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193 the the appearance of the wet seeds. omens, and his omens were favorable." So Gudea laid down his head, prostrated himself. The command-vision emerged: "The building of thy Lord's House, the Eninnu, thou shall complete— from its foundation below to its top that rises skyward." Though scholars consider this episode "Gudea's _ third dream," the text's terminology is significantly different. Even on the previous occasions the term translated "dream," MA- MUZU, is more akin to the Hebrew/Semitic Mahazeh which better translates as "a vision." Here, on the third time, the term employed is DUG MUNATAE—a_ "command-vision that emerges." On this time around, in this "command-vi- sion" by request, Gudea was shown how to start the building of his Lord's temple. In front of his very eyes the process of the completion of the Eninnu, "from its foundation below to its top that rises skyward," was taking shape. The vision of a simulated demonstration of the whole process, from the bottom up, "engaged his attention." What was to be done finally became clear; and "with joy he took up the task." How the work then proceeded, how Gudea was helped by a team of Divine Architects and gods and goddesses of as- tronomy to orient the temple and erect its observatories, how and when calendrical requirements were met, and the ceremo- nies that inaugurated the new temple, are all told in the bal- ance of Cylinder "A" and in Cylinder "B" of the Sumerian king. We have dealt with this part of the records in When Time Began. A tablet that appears in a dream and then materializes with powerful effects in the subsequent awakened condition plays a key role in the tale of a Babylonian "Job," a righteous sufferer. The text, titled Ludlul Bel Nemeqi ("I will praise the Lord of Wisdom") after its opening line, tells the story of Shubshi, a righteous man, who laments his misfortune, Visions from the Twilight Zone "Gudea examined the