Sitchin is one of the biggest and more popular cheat pseudocientists at present, he is a continuity of ideas of Erik Von Däniken followed all their expedients: omissions, distortions, and decontextualizations or simple and pure lies.
His first book "The 12th Planet" is a best-seller in which he claims to have translated the sumerian tablets correctly and they found evidences that the Sumerian knew about the existence of 12 planets in the solar system including Nibiru ( the 12th ).
Nibiru was the home planet of an advanced alien specie (the Sumerians Annunaki or Bible Nefilins) that about 10,000 years ago created the human species to perform slave labor because their planet was losing the atmosphere and certain Earth's minerals would stabilize it ( for a planet that reaches its aphelion at distances of 450 AU where the methane and nitrogen freeze, and it remains at equivalent distances about 70% of its orbital period, the last issue that should bother with it an atmosphere as this would most the time covering frozen the soil of the planet ). Finally the Humans rebelled against exploitation and alien decided kill all of our specie causing a global flood ( This flood remained in the imagination through the collective cultural tradition posteriorly have been described in the Bible and other sacred texts of ancient civilizations.
Indeed these are only free-association without any basis, either historical, astronomical or whatever.
It seems incredible that the entourage of Sitchin has increased considerably in the last decade with the arise of the fashion of conspiracionists theories and mysticism in general and cause the prospect of such "Mayan Prophecies" (which has nothing to the Mayans) that provides in the year of in 2012 large seizures will change the world as we know.
To worsen: towards the end of this year the launch of a film based on his book The 12th Planet:
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http://www.1anunnaki.com/intro.htmlAs reference to future interested in the topic of Nibiru and Zacharias Sitchin I let down the link to the site of Michael S. Heiser, academic in Semitic languages, mythology and history inevidence that Sitchin does not know anything about the languages, or the history and ASTRONOMY of the that ancient civilizations !
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