What can we Determine about the Sumerian Planet known as Nibiru

In addition to the twelve normal planets on the seal referred to by Sitchin, the Sumerians apparently recognised one additional planet. This they called Nibiru, and it was an intruder into the solar system, in which it caused much damage and apparently also much good. Given that it was such an intruder, it would be reasonable for it to establish an orbit in the galactic plane, which is at right angles to the plane of the ecliptic. This seems to be where it was to be found, on its orbital periods of about 3600 - 4000 years. Its symbol, according to Sitchin ³⁴ , was often the cross of unequal arms (ie Christ's cross), but he gives no clear reason why such a symbol should have been selected. It presumably was symbolised in this way because, if viewed front on, its orbit was a straight line at right angles to the straight line representing the plane of the ecliptic, with much more of its orbit below the plane of the ecliptic than above it.. It was known as Nibiru, "the planet of the crossing" because it crossed the solar system rather than orbited around it, and also because in each orbit it crossed twice through the plane of the ecliptic, the plane in which all the other known planets are to be found. 

Sitchin ³⁴ quotes references to this planet god as follow: 

Planet Nibiru;

"The Crossroads of Heaven and Earth he shall occupy,
Above and below, they shall not go across,
They must await him." 

Planet Nibiru;

Planet which is brilliant in the heavens,
He holds the central position,
To him they shall pay homage.

He crossed the Heavens and surveyed the regions,
The structure of the deep, the Lord then measured,
E-Shara he established as his outstanding abode,
E-Shara as a great abode in the Heaven he established. 

It is interesting that the Sumerians considered that the planets of the normal solar system are locked into some form of orbital harmonic resonance with the intruder, and that this resonance can affect their orbital periods. There is some evidence currently available to this author of a harmonically tuned zone between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, and this is the area through which Nibiru is said to pass. It is the area through which comet Hale Bopp does now pass. 

If this planet Nibiru occupies the crossroads of Heaven and of Earth, it must cross the plane of the ecliptic between Jupiter and Saturn, the king and queen of heaven. It must also cross the plane of the ecliptic at the orbit of Earth. These conditions are met by the Hale Bopp comet. One is reminded of the Biblical statement, oft repeated, that "Heaven is my throne, and Earth is my foot-stool." Such a situation applies to comet Hale Bopp, as well as to the planet Jupiter. 

If this planet Nibiru occupies the central position and all planets including the Sun pay it homage, then it must, at least temporarily, on each orbit, occupy a place in the centre of the solar system, and directly above the sun. This requirement is met by comet Hale Bopp. 

If this planet Nibiru crossed the heavens and surveyed the regions, it must have crossed above the central part of the solar system. If it subsequently measured the structure of the deep, it must then have travelled away below the plane of the ecliptic. These conditions are met by comet Hale Bopp. 

Sitchin believes the two E-Shara that the planet established were the two foci of its elliptical orbit. One focus is the sun, and the other is standing way out beyond the other planets of the solar system. These conditions are met by comet Hale Bopp. The Sumerian texts continue:

The great planet,
At his appearance, dark red,
The heaven he divides in half
and stands as Nibiru.

This agrees with the haematoid pigment or "blood" associated with the killer planet. By dividing the heaven in half as "planet of the crossing", it probably rises up through the plane of the ecliptic halfway between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn (like Hale Bopp). We continue:

"When from the station of Jupiter
the planet passes towards the west,
Then will be a time of dwelling in security,
Kindly peace will descend upon the land.
When from the station of Jupiter
the planet increases in brilliance,
and in the Zodiac of Cancer will become Nibiru,
Akkad will overflow with plenty ". .

"When the planet of the throne of heaven will grow brighter
there will be floods and rains.
When Nibiru attains its perigee
the gods will give peace."

Leaving aside what may well be prayers or wishful thinking on the part of the original writer, we have a number of important details on the planet's cometary orbit. It rises through the plane of the ecliptic between Jupiter and Saturn, climbs over the station of Jupiter, and eventually moves west in the sky, just as Hale Bopp does. As the planet / comet grows brighter, there will be floods and rains. When the planet / comet is at perigee, there will be a blessing on the Earth. The planet / comet will again penetrate the plane of the ecliptic in the astronomical constellation of Cancer as seen from Earth (at the Earth's orbit , just as does comet Hale Bopp). 

Sitchin argues for the presence of people with flight technology at each appearance of this planet Nibiru. He argues that they come from the planet / comet Nibiru itself, but this is highly improbable, and we are more likely dealing with technologically articulate human survivors of past catastrophes. Since these survivors have identified some of their number with the planetary gods, we should be on the lookout for propaganda rather than fact in respect to any part of the history of the solar system that was incompatible with their political needs. In other words, self styled gods are unlikely to be totally credible witnesses when vanity is at stake and they are quite capable of trying to re-write history. We will examine the case of these self styled gods in Chapter 16. 

Sitchin ³⁴ draws our attention to a clay disc (figure 11) from Sumeria which appears to plot a course for some stellar object . Whereas he believes it to be the course of a spaceship from the planet Nibiru, it appears much more likely that it depicts a trajectory for the planet / comet itself. The disc is broken up into 45 degree sectors, which is reminiscent of the way in which the axis for the elliptical orbit of comet Hale Bopp runs from about 45 degrees below the plane of the ecliptic through the sun and then at about (180-45) degrees above the plane of the ecliptic. A major arrow points one way through the centre of the disc (the centre being representative of the sun) and it is marked with a large cross. This is probably representative of the incoming direction. This arrow has a return triangular point marked upon it. 

Pointing back to this general direction of the large directional arrow, ( but not exactly the same direction) is a lesser arrow connected to the edge a shape which is clearly the stellar constellation of Gemini. In this instance, it is the beginning of Gemini which is being indicated, and this is certainly where Hale Bopp cum planet Nibiru reaches perihelion. As a matter of interest, it is also exactly where planet Earth reaches perihelion, and this is unlikely to be mere co-incidence. This minor variation between the two arrows, may well mean that we are also dealing with a separate entity to planet Nibiru. It seems likely that the approach to perigee of the displaced planet Tiamat is being referred to here.  

Sitchin ³⁴ cites further Sumerian text to the effect that"

"When the savant shall call out "Flooding!"
It is the god Nibiru [planet of crossing]
It is the hero, the planet with four heads.
The god whose weapon is the Flooding Storm,
shall turn back;
To his resting place he shall lower himself."

This important bit of information asserts that the planet Nibiru originally had four heads, or satellites around its main body. Four satellites plus a main body could be well symbolised by a four sided pyramid, with an apex, just as we actually see in the engraving from Ireland. It may be sheer coincidence that the pyramids of Giza, built to preserve knowledge during a cataclysm linked to Nibiru, were also four sided pyramids.  

Engraved on a stone from Gotland (Sweden) are four interlinked spirals (figure 9), around a central cross. Four circular objects are depicted outside the spirals. A very similar depiction of four interlinked spirals is to be found on a plaque in a museum at Delphi in Greece (figure 10). The central cross (symbol of Nibiru) is replaced by a glowing central disc, and the outer four circular objects are replaced by four fishes, but the intent of the recorders is obviously similar. The spirals would seem to represent the magnetic lines of force generated by the rotating satellites. 

It is important that the Irish rock engraving shows the intrusive planet Nibiru in a location between Saturn and Uranus, the present location for the crossing of the plane of the ecliptic by comet Swift Tuttle. Comet Swift Tuttle is probably remnant debris from an early conflict between Nibiru and Saturn, as depicted in the engraving from the valley of the Boyne in Ireland. The gravitational tussle between Nibiru versus a combined Saturn, Jupiter and a planet the size of Uranus would certainly have pulled Nibiru closer towards the sun and, on its next orbit, it probably would have pierced the plane of the ecliptic between Jupiter and Saturn, as the Sumerian records indicate. 

With Nibiru initially piercing the plane of the ecliptic between Saturn and Uranus, it is unlikely that the planet Uranus escaped unscathed. The planet Uranus shows many signs of having been involved in a past major collision with a large intrusive body. Among other signs, it has been toppled on its axis of spin. Sitchin ⁴⁰ attests that, in this planetary conflict with the planet Uranus, Sumerian records indicate that Nibiru acquired a further three satellites, just as we see following in its train in the Irish rock recording of a crucial event in the history of our solar system. 

There are discrepancies between the Sumerian record and the Irish rock engraving in respect to what was the direct cause of the loss of a planet between Jupiter and Mars, and we will examine this later in more detail.

All this data is implying that the intrusive planet Nibiru is of a size in parity with Jupiter and Saturn, and it must be greater than Uranus and Neptune. Surely, with this amount of mass, astronomers should have been able to detect it affecting the orbits of the outer planets, Uranus and Neptune. The answer is that there really are unexplained variations to the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, and astronomers are sure that an as yet undiscovered planet is involved. Many reports of attempts to locate such a planet have been made. All such searches would be hampered by the assumption that the planet has a normal orbit in the plane of the ecliptic. 

Sitchin ⁴⁰ , reports that astronomers have shown that perturbations to the orbits of the outer planets are now much greater than they were a century ago. This suggests that an undiscovered large planet has been out towards the Sagittarius constellation and that it may even have been approaching closer to the orbits of those planets. 

Now, comet Hale Bopp, with a huge dust cloud, has appeared with the right orbit and in the right time slot to be the massive planet Nibiru, a body reported by the Sumerians to have a huge halo (dust cloud or rings). Furthermore, it has a chemical composition that is consistent with what might have been expected of planet Nibiru, on the basis of the records of the past. It would not be unreasonable to conclude that Comet Hale Bopp is either planet Nibiru, or debris travelling a little in advance of planet Nibiru. The observations of amateur astronomer Chuck Shramek would certainly indicate that it is planet Nibiru itself. 

We should consider the likely origin of this nasty cosmic debris. In Chapter 11 it is established with a quite high level of certainty that planet Nibiru came most recently from a star system destroyed about 15 million years ago, on the cusp of Sagittarius and Scorpio, and that it quite likely was the direct agent for destroying the star there. That solar system need not have been its true origin, however, since a planet that developed naturally in any solar system is unlikely to be able to destroy its own star. 

"Sky and Space" magazine ⁴¹ reported the existence of a dwarf spheroidal galaxy actually colliding and merging with our own galaxy. Its core is at a distance later reported at 60 000 light years away from our galactic centre and on the opposite side of the galactic centre to our own solar system. This makes it about 93 000 light years away from us.. This dwarf galaxy occupies about ten degrees of space in the constellation of Sagittarius. An intergalactic collision of this order could certainly have let loose the rogue planet which destroyed the star in what is now the Lagoon Nebula, and it is in the right directional location to have done so. With a probable black hole whirlpool in our galactic centre as a velocity booster, the planet could have reached velocities much greater than 101 kilometres per second during its journey. 

As the debris travelled past the galactic centre, in which a huge black hole (or energy sink) is believed to exist, it may have picked up a hitch-hiker in the form of a miniature black hole. If it did, it would explain the Fenris Wolf that Nordic mythology says once ran loose in our solar system and would have eaten up everything if it hadn't been chained up by the gods. The rings of Saturn were known to the ancients as the "chains of Saturn" and Hoagland ⁴² reports a probable miniature black hole in the rings of Saturn.