Kingu
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Kingu (Sitchin Interpretation) Kingu is a mythological figure reinterpreted by author Zecharia Sitchin in The Lost Book of Enki, part of his Earth Chronicles series. Drawing upon Sumerian and Babylonian mythology, particularly the Enuma Elish, Sitchin presents Kingu as a celestial body involved in the primordial events that shaped the Earth and the solar system.
Background In Mesopotamian myth, Kingu is the consort of the primordial goddess Tiamat, to whom she grants the Tablet of Destinies, making him the commander of her forces in a divine war. In the Enuma Elish, he is defeated by the god Marduk, who uses his blood to create mankind.
Sitchin reinterprets these myths through the lens of ancient astronaut theory, positing that the deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon were in fact extraterrestrial beings from a planet called Nibiru.
Role in The Lost Book of Enki According to Sitchin:
Kingu is not a deity in the traditional sense but a proto-planetary satellite, the principal moon of the water-world Tiamat.
During a celestial conflict initiated by the arrival of Nibiru (a rogue planetary body entering the early solar system), Kingu is aligned with Tiamat against Nibiru.
In the ensuing cosmic battle, Nibiru's gravitational and physical forces destroy Tiamat. Half of Tiamat becomes the Earth, and her other fragments form the asteroid belt (referred to as the "Hammered Bracelet").
Kingu is stripped of his independent destiny and captured by Nibiru’s forces. He is set into orbit around the newly-formed Earth, thus becoming what is now known as the Moon.
Legacy and Interpretation Sitchin's narrative suggests that ancient myths preserve encoded memories of real astronomical events and extraterrestrial interventions. Kingu, in this context, represents not only a mythological figure but a physical body whose remnants remain as Earth's Moon.
This interpretation diverges significantly from mainstream academic views, which consider the Enuma Elish a symbolic and theological myth rather than a literal cosmological history.
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[edit]Sources
[edit]- Leeming, David Adams (2005). The Oxford Companion to World Mythology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-515669-0.
External links
[edit]- The Enuma Elish Archived 2008-06-10 at the Wayback Machine translated by N. K. Sandars