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The Immortality of the gods that Earthlings sought to attain was, in reality, only an apparent longevity due to the differ- ent life cycles on the two planets. By the time Nibiru com- pleted one orbit around the Sun, someone born there was just one year old. An Earthling born at the same moment would have been, however. 3,600 years old by the end of one Nibiruan year, for Earth would have orbited the Sun 3,600 times by then. How did coming and staying on Earth affect the Anunnaki? Did they succumb to Earth's shorter orbital time, and thus to Earth's shorter life cycles? A case in point is what had happened to Ninmah. When she arrived on Earth as the Chief Medical Officer, she was young and attractive (see Fig. 19); so attractive that when Enki—no novice in sex matters—saw her in the marshlands, "his phallus watered the dykes." She was depicted still youthful and with long hair when (as Ninti, "Lady Life") she helped create The Adam (Fig. 3). When Earth was divided, she was assigned the neutral region in the Sinai peninsula (and was called Ninharsag, "Lady of the Mountainpeaks"). But when Inanna rose to prominence and was made patron- goddess of the Indus Civilization, she also took the place of Ninmah in the pantheon of twelve. By then the younger Anunnaki, who referred to Ninmah as Mammi, "Old Mother," called her "The Cow" behind her back. Sumerian artists de- picted her as an aging goddess, with cow's horns ("A" p. 184). The Egyptians called the Mistress of the Sinai Hathor, and always depicted her with cow's horns ("B" p. 184). As the younger gods broke taboos and reshaped Divine Encounters, the Olden Gods appear more aloof, less_ in- volved, stepping into the breach only when events were get- ting out of hand. The gods, indeed, did grow old. WHEN GODS GREW OLD