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)
Version A
1-9 Hero, who shines forth like moonlight over the upper city!
Hero Cul-pa-ed, who shines forth like moonlight over the upper city!
Eminent and famous Cul-pa-ed, who shines forth like moonlight over the upper city!
Lord of great divine powers (alien technologies), god who appears in glory,
Cul-pa-ed, of great divine powers, god who appears in glory,
lordly in battle, who makes vegetation grow tall in the Land!
(alien giants wield the 50-headed mace)
Lord who raises his great arms, battle-club that smashes all enemies!
(Enlil with plow, King Anu‘s heir, born of the Anunnaki “double seed” law of succession)
Pre-eminent brother-in-law of father Enlil, good youth!
Enlil has named your august name.
10-18 Lordly with weapons in the thick of battle!
Owner of the rebel lands, lordly in the rebel lands, my king, you are an august god!
(young Ninhursag with her Umbilical Chord Cutter symbol)
You are an august god, and your wife (Ninhursag) is an august queen.
(Princess Ninhursag, Ninurta‘s mother, Anu‘s daughter)
You are beloved by Ninhursaja (Ninhursag).
You are a hero before whom the gods are very fearful.
Hero Cul-pa-ed, lordly in heaven and on earth, my ……,
may your name be truly called upon in all the foreign lands!
My king, may your greatness be truly called upon in all the foreign lands!
19-30 August ……, rising flood, storm which approaches mankind!
People bring their prayers to you like anxious birds.
Rising ……, imbued with awesomeness, no one …… you.
Of terrifying appearance, endowed with fearsome splendor, you are imbued with great awesomeness.
You are a hurricane that approaches mankind,
a great …… that sweeps men down, …… that …… mankind!
In the mountains you measure the fields like a ……. …… emitted from heaven,
without compare, ……, who brings daylight to the mountains,
……, battering ……, ……, who flashes like lightning (alien technologies).
31-40 Falling upon mankind like a …… bird of grief,
a namtar demon with no hands or feet, suited (?) to the night,
prowling at night like a namtar demon, ……, shaped like a ……
— you, hero Cul-pa-ed, are the lord of orchards and gardens,
plantations and green reed-beds, of the quadrupeds of the wide high desert,
of the animals, the living creatures of the plains.
(King Anu in his sky-disc, god the father in Heaven / Nibiru)
An (Anu), king of the gods, has put them in your hands;
he has put them in your hands, and you are their lord.
Hero Cul-pa-ed, they cannot escape your clutches.
41-48 It is his food that anyone who has food eats;
it is his water that anyone who has water drinks.
And so people no longer call upon the name of their personal gods,
but …… in every mouth the name of him who is their only god.
The hand …… of his god …….
He does not …… the hand, he does not …… the mouth.
He takes away …….
……, he gives you your …….
49-61 You are the throne-bearer of An and Enlil,
the fierce constable of the gods, and the table-steward of Enlil.
You do not …… these people what you have placed.
He brings (?) to you ……. …… that he has handed you.
……, after you have …… from above; the heavy …… cover …… like a garment.
……, after …… has said ……, ……, he addresses a prayer to you.
After he has declared his …… of lament to you,
he calls (?) to you like a …… of a boat in an inundation, and raises …… to you.
62-85 You make him shine like gold, and polish him like bronze,
then you restore him to the benign hands of his god.
…… shining, and lifts his head proudly.
…… appears gloriously in the Land.
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……, you release …… for your beloved.
……, you place …… for your little ones.
……, you release …… for your little ones.
……, you release …… for your great ones.
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…… on the fifteenth day.
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You are the merciful king of the foreign lands ……, looking mercifully …….
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Version B (fragment of a divergent version)
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1-8 6 lines fragmentary
……. like Cul-pa-ed.
My king …… may he call your name.