By the end, and we're at the end of Sitchin's Earth Chronicles, Sitchin is mostly repeating himself. This is the last volume of the Earth Chronicles series, not counting the various "companion volumes."

This is a mélange of his previous books, with a few new things thrown in: "End of Days"; Armageddon; Jesus; when is Nibiru coming back, etc.

Kind of getting sloppy too, with lots of typos and ungrammatical bits.

And, whereas some of the early volumes of the Earth Chronicles had bibliographies (but no footnotes/endnotes), this one (and the volume before) lack even a bibliography. Without these, it is even more useless as a research tool than the early volumes.

In the end it is the same Sitchin drivel. Neat theories all aided by mistranslations and misappropriations. If you accept his thesis—the old gods were aliens—then it makes sense. But, you have to swallow that idea and trust his "translations." Still, better than other "ancient alien astronaut theorists" like von Däniken. His statements on Jesus seem odd for a Jewish person. The gist of this one is that the space-gods all left around the time of Nibiru's last passing by the sun and earth during it's 3,600-year orbit, around 556 B.C. Sitchin then surmises that the planet's next return will be around A.D. 2900 and, who knows what will happen.

What the space-gods are doing right now is left unsaid.

And that is the main problem with Sitchin's thesis. Ancient gods were actually aliens from an extra planet in the solar system: Nibiru, which has a 3,600 year orbit and, stubbornly, still hasn't managed to be found with our modern astronomy. Again, Sitchin thinks that aliens only had rockets and, apparently, needed glide paths and mission control centers to land only in designated spots with their rockets. And, the god-aliens lived in cramped little rooms on the top of ziggurats. Really? Here's the big problem with Sitchin's theories: you'd think ancient aliens would have left some nice pieces of metal or computers in some of the ruins that have been excavated now for 100+ years. Apparently they took everything with them when they inexplicably left Earth except what the humans could write and crudely draw on clay tablets, etc. Really? And, of course, why aren't the aliens still here ruling the puny, weak humans? Always the problem with ancient alien theories. Unless you buy Icke's theories that they secretly do rule the earth, like the thesis of Bramley's The Gods of Eden. Really? ( )

When viewing history as cyclical past is prologue, so if that is the case how does the 21st Century compare to the past? The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return is the seventh and final book of Zecharia Sitchin’s The Earth Chronicles examines the events of the present and comparing them the ancient past from the 21st Century B.C.E. to the start of the Christian era through numerous Biblical, extra-Biblical, and various other texts to bring his research to a conclusion.

Sitchin begins his examination of the “End of Days” by giving a quick overview of his research in the previous sixth books about the Annunaki and the beginning of human civilization before tying it into the expectation of a coming or return of a Messiah figure. Sitchin then sets the stage for this expectation by reviewing the contention between the Enlil and Enki factions amongst Annunaki resulting in what he believes was a nuclear attack in the Sinai to take out of the Annunaki spaceport and Sodom & Gomorrah to stop Marduk from taking control but resulting in allowing him to take control due to fallout taking out his human opponents. With this background, Sitchin then explains how the supposed “New Age” resulted in national gods and fighting between nations in the name of their particular God. Yet throughout these wars objectives of the “Landing Place” of Baalbek, “Mission Control” in Jerusalem, and the important crossroads city of Harran were all pointed out due to the belief that soon the Annunaki home planet Nibiru would return and with it Anu might come to bring peace. Sitchin reveals that instead of Anu bringing peace, nearly all the Annunaki left Earth disappointing their followers and leaving humanity on its own. Sitchin then ends the book by showing the Israelite prophets continued to talk about the Return and how it connected to Elijah and Jesus before going over his theory of a waystation on Mars shows that the Annunaki do intend to return in the future.

Given this was the last book of his series, Sitchin went right into the review of his previous research and setting the stage from the human disappointment of the “failed” Return and then their new hope of a future one. One of the obvious things that needed to be answered from Sitchin was when the Annunaki left—since we don’t see them on Earth now—and he actually gave a date not just a range of years. Though the reviewing of material in the first third of the 300+ page book was a little annoying, Sitchin has over the course of this series about how to do it quickly while also adding new material throughout it so when he launched into the “new” material things were set up nicely. However, it became obvious while reading that my opinion that the previous installment, The Cosmic Code, did not need to be written was correct as it was mishmash of material that could have gone into When Time Began and in this book. But I believe that Sitchin wanted a seven book series because Earth was the seventh planet of the solar system in Annunaki thinking and he wanted that tie in.

The End of Days completes Zecharia Sitchin’s series with a conclusion with the Annunaki stay on the Earth and the hints of a possibly return. Though I don’t adhere to Sitchin interpretations of Biblical text or his Annunaki theories in general, there are some things he conjectured that are actually intriguing to think about. This book is a good finish to The Earth Chronicles that had been released over the course of 30 years and for his long time readers it’s highly recommended. ( )

Another good book by Sitchin. It is a nice compendium of all the other books. The title seems related to the popular 2012 stuff. However he does not shed much more light on the issue. For Sitchin a date around 2900 is more likely.

I like his theory which encompasses mentions of extraterrestrial visitors, unexplained momuments and events. However the proof of the pudding is only when the famed planet Niburi returns around 2900. For an academic critiismc on Sitchin, see http://www.sitchiniswrong.com/. ( )

Last in a seven-book series, this gives a very different, and very challenging, view of mankind.

Eons ago, alien beings called the Anunnaki came to Earth to plant man’s genetic seed. They came from a planet called Nibiru, which is part of our solar system, but takes 3,000 years to complete one trip around the sun. As a spacefaring race, they built a spaceport and a mission control, in the Tigris/Euphrates river valley, in present-day Iraq. It was destroyed in The Deluge (from the Bible).

The spaceport was rebuilt in the Sinai Desert, with Mission Control in Jerusalem, and the pyramids at Giza used as landing beacons. Remember the Tower of Babel? It was the first major structure built after The Deluge, back in the Tigris/Euphrates valley, and was intended as an alternate launch platform.

There were many disputes and power struggles among the Anunnaki, leading to an attack on the "sinning states" of the West by the East. In approximately 2020 BC, five cities built just south of the Dead Sea, including Sodom and Gomorrah, along with the Sinai spaceport, were destroyed by nuclear weapons. There are a number of ancient Sumerian texts that talk of an "evil wind" that sickened everyone, and that no door or wall could keep out (sounds a lot like nuclear fallout). In historical terms, the Sumerian civilization disappeared overnight; invaders are the usual reason. Here is another explanation.

It would be easy to snicker to at this book if it were just some New Age speculation, and not based on years of archaeological study and actually reading the ancient texts. As a history buff (and a science fiction reader) I loved this book. It is my first exposure to Mr. Sitchin, but it won’t be my last. ( )

http://kadath.livejournal.com/514104.html ( )