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227 would restore the temple of Sin not only in Harran but also in Ur, and would proclaim the worship of Sin as the state reli- gion in all the lands of the Black-Headed people! Touching the hem of the god’s robe, day after day she prayed; then one night the god appeared to her in a dream and accepted her proposal. The Moon god, Adda-Guppi wrote, liked the idea: “Sin, lord of the gods of Heaven and Earth, for my good doings looked upon me with a smile; he heard my prayers; he accepted my vow. The wrath of his heart calmed. Toward Ehulhul, his temple in Harran, the di- vine residence in which his heart rejoiced, he became recon- ciled; and he had a change of heart.” The god, Adda-Guppi wrote, accepted the deal: Sin, lord of the gods, looked with favor upon my words. Nabuna’id, my only son, issue of my womb, to the kingship he called— the kingship of Sumer and Akkad. All the lands from the border of Egypt, from the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea, in his hands he entrusted. Both sides kept their bargain. “I myself saw it fulfilled,” Adda-Guppi stated in the concluding segment of her inscrip- tions: Sin “honored his word which he spoke to me,” causing Nabuna’id to ascend the Babylonian throne in 555 B.c.£.; and Nabuna’id kept his mother’s vow to restore the Ehulhul tem- ple in Harran, “perfecting its structure.’ He renewed the worship of Sin and Ningal (Nikkal in Akkadian)—“all the forgotten rites he made anew.” And then a great miracle, an occurrence unseen for gen- erations, happened. The event is described in the two stelae of Nabuna’id, in which he is depicted holding an unusual staff and facing the celestial symbols of Nibiru, Earth, and the Moon (Fig. 102): This is the great miracle of Sin that has by gods and goddesses When the Gods Left Earth