The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)

(gods in blue …mixed-breed demigods in teal…)

           ^1-11 Anam, lord, ……,  ……, perfect in your broad wisdom, ……,

         (ancient cities of the gods in Sumer)

        who preserves Nibru (Nippur), who prevents the city from having ……!

        Sweet breeze (?) of his city, father of the region of Unug (Uruk), judge who …… in his verdicts, reverent ……,

       

           (King Anu                      Inanna atop her zodiac symbol of Leo the lion)

        who fears (basic polivy of alien gods dominating earthlings) An (Anu) and Inana (Inanna)!

        Who cherishes E-ana (Anu‘s temple residence in Uruk), who is happy there …… in friendly words!

          (unidentified High-Priest & Inanna The Goddess of Love & of War)

        Mighty ……, heart’s desire of Inana, who reveres the …… of the Land, …… with head high, en priest of Inana, ……, all-knowing!

        12-25……, who batters the wrathful, ……, endowed with good looks,

        …… who is fearsome; watching ……, richly endowed with charms, you are ……, foremost of the troops.

        (Nanaya & mixed-breed king with his sick daughter)  

        Nanaya (Nabu‘s spouse), …… the mother of all, …… she who exists for luxury, …… a great destiny …….

        ……, the queen, ……, restoring the destroyed E-me-urur (Ninurta’s temple) and building the …… which were abandoned,

        has created the …… which had not been built up since ancient days. ……, you fix the rules.

        26-37……, excelling in the Land, you pray justly …… in its fine …….

        Standing steadfastly in prayer ……, you determine food offerings.

        And you, ……, lady, great goddess who goes by one’s side, have determined a great destiny until distant times for him

        who has set up permanent statues in E-ana and E-me-urur (Ninurta’s temple residence in Nippur),

        …… for the man whose destiny will not be spoiled,

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        The lady, the nurse Nanaya (Nabu‘s spouse), who stands there like a great wall at the door of E-ana (Uruk‘s ziggurat home for gods),

        has decreed throughout heaven and earth that …… and should spend long days in heartfelt joy;

        and she has fixed life, progeny and luxury as your lot.

        38-41You are grandly there for Enlil!

        As befits your calling as lord, you have freed from Unug (Uruk) and its settlements,

         

               (E-ana ziggurat residence of gods in Uruk / Unug / Erech)                                          (Enlil’s Nippur residence ziggurat)

        and released to Nibru (Nippur), the citizens of Nibru, slaves and slavegirls, who have much …….