Introduction
You live in a world that assumes human history begins in primitive obscurity, yet ancient mythologies point toward advanced cosmic origins. Modern science leaves you with vast gaps regarding how Homo sapiens emerged with sudden, inexplicable intelligence. You wonder if ancient texts are merely superstitious fairy tales or distorted memories of actual events. You want to know if intelligent beings from another planet shaped human civilization and engineered your genome.
Zecharia Sitchin solves this puzzle by presenting an alternate historical account of human origins, civilization, and cosmic conflicts dictated by the extraterrestrial leader Ea or Enki. The author synthesizes Sumerian clay tablets, biblical narratives, and archaeological fragments into a coherent first-person testament. You discover how advanced beings from the planet Nibiru came to Earth seeking gold to repair their atmosphere. You trace the desperate genetic experiments that created the primitive worker and understand the dynastic rivalries that nearly destroyed mankind.
The book traces this vast saga across eleven distinct epochs of cosmic and terrestrial history. You follow the ecological crisis on Nibiru and the flight of Alalu to Earth. You examine the establishment of early settlements, the grueling toil in the mines, and the ultimate genetic creation of civilized man. You witness the approaching Deluge, the subsequent clan wars for dominance, and the final use of nuclear weapons that devastated ancient regions. The text reveals the hidden motivations behind historical transitions and divine mandates.
You are left to ponder several profound mysteries as you read this testament.
- How did an ecological catastrophe on a distant planet dictate the destiny of early mankind?
- What specific genetic procedures did the Anunnaki use to fashion modern human intelligence from terrestrial hominids?
- Why did bitter rivalries among extraterrestrial leaders lead to a devastating nuclear holocaust on Earth?
- What secrets are hidden within ancient accounts of the Deluge and the Tower of Babel?
1. Nibiru and its Ecological Crisis
Nibiru sustains life through a thick atmosphere constantly fed by volcanic eruptions, which acts as a thermal coat in cold regions and shields the planet from solar radiation when near the Sun. One Shar equals 3,600 Earth years, representing the length of Nibiru's orbital period around the Sun.
Nibiru sustains life through a thick volcanic atmosphere, but a growing breach threatens the planet with climate collapse and forces desperate remedies.
As Nibiru moves along its elongated circuit, volcanic activity is essential to maintain the atmospheric shield. Over time, volcanic belching diminished, causing the atmosphere to thin, leading to climate disruption, severe droughts, and agricultural failures.
Atmospheric Shield
During the reign of Enshar, the breach in the skies grew bigger, rains were withheld, winds blew harder, and mothers' breasts were dry as the volcanic replenishment slowed down.
Royal Dynasties
After enduring a long, destructive war between the northern and southern nations of Nibiru, the two sides established a unified dynasty through a peace treaty and a mandated royal marriage. To ensure permanent peace, the nations agreed to have one supreme king chosen by lot, coupled with a queen from the opposing nation as an equal spouse. Their firstborn son would then serve as the unified successor.
A northern warrior named An was chosen by fair lot as the first unity king and built the capital city of Agade. He took a southern maiden named Antu as his spouse, establishing a unified royal throne.
The Search for Cures
Succession rules on Nibiru were altered by the Law of the Seed, which gave priority to sons born to a half sister over firstborn sons born to concubines. Frequent succession disputes arose when kings fathered children with both official spouses and concubines. Queen Kishargal argued that sons born of a half-sister preserved the double royal seed, prompting the council to adopt this rule to avoid confusion.
Faced with a thinning atmosphere, the savants of Nibiru proposed two distinct remedies:
- mining gold to create a reflective atmospheric shield;
- using weapons of terror to restart dormant volcanoes.
King Lahma proved too feeble to make a choice between the two solutions as conditions worsened, leading to severe political instability and his eventual overthrow by the prince Alalu.
2. The Usurpation and Flight to Earth
Prince Alalu overthrows the feeble king Lahma, loses a combat against Anu, and flees in a spacecraft to discover gold on Earth.
Alalu claimed royal descent through an ancestral line bypassed by the Law of the Seed. After ruling for 9 counted periods and failing to fix the atmosphere using volcanic bombardment, Alalu was challenged to hand-to-hand combat by Anu. He lost the fight and fled Nibiru in a missile-throwing chariot toward Earth.
Alalu's Rebellion
Alalu secretly went to the place of the celestial chariots, climbed into a missile-throwing chariot, lit up the That-Which-Shows-the-Way with a bluish aura, and set his course for snow-hued Earth.
Journey to Ki
You can trace Alalu's hazardous voyage across the solar system as he approaches Ki, the seventh planet, to seek gold. Alalu boards his spacecraft, encounters little Gaga and other celestial planets, fights through the boulder-filled Hammered Bracelet using death-dealing missiles, and crash-lands on Earth. His instruments use a Tester to detect gold in the water and marsh edges of the new world.
Celestial Origins
The solar system's origin is tied to a celestial battle where the planet Nibiru splits Tiamat in two, creating Earth and the Moon. In the primordial system, Apsu and Tiamat spawn celestial bodies. Later, the wandering planet Nibiru confronts Tiamat and her host of eleven warriors marching by her side. Nibiru drives the Evil Wind into Tiamat's belly, splitting her apart, turning her upper part into Earth, and transforming Kingu into Earth's moon, leaving Nibiru as the seventh in the celestial count.
3. Eridu and the Gold Extraction
Ea leads fifty heroes to establish Eridu and extract gold from ocean waters before shifting operations to the inner veins of the Abzu.
Mission to Ki
Ea serves as Anu's firstborn and Alalu's son-in-law. You watch him prepare a large celestial chariot to resolve the kingship conflict and save Nibiru. He builds a Tablet of Destinies and equips the spacecraft with fifty heroes. They navigate past hazards and cross the Hammered Bracelet using a Water Thruster.
Founding Eridu
The crew splashes down in Earth's ocean and reaches the marshes. Ea and his heroes establish the encampment of Eridu in a span of seven days.
Ea assigns tasks across seven days:
- establishing Engur for sweet waters;
- building Kulla for bricks;
- raising Mushdammu for foundations;
- declaring the seventh day a day of rest named Eridu.
Transition to Abzu Mining
Ea extracts metals from the marsh and ocean waters using crystal vessels, but finds gold in very small quantities. Before Anzu repairs the vessel for Alalu's return to Nibiru, Ea and Abgal secretly remove the seven Weapons of Terror from Alalu's chariot and store them in a secret cave.
Water-based gold recovery yields disappointing results. Ea travels over mountains and valleys with a Scanner to locate where Earth's innards are exposed. He discovers that gold must be mined from the inner veins of dry land rather than extracted from ocean waters, leading to the establishment of the Abzu region.
4. Leadership Structure and Infrastructure
Anu visits Earth to resolve rivalries between the Firstborn Enki and the Legal Heir Enlil. You watch as Anu proposes casting lots to divide authority and tasks between his sons.
Anu divides Earth between Enlil and Enki using lots, while infrastructure expands with the Landing Place and the Metal City of Bad-Tibira.
Anu, Enlil, and Enki clasp hands together and cast lots to decide their domains. Anu returns to Nibiru, Enlil becomes Lord of the Command in the Edin, and Enki becomes Earth's Master in charge of the oceans and the Abzu.
Alalu disputes the kingship and wrestles Anu, but he loses the match. Alalu bites off and swallows Anu's malehood during the struggle. Tried by the Seven Who Judge, Alalu is sentenced to exile on Lahmu. Alalu eventually dies from internal poisoning on Lahmu and is buried in a cave by Anzu. Anzu and Ninmah later discover Alalu's remains reduced to a pile of bones in a cave on Lahmu and carve his likeness into a rock.
Building the North Crest
Afflicted by the heat of the Sun on Earth, Enlil surveys the northern mountains. Enlil flattens a mountain valley surface using power beams and builds a massive stone platform and cedarwood abode. Enlil uses quarried great stones from the hillside, positioned with skyships, to build the Abode of the North Crest as a Landing Place.
Mining Infrastructure
Raw ores must be smelted and refined before transport to reduce cargo weight and speed up the gold flow to Nibiru. Ninurta suggests building Bad-Tibira for this purpose on Earth, allowing tired workers to return home on lighter rocketships. With materials and tools from Nibiru, the Metal City is constructed in the Edin over three Shars under Ninurta's command.
5. The Anunnaki Mutiny and the Primitive Worker
Exhausted miners rebel against their grueling toil in the Abzu, prompting Enki to propose creating a genetic primitive worker.
Workforce Organization
Anu formally addresses the workforce from afar. He designates the six hundred personnel on Earth as Anunnaki and the three hundred personnel operating facilities on Lahmu as Igigi. Anu beams a message from Nibiru to the assembled groups across Eridu, the Edin, the Abzu, and Lahmu. Total personnel on both worlds reaches nine hundred individuals.
The Abzu Mutiny
Due to rising heat and excruciating conditions, the mining Anunnaki set fire to their tools and axes. They seize Chief Officer Ennugi and surround Enlil's dwelling at night with torches demanding relief. Karkal, the gateway guardian, and Nusku rouse Enlil from bed as battling Anunnaki march up to his gate.
During a visit to Nibru-ki, Anzu steals the Tablets of Destinies to control the decrees of heaven and Earth. Ninurta defeats Anzu in an aerial battle using a dust-generating Whirlwind and a Tillu missile, and Anzu is subsequently judged and executed in the twenty-fifth Shar. Anzu hides at the Landing Place with rebellious Igigi before Ninurta blinds his skybird's pinions with a dust storm and shoots him down with a missile.
Proposing the Lulu
To solve the severe labor shortage and appease the mutiny, Enki suggests creating a Primitive Worker. He explains that an existing bipedal creature in the Abzu can be genetically marked with the essence of the Anunnaki to perform the hard labor. Enki studies bipedal creatures that walk erect in the steppes and tall trees before discussing the solution with Ninmah and Ningishzidda inside the House of Life.
6. Genetic Engineering and Civilized Man
Enki, Ninmah, and Ningishzidda successfully combine Anunnaki and Earthling essences inside Abzu clay to fashion Adamu, Ti-Amat, and later Civilized Man.
Discovering Abzu Beings
You learn that Enki reveals the existence of an intelligent, two-legged wild Being living in the Abzu that can be upgraded into a Primitive Worker. Ningishzidda tests their physical essence and finds it akin to the Anunnaki's entwined serpent structure, making them suitable candidates for genetic upgrading.
Enki brings the leaders to the House of Life, where caged male and female Abzu beings jump and beat on the bars with their fists.
Fashioning Adamu
After numerous failed hybrid experiments resulting in various physical deficiencies, Enki deduces that the missing component is the Earth's own clay and an Anunnaki womb. Ninmah volunteers her own womb to carry the fertilized oval, successfully giving birth to a male child named Adamu.
Ninmah makes a vessel from the clay of the Abzu, places an Earth female oval and Anunnaki blood essence inside using ME formulas, and later carries the fertilized egg in her own womb to give birth to Adamu.
Granting Procreation
Seven Anunnaki healing heroines volunteer to carry cloned Earthling embryos in Abzu clay vessels to mass-produce male Primitive Workers, followed by the creation of a female counterpart, Ti-Amat, by Ninki. When the mass-produced workers fail to bear offspring, Ningishzidda discovers that twenty-two essence branches are present in their Tree of Life, lacking the two procreating bits found in Anunnaki males and females.
Ningishzidda puts the four others into a deep sleep, extracts life essence from Enki and Ninmah, and inserts it into the ribs of Adamu and Ti-Amat.
- Seven healing heroines named Ninimma, Shuzianna, Ninmada, Ninbara, Ninmug, Musardu, and Ningunna step forward to bear Earthling embryos.
- Seven male Earthlings are born in the first batch.
- Seven female Earthlings are born as counterparts, including Ti-Amat who possesses smooth dark red skin and can reproduce.
Birth of Adapa and Titi
Enki secretly fathers two children, Adapa and Titi, with wild Earthling females, creating the first Civilized Man capable of farming and shepherding. Faced with food shortages from proliferating Primitive Workers, Enki mates with two bathing Earthling females during the ninety-third Shar.
Enki's vizier Isimud finds Adapa and Titi among the bulrushes in reed baskets. Ninki raises them as her own children. She teaches Titi crafts while Enki instructs Adapa.
7. Celestial Journeys and the Impending Deluge
Adapa travels to Nibiru, the Igigi rebel by marrying Earthling women, and planetary instability makes a global deluge inevitable.
Adapa's Space Journey
Adapa becomes the first Earthling to make a space journey. He travels to Nibiru in a celestial chariot accompanied by Enki's sons Ningishzidda and Dumuzi.
When three leagues aloft, Adapa sees the Earth shrink to a small ball swallowed by a sea of darkness. He cries out in fright before Ningishzidda calms him by placing a hand on his neck.
Agricultural Lineage
Adapa's sons Ka-in and Abael are established as the first farmer and shepherd. Ninurta and Marduk serve as their mentors.
During a dispute over drought-stricken pasture water, Ka-in strikes and kills his brother Abael with a stone. This violent act leads to his exile to the Land of Wandering.
The Igigi Rebellion
Restless Igigi stationed on Lahmu rebelled against their isolation. They descend to Earth and forcibly abduct Adapite females to take as wives.
Shamgaz and his followers issue an ultimatum from their stronghold in the Cedar Mountains. They demand blessings for their marriages to avoid destroying everything.
Warning of the Deluge
An enigmatic emissary named Galzu arrives with a message from Anu. He warns that Anunnaki who stay too long on Earth can no longer endure Nibiru's life cycles.
Planetary disturbances cause the Whiteland's ice sheet to destabilize. This instability prompts an upcoming Deluge and forces a massive evacuation plan.
Enlil exacts a strict oath from the remaining leaders to let Mankind perish in the Deluge. Enki and Ninmah secretly resolve to preserve Earth's seeds of life.
8. The Deluge and Survival
Ziusudra builds a submersible boat on Galzu's instructions to survive the massive tidal wave triggered by the slipping of the Whiteland ice sheet.
Vision of Galzu
Enki receives instructions in a dream-vision from the mysterious figure Galzu to save civilized mankind through a submersible boat built by Ziusudra. Bound by an oath not to reveal the impending Deluge, Enki speaks instructions to the reed wall of Ziusudra's hut. He leaves behind an engraved lapis lazuli tablet with exact measurements for a waterproof boat that will withstand the tidal wave.
The time cycle when the Deluge is awaited occurs in the one hundred and twentieth Shar. Ziusudra is in the tenth Shar of his life age when the Deluge occurs.
Ziusudra announces to the townspeople that he must sail to the Abzu to appease Enlil's anger. The locals help him hurriedly build the boat in seven days.
The Cataclysm
The Deluge is triggered when Nibiru's approach causes the Whiteland ice sheet at the bottom of the Earth to slip into the sea, generating a massive wall of water. As the Earth experiences severe tremors and darkness in daytime, the Anunnaki evacuate into celestial boats and observe from orbit as the tidal wave overwhelms the Edin, Shurubak, and mountain peaks.
Ninagal, Enki's son and the boat's navigator, stands eighteen leagues from Shurubak where he witnesses bright eruptions. He shouts to button up the hatch as the Whiteland ice sheet shatters like a broken eggshell and drives a gigantic tidal wave northward.
The combined downpour of waters lasts seven days. Continuous rain continues for forty days and nights after the tidal wave ceases.
Restoration and the Ekur
After the floodwaters recede, Ziusudra's boat lands on the peaks of Arrata, and the surviving Anunnaki begin restoring agriculture and establishing new space facilities. Enlil discovers Enki's duplicity upon finding Ziusudra alive, but relents when convinced it is the will of the Creator of All. They utilize surviving creation chambers, dam rivers, and discover abundant gold nuggets in lands beyond the seas.
- Ziusudra releases a swallow, a raven, and a dove.
- The dove returns with a tree twig to signal that dry land has emerged.
A new spaceport and mission control center, featuring artificial peaks and precise geometric alignment, is constructed to replace pre-deluge facilities. Ningishzidda designed smooth-sided, skyward-rising peaks using scale models, embedding pulsating crystals and an electrum capstone to serve as a beacon and guide celestial chariots.
Ningishzidda designed the Great Twin Peak, named Ekur, which is activated by Enlil using twenty-seven pairs of Nibiru crystals to emit a pulsating beam and a reddish light.
9. Clan Wars and Regional Divisions
Dynastic conflicts and personal rivalries culminate in a devastating clan war between the Anunnaki factions before Earth is divided into four distinct regions.
Tranquility among the survivors is shattered when Marduk's grandsons, Asar and Satu, come into conflict, leading to Asar's murder and Horon's vengeance. Influenced by the Igigi leader Shamgaz and his daughter Nebat, Satu murders his brother Asar by sealing him in a coffin and throwing him into the sea. Asta extracts Asar's life seed to conceive Horon, who eventually defeats Satu in an aerial battle. Horon, aided by Gibil's winged sandals and a divine harpoon, battles Satu above Tilmun and captures him in tethers.
The Great War
The romance between Enki's son Dumuzi and Enlil's granddaughter Inanna ends in tragedy due to Marduk's jealousy, sparking a devastating war between the Anunnaki clans. Tricked by Geshtinanna into believing he must secure a legitimate heir, Dumuzi faces false accusations and accidentally falls to his death in slippery mountain waters while fleeing. Inanna seeks retribution, leading to all-out warfare between the clans.
Inanna descends to the Lower Abzu after Dumuzi's death, is put to death by Ereshkigal, and is subsequently resurrected using the Water of Life and Plant of Life.
Marduk's Imprisonment and Exile
During the clan war, Marduk makes his final stand inside the Ekur, where he is sealed alive in a stone tomb before being rescued and sent into exile. Ninurta breaches the Ekur through a secret corridor and upper chamber, allowing Ishkur and Inanna to drop blocking stones and entomb Marduk alive. Following pleas from his family, Ningishzidda devises a rescue shaft to extract Marduk on the condition that he forfeits his domain and goes into exile.
Ningishzidda bores a twisting passageway and a rescue shaft through the hollowings of the Ekur to reach the uppermost chamber and raise the portcullises, saving a fainted Marduk.
Regional Division
The Anunnaki leaders met during Anu's visit to divide Earth into four distinct civilizable domains, granting three to mankind and reserving one exclusively for space operations. Enlil and his descendants received the First Region in Sumer, Enki and his lineage were assigned the Second Region in the Nile valley, Inanna received the distant Third Region in the Indus valley, and the Sinai peninsula was consecrated as the Fourth Region housing the Place of the Chariots for the Anunnaki alone.
Anu and Antu arrived at Tilmun in a celestial chariot, toured Eridu and Nibru-ki, and later bestowed Unug-ki upon Inanna as a wedding dowry.
Divine administrative and technological formulas known as ME's were frequently obtained, contested, or stolen by deities to legitimize their rule over specific cities. Enki originally safeguarded ninety-four ME's containing the blueprints for civilization, kingship, and priesthood in Eridu. Deities acquired them through formal requests or cunning seduction to establish royal authority in cities like Kishi and Unug-ki.
Inanna visited Enki in Eridu, engaged him in a drinking competition, and successfully convinced a drunken Enki to hand over ninety-four ME's before fleeing with them to Unug-ki in her Boat of Heaven.
10. Tower of Babel and the Great Calamity
Marduk attempts to build an illicit launch tower, prompting the Anunnaki council to authorize using nuclear Weapons of Terror that unleash a radioactive Evil Wind.
Nabu summoned followers to build a skyship tower where none of the proper stones existed, forcing Marduk to teach them how to burn bricks from mud. When Marduk attempted to establish a rival gateway to the heavens using human followers and fired bricks, the Enlilite deities destroyed the tower with fire and brimstone. To prevent future unified defiance, Enlil confounded human speech into different languages across regions three hundred and tenth year since the count of Earth years began when languages were confounded.
Demigod kings like Gilgamesh sought physical immortality through journeys to forbidden Anunnaki zones, ultimately failing to retain the rejuvenating plant of life. Gilgamesh traveled through subterranean tunnels to the Fourth Region where he met Ziusudra and discovered a rejuvenating plant called Man at Old Age Is Young Again.
Gilgamesh tied stones to his feet, dived into a garden well in Tilmun, uprooted the youth-restoring plant, but lost it to a snake on the way back to Unug-ki. While he slept, a snake smelled the plant's fragrance, snatched it, and shed its skin, leaving Gilgamesh empty-handed to die as a mortal. In the Second Region, Marduk transformed into Ra and declared himself supreme, teaching kings to build eastward-facing tombs and dictating a book describing the journey through the Duat to the celestial boats to attain the waters of youth. Ra commanded his kings to make expeditions to the Abzu and Lower Domain to gather gold, declaring that gold is the flesh of the gods.
Enlil received a mystical dream-vision from the deceased emissary Galzu warning of an upcoming planetary transition from the Bull to the Ram and a catastrophic calamity. Galzu appeared before Enlil in a dream holding a lapis lazuli tablet depicting the zodiac constellations, repeatedly pointing out that the Age of the Ram would replace the Age of the Bull and forecasting an unprecedented disaster that required selecting a worthy man to preserve mankind, noting seventy-two Earth years in a Celestial Portion and three celestial portions for the Ram to replace the Bull. Enlil kept the vision secret, eventually instructing the high priest Tirhu and his grandson Ibruum to monitor the skies from Harran to prepare for the transition.
Deployment of Terror Weapons
Despite Enki's opposition, Enlil revealed the hidden location of the seven terror weapons to Ninurta and Nergal. Ninurta obliterated the spaceport on Mount Mashu with the first weapons, while Nergal used subsequent weapons to annihilate the five cities in the verdant valley 1,736 Earth years count when Marduk declared supremacy in Babili. Nergal named the seven weapons with terrifying titles such as the Blazing Flame, Mountain Melter, and Vaporizer of Living Things before executing the devastation.
The Evil Wind
Following the fiery blasts, a dark-brown storm cloud generated an Evil Wind that moved from west to east across plains and mountains, bypassing Babili but inflicting swift, stealthy death on people, cattle, and vegetation from Eridu to Sippar. People attempting to flee or hiding behind locked doors were mercilessly felled, their mouths filled with foam and blood as the invisible storm swept over the land.
11. Epilogue and Final Testament
Babili survived the devastating nuclear calamity as an omen of Marduk's supreme destiny.
While the Evil Wind devoured all lands south of Babili and touched the heart of the Second Region, Babili itself remained untouched. Enki interpreted this survival as a divine sign that Marduk was destined to rule.
Following the Great Calamity, Enlil and Enki met to survey the havoc, where Enki argued that the sparing of Babili confirmed Marduk's triumph.
Enlil's Retreat
Enlil conceded defeat and voluntarily stepped aside to the Lands Beyond the Oceans.
Recognizing the triumph of Marduk's ambitions and accepting the devastation of the First and Second Regions, Enlil relinquished the rank of fifty previously intended for Ninurta and handed supremacy over the regions to Marduk. He and Ninurta decided to leave and complete the original mission of obtaining gold for Nibiru.
Enlil hugged Enki in a sentimental parting before departing to the Lands Beyond the Oceans.
Recording the Testament
The scribe Endubsar was summoned by Enki seven years after the Great Calamity to record his definitive testament.
Endubsar wandered into the wilderness near Eridu where he witnessed a reddish, soundless Whirlwind carrying divine emissaries. They took him aloft to Enki's retreat in Magan to serve as the master scribe for forty days and nights.
Endubsar was transported to Enki's abode on an island in the River of Magan, where he was provided with special sustenance and a divine stylus. Enki provided sky-blue lapis lazuli tablets with two smooth faces, inscribed in two columns on the front and two on the back.
After completing the forty-day transcription, Endubsar wrote his own attestation, sealed it with his witness mark, and placed all the tablets in order into a special chest.
Endubsar placed the finished records into an acacia wood chest inlaid with gold outside, per Enki's strict instructions.
You inherit a world shaped by the ancient rivalries, scientific interventions, and territorial divisions of the Anunnaki gods. The personal ambitions of extraterrestrial leaders and their cyclical planetary crises established the foundation of human civilization, language, and religious traditions. Recognizing these repeating patterns allows you to separate divine myth from the historical reality of genetic engineering, technological extraction, and destructive warfare. You must navigate your own destiny by understanding the delicate boundary between unalterable cosmic cycles and the choices you make every day.
To apply the lessons of this epic historical testimony, you should follow these rules:
- Examine the foundational texts of ancient civilizations to uncover the hidden technological and genetic origins of humanity.
- Question dominant narratives of divine creation by looking for physical interventions and scientific engineering in traditional myths.
- Recognize that technological advancements without ethical responsibility lead to environmental collapse and devastating regional conflicts.
- Separate unalterable cosmic destiny from alterable human fate by making deliberate choices during periods of systemic crisis.
- Preserve vital knowledge and personal truth through written testimony so that future generations can learn from past mistakes.
10 Key Ideas
- A growing atmospheric breach on the planet Nibiru threatens climate collapse and forces the council to consider mining gold to create a reflective atmospheric shield.
- Prince Alalu overthrows the feeble king Lahma, loses a combat against Anu, and flees in a spacecraft to discover gold on Earth.
- Anu divides Earth between Enlil and Enki using lots, while infrastructure expands with the Landing Place and the Metal City of Bad-Tibira.
- Exhausted miners rebel against their grueling toil in the Abzu, prompting Enki to propose creating a genetic primitive worker.
- Enki, Ninmah, and Ningishzidda successfully combine Anunnaki and Earthling essences inside Abzu clay to fashion Adamu, Ti-Amat, and later Civilized Man.
- Adapa travels to Nibiru, the Igigi rebel by marrying Earthling women, and planetary instability makes a global deluge inevitable.
- Ziusudra builds a submersible boat on Galzu's instructions to survive the massive tidal wave triggered by the slipping of the Whiteland ice sheet.
- Dynastic conflicts and personal rivalries culminate in a devastating clan war between the Anunnaki factions before Earth is divided into four distinct regions.
- Marduk attempts to build an illicit launch tower, prompting the Anunnaki council to authorize using nuclear Weapons of Terror that unleash a radioactive Evil Wind.
- The scribe Endubsar is summoned by Enki seven years after the Great Calamity to record his definitive testament on lapis lazuli tablets.