It was the knowledge imparted by this pantheon, the needs of the gods who had come to Earth, and the leadership of Thoth, that directed the African Olmecs and the bearded Near Easterners to the other side of the world.

He shared the continent with his sons among them was the firstborn MAR.DUK ('Son of the Bright Mound') whom the Egyptians called Ra, and .DA ('Lord of the Tree of Life') whom the Egyptians called Thoth (Hermes to the Greeks)-a god of secret knowledge including astronomy, mathematics, and the building of pyramids. A great scientist and metallurgist, Enki's Egyptian name was Ptah ('The Developer' a title that translated into Hephaestus by the Greeks and Vulcan by the Romans). This division, which did not go uncontested, gave Enki and his sons the lands of Ham-the brown/black people-of Africa: the civilization of the Nile Valley and the gold mines of southern and western Africa-a vital and cherished prize. Ishtar was granted dominion as the goddess of the Indus Valley civilization Shamash was given command of the spaceport in the Sinai peninsula. The three sons of Enlil-Ninurta, Sin, Adad-together with Sin's twin children, Shamash (the Sun) and Ishtar (Venus), were given the lands of Shem and Japhet, the lands of the Semites and Indo-Europeans: Sin (the Moon) lowland Mesopotamia Ninurta, ('Enlil's Warrior,' Mars) the highlands of Elam and Assyria Adad ('The Thunderer,' Mercury) Asia Minor (the land of the Hittites) and Lebanon. The inhabited Earth was divided between the warring clans. This laid the groundwork for an ongoing feud between the two half brothers and their descendants, a feud that led to Wars of the Gods it ended with a peace treaty worked out by their sister Ninti (thereafter renamed Ninharsag). As recorded in the Sumerian texts (and related by us in The 12th Planet and subsequent books of The Earth Chronicles), Enlil was sent to Earth to take over the command when the initial extraction methods used by Enki proved unsatisfactory. Not for ornamentation or because of vanity, but as away to save the atmosphere of Nibiru by suspending gold dust in that planet's stratosphere. His mission was to obtain gold, for which Earth was a unique source. Ea was also called in Sumerian texts EN.KI ('Lord Earth'), for he had led the first mission of the Anunnaki from Nibiru to Earth and established on Earth their first colonies in the E.DIN ('Home of the Righteous Ones')-the biblical Eden. Included in this group were the two principal sons of ANU: E.A ('Whose House Is Water'), Anu's Firstborn but not by Antu and EN.LIL ('Lord of the Command') who was the Heir Apparent because his mother was Antu, a half sister of Anu.

His spouse, also a member of the Twelve, was called ANTU. Heading the pantheon was the ruler of Nibiru, ANU whose name was synonymous with 'Heaven,' for he resided on Nibiru. Indeed, the names of the gods and their planets were one and the same (except when a variety of epithets were used to describe the planet or the god's attributes). “The Sumerian pantheon was headed by an 'Olympian Circle' of twelve, for each of these supreme gods had to have a celestial counterpart, one of the twelve members of the Solar System.

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