The Earth Chronicles Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Seven Books of the Earth Chronicles Hardcover - 2009
by Zecharia Sitchin
Offering detailed information about the myriad characters and subjects covered by The Earth Chronicles series, this book provides an encyclopedic compendium of the myths and events from humanity's ancient civilizations.
Summary
• Offers easy access to the myriad characters and subjects covered by the seven books of The Earth Chronicles series
• Provides alphabetical listings to the terminology of ancient civilizations concerning their gods, kings, cultures, and religions
• Contains detailed summations, commentaries, and instructions for locating topics within all the author’s books
The Earth Chronicles series, a historical and archaeological adventure into the origins of mankind and planet Earth, began with the publication of the bestselling The 12th Planet. The series is based on the premise that the myths from the world’s earliest civilizations were in fact recollections of actual events and that the gods of ancient peoples were visitors to Earth from another planet--the Anunnaki, inhabitants of the 12th planet. The series’ books include The 12th Planet, The Stairway to Heaven, The Wars of Gods and Men, The Lost Realms, When Time Began, The Cosmic Code, and The End of Days, all products of the author’s unmatched study of the ancient records of Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, Israel, and Egypt and the civilizations of pre-Columbian America. Unearthing the hidden history of Earth and mankind, the series uses the past to unveil the meaning of the prophesied future.
Zecharia Sitchin has created an encyclopedic compendium of the key figures, sites, concepts, and beliefs to provide a unique navigational tool through this entire opus. Entries are coded to indicate at a glance their cultural origin and contain summations, commentaries, and guidance for locating the topics within all of his books, including Genesis Revisited, Divine Encounters, The Lost Book of Enki, The Earth Chronicles Expeditions, and Journeys to the Mythical Past.
From the rear cover
Wisdom hath built her house; She hath hewn out her seven pillars. Proverbs 9:1 In the seven books of The Earth Chronicles series, Zecharia Sitchin has amassed a vast volume of information about Mankind's ancient civilizations, ranging from the Near East, Africa, and Europe to the Americas--presenting it all in the context of a unified understanding of gods and men of the Past as a key to unlocking the Future. The Earth Chronicles Handbook is both a useful tool for navigating through the 2,300 pages of those seven books as well as a unique compendium that provides in alphabetical order, in one volume, data from all parts of the world, indicating for each entry its cultural source. It is, in a way, a key to the Seven Pillars of Ancient Wisdom. Praise for The Earth Chronicles Series "Exciting . . . credible . . . most provocative and compelling." --Library Journal "For thousands of years priests, poets, and scientists have tried to explain how man was created. . . . Now a recognized scholar has come forth with a theory that is the most astonishing of all." --United Press International "A dazzling performance. . . . Sitchin is a zealous investigator." --Kirkus Reviews
From the jacket flap
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS / ARCHAEOLOGY The Earth Chronicles series, a historical and archaeological adventure into the origins of mankind and planet Earth, began with the publication of the bestselling The 12th Planet in 1976. The series is based on the author's study of Sumerian tablets as well as other ancient texts, of which he is one of the world's leading authorities, and shows that the myths from the world's earliest civilizations were in fact recollections of actual events and that the gods of ancient peoples were visitors to Earth from another planet--the Anunnaki, inhabitants of planet Nibiru. The series' books include The 12th Planet, The Stairway to Heaven, The Wars of Gods and Men, The Lost Realms, When Time Began, The Cosmic Code, and The End of Days, all products of the author's decades of research and unmatched study of the Bible and of the ancient records of Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, Egypt, and the civilizations of pre-Columbian America. Unearthing the hidden history of Earth and mankind, the series--totaling more than 2,300 pages--uses the Past to unveil the meaning of the prophesied Future. In The Earth Chronicles Handbook, Zecharia Sitchin has created a unique encyclopedic compendium to provide a navigational tool for this entire opus. Entries are coded to indicate at a glance their cultural origin and contain summations and commentaries, reflecting Sitchin's innovative understanding of the Past. ZECHARIA SITCHIN (1920-2010), an eminent Orientalist and biblical scholar, was born in Russia and grew up in Palestine, where he acquired a profound knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew, other Semitic and European languages, the Old Testament, and the history and archaeology of the Near East. A graduate of the University of London with a degree in economic history, he worked as a journalist and editor in Israel for many years prior to undertaking his life's work--The Earth Chronicles. One of the few scholars able to read the clay tablets and interpret ancient Sumerian and Akkadian, Sitchin based The Earth Chronicles series on the texts and pictorial evidence recorded by the ancient civilizations of the Near East. His books have been widely translated, reprinted in paperback editions, converted to Braille for the blind, and featured on radio and television programs.
Details
- Title The Earth Chronicles Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Seven Books of the Earth Chronicles
- Author Zecharia Sitchin
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bear & Company, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.
- Date 2009-03-27
- Features Dust Cover
- ISBN 9781591431015 / 1591431018
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.42 x 0.9 in (23.37 x 16.31 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: New Age
- Library of Congress subjects Prophecies, Interplanetary voyages
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009000315
- Dewey Decimal Code 930.1
Excerpt
- Ab.Sin (“Her father is Sin”): The Sumerian name for the constellation honoring Inanna/Ishtar, the daughter of the god Sin. Our name for it, Virgo (= ‘The Maiden’), goes back to the beginning of the zodiacal system, when the constellation honored the goddess Ninharsag who never married. See Inanna, Ishtar.
- Abydos: An ancient Egyptian site where a tablet ascribed to the Pharaoh Seti I (and depicting him and his son Ramses II) was discovered.Inscribed in hieroglyphics, it listed the ancient Egyptian royal dynasties, starting with the Pharaoh MEN (Menes in Greek).
- Ab.zu, Absu (“The Primeval Source/Depth,” from which ‘Abyss’). The gold-mining land of the Anunnaki in Southeast Africa, “where great waters rapidly flow.” According to Sumerian Creation texts, it was at Enki’s abode there that he fashioned, together with Ninharsag, a ‘PrimitiveWorker’--Man--mixing the “essence” of a young Anunnaki with “clay of the Abzu.” See Anunnaki, Creation of Man, DNA, Gold.
- Achaemenids: A tribal dynasty in Anshan, a province in Elam east of Sumer, whose kings laid the foundations of the Persian empire. They included Cyrus, who captured Babylon in 539 B.C. and decreed the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem; Darius I and Xerxes I, who invaded Greece in the 5th century B.C.; and Darius III, who fought the invading Greek army of Alexander the Great in the 4th century B.C. See Alexander the Great, Elam, Persia/Persians, Susa, Xerxes.
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