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Other books by Zecharia Sitchin
THE EARTH CHRONICLES
Book I: The 12th Planet
Book II: The Stairway to Heaven
Book III: The Wars of Gods and Men
Book IV: The Lost Realms
Genesis Revisited:
Is Modern Science Catching Up with Ancient Knowledge?
All of these books are available
in hardcover editions by Bear & Company
ZECHARIA SITCHIN
WHEN
Other books by Zecharia Sitchin
THE EARTH CHRONICLES
Book I: The 12th Planet
Book II: The Stairway to Heaven
Book III: The Wars of Gods and Men
Book IV: The Lost Realms
BEGAN
Genesis Revisited:
Is Modern Science Catching Up with Ancient Knowledge?
All of these books are available
in hardcover editions by Bear & Company
The Fifth
Book of
The Earth Chronicles
BEAR & COMPANY
PUBLISHING
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
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CONTENTS
Sitchin, Zecharia.
When time began / Zecharia Sitchin.
p. cm.— (The fifth book of the Earth chronicles)
Originally published: New York : Avon books, cl993.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 1-879181-16-9: $22.95
Foreword
1. The Cycles of Time
1. Civilization, ancient—Extraterrestrial influences.
2. Stonehenge (England) I. Title. II. Series: Sitchin, Zecharia.
Earth chronicles; 5.
2. A Computer Made of Stone
3. The Temples That Faced Heaven
4. DUR.AN.KI—The "Bond
Heaven-Earth"
5. Keepers of the Secrets
6. The Divine Architects
7. A Stonehenge on the Euphrates
8. Calendar Tales
9. Where the Sun Also Rises
10. In Their Footsteps
11. Exiles on a Shifting Earth
12. The Age of the Ram
13. Aftermath
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Copyright © 1993 by Zecharia Sitchin
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by
any means or in any form whatsoever without written permission
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The Bear & Company edition of When Time Began was published
in 1994. When Time Began was previously published in paperback
by Avon Books in 1993.
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Jacket design & illustration: Angela Werneke © 1994
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FOREWORD
Since the earliest times, Earthlings have lifted their eyes
unto the heavens. Awed as well as fascinated, Earthlings
learned the Ways of Heaven: the positions of the stars, the
cycles of Moon and Sun, the turning of an inclined Earth.
How did it all begin, how will it end—and what will happen
in between?
Heaven and Earth meet on the horizon. For millennia
Earthlings have watched the stars of the night give way to
the rays of the Sun at that meeting place, and chose as a
point of reference the moment when daytime and nighttime
are equal, the day of the Equinox. Man, aided by the cal-
endar, has counted Earthly Time from that point on.
To identify the starry heavens, the skies were divided
into twelve parts, the twelve houses of the zodiac. But as
the millennia rolled on, the "fixed stars" seemed not to be
fixed at all. and the Day of the Equinox, the day of the
New Year, appeared to shift from one zodiacal house to
another; and to Earthly Time was added Celestial Time—
the start of a new era, a New Age.
As we stand at the threshold of a New Age, when sunrise
on the day of the spring equinox will occur in the zodiacal
house of Aquarius rather than, as in the past 2,000 years,
in the zodiacal house of Pisces, many wonder what the
change might portend: good or evil, a new beginning or an
end—or no change at all?
To understand the future we should examine the past;
because since Mankind began to count Earthly Time, it has
already experienced the measure of Celestial Time—the
arrival of New Ages. What preceded and followed one such
New Age holds great lessons for our own present station in
the course of Time.
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The Cycles of Time
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"Look up skyward and count the stars," Yahweh told
Abraham as He made the covenant with him. Man has
looked skyward from time immemorial, and has been won-
dering whether there are others like him out there, upon
other earths. Logic, and mathematical probability, dictate
a Yes answer; but it was only in 1991 that astronomers, for
the first time, it was stressed, actually found other planets
orbiting other suns elsewhere in the universe.
The first discovery, in July 1991, turned out not to have
been entirely correct. It was an announcement by a team of
British astronomers that, based on observations over a five-
year period, they concluded that a rapidly spinning star
identified as Pulsar 1829-10 has a "planet-sized compan-
ion" about ten times the size of Earth. Pulsars are assumed
to be the extraordinarily dense cores of stars that have col-
lapsed for one reason or another. Spinning madly, they emit
pulses of radio energy in regular bursts, many times per
second. Such pulses can be monitored by radio telescopes;
by detecting a cyclic fluctuation, the astronomers surmised
that a planet that orbits Pulsar 1829-10 once every six
months can cause and explain the fluctuation.
As it turned out, the British astronomers admitted several
months later that their calculations were imprecise and,
therefore, they could not stand by their conclusion that the
pulsar, some 30,000 light-years away, had a planetary sat-
ellite. By then, however, an American team had made a
similar discovery pertaining to a much closer pulsar, iden-
tified as PSR 1257+ 12—a collapsed sun only 1,300 light-
years away from us. It exploded, astronomers estimated,
about a mere billion years ago; and it definitely has two,
and perhaps three, orbiting planets. The two certain ones
were orbiting their sun at about the same distance as Mercury
does our Sun; the possible third planet orbits its sun at about
the same distance as Earth does our Sun.
"The discovery stirred speculation that planetary systems
not only were fairly common but also could occur under
diverse circumstances," wrote John Noble Wilford in The
New York Times of January 9, 1992; "scientists said it was
rnost unlikely that planets orbiting pulsars could be hospita-
THE CYCLES OF TIME
It is said that Augustine of Hippo, the bishop in Roman
Carthage (A.D. 354-430), the greatest thinker of the Chris-
tian Church in its early centuries, who fused the religion of
the New Testament with the Platonistic tradition of Greek
philosophy, was asked, "What is time?" His answer was,
"If no one asks me, I know what it is; if I wish to explain
what it is to him who asks me, I do not know."
Time is essential to Earth and all that is upon it, and to
each one of us as individuals; for, as we know from our
own experience and observations, what separates us from
the moment we are born and the moment when we cease
to live is TIME.
Though we know not what Time is, we have found ways
to measure it. We count our lifetimes in years, which—
come to think of it—is another way of saying "orbits," for
that is what a "year" on Earth is: the time it takes Earth,
our planet, to complete one orbit around our star, the Sun.
We do not know what time is, but the way we measure it
makes us wonder: would we live longer, would our life
cycle be different, were we to live on another planet whose
"year" is longer? Would we be "immortal" if we were to
be upon a "Planet of millions of years"—as, in fact, the
Egyptian pharaohs believed that they would be, in an eternal
Afterlife, once they joined the gods on that "Planet of
millions of years"?
Indeed, are there other planets "out there," and, even
more so, planets on which life as we know it could have
evolved—or is our planetary system unique, and life on
Earth unique, and we, humankind, are all alone—or did the
pharaohs know what they were speaking of in their Pyramid
Texts?
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