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79 Fig. 20 It has been created like a weapon; It has charged forward like death ... The Anunnaki who are fifty it has smitten. . . The flying, birdlike Supreme Orbiter it has smitten on the breast. A Sumerian engraving on a cylinder seal (Fig. 21) may well have illustrated the scene of Lord Earth (on the left) anxiously greeting his son, dressed as an astronaut (on the right), as the spaceship leaves Mars (the six-pointed star) and nears Earth (the seventh planet when counting from the outside in, symbolized by the seven dots and depicted together with the Moon). Back on the home planet, where Enki's father AN (Anu in Akka- dian) was the ruler, the progress of the landing parties was fol- lowed with anxiety and expectation. These must have turned to im- patience at the slow progress, and then to disappointment. Evidently the scheme to extract gold from seawaters by patience at the slow progress, and then to disappoi Evidently the scheme to extract gold from seawate laboratorylike processes did not work as expected. But the gold was still badly needed; and the Anunnaki faced a disappointment. seawaters by the scheme from extract by The Earth Chronicles and then to