SITCHIN-FICTION (Jonathan Gray pdf) 200+ pages w/pics <!<!

For those who STILL buy the Sitchin material.
Here's the crucial info with links YOU CAN CHECK FOR YOURSELF in the pdf.
The following is from Jonathan Gray's email, with which this pdf was attached. Here's the basic background and description of the file. Well worth the read whether you believe Sitchin or not, at least you can CHECK ON HIS supposed expertise YOURSELVES........................
I'd be surprised if you weren't convinced by halfway through.
CONTENTS
Why This Is Written....................................
Sudden Appearance.................................
I Write to the Nibiru Man.........................
His “Translations”..................................
The Anunnaki........................................
DIN and GUR........................................
The Nephilim......................................... Elohim............................................
Nibiru............................................
Planets in Sumerian Thought?.....................
Shu.Mu = Rocketships?.....................................
The “Alien” Elongated Skulls.......................
Are UFOs Through the Bible?..........................
Can the Bible Face Up to Science?...................
How Old Are the Sumerian Texts?....................
Did the Bible “Borrow” from the Sumerians?
Go For the Best........................................
Did Someone Alter the Old Testament?.............
Did Someone Alter the New Testament?...........
Sumeria’s Sudden Appearance: How?..........................
Sitchin Versus the Sumerians.....................
How You Can Benefit From This..........................

Appendix A: Who Are the “Sons of God”?..........
Appendix B: The Book of “Enoch”..................

SUPPOSE THIS WAS YOU?

Brian Childress received an email from somebody
purporting to be a Nigerian banker offering Brian a chance to earn some serious money.

He told Brian his bank was looking after 37 million dollars of a deceased millionaire.

He said he needed a foreign bank account through which to launder the money - and if Brian would send him
his bank details for this purpose, he would give Brian a share of the spoils.

Brian helped him out, but he never saw these promised millions. They did not exist.

Now, what's this got to do with archaeology?

HERE’S SOME STARTLING
ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS FOR YOU

What you are about to discover may shock you. Or anger you. Or you may be relieved that you did not fall for it.

If you had innocently endorsed something and found out you were party to a scam, what would be the honourable thing to do?

Yes, you know the answer to that. After all, you have to face yourself in the mirror tomorrow, right?

Very well, today I have some rather startling news for you.

And why am I bothering? Because I don't like records manipulated to promote false claims.

TELL ME, WHAT SHOULD I DO?

* Suppose I was a lawyer. Wouldn’t I be professionally obligated to inform you if someone was giving you bad legal advice?

* If I were a building inspector, wouldn’t I owe you the truth if I knew the house you were
purchasing had termite-weakened foundations?

* If I was an accountant, you would expect me to advise you if a neighbor's tax advice could put you in jail.

Okay, I'm none of those things, but I'm trying to provide the same service in my areas of expertise.

More and more, people ask me about

* Planet X, the Anunnaki and the Nephilim.

* Did extraterrestrials from a distant planet called Nibiru (Planet X) come to earth and
crossbreed with creatures here?

* And does Nibiru’s orbit bring it into our solar system every 3,600 years?

* Is it due to visit us soon?

HOW CAN WE KNOW FOR SURE?

With many confusing claims these days, how can one sift fact from fiction? That’s an important question.

The answer is to test everything. Demand real evidence.
Because there are many self-proclaimed "experts" out there, who either
(a) don’t understand their topic, or
(b) fake data.

THE PLANET X - NIBIRU - STORY

Now, what about this Planet X story?

It’s the kind of story you might want to believe. A certain popular writer, describing himself as an expert on ancient texts, tells us that beyond the planet Pluto there is an outer planet called Nibiru.

Nibiru was populated by a reptilian super race. Those extraterrestrials were known as Annunaki.

The Anunnakis’ own planet was dying. So the Anunnaki came to Planet Earth to attempt a rescue of their planet.
The gold on Planet Earth was needed to create a shield for preserving Nibiru’s dwindling atmosphere.

One can actually feel sorry for the Anunnaki.

Anyway, this Planet Nibiru, in its orbit, came close to Planet Earth.

A group of 50 astronauts from Nibiru, with their leader called Enki, splashed down in the waters of the Persian Gulf. Some Anunnaki were sent to mine gold in Africa.

When the toil became unbearable, Enki ‘created’
‘primitive workers’ by mixing the genes of male Anunnaki with the eggs of early female hominoids, to bring about Homo sapiens - you and me.

This sudden speed-up given to our evolution explains how the Sumerian civilization began suddenly, fully
developed, with no evidence of a primitive beginning.

You can credit these extraterrestrials for jump-starting it, this popular writer says.

Oh, and something else. The orbit of Nibiru (which some label Planet X) brings it into our solar system every 3,600 years. It will return to Planet Earth very soon.

Well, that awakens my interest. What about you?

MR S: “IT’S ON THE
SUMERIAN TABLETS”

In any case, this gentleman, whom we shall call Mr S, assures us that this is what the clay tablets say. In fact, he has been heavily promoting this topic.

In contrast to the airy speculation of von Danicken, Mr S claims to be a scholar. He graduated in economics. But he claims to be an expert in ancient Sumerian texts and Hebrew.

You have to admit, an argument appealing to ancient clay tablets does sound somewhat scholarly.

For a number of years I accepted this gentleman's claim that the above story was in those ancient Sumerian records.
After all, you just don’t make up such things, do you?

When Mr S first spun his exciting story to us, how many of us had access to all the Sumerian texts?

WHAT HE HAD RIGHT

From my years of independent research, I knew that Mr S had at least one thing correct - that the Sumerian civilization began suddenly, fully developed, with no evidence of a primitive beginning.

As you know, in today’s world, where we are taught that early man was primitive, it is rare to hear about high technology in the ancient world. So I felt a measure of rapport with Mr S.

For this reason, my customary cautious approach softened toward him. And I did enjoy reading his books.
So I let down my guard just a little to give the “facts”
in his books due respect – in particular, the claimed fact that certain ancient texts existed that backed up his story.

Accepting his claim also to be a responsible scholar, I went as far as to quote him a couple of times in my book Dead Men’s Secrets.

After all, it was apparent to me that Mr S did have a number of things right:

1. That a Global Flood had devastated the world in the past.(See the evidence for that event in my book Surprise Witness.)

2. That there was a civilization that started in
Mesopotamia, from descendants of the Flood survivors. (See the archaeological evidence in my book, The Corpse Came Back.)

3. That Sumerian civilization started at a high
level.(See Dead Men’s Secrets, chapter 2.) does need explaining.

“SUDDEN” APPEARANCE

Now, getting back to the Sumerians: It is a fact that Sumerian civilization appeared suddenly, unexpected and out of nowhere.

Yes, Sumeria sprang into existence already fully
developed - that is, without transition from a primitive state, with a fantastic ready-made high society.

In the remotest period of which there are records, Sumeria shows a level of civilization which is, by popular understanding, inexplicable. It sounds crazy I know, but it’s a fact!

H. Frankfort (Tell Uqair) called it “astonishing.” Pierre Amiet (Elam) termed it “extraordinary.” A. Parrot (Sumer) described it as “a flame which blazed up so suddenly.”
Leo Oppenheim (Ancient Mesopotamia) stressed “the
astonishingly short period” within which the civilization had arisen. Joseph Campbell (The Masks of God) summed it up this way: “With stunning abruptness. . . there appears in this little Sumerian mud garden. . . the whole cultural syndrome that has since constituted the germinal unit of all the high civilizations of the world.”

HOW WAS THIS POSSIBLE?

How could such a society suddenly spring up, at the top, not at the bottom? Just like that?

Mr S to the rescue. He proposed that the reason ancient Sumerian culture was able to spring up suddenly, out of nowhere – was because of aliens from outer space.

He says the advanced knowledge was given to the Sumerians by extraterrestrials. And he identifies them as the Anunnaki gods spoken about in Sumero-Mesopotamian
mythology.

And how does Mr S know all this?

MR S: “IT’S ON THE SUMERIAN TABLETS”

Well, it’s on the Sumerian ancient clay tablets, he tells us.

You have to admit, an argument appealing to ancient clay tablets does sound rather scholarly, right?

Oh well, you must have guessed by now who Mr S is, so I might as well name him.

But I shall make it absolutely clear that what follows is not about the man. It’s about the subject. I have no problem with Zecharia Sitchin as a person. He’s probably quite a nice guy.

For a number of years I assumed that his story was, as he claimed, in the Sumerian records. After all, you just don’t make up such things, do you?

BUT THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED…

Over a period of time I had been receiving emails asking me about

* Planet Nibiru (Planet X)
* The Anunnaki
* The Nephilim
* The 3,600 year orbit of this planet, which is
said to bring destruction each time its passes
close the earth.

So I felt an increasing obligation to dig deeper.

Well, I was checking carefully through the story. And an irritating anomaly cropped up. Assuming this story were true, such a misfit piece made no sense. It should not exist!

Naturally, this bothered me. Shrug it off as an isolated problem? Perhaps. But it did cry out to be resolved.

But, pursuing this matter was not so easy. You see, very soon another inconsistency surfaced.… then another…
and another.

Bother! The problem was not just one, but a growing procession of non-fitting pieces.

That’s when it struck me that the problem might be not with the inconsistencies, but with Mr S’ story.

Here are some of the serious questions that arose:

1. Mr S said that the Anunnaki come from the planet Nibiru (a 12th planet). How do we know this is so?
According to our friend, it’s in the Sumerian texts.

PROBLEM: Search, search and search! But, no matter how hard one might search, it was
absolutely impossible to find even one such Sumerian text!

2. Nibiru is a planet beyond Pluto. How do we know? According to our friend, the Sumerian texts say so.

PROBLEM: Again, I could find not one single Sumerian text that says so.

3. This planet Nibiru cycles through our solar system every 3600 years. According to Mr S, the Sumerian texts say this.

PROBLEM: But try as one might, no such Sumerian texts could be found! Not anywhere.

Was the problem with me?

Search as one might, the Sumerian texts displayed a distressing habit of not being there. Was the problem with me?

As I scratched my head over this, a few more awkward questions began to nag at me:

+ Why did Mr S claim that the biblical pre-Flood
“sons of God” who married the “daughters of men” were called “nephilim” – when the Genesis text itself said something very different?

+ Why did Mr S say that “nephilim” means “people of the fiery rockets” and also “those who came down from heaven”? – when, in the Hebrew language, the word “nephilim” meant nothing like this.

+ Why did many of Mr S’ vital translations of
Sumerian and Mesopotamian words, differ so much
from Mesopotamian cuneiform bilingual dictionaries?

Why… why… why? Here was a whole mass of questions
now crying out for an answer.

I WRITE TO THE NIBIRU MAN

You should understand something here. Experience in front line archaeology has taught me that facts must always override theories. If a theory says yes, but the discovered facts say no, then the theory is wrong.
That is plain common sense.

In an investigation, there may be hundreds of
information bits to consider. One may start out
imagining a scenario, but when all the facts are in, the final picture may turn out to be quite different.

Let’s say you have hundreds of torn-up bits of newspaper scattered over the table, and you want to fit them together to form a page. But after working for hours,you discover the pieces just do not fit.

Well, that’s where I was with the many pieces to Mr Sitchin’s theory. They just did not fit.

So what would you do? What better than to ask the man who gave us the pieces? So I sat down and wrote to Zecharia Sitchin, asking him to help me clarify these matters.

Surely he would substantiate his story better than
anyone. Perhaps he had sources not available to the rest of the world?

I waited and waited. And then, it came. As I pulled it out of the post box, my my heart thumped heavily. I tore open the envelope, and there, inside, was a photocopy of my letter, with Mr S’ few brief notes scribbled over it.

If you are a lover the TRUTH, then you will be excited that the truth is now ready to come out.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

International explorer, archaeologist and author
Jonathan Gray has traveled the world to gather data on ancient mysteries. He has penetrated some largely unexplored areas, including parts of the Amazon headwaters. The author has also led expeditions to the bottom of the sea and to remote mountain and desert regions of the world. He lectures internationally.
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