The End of Days (The Earth Chronicles, #7) by Zecharia Sitchin

The End of Days (The Earth Chronicles, #7) Reviews

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  Gregsamsa

  I am afraid I'm not going to participate in GoodReads much longer. Neither are you. This is true for all of us, because we are living in The End Times.
  
  The reason why our creation narratives--from holy texts to evolutionary theory--are so weird and unconvincing, really, is because they are not true. What is true is that a race of extraterrestrials called the Anunnaki (Sumerian for "those who from heaven to Earth came," which makes me think that ancient Sumerian's syntax was a lot like modern Turkish, or perhaps poetic flourishes pass here) where was I? I mustn't dither (it being The End of Days and all) with such digressions anymore. Bad habit, not adjusted to an Apocalyptic Lifestyle. Yes: The Anunnaki, inhabitants of the planet Nibiru which revolves around our sun but has a wildly elongated orbit such that it doesn't get a chance to come through our cosmic neighborhood but once every 3,600 or so years. I mean Earth-years of course; we shouldn't be so Earthnocentric as to universalize or reify our own local time measurements, especially when doing so becomes part of a power-structure regime as when in things like Star Trek "day" and "night" are defined solely by when the most powerful people wake and sleep, taking the time-clock's commodification of life-time further by institutionalizing the very idea of--wait, sorry, dithering again, as if the world's gonna go on forever!
  
  I worry that habits such as these shall anger the Anunnaki when they return, and they are coming soon.
  
  Then, everyone will learn that the Anunaki actually created Adam and the roots of all our fabulous beliefs (leave it up to us to do such a crappy job keeping the story straight! But then again I guess that's their design flaw. Don't tell them I said that, though, when they come, because seriously the worst thing to be is a snitch, and snitching out another human to our extraterrestrial creators has got to be like the ultimate--oh, wait, damn, where was I? Is this still a parenthetical? Oh, well here, then).
  
  To impress upon you the gravity of the situation I'd touch on the fun fact that the time-before-last the Anunnaki blazed through town we had The Great Flood, nnnkay? For the sake of maintaining monotheism many of us see that as a God vs Human thing but the real dope is that it was fallout from a major deity-tiff between Enlil and Enki, two leaders of rival Anunnaki clans who let all their old simmering family resentments burst to the surface while on a trip far from home, as always happens.
  
  The domestic politics of the Nibiru-based conflict roots are tedious and would be familiar to anyone casually acquainted with royal court dynamics from far less enlightened human eras, except the Anunnaki are supposedly more enlightened but I for one would never question their rules regarding thrones and accession and such (unlike how, as a kid, I used to question the term "throne" in a Hebraic context re the Big Sky Daddy: "Isn't a throne just a fancy chair? Why does Yahweh need a chair?" oh crap there I go again... shaddap Samsa!
  
  OK so like you might be asking yourself How does Zecharia Sitchin know all this? With such a long-bearded name of sturdy Biblical sound surely he's not basing all this history on some prophetic vision bullshit, is he?
  
  No he is not. He has solid sources:
  Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation(except he translates from the original source which was written by people who were like almost right there and, uh, were you there? No you were not), Isaac Newton (Sir to you), and others! The ancient texts, when approached with correct interpretive strategies, reveal that the planet Tiamat collided with a "stray" one, creating our Earth and Moon. Do you realize that this scenario is commonly believed by many actual astronomers except for the Tiamat part? If you want to know more if not everything about this period you might consult
  The Complete Earth Chronicles, if that's how you'd like to spend The End of Days...
  
  The Anunnaki, you see, established a settlement here called E.DIN (later corrupted into the unrecognizable "Eden"), visiting Earth not for curious, touristic, nor diplomatic reasons, but to get their hands on GOLD which they needed to powderize and pump into their upper atomosphere on Niburu to deal with global warming issues responsibly, unlike some other species I know. For this reason they installed in us a genetic reverence for that almost entirely useless ore, so we'd collect it and make their job easier. It is solely because of this DNA-encoded value kernel that we are largely unable to imagine its value as being just as f**king arbitrary as a paper rectangle marked Euro, Pound, Rupee, Dollar, Lire, etc. Thus in our coriest of cores we attribute value where there is none and built a bogglingly complex econo-ecology upon this pre-installed value-template which is based upon the desires of a more powerful Other. Tell me that doesn't totally sound like capitalism!
  
  Unfortunately, Mr. Sitchins sorely neglects the Marxian implications of his shocking revelations, but Marxian and Shocking don't overlap a lot, the latter requiring lots of bold print, the former needing layers of tedious value analysis. Hey, this book wasn't put out by Routledge! But name a Routledge book that has sold millions of copies and been translated into more than 25 languages. Oh, you can't? OK then. Wait, was I just using value-rhetoric inherited genetically from the Anunnaki-created A.DAM in order to discredit intellectual opinion?
  
  Yes I was. But you don't have to believe Sitchin. You can just read The Bible! Sure, it doesn't refer to the Anunnaki per se. It uses the word Nephilim instead. These GIANTS of Canaan were not let upon the ark (we don't know whether for moral reasons or hospitality-logistical ones). So there. This is only one tiny instance where Sitchin shows "us" where "our" current religious beliefs come from, although mostly keeping to the big 3 Western ones and not those practiced in India and China but I guess that's because hardly anyone lives there.
  
  Omigawd where are my manners--I've wasted so much of your limited time on Earth just discussing background information instead of telling you how the world's gonna end! Rude! Since our time is limited I'll have to skip over how the Anunnaki granted us civilization and divied us up between Asia, Africa, and Europe, each the feifdom of an Anunnaki (during a later visit, long after the creation of E.DIN and the genetic assembly of ADAM, obviously). I also must skip how the biblical story of The Tower of Babel was actually based upon how an uppity Anunnaki named Marduk intruded upon another's territory and had the nerve to also build a space facility and launch tower there, a mighty middle-finger architectural gesture to higher-ups who put the kibosh on that rogue erection. The myth's language mix-up is not explained, so we might assume it was akin to Dos/Unix/Linux incompatibilities, except with astrophysics during the stone age. More background info covers
  Epic of Gilgamesh and identifies some of its enigmatic creatures as robots executing security functions. Well sure.
  
  
  Did I mention it's illustrated? In pictures similar to the one above we very clearly see Ancient Astronauts manipulating DNA.
  
  Overall Sitchins must be congratulated on his generosity regarding the reader's comfort, as there are no tedious footnotes, endnotes, or citations of any kind when he writes "one prophecy states..." or "The ancient texts say..." while the lengthier summaries of ancient history we may comfortably assume are grounded in these ancient Sumerian inscriptions. And who wants to pore over an index? We are relieved of that temptation. Sitchins is a level-headed scholar who has no need to lard up his books with a bunch of confusing arcana like that, and instead coolly lays out the information with an objectively distanced and calmly professorial tone, especially in Chapter 5 ("COUNTDOWN TO DOOMSDAY") where we learn that 2024 BCE was a bitch of a year. Based on more seemingly-primitive conflicts over royal genealogy (I won't bore you with the whole Shulgi/Enlil/Nabu/DowntonAbbey scatter of title-dramas) but will just do a teaser quote (maintaining the bold from the original), whose origins are a little earlier:
  
  "In 2048 BCE the destiny of the founder of monotheism, Abraham, and the fate of the Anunnaki god Morduk converged at a place called Harran."
  
  I just knew that story was the source of nothing good. Oh look at the time. Gotta go.
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  Sheila

  I enjoyed this book so much! Enough to (almost) suggest that Sitchin fans read this one out of sequence in the series. The information in this book alone is enough to encourage the most skeptical to pick up Sitchin's series and expand their thinking!
  
  The correlation in his books of the stars and the constellations in relation to ruling parties is astonishing. When he speaks of Jesus coming into the picture at the exact time as the Age of Pisces...you start to put two and two together and all the signs and symbols suddenly make a whole lot of sense.
  
  I would recommend this book to the fullest. For so many centuries people tried to make sense of the prophecies and the end of days scenerios. After reading this book so many things make absolute complete sense to me. Where ever we came from, whichever religion we practice, we are all on the same path and we're almost at the end of that path. Maybe if we could better understand how our journey started, we would be better equiped to handle what is to come.
  
  Reading this series has helped me to understand a very plausible explanation for all this. It's really so simple.
  And to think of all the things we are doing today, for instance working with DNA. Combining human dna with other animals. Creating hybrid animals. It's just the past repeating itself. We've been there before. It's coming full circle. Read the series.
  
  
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  Matt

  When viewing history as cyclical past is prologue, so if that is the case how does the 21st Century compare to the past? The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return is the seventh and final book of Zecharia Sitchin’s The Earth Chronicles examines the events of the present and comparing them the ancient past from the 21st Century B.C.E. to the start of the Christian era through numerous Biblical, extra-Biblical, and various other texts to bring his research to a conclusion.
  
  Sitchin begins his examination of the “End of Days” by giving a quick overview of his research in the previous sixth books about the Annunaki and the beginning of human civilization before tying it into the expectation of a coming or return of a Messiah figure. Sitchin then sets the stage for this expectation by reviewing the contention between the Enlil and Enki factions amongst Annunaki resulting in what he believes was a nuclear attack in the Sinai to take out of the Annunaki spaceport and Sodom & Gomorrah to stop Marduk from taking control but resulting in allowing him to take control due to fallout taking out his human opponents. With this background, Sitchin then explains how the supposed “New Age” resulted in national gods and fighting between nations in the name of their particular God. Yet throughout these wars objectives of the “Landing Place” of Baalbek, “Mission Control” in Jerusalem, and the important crossroads city of Harran were all pointed out due to the belief that soon the Annunaki home planet Nibiru would return and with it Anu might come to bring peace. Sitchin reveals that instead of Anu bringing peace, nearly all the Annunaki left Earth disappointing their followers and leaving humanity on its own. Sitchin then ends the book by showing the Israelite prophets continued to talk about the Return and how it connected to Elijah and Jesus before going over his theory of a waystation on Mars shows that the Annunaki do intend to return in the future.
  
  Given this was the last book of his series, Sitchin went right into the review of his previous research and setting the stage from the human disappointment of the “failed” Return and then their new hope of a future one. One of the obvious things that needed to be answered from Sitchin was when the Annunaki left—since we don’t see them on Earth now—and he actually gave a date not just a range of years. Though the reviewing of material in the first third of the 300+ page book was a little annoying, Sitchin has over the course of this series about how to do it quickly while also adding new material throughout it so when he launched into the “new” material things were set up nicely. However, it became obvious while reading that my opinion that the previous installment, The Cosmic Code, did not need to be written was correct as it was mishmash of material that could have gone into When Time Began and in this book. But I believe that Sitchin wanted a seven book series because Earth was the seventh planet of the solar system in Annunaki thinking and he wanted that tie in.
  
  The End of Days completes Zecharia Sitchin’s series with a conclusion with the Annunaki stay on the Earth and the hints of a possibly return. Though I don’t adhere to Sitchin interpretations of Biblical text or his Annunaki theories in general, there are some things he conjectured that are actually intriguing to think about. This book is a good finish to The Earth Chronicles that had been released over the course of 30 years and for his long time readers it’s highly recommended.
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  JJ

  Sitchin’s The End of Days, the final book in the Revolutionary Earth Chronicle series is another captivating and intense read from the seven book series. In this final book, Sitchin displays how the End is anchored in the events of the Beginning, and once the reader learns the beginning, then it is possible to foretell the future. Sitchin already provided undisputable evidence in book III of a, “War of Kings”, which was a great international conflict of an alliance of four kings of the east and the combined forces of five kings of the west resulting in 2024 B.C. with the use of nuclear weapons used on Earth for the first time. Now in 2017 A.D. we are in the exact same circumstances; an alliance of the east in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) and the alliance of the west with the North American Treaty Organization (NATO). Coincidence?
  
  I recommend reading this book with an open-mind and let go of any tendencies to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s preexisting beliefs or hypotheses –confirmation bias..
  
  
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  Sumeetha Manikandan

  I was idly browsing through my Kindle and found that I had read only until volume 4 of earth chronicles of Zecharia Sitchin. For some reason, I had thought that I read them all. I immediately set about correcting this assumption.
  
  I picked the last volume to read because I had always wondered whatever happened to the Anunaki who had come to earth. I found the answers here.
  
  (I will probably go back and read the rest of the volumes too)
  
  As always Sitchin is thorough, detailed and absolutely meticulous in detailing theories that make the most sense. This volume comes very close to opening our perceptions towards the most debated questions of today's geopolitical politics.
  
  In other words, it was awesome.
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  Shinequa

  this book was my introduction the series and the author. it is a great book in the sense it made me think, question what I was taught and what I thought I knew. it was a beautiful blend of facts, history, mythology, and math. it was a tad difficult to follow at certain points (perhaps because I'm a novice to the genre or author) but once I grabbed a pen & paper to sort out who was who it unlocked so much for me. definitely food for thought, must open the pages with an open mind!
  
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  Shelia Timmons

  Interesting, but I think you have to read all of his books starting with "The 12th Planet" or you will be totally lost. Some of the chapters are really boring unless you love mathmatical equations. But if you skip over those and read his theories it makes you think. I would recommend this book if you have been reading any of the other "Earth Chronicles"
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  Claudia

  The last of the Earth Chronicles series and once again, Mr. Sitchin continues to refer to a previous book where he expands upon such-and-such. Maybe I need to read his first book to avoid it or, more likely, he has modified later additions to refer to later books.
  
  The end of days and the prophecies of the return. But before we get to the Return, we have to report the antics of the Anunnaki from the planet Niburu during the time of Sumer, Akkad as well as the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (about 2100 B.C.E.). The reader can see why Sitchin is considered an authority on the Sumerian language and culture as he relays translations and complex connections.
  
  We have various members of the 'gods' - which admittedly gets confusing as some of the names are very similar - posturing for control of the Earth and the supposedly landing sites and mission control center in the Middle East which eventually led to a devastated Sumer and destroyed sites.
  
  Then there is Babylon, Ankhenaten and Egypt, Assyrians, the reasons for the Exodus as well as the prophecies of the Old Testament prophets, the fall of Babylon, the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. The Persian empire, Alexander the Great whose conquered the 'world' and discovered the god Marduk's body in Babylon, Seleucids, and the rebuilding of the Jersualem temple. And then there is Jesus of Nazareth fulfilling more of the prophecies as well as the timeline as figured by the author.
  
  While this was all going on, the Anunnaki still on Earth had retreated to South America, to their last outpost which explains the Nazca lines, Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco. It is from that last outpost, that they were able to retreat further to the base on Mars to await the return of Niburu.
  
  After all that reviewing of the preparations and ancient history, we get to the actual figuring of the end of days - there are several ways of looking at the prospective return of Niburu and the Anunnaki - finally takes place in the last 20 pages of the book. There are several ways of looking at the next return of Niburu and the Anunnaki, the nearest having already passed - which was 2012 Mayan End of Days.
  
  The amount of history of the time - even though he jumps around as well as focuses on the religious aspects as connected with the Anunnaki gods - is massive and extremely interesting. I don't know how much of the Niburu part I actually believe though.
  
  
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  Socrate

  Mi s-a adresat această întrebare de nenumărate ori de către oamenii care mi-au citit cărţile, „ei” fiind Anunnaki (AN.UN.NA.KL în limba sumeriană înseamnă “Cei care au coborât din Cer pe Pământ)—extratereştrii care au venit pe Pământ de pe planeta lor Nibiru şi care au fost veneraţi în antichitate ca zei. întoarcerea va fi când Nibiru, în orbita ei alungită, se va afla în apropierea noastră (a Pământului!), şi ce se va întâmpla atunci? Va fi întuneric la amiază iar Pământul se va sfărâmă? Va fi pace pe Pământ, sau Armageddon? Un mileniu al tulburărilor şi suferinţelor, sau o mesianică A Doua Sosire? Se va întâmpla în 2012, sau mai târziu, sau deloc?
  Acestea sunt întrebări profunde care combină cele mai adânci speranţe şi nelinişti ale oamenilor cu credinţele şi aşteptările religioase, întrebări impuse de evenimentele curente: războaie în ţinuturile unde relaţiile îngemănate ale zeilor şi oamenilor au început; ameninţările holocausturilor nucleare; ferocitatea alarmantă a dezastrelor naturale.
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  Simeon

  Is this guy serious?
  
  Firstly, I must admit that I couldn't finish this book. It was half heartedly entertaining until the point when the author started insinuating that the Bible is in someway prophetic of aliens and star gods. It especially became unable to read when the author not only took the Bible's scripture out of context but completely added his own phraseology to the printed scriptures that are in the Bible.
  
  I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who takes the Word of God as the Word of Life; people like the author of this book spread disinformation and are dangerous to the hungry intellect of misinformed peoples.
  
  In no way is it okay to add your own understanding to Holy Scriptures. I give it a rating of 1 because it was half heartedly entertaining at first but then I felt like this guy was reaching for the stars, in the most literal sense. Please, don't waste your time. Do the world a favor and burn your copies of these books.
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  Jenalee Paige

  This may be one of my favorites of Sitchin! This book was the last of the series I purchased and although he has other books, this one really wraps everything up so well! The end of days are explained by prophesies and major events that took place thousands of years ago. He emphasizes cyclical time lines rather than linear, which I really appreciate. He also ties in different religions with this one since it is the last in the time span. It captures how Islam, as well as Christianity had some beliefs begin. Sitchin captured such an incredible amount of history and time in an easy to digest way. His work is hard to put down!
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  Bryan

  Fun exercise in critical reading. Take a pen and mark the section that state facts and verify them yourself. This book does make some good observations but opinion and supposition is threaded through facts. This book does bring up a lot of questions about the similarities in different cultures. History is a useless without context and this book tries to provide a wide range of context to a universal planet history. In the end I felt the proof fell short but the questions raised where interesting.
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  Stephanie MacDonald

  PACKED full of information, I mean PACKED. Sometimes it feels like school instead of a book, but one cannot undervalue the wealth of knowledge contained within its pages. I know some people say he is "part of the deception" was a freemason, working with the CIA, etc... but one cannot throw the baby out with the bath water. It is time was walk away from organized religion, especially christianity, judaism, and islam... and the Sumerian texts help us do that for those religions have all their roots in the Sumerian texts. Remember: WE ARE HERE TO SAVE OURSELVES
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  Keith

  Some very interesting theories, to finish the series, and extremely well-researched as usual, but I was left wanting more... And parts of this book are very repetitive, with itself, and other books in the series. Also, why is there no explanation where Yahweh came from? Is he supposed to be one of the Annunaki? And also, is there no way in today’s day and age to have better/larger illustrations? I realize some are maybe not easy to come buy, the the book only prints them in grayscale, but some are so small they’re almost impossible to see well/read.
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  Michael

  Hidden History
  
  This is a must read for anyone who is seeking a clarified view of the ancient world. The absolutely phenomenal work of Dr. Sitchin is here and in all of his books. Seeker of knowledge, here you have some major pieces of the ultimate puzzle. Welcome to expanded mind.
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  Tadas Talaikis

  This is much worse sci-fi book compared with
  The Lost Book of Enki - no strange and epic ancient porn.
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  Brooke Weston

  I love Sitchin's concept and ideas but, I found this particular book to be repetitive. The information felt redundant and I was left disappointed with the results that I was hoping for.
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  Tom Hughes

  Great reading
  
  I've read all of the Earth Chronicle books, and I have to say this really doesn't disappoint. It's a must read.
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  Prophetess Queen

  Has a lot of Biblical history. I found his other books a little bit more informative about the Anunnaki
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  Merry

  Ricci had me hooked from Chapter One.
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  Alan Kraskow

  I'm big fan of Sitchin. I love his works, but I look at them more, as an inspiration for my own fantasy/sci-fi novels, so not taking it too serious.
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  Joseph Gift

  I want to read
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  César (pronounced with a Polish accent)

  Astrological nonsense with a lot of pseudo-history thrown in. Sitchin should have stopped at book one. Everything after was just a money grab.
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  Omid Mankoo

  Zachariah Sitchins books are detailed with actual translations of Ancient Cuniform (clay tablet) writings. They are Sumerian Writings , the language which brought about Aramaic, which in turn brought about Hebrew and Arabic. He is an Archeologist, and ancient script interpreter/translator. He delves into ancient texts, and clay tablet writtings, religious scriptures, artifacts, and drawings & visits museums, and sights of actual historical significance mentioned in various world scriptures, to get an up-close, hands on grasp of what happened. His books are filled with historical facts, with awesome translations, actual pictures of the cuniforms themselves, many of which are pictorial in nature (they appear in his books). Each of the books is a veritable treasure-house of knowledge, of scientific breakthroughs into understanding what has happened in ancient civilizations, regarding gods (alien races), and their meaning present in our scriptures today.
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  Terry

  My first encounter with this author and subject matter. However, I found his views of the 'Ancients' interesting and intriguing giving based on absorptions of their alien background. Very detailed information, no doubt fueling current alien theories of how the human race came to be on this planet. His comparisons and analogies with biblical writings and sumerian civilization script, and analysis concerning the impacts of 'End of Days' on the human race are fuel for thought. However, I feel a need to explore further into this topic but utilizing broader subject materials found from diverse sources.