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Originally Posted by Darkland
Yes. And would it suprise you if I were to tell you in those same Sumerian/Babylonian creation myths that they have the number of planets at 12? They however counted the sun and our moon in those numbers, so subtract those and you get 10.
They also somehow knew that the planets past mars, the gas planets, were different than the plants this side of the asteroid belt. How?
Pretty mind boggling if you ask me.
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Yeah I read about it this morning but I thought this guy's critique was pretty good.
http://www.michaelsheiser.com/nibirupage.htm
One thing that strikes one right away is how this "12th planet" according to that guy Sitchin who first hypothesized it says the planet will pass through our solar system close to Earth every 3600 years. No such cycle is attached to "Eris". The closest it comes is 38 AU. That doesn't fit no matter how you look at it. So I don't think it is all that mind-boggling. To start with you have to take this translation by Sitchin as true and then you have to assume that Eris is this object even though Eris isn't anything like that object (no 3600 year cycle; it doesn't come close to Earth). Sitchin is a quack anyway. he said "there may be an outpost in orbit around Mars preventing current humans from getting there". His books discuss among other things ancient aliens that created we humans as slave labor 450 millenia ago. Me? I'm gonna stick with Darwin.
Now if you are into this kinda thing. Ancient aliens that visit earth, seed the planet, and bring their knowledge to ancient civilizations more power to ya -- but i don't buy it. i mean "alternative archaelogy"? Here his book ::
http://www.amazon.com/12th-Planet-Ea.../dp/038039362X
In general I'm not real excited about ancient civilizations supposed knowledge of objects that can only be seen with a telescope. 1. We have no knowledge that they had telescopes. 2. All such translations that I've seen are highly contested at best. There are no clear
uncontested translations of such.