Customer Reviews:
 Stretching reality August 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
All I could muster to make any of this book fit my reality. A good job of historical ancient history.
 Stargate Fiction at its Best! July 26, 2008
1 out of 12 found this review helpful
Zecharia has a vivid imagination, and a genius for manipulating history fragments - a science fiction Jim Jones. What will be next? I for one, refuse to accept that I was genetically engineered from female apes by aliens during ancient times. Ruled by aliens gods who governed the human race with a lust for power and by the navigation of the stars (sounds like Ronald Reagan).
Personally, I rather remained an ape then to be ruled by aliens who lived on a planet which is warmed by radioactive decay.
Christians, we have another false prophet .... Sitchin. Someone sould tap Sitchin on the shoulder and tell him "Christianity is about a spiritual realm; not alien and a rogue planet."
 This may be the most important book of our time July 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having read several of Sitchin's books before I read this one, I am amazed and so grateful that he has put all the elements of his work together into this one beautiful summary. Since the whole is greater than the parts, the book just brings our comprehension up to a new level. To my way of thinking, one cannot understand modern Middle Eastern politics without reading this book. In my own book, I praise Sitchin for his wonderful contributions to our knowledge of early world history.Seraphim Blueprint: The Power of Angel Healing
Wonderful July 11, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Don't let the bad publicity against Mr. Sitchin influence your mind.
Many jealous people and especially failed writers hate him.
We all understand that.
There is a person in America who asked the authorities to put him in jail.
Crazy!
Only in America people massacre others with dirty words,
personality assassination and personal hatred. What they do?
They are incapable of writing successful books
so they began to throw dirt from their mouth
and snake-style criticism.
Mr. Sitchin is a remarkable writer.
Respected all over the world.
I collect all his books.
S. Mahdi, Cairo, Egypt.
Mesmerized and Feeling Good Can Still Be Phony July 10, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Some readers wonder why they thoroughly believe everything Sitchin lulls them to believe is real, while they also wonder why there is no index, bibliography or source references in his works. Why? Because these books are NOT FACT! They are cleverly wrought fiction, that is why. Even if we are prepared to forget that just because we desperately need a mythos that we can believe in as real.
Knowledge, cultural, rites, religious, civilizational bounties of Sumeria, Ancient Persia and Mesopotamia have been almost obliterated from the annals of easily discoverable Western scholarship, so someone like Sitchin can come along and invent the background and civilizational connections for us. He uses research of Samuel Noah Kramer, for example, who really did try -- and did a pretty good job at -- translating Sumerian cuneiform (and he has references in the back of his scholarly works. One thing that was discovered in the real Sumerian translations is that the Book Of Solomon from the Old Testament is a steal of the Songs of Inanna to her shepherd lover Dumuzi (aka Tammuz), that's right, not Hebrew, but Mesopotamian. It is time we discovered some true love again a little East of Jerusalem. It certainly needs to be remembered.
Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, where are you now just when we need you? (Yes, she's Greek, sadly I don't know the Sumerian equivalent. Although I would bet that the Sumerian "Me" that is retained all the way through the Epics of Gilgamesh to the later Babylonian translations, linguistically are connected to Mne-monsyne, Memory. That's right the "Me" may not be an extraterrestrial computer or device, but something mne-monic, that is, a psychotechnology of remembrance--of always re-me-mbering who one is and where one ultimately springs from -- the stars, yes, dear being, the stars. Written on Ishtar's girdle and about the crown of the head. These memories are not Western, though we desperately feed upon them.)
Our solipsistic heritage still holds us back from embracing more of the world, and, I might add, being humbled by it, instead of merely following imaginative predilections based on our cultural conditioning. These, Sitchin largely serves and gives us reasons to nod and go back to sleep. For this, while relishing books of myth, history and reconstructions of the past, I keep clanging up against Sitchin's very focused, deliberate channelling of what he wants us to see and believe. Full marks to his intent, if you like to be led. There are others that truly must begin to see outside his square. Remember, no references cited because he is a lord of INVENTION, not an archeologist of fact. Then rest easy.
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