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145 called by the Romans Via Maris) that afforded passage through the gods’ Fourth Region along the Mediterranean coast, without actually entering the peninsula proper. Then, advancing north through Canaan, the Egyptians repeatedly reached the Cedar Mountains of Lebanon and fought battles at Kadesh, “The Sacred Place.” Those were battles, we sug- gest, for control of the two sacred space-related sites—the erstwhile Mission Control Center (Jerusalem) in Canaan and the Landing Place in Lebanon. The Pharaoh Thothmo- sis III, for example, in his war annals, referred to Jerusalem (“Ia-ur-sa’), which he garrisoned as the “place reaching to the outer ends of the Earth”—a “Navel of the Earth.” De- scribing his campaigns farther north, he recorded battles at Kadesh and Naharin and spoke of taking the Cedar Moun- tains, the “Mountains of god’s land” that “support the pil- lars to heaven.” The terminology unmistakably identifies by their space-related attributes the two sites he was claim- ing to have captured “for the great god, my father Ra/ Amon.” And the purpose of the Exodus? In the words of the bibli- cal God himelf, to keep His sworn promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to grant to their descendants as “an Ever- lasting Heritage” (Exodus 6: 4-8); “from the Brook of Egypt to the River Euphrates, the great river”; “the whole of the Land of Canaan,’ (Genesis 15:18, 17:8); “the Western Mount. . . the Land of Canaan and Lebanon” (Deuteronomy 1: 7); “from the desert to Lebanon, from the River Euphrates unto the Western Sea” (Deuteronomy 11:24)—even the “for- tified places reaching heavenwards” wherein “descendants of the Anakim”—the Anunnaki—still resided (Deuteronomy 9: 1-2). The promise to Abraham was renewed at the Israelites’ first stop, at Har Ha-Elohim, the “Mount of the Elohim/ gods.” And the mission was to take hold, possess, the two other space-related sites, which the Bible repeatedly con- nected (as in Psalms 48:3), calling Mount Zion in Jerusalem Har Kodshi, “My Sacred Mount,” and the other, on the crest of Lebanon, Har Zaphon, “The Secret North Mount.” The Promised Land clearly embraced both space-related The Promised Land