Lost realm

308 Pages·1990·13.102 MB·English

by  Sitchin, Zecharia

$19.95
Dear Reader,
The Earth Chronicles series is based on
the premise that mythology is not fanci-
ful but the repository of ancient memo-
ries; that the Bible ought to be read liter-
ally as a historic/scientific document;
and that ancient civilizations—older and
greater than assumed—were the prod-
uct of knowledge brought to Earth by
the Anunnaki, “Those Who from Heaven
to Earth Came”.
The 12th Planet, the first book of
the series, presents ancient evidence for
the existence of an additional planet in
the Solar System: the home planet of
the Anunnaki. In confirmation of this
evidence, recent data from unmanned
spacecraft has led astronomers to ac-
tively search for what is being called
“Planet X”.
The subsequent volume, The Stairway
to Heaven, traces man’s unending search
for immortality to a spaceport in the
Sinai Peninsula and to the Giza pyramids,
which had served as landing beacons for
it—refuting the notion that these pyra-
mids were built by human pharaohs.
Recently, records by an eye witness to a
forgery of an inscription by the pharaoh
Khufu inside the Great Pyramid corrob-
orated the book’s conclusions.
The Wars of Gods and Men, recount-
ing events closer to our times, concludes
that the Sinai spaceport was destroyed
4,000 years ago with nuclear weapons.
Photographs of Earth from space clearly
show evidence of such an explosion.
Such gratifying corroboration of
audacious conclusions has been even
swifter for The Lost Realms. In the rela-
tively short interval between the comple-
tion of the manuscript and its publica-
tion, archaeologists, linguists, and other
scientists have offered a “coastal theory”
in lieu of the “frozen trekking” one to
account for man’s arrival in the
Americas—in ships, as this volume has
concluded; have “suddenly discovered
2,000 years of missing civilization”, in the
words of a Yale University scholar—
“Several factors make Sitchin’s well-referenced
works outstandingly different from all others that pre-
sent this central theme. For one, his linguistic skills,
which include not only several modern languages that
make it possible for him to consult other scholars’
works in their original tongues, but the ancient
Sumerian, Egyptian, Hebrew, and other languages of
antiquity as well.
“The devotion of thirty years to academic search
and personal investigation before publishing resulted
in unusual thoroughness, perspective, and modifica-
tions where need arose. The author’s pursuit of the
earliest available texts and artifacts also made possible
the wealth of photos and line drawings made for his
books from tablets, monuments, murals, pottery, seals,
etc. Used generously throughout, they provide vital
visual evidence. . . . While the author does not pretend
to solve all the puzzles that have kept intensive
researchers baffled for well over one hundred years,
he has provided some new clues”.
—Rosemary Decker, historian and researcher
Other books by Zecharia Sitchin
THE EARTH CHRONICLES
Book I: The 12th Planet
Book II: The Stairway to Heaven
Book III: The Wars of Gods and Men
Genesis Revisited:
Has Modern Science Caught Up with Ancient Knowledge—
And Provoked a War of the Worlds?
All of these books will be available
in hardcover editions by Bear & Company
during 1991-1992.
ZECHARIA SITCHIN
Author of The 12th Planet
T H E LOST
R
ealms
The Fourth
Book of
The Earth Chronicles
BEAR & COMPANY
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Sitchin, Zecharia.
The lost realms / Zecharia Sitchin.
p. cm. — (The fourth book in the Earth Chronicles)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 0-939680-84-X
1.Civilization, Ancient—Extraterrestrial influences.
2.Incas—Antiquities. 3. Indians of Central America—
Antiquities. 4. Indians of Mexico—Antiquities. 5. Central
America—Antiquities. 6. Mexico—Antiquities. I. Title. II. Series:
Sitchin, Zecharia. Earth chronicles ; 4.
CB156.S574 1990
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Copyright © 1990 by Zecharia Sitchin
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hardcover edition of this book. It was previously published in
paperback by Avon in 1990.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword 1
1 El Dorado 3
2 The Lost Realm of Cain? 20
3 Realm of the Serpent Gods 43
4 Skywatchers in the Jungles 65
5 Strangers from across the Seas 86
6 Realm of the Golden Wand 111
7 The Day the Sun Stood Still 132
8 The Ways of Heaven 155
9 Cities Lost and Found 175
10 “Baalbek of the New World” 206
11 A Land of Which the Ingots Come 228
12 Gods of the Golden Tears 253
Sources 276
Index 287

FOREWORD
In the annals of Europe the discovery of the New World bears
the imprint of El Dorado—the relentless search for gold. But
little did the conquistadors realize that they were only replay-
ing a search, on Earth and in these new lands, that had taken
place eons earlier!
Buried under the records and tales of avarice, plunder, and
wanton destruction that the newly found riches had triggered,
there is also evidence in the chronicles of that time of how be-
wildered the Europeans had been to come upon civilizations
that were so akin to those of the Old World: kingdoms and royal
courts, cities and sacred precincts, art and poetry, sky-high tem-
ples, priests—and the symbol of the cross and a belief in a Cre-
ator of All. Last but not least, there were the legends of white
and bearded gods who had left but did promise to return.
The mysteries and enigmas of the Maya, the Aztecs, the
Incas, and their predecessors that puzzled the conquistadors
still baffle scholar and layman alike five centuries later.
How, when, and why did such great civilizations arise in the
New World, and is it mere coincidence that the more that is
known about them, the more they appear to have been molded
after the civilizations of the ancient Near East?
It is our contention that the answers can be found only by
accepting as fact, not as myth, the presence on Earth of the
Anunnaki, “Those Who From Heaven to Earth Came”.
This book offers the evidence.
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