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The Olmec Enigma: Astronaut Corroborates Sitchin

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If an astronaut were ever to corroborate an aspect of my writings I wou!d have e"pected it tobe in regard to p!anetary matters. Surprising!y such a corroboration concerns of a!! thingsthe #!mecs of ancient $e"ico.

%he une"pected corroboration is tuc&ed away in the recent!y pub!ished boo& ' (eap of )aithby the $ercury*+ astronaut ,ordon -ooper in which his story as a test pi!ot and astronaut ispeppered with to /uote from the dust ac&et his strong views on the e"istence ofe"traterrestria! inte!!igence ** and even the distinct possibi!ity that we have a!ready hadcontact.

%he #!mec 3nigma

Readers of my boo&s and especia!!y of %he (ost Rea!ms as we!! as of a previous artic!e on

this website tit!ed %he -ase of the $issing 3!ephant &now by now that beginning with thediscovery of a co!ossa! stone head in 1456 an advanced civi!i7ation that preceded the $ayasand '7tecs of $e"ico came to !ight. Its !eaders and bearers were unmista&ab!y b!ac&

'fricans. %hey were arbitrari!y named by archaeo!ogists #!mecs8 and their embarrassingenigma ** of who they were and how they had come across the ocean and why wascompounded by the timing of their arriva! in the 9ew or!d.

#nce it was conceded very grudging!y; that the .-.8 then at about =00 >.-.8 then farther bac& and bac& unti! 1=00 >.-. was ac&now!edged.

>ut I have argued for a date twice as o!d;

' ,od and ?is Secret 9umber$y conc!usion that the #!mec presence in the 9ew or!d went bac& at !east =000 years tocirca @000 >.-. was reached by many paths. %he first one was an attempt to identify thegreat god of $esoamerica the inged Serpent Auet7a!coat! to the '7tecs Bu&u!&an to the$ayas and the significance of his promise to return to those !ands on the first day of a =2*year cyc!e 'C 1=16 when the '7tec &ing$onte7uma be!ieved that the appearance ofthe Spanish con/uistador -orte7 was such aReturn coincided with the anticipated sacreddate.

%he peop!es of $esoamerica emp!oyed inaddition to a practica! ca!endar of @5= daysca!!ed the ?aab a!so a Sacred -a!endarca!!ed %7o!&in of 250 days. %he twocyc!ica! ca!endars were conceived as twowhee!s with meshing teeth that turned andreturned to the same spot once in =2 years8and =2 was the Sacred 9umber of theinged Serpent godD
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Since =2 was a!so the Secret 9umber of the god &nown to the 3gyptians as %hoth8 since%hoth as Auet7a!coat! was the god of science and the ca!endar8 and since %hoth was e"i!edfrom 3gypt circa @100 >.-. I have suggested that it was he who too& a group of his 'fricanfo!!owers to a new !and bringing the #!mecs to $esoamerica.

'ccording!y I said #!mec presence goes bac& to at !east @000 >.-. ** a date twice as o!d asthat conceded by estab!ished archaeo!ogists.

%he $ysterious Cay #ne

>y the time I was writing %he (ost Rea!ms the boo&devoted to the prehistory of the 'mericas I was surethat the arriva! of the #!mecs with %hothEAuet7a!coat!cou!d be estab!ished with astounding precision. %he&ey to un!oc&ing the enigma was the #!mec-a!endar.

In addition to the ?aab and the %7o!&in there was in$esoamerica a third ca!endar used to inscribe dateson monuments. ,iven the name the (ong -ount it

was not cyc!ica! as the other two but !inear ** acontinuous one counting the tota! number of daysthat had passed since the counting began on amysterious Cay #ne.

>y means of g!yphs denoting groups of days1 20 @50 +200 or even 1FF000 and dotsand bars giving the number for each group*g!yphmonuments were dated by saying: ' tota! of so manydays from Cay #ne have passed when this$onument was erected.

>ut what was that Cay #ne when did it occur andwhat was its significanceD

It has been estab!ished beyond doubt that this (ong-ount ca!endar was the origina! #!mec ca!endar8 and it is now genera!!y agreed that Cay #newas e/uiva!ent to 'ugust 1@ @11@ >.-. >ut what does that date signifyD 's far as I &now theon!y p!ausib!e answer was provided by me: It was the date of %hothEAuet7a!coat!


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%he Gne"pected -orroboration

'!! officia! pub!ications continue however to remain at 12=0 >.-. ** 1=00 >.-. at most ** asthe date of the start of the #!mec presence.

Imagine my p!easant surprise to come across an eye*witness report by the astronaut ,ordon-ooper in chapter 11 of his boo& ' (eap of )aith. Curing my fina! years with 9'S' hewrites I became invo!ved in a different &ind of adventure: undersea treasure hunting in$e"ico. #ne day accompanied by a 9ationa! ,eographic photographer they !anded in a
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sma!! p!ane on an is!and in the ,u!f of $e"ico8 !oca! residents pointed out to them pyramid*shaped mounds where they found ruins artifacts and bones. #n e"amination bac& in %e"asthe artifacts were determined to be =000 years o!d;

hen we !earned of the age of the artifacts -ooper writes Hwe rea!i7ed that what we.-. was a!so gone... 'nd the officia! $useum -ata!ogue reviewing the #!mec civi!i7ationreverted to 1=00 >.-.

>ut now comes the astronaut ,ordon -ooper and innocent!y and inter*a!ia te!!s as an eye*witness what he was to!d by the chief $e"ican archaeo!ogist: @000 >.-.

'nd thus when a!! is said and done I stand vindicated.
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Zecharia Sitchin

November 2000
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