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every twist and turn Mankind depended on the plans and whims of its creators, the Elohim. In the Beginning, we today and people (and certainly Prophets) millennia ago have been informed that we have come into being as a result of discussions in a council of the gods, meeting to resolve a mutiny in the gold mines. Our genetic makeup was determined as two Anunnaki—Enki and Ninmah—acted both seriously and frivolously. It was at the Council of the Great Gods that they voted and swore to bring the creative experiment to an end and let Mankind perish in the Deluge. And it was that, meeting in council, the Anunnaki gods decided after the Deluge to give Mankind ''Kingship" in the three regions—the civilizations of Mesopotamia, of the Nile Valley, and of the Indus Valley. Curious about the records of the Beginnings, the human story from Creation through the Deluge and the rise of nations, the people of the last millennium B.C.—the time of the biblical Prophets—also wondered about the Olden Days, the events in the previous millennium or two—the time when the Bible switched to Ur of the Chaldees in Sumer, and Abraham, and the War of the Kings, and the upheaval of Sodom and Gomorrah. Tell us of those Olden Days so that we would know what to expect, the people demanded of those entrusted with prophecy and knowledge. The Bible mentions several such records—"books"—that may have held the answers but that have completely vanished. One is the Book of Jashar, the Book of Straightness if literally translated but probably meaning the record of the Right Things. The other and probably much more important was the Book of the Wars of Yahweh, implying by its enigmatic title that it dealt with wars and conflicts among the Elohim. Such conflicts, flaring at times into open warfare, were recorded in Sumerian writings; and such writings from the past were truly Divine Words, for the texts were either written down by the Divine Scribes or dictated by the gods to human scribes. Originally recorded by the gods themselves were the events on Nibiru that involved the seizing of the