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time they led to the creation of The Adam—Man as we know him. Homo sapiens; they also planted the seeds of future conflict on Earth between Enlil and Enki and their descendants. But first there were the lingering and bitter struggles between the House of Anu and the House of Alalu, an enmity that burst out on Earth into the War of the Titans. It was a war that pitted "the gods who are in heaven" against the “gods who are upon dark-hued Earth"; it was. in its last climactic phase, an uprising of the Igigi! That it had taken place in the early days of the settlement of the Nibiruans on Earth and in the aftermath of Anu's first visit to Earth, we know from the Kingship in Heaven text. Recalling the adversaries, it refers to them as "the mighty olden gods, the gods of the olden days." After naming five ancestors as "the fathers and mothers of the gods" who preceded Anu and Alalu, it begins the tale with the usurpations of the throne on Nibiru. the flight of Alalu, the visit of Anu to Earth, and the ensuing conflict with Kumarbi. The story in the Kingship in Heaven text is augmented and con- tinued in several other Hittite/Hurrian texts, which scholars call collectively The Kumarbi Cycle. Laboriously pieced together (and still badly fragmented), the texts have recently become more intel- ligible by the discovery of additional fragments and versions, re- ported and fitted into place by H. Guterbock (Kumarbi Mythen von Churritischen Kronos) and H. Otten (Mythen vom Gone Kumar- bi—Neue Fragmenle). How long Kumarbi remained aloft after the fight with Anu is not clear from these texts. We do learn that after the passage of some time, and after Kumarbi managed to spit out the "stones" that Anu caused to grow in his belly. Kumarbi came down to Earth. For rea- 91 THE WARS OF THE OLDEN GODS Anu's first visit to Earth and the decisions then reached set the course of events on Earth for all the millennia that followed. In