The Lost Book of Enki: Memoirs and Prophecies of an Extraterrestrial god (Hardcover)

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This book is another brilliant example of Sitchin's scholarship. I found it exciting reading, and give it my highest recommendation. -- Don Ecker, UFO Magazine, April-May 2002

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"The story is compelling, drawing readers into the world of extraterrestrials, gods, and ancient events in a way that seems a combination of reading that daily paper and indulging in popular fiction.  Reading The Lost Book of Enki is a truly unique, intellectual, and pleasurable experience to recommend to customers looking for something a little different."
(R. John Allcorn, New Age Retailer, March/April 2002 )

"This book is another brilliant example of Sitchin's scholarship. I found it exciting reading, and give it my highest recommendation. The Lost Book of Enki . . . has an impact that will generate discussions all over the globe."
(Don Ecker, UFO Magazine, April-May 2002 )

"...this is really one interesting book....a very intriguing topic."
(Morgaine, Circle of Stones, July, 2004 )

"An epic tale of gods and men . . . challenging every assumption we hold about our past and future."
(Branches of Light, Issue 30 )

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Bear & Company; illustrated edition edition (October 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879181835
• ISBN-13: 978-1879181830
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (75 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #322,736 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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145 of 157 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I wish I could give this book ten stars, it's that important, January 31, 2002

By	Monte Farber & Amy Zerner (New York, USA) - See all my reviews

There are few true geniuses writing books we can understand and only one writing about a subject so vitally important to every human being, i.e., we cannot know where we are going if we do not know where we have come from. Now, thanks to a lifetime of dedication worthy of the greatest researchers and detectives of all time, all of Zecharia Sitchin's books and especially "The Lost Book of Enki," are available to provide plausable answers to the hundreds of questions traditional "science" and "archaeology" and biblical "scholars" cannot or refuse to answer at all, let alone satisfactorily.
I think I understand why some of his fans are having trouble with "The Lost Book of Enki." They think they understand his work to the point where having it all presented in one book, and in a mytho-poetic style, no less, seems to be a rehash of what they've read. Well, they may be geniuses, themselves, because I've read all of the books twice and am one of about two dozen alumni of all of Zecharia's far flung teaching intensives, and yet I feel that I needed to read "The Lost Book of Enki" to really have a good grasp of the material and to feel it "breathe," to be mytho-poetic, myself. What a thrill to finally understand the actual basis for the seemingly ungrounded words, themes, and stories of the bible. There are also a few facts mentioned in passing that should have blown the mind of anyone who has read all the books. It should be realized that NO ONE knows Zecharia's work the way he knows it and anyone who knows him realizes what a gift this book is to the many people who have literally begged him to put it all together in one book.
So, as they say to anyone considering the study of the Kabalah, make sure that you are ready to have all of your preconceived notions, especially those about the bible and our creation, seriously dislodged. If you want the ride of your life, then read on. I know my life would have been quite the poorer had I not read all of Zecharia's works, especially "The Lost Book of Enki."

59 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, July 15, 2005

By	Guy DeRome "minister-of-truth" (Greendale, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Lost Book of Enki: Memoirs and Prophecies of an Extraterrestrial god (Paperback)

Let me also say that I have read all of Sitchin's books and found most, the first 3 or 4 at least, to be fascinating. I anxiously awaited this "Enki" book, because it was billed as a narrative that would fill in a lot of the gaps and answer a lot of my questions. It failed. It is written in a poetic style that is tedious and irritating; the reverse sentence structure in particular (think Yoda).

Rather than give any depth, insight, or fill in the gaps, it glosses over things as if they are a given. The ME for example. Mainly it just puts the story and information we already know from Sitchin's previous books in another format.

Rather than rehash all of his existing theories and information, I would hope that Sitchin would move on to explore other areas or at least uncover new info on his existing subjects. He could look into the manifestations of God in the Koran or Christian sacred texts, for example.


Something a lot of the reviewers/readers seem to be confused about: this is a hypothetical story; Sitchins idea of how it might have happened. Hello! The book makes that clear in the introduction. This is the Anunnaki story written AS IF it were translated from ancient Sumerian tablets, not translated from actual ancient Sumerian tablets.

One thing that I have always wondered about and that I hoped this book would adequately address is how Nibiru survives a long eliptical orbit around the sun. This books seems to explain it away by saying that Nibiru has a dense atmosphere which protects it from the variations in solar intensity that such an orbit would cause. We know that even the change of of a fraction of a degree can have major effects on the earth's climate. It is hard to believe that life could survive on Nibiru as it is defined. There may be some good explanation for this, but I have yet to read one.

39 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The REAL History of the World 101! - updated, March 23, 2003

By	P. D. Kousoubris "Greek Geek" (MA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

So, you think Zach Sitchin is a nut, someone who lacks extensive 'Oliver Sach's' type footnotes to back up his references, and hey - anyone talking about life on other planets must be crazy...right?
I went as far as to start reading the 'official' scholarly translations of the Epic of Gilgamesh, The Lament of Ur, and 'The Descent of Ishtar' and frighteningly, nearly to a few key words, Sitchen's translations of the Sumerian tablets ARE accurate!
In a nutshell: over 14 or so tablet translations, the God Enki scribes his story of how Earth began. He landed searching for the Gold that Alalu first described, set up the ERIDU base and the E.DIN (like garden of), and began mining gold for Nibiru. Nibiru, our 10th planet, which crosses every 3600 yrs. The last time it crossed, Thera in Santorini blew up magnificently, and many earth changes occured as recorded in antarctic ice cores (looks this up at the usgs.gov site). Sitchen has created a riviting story, at times quite moving, of how Enki and his fellow 50 gods, set up camp on Earth and created mankind. How exactly did the Sumerians know there were "23 branches of life" (chromosomes), with a missing 24th coding for "long life"?? How did the Sumerians know, 4500 b.c., that there were '12' planets (including the sun, moon, and the 10th planet - Nibiru) when Pluto even was not discovered until 1930 by Clyde W. Tombaugh?

The biblical parallels are truly amazing considering these were written 4500 B.C.! You will learn who really built the pyramids (and why), how agriculture really started (and quite recently), why parallel cultures existed across the atlantic ocean in the 4th millenium, why the 'gods' lived thousands of years, how nuclear wars occured in the remote past, how the inner solar system was formed, and why the gods fate is intertwined with mankind's! Not to mention, on rereading this book, you may stumble onto some really great clues: like, where one should look to find Gilgamesh's lost "plant that makes the old man young" or get goosebumps when "7 birthmothers" are chosen from Nibiru to bear the first men (See: "The Seven Daughters of Eve" ,Bryan Sykes, on Amazon; mitochondrial DNA bears out our same 7 'clan mothers'). Truly "connect the dots" for the insightful.

Note bene - the old testament takes directly from the sumerian stories of old - which are what is translated here. Sitchen has a knack for the difficult translation of sumerian cuneiform, and will make the leap required to translate a 'celestial boat of heaven' into 'starship' - which by the way is the actual sumerian term used!
Get ready to relearn everything you have been taught. IF you are someone who thinks that ancient "mythology" is just that, don't read this. If you think that the now millions of tablets unearthed, mostly still untranslated, are myth note this: real tombs with skeletons with some of the kings and queens mentioned in these "stories" have been unearthed (ie., Sir Thomas Woolley's excavation at Ur, 1923: see Univ. of PA site, the premiere Sumer collection in the world ....).
Forget Sitchen's other books until you read this. If you get hooked, then his other books all suddenly make sense!

ps: I met Sitchen recently. Almost immediately he said, "The most important thing is knowing your history." And to quote Noah Kramer, "All history begins at Sumer."