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13 Figure 3 Figure 4 joins"), of whom the texts said that he was "the maker of men .. . the father who was in the beginning." Egyptian artists too, as the Sumerians before them, depicted pictorially the moment of the First Encounter (Fig. 4); it showed Khnemu holding up the newly created being, assisted by his son Thoth (the god of science and medicine). The Adam, as one version in Genesis relates, was indeed created alone. But once this Model Man proved the validity The First Encounters