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Chuwawa was neither 'god' nor man. That emerges from a series of texts that James Pritchard published in Ancient Near Eastern Texts in 1950. The cuneiform text says: "Until I have destroyed this "man", if it is man, until I have killed this god, if it is a god, I will not direct my steps to the city ...O Lord (addressing Gilgamesh), thou, who hast not seen this thing ... art not stricken with dread, I, who have seen this "man", am stricken with dread. His teeth are like Isn't that the description of a fight with a robot? Did Enkidu find out where the lever was that turned the machine off and so decide the unequal combat in his favour? ',.. those who accompanied her, the Inanna (the goddess), were beings who know no food, who know no water; eat no scattered meal, drink no offered up water ...' Sumerian and Assyrian tablets often mention such beings, who 'eat no food and drink no water’. Sometimes these weird monsters are described as ‘flying lions’, 'fire-spitting dragons’ or ‘radiant god's eggs’. We also meet the guards left behind by the 'gods' in Greek sagas. The story of Hercules tells of the Nemean lion, who had fallen down from the moon and could not be wounded ‘by any human weapon’. Another saga describes the dragon Ladon, whose eyes never slept and whose weapons were ‘fire and frightful hissing’. Before Medea and Jason could carry off the Golden Fleece, they had to outwit the dragon who was covered with flashing scales of iron and who writhed about, enveloped in flames. before Sodom and Gomorrha perished? And what are we to make of the 'arms of god' which lent a helping hand in the battles of the chosen people? Moses tells us of an angel who was helpful on god's orders in Exodus 23:20-21: To me it seems only logical that a robot has the name or mind of his constructor ‘in him’, and also that he can never deviate from his programming. One thing I always found wonderful as a schoolboy was Jacob's experience as told in Genesis 28:12. When Jacob lay down to sleep at night on one of his journeys, he saw a ladder the top of which reached to heaven and had god's angels climbing up and down it. Had Jacob perhaps surprised the ‘servants of god' loading goods into a space-ship? Was Jacob's wonderful experience an eyewitness dragon's teeth, his face is like a lion's face ...' Another cuneiform translation by N.S. Kramer also makes me suspect that a ‘servant of the gods' was a programmed robot: We also find robots in the Bible. What else could the angels have been that saved Lot and his family ‘Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. "Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.'