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So, who was Yahweh? Was He one of them? Was He an extraterrestrial? The question, with its implied answer, is not so outrageous. Unless we deem Yahweh—"God" to all whose religious be- liefs are founded on the Bible—to have been one of us Earth- lings, then He could only be not of this Earth—which "extraterrestrial" ("outside of, not from Terra") means. And the story of Man's Divine Encounters, the subject of this book, is so filled with parallels between the biblical experi- ences and those of encounters with the Anunnaki by other ancient peoples, that the possibility that Yahweh was one of "them" must be seriously considered. The question and its implied answer, indeed, arise inevita- bly. That the biblical creation narrative with which the Book of Genesis begins draws upon the Mesopotamian Enuma elish is beyond dispute. That the biblical Eden is a rendering of the Sumerian E. DIN is almost self-evident. That the tale of the Deluge and Noah and the ark is based on the Akkadian Atra-Hasis texts and the earlier Sumerian Deluge tale in the Epic of Gilgamesh, is certain. That the plural "us" in the creadon of The Adam segments reflects the Sumerian and Akkadian record of the discussions by the leaders of the Anunnaki that led to the genetic engineering that brought Homo sapiens about, should be obvious. In the Mesopotamian versions it is Enki, the Chief Scien- tist, who suggests the genetic engineering to create the Earth- 347 ENDPAPER God, the Extraterrestrial