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23 tions can be clearly inferred from texts or drawings. Enki (called at first E.A, “He whose home is water’’) was clearly associated with the Water Bearer “Aquarius” (Fig. 11), and initially if not permanently also with the Fishes, “Pisces.” The constellation that was named The Twins, “Gemini,” without doubt was so named in honor of the only known di- vine twins born on Earth—Nannar/Sin’s children Utu/ Shamash and Inanna/Ishtar. The feminine constellation of “Virgo” (the “Maiden” rather than the inaccurate “Virgin’’) that, like the planet Venus, was probably named at first in honor of Ninmah, was renamed AB.SIN, “Whose father is Sin,” which could be correct only for Inanna/Ishtar. The Ar- cher or Defender, “Sagittarius,” matched the numerous texts and hymns extolling Ninurta as the Divine Archer, his fa- ther’s warrior and defender. Sippar, the city of Utu/Shamash, no longer the site of a spaceport after the Deluge, was consid- ered in Sumerian times to be the center of Law and Justice, and the god was deemed (even by the later Babylonians) as the Chief Justice of the land; it is certain that the Scales of Justice, “Libra,” represented his constellation. And then there were the nicknames comparing the prow- ess, strength, or characteristics of a god with an animal held in awe; Enlil’s, as text after text reiterated, was the Bull. It “And It Came to Pass” FIGURE II