Started: August 13, 2023 | Finished: August 20,2023
The Cosmic Code
Because I read this book very shortly after I finished the previous one in the series which was "When Time Began", this book did not begin well for me. Why? Because of repetition. Several chapters in, Sitchin just kept repeating what I've read in the previous books. It went on for so long that, if I wasn't such an adherent of ancient astronaut theory, I would have dropped the book.
Fortunately as the book progressed there were some new material:
Firstly, the secret of the gods, the knowledge they so long kept from humanity turns out to be science. What is now accessible to all of us, provided we take the time and effort to learn, used to be forbidden knowledge; or at least knowledge allowed only to a very few.
Secondly, the title of the book "The Cosmic Code" refers to a specific kind of knowledge - knowledge of DNA. Unsurprisingly, this part of the book has Sitchin recounting the creation of mankind. There is an interesting detail of why a demigod descended from the Annunaki on the mother's side is considered two-thirds god instead of half a god. It turns out that our mothers, in the DNA level, gives us more than our fathers in the form of an additional DNA component called mDNA or mitochondrial DNA - so we inherit more from our moms.
Now, regarding this third new thing that I picked up from this book, I found myself, for the first time, being a bit skeptical of Sitchin. Here he is pushing the validity of numerology. There are references to the Kabbalistic tradition of the Jews, of how numerology is tied in with the Hebrew language and there are a number of examples of numerology being used both in relation to the Bible and the Annunaki. Every book has Sitchin nerding out on a particular section; in this book it is about Numerology.
There is a big focus on Abraham on this book and his part during the events surrounding the catastrophic atomic blast which ended the Sumerian Empire. It turns out that Father Abraham wasn't this peacful shepherd, he seems to be a formidable general on the side of the Enlilites.
The book ends with insinuations about how the knowledge left by the gods not only contains information about how civilization and man began but also how it all ends. Sitchin doesn't do a full-on discussion of this perhaps because it is related to the last book of the series "The End of Days".
In spite of the new revelations this book does drag the series down for me because there is too much repetition of material from previous books.