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175 On hearing this Ninurta objected. "Let it not come!" the "prince of Enlil" shouted. Again Ninharsag took the floor. She reminded Ninurta how he had toiled, "day and night with might," to enable cultivation and cattle herding in the land, how he "raised the foundations, filled [the earth], raised [the dykes].". Then the affliction of war de- stroyed it all, "all, in its entirety." "Lord of life, god of fruit," she appealed to him, "let the good beer pour in double measure! Make abundant the wool!'"—agree to the peace terms! Overcome by her plea, Ninurta relented: "O my mother, brilliant one! Proceed; the flour I will not withhold ... in the kingdom the garden will be restored . . . To end affliction, I [too] earnestly pray." Now the peace negotiations could proceed; and we pick up the tale of the unprecedented encounter between the two warring gods from the text I Sing the Song of the Mother of the Gods. First to address the assembled Anunnaki was Enki: Enki addressed to Enlil words of lauding: "O one who is foremost among the brothers. Bull of Heaven, who the fate of Mankind holds: In my lands, desolation is widespread; All the dwellings are filled with sorrow by your attacks." The first item on the agenda was thus the cessation of hostilities- peace on Earth—and Enlil readily agreed, on condition that the territo- rial disputes be brought to an end and the lands rightfully belonging to the Enlilites and the people of the line of Shem be vacated by the Enkites. Enki agreed to cede forever these territories: "I will grant thee the ruler's position in the gods' Restricted Zone; The Radiant Place, in thy hand I will entrust!" In so ceding the Restricted Zone (the Sinai peninsula with its Spaceport) and the Radiant Place (the site of Mission Control Cen- ter, the future Jerusalem) Enki had a firm condition. In return for granting Enlil and his offspring eternal rights to those lands and vi- tal sites, the sovereignty of Enki and his descendants over the Giza complex had to be recognized for all time. Enlil agreed but not without a condition: The sons of Enki who had brought about the war and used the Great Pyramid for combat Peace on Earth