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Bitchin' 'bout Sitchin

MonsterTalk

Monster House LLC

History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2016

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Ancient Aliens theorists seem to love the work of Zecharia Sitchin (The 12th Planet). Sitchin proposed that mysterious space beings called Anunnaki visited earth to steal our gold, and passed on their wisdom to the ancient people of Sumer. In this first of a 2-part look at Sitchin’s impact on Ancient Astronaut lore, we talk with Dr. Michael Heiser about the plausibility of Sitchin’s views from an evaluation of the ancient texts Sitchin purports to have used for his source material. Read the episode notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.

0:04.0

I'm a big fan of the

0:10.0

I'm a big fan of the original two seasons of Scooby-Doo.

0:13.2

Scooby-Doo, the cartoon, followed the adventures of a group of teenagers in their dog

0:17.9

as they encountered many allegedly paranormal situations and tried to get to the bottom

0:21.8

of them. It almost always turned out that

0:24.1

the mysterious phenomena were being caused by criminals faking the events to

0:27.9

cover up their crimes. When I was growing up I think the three biggest influences on

0:32.4

me from the world of fiction were Sherlock Holmes, Mr Spock, and Vellma Dinkley.

0:37.0

In the original series, Vellma was always the voice of reason and pursued an evidence-based interpretation of whatever mystery the gang was investigating.

0:44.6

I mentioned this because it was with considerable disappointment that I walked through my own living

0:48.4

room to encounter my children, listening to this.

0:51.4

A crazy mummified corpse whispering to Bieru is creepy times 10.

0:55.0

It gets creepier.

0:57.0

I googled it and found a lot, namely this.

1:00.0

Meberu is a planet listed in the writings of Zakariah Sitchin, particularly his book The Twelve Planet.

1:06.2

According to Sitchin's interpretation of Babylonian religious texts,

1:10.0

a giant planet called Nibiru passes by Earth every 3,600 years and allows its sentient inhabitants

1:16.7

to interact with humanity.

1:18.6

These beings, which Sichin identified with the Anunaki of Sumerian myth would become humanity's first gods.

1:25.6

My favorite internet encyclopedias says there's supposed to be a collision.

1:30.0

The Niberu collision is a disastrous encounter between the Earth and a large planetary object.

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