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Of Christ, Giants Roamed The Earth
In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquerors came to the New World in search of El Dorado, the fabled city of gold. Instead, they encountered inexplicable phenomena that have puzzled scholars and historians ever since: massive stone edifices constructed in the Earth's most inaccessible regions ... great monuments forged with impossible skill and unknown tools ... intricate carvings describing the events and topography of half a world away.
In this, the remarkable and thoroughly researched fourth volume of THE EARTH CHRONICLES, author Zecharia Sitchin uncovers the long-hidden secrets of the lost civilizations of the pre-Columbian Americas and offers documentation of the giant gods who spawned the greatness of the Incans, Mayans, and Aztecs -- the Anunnaki -- "those who from Heaven to Earth came." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Sitchin's arguments fit very nicely with the history of Sumeria, Egypt, and the Near East that he laid out in his earlier books. Basically, he argues that the Americas were exploited by the gods for the production of gold and other metals such as tin, which the Andean mountains in particular hold in abundance. Metals were refined here and shipped back to the Near Eastern lands long before Columbus ever sailed the ocean blue. Sitchin believes that the Olmecs, of which very little is known besides what has been gleaned from the artifacts they left behind, particularly in the form of large stone blocks representing men of obvious African descent, did indeed come from Africa very early on--in fact, it was the Egyptian god Thoth who brought his followers here when he was displaced by Marduk. While the Olmecs mysteriously disappeared, other societies were formed by white gods and giants from across the sea. The traditions of the diverse Indian groups all shared a common mythology, including the story of a Great Flood; they also possessed amazing arts, technologies, and sciences (particularly astronomy) very similar to those of Sumeria and Egypt. The inadequacy of artifacts in the Americas necessarily hinder any scientist studying their earliest histories, but Sitchin constructs a remarkably compelling timeline in which the story of Mesoamerica fits very neatly into the history he has gleaned of the Annunaki and their relationships with mankind in its earliest days.
Even if Sitchin were dead wrong on everything he suggests, this book would still be worth reading just for the information about the amazing ancient cities and monuments built in the lower Americas that are only now emerging from their jungle tombs. The Olmecs, Toltecs, Mayans, Incas, and Aztecs are more mysterious than the Near Eastern cultures, and the suggestion that men traveled from the Old World and Africa centuries before Columbus is as compelling as it is fascinating. The illustrations in this book are sometimes rather grainy and hard to examine closely, but the images they convey, such as that of the giant stone heads left by the Olmecs, do much to enhance Sitchin's theories. This is thought-provoking, educational, stimulating material.
The book opens with a detailed account of the avarice of the conquistadors and the savagery they inflicted upon the natives while fuelling their lust for gold and silver. Sitchin makes a very forthright and lucid argument for the South american Indians being direct descendents of Cain, with the mark of Cain playing a quite interesting part. Much of the book is taken up with descriptions of the huge structures contained within some of the cities and explanations of how this work was simply beyond the ability of the Indians. Who then were the architects and builders of such complicated and astrologically influenced marvels ? Is it coincidence that many of the buildings in Ancient Egypt match incredibly well with those in the Americas ? And indeed many of the Gods share names and histories, the spanish priests were amazed to learn of the tale of the deluge that was almost exactly the same as the one contained in the bible. How could this be ?
Sitchin provides well researched evidence that these major cities were created by the Gods and contained landing strips, mining facilities, refineries and factories for the purpose of extracting as much gold as possible for transportation to the home planet Nbiriu. The Indians merely moved in when the Gods had left. At face value this book seems incredible to say the least, but when studied, the depth of understanding displayed by the author is astounding and begs for more attention. The methods of alignment with the stars used in the buildings displays a deep understanding of the heavens that ancient man just didn't have ! The stone masons used granite blocks with up to 30 sides on each one yet they all fitted perfectly and with no mortar ! Some of the boulders used weighed up to three hundred tons and were quarried miles away and then transported up treacherous mountainsides .... by primitive Indians ! How were these quarried and shaped when no chisel marks are to be seen on them ?
This book creates a plethora of intriguing questions, followed by two types of answer, the ones we simply can't believe and the ones we don't want to believe. This is a must read.
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