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161 720 years earlier about timing. Then the issue was: Has Mar- duk/Ra’s time for supremacy come, has the Age of the Ram begun in the heavens? Akhenaten shifted the issue from Ce- lestial Time (the zodiacal clock) to Divine Time (Nibiru’s orbital time), changing the question to: When will the Un- seen celestial god reappear and become visible—“beautiful on the horizon of heaven”? His greatest heresy in the eyes of the priests of Ra/Amon can be judged by the fact that he erected a special monument honoring the Ben-Ben—an object that had been revered gen- erations earlier as the vehicle in which Ra had arrived on Earth from the heavens (Fig. 70). It was an indication, we believe, that what he was expecting in connection with Aten was a Reappearance, a Return not just of the Planet of the Gods, but another arrival, a New Coming of the gods them- selves! This, we must conclude, was the innovation, the difference introduced by Akhenaten. In defiance of the priestly establish- ment, and no doubt prematurely in their opinion, he was an- nouncing the coming of a new messianic time. This heresy was aggravated by the fact that Akhenaten’s pronouncements about the returning Aten were accompanied by a personal claim: Akhenaten increasingly referred to himself as the god’s prophet-son, one “who came forth from the god’s body,” and to whom alone the deity’s plans were revealed: The Cross on the Horizon FIGURE 70