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they gave to the prince Enki. To the Abzu Enki went down, assumed the rulership of the Abzu. Believing that he had managed to separate the rival brothers, "Anu to Heaven went up." But in the skies above Earth, an unex- pected turn of events awaited him. Perhaps as a precaution, Kum- arbi was left on the space platform orbiting Earth; when Anu returned to it, ready to take off on the long voyage back to Nibiru, he was confronted by an angry Kumarbi. Harsh words soon gave way to a scuffle: "Anu gave battle to Kumarbi, Kumarbi gave bat- tle to Anu." As Kumarbi bested Anu in the wrestling, "Anu strug- gled free from the hands of Kumarbi." But Kumarbi managed to grab Anu by his feet, and "bit between his knees," hurting Anu in his "manhood." Ancient depictions were found of the event (Fig. 23a), as well as of the habit of wrestling Anunnaki (Fig. 23b) to a tate Fig. 23 Disgraced and in pain, Anu took off on his way to Nibiru, leav- ing Kumarbi behind with the astronauts manning the space plat- forms and shuttlecraft. But before he departed, he put on Kumarbi a curse of "three monsters in his belly." The similarity of this Hittite tale to the Greek tale of the castra- tion of Uranus by Cronos, and the swallowing by Cronos of his 86 THE WARS OFGODS AND MEN hurt one another in the genitals. ———