Page Content (OCR)
228 not happened in the land, since days of old unknown; That the people of the Earth had neither seen nor found written on tablets since the days of old: That Sin, lord of gods and goddesses, residing in the heavens, has come down from the heavens— in full view of Nabuna’id, king of Babylon. Sin, the inscriptions report, did not return alone. Accord- ing to the texts, he entered the restored Ehulhul temple in a ceremonial procession, accompanied by his spouse Ningal/ Nikkal and his aide, the Divine Messenger Nusku. The miraculous return of Sin “from the heavens” raises many questions, the first one being Where, “in the heavens,” he had been for five or six decades. Answers to such questions can be given by combining the ancient evidence with the achievements of modern science and technology. But before we turn to that, it is important to examine all the aspects of THE END OF DAYS FIGURE 102