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180 But Ninharsag's appeal was ill-worded. She meant to appeal as Enlil's sister in behalf of the child (Ninurta) she bore him; but her call sounded like an appeal to Enki. Enraged, Enlil shouted at her: "Who is this brother of yours that you call? This brother, who an infant made you carry?" And he made a decision favoring the line of Sin. Ever since then, and to this very day, the Land of the Spaceport has been known as Sin's land—the Sinai peninsula. As his final act Enlil appointed Sin's son as the commander of the Mission Control Center: He called in Shamash the grandchild of Ninlil. He took him [by the hand]; In Shulim he placed him. Jerusalem— Ur-Shulim, the "City of Shulim"—was given to Shamash to command. Its name, SHU.LIM, meant "The Supreme Place of the Four Regions," and the Sumerian emblem of the "Four Regions" (Fig. 53a) applied to it, possibly the forerunner of the Jewish emblem called the Star of David (Fig. 53b). Replacing the pre-Diluvial Nippur as the post-Diluvial Mission Control Center, Jerusalem also acquired Nippur's former title of being the Navel of the Earth—the central point in the Divine Grid that made the comings and goings between Earth and Nibiru possi- Fig. 53 THE WARS OF GODS AND MEN my brother who an infant made me carry; ween eee bene Pt upon my brother I call!"