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121 So, in order to increase the production of grains and cattle to satiate the Anunnaki, a decision was made: Let NAM.LU.GAL.LU —"civilized mankind"—be taught the "tilling of the land" and the "keeping of sheep ... for the sake of the gods": for the pure sheepfold. Civilized Mankind was brought into existence. Just as it describes what had been brought into existence at that early time, so does this text also list the domesticated varieties that had not then been brought forth: That which by planting multiplies, had not yet been fashioned: Terraces had not yet been set up... The triple grain of thirty days did not exist: The triple grain of forty days did not exist: The small grain, the grain of the mountains, the grain of the pure ADAM, did not exist. . . Tuber-vegetables of the field had not yet come forth. These, as we shall see, were introduced on Earth by Enlil and Ninurta some time after the Deluge. After the Deluge had swept all off the face of the Earth, the first problem facing the Anunnaki was where to get the seeds needed for renewed cultivation. Fortunately specimens of the domesticated renewed cultivation. Fortunately specimens of the domesticated cereals had been sent to Nibiru; and now "Anu provided them, from Heaven, to Enlil." Enlil then looked for a safe place where the seeds could be sown to restart agriculture. The earth was still cov- ered with water, and the only place that seemed suitable was "the mountain of aromatic cedars." We read in a fragmented text re- ported by S. N. Kramer in his Sumerische Literarische Texte aus Nippur: of the Enlil went up the peak and lifted his eyes; He looked down: there the waters filled as a sea. He looked up: there was the mountain of the aromatic cedars. He hauled up the barley, terraced it on the mountain. That which vegetates he hauled up, terraced the grain cereals on the mountain. Mankind Emerges For the sake of the satiating things, Ca dee eee he et domesticated