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22 space facility came to naught. Though fragmented, the Mes- opotamian texts (first translated by George Smith in 1876) make it clear that Marduk’s act infuriated Enlil, who “in his anger a command poured out” for a nighttime attack to de- stroy the tower. Egyptian records report that a chaotic period that lasted 350 years preceded the start of Pharaonic kingship in Egypt, circa 3110 B.c.E. It is this time frame that leads us to date the Tower of Babel incident to circa 3460 B.c.E., for the end of that cha- otic period marked the return of Marduk/Ra to Egypt, the ex- pulsion of Thoth, and the start of the worship of Ra. Frustrated this time, Marduk never gave up his attempts to dominate the official space facilities that served as the “Bond Heaven-Earth,” the link between Nibiru and Earth—or to set up his own facility. Since, in the end, Marduk did attain his aims in Babylon, the interesting question is: Why did he fail in 3460 B.c.E£.? The equally interesting answer is: It was a matter of timing. A well-known text recorded a conversation between Mar- duk and his father, Enki, in which a disheartened Marduk asked his father what he had failed to learn. What he failed to do was to take into account the fact that the time then—the Celestial Time—was the Age of the Bull, the Age of Enlil. Among the thousands of inscribed tablets unearthed in the ancient Near East, quite a number provided information re- garding the month associated with a particular deity. In a complex calendar begun in Nippur in 3760 B.c.E., the first month, Nissanu, was the EZEN (festival time) for Anu and Enlil (in a leap year with a thirteenth lunar month, the honor was split between the two). The list of “honorees” changed as time went by, as did the composition of the membership of the supreme Pantheon of Twelve. The month associations also changed locally, not only in various lands but sometimes to recognize the city god. We know, for example, that the planet we call Venus was initially associated with Ninmah and later on with Inanna/Ishtar. Though such changes make difficult the identifications of who was linked celestially to what, some zodiacal associa- THE END OF DAYS