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- everything you can think of we find in the Sumerian astronomical tablets. We learn at school that the first one to suggest that the Sun and not the Earth was in the centre of our planetary system was Copernicus, in 1543. Not so! There have been found Sumerian pictorial depictions that not only show the Sun (not Earth) in the centre—and show also all the planets we know of today (plus, as will be explained, one more). In many astronomical texts these planets were listed, named and described; and, called 'members of the Family of the Sun’, they made up, together with Sun and Moon, a family of twelve. The familiarity of the Sumerians, thousands of years ago, with all these members of the solar system is astounding. Until rather recently, we ourselves did not know that there were more planets beyond Satum. Uranus was discovered in 1781. It may tell us something about our ignorance when we realise that, when Botta and Layard were discovering in Mesopotamia the tablets with all this astronomical information, we did not even know of the exis- tence of Neptune; for Neptune was discovered only in 1846. And Pluto, the so-called outermost planet, was found not visually but mathematically only in 1930—less than fifty years ago. And yet, as one planetary list after another establishes, the Sumerians knew itall. Indeed, when the NASA spacecraft Voyager-2 reached Uranus in 1986 and sent back the first close-up photos of the distant plan- et, I literally jumped out of my seat and shouted: “But that is exactly how the Sumerians described it 6,000 years ago!" And then, as Voyager-2 was due to encounter the even more distant Neptune in 1989, I wrote articles predicting that a bluish-green watery planet, with patches on its surface, will be found. I knew it in advance because that was how the Sumerians described Neptune, and I had quoted them in The 12th Planet (page 243 in the hardcover edition). I was, not to any surprise on my part, right. rocket rocket pila-up mountain mountain ais rocket rockst pfla-up mountain mountain Translation from a planisphere discovered in the ruins of the royal library of Nineveh. This segment, one of eight, shows the Anunnaki's flight path from Nibiru and and how “deity Enlil went by the planets", seven in number, represented by dots. For the Sumerians, Enlil was “Lord of Seven", Earth was the seventh planet en route from Nibiru. was “Lord of Seven", Earth was the seventh planet en route from Nibiru. the Anunnaki—many of them specialised in another science or technology—taught mankind knowledge of agriculture, irrigation, the making of bricks, the building of houses and high-rise temples; of commerce and trade and navigation; of laws and running courts; of administration and kingship; of writing, and music, and arts. One text listed more than 100 of these various fields of knowledge that we even nowadays recognise as essentials of a moder civilisation. The Sumerians listed, named and described these ‘gods’, showed them in numerous depictions, as often as not as winged pilots or in astronaut garb. They also depicted a variety of aircraft and space- craft, indicating the various purposes and functions of these advanced vehicles. Among the intriguing depictions of those astronaut-gods are some that pertain to a goddess of great fame in antiquity, Ishtar. In one instance she is shown wearing goggles and a helmet as though she were a World War I pilot, equipped with two panels extend- ing, wearing goggles and equipped with some kind of panel extending from the back of her head, You can see the picture of a life-size statue, also of a female goddess, which clearly shows the pilot's helmet she was wearing, the instrument box that was attached to the back of her head, and the hose extending from it. There are many texts concerning Ishtar and her sisters, describing how they could fly in the Earth's skies—even describing in detail the seven pieces of special attire Ishtar had to put on before taking to the air. The Egyptians, whose civilisation began some 700 years after the beginning of the Sumerian civilisation, were also familiar with those astronaut 'gods'. They called them Neteru, meaning ‘guardians’. Among the many ancient depictions illustrated in my books is an Egyptian one showing what is undoubtedly a rocket- ship inside an underground silo; clearly seen are two beings manipulating hoses and instruments in a lower chamber that con- tains an instrument panel. Seen too is an upper compartment. The underground portions support a conical command module high enough to be above ground level. Not only Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian and Egyptian texts confirm by literary means the existence and presence on Earth of those ancient astronauts, their vehicles and their facilities. Biblical tales, such as the ‘dream’ of Jacob, the skyward ascent of the prophet Elijah, or the spacecraft described by the prophet Ezekiel, serve as eyewitness reports. NEFILIM = ANUNNAKI = ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS How possibly could have the Sumerians known all that, 6,000 years ago? How could such a high civilisation blossom out, as well scholars state, suddenly, unexpectedly, ‘out of nowhere’? The Sumerians themselves provided the answer: all our knowl- edge, they wrote, was granted to us by the Anunnaki. The word literally meant ‘those who from Heaven to Earth came’. It was the very same meaning that the term Nefilim had meant in the Bible. These beings acquired the aura of being ‘divine’; they were the 'gods' that were revered by all the nations in antiquity. In text after text, in tale after tale, the Sumerians described how These ancient astronauts—for that is —_ who the Nefilim were—had come to Earth, the Sumerians said, from another large planet within our own solar system! It is a planet, they wrote, which aeons ago invaded the solar sys- tem, and was captured into permanent orbit around the Sun. Its vast, elongated elliptical orbit takes it far away, beyond Pluto, but 3020 10860 BC NEXUS¢51 NIBIRU—THE HOME PLANET The Precession of the Equinoxes was already known and followed in Sumerian times. ‘The change from one fading zodiacal age to the start of another is the coming of a New Age. OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1993