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When Time Began — Reference Notes

Reference summary for When Time Began (1993), the fifth book of Zecharia Sitchin’s Earth Chronicles series.

Bibliographic Information

• Title: When Time Began
• Author: Zecharia Sitchin
• Publisher: Harper
• Publication Date: 1993
• Pages: 352 (approx.)
• Series: Earth Chronicles, Book 5

Chapter Summary

Chapter	Title	Content
1	The Beginning of Time	Introduction to timekeeping
2	The Calendar	The Sumerian calendar
3	The Celestial Clock	The zodiac and the ages
4	The Divine Numbers	Sacred numbers and cycles
5	The Great Year	The precessional cycle of 25,920 years
6	The Sphinx as a Time Marker	Dating the Sphinx to 10,500 BCE
7	Stonehenge	The megalithic observatory
8	The Temple of the Sun	Ancient observatories
9	The End of Time	Prophecy and the future

Key Arguments

1. Time was not invented by humans but given by the Anunnaki
2. The Sumerian calendar encoded the orbit of Nibiru
3. The precessional cycle of 25,920 years was known to the ancients
4. Sacred numbers (12, 60, 360, 3,600) encode astronomical knowledge
5. Stonehenge and other megalithic sites were astronomical observatories

Key Numbers

Number	Duration	Meaning
3,600	years	1 NERU = Nibiru orbit
25,920	years	1 precessional cycle
2,160	years	1 zodiac age (1/12 of precession)
72	years	1 degree of precession

Key Quotes

“The knowledge of precession, which modern science discovered only in the second century BCE, was fully known to the Anunnaki — and transmitted by them to the early civilizations.”

“Time is not an abstract concept. It is a cycle — the cycle of Nibiru around the Sun.”

Cross-References

• When-Time-Began — Vault entry for the book
• Precession — Precessional cycle
• Calendar — Calendar systems
• NERU — The 3,600-year unit
• Shar — The 36,000-year cycle
• Sacred-Numbers — Sacred numbers