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117 "Nin-ab," the text continues, "was a city in the settled Great Land." Its high priest, an accomplished musician, had a wife and a daughter. As the people gathered to offer the gods the roasted meat of the sacrifices, Martu, who was single, saw the priest's daughter. Desiring her, he went to his mother and complained: In my city I have friends, they have taken wives. Ihave companions, they have taken wives. In my city, unlike my friends, I have not taken a wife; Ihave no wife, I have no children. Asking whether the maiden whom he desired "appreciated his gaze," the goddess gave her consent. The other young gods then prepared a feast; as the marriage was announced, "in the city of Nin-ab, the people by the sound of the copper drum were called; the seven tambourines were sounded." This growing togetherness between the young astronauts and the descendants of the Primitive Worker was not to Enid's liking. The Sumerian texts tell us that "as the Land extended and the people multiplied," Enlil became increasingly "disturbed by Mankind's pronouncements" and its infatuation with sex and lust. The get- togethers between the Anunnaki and the daughters of Man caused him to lose sleep. "And the Lord said: ‘I will destroy the Earthling whom I have created off the face of the Earth.’ The texts inform us that when it was decided to develop the deep mines in the Abzu, the Anunnaki also proceeded to establish a sci- entific monitoring station at the tip of Africa. It was put in charge of Ereshkigal, a granddaughter of Enlil. A Sumerian epic tale re- corded the hazardous voyage of Enki and Ereshkigal from Meso- potamia to that far-off mountainland (Kur)—a text that implies that Ereshkigal was either abducted or in some other manner coerced by Enki on that voyage, having been "carried off to Kur as a prize." (Ereshkigal, we know from other epics, was later on attacked at her station by Nergal, one of Enki's sons, as a result of an insult involving Ereshkigal's emissary. At the last moment, Ereshkigal saved her life by offering Nergal to marry her and control together with her the station's "Tablets of Wisdom.") Enlil now saw his chance to get rid of the Earthlings when this scientific station at the tip of Africa began to report a dangerous sit- uation: the growing ice cap over Antarctica had become unstable, resting upon a layer of slippery slush. The problem was that this instability had developed just as Nibiru was about to make its ap- Mankind Emerges