The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return (The Earth Chronicles) | 
 enlarge | Author: Zecharia Sitchin
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Why is it that our current twenty-first century A.D. is so similar to the twenty-first century B.C.?
Is history destined to repeat itself? Will biblical prophecies come true, and if so, when? It has been more than three decades since Zecharia Sitchin's trailblazing book The 12th Planet brought to life the Sumerian civilization and its record of the Anunnaki—the extraterrestrials who fashioned man and gave mankind civilization and religion. In this new volume, Sitchin shows that the End is anchored in the events of the Beginning, and once you learn of this Beginning, it is possible to foretell the Future. In The End of Days, a masterwork that required thirty years of additional research, Sitchin presents compelling new evidence that the Past is the Future—that mankind and its planet Earth are subject to a predetermined cyclical Celestial Time. In an age when religious fanaticism and a clash of civilizations raise the specter of a nuclear Armageddon, Zecharia Sitchin shatters perceptions and uses history to reveal what is to come at The End of Days.
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 Wonderful July 11, 2008
Don't let the bad publicity against Mr. Sitchin influence your mind.
Many jealous people and especially failed writers hate him.
We all understand that.
There is a person in America who asked the authorities to put him in jail.
Crazy!
Only in America people massacre others with dirty words,
personality assassination and personal hatred. What they do?
They are incapable of writing successful books
so they began to throw dirt from their mouth
and snake-style criticism.
Mr. Sitchin is a remarkable writer.
Respected all over the world.
I collect all his books.
S. Mahdi, Cairo, Egypt.
 Mesmerized and Feeling Good Can Still Be Phony July 10, 2008
Some readers wonder why they thoroughly believe everything Sitchin lulls them to believe is real, while they also wonder why there is no index, bibliography or source references in his works. Why? Because these books are NOT FACT! They are cleverly wrought fiction, that is why. Even if we are prepared to forget that just because we desperately need a mythos that we can believe in as real.
Knowledge, cultural, rites, religious, civilizational bounties of Sumeria, Ancient Persia and Mesopotamia have been almost obliterated from the annals of easily discoverable Western scholarship, so someone like Sitchin can come along and invent the background and civilizational connections for us. He uses research of Samuel Noah Kramer, for example, who really did try -- and did a pretty good job at -- translating Sumerian cuneiform (and he has references in the back of his scholarly works. One thing that was discovered in the real Sumerian translations is that the Book Of Solomon from the Old Testament is a steal of the Songs of Inanna to her shepherd lover Dumuzi (aka Tammuz), that's right, not Hebrew, but Mesopotamian. It is time we discovered some true love again a little East of Jerusalem. It certainly needs to be remembered.
Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, where are you now just when we need you? (Yes, she's Greek, sadly I don't know the Sumerian equivalent. Although I would bet that the Sumerian "Me" that is retained all the way through the Epics of Gilgamesh to the later Babylonian translations, linguistically are connected to Mne-monsyne, Memory. That's right the "Me" may not be an extraterrestrial computer or device, but something mne-monic, that is, a psychotechnology of remembrance--of always re-me-mbering who one is and where one ultimately springs from -- the stars, yes, dear being, the stars. Written on Ishtar's girdle and about the crown of the head. These memories are not Western, though we desperately feed upon them.)
Our solipsistic heritage still holds us back from embracing more of the world, and, I might add, being humbled by it, instead of merely following imaginative predilections based on our cultural conditioning. These, Sitchin largely serves and gives us reasons to nod and go back to sleep. For this, while relishing books of myth, history and reconstructions of the past, I keep clanging up against Sitchin's very focused, deliberate channelling of what he wants us to see and believe. Full marks to his intent, if you like to be led. There are others that truly must begin to see outside his square. Remember, no references cited because he is a lord of INVENTION, not an archeologist of fact. Then rest easy.
people are in jail for doing what sitchen is doing June 1, 2008
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
FRAUD is a punishable criminal offense under all criminal codes and statues in this country,yet sitchen is a free man...is there no justice in the world?...He has committed fraud with his "EARTH CHRONICALS" series and what is really disturbing to me is,not his writing, but how many people believe this crap as if it is the truth....There is no Nibiru and the ANNANUKI are not gods...This whole story is just sad
waste of money May 18, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
total bull Krap
book is boring.
no start no ending no conclusion
looks like the writer is lost in his own dreams..
no proof or observations for what he says.
plus if you havent read the egyptian bible the christan bible and the jewish bible by heart and remember everyline of it.
you wont understand a damn thing..
i woundlnt give any stars to it.
but one is minimum
thats what you get.
wana read some good book
try : beyond ufo's or the giza power plant.
End of Days - End of Series May 17, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The End of Days is Sitchin's seventh and final book of The Earth Chronicles series, and while always interesting, it adds only a small amount of new information to the on-going saga. The first thirteen of sixteen chapters of the End of Days summarizes the key points of the previous Earth Chronicles books. If the reader wants a more in-depth analysis of a topic, they are referred to one of the earlier books. Throughout the summary, Sitchin is able to reveal new correlations across some of the ancient texts.
The last three chapters attempt to provide new insights regarding Jesus as Messiah, the Last Supper, the Bible Code, the number 666, the Piscean age and symbology, the Holy Grail, the origins of Islam, the Nazca lines, the moons and orbits of Uranus and Neptune, the Phobos moon of Mars, nuclear holocaust past and present (Armageddon(s)), Divine time versus Celestial time, and concludes with various theories on predicting the time of the "end of days" which mark the return of Niburu and the Anunnaki.
Unfortunately, most of the topics in the last 3 chapters are treated in a short and superficial manner, resulting in less than convincing arguments in some cases. Consequently, one wonders if Sitchin is out of his depth here. Also, Sitchin's comments regarding the origins of Islam and the present state of Islamic sentiment towards Israel are the premise for his assertion that we are facing a potentially history-repeating nuclear holocaust (Armageddon again). Some may find controversy in these "political" comments.
Other interesting points in this book: 1) As in his previous works, Sitchin avoids the whole issue of Anunnaki technology; 2) In previous books, the Sumerian reference to the "black-headed people" was said to refer to the peoples of Africa. Sitchin now says it refers to the Sumerian people; 3) While Sitchin indicates that Yahweh was one of the Anunnaki, he curiously remains silent as to which one; 4) Sitchin proposes that Jesus just happens to be in the right place at the right time in history, and while Jesus apparently had a legitimate claim to the "kingship" of Judea, the Jewish leaders of the time rejected him. Sitchin offers no explanations here; 5) Sitchin implies that Yahweh's covenant to free and protect the "Children of Israel" was really about being "chosen" to safeguard the spaceport in Jerusalem, and the landing site in Baalbek. But one has to wonder if there was more to it. Perhaps what they were really "chosen" for was to protect the "bloodline" of the Anunnaki. This might help to explain some of the "restrictive" customs and practices of the Jewish people to this day; 6) While Sitchin suggests a date for the "return" of the Anunnaki, he is left to speculate as to whether it will coincide with the coming of a new Messiah, the return of an old Messiah, a new age for humanity, or the end of humanity altogether (Apocalypse).
While you don't have to agree with all of Sitchin's theories, you do have to admire his skill as a master story-teller, whose scope and breadth of knowledge of antiquity is astonishing. If Sitchin does anything, it is to get you to think outside of the box about the origins of humanity and early civilizations. As science and archeology progress further, we are becoming more cognizant that there is a certain element of truth in practically every myth and legend of the past. Although Sitchin's interpretations of ancient texts and images provide only circumstantial evidence for his theories, the true test of Sitchin's work will be the uncovering of hard physical evidence of the Anunnaki presence.
Lastly, it would have been nice if the book had an index, a bibliography, and a source reference list for the various pictures and drawings. While Sitchin did cite most references within the body of the text, there were a number of cases where he did not.
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