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13 The departure of the Anunnaki gods from Earth was a drama-filled event replete with theophanies, phenomenal oc- currences, divine uncertainties, and human quandary. Incredibly, the Departure is neither surmised nor specula- tive; it is amply documented. The evidence comes to us from the Near East as well as from the Americas; and some of the most direct, and certainly the most dramatic, records of the ancient gods’ departure from Earth come to us from Harran. The testimony is not hearsay; it consists of eyewitness re- ports, among them by the Prophet Ezekiel. The reports are included in the Bible, and they were inscribed on stone col- umns—texts dealing with miraculous events leading to the accession to the throne of Babylon’s last king. Harran nowadays—yes, it is still there, and I have visited it—is a sleepy town in eastern Turkey, just a few miles from the Syrian border. It is surrounded by crumbling walls from Islamic times, its inhabitants dwelling in beehive-shaped mud huts. The traditional well where Jacob met Rachel is still there among the sheep meadows outside the town, with the purest naturally cool water one can imagine. But in earlier days Harran was a flourishing commercial, cultural, religious, and political center, so much so that even the Prophet Ezekiel (27: 24), who lived in the area with other exiles from Jerusalem, recalled her reputation as a trader in “blue clothes and broidered work, and in chests of rich ap- parel, bound with cords and made of cedar.” It was a city that had been from Sumerian times on an “Ur away from Ur” cult center of the “Moon god” Nannar/Sin. Abraham’s family WHEN THE GODS LEFT EARTH