Nibiru

They were aliens.

Yeah, they came from a hidden planet called Nibiru, and their world was dying, and the only thing that could save them was gold.

So they came here to mine this gold, and when the manual labor got to be too much, they took a primitive ape already living here, and they thought, "Oh, we'll just genetically engineer this ape to be a worker," and that worker is us.

And here's the part that keeps the story alive 50 years later.

According to Sitchin's timeline, it begins roughly like 445,000 years ago.

Yeah, all the way back, like farther back than we really even have record of in, you know, the Anthropocene.

And it doesn't start on Earth, it starts on a planet called Nibiru.

Now, Nibiru isn't in a normal orbit.

And that's why Eddie Bravo called it the 10th planet, because that's like their planet is the 10th one, and every time it comes around, I think the actual name of the planet is like...

Nubiru.

Nubiru.

Nubiru.

And that's what he wanted to call it was Nubiru Jiu-Jitsu, but Joe Rogan was like, that's not super clean.

Let's clean it up.

10th planet just sounds a little bit cleaner.

We'll go to that one in a second.

The Sumerians, you know, I know you've heard about the Anunnaki coming from planet Nibiru, right? Yes.

3600 years, right? Yep.

Yep.

Yeah, and you could put it in.

Yeah, we'll talk about that afterwards.

But anyway, yeah, I wanted to – so – With the Sumerians, a lot of people believe that the Anunnaki came from planet Nibiru.

Okay, there's no cuneiform tablet that says that.

It does not circle the sun in a year the way we do.

It goes out into the long dark and comes back every 3,600 years, and its name in the tablets is Nibiru.

The people of that world are the Anunnaki, and their own name tells you what they did.

Because in the Sumerian, so the story runs, it means those who from heaven to earth came.

No heat, no scorn, just the clay and what is on it.

The first is the hidden planet and its name.

Nibiru is truly there.

It is a real Akkadian word, and the scholars know it well, and what it means in the astronomical tablets where it lives is a crossing, a ford, a ferry point.

So no matter what source you get it from, it's all the same story with different nuances.

Some people think Nibiru, some people think Sirius, some th- people think Pleiades, some people think Orion.

These tablets were credibly translated by scholars a long time ago.

Uh, you can go online to the British Museum website, and you can actually pull up the library of Ashurbanipal, and then you can view the tablets there yourself.

Us Sumerians wrote this story based on their belief that the planets were sentient beings and even gave them names.

Now, over millennia, as the story was retold and retold, the names change a little bit to the victor being the god ruling at that time.

In this particular case, Marduk was Nibiru, the planet that crashed into Tiamat.

They've now cataloged two trillion galaxies, and that's just a small view of the sky.

they were not only humanoid, but they were alien.

And we know now from the acquired records and so on, and even maps of our own solar system, that they came not from outside our solar system, light years away, but they came from the 10th planet, called Nibiru, the planet of passing, which is in our solar system, was alive.

I'm confident in saying that it was rediscovered in 83-84 by the IRIS, Infrared Imaging Satellite, NASA Dutch Project, and reported several times by the IRIS team.

The last one would have been by Ray Reynolds.

Now as we interconnect that into what is talked about around the world, this is the home of the gods where they rule from.

So using the Mesopotamian pantheon, which we've been talking about a fair bit, they ruled from Nibiru.

Nibiru is not planet Earth.

The Sumerian word for earth is Nibiru Ki, and Ki, K-I, is the Sumerian word for earth.

And this Nibiru is a planet crossing.

So Nibiru is in the crossing of earth.

And we know that with the Hebrew word Abar, with the passengers in Ezekiel 39, which means crossing over from the other side, from where Sheol and Hades are in another dimension and associated with death.

which is why I talked about what Jesus did in the grave so that people would have a sort of a better connection.

So this is probably in this myth we start to see the earliest conceptual root of the notion of planets having some sort of designated place in the sky essentially, which I think would become very important later on because not long after this we also see the emergence of the doctrine of what later became known as the signs of exaltation or the notion that there's certain places on the ecliptic or certain constellations or certain signs of the zodiac that are associated with certain planets.

So I did want to read a quote from this section of the Enuma Elish and this is from Willis Monroe's translation that we cited in the episode I did last year on Mesopotamian astrology so you can find that there and you can find the citation and everything but here's the quote it says This is from the Enuma Elish, from the creation epic from around 1100 BCE, let's say give or take And it said "He fashioned heavenly stations for the great gods And he set up constellations The patterns of the stars He appointed the year Marked off divisions And set up three stars each For the twelve months After he had organized the year he established the heaven-heavenly station of Nebiru To fix the star’s intervals That none should transgress Or be slothful; [he] fixed the heavenly Stations of Enlil and Ea With it gates he opened On both sides And put strong bolts At the left and right." So I mention this just because I think it's really important that we start to see mythological and especially creation stories that start to try to explain how the cosmos is set up in different ways and also to try to explain or justify I think some of the systems that were being developed by astrologers Which were especially associations with certain planets With certain parts of the sky or with certain constellations or zodiacal signs or what have you And this is the earliest version of that But we'll see that this was the beginning of a tradition that would come up again in the Hellenistic period where I think later doctrines such as the Thema Mundi or the birth chart of the cosmos Were also probably presented in some sort of similar Mythological way In the way that some of the other Hermetic philosophical texts were presented Like especially the first book of the Corpus Hermeticum Known as the Poimandres Which presents this like cosmological vision Of how the cosmos was created That was revealed to Hermes Trismegistus So keep that in mind Because we'll Sort of return to that theme of the use of mythology By different authors Even Plato For example In the fourth century Had this mythological Creation story called the Timaeus That he used to explain Um the way that the Cosmos Was Set Up And Constructed And Eventually Hit even Why why the Planets Came To Be Associated With Fate All Right So Related To This Is The Exaltations Also Known As The Secret Places Where By Around One Thousand Bce So Not Long After The Anumma Alish You Know Is Around And Shows Up On The Stage For Sure We See The Earliest Origins Of The Planetary Exaltations That They Had Already Been Developed In Mesopotamia Especially Appearing In An Astronomical Slash Astrological Compendium From Around That Time That Was Titled The Mul Apin And In This Tradition These Positions In Mesopotamian Astrology Came To Be Referred To As The Secret Places Or The Secret Houses Of The Planets And This Became Like A Really Increasingly Popular And Important Concept From At Least Around One Thousand Bce Forward All The Way Into The Birth Of Hellenistic Astrology Where The Concept Of Secret Places Or Secret Houses Of The Planets Was Inherited And Then Reconceptualized In The Hellenistic Tradition But Here What's Interesting Is That Already There's This Notion That Certain Planets Are Associated With Certain Signs Of The Zodiac So Already In This Text It's Talking About Saturn Having Its Secret Place In The Sign Of Libra The Sun I Believe It Says In Aries And So On And So Forth Which Are The Same Placements As What Later Became The Exaltations In Hellenistic Astrology And In My Book Nine Years Ago I Had Some Skepticism For Different Reasons About Whether The Exaltations Really Were In The Mesopotamian Tradition Partially Because So Many Of The Sources For Them Uh Were Really Late Cuneiform Texts Especially Close To The Hellenistic Era And So I Wasn't Sure If There Was um if there were concepts passing back and forth between Greek and cuneiform sources additionally even though the secret places are mentioned in some of the Babylonian horoscopes from 410 bce forward Uh, they don't seem to match when they're mentioned the positions that are mentioned in the charts.

And so there was some ambiguity about whether the concept really did match the exaltations of, of later Hellenistic astrology.

But at this point, um, after doing more extensive research and finding more texts and seeing a, a more recent edition especially of the Mul Apin, for example, that was, was published I think not that long ago, um, it's really clear to me that the exaltations really were in the Mesopotamian tradition since at least around 1000 BCE.