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17 That this was the achievement from a time preceding Mankind’s civilizations is attested to by the fact that a zodia- cal calendar was applied to Enki’s first stays on Earth (when the first two zodiacal houses were named in his honor); that this was not the achievement of a Greek astronomer (Hip- parchus) in the third century B.C.E. (as most textbooks still suggest), is attested by the fact that the twelve zodiacal houses were known to the Sumerians millennia earlier by names (Fig. 8) and depictions (Fig. 9) that we use to this day. . GU.AN.NA (“heavenly bull”), Taurus. . MASH.TAB.BA (“twins”), our Gemini. . DUB (“pincers,” “tongs”), the Crab or Cancer. . UR.GULA (“lion”), which we call Leo. . AB.SIN (“her father was Sin”), the Maiden, Virgo. . ZILBA.AN.NA (“heavenly fate”), the scales of Libra. . GIR.TAB (“which claws and cuts”), Scorpio. . PA.BIL (“defender”), the Archer, Sagittarius. . SUHUR.MASH (“goat-fish”), Capricorn. . GU (“lord of the waters”), the Water Bearer, Aquarius. . SIM.MAH (“fishes”), Pisces. . KU.MAL (“field dweller”), the Ram, Aries. In When Time Began the calendrical timetables of gods and men were discussed at length. Having come from Nibiru, whose orbital period, the SAR, meant 3,600 (Earth-) years, that unit was naturally the first calendrical yardstick of the Anunnaki even on the fast-orbiting Earth. Indeed, the texts dealing with their early days on Earth, such as the Sumerian King Lists, designated the periods of this or that leader’s time on Earth in terms of Sars. I termed this Divine Time. The calendar granted to Mankind, one based on the orbital as- pects of the Earth (and its Moon), was named Earthly Time. Pointing out that the 2,160-year zodiacal shift (less than a year for the Anunnaki) offered them a better ratio—the The Messianic Clock FIGURE 8