Enmerkar Quotes From Texts

Enmerkar = Utu‘s grandson, Inanna‘s spouse-king, their son is Lugalbanda

 

(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 bluemixed-breed demigods in teal…)

      

       Their ruler (i.e. Enmerkar), riding on a storm,

       Utu‘s son, the good bright metal (alien technology), stepped down from heaven to the great earth.

        His head shines with brilliance, the barbed arrows flash past him like lightning (alien technologies); …”

       

       “At the time when Enmerkar in Uruk ruled, Nungal (Bau), the lion-hearted,

       was the Pilot who from the skies brought Ishtar (Inanna) down to the E-Anna (Uruk’s temple)

 

       “Enmerkar the son of Utu berated Inanna:

       ‘Once upon a time my princely sister Inanna the pure

       summoned me in her holy heart from the bright mountains, had me enter brick-built Kulaba‘…”

 

       Divine Enki who is king in Eridu tore up for me the old reeds, drained off the water completely…”

      

       “She made Enmerkar, her spouse, occupy the throne-dais with her…”

 

       “the ever-sparkling lady gives me my kingship…”

       

       (Enmerker speaking to Inanna):

        “may I, the radiant youth, may I be embraced there by you…”

      

       “He (Ensuhgiranna) may dwell with Inanna in the E-zagin of Aratta,

       but I dwell with her …… as her earthly companion (?).

       He may lie with her in sweet slumber on the adorned bed,

       but I lie on Inanna‘s splendid bed strewn with pure plants….”

      

        (Enmerkar speaking)

        “I accompany Inanna for a journey of 15 leagues. and yet Utu the sun-god

        cannot see my holy crown, when she enters my holy jipar.

        Enlil has given (?) me the true crown and scepter.

        Ninurta, the son of Enlil, held me on his lap as the frame holds the water-skin.

        Aruru (Ninhursag), the sister of Enlil,

        extended her right breast to me, extended her left breast to me.

        When I go up to the great shrine, the mistress (Inanna) screeches like an Anzud (Anzu) chick,

        and other times when I go there, even though she is not a duckling,  she shrieks like one…”

      

       “It is Unug where Inanna dwells…”

      

        “Lugalbanda, he of beloved seed, stretched his hand out (and said)

        ‘Like divine Shara am I, the beloved son of Inanna ‘…”