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104 shafts grew deeper and the toil harsher, dissatisfaction grew: "They were complaining, backbiting, grumbling in the excava- tions." To help maintain discipline Enlil sent Ninurta to the Abzu. but this strained relations with Enki even more. It was then that Enlil decided to go to the Abzu and personally evaluate the situation. The discontended Anunnaki seized the opportunity to mutiny! The Alra-Hasis chronicle, in language as vivid as that of a mod- em reporter, in more than 150 lines of text, unambiguously de- scribes the events that followed: How the rebellious Anunnaki put their tools on fire and, in the middle of the night, marched on En- lil's dwelling; how some shouted "Let us kill him .. Let us break the yoke!"; how an unnamed leader reminded them that En- lil was the "Chief Officer of Old Time," and advised negotiations; and how Enlil, enraged, took up his weapons, but he, too, was re- minded by his chamberlain: "My lord, these are your sons. .. ." As Enlil remained a prisoner in his own quarters, he sent a mes- sage to Anu and asked that he come to Earth. When Anu arrived, the Great Anunnaki assembled for a court-martial. "Enki, Ruler of the Abzu. was also present." Enlil demanded to know who the in- stigator of the mutiny was, calling for a death penalty. Not getting the support of Anu, Enlil offered his resignation: "Noble one," he said to Anu, “take away the office, take away the power; to Heaven will I ascend with you." But Anu, calming Enlil, also ex- pressed understanding of the miners' hardships. Encouraged, Enki "opened his mouth and addressed the gods." Repeating Anu*s summation, he had a solution to offer: While the Chief Medical Officer, their sister Sud, was here in the Abzu with them: And let him bear the yoke... Let the Worker carry the toil of the gods, Let him bear the yoke! In the following one hundred lines of the Alra-Hasis text, and in several other "Creation of Man" texts that have been discovered in various states of preservation, the tale of the genetic engineering of Homo sapiens has been told in amazing detail. To achieve the feat Enki suggested that a "Being that already exists'"—-Apewoman—be used to create the Lulu Amelu ("The Mixed Worker") by "binding" upon the less evolved beings "the mold of the gods." The goddess THE WARS OF GODS AND MEN Let her create a Primitive Worker;