Built on a hill said to be inhabited continuously for 7, 000 years, it houses a small museum where Gandur, an avid collector of antiquities, studied a collection of ancient Sumerian tablets.

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He became infuriated that he could not bring me to accept what he believes to be pure fact, as supposedly revealed in ancient Sumerian tablets: that this mysterious planet is populated by beings who in the past came down to Earth, mingled with human beings and, by implanting us with their stellar DNA, kick-started us down the road to civilization.

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Under attack, after all, is not the idea of divinity as such but a representation of God deriving from an ancient folktale which exists in Persian, Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian variants as well as in Hebrew.

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