One NASA engineer concluded that Ezekiel’s chariot was a “helicopter with a cabin resting on four posts...each equipped with rotary wings...Some two millennia earlier the Sumerian ruler Gudea had built for Ninurta a specialized temple...in which Ninurta and two divine companions could park their divine black wind bird in a secure place...and which was so important that it was guarded by two divine weapons...the “supreme hunter and the supreme killer...weapons that emitted beams of light and death-dealing rays....The divine bird’s importance lay in the fact it was capable of bringing together Heaven and Earth...All of which sounds like a sophisticated flying machine...or some acid stamps...

Jacob’s first UFO encounter occurred while he was on his way to Haran to find a wife...After designating the spot as sacred...christening it Beth-El...and vowing to stay clear of the spot for some time to come...he continued his journey until he reached a well near Haran...There Jacob saw...kissed and was conquered by Rachel...You go girl!...It was the old story of the nephew falling in love with the niece...But Jacob had to work even harder...as he began the laborious job of having some ten sons leap from his loins...Ouch!...What...was Rachel to busy to give birth?...

The end result was...guess what?...Leah...the unwanted by Jacob...was fruitful...while Rachel...the desired...was barren...That answers why Jacob had kids popping out of his loins!...Surprise!...The genetic inbreeding curse lives!...it took Jacob until he was 90 years old before Rachel finally gave birth to Joseph!

The end of the Old Kingdom of Egypt...beginning of the First Intermediate Period and beginning of the Seventh through the Tenth dynasties...all of which were more or less contemporaneous!...

in Babylon (“the gateway of the gods”) -- where Marduk/Ra had made such a deal of capturing and reforming it in his own image. One might suspect he and the other gods were still taking some time off from the Earth-leadership scene. After all, beings who live some 4000 times as long as humans, might view two millennia as humans view a year. Thus 500 years is roughly a quarter of a year, and more like a short sabbatical or an extended holiday for a god.

On the other hand...a strange twist of fate may have begun...Ra...being on the scene in Babylon as he tried to salvage his victory over the other gods was probably being exposed to nuclear radiation in an insidious and not well understood way...

Humans may have been dying in the area somewhat more rapidly than normal...Ra may have grossly erred in not recognizing the danger to his own life by staying in Mesopotamia...This oversight may have come back to haunt him...and may explain a future event which will arise some time between this point in time and the time of the Eighteenth Dynasty in Egypt...

There is also the question as to whether or not Marduk had made an error in overestimating his capability to capture and hold the additional strongholds from Asia Minor to Egypt. Perhaps Marduk was not totally in possession of his faculties, maybe ever so slightly senile. While still a relatively middle aged god Ra might have been suffering from his exposure to the radioactive remnants of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Ra...after all had no place to go once he charged into Babylon at the end of the Third Millennium...Even his father...Creator god probably had disowned him by this time....Ra had become trapped in a less than ideal location...fallen to the effects of the radiation and was now developing a bit of a stagger...Ra was becoming...vulnerable...His destiny was...as they say...written...