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83 listed the "forty-two foreparents of Enlil," clearly arranged as twenty-one divine couples. This must have been a mark of great royal lineage, for two similar documents for Anu also list his twenty-one ancestral couples on Nibiru. We learn that the parents of Anu were AN.SHAR.GAL ("Great Prince of Heaven") and KISHAR.GAL ("Great Princess of Firm Ground"). As their KISHAR.GAL ("Great Princess of Firm Ground"). As their names indicate, they were not the reigning couple on Nibiru: rather, the father was the Great Prince, meaning the heir apparent; and his spouse was a great princess, the firstborn daughter of the tuler (by a different wife) and thus a half-sister of Anshargal. In these genealogical facts lies the key to the understanding of the events on Nibiru before the landing on Earth, and on Earth a on thereafter. Sending Ea to Earth for gold implies that the Nibiruans had al- ready been aware of the metal's availability on Earth well before the landing was launched. How? One could offer several answers: They could have probed Earth with unmanned satellites, as we have been doing to other planets in our Solar System. They could have surveyed Earth by landing on it, as we have done on our Moon. Indeed, their landing on Mars cannot be ruled out as we read texts dealing with the space voyages from Nibiru to Earth. Whether and when such manned premeditated landings on Earth had taken place, we do not know. But there does exist an ancient chronicle dealing with an earlier landing in dramatic circum- stances: when the deposed ruler of Nibiru escaped to Earth in his spacecraft! The event must have happened before Ea was sent to Earth by his father, for it was through that event that Anu became Nibiru's tuler. Indeed the event was the usurpation of the throne on Nibiru by Anu. The information is contained in a text whose Hittite version has been titled by scholars Kingship in Heaven. It throws light on life at the royal court of Nibiru and tells a tale of betrayal and usurpation worthy of a Shakespearean plot. It reveals that when the time for succession arrived on Nibiru—through natural death or other- wise—it was not Anshargal, Anu's father and the heir apparent, who had ascended the throne. Instead a relative named Alalu (Alalush in the Hittite text) became the ruler. As a gesture of reconciliation or by custom, Alalu appointed Anu to be his royal cup-bearer, an honored and trusted position The Earth Chronicles