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125 the gods of all these lands ever rescued his land from my hand? Will then Yahweh rescue Jerusalem from my hand?” (Yahweh, the historical records show, did.) What were those religious wars about? The wars, and the national gods in whose name they were fought, don’t make sense except when one realizes that at the core of the con- flicts was what the Sumerian had called DUR.AN.KI—the “Bond Heaven-Earth.” Repeatedly, the ancient texts spoke of the catastrophe “when Earth was separated from Heaven” — when the spaceport connecting them was destroyed. The overwhelming question in the aftermath of the nuclear ca- lamity was this: Who—which god and his nation—could claim to be the one on Earth who now possessed the link to the Heavens? For the gods, the destruction of the spaceport in the Sinai peninsula was a material loss of a facility that required re- placement. But can one imagine the impact—the spiritual and religious impact—on Mankind? All of a sudden, the worshipped gods of Heaven and Earth were cut off from Heaven... With the spaceport in the Sinai now obliterated, only three space-related sites remained in the Old World: the Landing Place in the cedar mountains; the post-Diluvial Mission Con- trol Center that replaced Nippur; and the Great Pyramids in Egypt that anchored the Landing Corridor. With the destruc- tion of the spaceport, did those other sites still have a useful celestial function—and thus also a religious significance? We know the answer, to some extent, because all three sites still stand on Earth, challenging mankind by their mysteries and the gods by facing upward to the heavens. The most familiar of the three is the Great Pyramid and its companions in Giza (Fig. 54); its size, geometric precision, inner complexity, celestial alignments, and other amazing aspects have long cast doubt on the attribution of its con- struction to a Pharaoh named Cheops—an attribution sup- ported solely by a discovery of a hieroglyph of his name inside the pyramid. In The Stairway to Heaven | offered proof that those markings were a modern forgery, and in that book and others voluminous textual and pictorial evidence In the Name of God