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110 And at the close of 1983, astronomers at the Jet Propulsion Lab- oratory in California announced that IRAS—the infrared telescope mounted on a spacecraft and launched under NASA's auspices with the cooperation of other nations—had discovered beyond Pluto a very distant "mystery celestial body" about four times the size of Earth and moving toward Earth. They have not yet called it a planet; but our Earth Chronicles leave the ultimate finding in no doubt. In 1983, rocks were found in Antarctica and elsewhere which are undoubtedly fragments of the Moon and Mars; and the scien- tists are totally baffled as to how that could have happened. The Sumerian tale of the Creation of the Solar System, the collision be- tween Nibiru's satellites and Tiamat, and the rest of the cosmogony in the celebrated Epic of Creation offer a comprehensive explana- tion. And what about the texts describing how Man was created through genetic manipulation: in vitro fertilization and reimplanta- tion? Recent advances in genetic sciences and technologies have af- firmed the Sumerian concept of gradual evolution on the one hand, and on the other hand, the (otherwise inexplicable) appearance of the biologically advanced Homo sapiens through genetic engineer- ing by the Anunnaki. Even the very recent method of test tube procreation—extracting a female egg, impregnating it with purified male semen, and reimplanting the fertilized egg in a woman's womb—is the very same procedure described in the Sumerian texts from millennia ago. If the two principal events—the creation of Earth and the cre- ation of Man—are correctly reported in the Bible, ought we not to accept the veracity of the biblical tale regarding the emergence of mankind on Earth? And if the biblical tales are but a condensed version of more de- tailed, earlier Sumerian chronicles, could not the latter be used to enhance and complete the biblical record of those earliest times? Since one is the reflection of the other, let us hold up a mirror to that ancient flame of memories. . . . Let us continue the unrav- eling of the wondrous tale. After relating how "The Adam" (literally, "the Earthling") was granted the ability to procreate, the Book of Genesis moves from recounting the general events on Earth to the saga of a spe- cific branch of mankind: the person named Adam and his descen- dants. THE WARS OF GODS AND MEN