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104 ‘SUN (Apsu) he was sentenced to die in a sealed tomb, and his “resurrec- tion” when he was brought out of it alive; his exile to become the Unseen; and his final victorious Return. Processions, comings and goings, appearances and disappearances, and even passion plays with actors visually and vividly presented Marduk to the people as a suffering god—suffering on Earth but finally victorious by gaining supremacy through a heav- enly counterpart. (The New Testament’s Jesus story was so THE END OF DAYS FIGURE 43