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54 the Landing Place in the Cedar Mountains. Finding an op- portunity—perhaps an invitation to come and celebrate Mar- duk’s wedding—they seized Earthling females and carried them off as wives. Several extra-biblical books, designated The Apocrypha, such as the Book of Jubilees, the Book of Enoch, and the Book of Noah, record the incident of the intermarriage by the Nefilim and fill in the details. Some two hundred “Watch- ers” (“Those who observe and see’) organized themselves in twenty groups; each group had a named leader. One, called Shamyaza, was in overall command. The instigator of the transgression, “the one who led astray the sons of God and brought them down to Earth and led them astray through the Daughters of Man,” was named Yeqon . . . It happened, these sources confirmed, during the time of Enoch. In spite of their efforts to fit the Sumerian sources (that told of rival and contradicting Enlil and Enki) into a mono- theistic framework—the belief in only one Almighty God— the compilers of the Hebrew Bible ended that section in chapter 6 of Genesis with a recognition of the factual out- come. Speaking of the offspring of those intermarriages, the Bible makes two admissions: the first, that the intermarrying took place in the days before the Deluge, “and therafter too”; and secondly, that from the offspring “came the heroes of old, the men of renown.” The Sumerian texts indicate that post-Diluvial heroic kings were indeed such demigods. But they were the offspring not only of Enki and his clan: sometimes kings in the Enlilite region were sons of Enlilite gods. For example, The Sumerian King Lists clearly state that when kingship began in Uruk (an Enlilite domain), the one chosen for kingship was a MESH, a demigod: Meskiaggasher, a son of Utu, became high priest and king. Utu was of course the god Utu/Shamash, grandson of Enlil. Further down the dynastic line there was the famed Gilgamesh, “two-thirds of him divine,” son of the Enlilite goddess Ninsun and fathered by the High Priest of Uruk, an Earthling. (There THE END OF DAYS