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140 very temples that Ra/Marduk’s followers had erected to glo- rify him were showing that the heavens were uncertain about the durability of the god and his Age. Marduk himself—so aware of the zodiacal clock when he had claimed in the previous millennium that his time had ar- rived—tried to shift the religious focus by introducing the Star Religion of “Marduk is Nibiru.” But his capture and humiliation now raised questions regarding this unseen ce- lestial god. The question, Until when will the Age of Marduk last? changed to the question: If celestially Marduk is the unseen Nibiru, when will it reveal itself, reappear, return? As unfolding events showed, both the religious and the geopolitical focus shifted in the middle of the second mil- lenium B.C.E. to the stretch of land that the Bible called Ca- naan. As the return of Nibiru started to emerge as the religious focus, the space-related sites also emerged into sharper focus, and it was in the geographic “Canaan” where THE END OF DAYS FIGURE 64