Well, I asked someone I've known a long time online - he's got a most superb understanding of Mesopotamia and Semetic languages.
He made this simple reply:
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"what I'd like to know is if "Niburu" has any fact in Mesopotamia? ... or is it plucked out of thin air by fringe groups?"
The latter.
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I was going to leave it at that, but I checked out the sites. From what I know of various "mystery" topics (you know, from books on "the supernatural", etc), the first site reads a mere rehashing of different topics together. The XFact's site is almost as bad - like a politician is does everything
except answer the question posed - ie, "what is Nibiru?"
However the second site read far more sober, and has given me some real information to play with - I don;t have time to surf properly now, but this should suffice:
"The claim is that it is described in a "Babylonian text called Enuma elish". The supposedly Sumerian name of "Nibiru" supposedly is interchangeable with "Marduk"."
Now I've got that it sounds like there's soemthing traceable. IT also sounds as if it's all taken as a particular reading from Mesopotamian mythology - ie, these are normally translated as actions of the gods, but a reinterpretation suggests otherwise...
...which means hopefully I've got something to work on.
But later - not time tonight.
