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Sitchin
November 2000
The unexpected corroboration is tucked away in the recently published book A Leap of Faith by
the Mercury-7 astronaut Gordon Cooper, in which his story as a test pilot and astronaut is
peppered with (to quote from the dust jacket),
"his strong views on the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence -- and even the
distinct possibility that we have already had contact."
My conclusion that the Olmec presence in the New World went back at
least 5,000 years, to circa 3000 B.C., was reached by many paths. The first
one was an attempt to identify the great god of Mesoamerica, the Winged
Serpent (Quetzalcoatl to the Aztecs, Kukulkan to the Mayas), and the
significance of his promise to return to those lands on the first day of a 52-
year cycle, (AD 1519, when the Aztec king Montezuma believed that the
appearance of the Spanish conquistador Cortez was such a Return,
coincided with the anticipated sacred date).
By the time I was writing The Lost Realms, the book devoted to the
prehistory of the Americas, I was sure that the arrival of the Olmecs with
Thoth/Quetzalcoatl could be established with astounding precision. The
key to unlocking the enigma was the Olmec Calendar.
In addition to the Haab and the Tzolkin, there was in Mesoamerica a third
calendar, used to inscribe dates on monuments. Given the name the Long
Count, it was not cyclical as the other two, but linear -- a continuous one,
counting the total number of days that had passed since the counting
But what was that Day One, when did it occur, and what was its
significance?
It has been established beyond doubt that this Long Count calendar was
the original Olmec calendar; and it is now generally agreed that Day One
was equivalent to August 13, 3113 B.C.
But what does that date signify? As far as I know, the only plausible
answer was provided by me: It was the date of Thoth/Quetzalcoatl's arrival,
with his followers in Mesoamerica!
"When we learned of the age of the artifacts," Cooper writes, “we realized
that what we'd found had nothing to do with seventeenth-century Spain... I
contacted the Mexican government and was put in touch with the head of
the national archaeology department, Pablo Bush Romero."
Together with Mexican archeologists the two went back to the site. After
some excavating, Cooper writes
Zecharia Sitchin
November 2000
© Z. Sitchin 2001
Reproduced by permission.