The Stairway to Heaven (Book II): The Second Book of the Earth Chronicles by Sitchin Zecharia

Author:Sitchin, Zecharia [Sitchin, Zecharia]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Archaeology/History
ISBN: 9780939680894
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 1992-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Fig. 88

Word somehow reached Mot that Ba'al was engaged in suspicious activities. Unlawfully and clandestinely, he was "putting one lip to Earth and one lip to Heaven," and was attempting to "stretch his speech to the planets." Mot at first demanded the right to inspect the goings-on within the Crest of Zaphon. Instead, Ba'al sent emissaries with messages of peace. Who needs war? he asked; let us "pour peace and amity into the center of Earth." As Mot became more persistent, Ba'al concluded that the only way to prevent Mot from coming to Zaphon was for Ba'al to go to Mot's abode. So he journeyed to Mot's "pit" "in the depths of Earth," professing obedience.

Yet what he really had in mind was something more sinister—the overthrow of Mot. For that, he needed the help of the ever-faithful Anat. And so it was that while Ba'al had gone to Mot, his emissaries reached Anat at her own abode. The two emissaries were instructed to repeat to Anat, word for word, an enigmatic message:

I have a word of secret to tell thee,

a message to whisper unto thee:

It is a contraption that launches words,

a Stone that whispers.

Men its messages will not know;

Earth's multitudes will not comprehend.

"Stones" in the ancient languages, we must bear in mind, encompassed all quarried or mined substances and thus included all minerals and metals. Anat, therefore, readily understood what Ba'al was telling her: He was setting up upon the Crest of Zaphon some sophisticated contraption that could send or intercept secret messages:

The "Stone of Splendor" was further described in the secret message:

Heaven with Earth it makes converse,

and the seas with the planets.

It is a Stone of Splendor;

To Heaven it is yet unknown.

Let's you and I raise it

within my cavern, on lofty Zaphon.

So that was the secret: Ba'al, without the knowledge of "Heaven"—the government of the home planet—was setting up a clandestine communications center, from which he could converse with all the parts of Earth, as well as with the Spacecraft above Earth. It was a first step to "over the whole Earth dominion to have." In that, he ran into direct conflict with Mot; for it was in Mot's territories that the official "Eye of Earth" was located.

Having received and understood the message, Anat readily agreed to go to Ba'al's aid. The worried emissaries were promised that she would be there on time: "You are slow, I am swift," she assured them:

The god's distant place I will penetrate,

the distant Hollow of the sons of the gods.

Two openings it (has) under the Eye of Earth,

and three wide tunnels.

Arriving at Mot's capital, she could not find Ba'al. Demanding to know his whereabouts, she threatened Mot with violence. Finally, she learnt the truth: the two gods had engaged in hand combat, and "Ba'al was fallen." Enraged, she "with a sword cleaved Mot." Then with the aid of Shepesh, mistress of the Rephaim (the "Healers"), the lifeless body of Ba'al was flown back to the peak of Zaphon, and placed in a cavern.

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