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From Wiki: Uriel's Machine: The Prehistoric Technology That Survived the Flood is a best selling book published in 1999 by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas.The book's name is derived from a character of the same name in the Book of Enoch. In Knight and Lomas's interpretation of the Book of Enoch, Uriel warns Enoch about the impending flood, giving him instructions for building a form of solar observatory for the purpose of preserving advanced knowledge into a time of global disaster by teaching him the movement of the Sun against the horizon over a period of time, which Enoch then records in detail in the Book of the Courses of the Heavenly Luminaries. According to  Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, Uriel's machine is a 'horizon declinometer'. The fundamental premise is, an asteroid or comet approaching earth is more likely to hit us, if it is in the plane of the ecliptic. As the position of the sun, moon and planets show us where the ecliptic is, an U...

The Epic of Gilgamesh.  "I have come on account of my ancestor Utanapishtim,  who joined the Assembly of the Gods, and was given eternal life.  About Death and Life I must ask him!" The scorpion-being spoke to Gilgamesh ..., saying: "Never has there been, Gilgamesh, a mortal man who could do that(?).  No one has crossed through the mountains,  for twelve leagues it is darkness throughout-- dense is the darkness, and light there is none. To the rising of the sun ... To the setting of the sun ... To the setting of the sun ... They caused to go out..." [67 lines are missing, in which Gilgamesh convinces the scorpion-being to allow him passage.] "Though it be in deep sadness and pain,  in cold or heat ...    gasping after breath ... I will go on!  Now! Open the Gate!" The scorpion-being spoke to Gilgamesh, saying: "Go on, Gilgamesh, fear not!  The Mashu mountains I give to you freely (!),  the mountains, the ranges, you ma...