reply to post by serbsta
The fact that he isn't trained in reading ancient languages?
Sitchin is a graduate of the University of London and worked as a journalist and editor in Israel for many years. What prevents him, to have achieved
knowledge and training to translate ancient Mesopotamian scriptures and tablets, during the time he lived in Israel??? You???
Please show me where exactly in the Mahabharata text (passage number, chapter number) are there reports of a nuclear war... I've yet to find them.
It seems you are not SO familiar with ancient hindu scriptures, as you say...:
The war of the gods
The gods said,--"Gathering all forms that may be found in the three worlds and taking portions of each, we will, O Lord of the gods, construct a
car [vimana] of great energy for thee. It will be a large car, the handy-work of Viswakarman, designed with intelligence."--Saying this, those tigers
among the gods began the construction of that car . . . the Mind became the ground upon which that car stood, and Speech the tracks upon which it was
to proceed. Beautiful banners of various hues waved in the air. With lightning and Indra's bow [celestial weapons?] attached to it, that blazing car
gave fierce light.
Thus equipt, that car shone brilliantly, like a blazing fire in the midst of the priests officiating at a sacrifice. Beholding that car properly
equipt, the gods became filled with wonder. Seeing the energies of the entire universe united together in one place, O sire, the gods wondered, and at
last represented unto that illustrious Deity that the car was ready. After, O monarch, that best of cars had thus been constructed by the gods . . .
Sankara placed upon it his own celestial weapons . . . the gods repaired unto the Grandsire, and inclining him to grace, said these words . . . 'A
car [vimana,] has been constructed by us, equipt with many wonderful weapons . . .'
Then Mahadeva, terrifying the very gods, and making the very Earth tremble, ascended that car resolutely . . . When that boon-giving Lord, that
despeller of the fears of the three worlds, thus proceeded, the entire universe, all the gods, O best of men, became exceedingly gratified . . .
having ascended the car [Sankara], set out for the Asuras . . . to the spot where the Daityas are!
When the boon-giving Brahman, having ascended the car, set out for the Asuras . . . towards that spot where triple city . . . stood, protected by the
Daityas and Danavas . . . The triple city then appeared immediately before that god of unbearable energy, that deity of fierce and indescribable form,
that warrior who was desirous of slaying the Asuras. The illustrious deity . . . sped that shaft which represented the might of the whole universe, at
the triple city. . . loud wails of woe were heard from those cities as they began to fall . . . Burning those Asuras, he threw them down into the
Western Ocean. Thus was the triple city burnt and thus were the Danavas exterminated by Maheswara . . . (Karna Parva, Section XXXIV)
And it goes:
"An incandescent column of smoke and flame,
as bright as ten thousand suns,
rose with all its splendour.
It was an unknown weapon,
an iron thunderbolt,
a gigantic messenger of death,
which reduced to ashes
the entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.
The corpses were so burned
as to be unrecognizable.
Hair and nails fell out;
Pottery broke without apparent cause,
and the birds turned white.
…After a few hours
all foodstuffs were infected…
…to escape from this fire
the soldiers threw themselves in streams
to wash themselves and their equipment."
The
verses above, extracted from Gita chapter, were cited by
Robert Oppenheimer, Nuclear Scientist, while watching nuclear blast tests carried by US military. After all Oppenheimer quoted this very peculiar
part:
"Now I became Shiva, the destroyer of worlds", verse 32 from Chapter 11 of the Bhagavad Gita.
Days later, Oppenheimer was asked by a journalist if it was the first nuclear blast in the world. he answered:
- "Yes, in modern times, …"
And it goes
The bombing led by Arjuna
"…a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and flame, as bright as the thousand suns,
rose in all its splendor…a perpendicular explosion with its billowing smoke clouds… …the cloud of smoke rising after its first explosion formed
into expanding round circles like the opening of a giant mushroom… It was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death,
which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas…the corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. The hair and nails fell
out; pottery broke without apparent cause and the birds turned white. After a few hours all foodstuffs were infected… …to escape from this fire
the soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment."[/i}
More depictions of an Anunnaki nuclear war in the Mahabharata:
"A single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe." Karna Parva, section 34
"It was the unknown weapon, the Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and
Andhakas Mausala." Parva section 1
"It was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and the
Andhakas, the corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable." Drona Parva section 201
"The hair and nails fell out; pottery broke without apparent cause and the birds turned white. After a few hours all foodstuffs were
infected."Mausala Parva, section 2
"To escape from this fire the soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment." Drona Parva section 19
Cronology of the Anunnaki nuke war in the Mahabharata
Scholars evidences
If you HAVE TO bash Zecharia Sitchin, be SURE that NONE ancient scripture, corroborates him...
[edit on 23-3-2010 by ucalien]