SEE SITCHIN’S EARTH CHRONICLES, ETC.:

(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)

(gods in blue …mixed-breed demigods in teal…)

The Sumerian Kings List records the priestly reign of Enmenduranki in Sippar, then the location of the Spaceport under the command of Utu / Shamash His name:

        “Edmenduranki (was) a priest in Sippar,

        Beloved of Anu, Enlil, and Ea (Enki).

        Shamash (Utu) in the Bright Temple appointed him.

        Shamash and Adad (Ishkur) (took him) to the assembly (of the gods)…

        They showed him how to observe oil and water, a secret of Anu, Enlil, and Ea.

        They gave him the Divine Tablet, the “kibdu” secret of Heaven and Earth…

        They taught him how to make calculations with numbers …”

       The “men of Nippur, Sippar, and Babylon were called into his presence.”

        “It shall be passed, the gods commanded, from father to son:

        “The learned savant, who guards the secrets of the gods,

        will bind his favored son with an oath before Shamash and Adad….

        and will instruct him in the secrets of the gods …”

        The tablet concludes with a postscript:

        “Thus was the line of priests created–

        those who are allowed to approach Shamash and Adad …”

And so the position of priesthood began!