|
 |
The
Sumerians |
 |
| |
Last Updated:
February 12, 2007 18:25
|
|
| |
|
|
 Many
ancient art forms including drawings,
wall paintings etc. depict beings that came from the skies.
These beings tend to be, on the whole, humanoid in appearance
and sometimes arrive in strange devices not dissimilar to modern
aircraft or space rockets. The Sumerians were an ancient civilisation
that, according to their written and graphical records, had "in
depth knowledge " and understanding far beyond that which
would have been expected, bearing in mind Sumerian society
was in existence some 5,500 years ago.
The Sumerian civilisation inhabited what is now known as Iraq
and it seems evident that they had detailed knowledge of architecture,
buildings, law, astronomy and many other subjects - some suspect
that the Sumerians were responsible for laying the foundations
of modern society. There is also evidence that the Sumerians
possibly had knowledge of DNA and other extremely advanced
scientific concepts.
According to Sumerian "records", some of which have
survived in the form of "tablets", their knowledge
of Astronomy in particular was astounding. For instance, it
seems clear that they were aware of the fact that the Earth,
along with the other planets, orbited the Sun some 5000 years
or so and Copernicus came to the same conclusion. |
|
 The "fly-by" mission
of the Voyager Probe [left] confirmed their descriptions of
the planets Uranus and Neptune in 1986. There is also evidence
that the Sumerians believed in the existence of an
"extra" planet, [Nibiru] which
circled the Sun, but with an orbit, which takes about 3,600
years to complete. According to ancient Sumerian text, the
Sumerians claimed that all of their knowledge came from the
Anunnaki. The term Anunnaki literally means' Those Who
from Heaven to Earth Came' And it has been suggested that these
space beings [Anunnaki] in fact came from 'Nibiru', meaning
'Planet of the Crossing '. Nibiru this "extra" planet
is now described by some as "Planet X".
The concept being that the orbit of Planet X brings it, on
rare occasions, close enough to the Earth making it comparatively
easy for an advanced life form to visit this world. Hence,
the beings " Who from Heaven to Earth Came" visited
the Sumerians and and provided advanced knowledge. But, some
would have it, that is not all the space beings did - it has
also been alleged that they
"inter-bred" with human beings, hence the alleged
knowledge of the Sumerians regarding DNA and Genetics. It has
been alleged, based on calculations regarding its 3,600-year
orbit of the Sun, Planet X will soon be coming perilously close
to the planet Earth. |
More signs that
solar system has tenth planet 12 December 2002 |
|
The solar system may have a tenth
planet lurking beyond the orbit of Pluto, calculations by astronomers
in Britain and Argentina indicate. "Planet X" could
lie 60 times further from the Sun than the Earth, roughly 600
million miles out. But nobody would have spotted it directly
because, if it exists, it orbits in a direction that astronomers
rarely study.
The new planet, thought to be the same size as Earth, would
lie on the inside edge of the Kuiper Belt, a distant region
of the solar system principally composed of small pieces of
rock and interstellar leftovers from the creation of the solar
system. Yet it could have the seeds of life, because astronomers
have detected ice and complex molecules on the surface of some
of the rocks there.
One of the scientists who developed the idea, Dr Mario Melita,
of the astronomy unit at Queen Mary, University of London,
said yesterday: "The Belt has a sharp edge to it, which
isn't well understood. But people have noticed gaps in planetary
rings and when they've looked there, they've found orbiting
moons that have swept up the matter by their gravity."
Dr Melita, and Dr Adrian Brunini, of the University of La Plata
in Argentina, suggested the sharp edge of the Kuiper Belt was
caused by a similar sweeping, and that had, over time, created
a planet-sized object, whose orbit of the sun would be almost
circular, but angled by 20 degrees to that of the inner planets.
"We could observe it with telescopes, but there's a lot
of space to cover," Dr Melita said. "And we don't
normally look in that direction relative to Earth." The
idea has had qualified approval from other astronomers. "There's
something funny going on out there [in the Kuiper Belt]," Marc
Bule of the prestigious Lowell Observatory in Arizona told
New Scientist magazine. Alan Stern of the Southwestern Research
Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said the area was "a region
of planetary formation, with 100,000 objects that are 'miniature
planets'."
Modern astronomers reckon that Pluto, discovered in 1930, actually
originated in the Belt. Its orbit sometimes passes within that
of Neptune, the next most outlying planet. In October, a team
at the California Institute of Technology discovered a Kuiper
Belt object half the size of Pluto, which they named Quaoar.
Dr Stern told New Scientist the discovery was probably only
the first of many. "There are more likely 900 planets
in the solar system than nine," he said. "And all
but eight are in the Kuiper Belt."
But the existence of a planet is not yet confirmed. Other hypotheses
could explain the Belt's shape, Dr Melita said, such as a small
star about one-tenth as large as the Sun, passing near when
the solar system formed about six billion years ago. "That
could have created something like this," he said. Jason
Martell Xfacts.com |
|
 |
 |
Sumerian
carving - a DNA Spiral? |
Modern "coil"
depiction of a DNA spiral |
|
 |
 |
Text
from a Sumerian table |
Sumerian
tablet - notice the stars circle the Sun |
|
|
|
