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105 Sud purified the "essence" of a young male Anunnaki: she mixed it into the egg of an Apewoman. The fertilized egg was then implanted in the womb of a female Anunnaki, for the required period of preg- nancy. When the "mixed creature" was bom, Sud lifted him up and shouted: "I have created! My hands have made it!" The "Primitive Worker'"'— Homo sapiens—had come into be- ing. It happened some 300,000 years ago: it came about through a feat of genetic engineering and embryo-implant techniques which mankind itself is beginning to employ. There has undoubtedly been a long process of evolution; but then the Anunnaki had taken a hand in the process and jumped the gun on evolution, "creating" us sooner than we might have evolved on our own. Scholars have been searching for a long time for the "missing link" in man's ev- olution. The Sumerian texts reveal that the "missing link" was a feat of genetic manipulation performed in a laboratory. . . . It was not a feat over and done with in an instant. The texts make clear that it had taken the Anunnaki considerable trial and error to achieve the desired "perfect model" of the Primitive Worker, but once achieved, a mass-production process was launched: fourteen "birth goddesses" at a time were implanted with the genetically manipulated Apewomen eggs: seven to bear male and seven to bear female Workers. As soon as they grew up, the Workers were put to work in the mines; and as their numbers grew, they assumed more and more of the physical chores in the Abzu. The armed clash between Enlil and Enki that was soon to take place, however, was over these same slave laborers. . . . The more the production of ores improved in the Abzu, the greater was the work load on the Anunnaki that had remained to operate the facilities in Mesopotamia. The climate was milder, rains were more plentiful, and the rivers of Mesopotamia were con- stantly overflowing. Increasingly the Mesopotamian Anunnaki "were digging the river," raising dikes and deepening the canals. Soon they too began to clamor for the slave workers, the "crea- tures of bright countenance" but with thick black hair: The Anunnaki stepped up to Enlil... Black-headed Ones they were requesting of him. To the Black-headed people to give the pickax to hold. We read of these events in a text named by Samuel N. Kramer The Myth of the Pickax. Though portions are missing, it is under- The Wars of the Olden Gods