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 Even Gods make

 Mistakes: 

 The Great   Flood

 of Noah  

The Ninth Tablet

of "The Lost Book of Enki"

by Zechariah Sitchin

      "In the days of Lu-Mach did Marduk and the Igigi with Earthling's intermarry.   In those days on Earth the hardships were increasing. In those days on Lahmu (Mars) with dryness and dust was the planet  enveloped.  The Anunnaki who decree the fates, Enlil and Enki and Ninmah, with each other consulted.  What conditions on Earth and on Lahmu were altering, they wondered."

    "On the Sun flarings they observed, in the netforces of Earth and Lahmu there were disruptions.  In the Abzu, at the tip the Whiteland facing, instruments for observing they installed;--"    

      "In the charge of Nergal, the son of Enki, and his spouse Ereshkigal the instruments were put.  To the Land Beyond the Seas  Ninurta was assigned,  in the mountainland a Bond Heaven-Earth to establish.   On Lahmu the Igigi were restless; to pacify them Marduk was the task given:   Until what are the hardships causing, the way station on Lahmu must be kept!   So to Marduk the leaders said."

     "The three who the fates decree with each  other consulted;   They looked at each other.   How old the others are!  each one of the others thought.   Enki, who the death of Adapa was grieving, was the first one to speak."

     "More than one hundred Shars (360,000 earth-years) since my arrival have passed!  to his brother and sister he said.   I was then a dashing leader; now bearded, tired, and old I am!   An enthusiastic hero I was, for command and adventure ready!"

     "Enlil then said.   Now I have children who have children, all on Earth born;   Old on Earth we became, but those on Earth born are even older sooner!   So did Enlil to his brother and sister ruefully say."

      "As for me, an old sheep they call me!   So did Ninmah wistfully say.  While the others have been coming and going, turns on Earth to serve taking,   We the leaders have stayed and stayed!   Perchance it is time to leave!   So did Enlil say."

An Earthling Bride for Marduk

      Marduk, the young god,  son of the older gods Enki and Ninki, and Commander of the Mars Base, came to his father one day with a request that at first thrilled his parents, but then shocked them.   He had decided on his choice for a spouse after thousands of years of waiting for the right "goddess" to show up. He decided he wanted to marry Sarpanit, the daughter of Enkime.  He had spent a lot of time teaching her father all he knew about the heavens, and sometime during this long association had gotten to know Enkime's Earthling daughter!   And they fell deeply in love with each other.  So deeply in love that he was willing to give up being a prince among the gods on Nibiru to marry this descendent of Adapa and Titi.

      "Enki his spouse Ninki summoned, to her what with Marduk transpired he related.   To Ninki, his mother, Marduk his heart's desire repeated and said; --- A daughter of Enkime (Enoch) my fancy caught, her to espouse I wish!  Ninki her son's words pondered.  And the maiden, does she your gaze appreciate?  So did she Marduk ask.  Indeed she does, Marduk to his mother said."

      "In Eridu a wedding celebration Ninki for Marduk and Sarpanit arranged.   Her people by the sound of a copper drum the ceremony announced,   With seven tambourines her sisters the bride to her spouse presented.  A great multitude of Civilized Earthlings in Eridu assembled, like a coronation to them the wedding was.  Young Anunnaki also attended, Igigi from Lahmu (Mars) in great numbers came.   To celebrate our leader's wedding, of Nibiru and Earth a union, to witness we came!   So did the Igigi their arrival in large numbers explain."

Martian "Angels" Marry 

Earthling Females

      "In great number did the Igigi from Lahmu (Mars) to Earth come,  Only one third of them  on Lahmu stayed, to Earth came two hundred.  To be with their leader Marduk, his wedding celebration to attend, was their explanation;  Unbeknownst to Enki and Enlil was their secret:  to abduct  and have conjugation was their plot." 

      "Unbeknownst to the leaders on Earth, a multitude of the Igigi on Lahmu got together,  What to Marduk permitted is from us too should not be deprived!   to each other they said.   Enough of suffering and loneliness, of not offspring ever having!   was their slogan.  During their comings and goings between Lahmu and Earth,   The daughters of the Earthlings, the Adapite Females as them they called,  They saw and after them they lusted;  and to each other the plotters said:   Come, let us choose wives from among the Adapite Females, and children beget!"

      "One among them, Shamgaz his name was, their leader became.  Even if none of you agrees, I alone the deed shall do!  to the others he said.   If penalty for this sin shall be imposed, I alone for all of you shall it bear!  One by one others in the plot joined together, by an oath together to do it they swore."

      "By the time of Marduk's wedding, two hundred of them on  the Landing Place descended,   Upon the great platform on the Cedar Mountains they came down.   From there to Eridu they journeyed, among the toiling Earthlings they passed,   Together with the Earthling throng in Eridu they arrived.   After the wedding ceremony of Marduk and Sarpanit had taken place,   By a signal prearranged Shamgaz to the others a sign gave."

      "An Earthling maiden each one of the Igigi seized, by force they them abducted,  To the Landing Place in the Cedar Mountains the Igigi with the females went,  Into a stronghold the place they made, to the leaders a challenge they issued:   Enough of deprivation and not having offspring!   The Adapite females to marry we wish.   Your blessing to this you must give, else by fire all on Earth destroy we will!"

     Genesis 6:1 "And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them. 2 That the sons of God (the Anunnaki and Igigi, the Heavenly Astronauts") saw the daughters of men (the Adamite females) that they were fair (attractive, sexually compatable); and they took them wives of all which they chose."

     Revelation 12:3 "And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.  4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: (the third of the Igigi remaining on the Mars base eventually came to Earth also to join the others in their political and religious rebellion); and the dragon stood before the (now pregnant) woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born."

     "Alarmed the leaders were, of Marduk, the Igigi commander, charge to take they demanded.   If in the matter I a solution must seek, with the Igigi my heart  in agreement is!  So did Marduk to the others say.   What I have done from them cannot be deprived!   Enki and Ninmah their heads shook, with begrudging agreement they voiced.   Only Enlil was enraged without pacification.   One evil deed by another has been followed, fornication from Enki and Marduk the Igigi have adopted,  Our pride and sacred mission to the winds have been abandoned,   By our own hands this planet with Earthling multitudes shall be overrun!"

Enlil's Displeasure

      "With much disgust was Enlil speaking.   Let the Igigi and their females ftom Earth depart!   On Lehmu (Mars) conditions unbearable have become, surviving is not possible!  so did Marduk to Enlil and Enki say. In the Edin they cannot remain!   Enlil with anger shouted.   With much discust the gathering he left;  In his heart things against Marduk and his Earthlings was Enlil plotting."

      "Upon the Landing Platform in the Cedar Mountains were the Igigi and their females secluded,    Children  there to them were born,  Children of the Rocketships they were called."

     Genesis 6:4 "There were giants (original "Nephilim") in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God (the Igigi from the Mars base) came in unto the daughters of men (the Adapite females), and they (the Adapite females) bare  children to them (the Igigi from Mars), the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown ( original reading "children of the Shem.")

In the prologue to "The 12th Planet" in February 1977, Zecharia Sitchin wrote about about Genesis 6:4 "-----as a young schoolboy studying Genesis in its original Hebrew, I created a confrontation of my own.  We were reading one day in chapter VI that when God resolved to destroy Mankind by the Great Flood, "the sons of the deities", who married the daughters of men were upon the Earth.   The Hebrew original named them Nefilim; the teacher explained it meant "giants"; but I objected: didn't it mean literally "Those Who Were Cast Down", who had descended to Earth?  I was reprimanded and told to accept tradition."

On page 145 to 150 of the same book Zechariah Sitchin explains why it is that he translates, again using the same Hebrew meanings, why the word shem better fits "rocket ships" or objects shaped like rocket shps than it does "name", its traditional meaning in the Bible.  In Gen.6:4 "men of a (well-known) name  -- men of renown."  Sitchin's translation -- "Men of the rocket- ships."

      "Marduk and Sarpanit his spouse also had children, Asar and Satu were the first two sons called.   To the domain above the Abzu, to him and Sarpanit granted, Marduk the Igigi invited,   To dwell in two cities that for his sons he built, Marduk the Igigi summoned.   Some of the Igigi and their offspring to the domain in the dark-hued land came;  On the Landing Platform in the Cedar Mountains Shamgaz and others did remain,   To the far eastlands, lands of high mountains, some of their offspring went.   How Marduk of Earthlings his strength increases, Ninurta carefully observed.   What are Enki and Marduk scheming?  to his father Enlil Ninurta said.   The Earth by the Earthlings inherited will be!  Enlil to Ninurta said."

      Genesis 6:5 "And God (Lord Enlil, not Enki) saw that the wickedness of man (the children of the Igigi and the Adamite females) was great on the earth, and  that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil (contrary to Enlil's wishes)  continually.  6 And it repented the Lord (Enlil) that he (Enki) had made man on the earth, and it grieved him (Lord Enlil) at his heart.  7  And the Lord (Enlil) said, I will destroy man whom I (the Anunnaki) have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me (Lord Enlil) that I (the Anannaki) have made them."

      Later editors of these stories make it appear that One God, not several, is here talking to Himself, and by Himself set in motion a chain of events that rapidly brought about the Great Flood of Noah that indeed does occur in Genesis chapter 6 through 8, but even here, in the Bible, there are clues that this did not occur right away, and that there was plenty of warning that "The Flood" was coming.

      Genesis 6:3 "And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."

      Genesis 6:13 "And God said unto Noah,  The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth."

       The Mesopotamian texts quoted by Zecharia Sitchin in The 12th Planet and in The Lost Book of Enki show that these two events, the taking of the daughters of men as wives by the Igigi, the "Sons of God", (100,000 years ago) and the Deluge sweeping over the earth (13,000 years ago) were not 120 years apart, but about 87,000 years apart!

The Tenth Tablet

of "The Lost Book of Enki"

by Zechariah Sitchin

      "In Sippar all the Anunnaki gathered, the Day of the Deluge they awaited.  It was at that time, as the tension of the awaiting was mounting.   That the Lord Enki, asleep in his quarters, had a dream-vision.   In the dream-vision there appeared the image of a man, bright and shining like the heavens;  As the man Enki approached, Enki saw that the white-haired Galzu he was!"

     "In his right hand an engraver's stylus he was holding,   And in his left hand a tablet of lapis lazuli, shining smooth, he held.   And as he approached near enough by Enki's bed to stand, Galzu spoke up and said:  Unwarrented your accusations against Enlil were, for only the truth he spoke;   And the decision that as Enlil's Decision will be known, not he but Destiny decreed.   Now into your hands Fate take, for the Earthlings the Earth will inherit;   Summon your son Ziusudra (Noah), without breaking the oath to him the coming calamity reveal."

      "A boat that the watery avalanch can withstand, a submersable one, to build him tell.  The likes of which on this tablet to you I am showing;  Let him in it save himself and his kinfolk,  And the seed of all that is useful, be it plant or animal, also take;   That is the will of the Creator of All!"

      "And Galzu, in the dream-vision, with the stylus on the tablet an image drew,   And placed the engraved tablet by the side of Enki's bed."

      "A design of a curious-shaped boat upon the tablet (Enki) saw,   By the tablet's edge measuring markings there were, the boat's measures indicating!"

        Genesis 6:14 "Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shall pitch it within and without with pitch.  15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of:  the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it."

    "That night to the reed hut where Ziusudra (Noah) was sleeping Enki stealthily went;  The oath not breaking, the lord Enki not to Ziusudra but to the hut's wall spoke:   Wake up!  Wake up!  to the reed wall Enki was saying, from behind the reed screen he was speaking."

     "When Ziusudra by the words was awakened, to him Enki from behind the screen said:   Reed hut, reed hut!  To my words pay attention, to my instructions heed pay!   On all the habitations, over the cities, a calamitous storm will sweep,  The destruction of Mankind and its offspring it will be.   This is the final ruling, the word of the assembly by Enlil convened,  This is the decision by Anu and Enlil and Ninmah spoken."

       "Now heed my words, observe the message that to you I am speaking:  Abandon your house, build a boat; spurn possessions, save the life!    The boat you must build, its design and measurements on a tablet are shown,  By the reed hut's wall the tablet I shall leave.   Make sure that the boat shall be roofed throughout, the sun from the inside must not be seen.  The tackle must be very strong, the pitch strong and tight to ward off the water.   Let the boat be one that can turn and tumble, the watery avalanche to survive!"

       "In seven days build the boat, into it your family and kinfolk gather,  In the boat food and water for drinking heap up, household animals also bring.  Then, on the appointed day, a signal to you shall be given;  A boatguide who knows the waters, by me appointed, to you that day will come;  On that day the boat you must enter, its hatch tightly close you must.   An overwhelming Deluge, coming from the south, lands and life  shall devastate;  Your boat from its moorings it shall lift, the boat it shall turn and tumble.  Fear not:  To a safe haven the boatguide will navigate you,    By you shall the seed of Civilized Mankind survive!"

      Genesis 5:17 "And, behold, I, even I ("Destiny", or the Creator God), do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under the heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.  18 But in thee (Ziusudra, Noah) will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female."

       "When Enki's voice fell silent, agog was Ziusudra, on his knees prostrate he fell:  My lord!  My lord!  he shouted.  Your voice I heard, let me see your face!  Not to you, Ziusudra, have I spoken, to the reed wall did I speak!  So Enki said.  By Enlil's decision, by an oath upheld am I bound to that all the Anunnaki swore;  If my face you shall see, surely like all Earthlings you will die!"

         "Now reed hut, to my words pay heed:   The purpose of the boat, a secret of the Anunnaki with you must remain!  When the townspeople will inquire, to them you will so say:   The lord Enlil with my lord Enki has angry been,   To Enki's abode in the Abzu (Africa) I am sailing, perchance Enlil will be appeased!"

       "For a while a silence followed.  Ziusudra from behind the reed wall came,  A tablet of lapis lazuli, in the moonlight shining, he saw and picked up,  The image of a boat upon it was drawn, notches its measurement gave;   Wisest of Civilized Men was Ziusudra, what he had heard he understood."

      "In the morning, to the townspeople he so announced:  The lord Enlil with the lord Enki, my master, angry has been,   On that account to me the lord Enlil is hostile.  In this city I no longer reside can, nor in the Edin my foot anymore set;  To the Abzu, the lord Enki's domain, I will there a-sailing go.  In a boat that must quickly be built I will away from here depart;  Thereby the lord Enlil's anger will subside, hardships will end,  Upon you the lord Enlil abundance henceforth will shower!"

    "The morning was not yet gone when the people about Ziusudra gathered,  To speedily for him the boat build they each other encouraged.  Timbers of boat-wood the elders were hauling, the little ones bitumen from the marshes carried.   As woodworkers the planks together hammered, Ziusudra in a caldron the bitumen melted.  With bitumen the boat was waterproofed inside and out,  As in the drawing upon the tablet the boat on the fifth day was completed."

   "Eager to see Ziusudra depart, the townspeople to the boat food and water brought,   From their own mouths sustenance they took;  to appease Enlil they were in a hurry!   Four-legged animals into the boat were also driven, birds from the field by themselves flew in."

    Genesis 6:20 "Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. 21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.  22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he."

      "Into the boat Ziusudra his spouse and sons made embark, their wives and children also came.   Any who to the abode of lord Enki wish to go, let them too aboard come!  So did Ziusudra to the gathered people announce.   Envisioning Enlil's abundance, only some of the craftsman the call heeded.   On the sixth day Ninagal, Lord of the Great Waters, to the boat came,  A son of Enki he was, to be the boat's navigator he was selected.  A box of cedarwood in his hands he held, by his side in the boat he kept it;  The life essences and life eggs of living creatures it contains, by the lord Enki and Ninmah collected,    From the wrath of Enlil to be hidden, to life resurrect if Earth be willing!"

      "So did Ninegal to Ziusudra explain; thus were all the beasts by their twos in the boat hidden.   Now Ninegal and Ziusudra in the boat the arrival of the seventh day awaited.  In the one hundredth and twentieth Shar was the Deluge awaited, in the tenth Shar in the life age of Ziusudra was the Deluge forthcoming, (His age was 36,000 earth-years)  In the station of the Constellation of the Lion was the avalanche (tsunami) looming."  By our present way of reckoning time, it was about 11,000 BC.

The Cause of the Deluge 

      The Great Flood of Noah had a different cause in the Bible than it did in the Mesopotamian Cuneiform tablets and cylinder seal pictures because 10,000 years later, when the first scribes and priests of Judaism were beginning to record their national and religious history they chose to make a local deity worshipped by the tribe of Jethro, a  priest leader of the Land of Midian and southern Sinai, the supreme god of their nation during the reigns of Saul and King David.   This new supreme god took on the name YHWH or Jehovah in this new history, and older stories were edited to provide Him with "Omnipotence" and make Him the Creator and sustainer of the Universe.   Basically the same claims as those made by Marduk son of Enki, later god of Egypt and Babylon many thousands of years after the Deluge.

       The cause of the Deluge of 11,000 BC is recorded in the Mesopotamian literature as a close encounter of the planet Nibiru with Earth at a time when Earth was particularly vulnerable to Nibiru's gravity pull because of the temporary  planetary alignment of Mars and the other planets, coupled by a period of global warming that caused an emmense chunk of ice and snow in the Antarctic to slide rapidly into the ocean causing a tsunami wave and extended flooding that lasted for centuries.   There was another great flood in the same area where Ziusudra lived around 2500 BC which later Bible authors chose to use for the purposes of dating the Biblical flood because the Essene copyists wished to promote a 7000 year history of Civilized Man.  Six thousand years of Earth's history followed by a Millennium of "Rest", the "Sabbath Millennium".

Noah's Vineyard

     As the waters slowly receded in the area of lower Iraq where the cities and temples of the Anunnaki had formerly been located, those who rode out the flood on Noah's ark and landed near Mount Ararat in Eastern Turkey planted seeds of grain and fruit trees, and also grapes, which they found grew well in some of the mountain valleys.  Whether Noah himself became the owner of a vineyard or one of his descendants it's hard to say for sure, since this particular story is not supported by the Mesopotamian literature, but I'll give it here anyway.

       Genesis 9:18 "And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth:  and Ham is the father of Canaan.  17 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread."

      20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:  21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.  (Why he was living in a tent in Eastern Turkey, which has planty of rocks and straw, the Bible authors  don't say).

      22 "And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.  23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness."

       24 "And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him,   25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.  26 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.  27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant."