AN ITALIAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA FOR TEENAGERS MENTIONS THE PLANET NIBIRU AND ITS INHABITANTS, THE ANUNNAKI
COURAGEOUS EDITORIAL CHOICE BY ISTITUTO GEOGRAFICO DE AGOSTINI
by Luca
Scantamburlo
Last 25th of September 2006 the prestigious
Milanese
newspaper Corriere
della Sera sold by bookstall distribuited, at
the price of 12.90 Euro plus the cost of the journal, the encyclopaedic
text entitled Il Cielo
(which in Italian means The
Sky),
by Rizzoli
Junior and carried out by the Istituto Geografico De Agostini, but
partly come from the Encyclopaedia of Discovery by Weldon Owen
Inc.
The book by Rizzoli Junior, hard-bound and composed by 317
colour pages, is well bound and is subdivided in seven sections, which
are the following: the "Great Dictionary of Sky and Universe", "Knowing
the Sky", "The Flight", "Stars and Planets, "Dates and Data",
"Photogaphic Ways" e "To read and to see". The clear and
simple
language, considering the teenager target, does not renounce to the
terminological and conceptual rigour. Therefore I suggest the reading
of it not only to the youth, but also to the adults who love the
astronomical divulgation.
Moreover a very remarkable
thing is that in the section "Stars
and Planets" (see the chapter "Our
neighbours")
at the page 233 there is a paragraph entitled <<Il decimo
pianeta non è una novità>>, which means in
Italian "The Tenth Planet is
not a news": the Italian members of the editorial staff talk about the
ancient knowledge of the Solar System in the Sumerian Cosmogony, and
they write:
<<[...]
il sistema solare contava tutti i pianeti a noi noti oltre a Tiamat e
Nibiru. Quest'ultimo sarebbe il pianeta più lontano del Sistema
[...]>>.
Translating from Italian into English we have:
<<[...]
the solar system counted all the planets we know besides Tiamat and
Nibiru. The last one would be the farthest planet of the system
[...]>> .
With regard of Anunnaki, the authors tell they were the inhabitants of
such a very distant world beyond Pluto, a sort of "an issue of
semidivine Giants". This mention to Nibiru and his intelligent
creatures is a courageous choice by the Italian editorial staff of
Istituto Geografico De Agostini. What a pity they have not been enough
precise in telling the origin of the Earth and of the Asteroidal Belt:
they did not originate from a collision among Nibiru and Tiamat, but
from a clash between one of Nibiru's satellites and Tiamat. And as a
matter of fact they have forgotten to name Zecharia Sitchin, a Russian
historian and linguist author of essay The 12th Planet
(1976, USA),
in which there is the analysis, supported by documents, of the tale of
Enuma Elish, The
Epic of Creation (see The
Seven Tablets of
Creation by Leonard W. King, 1902).
Apart from that, the recent Italian publication is a notable
step forward for the spreading of the frontier researches.
