of claiming to be the rebel “King of the Jews.” The book thus puts in context the mystery of the ‘Holy Grail’. Showing how those events in Jerusalem were the pivot connecting the Past with the Future, the book uses the very words of the biblical Prophets to suggest that the nuclear threats of the twenty-first century A.D. are an echo of the actual use of nuclear devices in the twenty-first century B.C. Thus the nuclear aspect of the Chalice Coin – a link to the book’s subtitle: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return. Is it just a coincidence that this explosive book is being released during the Passover/Easter week? Not if one believes that there is no such thing as ‘coincidences’… T H E E N D O F D A Y SZecharia Sitchin’s 7th and concluding book of The Earth Chronicles series will be published at the end of March 2007, the publisher Harper Collins has announced. In this book titled The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return, Zecharia Sitchin confronts such questions as why it is that our current twenty-first century A.D. is so similar to the twenty-first century B.C.? Is history destined to repeat itself? What does the future hold? Will biblical prophecies come true, and if so, when? Are the ancient gods still here or did they leave? Will they return? What will happen then? Will there be another Deluge or Apocalypse when Nibiru meets Earth? What about “Planet X” and the Mayan 2012? What about Jesus? Tracing historical events from the messianic fervor and use of nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century B.C., the book resolves ancient enigmas like the Nazca Lines, the origin and significance of the Cross, the Fishes, and the Chalice, places in context the events of theLast Supper and hidden clues like those in Da Vinci’s painting, explains the space-related reasons for the everlasting centrality of Jerusalem, and following in the footsteps of Sir Isaac Newton deciphers the Time Code in the books of Daniel and Revelation and of the Day of the Lord and the End of Days prophecies.For details of an exclusive arrangement to obtain an autographed copy of the book, click on wingeddisk.com. 30th ANNIVERSARY OF THE 12TH PLANETAn overflow attendance of friends and fans joined Zecharia on November 11th in New York City to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the publication of his first book, The 12th Planet. Now in its 45th printing in the USA - a record - it has been translated into 23 languages and printed, reprinted and published around the world, reaching millions of readers.Coming from all parts of the USA and Canada, many rose to give personal accounts of how Zecharia's writings have affected their lives and understanding of our past and our future.Zecharia, on his part, gave a personal account of the road he had traveled from that first book to the coming one, titled THE END OF DAYS: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return.Two commemorative anniversary posters were made available at the event. One reproduces the original cover, the other reproduces covers of translations from around the world. A small number of these collectors' items are still on hand and can be ordered by clicking on wingeddisk. ROBBING PLUTO OF ITS PLANETHOOD:Leave It The Way The Sumerians Had ItSays Author Zecharia SitchinOur solar system has only eight “classical” planets - so has decided the astronomer’s union, meeting in Prague. Pluto - still out there - must be laughing. It is ironic - or, perhaps, symbolic - that the decision to deprive Pluto of its status as our sun’s ninth planet coincides with the 30th anniversary of the publication of my seminal work The Twelfth Planet in Autumn l976. In it I suggested that the Sumerian Epic of Creation is not an allegorical myth but a sophisticated cosmogony scientifically describing how our solar system came to be; and it most definitely included Pluto. Inscribed on seven clay tablets, the text described how the inner and outer planets appeared; how an invading celestial body (“Nibiru”) collided with and broke up the planet ‘Tiamat’, creating “a new heaven;” and how Nibiru, captured in a great elliptical orbit, became the twelfth member of the Sun’s Family - Sun, Moon, and ten planets including Earth, Nibiru and Pluto. These ‘celestial gods’ were matched by a pantheon of twelve deities on Earth. The reports from Prague at first suggested that astronomers were bothered by Pluto’s small size, now that a large icy body has been found farther out. But the final vote focused on what has troubled astronomers almost from Pluto’s discovery in 1930. Its unusual inclined orbit that weaves in and out of Neptune’s path. This odd orbit has led some astronomers to speculate that Pluto began its life as a satellite, perhaps of Neptune. But what forceful event could have caused it to shift position and adopt a strange orbit? No one knew. But in The 12th Planet I wrote that the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia knew: Pluto (“GAGA” in the Epic of Creation) was indeed a moon of Saturn, pried off and sent into independent orbit by the invading Nibiru to play an important role in those celestial encounters. In fact, the Sumerians were also aware that Gaga/Pluto ended up in the odd orbit next to Neptune. In the Sumerian pantheon, the planet we call Neptune was the celestial counterpart of the Aquarius god Enki. His ‘chancellor’ or ‘visier’ was nicknamed Ushmu, meaning “He ‘of two faces” - and so was he depicted, with one face looking at Enki and a second face looking away from him (Fig. 1) - exactly the way Pluto looks at Neptune. The Epic of Creation and other relevant Sumerian texts are supported by other pictorial depictions, such as the cylinder seal VA-243 in the Berlin Near Eastern Museum. (Fig.2). It shows the sun in the center (!), surrounded by eleven orbiting bodies that include the Moon, Pluto and the yet to be recognized “Planet X” -- Nibiru. Sumerian knowledge of the origin and makeup of our solar system included a host of other aspects that modern science has been rediscovering in recent times. Here, suffice it to say: The Sumerians, counted Pluto as a member in good standing of our Sun’s Family; let it stay so.ZECHARIA SITCHIN Z. Sitchin 2006 The 12th Planet is published by Avon Rooks (paperback) and Bear & Co. (hardcover) In The News: Baalbek War Comes to the "Landing Place" The name of an ancient site – Ba’albek in Lebanon – has now been mentioned in dispatches by war correspondents covering the latest flareup in the Middle East. Israeli planes have been dropping bombs there on training and supply encampments of Hezbollah terrorists, in a tit-for-tat for the latter’s missile attacks on Israel. Some of the dispatches refer to the town’s “Roman ruins” - remains of temples that Roman emperors erected in honor of Rome’s gods; but little, if any, mention is made of the place’s earlier and much more significant archaeological remains. I and those who have been with me to the place several years ago can attest that the “Roman ruins” are indeed imposing remains of three magnificent temples, including the largest temple to Jupiter anywhere in the Roman empire, Rome itself included - as an artist’s reconstruction shows (Fig. 1). But the Romans came there because the place had been revered earlier by the Greeks. Pompey, Rome’s conquering general, offered there sacrifices in 60 B.C. imitating Alexander the Great who paid there homage to Zeus centuries earlier. The Greeks came because the place was deemed a unique sacred site by the Phoenicians and the Babylonians before them; and before all those generals and emperors and kings, Gilgamesh, king of Uruk in ancient Sumer, went there circa 2900 B.C. to obtain immortality from the gods. The “Landing Place” Having been the son of the goddess Ninsun and the high priest of Uruk, Gilgamesh was considered not just a demigod but “two thirds divine.” This, he asserted, entitled him to avoid the death of a mortal. Yes, his mother told him - but to attain our longevity you have to go to our planet, Nibiru (where one year equals 3,600 Earth-years). So Gilgamesh journeyed from Sumer (now southern Iraq) to ‘The Landing Place” in the cedar mountains where the rocketships of the gods were lofted.The Epic of Gilgamesh, a text found inscribed on clay tablets, actually describes how Gilgamesh witnessed a rocketship being launched from the Landing Place. A later Phoenician coin depicted such a rocket standing on a launching pad (Fig. 2). As this depiction shows, the launch facility was located on a great platform; and indeed, the truly ancient site of Baalbek encompassed a paved stone platform of about five million square feet! The Colossal Stone Blocks The most important section of that ancient Landing Place was its northwestern corner, where the remains of the Jupiter temple are located. Its ruins stand atop a platform that rose even higher by rows of perfectly shaped stone blocks weighing some 600 tons each. (Fig. 3); this is a weight that no existing modern equipment can lift. (By comparison, the stone blocks of the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt, weigh about 25 tons each). These are far from being the largest stone blocks there. As described in my latest illustrated book The Earth Chronicles Expeditions, the ever-rising layers of these stone blocks form, in the northwestern corner, a funnel-like stone tower. The western wall of that towerlike structure has been reinforced with rows (“courses”) of stone blocks weighing 900 tons each. On top of them, another higher course is made up of three unique stone blocks weighing 1,100 tons each. Known as the Trilithon, these are the largest cut and shaped construction stone blocks in the world! (Fig. 4). The Quarry The enigmas surrounding the site and the colossal stone blocks do not include one puzzle - where were those stone blocks quarried; because at a stone quarry about two miles away from the site, one of those 1,100-ton blocks is still there – its quarrying unfinished. To show it, and give an idea of its size, I had my group stand shoulder to shoulder at the foot of this stone block – an accomplishment commemorated by the enclosed photograph (Fig. 5). The quarry is in a valley, a couple of miles from the site of the “ruins.” This means that in antiquity, someone had the capability and technology needed for quarrying, cutting and shaping colossal stone blocks in the quarry – then lifting the stone blocks up and carrying them to the construction site, and there not just let go and drop the stone block, but place them precisely in the designated course. And there they have remained, intact and unshaken in spite of the passage of time and frequent earthquakes – held together and in place without any mortar… Built Before the FloodWho was that “someone?” What technology was used for the incredible feat? When and Why was it all done? The Maronite Christians who for generations deemed themselves custodians of the site (before they were displaced by the Shiite Moslems) told legends of the “giants” who had built the colossal platform. I found the answers in the ancient Sumerian texts, and related them in The Stairway to Heaven and The Wars of Gods and Men. The great stone platform was indeed the first Landing Place of the Anunnaki gods on Earth, built by them before they established a proper spaceport. It was the only structure that had survived the Flood, and was used by Enki and Enlil as the post-Diluvial headquarters for the reconstruction of the devastated Earth. It is the only structure on Earth from before the Flood. ZECHARIA SITCHIN © Z. Sltchin 2006 ARTICLES WRITTEN BY ZECHARIA: The Comet That Speaks SumerianFrench AstronomerTroy on the Trojan HorseFace on MarsWhat is Nasa Looking for?Planetary DiscoveriesWar Comes To EdinThe Case of the Intelligent DesignerThe Case of the Evil WindThe Case Of The Lurking PlanetThe Case of Adam's Alien GenesGenetically Modified PrimateAstronaut corroborates SitchinThe Case of the ???? AstronomerThe Case of the Misplaced Teapot Dialogue in Bellaria The Case of the Layered AsteroidThe Case of the Missing ElephantZECHARIA IN THE MEDIA Recent Announcements SEMINAR REPORTS: Dallas - October 2002Chicago - June 2002Los Angeles - January 2002 BOOK NEWS: Picture of Hardcover BooksBook News Webmaster: Erik Poltorak Zecharia's books are available in paperback from Avon Books. Reprints in hardcover are available from Inner Traditions International (Bear & Co.)