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145 ing that these wall joints are "like a vulture whose claws are ready to clasp" (Fig. 45). The gallery led to the uppermost chamber, from which a "net"—a force field—"surveyed Heaven and Earth." The way to it was through an antechamber, built with great complexity (Fig. 46), where three locking devices were indeed in- stalled, ready to "slither" down and "to foe not open." After so describing the Ekur inside and out, the laudatory text provides information regarding the functions and location of the structure: On this day the Mistress herself speaks truly; The Goddess of the Rocketships, the Pure Great Lady, praises herself: "Iam the Mistress; Anu has determined my destiny; the daughter of Anu am I. Enlil has added to me a great destiny; his sister-princess am I. The gods have given unto my hand the pilot-guiding instruments of Heaven-Earth; Mother of the sky-chambers am I. Ereshkigal allotted to me the place-of-opening of the pilot-guiding instruments; The great landmark, the mountain by which Utu rises, Ihave established as my dais." If, as we have concluded, Ninharsag was the neutral Mistress of the Pyramid of Giza, it follows that she should have been known and revered as a goddess also in Egypt. This, indeed, is the case; except that to the Egyptians she was known as Hat-Hor. Textbooks will tell us that the name means "House of Horus"; but that is only superficially correcf-Rhe reading stems from the hieroglyphic writing of the name depicting a house and a falcon, the falcon having been the symbol of Horns because he could soar as a falcon. What the goddess's name literally meant was: "Goddess Whose Home Is Where the '‘Falcons' Are," where the astronauts make their home: the Spaceport. This spaceport, we have determined, was located in the post- Diluvial era in the Sinai peninsula; accordingly, the title Hat-Hor, "Home of the Falcons," would require that the goddess bearing it should be Mistress of the Sinai peninsula. That, indeed, she was; When Earth Was Divided