As in every large civilization, there was a host of different people with different views. I wouldn't be to quick to discount Sichen's work, he seems to have done the most of it, and there's nothing nefarious about his work, it is an honest effort. I was the first person to agree with calls for more research by other competent translators, not just because so much remains untranslated, but to double check Sichen's work. but people who dismiss his work because they don't like what it says... that's not science.
Days, the whole idea of Nibiru is pseudo-science to begin with:
The
Nibiru cataclysm is a supposed disastrous encounter between the
Earth and a large planetary object (either a collision or a
near-miss) which certain groups believe will take place in the early 21st century. Believers in this
doomsday event usually refer to this object as
Planet X or
Nibiru. The idea that a planet-sized object will collide with or closely pass by Earth in the near future is not supported by any scientific evidence and has been rejected as
pseudoscience and an internet
hoax by astronomers and planetary scientists.
[2][3]
The idea was first put forward in 1995 by Nancy Lieder,
[4][5] founder of the website ZetaTalk. Lieder describes herself as a
contactee with the ability to receive messages from
extraterrestrials from the
Zeta Reticuli star system through an implant in her brain. She states that she was chosen to warn mankind that the object would sweep through the inner
Solar System in May 2003 (though that date was later postponed) causing Earth to undergo a physical
pole shift that would destroy most of humanity.
[6] The prediction has subsequently spread beyond Lieder's website and has been embraced by numerous Internet doomsday groups, most of which linked the event to the
2012 phenomenon. The name "Nibiru" is derived from the works of the
ancient astronaut writer
Zecharia Sitchin and his interpretations of
Babylonian and
Sumerian mythology; he denied any connection between his work and various claims of a coming apocalypse.
Origins
Nancy Lieder
The idea of the Nibiru encounter originated with Nancy Lieder, a
Wisconsin woman who claims that as a girl she was
contacted by
gray extraterrestrials called
Zetas, who implanted a communications device in her brain. In 1995, she founded the website ZetaTalk to disseminate her ideas.
[7] Lieder first came to public attention on Internet
newsgroups during the build-up to
Comet Hale–Bopp's 1997
perihelion. She stated, claiming to speak as the Zetas,
[8] that "The Hale-Bopp comet does not exist. It is a fraud, perpetrated by those who would have the teeming masses quiescent until it is too late. Hale-Bopp is nothing more than a distant
star, and will draw no closer."
[9]She claimed that the Hale-Bopp story was manufactured to distract people from the imminent arrival of a large planetary object, "Planet X", which would soon pass by Earth and destroy civilization.
[9] After Hale-Bopp's perihelion revealed it as one of the brightest and longest-observed comets of the last century,
[10] Lieder removed the first two sentences of her initial statement from her site, though they can still be found in
Google's archives.
[9] Her claims eventually made the
New York Times.
[11]
Lieder described Planet X as roughly four times the size of the Earth, and said that its closest approach would occur on May 27, 2003, resulting in the Earth's rotation ceasing for exactly 5.9 terrestrial days. This would be followed by the Earth's pole destabilising in a
pole shift (a
physical pole shift, with the Earth's pole physically moving, rather than a
geomagnetic reversal) caused by magnetic attraction between the Earth's core and the magnetism of the passing planet. This in turn would disrupt the Earth's magnetic core and lead to subsequent displacement of the Earth's crust.
[12]
After Lieder, the first person to propagate her Planet X idea was Mark Hazlewood, a former member of the ZetaTalk community, who in 2001 published a book titled
Blindsided: Planet X Passes in 2003. Lieder would later accuse him of being a confidence trickster.
[13] A
Japanese cult called the
Pana Wave Laboratory, which blocked off roads and rivers with white cloths to protect itself from electromagnetic attacks, also warned that the world would end in May 2003 after the approach of a tenth planet.
[14]
Roughly a week before the supposed arrival of Planet X in May 2003, Lieder appeared on
KROQ-FM radio in
Los Angeles, and advised listeners to
euthanize their pets in anticipation of the event as she had done.
[15] This led the
Fortean Times to conclude that she had put down her dog(s) to save them from further suffering during the Pole Shift.
[16] Later, in a 2004 interview she said that she had euthanized her dog because it was acting aggressively.
[17] After the 2003 date passed without incident, Lieder said that it was merely a "
white lie ... to fool
the establishment."
[18] She refused to disclose the true date, saying that to do so would give those in power enough time to declare
martial law and trap people in cities during the shift, leading to their deaths.
[19] Though Lieder herself has not specified a new date for the object's return, many groups have taken up her idea and cited their own dates. One frequently cited date was December 21, 2012. This date had many
apocalyptic associations, as it was the end of a cycle (
baktun) in the
long count in the
Mayan calendar. Several writers published books connecting the encounter with 2012.
[20] Despite that date having passed, many websites still contend that Nibiru/Planet X is en route to Earth.
[21]