Zecharia Sitchin's 'Stairway to Heaven' Summarized

[Laurel]

Hey NLC, thanks for doing all that work. Sitchin brings us some interesting discoveries, no doubt. I once saw a video documentary about him. It was fascinating. Without being an expert in his field, it's hard to be certain that his research is legitimate. Regardless of that, Sitchin's work is thought-provoking.

Thanks again!
laurel

[Bad Moon Rising]

Zecharia Sitchin online books

#1 - THE 12TH PLANET
#2 - THE STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
#3 - THE WARS OF GODS AND MEN
#4 - THE LOST REALMS
#5 - WHEN TIME BEGAN
#6 - THE COSMIC CODE
#7 - GENESIS REVISITED
#8 - DIVINE ENCOUNTERS

http://www.geocities.com/elchasqui_2/ZSitchinalltitles.html

[no_leaf_clover]

holy crap.. lmao.

thanks bad moon, looks like that whole post wasn't even neccessary. [|)]

[Bad Moon Rising]

no leaf clover,
Glad to show the link. I also posted that link in the thread http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5015  but I think my post was overlooked. [] I haven't read Stairway To Heaven yet but I will try to read it this weekend. I also submitting it and it has been added to the File Library.. in the Astral Pulse Web Links category.

[Euphoric Sunrise]

Damn, that's long! I haven't read all of it yet, and i probably won't. That's mainly because i like to keep a lot of the book secret before i read it.

I'll be looking forward to your summary/review of the first book, since that's the first one i plan to get.

Thanks no_leaf_clover!

[Nick]

First, thanks no_leaf_clover for that great summary of The Stairway to Heaven. I thought it would be worthwhile if I mentioned something related.

There is also a DVD now available called Phenomenon - the lost archives. Zecharia Sitchin is featured. The DVD is in two parts: Genesis Revisited where "Zecharia Sitchin uncovers the lost and hidden archives of the Anunnaki: extraplanetary visitors who over 6,000 years ago inspired what is thought to be the earliest civilization known to man- the Sumerians."

The DVD jacket continues: "From the sacred stone tablets of this culture (the Sumerians), many of the teachings of the earliest recorded inventors, philosophers and biblical scholars once thought mythical are now known to be true. Where did these Anunnaki come from? Sitchin says, and NASA scientists concur, that there may be a mysterious 10th member to our solar system: what the Sumerians called Nibiru."

The second part of the DVD is called: Irretrievably Lost: The Search for the Savannah Bomb. This part of the DVD has to do with a search for one of "12 atomic weapons" believed lost or disappeared. One of these armed nuclear warheads, they allege, is lost in the swamps of Savannah, Georgia.

I got a copy of the DVD from Amazon, however it may possibly be in a really well-stocked rental store. The DVD is very good as a nice supplement to Sitchin's books.

Very best,

[no_leaf_clover]

sounds like a good dvd.

you can read about the sort of the things you described on the dvd while they happen. notice how on my profile there is a link to sitchin.com and a link to space.com. if you check them both regurlarly, you'll find that a lot of new ideas/discoveries on space.com point to another planet or other large body being in our system today or in the past, and sitchin takes these articles and posts them on his own site.

after looking at those reviews of sitchin's books, i will go back and review the first as soon as i get it back. those reviews were all selections from sitchins books, and some explanations were left out while other whole ideas were excluded.

ok.. now how many of you guys actually read that *whole* thing? lol.. i know wouldn't have if i saw it. i didn't read mayatnik's 'and the truth shall be revealed - you'll see!' until the replies start getting up there, then i finally went through and read the monster, which didn't turn out to be too long after all. i don't think i can say the same about my post here.. [xx(]

[Nick]

no_leaf_clover,

Thanks for the links. I will definitely check out those websites. I had just bought Divine Encounters and then read where it is online. Oh well, I still like holding a book in my hand anyway.

Very best,

[goingslow]

Great review no leaf... thanks for taking the time out to write it in such detail, now I dont even have to read the book []

[no_leaf_clover]

Zecharia Sitchin's The Stairway to Heaven Summarized

I'm going to go through and summarize each chapter of the book, listing the key points and the key pieces of evidence. The post itself may be long, but remeber **each chapter has been reduced to a few short paragraphs** (except for chapter 13, heh, but it's a really good read!).

NOTE: More evidence for the annunaki themselves will be provided when I summarize Sitchin's The 12th Planet. This post sheds more light on the Pyramids of Egypt than anything else. Just take my word, or keep my word in mind, for now, until further posts here shed more light on other specific topics, rather than repeating the same thing in each post.

The book starts off by getting us curious on the subject of man's thirst for immortality since the ancient times, and ends on the topic of Great Pyramids of Egypt.



Chapter 1: In Search of Paradise



"There was a time - our ancient scriptures tell us - when immortality was within the grasp of Mankind." So starts the second book in Sitchin's 'Earth Chronicles' series. References are made to the biblical tale of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve lived in an ignorant bliss, while the Hebrew God Yahweh took strolls along the beaches, feeling the wind in his hair. It was when the serpent tempted the first humans to eat of the Tree of Knowledge, of which they were forbidden to eat, that the trouble began.

"Then did the Lord Yahweh say:
'Behold, the Adam has become as one of us to know good and evil;
And now might he not put forth his hand and partake also of the Tree of Life, and eat, and live forever?'

And the Lord Yahweh expelled the Adam from the Garden of Eden...
And He placed at the east of the Garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the Flaming Sword which revolveth, to guard the way to the Tree of Life."

Mankind had lost its chance at immortality.

Ever since this biblical tale supposively happened, after the creation of man, heroes from all over the world have sought immortality on their quests. Take for example Ponce de Leon, who was killed by a native american's arrow while searching for a fountain of youth in modern-day Florida. There was also Alexander the Great, who went into Egypt with the sole intent of seeking his ancestors to ask for immortality (as the Egyptians told of a land in modern-day Ethiopa where the immortal forefathers resided, and Alexander was believed to be part Egyptian himself), as is told in Alexander Magni Inter Ad Paradisum and other recorded bits of history from that time period. Then there was the biblical tale of Moses finding the Waters of Life after his evening meal, a fish, sprang to life and swam off after coming in contact with the water.

Even the second Christan Crusade was inspire by rumors of the Waters of Life in modern-day India, near the Indus River Valley Civlization. This may not be claimed by the church, but take this into account: The first crusade was in 1095. In 1145, the current Bishop, Otto, reported to the Pope that there were rumors of a large kingdom in modern-day India, and that the biblical Garden of Eden may be there with its Waters of Life. The Pope *immediately* called for the resumption of the crusades, and just two years later, the men of the 2nd Crusade set off. The crusade failed because of aggressive Muslims blocking the way into India.

So, where was all this thirst for immortality coming from? Greek Mythology? The Hebrew Bible? Ancient Egyptian tales? No. The origin of the idea of immortality is *much* older than any of those things.



Chapter 2: The Immortal Ancestors



There are all sorts of ancient accounts for people being provided immortality, from the Bible, to Egypt, to Rome, Greece, Mesopotomia, Ancient India, Ancient Ethiopia, etc. etc.

Many examples of gifts of immortality from the gods are provided in this chapter, and you can probably think of a few on your own. The one that stands out most is the biblical tale of Elijah..

"As they continued to walk on and to talk (Elijah and his son Elisha), there appeared a Chariot of Fire, and horses of fire, and the two were separated.
And Elijah went up into Heaven, in a whirlwind.
And Elisha saw, and he cried out:
'My father! My father! The Chariot of Israel and its horsemen!'
And he saw it no more."

There was also the tale of Enoch, who was taken into Heaven, given a message, and came back to Earth to give that message to his followers. Afterwards, he was again taken away to Heaven in the usual 'Chariots of Fire', where he supposively became immortal along with the likes of Moses and Elijah.

Keep in mind that this wasn't something unique to Judaism and the Bible. Many other cultures, especially Egypt and Sumeria, had their own versions of such tales, only in far greater detail that eerily hinted at spaceships and space travel. As a piece of evidence, pictures are shown of hieroglyphics that look exactly like rocket ships, with a cone at the top, cylinder at the end, and people inside.



Chapter 3: The Pharaoh's Journey to the Afterlife



This chapter is basically a lot of background information on Egypt and its culture, tales, gods, etc. The chapter is used to build a great amount of evidence showing that the Egyptians and Sumerians knew of rocketships, encountered them on a daily basis, and depicted them in their texts.



Chapter 4: The Stairway to Heaven



This chapter discusses the Egyptian 'Book of the Dead', and goes through the whole journey, from the mummification, to the arrival at the 'Planet of One Million Years', or heaven.

It is shown that the symbols for the actual 'Stairway to Heaven' are the exact same as the step pyramids. It is also mentioned that Great Pyramids themselves, if stripped of their limestone coating, are just large, extremely-well made versions of the smaller step pyramids.

The first chapter is echoed when the Book of the Dead comes to the part that describes the final destination in the Pharaoh's journey. The Fruit of Life and the Waters of Life are present on the 'Planet of One Million Years', 'The Imperishable Star', or heaven (the three are interchangeable). Some things begin to tie together. The Fruit and Water of Life (foods that allow one to live forever, as mentioned in the Bible) are present on the 'Planet of One Million Years' according to the Egyptians. The *PLANET* of One Million Years.



Chapter 5: The Gods Who Came to Planet Earth



What the Egyptians and Sumerians were saying was more or less this: there is a tenth planet in our solar system with a very long orbit, and that planet contains intelligent life. The beings living there are the 'annunaki' in Sumerian, meaning literally 'those who from Heaven to Earth came'. Their planet came into our solar system by some unknown catastrophe in a close-by system, probably Sirius. After smashing into a then-existed planet called 'Tiamat' by the mesopotomians, the planet created both the asteroid belt and Earth, which was what remained intact after the collision.

The Annunaki's planet is called Nibiru by the Sumerians. Nibiru literally means 'Planet of Crossing' in Sumerian, and is called so because the planet 'crosses' the inner-planets' orbit every 3600 years (see http://users.lycaeum.org/~martins/nibiru.html ).

With such an elliptical orbit, the Annunaki were trying to reinforce their atmosphere with gold, but apparently ran out of the element on their own planet. So they sent out a ship to land on Earth. This ship was swallowed up in the orbit of a gas giant on the way over, and all the crew onboard were killed. A second ship was sent out. This one successfully landed on the Earth near the end of its last ice age, a little over 100,000 years ago, aftering stopping to refuel on water on Mars (the annunaki 'Enki', or Sumerian for 'Lord (of) Earth' developed ships that use water for fuel. Scientists today are working for the exact same thing.).

The annunaki landed in watery marshes in the present-day Indian Ocean, and then made their way up to the equator and established a colony in what was to become Ancient Sumeria. Around this time they also constructed a spaceport in the Sinai peninsula and the Great Pyramids and Sphinx in Egpyt. Enki also had the Nile expanded upon so it would be able to support civilization.

The annuanki set up mines in Africa, somewhere south of Egypt, and set to work there extracting gold. Soon, the annunaki, being astronauts mostly by trade, went on strike and refused to do such physical labor. At this time, Enki's position as the head of the annunaki on Earth had been taken by his brother Enlil, who had arrived on Earth after the colonies had been set up. Enki sided with the laborers, as they were about to be punished by Enlil. Enki suggested that new workers especially designed for physical labor should take their place. When Enlil asked where such workers would come from, Enki said they would be *created*. They would take primitive man-like beasts (Neanderthals) that already roamed the Earth and add their own genes to them, so the resulting homo sapiens sapiens was part Earth-creature, part Nibiru-creature.

Man was set to mine in the mines and work the gardens until they became smarter and started acting like the more divine annunaki. This is where the biblical eating of the 'tree of knowledge' came from. We started dressing like the annunaki, learning to speak like them, etc. As a result, the annunaki no longer regarded us as slaves, as would be the humane thing to do, and gave us freedom to start our own lives in the newly introduced (to us, anyway) civlization.

Modern man was born.



Chapter 6: In the Days Before the Deluge



This chapter ties in the newly-introduced concepts with the afore-mentioned topics of immortality, and even answers some stranger parts of the Bible. An example is the creational story. The Hebrew God, Yahweh said 'Behold, the Adam has become as one of **us**...'. Us? As Sitchin asks, who are God's apparent colleagues? The answer is that the ancient Jews were trying to mesh all the annunaki into one God, thus introducing the first monotheism. You'll notice upon reading Sitchin's books that many of Sumeria's epics are repeated in the Bible with monotheistic bias. The Jews even attempted to translate the arguments between the annunaki themselves into monotheistic terms, with trouble.. Ie: God punishes Adam and Eve for eating of the symbolical 'Tree of Knowledge' by allowing them to reproduce and create more of their kind by themselves. Does this sound like a real punishment? Hardly.

The thirst for immortality is also explained here. Lifeforms on Nibiru are based on a very long year. One year on Nibiru is equal to 3600 years on Earth. Through ways Earth's science is yet to provide answers for, things on Nibiru generally age very slowly. The Sumerians reported that life on Earth took a heavy toll on the Annunaki, as they aged astronomically compared to life on their own planet, and had to eat and drink things from Nibiru itself to help slow this ageing.

The idea of immortality came from this: When Earth-men ate of the food and drinks that were created from things on Nibiru, they lived extraordinarily long lives, and appeared 'immortal' to 'mortal' men. Take for example the heroes of old that are mentioned in the Bible, such as Methusaleh, who lived 969 years according to the Bible. Here are other long-lived characters from the Bible:

Adam - Lived 930 years.
Seth - 912
Enosh - 905
Cainan - 910
Mahalal-el -895
Jared - 962
Enoch - 365*

*Enoch did not die, but was taken to Heaven by the Lord. Take this as meaning Enoch was taken to Nibiru to dwell with the annunaki, as the annunaki sometimes sent their favorite humans back to their homeworld to dwell for the rest of their prolonged lives.

This chapter then goes on to explain the Deluge itself. The shortened story is this:

As the annunaki got more comfortable living with the humans, they started having sex with humans, and the humans were having sex among their more primitive selves. The result was many different kinds of humans, as the humans that were parented by the annunaki were more evolved and intelligent, and the ones parented by primitive humans were devolved, and less intelligent.

When Enlil learned of his crew doing such things with the humans, he became disgusted. Being less-forgiving/understanding than the other annunaki, he decided that the humans should die, as they were a failed attempt at a worker-race. He ordered that no food be delivered to the humans, and the biblical famine started. For an undetermined amount of years (seven may very well be symbolical, as the Earth was the seventh planet from the outside counting in), men and women starved. Parents ate their offspring, offspring ate their parents. There were mass deaths from starvation. Illnesses were rampant. The annunaki could barely watch this, and were hurt to know that such terrible things were going on, but they couldn't openly do anything about it, as their leader had spoken. Enki managed to feed some of his followers and keep it away from the attention of Enlil.

Then, the annunaki perceived an upcoming disaster. The Earth was wrapping up its last known ice age, and the ice caps were still covered in layers of thick ice. Nibiru was scheduled to come around to its perihelion soon. The annunaki knew that when Nibiru approached, it would pull the delicately balanced ice-caps off of the frozen poles and into the ocean, creating huge tsunamis up and down the Earth. Enlil gave orders as to when the annunaki should lift off of Earth to avoid the disaster. He also gave orders *not* to tell the humans about the upcoming disaster, or to aid them.

Enlil was not about to let this race of people, that was spawned partially from his own genes, to be completely wiped out after all the pain and suffering the had endured. Enlil was supposed to be leader anyway, he wrote in autobiographical texts. He, not Enlil, was firstborn. Enlil, though, was born of their father Anu's official consort, so therefore Enlil was heir to the throne and more royal. Enki went to one of his most loyal and still genetically-pure followers, the Sumerian Utnapishtim/Babylonian Ziusudra, the biblical Noah, and told him of the upcoming disaster through a curtain of reeds. Enki pretended to be talking to himself behind the curtains, therefore not breaking the oath he had to take to not tell the humans of the upcoming disaster (there was a big scene earlier in the epic where Enki was defying both Enlil and his father Anu in an official meeting. Enki laughed at them openly and refused to take the oath, but was later forced to do so.)

Utnapishtim, or Noah, for simplicity's sake, was told to build a submersible ship big enough to hold his immediate family, some servants, food and supplies to last them for several weeks, and livestock. Noah did so, and no one suspected a thing, because he told everyone that he was simply going to Egypt to try to escape death from the famine. This was understandable to the locals, and some friends from his community aided him in the building of the ship. Enki later instructed Noah to get ready, and close the doors of his ship when he heard the last rocketships launch from the Earth.

The annunaki launched off into orbit and watch the disaster from space. Some of them wept, and they all felt horrible for what was happening below to the humans. Even Enlil had some second thoughts about what he had done.

A few weeks passed, and the water had drained back off into rivers and seas for the most part. Noah unloaded and started a fire. He roasted meat as a sacrifice to the annunaki. When the annunaki saw this, they all wept with joy, with the exception of Enlil. Enlil, at first, was terribly furious and immediately suspected Enki of this. After calming down a bit, and seeing his crewmen, he gave in and decided to let the human race live, since there were no longer any primitive men to mingle with and the annunaki felt so bad about the supposed human extinction before their discovery of Noah. This also explains, by the way, why the oldest farms that have been discovered were on mountaintops, where the ground is so unfertile, rather than the fertile valleys near rivers.

The annunaki set up their spaceports again, which would later be nuked before they left permanently, and they showed the humans how to set up kingdoms, run farms, and run civilization in general.



Chapter 7: Gilgamesh: The King Who Refused to Die



This chapter explains the Epic of Gilgamesh, in light of all that was previously explained, to help people better understand the parts that were previously thought to be nonsense.

Summarized, the Epic of Gilgamesh goes as follows:

There was a once a human king of a mesopotomian region named Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh was two-thirds divine, or two-thirds annunaki, so he wondered at his lifespan, and whether he would be allowed to eat the fruit of life, or drink the waters of life. Would he die young like normal humans, or would he be granted immortality from the annunaki? He was, after all, divine by a majority, so he should be able to live a long life.

Becoming obsessed with death, he would barge in on newly married couples and have intercourse with the wife before her husband had the chance in order to keep him sexually active and hopefully offer a longer lifespan. His community was growing tired of this as well as all his constant wanderings on the streets and his obsessive behaviors. They asked the annunaki to appeal to Gilgamesh for a change.

The annunaki sent down a primitive human beast, called Enkidu (Sumerian for 'Creation (of) Enki'. Enki was a genius scientist and worked a lot with genetics. It was he who created us, and he who developed the water-feuled ships.).

While Gilgamesh was wandering the streets one night, Enkidu appeared and started physically attacking Gilgamesh. They engaged in a fight, and Enkidu won. After the brawl, Gilgamesh understood why Enkidu was sent to him, and Enkidu quickly became Gilgamesh's best friend.

Soon after this incident, Gilgamesh set out with Enkidu to a spaceport that was operated by the annunaki Shamash, who was in charge of spaceflight on Earth. Gilgamesh had spoken with Shamash before, who was indecisive on Gilgamesh's fate, and now Gilgamesh hoped to be granted a rocket so he could be taken to Nibiru itself where he could live among the annunaki for years and years. Before he had set out, Gilgamesh was warned by all sorts of people, from his mother to Enkidu, about the dangers of his travel. The spaceport was guarded by a fierce beast (apparently mechanical by its appearance on clay texts) called 'Huwawa' who killed intruders on sight. The Huwawa was there to keep mortal men off of the spaceport premises.

Upon arriving near the spaceport, Gilgamesh and Enkidu set up beds and rested for the night while constantly being awoken by the fiery rockets that were constantly coming in and launching off. At daybreak, despite Enkidu's pleas to turn back and accept his fate, Gilgamesh went into the thick forest surrounding the spaceport to try to sneak in, while constantly on the lookout for Huwawa. Just as they found a passage, or break in the wall/fence surrounding the spaceport, Huwawa closed in on the pair. Huwawa shot beams of fire from its 'eyes' and as Gilgamesh and Enkidu dodged them, they cut down trees and set the forest afire. Gilgamesh and Enkidu were soon saved from Huwawa, luckily, as a few annunaki flew by overhead to see what was going on, and promptly shut off the Huwawa. Gilgamesh fled in fear of being caught and punished.

Gilgamesh soon came across a body of water, and told Enkidu that there they would stop and rest and bathe. While bathing, the goddess Ishtar saw Gilgamesh and was enamoured by his body. She approached him with hopes of making love to him, but Gilgamesh refused her, and to, as Sitchin put it, add insult to injury, Gilgamesh started verbally listing all the people that she had slept with just to leave with a broken heart later. Ishtar was deeply offended, and left to find the head annunaki (Enlil?). She told them what Gilgamesh had said to her, and asked the annunaki to give permission for Gilgamesh to be killed. The head annunaki refused to kill Gilgamesh, but sent him and Enkidu to work in the gold mines in Africa for the rest of his life.

Upon hearing this, Gilgamesh quickly devised a plan to try one last time for immortality before working in the mines. He readied a ship of unmarried sailors and set off to northern Egypt in the hopes of seeking a mysterious annunaki character and appealing for immortality. Upon hearing Gilgamesh's plans, the annunaki prepared a mechanical beast similar to Huwawa to stop him. As Gilgamesh finally approached the northern coast of Africa, the beast shot a whole in the boat and it sunk. Of the few survivors were Gilgamesh and Enki, who sneaked upon the shore and set up camp.

Enkidu soon fell seriously ill, and Gilgamesh pleaded with him to hold on to his life: "Enkidu, my little weak friend, to the land I will bring thee." But Enkidu soon died. Gilgamesh stayed with him and mourned over him for a week, until a 'worm fell out of his nose.'

Gilgamesh then continued his journey to appeal once more for immortality. He fought lions, crossed large lakes, and eventually came to the temple he sought.

Upon seeing Gilgamesh, the guards at the temple shot beams of light at Gilgamesh, but Gilgamesh was only paralyzed for mere moments, suggesting that he was of divine descent, as the beams of light would put out a mortal for weeks, possibly. The guards allowed Enki to enter the 'tunnel', where he went through mysterious chambers that lasted double-hours, and finally came upon a simulated 'Garden of Eden', with trees and water that the likes of which were found only on Nibiru.

Gilgamesh then requested his immortality, just as his forefathers had been granted. One of his forefathers soon appeared and told Gilgamesh the tale of the great flood (this is where many confuse the Tale of the Great Flood with the Epic of Gilgamesh. They should be referred to as separate epics.) Gilgamesh was told that the only reason Noah had been granted long life was because the annunaki had met and decided for it. Upon realizing that only the annunaki could dispense 'immortality', Gilgamesh fainted. After waking, Gilgamesh exited the tunnel chamber, while complaining of his journey coming to naught. So ends the Epic of Gilgamesh.



Chapter 8: Riders of the Clouds


This is a short chapter that masses evidence that what the Sumerians described in their tales were indeed spacecraft. Much visual and textual evidence is given.



Chapter 9: The Landing Place



This chapter explains the importance of Jerusalem and that area of the world in general. It is explained that this was originally a spaceport from times before the deluge. After the deluge, it had been destroyed, and huge temples to Nibiru and the annunaki were built on top of where it once stood. Over the ages, different cultures added different things to the site, for different purposes. The last to add on were the Muslims, who had a very difficult time following up what the Romans had did as they converted it into a temple to Jupiter. The Muslims must have eventually given up, for the giant Roman temple to Jupiter is by far the biggest structure on Earth from its time period, and possibly of all time. Not all of it has yet been explored, and it is believed that more stone was used in it than was used in the Great Pyramids of Egypt. We don't even know *how* the Romans made the temple, to this day. 1200-ton slabs of solid rock were lifted some 60 feet into the air and rested on upright slabs of rock almost as big. To this day, not even the biggest of cranes can lift such a heavy object to such a distance from the ground, let alone on a mountainside, as this temple is.

It is explained that the area was the original annunaki spaceport, but lost its meaning over the years, thus being a temple to Yahweh to the Jews, a temple to Jupiter to the Romans, a temple to Allah to the Muslims, and possibly many things to many cultures in between those, as the Romans tore down much of what was already there and added on.

Sitchin explains that if we were to explore the temple in full, we would find long underground chambers that were used by the annunaki in their original spaceport. This may be why they haven't been fully explored to this day: fear of having to explain such a thing. Ie: We accept ideas of the Pyramids today that make no sense at all, but this is described later.



Chapter 10: Tilmun: The Land of the Rocketships



This chapter goes into detail about the spaceport that was later built/rebuilt in the Sinai after the deluge, which became the main spaceport for the annunaki. Evidence is provided that this area was also a large trading center, as some fruits that were described as being from a certain land that is in scientific dispute could have only come from this Sinai region, as this is the only close-by region for such fruits to be easily shipped to Egypt or Sumeria.

This chapter also goes into detail about how the annunaki communicated with their homeworld while on Earth. Greek and Egyptian texts describe masses of rare stones such as emerald and gold that were used to transmit 'words' between the annunaki and nibiru. Gold is an excellent conductor of electricity, while emerald is a more modern technological advance of our own time as it is used for laser communications.



Chapter 11: The Elusive Mount



In this chapter is displayed an old debate as to what mountain Moses recorded the commandments at. Personally, I found this chapter boring, as I would take Sitchin's word for it if he just came out and said which mountain it was in his opinion, but he devotes a whole chapter to his and others' ideas on the debate. Sitchin acts as a great reported of each idea and the reasoning behind it, but unless you really want the evidence and facts for every bit of information he throws at you, or if you're interested in this kind of theory, this chapter may seem a little dry.

This chapter's importance comes into play on one of the last pages of the book, when a map is displayed, linking many ancient sites together in one big grid.



Chapter 12: The Pyramids of Gods and Men



This is the first of three amazing chapters shedding much light on the Great Pyramids of Ancient Egypt. The chapter offers many lesser-known bits and pieces of evidence about the Pyramids, as well as the layout of the cities in Ancient Sumeria, where all of the cities fit nicely on the perimeters of small portions of circles with the angle linking the circle sections together.

The three Great Pyramids of Ancient Egypt stand alone as the survivors of long-forgotten years, and still mystify us. The scientific community tells us that these Pyramids were built during a Golden Age of Ancient Egypt, and that afterwards, the pyramids went back to being made amateurishly and no knowledge was retained. They also tell us that the Pyramids were built as tombs. If they were built as tombs, why weren't any of the kings that supposively ordered the pyramids built buried there? In fact, why wasn't anyone buried there? The kings that supposively ordered the pyramids built were buried miles away from their huge temples, among common people. They only people to ever be lain to rest in Great Pyramid were as such because of a **burial intrusion**, where people *intrude* into the pyramid many years later and implant the dead king into a chamber in the pyramid.

The three Great Pyramids are also the only ones void of Egyptian hieroglyphics, or any writing at all. Well, there is the sloppy, grammatically incorrect *painting* (not inscriptions!) of hieroglyphs that says something about Khufu, but it is a miracle to me that this is still accepted today, because even on the smaller pyramids, the hieroglyphics were always perfect and in extremely tidy handwriting, as only the most skilled people were employing to install the hieroglyphics. On the Great Pyramids, however, the writing is very sloppy, grammatically incorrect, and is only on the three sides of the room that weren't damaged during the busting-in through the wall. Was it just coincidence that the archaeologists came in through the only wall that didn't have a sloppy writing? Some archaeologists even noted how fresh the marks looked, as if they had been pained onto the pyramids recently!

It is also shown in this chapter how the step pyramids were originally constructed to look like the Great Pyramids, but the mud coatings that went over the steps was eroded away over the years, leaving the impression of a different style of pyramid. The Great Pyramids were the only ones to survive with casings intact, and it is believed that once the casings are totally eroded, the Great Pyramids themselves will just be humungous step pyramids. But why were the other pyramids, supposively both before and after the great ones, built so poorly? Because the Egyptians didn't build those pyramids. And they weren't tombs. And the hieroglyphics in them are fake.

One of the main chambers in the Great Pyramids, the 'King's Chamber', had to be busted into from the side, because it had never been entered since the pyramid's creation, and there were huge slabs of granite blocking the main way. When it was entered, there was a thick, even layer of undisturbed dust covering everything in the room, but the room was completely empty. There was a stone coffer in the middle of the chamber, which the scientific community will tell you was to hold a mummy. But why didn't it? It was noted during the exploration of the pyramid that if someone was talking on a completely opposite side of the pyramid, they could be clearly heard all over the inside of the pyramid. It was noted that the stone coffer vibrated and rung like a large musical intrument when struck, and that it's vibrations were clearly audible. This was a tomb for a king that was never used? It seems like the pyramid would be better used for something else: communications.

There are many such points brought against commonly-held beliefs on the pyramids, all of which are worth taking a look at. This is what this book is best for: exposing the truth about the Great Pyramids.



Chapter 13: Forging the Pharaoh's Name



This is the chapter that makes you think for yourself when it comes to scientific discoveries.

"Forgery as a means to fame and fortune is not uncommon in commerce and the arts, in science and antiquities. When exposed, it may cause loss and shame. When sustained, it may change the records of history. This, we believe, has happened to the Great Pyramid and it's presumed builder, the Pharaoh named Khufu."

So begins the chapter. We are shown exactly what kind of people have been making 'discoveries' this last century. Sitchin goes back to the first 'scientific' ventures into the Pyramids, and shows us how the hieroglyphics inside the three Great Pyramids were forged by the archaeologists themselves, but were accepted nonetheless as scientific fact.

It is said by the scientific community that Zoser was the Pharaoh to start the Pyramid Age by building the first step pyramid, and that it was a goal of pharaohs to eventually achieve a true pyramid. This raises many questions. Why was it so important to have a true pyramid instead of step pyramids? And if pyramids were in constant progression, why are the pyramids that were supposively built *after* the great ones so inferior?

It was recently discovered that the step pyramids had a mud casing that made them appear to have a true pyramidical shape. It was also discovered that these pyramids were primitively whitewashed to appear to have a limestone casing. Why would a pyramid need to have this appearance? Was Zoser trying to emulate something older that was already there? *Who* was Zoser trying to emulate with his whitewashed mud?

There were attempts by the Pharaoh Sneferu at making pyramids with sides at 52° angles, like those of the Great Pyramids, at the locations of Maidum and Sakkara, but these attempts failed. It is said that he then had to resort to pyramids with 46° sides, but that his son created one of the Great Pyramids at 52° with no problem at all. Was there a major breakthrough in that short span of time? Highly doubtful. And if going from a small, 46° pyramid to an enormous 52° pyramid is that easily done, why didn't Khufu's son Radedef build an even greater pyramid, or at least try to equal his father? This was only after the first Great Pyramid, supposively, so the whole site was still free to use, too. And his father's architects and advisors were still around at this point in time, but Radedef's pyramid is a small, crumbling one, made of clay bricks and whitewashed to resemble the limestone his father supposively had built. And did his father's architects, that supposively designed these huge pyramids to withstand so much time, see this as reasonable as well?

In just three consecutive generations of father to son, we already have an amazing amount of inconsistant information. This order of events simply doesn't make any sense. And why didn't Khufu leave any hieroglyphics?

As James Bonwick asked in 'Pyramid Facts and Fancies': "Who can persuade himself that the Egyptians would have left such superb monuments without at least hieroglyphical inscriptions - they who were profuse of hieroglyphics upon all the edifices of any consideration?"

There is also the inconsistant information as far as the pyramids built after the ones at Giza. None of the lesser pyramids in Egypt have ascending passages like the ones at Giza, but only descending passages. It's as Sitchin himself asks us: "Was the reason that no other pyramid but the Great Pyramid possessed an Ascending Passage, that its unique Ascending Passage was so successfully blocked and hidden until A.D. 820 - so that all who emulated this pyramid knew of a Descending Passage only?"

All this supports the idea that the Great Pyramids, the three at Giza, were already there when Zoser built his first. It explains why the scientific community's ideas make no sense: they are wrong.

The annunaki used the two biggest pyramids as guiding beacons. The third Great Pyramid, with its structure being experimental compared to the other two, was built as just that: an experiment. Then two main ones were then built to guide the annunaki. The reports of Pharaohs building these pyramids by the greek Herodotus were assumed because of the statues nearby the pyramid. These were implemented near the pyramids so that the Pharaohs could associate themselves with the pyramids, with their greatness. But the annunaki would have no need to worship themselves, and therefore not add any such structures to the pyramids, explaining why there were no inscriptions, statues, or anything at all to go off of, really, until the later Egyptians came along and added things for themselves.

Herodotus also reported that Khufu enslaved his people for 30 years until the pyramid's completion. It is known today that Khufu reigned for only 23 years. And if Khufu had such power to build such huge monuments for himself, why is it that he left only a pyramid and nothing else as worthy for his name?

If it wasn't for the small statues around beside the great pyramid, we would know Khufu as an inferior builder, but he had a good idea. While the Pharaohs before and after him built small clay pyramids to emulate the gigantic three, he simply had statues made to adorn the biggest one at Giza. That way he wouldn't need to build anything, yet he would have the biggest monument associated with him.

Khufu's son, Radedef, didn't like his father's idea of associating himself with something the great annunaki had made for their own purposes. Instead, he went with the traditional method of creating his own pyramid, albeit inferior.

Radedef's son, Chefra, after seeing what Radedef did and comparing it with Khufu, decided that he, too, would pick a readily-available pyramid and associate himself with it. Chefra took the second-largest pyramid and adorned it with statues, etc.

Menkara, Chefra's successor, then took the last pyramid, and associated himself with it. So ended the association of pharaohs with the Pyramids of Giza. All the pharaohs afterwards would be forced to build there own clay pyramids.

The only piece of textual evidence that actually associates Khufu with the Great Pyramid actually confirms that it existed before he took reign. The text goes as follows:

"Live Horus Mezdau, (To) King (of) Upper and Lower Egypt, Khufu is given Life! He founded the House of Isis, Mistress of the Pyramid, beside the House of the Sphinx."

This evidence, which was created by the Egyptians themselves and put onto an ancient tablet, confirms that both the Great Pyramid *and* the Sphinx existed when Khufu came to power! The Sphinx was associated with the later Chefra, but Khufu was a few generations before Chefra, and the Sphinx was already mentioned in this text, as well as the pyramid that Khufu was supposively yet-to-make! This is the only evidence other than statues that relates Khufu to the Great Pyramid, and as you have just read, it states otherwise when the scientific community says that Khufu built that pyramid.

What does the scientific community say about this tablet? It was condemned as a forgery because a few years earlier, the supposed creators of the pyramids had already been established. As Sitchin said in the book: "This 'Inventory Stela', as it came to be called, bears all the marks of authenticity. Yet the scholars at the time of its discovery (and many ever since) have been unable to reconcile themselves to its unavoidable conclusions... they proclaimed the Inventory Stela a forgery..."

Here follows the story of the punk-assed archaeologist who forged Khufu's name on the Great Pyramid, as is reported in Sitchin's book:

"The story begins with the arrival in Egypt on December 29, 1835 of Colonel Richard Howard Vyse, a 'black sheep' of an aristocratic English family. At that time, other officers of Her Majesty's Army had become prominent in the ranks of 'antiquarians' (as archaeologists were then called), reading papers before distinguished societies and receiving due public accolade. Whether or not Vyse had gone to Egypt with such notions in mind, the fact is that visiting the pyramids of Giza, he was at once caught by the fever of daily discoveries by scholars and laymen alike. He was especially thrilled by the tales and theories of one Giovanni Battista Caviglia, who had been searching for a hidden chamber inside the Great Pyramid.

"Within days, Vyse offered to provide the funds of Caviglia's search, if he were accepted as a co-discoverer. Caviglia rejected the offer outright; and the offended Vyse sailed off to Beirut at the end of February 1836, to visit Syria and Asia Minor.

"But the long trip did not cure the craving that was aroused within him. Instead of returning to England, he showed up back in Egypt in October 1836. On the earlier visit, he had befriended a crafty go-between by the name of J.R. Hill, then a copper mill superintendant. Now he was introduced to a "Mr. Sloane," who whispered that there were ways to get a Firman - a concession degree - from the Egyptian government to sole excavation rights at Giza. Thus guided, Vyse went to the British Consul, Col. Campbell, for the neccessary documentation. To his great shock, the Firman named Campbell and Sloane as co-permitees, and designated Caviglia as the works' supervisor. On November 2, 1836, the disappointed Vyse paid over to Caviglia "my first subscription of 200 dollars" and left in disgust on a sightseeing trip to Upper Egypt.

"As chronicled by Vyse in his Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837, he returned to Giza on January 24, 1837, "extremely anxious to see what progress had been made." But instead of searching for the hidden chamber, Caviglia and his workmen were busy digging up mummies from tombs around the pyramids. Vyse's fury subsided only when Caviglia asserted that he had something important to show him: writing by the pyramids' builders!

"The excavations at the tombs showed that the ancient masons sometimes marked the pre-cut stones with red paint. Such markings, Caviglia said, he found at the base of the Second Pyramid. But when examined with Vyse, the "red paint" turned out to be natural discolorations in the stone.

"What about the Great Pyramids? Caviglia, working there to discover where the "air channels" were leading from the "King's Chamber," was more than ever convinced that there were secret chambers higher up. One such compartment, reachable via a crawlway, was discovered by Nathaniel Davison in 1765 (Fig. 143). Vyse demanded that work be concentrated there; he was dismayed to find out that Caviglia and Campbell were more interested in finding mummies, which every museum then desired. Caviglia had even gone so far as to name a large tomb he had found "Campbell's Tomb."

"Determined to run his own show, Vyse moved from CAiro to the site of the pyramids. "I naturally wished to make some discoveries before I returned to England," he admitted in his journal on January 27, 1837. At great expense to his family, he was now gone for well over a year.

"In the following weeks, the rift with Caviglia widened as Vyse hurled at him various accusations. On February 11, the two had a violent argument. On the twelfth, Caviglia made major discoveries in Campbell's Tomb. On the thirteenth, Vyse summarily discharged Caviglia and orderred him away from the site. Caviglia returned only once, on the fifteenth, to pick up his belongings; for years thereafter, he made "dishonorable accusations" against Vyse, whose nature Vyse's chronicles do not care to detail.

"Was the row a genuine disagreement, or did Vyse artificially bring matters to a head in order to get Caviglia off the site?

"As it turns out, Vyse secretly entered the Great Pyramid on the night of February 12, accompanied by one John Perring - an engineer with the Egyptian Public Works Department and a dabbler in Egyptology - whom Vyse met through the resourceful Mr. Hill. The two examined an intriguing crevice that had developed in a granite block above Davison's Chamber; when a reed was pushed in, it went through unbent; there was obviously some space beyond.

"What schemes did the two concoct during that secret night visit? We can only guess from future events. The facts are that Vyse dismissed Caviglia the next morning and put Perring on his payroll. In his journal, Vyse confided: "I am determined to carry on the excavations above the roof of (Davison's) Chamber, where I expect to find a sepulchral apartment." As Vyse threw more men and money behind his search, royalty and other dignitaries came to inspect the finds at Campbell's Tomb; there was little new that Vyse could show them inside the pyramid. In frustration, Vyse ordered his men to bore into the shoulder of the Sphinx, hoping to find its masons' markings. Unsuccessful, he refocused his attention on the Hidden Chamber.

"By mid-march, Vyse faced a new problem: other projects were luring away his workmen. He doubled their pay, if only they would work day and night: time, he realized, was running out. In desperation, Vyse threw caution to the winds, and ordered the use of explosives to blast his way through the stones that blocked his progress.

"By March 27, the workmen managed to cut a small hole through the granite slabs. Illogically, Vyse thereupon discharged the foreman, one named Paulo. On the following day, Vyse wrote: "I inserted a candle at the end of a rod through a small hole that had been made in the chamber above Davison's, and I had the mortification of finding that it was a chamber of construction like that below it." He had found the Hidden Chamber! (Fig. 144)

"Using gunpowder to enlarge the hole, Vyse entered the newly discovered chamber on March 30 - accompanied by Mr. Hill. They examind it thoroughly. It was hermetically sealed, with no opening whatsoever. Its floor consisted of the rough side of the large granite slabs that formed the ceiling of Davison's Chamber blow. "A black sediment was equally distributed all over the floor, showing each footstep." (The nature of this black powder, which was "accumulated to some depth," has never been ascertained.) "The ceiling was beautifully polished and had the fines joints." The chamber, it was clear, had never been entered before; yet it contained neither sarcophagus nor treasure. It was bare - completely empty.

"Vyse ordered the hole enlarged, and sent a message to the British Consul announcing that he had named the new compartment "Wellington's Chamber." In the evening, "Mr. Perring and Mr. Mash having arrived, we went into Wellington's Chamber and took various measurements, and in doing so we found the quarry marks." What a sudden stroke of luck!

"There were similar to the red-painted quarry marks found in tombs outside the pyramid. Somehow, Vyse and Hill missed them entirely when they thoroughly inspected the chamber by themselves. But joined by Mr. Perring and Mr. Mash - a civil engineer who was present at Perring's invitation - there were four witnesses to the unique discovery.

"The fact that Wellington's Chamber was almost identical to Davison's led Vyse to suspect that there was yet anoter chamber above it. For no given reason Vyse dismissed on April 4 the remaining foremen, one named Giachino. On April 14, the British Consul and the Austrian Consul General visited the site. They requested that copies be made of the masons' markings. Vyse put Perring and Mash to work - but instructed them to copy first the earlier-discovered markings in Campbell's Tomb; the unique ones inside the Great Pyramid could somehow wait.

"With liberal use of gunpowder, the compartment above Wellington's (Vyse named it after Lord Nelson) was broken into on April 25. It was as the others, its floor also covered with mysterious black dust. Vyse reported that he found "several quarry marks inscribed red upon the blocks, particularly on the west side." All along, Mr. Hill was going in and out of the newly found chambers, ostensibly to inscribe in them (how?) the names of Wellington and Nelson. On the twenty-seventh Mr. Hill - not Perring or Mash - copied the quarry marks. Vyse reproduced the ones from Nelson's Chamber (though not the ones from Wellington's) in his book (Fig. 145a)."

Anything sound fishy so far? These are the guys that discovered the pyramids that we hear about on the Discovery Channel, read about in books, etc. etc. Sitchin, of course, goes on about Vyse and Hill:

"On May 7, the way was blasted through into one more chamber above Nelson's, which Vyse temporarily named after the Lady Arbuthnot. The journal entry makes no mention of any quarry marks, although they were later on found there in profusion. What was striking about the new markings was that they included cartouches - which could only mean royal names (Fig. 145b) - in profusion. Has Vyse come upon the actual written name of the Pharaoh who had built the pyramid?

"On May 18, a Dr. Walni "applied for copies of the characters found in the Great Pyramid, in order to send them to Mr. Rosellini," an Egyptologist who had specialized in the decipherment of royal names. Vyse turned the request down outrighly.

"The next day, in the company of Lord Arbuthnot, a Mr. Brethel and a Mr. Raven, Vyse entered Lady Arbuthnot's Chamber and the four "compared Mr. Hill's drawings with the quarry marks in the Great Pyramid; and we afterward signed an attestation to their accuracy." Soon thereafter, the final vaulted chamber was broken into, and more markings - including a royal cartouche - were found. Vyse then proceeded to Cairo and submitted the authenticated copies of the writings on the stones to the British Embassy, for the official forwarding to London.

"His work was done: he found hitherto unknown chambers, and he proved the identity of the builder of the Great Pyramid; for within the cartouches was written the royal name Kh - u - f - u.

"To this discovery, every textbook has been attesting to this very day."

Sitchin goes on to show that Vyse copied the name Khufu from a book on the Egyptian language, and later, when copying down longer sentences, Vyse even copies down a mistake that was made in the book he was using. So then not only was the book incorrect, but so is the writing inside the Great Pyramid itself! Vyse and Hill made many other errors, which are described in the book. The section from the chapter I provided above should been sufficient to at least open some eyes on the subject matter.



Chapter 14: The Gaze of the Sphinx



Concluding The Stairway to Heaven, Sitchin tells us how the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx tie into the ancient world, and how they were used by the annunaki, as well as how other ancient sites tie in as well.

First there are the pyramids. The two bigger pyramids were used as guides to the landing site in the Sinai, and, further on, to a landing site in Sumeria. The third pyramid was an experiment. Sitchin notes the Pyramids' qualities when viewed from the ground: one can tell their direction (Pyramids' relative locations), as well as the time of day (shadows of the Pyramids), just by viewing the pyramids from a reasonable distance. Sitchin says the same qualities apply when viewed from above. Thus, there is the evidence that the Pyramids were used at guides. I have also discussed how the stone coffers in the Pyramids made any reasonable sound within the Pyramids clearly audible throughout the whole Pyramid, suggesting communication purposes. And then there's the fact that the two biggest Pyramids point directly to a major Ancient Sumerian city.

Next we have the Sphinx. Though Sitchin can offer no substantial reasoning behind the Sphinx's human head and lion body, he does note that it rests, and gazes, directly on the 30th parallel (N), facing East. How is this significant? Well, all of these ancient sites are more or less on the 30th parallel as well (The sites are not off by even a whole degree, but mere minutes at the most. These minute distances could even be argued to have been caused by continental shift.), east of the Sphinx: Giza/Heliopolis, Egypt (Enki's designated territory); Eridu, Sumer (Enlil's designated territory); Persepolis, of later Persia (Sitchin shows that the Persians, too, built massive temples to the 'Celestial Disk', or Nibiru, and knew of the Annunaki, and possibly the Sphinx's gaze); Harappa, Indus Valley Civilization (which was the designated territory of Ninhursag, the medic sister of Enki and Enlil. Ancient India referred to as 'Land Faraway' by Sumerians. Trade has been proven between Indus and Sumer and possibly even Egypt.); and finally the mysterious city of Lhasa, Tibet, east of Indus and sacred city to Buddhists, of which origins are unknown but most certainly date back into ancient times.

And finally, Sitchin shows us charts of many ancient cities/historical sites, including Giza/Heliopolis, Jerusalem, Umm Shumar, the Sinai Spaceport, Delphi (Greece, famous for 'oracles', explained and related to the annunaki and Egypt in chapter 10), Baalbek (Biblical ancient site north of Jerusalem), and a few others, and fits them all, amazingly into organized grids of circle segments and line segments between cities.

Sitchin then tells us to imagine an annunaki, sitting comfortably aboard one of their ships while orbitting Earth, or possibly on Nibiru, planning out the expedition, with a map of Earth. Sitchin tells us to imagine the annunaki planning out their cities, placing them on grids to organize them. Imagine the them using rulers and stencils.. Laying out the grid that they would use for their main colonies and spaceports. Evidence for such a thing happening is all too obvious. With the consistancy of all these ancient sites fitting so snugly into the grid Sitchin shows us, how could it all be coincidence?

So ends my lengthy summary of Zecharia Sitchin's The Stairway to Heaven. Hopefully I've opened yet a few more eyes as to human origins and solved a few more mysteries to a few more people. Notice this is the second book in the series. I loaned the first book out to a friend to read, so I didn't have it handy to summarize it. If I'm up for it, I'll get it to it later []