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37 There is no sunshine that people could see, No one can live with the covering clouds, The south wind opposes the north wind. The rivers of Egypt are empty... Ra must begin the foundations of the Earth again. Before Ra can restore the “Foundations of the Earth,” there will be invasions, wars, bloodshed. Then a new era of peace, tranquility, and justice will follow. It will be brought by what we have come to call a Savior, a Messiah: Then it is that a sovereign will come— Ameni (“The Unknown”), The Triumphant he will be called. The Son-Man will be his name forever and ever... Wrongdoing will be driven out; Justice in its place will come; The people of his time rejoice. It is astounding to find such messianic prophecies of apocalyptic times and the end of Wrongdoing that will be followed by the coming—the return—of peace and jus- tice, in papyrus texts written some 4,200 years ago; it is chilling to find in them terminology that is familiar from the New Testament, about an Unknown, the Triumphant Savior, the ““Son-Man.” It is, as we shall see, a link in millennia-spanning inter- connected events. In Sumer, a period of chaos, occupation by foreign troops, defiling of temples, and confusion as to where the capital should be and who should be king followed the end of the Sargonic Era of Ishtar in 2260 B.c.E. For a while, the only safe haven in the land was Ninurta’s “cult center” Lagash, from which the Gutian foreign troops were kept out. Mindful of Marduk’s unrelenting ambitions, Ninurta decided to reassert his right to the Rank of Fifty by instructing the then-king of Lagash, Gudea, to erect for him in the city’s Girsu (the sacred precinct) a new and different Egyptian Prophecies, Human Destinies