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50 genealogy was restated in numerous inscriptions during Ur-Nammu’s reign, in the presence of Nannar and other gods, one must assume that the claim was factual. This made Ur-Nammu not only a demigod but—as was the case of Gil- gamesh—‘*two-thirds divine.” Indeed, the claim that the king’s mother was the goddess Ninsun placed Ur-Nammu in the very same status as that of Gilgamesh, whose exploits were well remembered and whose name remained revered. The choice was thus a signal, to friends and foes alike, that the glorious days under the unchallenged authority of Enlil and his clan are back. All that was important, perhaps even crucial, because Mar- duk had his own attributes of appeal to the masses of Man- kind. That special appeal to the Earthlings was the fact that Marduk’s deputy and chief campaigner was his son Nabu— who not only was born on Earth, but was born to a mother who herself was an Earthling, for long ago—indeed, in the days before the Deluge—Marduk broke all traditions and ta- boos and took an Earthling woman to be his official wife. That young Anunnaki took Earthling females as wives should not come as a shocking surprise, for it is recorded in the Bible for all to read. What is little known even to scholars, because the information is found in ignored texts and has to be veri- fied from complex God Lists, is the fact that it was Marduk who set the example that the “Sons of the gods” followed: And it came to pass when the Earthlings began to increase in number upon the Earth and daughters were born unto them— That the sons of the Elohim saw the daughters of The Adam that they were compatible; And they took unto themselves wives of whichever they chose. Goenwere As 1 90 THE END OF DAYS GENESIS 6: I-2 The biblical explanation of the reasons for the Great Flood