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…)
Segment A
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You possess ……!
(Enlil Inanna Utu Enki Isimud)
An (Anu), Enlil, Enki and Ninḫursaĝa (NInhursag) treat you
with deserved affection in your place of creation.
Exalted Nanna ……, adviser in heaven and on earth ……!
(King An / Anu, his son & heir Enlil, his eldest son Enki, & his eldest daughter Ninhursag with early attempts to fashion workers)
An, Enlil, Enki and Ninḫursaĝa treat you with deserved affection in your place of creation.
13-20. Youthful Suen, as you move the Anuna gods stand in attendance.
In the four quarters of the world the black-headed (all earthlings) people
raise their eyes to you, the first-born son of Enlil (together with Ninlil).
Nanna, youthful Suen, as you move the Anuna gods stand in attendance.
In the four quarters of the world the black-headed people (earthlings) raise their eyes to you,
the first-born son of Enlil (is Ninurta, born of Enlil & 1/2 sister Ninhursag before Enlil married Ninlil).
21-28. As you become manifest in the holy heavens, you …… broadly over all the lands.
Your light (Moon God Nannar) is holy and purifies.
Oh, ah, it has come forth for the king like the sunlight!
Nanna, as you become manifest in the holy heavens, you …… broadly over all the lands.
(Nannar, son to Enlil & Ninlil, & his Moon Crescent symbol of then & now)
Your light is holy and purifies.
Oh, ah, it has come forth for the king like the sunlight!
29-31. Nanna, ……, for (?) the lord you have chosen, you have made the …… manifest.
…… without ceasing (?),
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Segment B
…… into the distant future.
3-10. We are going, we are going, …… we are going to the house, to the …… of the lord,
to the …… of Prince Šulgi (giant semi-divine mixed-breed King of Ur Shulgi),
(Ninsun, her semi-divine son-king Shulgi, his goddess spouse Inanna, & Inanna‘s father Nannar, Shulgi‘s father-in-law)
to the city that has been restored, to where speech and opinions are good,
to where lips and hearts are pure, to where feet are firm on the ground.
(E-kur in Nippur, Enlil‘s patron city)
11-20. We are going to the shrine Nibru, Dur-an-ki (“Bond Heaven and Earth”), to …… brick-built Tutub,
(re-creation of Enki‘s ziggurat home in Eridu on banks of Euphrates & Persian Gulf)
to the majestic Abzu, brick-built Eridug (Eridu, Enki‘s patron city),
to the E-šu-me-ša with the princely divine powers (alien technologies),
(E-kish-nugal, Nannar‘s house way above Ur)
in Urim (Ur) to the house of Suen, to the E-kiš-nu-ĝal of Nanna,
to the Agrun-kug, the beloved house of the lady,
(top: Shulgi, Inanna, & Nannar; bottom: Nannar, Shulgi, & Ninsun)
to the E-ḫursaĝ, the house of the king, to the E-namtila of Prince Šulgi.
(missing king, & giant god Utu, Nannar‘s son, symbolized as the Sun God)
In the …… place of Suen, may you be Utu.
21-32. The abzu has flourished, the abzu is beautiful.
The abzu shall establish the lord as its lord.
(mud brick-built Ur with mud brick-built ziggurat / residence of Nanna / Nannar)
Lord Nanna, Lord Ašimbabbar (Nannar / Sin), to the lord of the courtyard,
noble Alamuš (unidentified?), may ……!
May ……!
May …… Inana of heaven …… in beauty!
(Inanna, Ningal & Nannar‘s spoiled powerful daughter)
May the mistress …… in beauty in the shrine!
May …… as desired!
May ……!
May you ……!
(Ninsun, mother to giant alien Anunnaki gods & many semi-divine mixed-breed son-kings)
…… of Ninsumun (Ninsun, daughter to Ninurta & Bau) ……!
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