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62 As was the case with Egyptian prophecies, most scholars also treat the “Akkadian Prophecies” as “pseudo-prophe- cies” or post aventum texts—that they were in fact written long after the “predicted” events; but as we have remarked in regard to the Egyptian texts, to say that the events were not prophesied because they had already happened is only to re- assert that the events per se did happen (whether or not they were predicted), and that is what matters most to us. /t means that the prophecies did come true. And if so, most chilling is the prediction (in a text known as Prophecy “B”): The Awesome Weapon of Erra upon the lands and the people will come in judgment. A most chilling prophecy indeed, for before the twenty- first century B.C.E. was over, “judgment upon lands and peoples” occurred when the god Erra (“The Annihi- lator’’)—an epithet for Nergal—unleashed nuclear weap- ons in a cataclysm that made prophecies come true. THE END OF DAYS