From Author’s Aside #9 in The Flood 1: Escape from Atlantis:
And here’s one more angle on my Tiamat Hypothesis, actually put together after I submitted the original version of this ebook to Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing, but prior to its initial publication, these developments having happened on Christmas 2020. In this case, having learned about Ceres, an object resembling a small moon that also resides within the Asteroid Belt, I realized that it may have been one of Tiamat’s moons, a second one (Kingu, as it may have been called) having been broken up but also gravitationally entrained by the celestial marauder concerned. So let me insert here extracts from an email I just sent to the Principal Investigator for NASA’s Dawn Mission to this object, Dr. Christopher Russell at UCLA:
“Hi Chris. I just learned of Ceres and the Dawn Mission, and wanted to reach out to apprise you of a new theory about Ceres that has arisen from my group’s ‘alternative’ archaeological research. This theory posits that the Asteroid Belt may in fact be the remnants of a formerly inhabited world within our solar system, and that Ceres might be one of its former moons….
“Now, there could be any number of reasons why this theory may be just poppycock, and of course I am no planetary scientist…. Yet this possibility should be considered in relation to future missions to the Asteroid Belt, unless it can be readily ruled out, which you may feel free to indicate to me if you wish. If I can be convinced that this is just nonsense, I’ll stop propounding this theory, or at least add cautionary remarks citing any such strong contrary evidence when I do, with the caveat that just because an idea is at odds with what’s generally accepted does not make it false.
“Also, irrespective of my theory about the natural-born longheads having come to Earth from Tiamat and then genetically enriched humanity in some way, or even seeded us, I’ve read that there are indications that Ceres may have once been covered by an ocean…. With this in mind, you should be aware of Zecharia Sitchin’s related claim that the Sumerians had witnessed that former world being torn in two by a celestial marauder. If that was true, then Ceres itself may bear evidence of such a celestial marauder, as also posited in my novel and film project, premised on that same object later having crossed paths with Earth, for which cataclysmic near-miss there is considerable physical evidence….
“Please feel free to be in touch if you care to engage one way or another on these ideas. I would be greatly appreciative if you choose to do so, even if you can readily rule them out.”
As of the date of publication of Book 1, that’s where this Tiamat Hypothesis rests—so goes the March of Science. Make of it what you will!
