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The 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 fÜr 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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