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126 was provided to explain how and why the Anunnaki de- signed and built those pyramids. Having been stripped of its radiating guidance equipment during the wars of the gods, the Great Pyramid and its companions continued to serve as physical beacons for the Landing Corridor. With the space- port gone, they just remained silent witnesses to a vanished Past; there has been no indication that they ever became sa- cred religious objects. The Landing Place in the cedar forest has a different re- cord. Gilgamesh, who went to it almost a millennium before the nuclear calamity, witnessed there the launching of a rocket ship; and the Phoenicians of the nearby city of Byblos on the Mediterranean coast depicted on a coin (Fig. 55) a rocket ship emplaced on a special base within an enclosure THE END OF DAYS FIGURE 54