Ninhursag’s (Houses in Adab & ?) Temple Hymns

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(gods in blue)

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An (Anu) has …… your platform.

E-ma (Exalted house), house  (ziggurat / temple / residence) of the universe, suited for its lady,

your front inspires great awesomeness, your interior is filled with radiance.

3 - Ninhursah & Inanna2a - Ninhursag, Ninmah, Nintu, etc (Ninhursag & NInsun; young Ninhursag, sister to Enki)

Mother Nintur (Ninhursag), Enlil and Enki have determined your destiny.

E-suga (Joyous (?) house) which ……, life of the black-headed (the earthlings),

An has given you the magnificent divine powers from the interior of heaven.

2a - Lagash in Mesopotamia  (Ninhursag‘s Kish, Enlil started “kingships‘ for earthlings in Kish)

As in Keš (Kish), Ninursaĝa has blessed your priests maintaining the shrine in the holy uzga precinct.

House with great divine powers (alien technologies), a pure platform and cleansing lustration,

7d - Ninurta, Ur-Nammu builds temples for the gods (top: broken king & giant alien god Ninurta; bottom: Ninurta leads king Ur-Nammu to repair Enlil‘s ziggurat / residence in Nippur, earthling carries their water-bucket)

Ašgi (son Ninurta), the god of Adab, has erected a house in your precinct,

O Adab, O house situated at a canal,

O house Adab, and taken his seat upon your dais.

2aa - temple of Hathor - Ninhursag (Ninhursag artifacts from thousands of years ago)

15 lines: the house of Ninursaĝa (Ninhursag) in Adab.”

2nd Hymn

O E-ursaĝ (House which is a mountain) beautiful as greenery, ……

(The Sumerian name of this city is unknown) , your interior is plenitude.

At the place where destiny is determined you determine destiny.

May the crown bring joy to your platform.

May your roots glisten like an immense saĝkal snake in your holy foundations.

           3aa - Ninhursag & Enki experiment 2b - Ninhursag & Enki in lab4a - I have done it, the worker of the gods (Ninhursag & Enki in their DNA lab; Ninhursag produces an adequate worker-race, replacement workers for the gods, fashioned into their image & into their likeness for ease of communication & execution of orders from the gods)

Mother Nintur (Ninhursag), the lady of creation, performs her task within your dark place,

binding the true su crown on the new-born king,

setting the crown on the new-born lord who is secure in her hand.

The midwife of heaven and earth, Ninursaĝa, has erected a house in your precinct,

O house ……, and taken her seat upon your dais.

         12 lines: the house of Ninursaĝa in …….