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> What's the deal with the identical gifts of the twelve kings repeated twelve times?

The number twelve is prevalent in the religions of Mesopotamia. As examples: the horoscope, the twelve houses of Israel, the twelve apostles. Probably all of them are different retellings of the same ancient tale.



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