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Overview

FICTION / MYTHOLOGY

Will the past become our future? Is humankind destined to repeat the events that occurred on another planet, far away from Earth? Zecharia Sitchin’s bestselling series, The Earth Chronicles, provided humanity’s side of the story--as recorded on ancient clay tablets and other Sumerian artifacts--concerning our origins at the hands of the Anunnaki, “those who from heaven to earth came.” In The Lost Book of Enki, we can view this saga from a different perspective through this richly conceived autobiographical account of Lord Enki, an Anunnaki god, who tells the story of these extraterrestrials’ arrival on Earth from the 12th planet, Nibiru. The object of their colonization: gold to replenish the dying atmosphere of their home planet. Finding this precious metal results in the Anunnaki creation of homo sapiens--the human race--to mine this important resource.

In his previous works, Sitchin compiled the complete story of the Anunnaki’s impact on human civilization in peacetime and in war from the fragments scattered throughout Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Hittite, Egyptian, Canaanite, and Hebrew sources--the “myths” of all ancient peoples in the old world as well as the new. Missing from these accounts, however, was the perspective of the Anunnaki themselves. What was life like on their own planet? What motives propelled them to settle on Earth--and what drove them from their new home? Convinced of the existence of a now lost book that formed the basis of ancient Sumerian texts holding the answers to these questions, the author began his search for evidence. Through exhaustive research of primary sources, he has here re-created tales as the memoirs of Enki, the leader of these first “astronauts.” What takes shape is the story of a world of mounting tensions, deep rivalries, and sophisticated scientific knowledge that is only today being confirmed. An epic tale of gods and men unfolds, challenging every assumption we hold about our creation, our past, and our future.

An eminent Orientalist and Biblical scholar, ZECHARIA SITCHIN (1920-2010) was distinguished by his ability to translate ancient Sumerian and other ancient texts. He was a graduate of the University of London and worked as a journalist and editor in Israel for many years before making his home in New York City.

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The story is compelling, drawing readers into the world of extraterrestrials, gods, and ancient events in a way that seems a combination of reading that daily paper and indulging in popular fiction. Reading The Lost Book of Enki is a truly unique, intellectual, and pleasurable experience to recommend to customers looking for something a little different.
UFO Magazine
This book is another brilliant example of Sitchin's scholarship. I found it exciting reading, and give it my highest recommendation. The Lost Book of Enki . . . has an impact that will generate discussions all over the globe.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781591430377
  • Publisher: Inner Traditions International, Limited
  • Publication date: 9/28/2004
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 80,220
  • Product dimensions: 6.02 (w) x 9.02 (h) x 0.89 (d)

Meet the Author

Zecharia Sitchin (1920-2010), an eminent Orientalist and biblical scholar, was born in Russia and grew up in Palestine, where he acquired a profound knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew, other Semitic and European languages, the Old Testament, and the history and archaeology of the Near East. A graduate of the University of London with a degree in economic history, he worked as a journalist and editor in Israel for many years prior to undertaking his life’s work--The Earth Chronicles.

One of the few scholars able to read the clay tablets and interpret ancient Sumerian and Akkadian, Sitchin based The Earth Chronicles series on the texts and pictorial evidence recorded by the ancient civilizations of the Near East. His books have been widely translated, reprinted in paperback editions, converted to Braille for the blind, and featured on radio and television programs.

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Introduction

Some 445,000 years ago, astronauts from another planet came to Earth in search of gold.

Splashing down in one of Earth’s seas, they waded ashore and established Eridu, “Home in the Faraway.” In time the initial settlement expanded to a full-fledged Mission Earth--with a Mission Control Center, a spaceport, mining operations, and even a way station on Mars.

Short of manpower, the astronauts employed genetic engineering to fashion Primitive Workers--Homo sapiens. The Deluge that catastrophically swept over the Earth required a fresh start; the astronauts became gods, granting Mankind civilization, teaching it to worship.

Then, about four thousand years ago, all that had been achieved unraveled in a nuclear calamity, brought about by the visitors to Earth in the course of their own rivalries and wars.

What had taken place on Earth, and especially the events since human history began, has been culled by Zecharia Sitchin, in his The Earth Chronicles Series, from the Bible, clay tablets, ancient myths, and archaeological discoveries. But what had preceded the events on Earth--what had taken place on the astronauts’ own planet Nibiru that caused the space journeys, the need for gold, the creation of Man?

Would it not be auspicious were one of the key players, an eyewitness and one who could distinguish between Fate and Destiny, to record for posterity the How and Where and When and Why of it all--the First Things and perhaps the Last Things?

But that is precisely what some of them did do; and foremost among them was the very leader who had commanded the first group of astronauts!

Scholars and theologians alike now recognize that the biblical tales of Creation, of Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel, were based on texts written down millennia earlier in Mesopotamia, especially by the Sumerians. And they, in turn, clearly stated that they obtained their knowledge of past events--many from a time before civilizations began, even before Mankind came to be--from the writings of the Anunnaki (“Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came”)--the “gods” of antiquity.

As a result of a century and a half of archaeological discoveries in the ruins of the ancient civilizations, especially in the Near East, a great number of such early texts have been found; the finds have also revealed the extent of missing texts--so-called lost books--which are either mentioned in discovered texts or are inferred from such texts, or that are known to have existed because they were cataloged in royal or temple libraries.

An oft-quoted example of the extent of lost books is that of the famed Library of Alexandria in Egypt. Established by the general Ptolemy after Alexander’s death in 323 B.C., it was said to have contained more than half a million “volumes”--books inscribed on a variety of materials (clay, stone, papyrus, parchment). That great library, where scholars gathered to study the accumulated knowledge, was burnt down and destroyed in wars that extended from 48 B.C. to the Arab conquest in A.D. 642. What has remained of its treasures is a translation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, and fragments retained in the writings of some of the library’s resident scholars.

It is only thus that we know that the second king Ptolemy commissioned, circa 270 B.C., an Egyptian priest whom the Greeks called Manetho to compile the history and prehistory of Egypt. At first, Manetho wrote, only the gods reigned there, then demigods, and finally, circa 3100 B.C., Pharaonic dynasties began. The divine reigns, he wrote, began ten thousand years before the Flood and continued for thousands of years thereafter, the latter period having witnessed battles and wars among the gods.

One who had been an eyewitness to all those events, indeed a key participant in them, was the leader who had splashed down with the first group of astronauts.

That he had recorded his autobiography is certain, for a long text (stretching over at least twelve tablets) discovered in the library of Nippur quotes Enki’s sayings. Numerous other texts that relate varied aspects of Enki’s role in the ensuing developments serve to complete Enki’s tale; they include a cosmogony, an Epic of Creation, at whose core lay Enki’s own text, which scholars call The Eridu Genesis. For the first time ever, this dispersed and fragmented material has been assembled and used by Zecharia Sitchin to re-create the eyewitness account of Enki--the autobiographical memoirs and insightful prophecies of an extraterrestrial god.

In dealing with the past, Enki himself perceived the future. The notion that the Anunnaki, exercising free will, were masters of their own fates (as well as the fate of Mankind) gave way, in the end, to a realization that it was Destiny that, when all was said and done, determined the course of events; and therefore--as the Hebrew Prophets had recognized--the First Things shall be the Last Things.

The record of events dictated by Enki thus becomes a foundation for Prophecy, and the Past becomes the Future.

Synopsis of the Second Tablet

Alalu’s flight in a nuclear-armed spacecraft

He sets his course to Ki, the seventh planet (Earth)

Why he expects to find gold on Earth

The solar-system’s cosmogony; Tiamat’s water and gold

The appearance of Nibiru from outer space

The Celestial Battle and Tiamat’s breakup

Earth, half of Tiamat, inherits her waters and gold

Kingu, Tiamat’s main satellite, becomes the Moon of Earth

Nibiru is destined to forever orbit the Sun

Alalu’s arrival and landing on Earth

Alalu, discovering gold, holds Nibiru’s fate in his hands

Table of Contents

Introduction 1
Attestation 11
The Words of Lord Enki
The First Tablet 18
The Second Tablet 40
The Third Tablet 62
The Fourth Tablet 84
The Fifth Tablet 106
The Sixth Tablet 128
The Seventh Tablet 150
The Eighth Tablet 172
The Ninth Tablet 194
The Tenth Tablet 218
The Eleventh Tablet 242
The Twelfth Tablet 266
The Thirteenth Tablet 290
The Fourteenth Tablet 314
Glossary 319

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 10, 2003

    A departure for Sitchin readers.

    The 'Lost Book of Enki' is a departure for Sitchin from his popular 'The Earth Chronicles' series, which offered an explanation for the origins of Earth, homo sapiens, and human civilization based on a unique interpretation of ancient stories from the Bible, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. This book can best be described as a hypothetical construct of an ancient text. The text is conjectured to be dictated by the character Enki (an alien visitor to Earth, considered a god and creator of humanity, as depicted in ancient Sumerian/Akkadian/Babylonian mythology) to one of his scribes. The text is presented in prose format with reverse syntax, as was the style in ancient Mesopotamia, to give it a feel of authenticity. Aside from a glossary and a few depictions of ancient relics, there are no explanatory notes, references, maps, or timelines as one would expect from a newly discovered cuneiform clay tablet. Sitchin apparently believes that such an ancient text was not only inspired by 'Lord Enki', but in fact may yet be discovered buried beneath the sands of ancient city ruins. The 'Lost Book of Enki' is essentially a retelling of the ancient Mesopotamian stories of the 'Epic of Creation', the 'Atra Hasis', and the 'Epic of Gilgamesh'. Sitchin adds nothing new scientifically to the groundwork laid in 'The Earth Chronicles' series. Consequently, Sitchin's latest work is only interesting as an academic exercise. Sitchin concludes the book by leaving the reader wondering as to the identity of 'Yahweh', and whether Enki, and the original Anunnaki, ever left Earth and returned to their home planet of Nibiru. The last books that excited my interest were, 'Unconventional Flying Objects' by Paul Hill, 'Alien Rapture' by Brad Steiger, and 'Alien Agenda' by Jim Marrs. I highly recommend all these books.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 30, 2008

    if you believe there is a logical explanation

    if you get religion and astology and both put together to recieve answers then this book makes a ton of sense!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 27, 2002

    A novel approach to Sitchin

    If you believe the moon shines only at night, you will love this book. If you are a fan of Zecharia Sitchin, as I have been for the last decade or so, you may be in for a shock, for in this book the author dramatically changes everything about his writing in comparison with his previous books, to the point that one may question if it is the work of a ghost writer. In the first place, the entire book, with the exception of the Introduction (wherein it is stated, 'For the first time ever, this dispersed and fragmented material has been assembled and used by Zecharia Sitchin to re-create the eyewitness account of Enki.....'), the entire work is written in verse format, double-spaced. Secondly, the architecture of the sentences is inverted with respect to normal English, with the verb usually appearing at or near the end. No doubt the reason for this type of structure was to create the atmosphere in which the author worked as he deciphered the ancient tablets, but this feature made the reading for me very slow and tedious, as I sought to reread each verse to untangle the various nouns and adjectives and adverbs and logically attach them to other parts of the sentence which were not in their accustomed places. Equally as surprising is the fact that there are absolutely no endnotes, references, citations, or illustrations which would tend to link the material to any deciphered existing tablets or other archaeological artifacts, or even Biblical references - the very things which gave his previous writings the illusion of a serious scientific hypothesis. In this regard, a library buff might be interested in noting the card catalogue classification of this and his previous writings. Having gotten beyond all these initial shocks, one then might expect to sit back and enjoy what initially appears to be a recap of the various fragments of the story line dispersed throughout and revealed, many times out of sequence, in his earlier books. A careful reading and comparison, however, reveals that in the current version, many of the earlier details have been changed. Consider, for example, the fact that, until this book, the emasculation of Anu was accomplished by Kumarbi, the grandson of Alalu, whom Anu deposed; in the current book, the vile act was performed by Alalu himself. In the earlier versions, Kumarbi suffered and recovered from an illness as a result of ingesting the testicles, but in the current book Alalu died from swallowing them. These are but a few examples of materials which contradict the author's earlier interpretations; there are also many places where totally new material is inserted, such as the attempted validation of the act of circumcision by the unsupported assertion that the Anunnaki were born without foreskins. Be prepared, therefore, for a work of total fiction, one difficult to navigate, and one not only out of character but also not too faithful to its author's earlier works. As a work of fiction, however, the failings are equally noticeable. Most novels, particularly those which might be classified as science fiction, are realistic to the point that the events at least seem plausible. But when we are told that Nibiru was covered by a cloud of volcanic dust (which certainly would be highly toxic to all forms of life), through which no light could penetrate, and that, for most of its orbit, the sun was so far away that there was no significant source of light, we are left wondering (1) how the planet was covered with abundant vegetation, and (2) why the Anunnaki and other creatures from that planet ever developed eyes, when there was nothing to see. Alas, fan that I am, I can only implore Mr. Sitchin to do what he does best: namely to obfuscate his story line in convoluted reasoning and artifact citations, and leave the writing of raw fiction to others.

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  • Posted May 4, 2009

    useless

    usless, except for the brief at the end of each chapter

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