SHOW HIM THE DOOR

SHOW HIM THE DOOR

A Brief Commentary on Michael Heiser’s Shortsighted Slight of Sitchin
by William Henry

April 23, 2003

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Short sighted
1. not able to see far.
2. not able to understand things deep.
3. defective or limited intellectual sight

INTRODUCTION

In articles on his website and interviews on Coast to Coast AM (04/14/03) author

Michael Heiser has challenged to debate Zecharia Sitchin about Nibiru and the bible.

While some critics claim Sitchin is out of step with mainstream archaeological
opinion, and that he takes liberties with his interpretations of Sumerian tablets in his
claim that Nibiru is a missing 12th planet in our solar system from which extraterrestrial
creator gods hailed, Heiser dismisses Sitchin’s work as erroneous, flawed, and in a
nutshell, wrong. He accuses Sitchin of making up the whole idea of the 12th planet. He
seems to think Sitchin is depriving some village somewhere of an idiot. Friends of
Sitchin’s say the old school curmudgeon would never stoop to a debate with the upstart
Heiser. Critics maintain his attempted demolition of Sitchin is merely a transparent ploy
to jump-start his writing career and get his visa punched on the interview/lecture circuit.
With this kind of approach he should go far (hopefully toward coming up with original
ideas of his own), and the sooner he starts, the better. People know what a Zach Sitchin
book is. People don’t know what a Mike Heiser book is.

Sitchin’s isn’t the only fountain of knowledge Mike gargled on. In addition, on his
website he also spat a challenge at me.

“I challenge Zecharia Sitchin; his webmaster, Erik Parker; Lloyd Pye; Alan Alford;
William Henry; Jordan Maxwell; and anyone else who rapes the biblical text to say that it
contains accounts of extraterrestrial spacecraft, aliens from other planets, and that
humanity was created by alien intervention, to publicly debate me on these topics. Any
time, any place.”

Now, I don’t know what Mike’s problem is when he accuses me of ‘raping the bible’.
I presume he’s referring to my inclination to interpret the numerous unexplained and
enigmatic gateway episodes in the bible as examples of ancient stargates and wormholes,
i.e. doorways into other realms. Though his anger- filled words indicates that the bible is
his own entitled province, he should realize I have the right to interpret and experience
myth and scripture in any way I like. Period.

I don’t understand why some people believe any objection to their belief is an assault,

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which, in return, has to be viciously attacked and destroyed. He acts like the murderous
Dark Age Church that, failing to convert the Cathars, ruthlessly exterminated hundreds of
thousands of these Christian ‘heretics’, and their children, who claimed to possess the
secret mystic teachings of Jesus. Investigations beyond mainstream curriculum (read
fundamentalist “Christianity”), such as mine, have to be mocked and deconstructed by
people such as this into hate crimes: ‘I raped the bible’. Therefore, I (and others) must be
vilified? Pa-lease, Mike. Get a clue. Get help. Get it. Make love, not war. Everything is
okay.

Normally, I’d consider the source and let such an obvious agitated ego go. Maybe he
didn’t water his plants that week. Or he had a bad hair day. Or, maybe he’s just the type
who’d argue with a signpost. Ho wever, as a person who believes in human rights and
seeks to end religious oppression, it is my duty to speak out. To quote Val Kilmer’s Doc
Holliday in the movie Tombstone when he showed up to duel hothead terrorist Johnny
Ringo in place of Wyatt Earp, I say to Heiser, “if Sitchin won’t show, I’m your
huckleberry*.” (*Any of a number of related bushes or shrubs of the woortle or Word
tree, having dark-blue berries resembling blueberries, or blue apples.)

Ironically, the data Mike brings forth to savage Sitchin actually fuels my ‘Nibiru is a
stargate called the fiery furnace in Babylon’ premise. It also lends support to my theory
that Jesus updated the stargate religion of Nibiru. For this I am thankful to the gems
presented by Mike, and have chosen to post this commentary in hopes of furthering a
dialog and opening new avenues of research on the subject of Nibiru as a stargate with
interested parties, rather than burning the book(s) on it.

You see, when Mike bellied up to the bar at college he got a full six pack alright, but
he lacks the plastic thing to hold it all together. Like his Ph. D., his understanding is
incomplete. His information is strictly scholastic, offering little practical spiritual
application. Mystics say the stars, planets and constellations are in the human body.
During his climb of the ivory tower Mike apparently was not told that the quest is to
climb the inner tree of life and to seek the ‘inner Nibiru’. I’m not on a pedestal saying I
can offer Mike the plastic thing. Filling in the gaps, as the initiate must, is his job (besides
I’m only a New York Times Bestselling Author candidate, like Mike I’ve haven’t actually
earned my certificate yet). I am saying his work presented some connections for me that
he, and other researchers of Nibiru, ought to consider. They’ll leave you grappling with
the 12th planet in a very different way.

In his article posted for the Coast to Coast AM Sitchin smash- fest, Mike hammers out
the law. ‘Nibiru’ is not a missing 12th planet roaming the far reaches of our solar system
beyond Pluto as Z. Sitchin maintains. Nibiru is the name of a STAR, stupid, and means
‘CROSSING’ and ‘GATE’.

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‘Narrow is the way to it’, he quotes the Sumerian poem ‘The Epic of Gilgamesh’.
Strange, this is EXACTLY what the Nazorean pathfinder Jesus, the Cross- man who
called himself ‘the Door’, said about the Gate to God (apparently ‘borrowing’ without
attribution from the Sumerian text). The Sumerians would have been the ones that knew
the facts about Nibiru. Their writings provide the raw materials out which all gateway
religions, including “Christianity,” have grown.

Mike never connects the two words star and gate to reveal the star- gate Nibiru. As a
consequence of his shortsightedness, he does not connect Nibiru, the star- gate, the ‘door
to God’, with important star-gateway occurrences in the bible, including that of Jesus.
The stargate is the plastic thing.

The Code Duella states that the challenged gets to pick the grounds and time for the
debate. The ground I choose is the gate of Gilga-mesh, which I believe appears in the
bible as the Gilgatha or Gulgotha, ‘the place of the skull’, where the crucifixion of Jesus
took place. Far from strapping a Jewish carpenter to an instrument of torture, I propose
the crucifixion was a stargate eve nt. Jesus assembled the teachings and technology of
Sumeria and other ancient civilizations and opened a gateway. For more on this subject
please see my books Cloak of the Illuminati, Blue Apples, Ark of the Christos, The
Healing Sun Code, and The Crystal Halls of Christ’s Court.

As to the actual debate, I’d like begin by showing Mike the Door, and Nibiru, as he
has never seen it. I’ll begin with a commentary on his article on the meaning of the word
Nibiru.

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THE MEANING OF THE WORD NIBIRU

As Mike points out, the editors of the monumental Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (=
CAD hereafter) have located and compiled all the places where the word “nibiru” and
related forms of that word occur in extant tablets. A look at the CAD entry (volume “N -
2”, pp. 145-147), he notes, tells us immediately that the word has a variety of meanings,
all related to the idea of “crossing” or being some sort of “crossing marker” or “crossing
point”.

Mike also notes that ‘Nibiru’ is preceded by a “d”, the superscript for “deity” and
MUL the cuneiform sign for “star.”

From this he deduces that Nibiru is a “star” and a “deity.”

This makes sense. Taking a cue from Thomas Jefferson, who said he’d part with all
his 6,000 or so books save for one book, the English Dictionary, I like to consult
Webster’s Dictionary when researching ancient terms. I find that it reveals surprisingly
clear insight in simple terms.

Consulting Webster’s we find the root NEB has carried over into neb-ula, the English
word for a patch of stars. U-la, means ‘a light’.

Before getting too excited, however, Mike notes that in only a minority of cases
(those references in astronomical texts) does the word Nibiru or Nebiru relate to an
astronomical body.

Here is Mike’s brief overview of Nibiru’s meanings, followed by specific meanings

and references in the astronomical texts.

“Nibiru” (more technically and properly transliterated as “neberu,” notes Mike) can
mean several things.

“place of crossing” or “crossing fee” – In the Gilgamesh epic, for example, we read the
line (remarkably similar to one of the beatitudes in the sermon on the Mount): “Straight is
the crossing point (nibiru; a gateway), and narrow is the way that leads to it.”

A geographical name in one Sumero-Akkadian text, a village, is named “Ne-bar-ti-Ash-

shur” (“Crossing Point of Asshur”).

Another text dealing with the fees for a boatman who ferries people across the water
notes that the passenger paid “shiqil kaspum sha ne-bi-ri-tim” (“silver for the crossing
fees”).

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Akkadian seal impression (2340-2180 B.C.) depicting Gilgamesh’s journey beyond the
gate (‘nibiru’) at the end of the Earth. Note the wavy lines that compose the gate. British
Museum.

Mike also cites these meanings for Nibiru.

“ferry, ford”; “ferry boat”; “(act of) ferrying” – For example, one Akkadian text
refers to a military enemy, the Arameans: “A-ra-mu nakirma bab ni-bi-ri sha GN itsbat”
(“The Arameans were defiant and took up a position at the entrance to the ford [gate,
crossing point]”).

In another, the Elamites are said to “ina ID Abani ni-bi-ru u-cha-du-u” (“[to] have cut off
the ford [bridge, crossing way] of the river Abani”).

“Let Nibiru be the holder of the crossing place of heaven and earth,” says one of the
texts cited by Mike.

In my book, Ark of the Christos, I connect the Sumerian god E.A. or Enki (who the
Sumerians uphold as the maker of humanity), next plage, with MAKARA, the ‘Ford
Maker’ or ‘Bridge Builder’ of Indian tradition. Like E.A. (Oannes to the Babylonians),
Makara (‘maker’) was portrayed as a sea monster that was an intermediary (‘crossing
point’, ‘nibiru’, ‘christ’, ‘bridge’, ‘door’) between Earth and Heaven. E.A. is the model

for all serpent or fish gods, including Jesus who was symbolized by a fish-rope ,
and was called ‘tekton’, meaning bridge builder.

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E.A. as a human-looking figure dressed in a fish costume and holding a bucket and
(originally) a cone. He is the model for all fish gods including Vishnu or Fishnu, Dogon,
and Jesus.

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E.A. is portrayed as half-human, half-serpent (other times half-fish). He is the model

for the serpent and the Tree of Life, pictured here.

Early Christians portrayed Jesus the Fisherman in the form of E.A.

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The Sun-god, identified by his saw and the rays emanating from his shoulders, is often
depicted on Akkadian seals being transported in his boat. The prow of the boat on this
shell seal from Tell Asmar ends in the figure of a bearded god or demon holding a forked
punt-pole. Oriental Museum, Chicago.

Makara

FILLING IN

Though Mike never connects the two concepts, it is clear that Nibiru is the holder of
the gate, and that this gate has to do with the stars. It is the star-gate bridge of the deity.
This is probably the gate featured in the Gilgamesh seal.

Another of Mike’s sources explicitly states that Nibiru inexplicably changes positions
and it crosses the sky. It’s identified as Jupiter, Mercury and Mars. U- la- la! This is odd.
How is it that Mike can claim the Sumerians, who were accomplished astronomers, had
precise astronomical knowledge that excludes the possibility of a 12th planet beyond
Pluto, but they could not make up their mind about which PLANET is actually the STAR
Nibiru (‘the gate’, ‘the crossing’)?

All he needs to do is bridge these two words STAR and GATE and he has the answer
I derived from my mythological research. Nibiru is a star-gate. As he so pointed out,
Nibiru (or perhaps the technology associated with it) moves from planet to planet
(Jupiter, Mercury, Mars), leaving us to wonder if the present ‘Nibiru’ (star-gate) is Earth.

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Mike wraps up this part of his argument with the statement that the “root idea” of the
nibiru word group and its forms as meaning something with respect to “crossing” is clear.
He elects to move on.

Not so fast. Mike has omitted valuable information.

As Mike observes, it is context that gives a word meaning. He obviously is not

familiar with the language of poetry, and thus cannot fully define the gate of the gods (or
the nibiru) as it appears in the narrative poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh. He forgets that the
word elements NIB or NEB and RU have symbolic counterparts that also define it.

It is widely agreed by etymologists that language is fossil poetry and that the creation
of every word was originally a poem embodying a bold metaphor or a bright conception
of something real. Empires may disappear and nations may sink into myth under
cataclysmic waves of nature and invasion, says the symbolist Harold Bayley, but place
names and proper names, words, typically preserved by word of mouth, remain to some
extent inviolate.

In addition to preserving proper names, the illumined ones of ancient cultures,

including the Sumerians and the Egyptians, made profuse use of bird-brained symbol
play, wordplay, puns and puzzles to express significant spiritual principles.

Words and symbols are equations that have multiple levels of meaning.

Both are like round smoke rings when they leave the mouth . One can

touch the ring of a word or symbol – especially a living symbol like Nibiru – and
enter into a web of relationships. I’ll reconstruct examples of these word/symbol/puns
cited in Mike’s article as we continue.

Let’s begin with the symbol/word/pun d.Nib-I-Ru.

In symbology, the letter ‘d’ put before Nibiru is represented by the delta or cone

symbol, , and means ‘door’. Put together, this renders Nibiru as a ‘deity, door star’
or ‘deity, star door’.

Now, let’s add this to CAD’s definition of Nibiru (“door,” “star,” “deity”) as a
“crossing point,” “ford” or “gate.”

Isn’t this, once again, telling us exactly what the Sumerians said Nibiru was in their
own words: a star- gate? And that it moves from planet to planet?

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The word Nibiru gives instruction about the divine gate from various points of view,
without order as to time. Further drilling into the meaning of NEB leads us into a
fascinating matrix or web of connections.

For instance, the Old Testament prophets were called NEBI or NABI. Is this because
they held the secrets of the Gate (Nibiru)?

In Deuteronomy 32:49 Moses was told by God to ge t to Mount NEB or NE-BO, ‘the
lofty place’. Moses ‘died’ there in c. 1400 B.C. Nob means ‘serpent’ and ‘sun’, rendering
Nebo as the ‘sun-serpent mountain’.

Serpent is con or kan in numerous tongues. This is no ordinary reptile. The serpent is
a symbol for a con-duit, defined by Webster’s as ‘a narrow passage, usually underground,
for the purpose of secret communication… a canal, pipe, or passageway for the

conveyance of fluids’. This is why a ring as in the con-centric circle symbolizes

the serpent. For this reason Nebo is referred to a con-ical mountain, which is why the

geometrical cone, , a ring with a delta or door symbol symbolizes it.

In 570 B.C. NEB-u-kad-nez-ar or Nebuchadnezzar was the king of Babylon, who

opened a ‘fiery furnace’ or ‘gate to God’ through which the ‘Son of God’ appeared, or
was made visible. The followers of John the Baptist called this ‘Son of God’ NABU. This
‘fiery furnace’ appears to be the same as the ‘burning bush’ experienced by Moses.
“Christians” claim the god, I Am, who appeared to Moses in the burning bush was a
prefiguration of Christ. These appearances, in Babylon and atop Sinai, suggest that Jesus
made regular appearances through the ‘fiery furnace’/’burning bush’. The burning and
fiery descriptions of his gateway are alluded to in Jesus’ title, ‘the phoenix’ bird of
resurrection that rises from its own ashes.

Interestingly, Webster’s says NEB-NEB is the same as bablah, which is not only blah-
blah, but is also bab-el-uh, phonetically similar to bablahn or Babylon. Neb-neb is ben-
ben spelled backwards. The ben ben was the conical stone or egg of the phoenix or heron

, whom the Egyptians regarded as a cosmic emissary, the embodiment of the Divine

Word , that delivered to Heliopolis , , a teaching designed to transform

humans into herons (or light beings). The Key of Life , a ring, vibration or
frequency, symbolized this transformative teaching.

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The heron delivers the ring or key of life.

The sun-temple/ near Heliopolis featuring the ben-ben stone of the

Phoenix/heron.

The Tower of Babel (meaning ‘the gate’ or NEBIRU) was modeled after the original
tower to God called Meru, the root of Su-Meru or Sumer, and was symbolized by the

‘ring’ atop the ‘cone’ , . The word tower rings of tour, meaning circle or circuit

. This neb answers to the Egyptian ben ben. The rod and ring is used in modern

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iconography for microphone, e.g. on telephone answering machines and other household
appliances. As a military sign it is used to denote an outpost.

Meru, from a 2nd century Chinese manuscript. It looks like an antenna because that’s
what Mongolian myth says it was. The immortals dwelled at Meru because of the

vibrations emanating or ringing from it. ‘Meru’ means LOVE.

This sign , , the eye, is a top-down view of the Meru antenna/post

pictured here. It is associated with the idea of the sun as a center, Meru, and as a source
of light and energy, i.e. a ‘pillar of fire’. It is also another view of the Nib or gateway

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Nibiru is said to have been located “at the center of Heaven”. is used on maps
to indicate different types of centers from which energy and/or communication emanate:
central station, lighthouse, transformer station, post office, telegraph and telephone
station and pushbutton (for on/off).

In a moment, we will see that Mike cites Nibiru as MUL.APIN (“Plough Star”),
seemingly without knowing that the Plough is another well-known name for Meru, the
World-Mountain or Whirling Cone. In ancient Egypt, the stars of the Plough (Ursa
Major) were called the “Car of Osiris,” shown on some planispheres by an Ark, situated
near the polar point.

When the Hebrew scribes of the binary god Yahweh or IAO (Input/Output) switched
the meanings (and frequencies) of words after the Babel/Meru incident babel was
transfo rmed from ‘gate to god’ to ‘confusion’ and blah-blah to ‘nonsense’ A great
literary black-op was performed. The Gate to God, ‘Nibiru’, was covered up like a giant
black or blah-ck hole. Now, when one cites the true nature of the gate they are met with
derision, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And now to push the circumference of this circle, , Webster’s says Bablah is a
pod of the Acacia, the living wood out of which the Ark of God was made. This is why
Neb or Ne-bo became Nabe, the prophets of the navel or navis (boat or Ark).

Failing to crosscheck the Sumerian and English dictionaries, Mike does not see the
inner meaning of Nibiru as “the Ark of the Gods, the vehicle of crossing of the deity.”
His shortsightedness extends to his interpretation of an important cylinder seal, VA 243,
which he also uses to assail Sitchin.

Before exploring this seal, and also Mike’s take on ZS’s 12th planet theory, indulge
me for a moment in a brief exploration of another Babylonian tablet that explains the
meaning of RU, the suffix attached to Nib to form Nibiru.

RU. WHAT IS IT?

In John Oates’s book Babylon is found an illustration that makes my point that
ancient art carries an exoteric meaning for the uninitiated and an esoteric meaning for
those of the light. This diagram is copied from one of the few Old Babylonian math texts
that appear theoretical in content, meaning it is a problem to be solved. ‘Theoretical’
means ‘to look at’, ‘to view’, ‘to contemplate’. Oates found it in H.W.F. Saggs’ The
Greatness That Was Babylon. The tablet was inscribed with a geometrical exercise in
which the student had to calculate the areas of various shapes. ‘A square, the side is 1.
Inside it are 4 quadrants and 16 boat-shapes. I have drawn 5 regular concave tetragons.
This area, what is it?

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Math problem from a second millennium B.C. tablet. The British Museum.

What is it? is a double entendre. Readers of Laurence Gardner will immediately

recognize this phrase. What is it? comes from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the oldest
complete book in the world. At every stage of his journey to enlightenment and to the
blessed star- field of the gods the pharaoh asks the repetitive question, “What is it?”

“What is it?” refers to Manna, the holy substance, known as gold, symbolized by the

Egyptians by a cone (or a Nebo). The gods of Nibiru, the Anunnaki, notes Gardner,
manufactured the Manna. “Christianity,” which calls Manna the “body or host of Christ”
(symbolized by the communion cakes), is a garbled knock-off of the religion of the
Anunnaki Manna manufacturers. What did this religion concern? The word Mul, ‘star’,
holds a key. When the people of Syracuse were sacrificing to goddesses, they offered
cakes called Mulloi, shaped like the female organ. Mel-am was the Sumerian word for

‘Divine Power’ , .

Yahweh, IAO, who traveled in a pillar of fire, taught the Israelites about Manna. They

kept it in the Arch, (Bo), Argo, Arko or Ark of the Covenant, the Boat of God.

This returns us to the Babylonian drawing.

The ‘boat shapes’ (or mouth shapes) that comprise the Babylonian drawing, ,

were also well known to the Egyptians. In Egypt, means ‘neter’ and has the value
of ‘R’ in English.

Upright, this symbol forms the Egyptian hieroglyph Ru , meaning ‘birth

passage’, ‘doorway’, ‘vagina’.

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When I attach my (logical) left brain to my (symbolic) right brain, I find that Nib-I-
Ru is a compound word/symbol/idea composed of Nib, ‘the projecting end of anything’,

‘a lofty place’, a ‘mountain’ or ‘cone’ , , I, meaning ‘pillar or column’, and

, Ru, ‘doorway’. In other words, it is Meru.

In addition to a boat, the neter, meaning ‘watcher’ symbol, , looks like an eye,

. The Chinese used the same symbol to represent ‘to visit’ and eye. It is the same
as the almond-shaped doorway seen in the Neolithic tunnel – conduit – drawing
presented here and the doorway of Jesus who called himself the Door.

Neolithic meander tunnel with Ru symbols at either end.

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Jesus in the Ru from a doorway at Chartres Cathedral.

A WORD ABOUT LANGUAGE

Of course, ‘scholars’ might argue that I’m making up meanings to give wings to my
dotty bird-brained theory. All I’m doing is following the xample of the Druidic bard
(bird) or wise man Thomas Jefferson, i.e.a. looking up words in the English dictionary

and connecting or fusing points that are already there.

The English dictionary is the code-key to the Language of the Birds, a phonetic
cabala. This code poetically equates words that sound alike in different languages,
connecting word concepts by sound in English. It is also called the Language of Angels.

Christian O’Brien notes that the Sumerians called this language eme-an, the
‘language of heaven’; hence of the angels. In this language of poetry another linguistic
variation of ‘bird’ is ‘bard’ (poet, wise Druid) and ‘bud’, a verb meaning ‘to cause to
bud, germinate, sprout’. Allowing for the substitution of birds, bards, and buds renders
the poetic Language of the Birds as the Language of the Buds (or flowers). The Buds are
also the Budd-has. ‘Buddha’, the son of Tara, comes from the Sanskrit budh, meaning ‘to
awaken’. In this way the definition of the Bird Language rolls into the Buddha’s
‘language that awakens’.

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As I wrote in The Language of the Birds, Jesus used the Bird or Budhha language. It

is of great interest to me that the Egyptian hieroglyph of the phoenix/heron , the bird
of akh (light, serpent), shows the ‘conduit or bond between heaven and earth’. It closely

matches the stylized fish glyph of Jesus , which portrays Jesus’ ‘life- line’ or

‘serpent-rope’, though it predates him by millennia. Compare them with , and

doorway.

Few scholars have ever heard of, and almost none understand, this language, which
was the gift of the gods. Hence, their interpretation of ancient myth is incomplete. It was

called Babel, the language of the gate. The metaphor of the tower (or tour ) for the
language of the gate was suggested by a pun on Hebrew balal (to confuse). ‘Therefore its
name was called Babel, because the Lord confused the language of all the earth’. Poets
used this language to conceal the secrets of the gate (nibiru). ‘Mainstream’ scholars
throughout the ages have sought to destroy this language. We are indeed impoverished by
this loss. It is our humble quest to recover this lost language of the angels (the cherubim
who guard the gate) and climb the tower once again.

Viewing Nibiru as a star-gate brings new light its winged-disk symbol.

Like the human brain, and the winged disk symbol of Nibiru, the Bird Language has
two wings: a left wing and a right wing. In between the two is a bridge of light. American
politics is divided into these categories. So is our scholarship, where the left-wingers tend
to be literal. Often, this results in their inability to see the right side. They complain, but
do not offer an alternative.

The wings of Nibiru are a symbol of spiritual aspiration and are indicative of the
higher path of consciousness.

Mero-dach (Meru-Dock, ‘Star Dock’) or MARDUK, another name for Nibiru, is a

symbol of the Higher Self, the Hero(n) who personifies the triumph over the lower
nature. In the Hymn to Merodach he is called ‘king of Heaven and Earth, the merciful
one, who loves to raise the dead to life.” Sayse says Merodach has been identified with
Asari, the son of E.A. Asari and Osiris were evidently the same. The character and
attributes of both were the same. Osiris was Un-nefer or Un-nepheru, ‘the good being’
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. Merodach was the divine man, God incarnate, freed from the limitations of mortal

existence. Many of the symbols of Merodach and Os-Iris, the eye , were applied to
Jesus.

Nebo (Neboru or Nibiru and Marduk) says Rawlinson, “presided over Mercury,” the
winged god who teaches and instructs (and who gave the apples from the holy plant
named Moly to Ulysses). Nebo was credited, like E.A., with the invention of writing and

language. He was also the ‘bond of the universe’, , , . (His temple was
recently discovered at Borsippa in Iraq.)

He answers to all the bookish wise gods Thoth, the Egyptian bird god, as well as
Hermes, and Thor.

THE DISK

Let’s next explore the simple disk symbol of Nibiru. This is the universal
symbol or ideogram for the sun. It is a circle or a ring (a key, tone, frequency or

vibration). is also a quantity, zero or none. Phonetically, none and nun are the
same. When most think of a nun they think of a woman who is a supporter of Christ (the
‘bridge’, ‘gate’, ‘door’ between Earth and Heaven). However, to the Egyptians, NUN is
the Cosmic Ocean, called the Waters of Nun. The Hebrew word nun means fish. Literally
interpreted Anunnaki means the ‘fish’ or ‘water’, Nun, of aki, ‘snake’, ‘sun’, ‘light’.

Milky Way galaxy from NASA’s COBE satellite. The Waters of NUN.

These ‘living waters’ (delivered by the Fisher- man Christ in the Christian scheme)
emanate from the central point in our disk-shaped Milky Way galaxy, symbolized by the

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, the symbol for sun, gold and eye. (Remember, Jesus was called the Mari-Gold or

the golden Days Eye.) In esoteric teaching represents the creative spark of divine
consciousness that exists in every individual. These healing waters fanned out into four
rivers from the celestial Eden, hence the enclosed sun-cross of the Sumerian sun god

O’Samas .

Fascinatingly, Oxford scholars Jeremy Black and Anthony Green, say the Akkadian

names of the symbol were samsatu and niphu, which is nipoo or niboo and Nib-o.

From this we gather that is the symbol for Nibiru (also suggested by Sitchin), the

Star-Gate. Actually, it is composed of four gates , , , fused

, , in one . (Note the Templar Seal.)

The at the core of is an astronomical sign for planetary nebula. It has

been used in Buddhist art to indicate the emanation of spiritual power. The Hebrews
called this spark I AM.

The three wavy lines represent ‘water’ and ‘wisdom’ (especially

spiritual). They are the substance of which Gilgamesh’s gate is composed.

When looked at head-on these three wavy lines (serpents) look like this , the
alchemical sign for oil and the Skull (Gulgotha) or Word of God, ‘the Life Force or Love

energy upon which the World is built. is the symbol for Wood. It is a three-headed
serpent. It is seen on the cheek of Makara in the illustration shown previously. In modern

electrical engineering signifies three-phased alternating current. This sign

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can also mean alternating current of a frequency that is above audible level. This is also
the symbol for the exotic matter of which stargates are composed. Science is on the verge
of bathing in the mist-eries of these waters.

The point or eye within the circle is the Neb, the ‘cross-point’ , .

In this fifteenth century drawing called “Music of the Spheres”, Apollo sits on his throne
with his lire in hand. The serpent-rope descending through a graded universe is strikingly
reminiscent of the “serpent channel” descending from the crown of the head, down the
spinal column to a lotus center in the root chakra of the mystic human body. The three-
headed form with his head emerging in a circle labeled TERRA (or Earth) corresponds to

the Wood symbol, and the root chakra where the coiled serpent sleeps in yogic
teaching.

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Alchemists believed we are the .

Nibiru’s logo,the 8-rayed flower, , turns up repeatedly in esoteric symbolism.

It is symbolically equivalent to the 8-rayed star symbolizing the Buddhist Kalachakra

(“Wheel of Time”) Tradition , which was adopted as the symbol for the Holy Grail

on William Sinclair’s tombstone in Scotland. When Iraq achieved its

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independence in 1921, this particular star was placed on their flag. After the
revolution of 1958 that ushered in the regime of Saddam Hussein a new flag was created
with three Venus stars on it. This is because the orbit of the planet Venus makes the
figure of a pentagram every 8 years.

This is the ideogram of Is-Tara, the queen of the Heavens who was also called
Kore or Core. She is obviously the center of the galaxy.

In the depiction below kingship is lowered from heaven.

Nabu-aplaiddin is presented to the sun-god Samas , who is enthroned within his

shrine. 9th century. The symbol of Samas sits on the symbol for .British
Museum.

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Boundary stone with bas-relief showing cone-topped pillar, and three stars. End of third
millennium B.C. Louvre.

There were three divinities in the Iraq region. Their symbols can be seen in almost

every ancient mythological representation. They are , the sun or Nib god; ,

the moon god, Sin; and , Is-Tara, , the symbol for the planet Venus. It is
very commo n as a Christmas star or the star of Bethelehem.

I should mention that is the same as , the cube with eight angles.

How do you see it?

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Assyrian seal impression showing a worshipper before a pillar, an 8-pointed star and a
temple-tower. 9th /8th century B.C. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin.

This impression from Tell Asmar depicts, on the right, a worshipper bringing a sacrificial
lamb to the sun-god Shamash. To the left, Is-Tara can be seen holding a ‘lion mace’. In
between her and the worshipper is the 8-pointed star.

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Magi and the 8-pointed star of ‘Christ’. , Is-Tara,

VA 243

Heiser calls our attention to a famous cylinder seal known as VA 243 to defend his
assertion that Sitchin is lost in his theory about the 12th planet. This seal is a keystone of
Sitchin’s book The 12th Planet. He says it shows a solar system with 12 planets.

As Heiser points out, the inscriptions on the seal have nothing to do with astronomy.

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Cylinder Seal VA 243

Star system on seal VA 243.

In simplest terms, the alleged “six-rayed sun” in the upper left corner of the seal isn’t
a sun, and so the artwork doesn’t depict the sun and our solar system. Tom Van Flandern,
Mike notes, has also shown that the sizes of the planets in this solar system do not match
our own. This clearly suggests Sitchin could be describing a star system other than our
own, jeopardizing his 12th planet theory. But what about my stargate theory?

If not the sun, then what is the six-rayed symbol? It’s a STAR, says Mike. We know
this, he says, because of the consistent sun iconography of Sumero-Mesopotamian
art. And in case you’re thinking, “well the sun is a star”, adds Mike, the Sumerians and
Mesopotamians distinguished these bodies in their artwork. For a scholarly commentary
on this seal I recommend Cambridge and Oxford-affiliated scholars D.S. Allan & J.B.
Delair’s book Cataclysm: Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 B.C.

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Here’s Mike’s English translation of the seal’s inscriptions:

Line 1 (left hand sid of the seal) = dub-si- ga “Dubsiga” [a personal name of an
apparently powerful person]

Line 2 (right hand side, top) = ili- il- la-at “Ili- illat” [another personal name, this time
of the seal’s owner]

Line 3 (right hand side bottom) = ir3-su “dein Knecht” [German for “your servant”]

His full (and as he says rather boring) inscription of VA243 reads: “Dubsiga, Ili- illat,
your/his servant.” Like he said, nothing in the inscription suggests anything remotely to
do with astronomy or planets. I have a question. How can there be a star system sitting
next to the priest, yet the seal says nothing about astronomy?

Mike will be interested to know that the word Ili, as in Ili- illat, means ‘light’, and is
the root or ‘illumination, illuminati’. The Illi gods were stars, which is why the Illi priests
worshipped light. It likely indicates that the subject, Dubsiga, was a servant or priest of
Illi, the Light.

The word illi was carried over to England where natives who contacted the Illi upon
the hills (under the tutelage of the Druid bards or birds) called them the Nob-Illi or the
high or lofty Illi for “nob,” as in Moses’ Nebo, means high, sun and serpent. The Illi

‘light serpents’ or Anunnaki were the rulers of Su-Meru . In many languages the
letters ‘r and ‘l’ are interchangeable. This allows us to write Nib-iru as Nibilu, or Nib-ili,
which is the same as Nob-ili.

This is Mike’s problem. While to the trained eye the seal’s cuneiform inscription says
nothing about astronomy, to the “untrained eye” the seal’s symbolism and inscription is
loaded with meaning.

More astronomical information is encoded in the seated figure. This, says Mike, is a
god as evidenced by his flounced cloak and the two rays or horns on his head. Black and

Green note that the Babylonians used the horns to represent ‘forked lightning flash’.

To me, they look like a tuning fork. This is valid as Black and Green say is connected
with the ring-post or ringing-cone (MERU). These are likely the same ‘horns of God’
Michaelangelo depicted on Moses’ head in the statue in the Vatican Museum. This is

because Moses ‘Sinai’, like Nebo, is a metaphor for Meru .

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A ring-staff (left). A ringed staff with winged disk on top (center). Northern
Mesopotamian seal impression. Meru (right).

Fish-Nu or Vishnu with forked lightning flash on his left shoulder and his disk weapon on
his right shoulder.

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The cloaked god in VA 243 sits before a plough. Though Mike doesn’t identify him
this god is thought to be Dagan (Hebrew Dogon), the inventor of the plough. Dagon’s
name means ‘fish of light’. He is E.A. The serpent floating behind him reinforces this
identification.

Interestingly, Mike cites Nibiru as MUL.APIN (“Plough Star”), seemingly without

knowing that the Plough is well known as Meru, and is even more widely known as Ursa
Major.

Ringed APIN (left). Babylonian APIN or NEB (right).

Sitchin finds APIN (“an object that plows through”) at the temple mound of Anu at
Uruk. He cites it as a multi-stage rocket. While I can’t say for certain that this is so, it
does resemble a nib of a pen, and penetrator or a drill. The words Nib, Neb and Pen go

together. Just look head-on at the nib of a pen. It resembles a .

The sacred and symbolic name for bread- makers (bread is Manna ) was Pan or Pen.
From this we derive Penis and Penus, which has also the meaning of Sar (‘lofty’ ‘Nib’),
Sir, Lord, Master and Bread Giver, or Preserver of Life, hence Savior.

The Pan-Theists characterized man as a microcosm or world in miniature made in the

image of God – the Macrocosm or Greater Universe. The heretics were charged with
cherishing the arrogant and impious notion that man’s soul might be developed into a
god, as the alchemist refined the baser metals into gold. They called themselves Cathars
or Pure Ones. These Cat people emitted a purr or pure tone the called MR or AMOR,
MERU.

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Black basalt memorial stone of Esarhaddon, inscribed with an account of the restoration
of the walls of Babylon. At the top of the tone are sculptured the Assyrian ‘sacred tree’
and a horned crown resting on an altar. In the lower register is one of the clearest
representations of a Babylonian plough with seed-drill. British Museum.

This Kassite seal impression provides an excellent picture of a Babylonian seeder-

plough. In the center of the image is the Cross of Nibiru. The cabalistic mystics who

studied the cable or lines of transmission between Earth and Heaven used to signify

innocence. Compare with its graphic opposite, , the ideogram for sin, guilt, and
loss of innocence, which Sitchin identifies as the symbol for Nibiru. The reason for
humanity’s loss of innocence was the ‘serpent’ (E.A., the Wise One), who delivered
knowledge of Life (‘the serpent rope, cable or gate to God’).

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Undoubtedly the most familiar star pattern in the entire sky is the seven stars that
make up the shape popularly termed the Plough or Big Dipper, part of the constellation
Ursa Major, the Great Bear.

In ancient Greece, Babylon, India, China and in North America, Ursa Major has been
seen as a she-bear, appearing in every extended reference to the heavens in the legends,
parchments, tablets, and stones of remotest times - even though the arrangement of the
seven stars of Ursa Major in no way resembles a bear! This is because the term is a pun
for ‘bear’, as in ‘bear across’ or ‘plow through’, which is why it is called Ark-tos, the bear
(cross).

According to the early Christian commentator Iranaeus, Jesus was a maker of

ploughs. He writes of the Word of God “turning the swords and spears of warfare into
tools of peace, into ploughs that he himself has made.” The Acts of Peter includes the
plough (Meru, Su-Meru) in the list of Jesus’ titles. He is a plough wright. Iranaeus’
inspiration, Justin, lists the plough as interchangeable with the cosmic cross. Justin in turn
derived his interpretation from primitive Christian symbolism. The early Christians, in
turn, derived their knowledge from Egypt, who got if from Su-Meru (the Plough, Arktos).

Another pun is involved as well. Long ago, the constellations we know as the Great
and Little Bears were together called Tula (‘balance’), held as the birthplace of humanity
(in Hebrew ‘virgin’ is bethula, ‘house of Tula’). But then something happened. The name
‘Tula’ was transferred to the center (Meru) of our Milky Way galaxy. The name ‘the
Seven Rishis’ or ‘Seven Sages’, applied to the Seven Stars of Ursa Major were no longer
applied to the Great Bear, but to the Pleiades. Tiamat is the Mother Planet of the Pleiades.
After a confrontation with Nibiru, from her body came the seeds of life that formed
Earth.

Tula is akin to the Greek word Tolas meaning confusion (Babel), black earth (Egypt
was called the Black Land). The Greek word Gryphe also means confusion (babel). Jesus
is called the Master-Griffon because as God and man he represents union of the divine
and the human. In fairy tales the Griffin, the Bird of Gold, figures prominently as a
transporter through the golden gate. Herodotus regarded the Griffin as the guardian of
god’s treasures, and on a higher plane, the way or door of salvation.

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The Griffon atop the winged globe of Nibiru draws the Cube of Space or the Ark of
the Christos.

In Gnostic emblems the Gryphon is sometimes represented with its paw or claw upon

a wheel; sometimes the wheel , squeezes out of its chrysalis a tiny human

soul, a nib . In the designs below from Egypt and Europe, the little souls is emerging
jubilantly from the mouth of a Serpent (or worm hole). These express the passage “Osiris
enters the tail of a great serpent, was drawn through its body and came out through its
mouth, and was then born anew.” The story of Jesus/Jonah and the whale mirrors this
story.

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The passage through the ‘wheel or whirl of life’ .

Jason/Jesus and Athena.

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Jesus in the ring. Hildegard of Bingen.

CONCLUSION: ‘Away’ We Go

In conclusion, Heiser’s attack on Sitchin doesn’t really pack the punch he intended,
but it has successfully brought forward a few gems that ignited a new avenue of research
into Nibiru as a gate. This commentary will be continued in a forthcoming book, The
Secret Door to I Am.

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