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51 in the first eight enigmatic verses of chapter 6 of Genesis clearly points to the intermarriage and its resulting offspring as the cause of the divine wrath: The Nefilim were on the Earth in those days and thereafter too, When the sons of the Elohim came unto the daughters of The Adam and had children by them. (My readers may recall that it was my question, as a schoolboy, of why Nefilim—which literally means “Those who have come down,” who descended [from heaven to Earth]—was usually translated “giants.” It was much later that I realized and suggested that the Hebrew word for “gi- ants,” Anakim, was actually a rendering of the Sumerian Anunnaki.) The Bible clearly cites such intermarriage—the “taking as wives’ —between young “sons of the gods” (sons of the Elo- him, the Nefilim) and female Earthlings (“daughters of The Adam’) as God’s reason for seeking Mankind’s end by the Deluge: “My spirit shall no longer dwell in Man, for in his flesh they erred ... And God repented that He had fashioned the Adam on Earth, and was distraught, and He said: Let me wipe the Adam that I have created off the face of the Earth.” The Sumerian and Akkadian texts telling the story of the Deluge explained that two gods were involved in that drama: it was Enlil who sought Mankind’s destruction by the Deluge, while it was Enki who connived to prevent it by instructing “Noah” to build the salvaging ark. When we delve into the details, we find that Enlil’s “I’ve had it up to here!” anger on one hand, and Enki’s counterefforts on the other hand, were not just a matter of principles. For it was Enki himself who began to copulate with female Earthlings and have children by them, and it was Marduk, Enki’s son, who led the way to and set the example for actual marriages with them . . . By the time their Mission Earth was fully operative, the Anunnaki stationed on Earth numbered 600; in addition, Of Gods and Demigods