Enki's Account

Following these introductions, Enki himself speaks:

The poem then goes on to describe and record, in the third person, the achievements of Enki. Here are some selected verses:

The poem lists other achievements of Enki:

• the purification of the waters of the Tigris River
• the joining (by canal) of the Tigris and Euphrates.

His house by the watery bank adjoined a wharf at which reed rafts and boats could anchor, and from which they could sail off.

Appropriately, the house was named E.ABZU (“house of the Deep”). Enki’s sacred precinct in Eridu was known by this name for millennia thereafter.

Enki and his landing party explored the lands around Eridu, but he appears to have preferred traveling by water. The marshland, he said in one of the texts, “is my favorite spot; it stretches out its arms to me.”

In other texts, Enki described sailing in the marshlands in his boat, named MA.GUR (literally, “boat to turn about in”), namely, a touring boat. He tells how his crewmen “drew on the oars in unison,” how they used to “sing sweet songs, causing the river to rejoice.”

At such times, he confided, “sacred songs and spells filled my Watery Deep.” Even such a minor detail as the name of the captain of Enki’s boat is recorded. (Fig. 128)

The Sumerian king lists indicate that Enki and his first group of Nefilim remained alone on Earth for quite a while.

Eight shar’s (28,800 years) passed before the second commander or “settlement chief” was named.

Interesting light is shed on the subject as we examine the astronomical evidence. Scholars have been puzzled by the apparent Sumerian “confusion” regarding which one of the twelve zodiacal houses was associated with Enki.

The sign of the fish-goat, which stood for the constellation Capricorn, was apparently associated with Enki (and, indeed, may explain the epithet of the founder of Eridu, A.LU.LIM, which could mean “sheep of the glittering waters”).

Yet Ea/Enki was frequently depicted as holding vases of flowing waters—the original Water Bearer, or Aquarius; and he was certainly the God of Fishes, and thus associated with Pisces.

Astronomers are hard put to clarify how the ancient stargazers actually saw in a group of stars the outlines of, say, fishes or a water bearer.

The answer that comes to mind is that the signs of the zodiac were not named after the shape of the star group but after the epithet or main activity of a god primarily associated with the time when the vernal equinox was in that particular zodiacal house.

If Enki landed on Earth—as we believe—at the end of an Age of Pisces, witnessed a precessional shift to Aquarius, and stayed through a Great Year (25,920 years) until an Age of Capricorn began, then he was indeed in sole command on Earth the purported 28,800 years.

The reported passage of time also confirms our earlier conclusion that the Nefilim arrived on Earth in the midst of an ice age. The hard work of raising dikes and digging canals commenced when climatic conditions were still harsh.

But within a few shar’s of their landing, the glacial period was giving way to a warmer and rainier climate (circa 430,000 years ago). It was then that the Nefilim decided to move farther inland and expand their settlements. Befittingly, the Anunnaki (rank-and-file Nefilim) named the second commander of Eridu A.LAL.GAR (“he who in raintime brought rest.”)

But while Enki was enduring the hardships of a pioneer on Earth, Anu and his other son Enlil were watching the developments from the 12th Planet.

The Mesopotamian texts make it clear that the one who was really in charge of the Earth mission was Enlil; and as soon as the decision was made to proceed with the mission, Enlil himself descended to Earth.

For him a special settlement or base named Larsa was built by EN.KI.DU.NU (“Enki digs deep”). When Enlil took personal charge of the place, he was nicknamed ALIM (“ram”), coinciding with the “age” of the zodiacal constellation Aries.

The establishment of Larsa launched a new phase in the settlement of Earth by the Nefilim. It marked the decision to proceed with the tasks for which they had come to Earth, which required the shipping to Earth of more “manpower,” tools, and equipment, and the return of valuable cargoes to the 12th Planet.

Splashdowns at sea were no longer adequate for such heavier loads. The climatic changes made the interior more accessible; it was time to shift the landing site to the center of Mesopotamia.

At that juncture, Enlil came to Earth and proceeded from Larsa to establish a “Mission Control Center”. It was a sophisticated command post from which the Nefilim on Earth could coordinate space journeys to and from their home planet, guide in landing shuttlecraft, and perfect their takeoffs and dockings with the spaceship orbiting Earth.

The site Enlil selected for this purpose, known for millennia as Nippur, was named by him NIBRU.KI (“Earth’s crossing”).

(We recall that the celestial site of the 12th Planet’s closest pass to Earth was called the “Celestial Place of the Crossing.”)

There Enlil established the DUR.AN.KI, the “bond Heaven—Earth.”

The task was complex and time-consuming.

Enlil stayed in Larsa for 6 shar’s (21,600 years) while Nippur was under construction.

The Nippurian undertaking was also lengthy, as evidenced by the zodiacal nicknames of Enlil.

Having paralleled the Ram (Aries) while in Larsa, he was subsequently associated with the Bull (Taurus).

Nippur was established in the “age” of Taurus.

A devotional poem composed as a “Hymn to Enlil, the All-Beneficent” and glorifying EnliI, his consort Ninlil, his city Nippur, and its “lofty house,” the E.KUR, tells us much about Nippur.

Enlil had at his disposal there some highly sophisticated instruments:

• a “lifted ’eye’ which scans the land”
• a “lifted beam which searches the heart of all the land”

Nippur was protected by awesome weapons:

• “Its sight is awesome fear, dread”; from “its outside, no mighty god can approach.”
• Its “arm” was a “vast net,” and in its midst there crouched a “fast-stepping bird,” a “bird” whose “hand” the wicked and the evil could not escape.

Was the place protected by some death ray, by an electronic power field? Was there in its center a helicopter pad, a “bird” so swift no one could outrun its reach?

In the center of Nippur, atop an artificially raised platform, stood Enlil’s headquarters, the KI.UR (“place of Earth’s root”)—the place where the “bond between Heaven and Earth” rose.

This was the communications center of Mission Control, the place from which the Anunnaki on Earth communicated with their comrades, the IGI.GI (“they who turn and see”) in the orbiting spacecraft.

At this center stood a “heavenward tall pillar reaching to the sky.” This extremely tall “pillar,” firmly planted on the ground “as a platform that cannot be overturned,” was used by Enlil to “pronounce his word” heavenward.

This is a simple description of a broadcasting tower. Once the “word of Enlil”—his command—" approached heaven, abundance would pour down on Earth."

What a simple way to describe the flow of materials, special foods, medicines, and tools brought down by the shuttlecraft, once the “word” from Nippur was given!