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Chapter 12
Every celestial object that orbits another, greater celestial object passes through 360 degrees from orbital start to finish, no matter how circular or elliptical said orbit may be. If one were in a (more or less) circular orbit like the Earth around the Sun, the passage from one degree of the orbit to another would (more or less) be equal in time-length. On the other hand, if one were in a highly elliptical, comet-like orbit such as Planet X Nibiru, then those orbital degrees at aphelion and perihelion would be “shorter” than the orbital degrees in the “elongated sides” of the orbit. Nevertheless, certain “generalities” may be suggested about such an elliptical orbit. There is no doubt that the orbit of Planet X Nibiru around the Sun requires the passage of 3,600 Earth Years. If we consider one “full” generation to be 72 years (equivalent to the passage of one degree in Earth’s Precession of the Equinoxes, which lasts for 25,920 years), then in the span of One Nibiruan Year, 50 “full” generations of humanoid, Cro-Magnon Sapiens could come and go from the face of the Earth. Old memories from the mystical past would quickly fade like dreams from long ago, even before great-grandmother’s time. We cannot blame the ancient people for not accurately keeping these legends of Planet X Nibiru alive until our modern era. It would have been impossible for them (or us!), even under the best of circumstances.
It is entirely possible that Planet X Nibiru actually travels to Sirius in a period of 900 Earth Years (one of its seasons), stays in the Sirius System for 900 years, returns here over another period of 900 years, and then remains here as The Cosmic Tree or North Nail Yggdrasill for 900 years—The Counter Earth, as Pythagoras described it. If so, then that cluster of free-floating “Rogue Planets” discovered in the vicinity of Orion five years ago (as reported in Astronomy magazine, December 1997—see Chapter 11) might be Planet X Nibiru and its “Host”. Orion is in the general direction of Sirius, and these Rogue Planets may be inbound. Consider the following mathematics, and I have also seen the distance to Sirius shortened to 8.3 Light-Years.
Conclusion: From this mathematical hypothesis, including a transit
to Sirius and
back, it can be determined that as of today, 10 years in advance of
its actual
“maximum” return date, Rogue Planet X Nibiru would be located (10 X
Assumption: Rogue Planet X Nibiru (about the size of Neptune) can be faintly sighted by the naked eye at a distance from Earth equivalent to the mean distance from the Sun to Neptune.
Conclusion: Therefore, hypothetically in this assumption, Rogue Planet X Nibiru could first be sighted by the discerning naked eye only on the date of 3 December 2012 CE. Thus, in epochs long past, the “priests” of Sumeria would have needed to travel out into the darkened desert to watch their then unpolluted sky for the arrival of the “Planet of the Crossing” only about a month in advance of the mass-public naked-eye sighting by the vast majority of common people. Now to develop the alternate scenario that Planet X Nibiru’s aphelion occurs near the Oort Cloud, the distance from the Sun to the outermost fringes of this Solar System, i.e., to the isotropic bubble known as the Oort Cloud, is estimated to be approximately 50,000 Astronomical Units (or AU). One AU is equivalent to the mean distance from the Sun to the Earth, which is 92,900,000 miles.
Thus, the Oort Cloud’s radius from the Sun is about 1.25 trillion miles shorter than the distance of one Light-Year.
By way of comparison, the Earth travels around the Sun at a speed of about 66,587.66 Miles Per Hour, as can be determined by the following calculations.
Earth’s “space travel” speed would be significantly faster than that of Planet X Nibiru, as determined by this Intra-Solar-System Scenario; however, as per the previous calculations of the speed of Planet X, if it does indeed travel or “cross over” from the Sirius System to our System, its previous rate of 6,500,000 Miles Per Hour is approximately 100 times the speed of Earth in our orbit.
Assuming that Planet X Nibiru’s “maximum” return date coincides with the next Chinese Year of the Dragon and the Mayan End-Time Date, then at the present time it would be (10 X 344,074,074 =) 3,440,740,740 miles distant from the Sun. That is 226 million fewer miles than the mean distance from the Sun to the Planet Pluto, which is 3,666,000,000 miles. Thus, at the present time, Planet X Nibiru would be closer to us than Pluto, yet more distant than Neptune, and thus still be invisible to the naked eye.
In such a case, Planet X Nibiru would first become visible to the naked eye 5.813 Years prior to the date of 21 December 2012—or one might add for clarity here, prior to the date of the “passing” per se, which in the case of a “passing” in May 2003 should have occurred 5-6 years ago.
NOTA
BENE: “The Planet Of The Crossing” is intimately associated with the
Jewish Passover, as a “Planet Of The Passing Over”. Since the Jewish
Passover is connected to both the onset of Spring and to the annual
Christian Easter Date, this serendipitously hypothetical projection
harmonizes quite well with the approximate seasonality of the Jewish
Passover. In fact, Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky quite significantly and
coincidentally postulated in Worlds In Collision that his “Mars
Catastrophe” (i.e., the detethering and departure sequence of the
Planet X Nibiru) began on 26 February 747 BCE and ended on 23 March
687 BCE. And because Dr. Velikovsky’s “Venus Catastrophe” (i.e., the
arrival tethering sequence of Planet X Nibiru) accompanied the
Israelite Exodus from Egypt (following the very first Passover),
then that earlier “Venus Catastrophe” also occurred around the time
of the Vernal Equinox, although Dr. Velikovsky did not provide an
absolutely specific calendar date for his “Venus Catastrophe” or
Exodus-Santorini Cataclysm. See also
Chapter 6. It must be emphasized here that my calculation resulting in this February date for the year 2007 was “serendipitous” in the sense that a naked-eye visibility distance from Earth might first occur at a distance of 2 billion miles. If one were to use a distance of 2.7 billion miles, for example, the mean distance to Neptune, this second calculation would not necessarily be the same. This is an “accidental” conclusion based solely upon the mathematics contained here, in which a distance of 2 billion miles was rather arbitrarily selected. However, it is certainly “interesting” that it was computed as such, but this serendipity does not imply complete accuracy. For the record, the Jewish Passover will fall on 2 April 2007 and Easter Sunday on April 8.
Only when Planet X Nibiru once more becomes visible either to the Hubble Space Telescope or to the naked eye shall we be able to compute with greater certainty all of these various mathematical factors.
Studies of the “Epic of Creation” and parallel texts (for example, S. Langdon’s The Babylonian Epic of Creation) show that sometime after 2000 B.C., Marduk, son of Enki, was the successful winner of a contest with Ninurta, son of Enlil, for supremacy among the gods. The Babylonians then revised the original Sumerian “Epic of Creation”, expunged from it all references to Ninurta and most references to Enlil, and renamed the invading planet Marduk. The actual elevation of Marduk to the status of “King of the Gods” upon Earth was thus accompanied by assigning to him, as his celestial counterpart, the planet of the Nefilim, the Twelfth Planet. As “Lord of the Celestial Gods {the planets}” Marduk was thus also “King of the Heavens”.
[COMMENT: Three important points must be made about the preceding paragraph. First, obviously somewhere in his research Sitchin found a reference to Marduk in connection with the North Star. That certainly refers to a tethered Nibiru eclipsing the position of the North Star.
Since other epithets described Marduk as the “Great Heavenly Body” and the “One Who Illumines”, the theory was advanced that Marduk was a Babylonian Sun God, parallel to the Egyptian god Ra, whom the scholars also considered a Sun God. Texts describing Marduk as he “who scans the heights of the distant heavens…wearing a halo whose brilliance is awe-inspiriting” appeared to support this theory. But the same text continued to say that “he surveys the lands like Shamash {the Sun}.” If Marduk was in some respects akin to the Sun, he could not, of course, be the Sun.
This theory suffers from a contradiction. The same scholars who put it forward were the ones who held the view that the Chaldeans were unaware of the planets beyond Saturn. These scholars list Earth as a planet, while contending that the Chaldeans thought of Earth as a flat center of the planetary system. And they omit the Moon, which the Mesopotamians most definitely counted among the “celestial gods”. The equating of the Twelfth Planet with Jupiter simply does not work out.
[COMMENT: If one were living in the Northern Hemisphere, where all these ancient civilizations were located, and one looked to the North and saw all the Constellations revolving around “Yggdrasill”, and if said “Hyperborea” (Beyond The North) were 12 times larger than our Sun God Ra, certainly it would seem to be in the “center” of Heaven.
The “Epic of Creation” clearly states that Marduk was an invader from outside the solar system, passing by the outer planets (including Saturn and Jupiter) before colliding with Tiamat. The Sumerians called the planet NIBIRU, the “planet of the crossing”, and the Babylonian version of the epic retained the following astronomical information:
These lines provide the additional and conclusive information that in dividing the other planets into two equal groups, the Twelfth Planet in “the midst of Tiamat keeps crossing”: Its orbit takes it again and again to the site of the celestial battle, where Tiamat used to be.
We find that astronomical texts that dealt in a highly sophisticated manner with the planetary periods, as well as lists of planets in their celestial order, also suggested that Marduk appeared somewhere between Jupiter and Mars. Since the Sumerians did not know of all the planets, the appearance of the Twelfth Planet in “the central position” confirms our conclusions:
If Marduk’s orbit takes it to where Tiamat once was, relatively near us (between Mars and Jupiter), why have we not yet seen this planet, which is supposedly large and bright?
The Mesopotamian texts spoke of Marduk as reaching unknown regions of the skies and the far reaches of the universe. “He scans the hidden knowledge…he sees all the quarters of the universe.” He was described as the “monitor” of all the planets, one whose orbit enables him to encircle all the others. “He keeps hold on their bands {orbits},” makes a “hoop” around them. His orbit was “loftier” and “grander” than that of any other planet. It thus occurred to Franz Kugler (Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babylon) that Marduk was a fast-moving celestial body, orbiting in a great elliptical path just like a comet.
[COMMENT: What the ancients meant by “far reaches of the universe” is something that we can only speculate about. However, as discussed previously, if “Marduk” spends its “aphelion” (with respect to us) tethered in the Sirius System, perhaps Sirius, or the Orion Region, is what is meant by “far reaches”. Or perhaps it is a reference to the “Oort Cloud” about which the ancients probably had no idea. Nevertheless, if Planet X Nibiru were tethered to our North Pole, it would certainly seem “loftier” and “grander” than the other planets. RS]
Such an elliptical path, focused on the Sun as a center of gravity, has an apogee— the point farthest from the Sun, where the return flight begins—and a perigee—the point nearest the Sun, where the return to outer space begins. We find that two such “bases” are indeed associated with Marduk in the Mesopotamian texts. The Sumerian texts described the planet as going from AN.UR (“Heaven’s base”) to E.NUN (“lordly abode”). The Creation epic said of Marduk:
One “abode” was thus “outstanding”—far in the deep regions of space. The other was established in the “Heaven”, within the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. (Fig. 111)
No less explicitly, the Psalms outlined the planet’s majestic course:
Recognized as a great traveler in the heavens, soaring to immense heights at its apogee and then “coming down, bowing unto the Heaven” at its perigee, the planet was depicted as a Winged Globe.
Wherever archaeologists uncovered the remains of Near Eastern peoples, the symbol of the Winged Globe was conspicuous, dominating temples and palaces, carved on rocks, etched on cylinder seals, painted on walls. It accompanied kings and priests, stood above their throne, “hovered” above them in battle scenes, was etched into their chariots. Clay, metal, stone, and wood objects were adorned with the symbol. The rulers of Sumer and Akkad, Babylon and Assyria, Elam and Urartu, Mari and Nuzi, Mitanni and Canaan—all revered the symbol. Hittite kings Egyptian pharaohs, Persian shars—all proclaimed the symbol (and what it stood for) supreme. It remained so for millennia. (Fig. 112)
[COMMENT: This figure shows six representations of the “Winged Globe” or “Winged Disk”. This is obviously a representation of what this “disk” or “planet” looked like as it was tethered to our North Pole in the “supreme” place of Heaven. There is simply no other explanation, given all the peripheral evidence. If you do an Internet Google search for “winged disk”, you’ll bring up quite a number of websites containing this graphic. In the USA, particularly in New Mexico, it is known as the “thunderbird”. And often a “thunderbird” sat atop a “totem pole” just as Planet X Nibiru sits atop a “treetrunk” or “electromagnetic beam” over our North Pole. See various Illustrations. RS]
[COMMENT: “The Heaven he divides in half” obviously refers to the fact that from ground-level the long electromagnetic tether beam up to Planet X Nibiru’s South Pole would seem to divide the firmament into a western (left-hand) section and an eastern (right-hand) section, looking due-north. “Stands as Nibiru” would mean that it stands as Nibiru atop “Bifrost”, or the “Rainbow Bridge”—the Golden Pole with the Golden Cage on top. RS]
[COMMENT: In Worlds In Collision Dr. Velikovsky wrote that his “Venus” of the Exodus came from the direction of Jupiter, that it exploded out of Jupiter. Many times I have thought about the idea that Planet X Nibiru may be “lying in wait” beneath the vast clouds of Jupiter. Jupiter is 360 times bigger than the Earth, so it would be about 90 times bigger than Nibiru. Perhaps Planet X is cloaked underneath the Jovian clouds when it is not tethered to our North Pole, and remains in this immediate system permanently. And what were those strange “cometary fragments” that “landed” on Jupiter back in the summer of 1994, the so-called Shoemaker-Levy Comet?
[COMMENT: “The Throne of Heaven” obviously refers to the position of the “millwheel” or “winged disk” in the North; Hyperborea, “land beyond the North, land beyond the mountains where the North Wind rises.” Mount Olympus. Mount Zion. Mount Meru. RS]
In contrast with the blessings of the new era following the Day of the Lord, the day itself was described by the Old Testament as a time of rains, inundations, and earthquakes. If we think of the biblical passages as referring like their Mesopotamian counterparts, to the passage in Earth’s vicinity of a large planet with a strong gravitational pull, the words of Isaiah can be plainly understood:
[COMMENT: It must be noted that Isaiah was alive during the last tethering of Yggdrasill/Hyperborea, known to him as Mount Zion. Thus, Isaiah was writing about traditions of the arrival that had been passed down to him. Or, perhaps, Isaiah was describing events connected with the detethering and departure sequence of 762-687 BCE because Isaiah lived during the reign of King Uzziah of Israel, in whose 25th year occurred the “Great Earthquake” of 15 June 762 BCE. Amos preceded Isaiah by a few years, and I have dated the Vision Of Amos to the year 764 BCE. See the Epilogue. RS]
[COMMENT: The so-called “Great Eclipse” of 15 June 762 BCE is one of history’s most celebrated eclipses. It was visible from all of the following countries: Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Italy, Greece, “Yugoslavia”, Albania, Turkiye, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikstan, Turkmenistan and China. It has been mapped in Oppolzer’s celebrated Canon of Eclipses. There are legends about it in many of these cultures. “The Great Eclipse” has been an invaluable date in linking history to astronomy. “The Eclipse Of Thales” is another. Here history must be linked to specific calendar dates that are unalterable. If Amos had his vision in 764, then perhaps he was referring to the future “Great Eclipse” rather than to the previous arrival sequence. However, there was no polar displacement after 1587 BCE. RS]
Announcing, “Behold the Day of the Lord is come!” the prophet Zechariah informed the people that this phenomenon of an arrest in Earth’s spin around its own axis would last only one day:
[COMMENT: And this brings us back to the idea of the Sun standing still over China. See Chapter 4. The “twilight zone” would have occurred somewhere in the region of Afghanistan, perhaps even a bit farther westwards. South America would be in complete darkness, as would Egypt, but in the “twilight zone” there would be neither day nor night, as Amos wrote. RS]
Mesopotamian texts exalted the planet’s radiance and suggested that it could be seen even at daytime: “visible at sunrise, disappearing from view at sunset.” A cylinder seal, found at Nippur, depicts a group of plowmen looking up with awe as the Twelfth Planet (depicted with its cross symbol) is visible in the skies. (Fig. 113) The ancient peoples not only expected the periodic arrival of the Twelfth Planet but also charted its advancing course.
These verses describe a planet that not only spans the highest heavens but also comes in from the south and moves in a clockwise direction—just as we have deduced from the Mesopotamian data. Quite explicitly, the prophet Habakkuk stated:
[COMMENT: I’ve read that passage time and again and still find it puzzling. Taurus and Aries are close to Orion and Sirius, but they are halfway around the Zodiac from Sagittarius. The Mayas recorded that this Planet or “Demon Sun” comes from the “Dark Rift” in Sagittarius, and then travels northwards along the “Black Road” to its final position atop the “Sacred Tree”.
[However, if the Jupiter of Dr. Velikovsky’s Worlds In Collision has to echo or “ghost-correlate” in conjunction with the Galactic Center at M22, the Mayan Dark Rift in the Constellation of Sagittarius, for this Planet X Nibiru arrival sequence to commence, then when will that be?
[This is worth noting scientifically and mathematically, because most of us will still be alive in 2008 to document any results. If by midsummer or fall of 2008, when Jupiter is moving away from M22 and the Constellation of Sagittarius, nothing has happened, then we simply may be able to discredit this “legend” as false. But to discredit it as “false” in advance would be foolhardy, considering all the possible ramifications of what could unfold in the next ten years. However, unlike some others, I’m certainly not going to advise people to go out and stock up on potential 2007 “doomsday supplies”! RS]
As the accompanying schematic chart illustrates, the above texts do not simply call the Twelfth Planet by different names (as scholars have assumed). They deal rather with the movements of the planet and the three crucial points at which its appearance can be observed and charted from Earth. (Fig. 114) The first opportunity to observe the Twelfth Planet as its orbit brings it back to Earth’s vicinity, then, was when it aligned with Mercury (point A)—by our calculations, at an angle of 30 degrees to the imaginary celestial axis of Sun-Earth-perigee. Coming closer to Earth and thus appearing to “rise” farther in Earth’s skies (another 30 degrees, to be exact), the planet crossed the orbit of Jupiter at point B. Finally, arriving at the place where the celestial battle had taken place, the perigee, or the Place of the Crossing, the planet is Nibiru, point C. Drawing an imaginary axis between Sun, Earth and the perigee of Marduk’s orbit, observers on Earth first saw Marduk aligned with Mercury, at a 30° angle (point A). Progressing another 30°, Marduk crossed the orbital path of Jupiter at point B.
[COMMENT: Even if you don’t consider that Planet X Nibiru will actually dock and tether to the Earth for 900 years, then it would pass through the place of the Celestial Battle, the Asteroid Belt, as it neared Earth. Then it would loop around the Sun, pass by Earth’s orbit a second time and then back through the Asteroid Belt a second time. Assuming, as I do, that it will remain here tethered for 900 years, then at some point in its passage around Earth and the Sun, it would unleash its tether to form the Cosmic “Treetrunk”. We who are aware of these confusing details are beholden to the Future to keep better records of this event this time around. We need to learn how to think in terms of “shars”, not just years! RS]
The anticipation of the Day of the Lord in the ancient Mesopotamian and Hebrew writings (which were echoed in the New Testament’s expectations of the coming of the Kingship of Heaven) was thus based on the actual experiences of Earth’s people: their witnessing the periodic return of the Planet of Kingship to Earth’s vicinity.
Epilogue
No attempt is made here to mathematically justify these dates. They are based upon the Historical Reconstruction of the Velikovskian School (see the Ages In Chaos series). Dr. Velikovsky’s “duplicated kings” or “ghost correlations” appear in parentheses after the more acceptable names of the monarchs. For example, Egyptian King Shabataka of Thebes was known as Osorkon II in Memphis/Sais; and Assyrian King Sennacherib, also referred to as Candaules, was the Hittite King Murshilis II, called Myrsilus by the Greeks. Also, a notation such as “14 Piankhi II” or “3 Hoshea” means that this event took place in the 14th or 3rd year of the respective monarch.
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Central to the religious beliefs and astronomy of the ancient world
was the conviction that the Twelfth Planet, the “Planet of the
Gods”, remained within the solar system and that its grand orbit
returned it periodically to Earth’s vicinity. The pictographic sign
for the Twelfth Planet, the “Planet of Crossing”, was a cross. This
cuneiform sign, which also meant “Anu” and “divine”, evolved in the
Semitic languages to the letter tav, which meant “the sign”. Indeed,
all the peoples of the ancient world considered the periodic nearing
of the Twelfth Planet as a sign of upheavals, great changes, and new
eras. The Mesopotamian texts spoke of the planet’s periodic
appearance as an anticipated, predictable, and observable event: