The true history of the Weapon of Brilliance

In line with the gods’ stratagem that “mortals” must never be their equal (see Genesis 3:22-23), only the gods owned and operated this weapon. Ancient descriptions of the Weapon, detailed below, are sourced from Zecharia Sitchin’s The War of Gods and Men (Harper). 

What was this “Brilliant Weapon”, also called the “Killing Brightness” or the “Divine Fire”? It was evidently a device of sorts that emitted blindingly bright light of the sort many of us encountered in the chemistry lab when we applied a flame to a strip of phosphorus.