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Sinai peninsula, where the vital post-Diluvial spaceport was located, was set aside as a neutral Sacred Region. While the Bible simply listed the lands and nations ac- cording to their Noahite division, the earlier Sumerian texts recorded the fact that the division was a deliberate act, the result of deliberations by the leadership of the Anunnaki. A text known as the Epic of Etana tells us that The great Anunnaki who decree the fates sat exchanging their counsels regarding the Earth. They created the four regions, set up the settlements. In the First Region, the lands between the two rivers Euphra- tes and Tigris (Mesopotamia), Man’s first known high civili- zation, that of Sumer, was established. Where the prediluvial cities of the gods had been, Cities of Man arose, each with its sacred precinct where a deity resided in his or her ziggu- rat—Enlil in Nippur, Ninmah in Shuruppak, Ninurta in Lagash, Nannar/Sin in Ur, Inanna/Ishtar in Uruk, Utu/ Shamash in Sippar, and so on. In each such urban center an EN.SI, a “Righteous Shepherd’”—initially a chosen demi- god—was selected to govern the people in behalf of the gods; his main assignment was to promulgate codes of jus- tice and morality. In the sacred precinct, a priesthood over- seen by a high priest served the god and his spouse, supervised the holiday celebrations, and handled the rites of offerings, sacrifices, and prayers to the gods. Art and sculp- ture, music and dance, poetry and hymns, and above all writ- ing and recordkeeping flourished in the temples and extended to the royal palace. From time to time one of those cities was selected to serve as the land’s capital; there the ruler was king, LU.GAL (“Great man”). Initially and for a long time thereafter this person, the most powerful man in the land, served as both king and high priest. He was carefully chosen, for his role and authority, and all the physical symbols of Kingship, were deemed to have come to Earth directly from Heaven, from Anu on Nibiru. A Sumerian text dealing with the subject The Messianic Clock