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39 a new temple. Such celestial considerations continued to dominate the Eninnu project from start to finish. Gudea’s tale begins with a vision-dream that reads like an episode from The Twilight Zone TV series, for while the several gods featured in it were gone when he awoke, the vari- ous objects they showed him in the dream remained physi- cally lying by his side! In that vision-dream (the first of several) the god Ninurta appeared at sunrise, and the sun was aligned with the planet Jupiter. The god spoke and informed Gudea that he was Egyptian Prophecies, Human Destinies FIGURE 17