A tigi to Ninurta (Ninurta D): translation

The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

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(gods in blue)

1-6 I will fell trees, I will strike down forests.

2e - Ninhursag & DNA experiments (Ninhursag, Anu‘s most respected daughter, Chief Medical Scientist & mother of the gods)

Let my mother (Ninhursag) know it.

 

         (NInurta, father Enlil‘s & aunt Ninhursag‘s son & heir, born of the deciding “double seed” law of succession)

I, Ninurta, will fell trees, I will strike down forests.

Let my mother know it.

I will clear them away like an …… ax.

Let my mother know it.

I will strike down …… walls like a huge ax.

Let my mother now it.

I will make their troops tremble like …….

Let my mother know it.

5a - Ninurta with missile weapon 5a - Hittite rockets, god in sky chamber, shem

   (Ninurta rides his winged beast / storm bird                 rockets & sky-ships of the gods & landed shem in mountains with pilot)

I will devour them like storm and flood.

Let my mother know it.”

7-13 The warrior, …… in furious battle, smashes heads.

7b - a god, primitive man, & Ninurta  (Ningishzidda, mixed-breed earthling, & Ninurta with his 50-headed mace)

The Lord curses the disobedient, rebellious lands:

“I will …… battering ram, I will …… your venom.

I will destroy (?) your city gate ……, and reach your …….

I will …… shield on (?) your tower, and reduce it to a pile of dust.

I will …… your ……, like a city cursed by Enlil.

I will …… you into ruin mounds, like a city hated by Ninurta.”

14 Sa-gida.


15-32 O king, given strength by Enlil, conquer the foreign lands!

5c - Ningirsu of Lagash grasps enemy in a net  (Ninurta with his alien high-tech battle net, & captured earthlings, Anzu / bird in his grasp)

Lord Ninurta, given strength by Enlil, conquer the foreign lands!

Lord, first choice of An (Anu), given strength by Enlil, conquer the foreign lands!

Lord Ninurta ……

4 lines missing

6 lines fragmentary

1b - Bau, Gula - Ninurta's spouse, Anu's daughter (Bau, royal princess daughter to King Anu, & long bearded Ninurta, her royal prince nephew-spouse)

Young woman Nin-Nibru (Bau), lady …….

Lord Ninurta, my king ……. Ig-alim (Ninurta‘s son, my king …….

Cul-cagana (Ninurta‘s son, housemaster), my king …….

33 Sa-jara, to be played with the hands (?).


34 A tigi of Ninurta (?).