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
1-9 “The …… because of you does not …….
My brother, the …… because of you does not …….
Lad (?), the …… because of you does not …….
My beloved, the …… because of you does not …….
My fairest of countenance, the …… because of you does not …….
Its date clusters because of you are not placed in my hand.
Its sheaves are …… for me.
Its …… are not sweet for me.
Grain …… the silos (?).”
10-17 “My sister, I would go with you to my fields.
My fair sister, I would go with you to my fields.
I would go with you to my large fields.
I would go with you to my small fields.
For my early grain irrigated with its early water,
for my late grain irrigated with its late water, …… its grain …… sheaves …….
18-23 “My sister, I would go with you to my fields.
My fair sister, I would go with you to my fields.
…… the large fields.
…… in my small fields.”
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SEGMENT B
1-9 1 line fragmentary
“In the …… of the ……, it has become fallow (?) …….
In the …… of the sheaves, the date clusters (?) …….
In the …… of the ……, it has become fallow (?) …….
In the …… of the sheaves, the date clusters (?) …….
(earthling plowman, seed feeder, & ox handler of Babylon, Nibiru Cross symbol)
Farmer, plough the field, set up the ……. …… of lord Culgi.
For …… plow the field, set up the …….
(earthling farm workers of Sumer, Nannar‘s Moon Crescent symbol)
He will bring offerings (?) to the …… for you.”
10-19 “My (?) sister, I would go with you to my garden.
My fair sister, I would go with you to my garden.
My sister, I would go with you to my garden.
My sister, …… my garden, …… the ildagtree.
I would go with you to my ildagtree by the watercourse.
My sister, I would go with you to my apple tree.
May …… the apple tree be in my hand.
My sister, I would go with you to my pomegranate tree and then …… there the sweet …… covered (?) in honey.
20-30 “My sister, I would go with you to my garden.
Fair sister, I would go with you to my garden.
…… like the plants of the watercourse.
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…… the sprout of a lettuce.
I would …… plant there.
I would …… plant there.
In your (?) silo …… I would …… for you.
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Fair sister, luxuriant of heart ……. I would …… of the date-clusters for you (?).”
A song of Shulgi: translation
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
(gods in blue …mixed-breed demigods in teal)
(Sumer, land of the giant gods)
1-4…… pure from birth ……. …… in the Land …….
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(Enki‘s ziggurat residence & patron city of Eridu)
5-8 My king went to Eridug (Eridu).
Great prince, father Enki, rejoice!
(Ninsun, her son-king Gudea, the uncle of Shulgi, Enki‘s son Ningiszidda, & Enki on his throne in Eridu)
Culgi went to Eridug (Eridu, like his uncle Gudea).
Great prince, father Enki, rejoice!
9-12 My king went to Nibru (Nippur, Enlil‘s Command Central city).
Great Mountain, father Enlil, rejoice!
Great Mountain, father Enlil, rejoice!
13-16 My king went to the E-cu-me-ca.
(Ninurta‘s ziggurat residence; Ninurta artifact)
Lord Ninurta, rejoice!
Culgi went to the E-cu-me-ca.
Lord Ninurta, rejoice!
(Kish ruins; Ninhursag‘s patron city)
17-20 My king went to Kec (Kish, Ninhursag‘s patron city).
Ninsun-zi-gal-ana (Ninhursag?), rejoice!
Ninsun-zi-gal-ana, rejoice!
(Biblical city of Ur, temple residence of Nannar in Ur; Ninsun, her grandson Shulgi, Inanna, & Nannar, Moon Crescent God of Ur)
21-24 My king went to Urim (Ur, Nannar‘s patron city).
Lord Acimbabbar (Nannar / Sin), rejoice!
(shaved & bald Shulgi, High-Priest of Nannar, one closest to god, & King of Ur, 2,000 B.C.)
Lord Acimbabbar, rejoice!
25-28 My king went to the E-babbar (Utu‘s temple residence in Larsa).
(Utu with lapis-lazuli beard of blue gemstones & braids; Utu‘s patron city of Larsa in ruins)
…… (Utu) lapis-lazuli beard, rejoice!
…… lapis-lazuli beard, rejoice!
(residences of gods in Uruk, Anu, Inanna, Ninsun, Ninshubur, etc.)
29-32 My king went to Kulaba (district of Anu & Inanna inside Uruk ziggurat).
Ninirigal (unidentified?), rejoice!
Ninirigal, rejoice!
(Inanna on her throne in Zabalam, she had a smaller residence in each of the cities, provided her by her relatives, the same goes for many of the royal bloodline gods with multiple residences, one in each other’s cities)
33-36 My king went to Zabalam.
…… Inana (Inanna), rejoice!
Culgi went to Zabalam.
(Inanna with her deceased 1st spouse Dumuzi the Shepherd, she then espoused many related mixed-breed offspring, those appointed to kingships, earning her the title Goddess of Love)
…… Inana, rejoice!