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68 revered as the Jink with the celestial justice of the DIN.GIR (The Righteous/Just Ones of the Rocketships") and was the location of Sumer's supreme court. Adad (Ishkur in Sumer- ian) was the youngest son of Enlil, and was granted Asia Minor as his domain. The texts described him as close to his niece Ishtar and his nephew Shamash. It was the two, Adad and Shamash, who chaperoned Enmeduranki to the place where the gods were assembled, presumably for evaluation and approval. Then, Shamash and Adad [clothed? purified?] him, Shamash and Adad set him on a large throne of gold. They showed him how to observe oil on water— a secret of Anu, Enlil and Ea. They gave him a Divine Tablet, The Kibdu, a secret of Heaven and Earth. They put in his hand a cedar instrument, a favorite of the great gods... They taught him how to make calculations with numbers. Having been taught the "secrets of Heaven and Earth," specifically including medicine and mathematics, Enmedu- ranki was returned to Sippar with instructions to reveal to the populace his Divine Encounter and to make the knowledge available to Humankind by passing the secrets from one priestly generation to another, father to son: who guards the secrets of the great gods, will bind his favored son with an oath before Shamash and Adad. By the Divine Tablets, with a stylus, he will instruct him in the secrets of the gods. The tablet with this text, now kept in the British Museum in London, has a postscript: DIVINE ENCOUNTERS The learned savant,