Utu’s (Houses) – Temple Hymns

Utu’s (House in Larsa) – Temple Hymn

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(gods in blue)

O house which comes forth from heaven, resplendent in Kulaba (Anu’s temple district in Uruk),

shrine E-babbar (Shining house), (Utu‘s residence in Sippar) shining bull, lift your neck to Utu who …… in the sky!

3b - Utu with powerful brilliance & weapons2ka-peru-utus-sawed-off-mountain-top-airport-used-by-the-gods

       (Anunnaki giant Utu, cutting launch & landing pads for the alien gods colonizing the Earth, launch towers on the sides)

Your shining horns are aggressive, holy and lustrous.

            

                    (Utu & beard braided with favored blue-hued gem stone – lapis lazuli)

Bearing a beard of shining lapis lazuli, ……, your prince, the mighty sunlight, (Sun God)

the lord who …… the true word, who lightens the horizon, who lightens the sky’s …… vault,

Utu, the sovereign of E-babbar, has erected a house in your precinct,

O house Larsam, and taken his seat upon your dais.

9 lines: the house of Utu in Larsam (Larsa).

Utu‘s (House in Sippar)- Temple Hymn

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(gods in blue)

2b - City of Sippar with Utu's Ziggurat (Sippur ruins, Utu‘s city)

O Zimbir (Sippar), dais upon which Utu sits daily,

E-nun-ana (House of the prince of heaven), star of heaven,

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               (Ningal & King Ur-Nammu; brown-eyed beauty Ningal, Nannar‘s spouse, Utu‘s & Inanna‘s mother)

crown given birth by Ningal, house of Utu, your prince, the …… of the universe, fills heaven and earth.

When the lord sleeps, the people sleep; when he rises, the people rise.

The bull …… and the people prostrate themselves.

Before Utu the herds pasture …….

The black-headed have bathed before him, the Land has …… before him.

He measures out the divine powers (alien technologies) — your shrine is a flood.

Pronouncing judgment where the sun rises, mighty sunlight,

wearing a beard, tying on the su crown at night,

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                                   (Nannar‘s son, alien giant god Utu, symbolized as the Sun god)

Utu, the sovereign of E-babbar (Shining house), has erected a house in your precinct,

O house Zimbir, and taken his seat upon your dais.

14 lines: the house of Utu in Zimbir (Sippar).”

Ningublaga‘s (House in Ki-abrig) Temple Hymn

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(gods in blue)

O E-gud-du-šar (House with numerous perfect oxen) of holy nir stone in which its sovereign sits,

raising a magnificent door decoration for the princely son, whose best fine oil is holy and well-prepared,

Ĝa-bura (Chamber of bowls), holy cattle-pen pasturing cows with munzer plants,

your prince is a great wild bull, an elephant rejoicing in its own strength,

a wild cow growing horns and and delighting in its shining horns.

The incantation priest of opposed languages who put clouds in the sky,

the storm which roars in the sky, as the sunlight giving …… to the earth,

4ab - Utu & Nannar, Hittite (Utu & father Nannar, with a winged sky-disc centered above them)

Ningublaga (Utu / Shamash), the son of Nanna (Nannar), has erected a house in your precinct,

O Ki-abrig, and taken his seat upon your dais.

10 lines: the house of Ningublaga in Ki-abrig.

Numusda‘s (House in Kazalla) – Temple Hymn

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(gods in blue)

O Kazallu, your crown reaches to the center of heaven, shining, …… an object of admiration.

Your prince is the seed of a bull, engendered by a wild bull in ……,

a magnificent …… with sparkling eyes, a lord with the teeth of a lion,

who snatches the calf with his claws, who snatches …….

…… who snatches ……, the …… who gives strength to the ……,

great lord Numušda (Utu / Shamash), has erected a house in your precinct,

3e - Shamash - Utu in the mountains of Sippar (Utu & helpers cut launch pad into mountains)

O Kun-satu (Threshold of the mountain),

O Kazallu, and taken his seat upon your dais.

10 lines: the house of Numušda in Kazallu.