When heaven came down to earth

According to my still-expanding Dictionary of Protolanguage Terms (presently boasting 300-plus terms), an ancient, now-forgotten Setswana-like universal protolanguage reveals that “heaven” is ha-va-En (“where the En live”) – a place understood to be somewhere in the vastness of outer space. Indeed, as scholars know, EN is Sumerian for “gods” or “lords”. As such, EN.L’ILLU (Enlil) was “Lord of the Illu (gods)”; his half-brother EN.KI (Enki) was “Lord of Ki (Earth)”; and the Sumerian pre-Flood Kings List duly chronicles a total of eight EN.ME.EN (Lord of Lords) who ruled before the Flood. Indeed, ene in Setswana means “he himself”, i.e. someone we wish to distinguish from others.