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ture and will be detected between Mars and
Jupiter. When that happens, the Anunnaki
will make their presence known by appearing
on Earth.
Si t c h i n’s ideas are based on his reading of
ancient Sumerian documents. In his view
they confirm that the Anunnaki—a Su m e rian
term—created humans in their image,
via genetic engineering with the DNA of nat
i ve anthropoids, after their arrival some
f o u r - h u n d red thousand five - h u n d red ye a r s
a g o. These original earthlings we re created so
that they could work as slaves in the Anunn
a k i’s terrestrial gold mines; the extraterre strials
needed the gold to pre s e rve the atmosp
h e re of their home world. Many thousands
of years later, they returned to give the
Sumerians and Egyptians their re s p e c t i ve
civilizations and actually lived among these
people for a thousand years. One visitor
f rom Ni b i ru, Enki, re p o rtedly saved the
human race. When a hostile alien, En l i l ,
tried to keep the Anunnaki from warning
humans that the passing near Earth of
Ni b i ru would cause an immense tidal wave ,
which would sweep over Earth and destroy
its inhabitants, Enki resisted. He told No a h ,
of biblical fame, about the coming deluge,
and Noah set to work on his ark, thus ensuring
the surv i val of earthly life.
The Anunnaki supposedly live a very long
time because one year to them is the number
of earthly years it takes their planet to go
around the sun. Their technology is so advanced
that they developed space flight half a
million years ago. They are also able to revive
the dead.
One critic has written, “Clearly, Sitchin is a
smart man. He weaves a complicated tale
from the bits and pieces of evidence that survive
from ancient Sumeria to the present day.
Just as clearly, Sitchin is capable of academic
transgressions (fracturing quotes, ignoring
dissenting facts) . . . and flights of intellectual
fancy. . . . Worst of all, he is almost utterly innocent
of astronomy and other assorted fields
of modern science” (Hafernik, 1996).
See Also: Greater Nibiruan Council
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Further Reading
Hafernik, Rob, 1996. “Sitchin’s Twelfth Planet.”
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Schultz, Dave. “The Earth Chronicles: Time Chart.”
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Sitchin, Zecharia, 1976. The Twelfth Planet. New
York: Stein and Day.
———, 1980. The Stairway to Heaven. New York:
St. Martin’s Press.
———, 1985. The Wars of Gods and Men. New
York: Avon Books.
Apol, Mr.
In the mid to late 1960s, while re s e a rc h i n g
material for a series of books, occult journalist
John A. Keel allegedly re c e i ved a series
of phone calls from “Mr. Apol,” a badly
confused, interdimensional entity. Apol did
not know where he was in time, often confusing
past and future, and trave l i n g
t h rough both invo l u n t a r i l y. Ac c o rding to
Keel, “he and all his fellow entities . . .
[ p l a yed] out their little games because they
we re programmed to do so” (Keel, 1975).
In the fashion of psychic va m p i res, they
l i ved off the energies of contactees and
other experients of the paranormal. Keel bel
i e ved Apol to be an ultraterrestrial as opposed
to an extraterrestrial, because in
Ke e l’s view such entities come from other
realities rather than other planets.
Though Keel did not meet Apol himself, a
Long Island woman saw him pull up to her
house in a black Cadillac, a vehicle favored by
the enigmatic men in black, earthly agents for
unearthly intelligences. Keel reported that the
woman thought Apol looked “Hawaiian.”
When he introduced himself, he shook her
hand. His own hand was “as cold as ice.”
Keel dedicated his book Our Haunted Pl a n e t
(1971) to “Mr. Apol, where ver you are . ”
See Also: Contactees; Keel, John Alva; Time travelers;
Ultraterrestrials
Further Reading
Keel, John A., 1975. The Mothman Prophecies. New
York: Saturday Review Press/E. P. Dutton and
Company.