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When Civilized Human Time Began. The Book of the Secrets of Enoch includes in the knowledge granted to Enoch "all the workings of heaven, earth and the seas, and all the elements, their passages and goings and the thunderings of the thunder; and of the Sun and the Moon; the goings and changings of the stars; the seasons, years, days, and hours." This would be in line with the attributes of Shamash--the god whose celestial counterpart was the Sun and who commanded spaceport, and of Adad who was the "weather god" of antiquity, the god of storms and rains. Adad (Ishkur in Sumerian) was shown holding the forked lightning. A depiction on the royal seal of an Assyrian king (Tukulti-Ninurta 1) shows the king being introduced to the two great gods, perhaps for the purpose of granting him the knowledge they had once given to Enmeduranki (Fig.69)
Appeals by later kings to be granted as much "Wisdom" and scientific knowledge as renowned early sages had professed, of boasts that they knew as much, were not uncommon . Royal Assyrian correspondence hailed a king as "surpassing in knowledge all the wise men of the lower World" becaus he was an offspring of the "sage Adapa." Another instance had a Babylonian king claim that he possessed "wisdom that greatly surpassed even that contined in the writings that Adapa had composed." These were references to Adapa, the Sage of Eridu (Enki's center in Sumer), whom Enki had taught " wide understanding " of "the dsigns of Earth" -- the secrets of Earth Sciences.