Case of the Evil Wind
Climate
Study Corroborates Sumer�s Nuclear Fate
At the end of the third millennium B.C. the great Sumerian
civilization came to an abrupt end. Its sudden demise was bewailed in
numerous lamentation texts that have been discovered by archeologists. The texts
ascribed the calamity to an Evil Wind that came blowing from the west (from the
direction of the Mediterranean Sea) -- a deathly cloud that caused excruciating
death to all living beings, people and animals alike, that withered plants and
poisoned the waters.
In The
Wars of Gods and Men (third book of The Earth Chronicles series),
Zecharia Sitchin saw an explanation of the sudden death in a long text known to
scholars as The Erra Epos, that described a chain of events that
ultimately led to the use of �Weapons of Terror� in a conflict between
opposing clans of the Anunnaki ("Those who from Heaven to Earth
came").
Based on the descriptions of the weapons in the Erra Epos �
and in the lamentation texts, Zecharia Sitchin concluded that the Weapons of
Terror were nuclear weapons. Used to obliterate the spaceport that then
existed in the Sinai Peninsula (and some �sinning cities� such as Sodom and
Gomorrah), the nuclear cloud then was carried by the prevailing winds eastward,
causing death and desolation in the Lands Between the Rivers (Mesopotamia) --
the empire of Sumer and Akkad.
Besides claiming that nuclear weapons were
first used on Earth not in the 1940�s in Hiroshima but thousands of years
earlier in the Near East, Zecharia also pinpointed the date: 2024 B.C.!
Scientific
Corroboration Now Comes Along
That
the civilization that sprang out in Sumer circa 3800 B.C. � reaching unparalleled
heights under the last dynasty, the Third Dynasty of Ur (Abraham�s city) --
had come to an abrupt end near the end of the third millennium B.C. has been an
accepted and well documented fact. That the end was abrupt, was also certain.
What scholars deemed as still lacking was an explanation: How,� what
caused it?
Beginning
in 1999, archaeologists and scholars specializing in the Near East saw mounting
evidence that the demise of Sumer and Akkad (Sumer�s northern extension)
coincided with an abrupt climate change. An initial study by Harvey Weiss and
Timothy C. Wieskel of Harvard University was reinforced by a subsequent study (Geology,
April 2000) by H.M. Cullen et al from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
of Columbia University, the University of Utah, the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, and the Institute f�r Geowissenschaften, Germany.
Based on studies of unexplained aridity and wind-blown dust storms and
radiocarbon datings, they
reported that their readings indicated a date of 4025 years ago (plus or minus a
margin of 125 years).
A precise date corroborated!
Those
and similar climate-change studies,
relating the climate conditions to the rise and fall of civilizations in the Old
as well as the New Worlds, were summed up in a major study published in the
prestigious journal Science in its 27
April 2001 issue. Authored by Peter
B. deMenocal of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, the
study paid particular attention to sedimentary remains of Tephra; the telltale
rock fragments confirmed the date 4025 Years Before Present.
And 4025 years, before the present year A.D.
2001 -- is exactly 2024 B.C., as Zecharia Sitchin had determined in his 1985
book!
The Tephra Mystery
The
reliance of this latest study on the Tephra evidence is doubly significant.
While
the previous studies spoke of �wind blown dust,� this latest study focuses
on a material called Tephra. And
what is Tephra? It is defined in geology textbooks thus:
When
a volcano erupts, it will sometimes eject material such as rock fragments into
the atmosphere. This material is known as Tephra.
These
burnt-through pieces of blackened gravel-like rock mostly fall near their
volcanic source;
but ashlike particles can be carried by prevailing winds over many miles and can
stay aloft for more than a year.
The
area in the Sinai Peninsula where the destroyed spaceport had been is indeed
covered -- to this day! -- with gravelike burnt-through blackened stones (for
photo evidence see illustrations 105, 106, & 107 in The
Wars of Gods and Men). But as Zecharia has pointed out in his
book; there are NO VOLCANOES in the Sinai Peninsula. In the Sinai
Peninsula, the source of the wind-carried dust remains a mystery.
And
the only explanation for these broken and blackened stones in the Sinai and
the windblown desolation in Mesopotamia can be the tale of the Erra Epos,
(reflected in the biblical tale of the upheaval of Sodom and Gomorrah): not
an eruption by a non-existent volcano, but the use of nuclear weapons in
2024 B.C.
ZS /
November 2001
� Z. Sitchin
Reprinted with permission.
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