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102 A Star-Religion was born. The god—Marduk—be- came a star; a star (we call it planet)—Nibiru—became “Marduk.” Religion became Astronomy, Astronomy be- came Astrology. In conformity with the new Star Religion, the Epic of Cre- ation, Enuma Elish, was revised in its Babylonian version so as to grant Marduk a celestial dimension: he did not just come from Nibiru—he was Nibiru. Written in “Babylonian,” a dialect of Akkadian (the Semitic mother language), it equated Marduk with Nibiru, the home planet of the Anun- naki, and gave the name “Marduk” to the Great Star/Planet that had come from deep space to avenge both the celestial Ea and the one on Earth (Fig. 41). It thus made “Marduk” the “Lord” in Heaven as on Earth. His Destiny—in the heavens, his orbit—was the greatest of all the celestial gods (the other planets) (see Fig. 1); paralleling that, he was destined to be the greatest of the Anunnaki gods on Earth. The revised Epic of Creation was read publicly on the fourth night of the New Year festival. It credited Marduk with the defeat of the “monster” Tiamat in the Celestial Bat- tle, the creation of the Earth (Fig. 42), and the reshaping of the Solar system (Fig. 43)—all the feats that in the original THE END OF DAYS FIGURE 41