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88 ceeded to build and equip. It was named NIBRU.KI ("The Earth- Place of Nibiru")}—Nippur in Akkadian. There, atop an artificially raised platform equipped with antennas—the prototype of the Mes- opotamian "Towers of Babel" (Fig. 24)—was a secret chamber, the DIR.GA ("Dark, Glowing Chamber") where space charts ("the emblems of the stars") were displayed and where the DUR.AN.KI ("Bond Heaven-Earth") was maintained. unnaki on Earth were "laid out as centers." To this enigmatic statement was added the puzzle of the claim by _post-Diluvial kings that in reestablishing in Sumer the cities wiped out by the Flood, they had followed The everlasting ground plan. that which for all time the construction has determined. It is the one which bears the drawings from the Olden Times and the writing of the Upper Heaven. The puzzle will be solved if we mark out those first cities estab- lished by Enki and Enlil on the region's map and connect them with concentric circles. They were indeed "laid out as centers": all were equidistant from the Mission Control Center in Nippur. It was indeed a plan "from Upper Heaven." for it made sense only to those who could view the whole Near East from high above Earth: Choosing the twin-peaked Mount Ararat—the area's most conspic- THE WARS OF GODS AND MEN The Chronicles have asserted that the first settlements of the An-