Have you heard of Zecharia Sitchin.?

Question

I asked this last night when there were less of us regulars here.


Zecharia Sitchin, along with Erich von Däniken and Immanuel Velikovsky, make up the holy trinity of pseudohistorians. Each begins with the assumption that ancient myths are not myths but historical and scientific texts. Sitchin's claim to fame is announcing that he alone correctly reads ancient Sumerian clay tablets. [Of course, he didn't announce this by taking out an ad in the New York Times but by implying it with his "translations" that do not jibe with the work of legitimate scholars in the field.] If Sitchin is right, then all other scholars have misread these tablets, which, according to Sitchin, reveal that gods from another planet (Niburu, which orbits our Sun every 3,600 years) arrived on Earth some 450,000 years ago and created humans by genetic engineering of female apes. Niburu orbits beyond Pluto and is heated from within by radioactive decay, according to Sitchin.

No other scientist has discovered that these descendants of gods blew themselves up with nuclear weapons some 4,000 years ago (The War of Gods and Men, p. 310).* Sitchin alone can look at a Sumerian tablet and see that it depicts a man being subjected to radiation. He alone knows how to correctly translate ancient terms allowing him to discover such things as that the ancients made rockets (ibid., p. 46).* Yet, he doesn't seem to know that the seasons are caused by the earth's tilt, not by its distance from the sun.
http://skepdic.com/sitchin.html...

Is he another wacko? If not, why?

Answer 1

Yes, I have heard of this man. But I do not really know what exactly you are trying to ask. If you are asking about if his books are true, then I guess you proved your own point. I have tried to read his books, but they seemed so fake I just could not take them seriously...I think he was on something when he wrote his books. Or he's just someone who escaped from a mental institution from another country who happened to know english so he came here and wrote his damned books...and some strange editor and publisher told him his books had potential, so he published them. I don't think he has any credibility.

Answer 2

Hasn't everyone by now !!!!? The greatest cross stitcher in the world. He needs a new public relations firm, think I.

LOL

P.S. if he's of the von daniken ilk..it's all science fiction. Why I myself..have translated the golden text of the original americans, the mormons of joseph smith's claim. ROFL

Answer 3

I Recalled having read one of his books. Let me say I choose to adopt an open mind, neither would I dismissed nor accept his writings as fictions but look at his work with interest. Who knows, he might turn out to be Galileo of our time.

Answer 4

I have not, but that's pretty funny.