Nininsina’s (House in Isin) Temple Hymn

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(gods in blue)

1a - Isin, Iraq (Bau‘s patron city Isin, heavily pitted & looted)

O Isin, city founded by An (Anu) which he has built on an empty plain!

Its front is mighty, its interior is artfully built,

its divine powers are divine powers (alien technologies) which An has determined.

Shrine which Enlil loves, place where An and Enlil determine destinies,

place where the great gods dine, filled with great awesomeness and terror:

4 - drinking bouts of the gods (drinking bouts of the gods could last for weeks)

all the Anuna (Anunnaki) gods attend your great drinking-bouts.

1b - Bau, Gula - Ninurta's spouse, Anu's daughter(Bau with her cuba stone jeweled necklace, & spouse Ninurta)

          Your princess, the mother, the Mistress adorned with jewels of šuba stone,

who maintains the holy place’s Niĝin-ĝar, who binds the su crown on the nugig priestess,

who causes the seven teats to flow for the nubar priestess, has resounded with seven pleasures (?).

5a - Bau & son Damu, medical treatment

       (Ninurta holding weaponry, Dr. Damu & his mother Dr. Bau administered medical attention thousands of years ago, Bau’s guard dog)

Your lady, the great healer of the Land, Ninisina, the daughter of An,

has erected a house in your precinct,

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

16 lines: the house of Ninisina in Isin.