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370 require a journey of 3,500 years ... How much closer can one get to the 3,600 years that it takes Nibiru to complete one orbit around the Sun? | beets Anal week ne AML a ba ne ne Although there are no specific texts dealing with or de- scribing Anu's abode on Nibiru, some idea thereof can be gained indirectly from such texts as the tale of Adapa, occa- sional references in various texts, and even from Assyrian depictions. It was a place—let us think of it as a royal pal- ace—that was entered through imposing gates, flanked by towers. A pair of gods (Ningishzidda and Dumuzi are men- tioned in one instance) stood guard at the gates. Inside, Anu was seated on a throne; when Enlil and Enki were on Nibiru, or when Anu had visited Earth, they flanked the throne, hold- oon i. oe | ing up celestial emblems. (The Pyramid Texts of ancient Egypt, describing the After- life ascent of the Pharaoh to the celestial abode, carried aloft by an "Ascender," announced for the departing king: "The double gates of heaven are opened for thee, the double gates of the sky are opened for thee" and envisioned four scepter- holding gods announcing his arrival on the "Imperishable Star"). In the Bible, too, Yahweh was described as seated on a throne, flanked by Angels. While Ezekiel described seeing the Lord's image, shimmering like electrum, seated on a throne inside a Flying Vehicle, "the throne of Yahweh is in Heaven," the Psalms (11:4) asserted; and the Prophets de- scribed seeing Yahweh seated on a throne in the Heavens. The Prophet Michaiah ("Who is like Yahweh?"), a contem- porary of Elijah, told the king of Judaea who had sought a divine oracle (I Kings chapter 22): Isaw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and the host of heaven were standing by Him, he wd 2 TH 1 a TH. The Prophet Isaiah recorded (chapter 6) a vision seen by him "in the year in which king Uzziah died" in which he saw God seated on His throne, attended by fiery Angels: DIVINE ENCOUNTERS heavens where God has a dwelling is so distant that it would vet Pace ee 2 EAN ne on His right and on His left.