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53 reveal that Adapa was a secret son of Enki, mothered by an Earthling female. Apocryphal texts inform us that when Noah, the biblical hero of the Deluge, was born, much about the baby and the birth caused his father, Lamech, to wonder whether the real father had not been one of the Nefilim. The Bible just states that Noah was a genealogically “perfect” man who “Walked with the Elohim’; Sumerian texts, where the Flood’s hero is named Ziusudra, suggest that he was a demigod son of Enki. It was thus that one day Marduk complained to his mother that while his companions were assigned wives, he was not: “T have no wife, I have no children.” And he went on to tell her that he had taken a liking to the daughter of a “high priest, an accomplished musician” (there is reason to believe that he was the chosen man Enmeduranki of Sumerian texts, the parallel of the biblical Enoch). Verifying that the young Earthling female—her name was Tsarpanit—agreed, Mar- duk’s parents gave him the go-ahead. The marriage produced a son. He was named EN.SAG, “Lofty Lord.” But unlike Adapa, who was an Earthling demi- god, Marduk’s son was included in the Sumerian God Lists, where he was also called “the divine MESH’”—a term used (as in GilgaMESH) to denote a demigod. He was thus the first demigod who was a god. Later on, when he led the masses of humans in his father’s behalf, he was given the epithet-name Nabu—The Spokesman, The Prophet—for that is what the literal meaning of the word is, as is the meaning of the paral- lel biblical Hebrew word Nabih, translated “prophet.” Nabu was thus the god-son and an Adam-son of an- cient scriptures, the one whose very name meant Prophet. As in the Egyptian prophecies earlier quoted, his name and role became linked to the Messianic expectations. And so it was, in the days before the Deluge, that Marduk set an example to the other young unespoused gods: find and marry an Earthling female ... The breach of the taboo ap- pealed in particular to the Igigi gods who were away on Mars most of the time, with their principal station on Earth being Of Gods and Demigods