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77 minites. Decimated and with few childbearing females re- maining, the tribe faced extinction. The option of marrying females from other tribes was also blocked, for all the other tribes took an oath not to give their daughters to the Benja- minites. So the Benjaminite men, on the occasion of a na- tional festival, hid themselves along a road leading to the town of Shiloh; and when the daughters of Shiloh came out dancing down the road, they "caught every man his wife" and carried them off to the Benjaminite domain. Surprisingly, they were not punished for these abductions; for in truth, the whole incident was a scheme concocted by the elders of Israel, a way to help the tribe of Benjamin survive in spite of the boycott oath. Was such a "do what you have to do while I look away" ploy behind the oath-taking ceremony atop Mount Hermon? Was it at least one principal leader, an elder of the Anunnaki (Enki?) who looked away, while another (perhaps Enlil?) was so upset? A little-known Sumerian text may have a bearing on the question. Regarded as a "mythical tablet" by E. Chiera (in Sumerian Religious Texts), it tells the story of a young god named Martu who complained about his spouseless life; and we learn from it that intermarriage with human females was both common and not a sin—providing it was done by per- mission and not without the young woman's consent: In my city I have friends, they have taken wives. Ihave companions, they have taken wives. In my city, unlike my friends, T have not taken a wife; The city about which Martu was speaking was called Nin- ab, a "city in the settled great land." The time, the Sumerian text explains, was in the distant past when "the city of Nin- ab existed, Shed-tab did not exist; the holy tiara existed, the holy crown did not exist." In other words, priesthood existed, The Nefilim: Sex and Demigods Ihave no wife, I have no children.