To skipp ahead...Sometime early in the fourth millennium B.C.E...the royal ruler of Heaven, along with his official spouse, paid a state visit to Earth...A brand-new sacred precinct with a temple-tower had been built in their honor at a place that was later to become the city of Uruk (the Biblical Erech)...

A ceremonial meal began with a ritual washing of hands on a celestial signal...the appearance of Jupiter...Venus...Mercury...Saturn...Mars...and the Moon...At the same time...an astronomer-priest...at the “topmost stage of the tower of the temple” watched for the appearance of the gods...When they were sighted...the priests began singing...“To the One Who Grows Bright...the Heavenly Plane of the Lord”...and a psalm...“The Creator’s Image Has Risen”...

Bonfires were lit to signal the event with the news...the bonfires being passed from city to city...(Think of it as fireworks on the Fourth of July.)...It was at this time the gods had begun reestablishing in Sumer the Olden Cities...beginning with Eridu and Nippur...This point marks the beginning of urban civilizations...in effect...the beginning of the Sumerian Civilization...

Meanwhile...back at the Sumerian Ranch...another of the results of the gods state visit was to establish clearly in the minds of the peasantry (essentially all of mankind) of the sacredness of two numbers...

The first is the number seven...the sacred terrestrial number...and the second is the number twelve...the hallowed celestial number...Note Seven (7) is the number of: the days of the week...the chakras...the wonders of the world...dwarfs...colors of the rainbow...baseball innings before the “stretch”...visible “planets” (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn)...stars of the big dipper (Dub’he, Me’rak, Phec’da, Me’grez, Alioth’, Mi’zar, and Alka’id)...and bodies of Alchemy (Sun-gold, Moon-silver, Jupiter-tin, Mars-iron, Mercury-quicksilver, Saturn-lead, and Venus- copper)...

Twelve (12) on the other hand...is the number for...The ruling council of the gods...the tribes of Israel...disciples...all the planets of the solar system (the “seven” plus, Chiron, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Marduk)...jurors in a court case...females in a wicca coven (which also includes one male)...and months of the year...

In Sumerian texts mankind is effectively divided into two species...One is the civilized man (those in the cities and towns of the civilization)...and the other is the animal-man (people outside of civilization)...In fact in the true spirit of blind bigotry and racial bias...any member of the human species who was not living within the constraints of civilization was not even considered human!!...

It doesn’t take a real stretch of imagination to conjure up visions of such heavies as the gods making it known that the state visit of Big Daddy would be honored as the time for the “real men” to invade the “non-humans” (also known as the goddess-worshipers)...and begin to reclaim the earth for the patriarchal paradigm...Thus the Kurgan Invasions!...

Okay...It’s just a theory...But it makes sense...It also ties in well with our story...