The Return of Nibiru

Once again it seems, everything old is new again.  How true.  As the 21st century unfolds, new discoveries seem to give credence to old myths and campaigns.  Take Islam, for example.  Its war with civilization has been going on for over 1,400 years, but it's only in the last 15 that it's become a full blown world wide jihad again, reigniting the respondent and inevitable crusade against its vicious global undertakings.  Hey, Mohammad.  Blown up any ancient archaeological sites recently? Yeah, I thought so.

NASA's Case For Nibiru:  A Ninth Planet

Or take for example, the new revelations regarding Planet X, or as the ancient Sumerian texts referred to it, Nibiru.  And after some dozen millennia, how does this mythological planet enter into our contemporary discourse?  Gravitational anomalies.  To many of the universe-is-more-than-science-or-theology-can-explain persuasion, the recent news of a possible undiscovered planet in our solar system is proof that the ancients knew more about the universe and its workings than we do today.  In ancient Sumerian texts, there's a description that the creators of the human race came from a yet undiscovered planet that enters our solar system every couple of thousand years.  These texts indicate that aliens from this planet were known as the Nephilim, and that they colonized Earth over 400,000 years ago. The bible in Genesis and elsewhere also mentions this race, and calls them the “sons of God.”  OK,  I can buy into some of that, because there's a case to be made that there were certainly very sophisticated civilizations here on Earth in antiquity with advanced knowledge of astronomy and masonry construction that is now lost to us.  (An aside here:  ancient knowledge lost possibly due to the Muslim burning of the library at Alexandria, destroying forever all that ancient knowledge that was stored there.  And now the crazies are at it again, purifying the world.  Just sayin').

But the recent consideration of an unknown force in the solar system has been floating around for years, as astrophysicists study the anomalous gravitational forces occurring out near the Kuiper Belt, a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune, which is made up of vast numbers of comets, asteroids, and other small bodies.  Computer models suggest that a ninth planet roughly ten times the size of Earth could be affecting these small bodies in unpredictable ways.  It's being called the ninth planet because Pluto - the original ninth planet - has been downgraded to a planetoid due to its small size.  And we haven't actually observed said planet because its orbit is not keeping with the orbital planes of the known planets, being extremely elliptical and at a significant angle, taking it far out into space before looping back through the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune.  One orbit around the sun would take Nibiru approximately 16,000 years, compared to Neptune's orbit, which takes around 768 years to complete. 

So how can the existence of a huge ninth planet, so large as to exert gravitational affect on small astral bodies billions of miles from Earth, be known to and accounted for by the ancients?  And how is it that we, with all our contemporary technology, still cannot verify what we have been told with what we can observe?  Perhaps we've come to a point in our evolution where we will be able to determine with certainty from whence we came, and to know who we are. And in the answer antiquity, mythology and theology need not clash, for they are not, after all, mutually exclusive.