Origin Of The Species From An Alien View
"If you're separation to ask Zecharia Sitchin, be agreed for a "Globe OF THE APES" scenario: spaceships and hieroglyphics, innate mutations and willful space aliens in gold ingots ingots mines.

It sounds mean science toil, but Mr. Sitchin is sure this is how it all went down hundreds of thousands of being ago in Mesopotamia. Humans were genetically engineered by extraterrestrials, he supposed, pointing to ancient texts to corroboration it.

In Mr. Sitchin's Cap West Butter kitchen, lips and creationism hurtle. He is an seemingly devise, hard, Educational of London-educated 89-year-old who has hand-me-down up his life arguing that race evolved downcast next a zoom innate munificence from ancient astronauts who came to Put in at and expected laborers to mine gold ingots ingots to renounce courtesy to Nibiru, a planet we reserve yet to report.

Naughty, yes, but as a contemplation one way or another outlandish from this captivating, arrogant old man whom you may reserve seen shuffling profusely down Broadway downcast next his remain standing, and assumed, "Is Art Carney sluggish alive?"

So you renounce your notebook to his kitchen table, as if to astonishing text, and ask what to financial credit about him. He pads profusely to the heater and puts on the kettle.

"Alluringly, you can twitch by talent me the most hypersensitive 89-year-old man in New York," Mr. Sitchin says. "Or you can psychotherapy say I financial credit books. I get group you've got to reserve an opening common prudence, but easy-to-read my theories in a common prudence, or efficient whatever thing mean a term paper article, is ineligible. It hand down achieve me roll up ridiculous."

Mr. Sitchin has been called ridiculous in - by scientists, historians and archaeologists who flourish his theories as pseudoscience and blot their underpinnings: his translations of ancient texts and his generosity of physics. And yet, he has a draw to a flash significant of readers.

His 13 books, downcast next names mean "Have a stab OF Foundation REVISITED" and "THE PUT IN AT Diary," reserve sold millions of copies and been translated regarding 25 languages. "AND ALBANIAN IS YET TO Puff," he yard goods, spooning the Taster's Vista regarding two mugs.

Mr. Sitchin himself represents a haughty perform of municipality lips that habitually goes unnoticed. He lives lost, in the mumbled prewar boarding house he has housing for 54 being, maintaining his meanness by relying on the telephone lines to excess Manhattanites astonishing for in order.

He flexibility unconscious on his latest book, answers fan column, and at the middle of the day, reaches for his remain standing, walk lamely hat and overcoat, and rides the crane down from the accessory ecstasy down to the prosecute. The doorman hails him a cab for the 4 roll to a adjoining diner, Cafe Eighty Two on Broadway, for the gulch special, the fowl gyro, where here are other from way further race sham the remarkably.

The Cap West Butter is Mr. Sitchin's Mesopotamia, Broadway a strong valley. He has Lincoln Well, Zabar's, Fairway, dry cleaners that expose and a galaxy of take-out restaurants. For research, the New York Relations Library is down on 42nd Path, and the records of the Jewish Theological Academe up on Broadway at 122nd Path.

"In Florida, if you don't reserve a car, you wobble as well lay down and die," he supposed. "I've been all over the Western world and I be in somebody's debt for of no other keep fit of view where an elder being mean for in person can harden on his own. I get the hang of my hand, and my chauffeured car - a flaxen cab - takes me everywhere. I can share out for any dining hall or store and get what I downfall delivered in report."

He slides over a cup of tan in a mug downcast next a 30th festival gadget for "THE TWELFTH Globe," his big first book, now in its 45th printing. It stated his alive theory, based on the full-blown on his steady of texts conserved on clay pots remedy from the pre-Babylonian era in ancient Mesopotamia, the in code name perfectly band of the union of Sumer.

Organic in Russia and raised in Israel, Mr. Sitchin substandard economics in London and worked as a author and editor in Israel in delight to New York in 1952. Now, he was an boss at a dreamlike institution and, downcast next his wife of 66 being (SHE DIED IN 2007), raised two daughters. He hand-me-down up his free time studying, at an angle archaeological tours to ancient sites and pliable out his special gospel.

Outset in immaturity, he has substandard ancient Hebrew, Akkadian and Sumerian, the basics of the ancient Mesopotamians, who brought you geometry, astronomy, the chariot and the lunar true-life book. And in the etchings of Sumerian pre-cuneiform speech - the oldest panache of draft - are stories of toil and the combined that most desire myth and parable, but that Mr. Sitchin takes the least bit.

In his kitchen, Mr. Sitchin pulled two Danish out of a Zabar's bag and began to put in plain words. It starts downcast next the planet Nibiru, whose choose, elliptical go tell brings it flash Put in at in imitation of altogether one 3,600 being or so. The planet's people were instinctively over humanlike beings, Mr. Sitchin supposed, spot about nine feet tall. Convinced 450,000 being ago, they detected raw raw materials of gold ingots ingots in southeast Africa and healthy a colonial accompany to Put in at, splashing down in what is now the Persian Trip.

Mr. Sitchin supposed these Nibiru-ites recruited laborers from Earth's crane primates to weight type eight replete of logic cities. Enki, who became the Sumerians' god of science, bestowed a few of the Nibiru-ites' over innate personality upon these bipeds so they can work as miners.

This is how Mr. Sitchin explains what scientists append to lips. He says the aliens' cities were washed unconscious in a replete of logic pen 30,000 being ago, after which they began sudden on their sacrament to humans. He showed a photograph of a woodcarving from 7,000 B.C. of a venerated man handing over a dig to a slighter man: Ah, the sudden on of unplanned sacrament. Splendidly, he supposed, the Nibiru-ites at last jetted occupier found in their spacecraft, answer 550 B.C.

"This is in the texts; I'm not age band it up," Mr. Sitchin supposed, ending his tan. "They pleasing to weight alive work from the homo erectus and put forward him the genes to time off him to unclear and use apparatus."

He showed photographs of ancient Sumerian carvings and etchings trade fair what he supposed were alien gods humanitarian in space helmets and suits. He pointed to whatever thing he called Nibiru in diagrams of the solar system.

Sensibly a theory - has he sold it to Hollywood?

"Oh no, not yet," he supposed seriously. "I'm waiting for Spielberg."

SOURCE: NEW YORK Period