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107 They knew not the eating of bread. Knew not the dressing of garments. Ate plants with their mouth like sheep. Drank water from the ditch... How long, however, could young female Anunnaki be asked (or forced) to perform the roles of "birth goddesses"? Unbeknownst to Enlil, and with the connivance of Sud, Enki contrived to give the new creature one more genetic twist: granting to the hybrid beings—incapable of procreating, as all hybrids are—the ability to have offspring, the sexual "Knowing" for having children. The event is echoed in the biblical tale of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and although the original Sumerian text of the tale has not yet been found, a number of Sumerian depictions of the event were indeed discovered. They show different aspects of the tale: the Tree of Life; the offering of the forbidden fruit; the angry encoun- ter that ensued between the "Lord God" and the "Serpent." Yet another shows Eve girdled in a garment around her loins while Adam is still naked (Fig. 30), another detail related in the Bible. Fig. 30 While the Serpent God features in all these ancient depictions, the illustration reproduced here is of particular significance as it writes out, in archaic Sumerian the god's epithet/name as #—*. The "star" spells "god" and the triangular symbol reads BUR. BURU. or BUZUR—all terms that make the epithet/name mean "God Who Solves Secrets." "God of the Deep Mines." and variations thereof. The Bible (in the original Hebrew) calls the god who The Wars of the Olden Gods When Mankind was first created.