Nibiru

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Nibiru, to the Babylonians, was the celestial body associated with the god Marduk. The name is Akkadian and means 'crossing place' or 'place of transition'. In most Babylonian texts it is identified with the planet Jupiter; in Tablet 5 of the [[En�ma Elish]] it may be the pole star¹, which at the time was Thuban or possibly Kochab.

According to writers Zecharia Sitchin and Burak Eldem, Nibiru in Sumerian records referred to an undiscovered planet.

Notes

• Note 1: "The Fifth Tablet of Enuma Elish", by B. Landsberger and J. V. Kinnier Wilson, in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies: Vol. 20, No. 3. (Jul., 1961), pp. 174-176.

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Nibiru" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru, used under the GNU Free Documentation License