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7Vials wrote:"In 1894, with the help of William Pickering, Percival Lowell, a wealthy Bostonian aristocrat, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. In 1906, convinced he could resolve the conundrum of Uranus's orbit, he began an extensive project to search for a trans-Neptunian planet, which he named Planet X." (from wikipedia). Sitchin was born in 1922. It could have been a long time lingering / day residue idea. But, of course, this Planet X wasn't supposed to be our destroyer. "X" refers to an unknown. Thus the name Planet X, which doesn't necesarilly have to be a planet. Like Wormwood referred to as a star. Or maybe the Blue Star Kachina. It could just be the idea of some big asteroid which statistically Earth will be hit by again someday.
Mass extinction events seem to occur every 30 million years but that would be to long for the orbit of any object (I read something accounting that to crossing the galactic plane which occurs every ~30 million years, which we are crossing now). Yeah, read that too - don't recall the timeframe. Modern humans have been around 200,000 years. I wonder how many great civilizations could have come and gone in that time that we know nothing about, since that without humans show hypothesized that pretty much all traces of our existence would be gone in 10,000 years. Maybe there is a cyclical 30,000 or so year destruction that comes and the survivors blame it on there wicked ways and try to change.
In all honesty I think we knew what was going on, at least until the rewrite and everything went to hell in a handbasket. The picture would have been simple; if they come, somekind of doom was coming. If the picture is right, the goddess would represent the nebula and finally explain the weight picture; but we had no details 40,000 years ago. It wasn't until around 9000 BC that it seemed we got a little more information. Doom doesn't come on a schedule - they just show up - like today.  "...men are not so far from the truth as they generally believe. Their greatest error is in searching for it where it is not, and in attaching it to forms; whereas, they ought, on the contrary, to avoid form in order to dwell upon the essence." Fabre D'Olivet
Rather than STOP and say, 'Woops! I'm headed in the wrong direction,’ we tend to place a premium on projecting a consistent image of ourselves and try to rationalize our initial decision despite increasing evidence suggesting we ought to do the contrary. B M Staw
… many people today don't want honest answers insofar as 'honest’ means 'unpleasant’ or 'disturbing.’ They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. — Louis Kronenberger
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. — Francis Bacon
"How to teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly." ... "The easy thing is to commit the whole community to the devil and retire again into the heavenly rock dwelling, close the door, and make it fast." — Joseph Campbell
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