A Hymn to Numushda for Sîn-iqisham (Sîn-iqisham A)

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(gods in bluemixed-breed demigods in teal…)

1-11 Exalted lord, for whom a favorable destiny was determined while he was still in the good womb!

2ka-peru-utus-sawed-off-mountain-top-airport-used-by-the-gods

 (Utu & launch towers, Commander of the Space Ports, cuts off the mountain tops, fashioned for the gods launch & landing pads)

Numucda (Utu), exalted lord, for whom a favorable destiny

was determined while he was still in the good womb!

Ningal (Nannar‘s spouse) formed …… the holy seed …… engendered by Suen (Nannar / Sin).

6-anu-above-enlil-enki

   (Nannar, son to Enlil;        Enki, King & father Anu in his sky-disc, brother Enlil, & Apkullas, eagle-headed & winged as pilots)

Born amid plenty in the holy mountains, eating fruits from a green garden,

named with a good name by An (Anu) and Enlil, carefully cherished by the great lady Ninlil!

2a-utu-shamash-twin-to-inanna 2ee-utu-shamash  (Utu the Sun God, son to Royal Prince Nannar & Princess Ningal, wearing the very long beard of the gods; damaged king & seated Utu with his Sun symbol)

Numucda, son of the prince (Nannar), whose appearance is full of awe-inspiring radiance!

Great wild bull battering the enemy country, great lord Numucda!

12 Cagbatuku.

13-23 Snarling lion fiercely poised for the fight, …… snake spitting roaring at the enemy,

great dragon …… holy incantations, whose knees never cease from running!

Fearsome flood which no one can withstand, overflowing high water engulfing the banks!

1 line unclear

God, creative (?) personage who has no rival, foremost in heroism, who can rival you?

 (Utu atop mountain launch pad, & 3 earthlings below)

Numucda (Utu / Shamash), your face is that of a lion,

and you have a muzzle like that of a fearsome muchuc.

24 2nd (?) cagbatuku.

25-32 Your arm is a battle net in (?) the land of those who do not practice agriculture;

your claws are the claws of an urin bird, grasping the wicked.

No one dares to oppose your authority.

Your greatness and magnitude, surpassing all praise, and your utterances which cannot be dismissed

1 line unclear

5aa-giant-god-utu-shamash-throne-of-sippar(Utu, giant alien, his Wheel of Justice, & King Anu pulling the strings)

My god, hand over to the king the disobedient lands!

Numucda, hand over to prince Sîn-iqicam the disobedient lands!

33 Sa-gida of the jicgijal.

34-41 Warrior, powerful in strength, who perfectly controls the complex divine powers (alien technologies)!

3c-shamash-cutting-mountains-in-sippar

    (Utu, Enlil‘s Commander of the Space Ports, launch towers, & gods in preparation)

Warrior Numucda, powerful in strength, who perfectly controls the complex divine powers!

God with the limbs of a bison, decorous to behold,

4m-utu-inanna-nannar  (Utu, twin sister Inanna, & father Nannar, Papsukal damaged)

like your father Suen (Nannar / Sin, Moon Crescent God) you love to bestow life.

Choosing truth and annihilating wickedness, in E-kic-nujal, the holy and princely dwelling,

your divine powers are most precious divine powers, and your purification rites are resplendent.

Numucda, hero, powerful in strength, who perfectly controls the complex divine powers!

 (Enlil, son & heir to King Anu, appointed as Anu‘s Earth Colony Commander)

42-56 Nunamnir (Enlil), the lord who determines the destinies,

has made your name august throughout the wide extent of foreign lands.

He has assigned as a cult place for you the city of abundance,

founded in a favorable place: Kazallu, the mountain of plenty (Utu’s ziggurat / residence).

By his unchangeable command he has ordered the fashioning of Kun-satu, your lordly dais.

2-enki-eridu-1st-city-established-in-sumer

      (Mesopotamia, lands designed by Earth Colony Commander Enlil)

Father Enlil, the good shepherd who loves your plans, has desired to make its forgotten lay-out visible again,

and to restore its abandoned cities; he has ordered prince Sî-iqicam to accomplish it,

and he has made (?) your cities and settlements peaceful dwelling places.

He has dredged your canals, and cleared up the levees and irrigation ditches,

so that abundant water will never be lacking there.

He has put in your …… and made manifest all that is proper.

57-60 Regard with favor his commendable prayers!

2g-unknown-king-utu-shamash  (semi-divine king kneels before giant alien god Utu)

Regard Prince Sî-iqicam with favor!

May the king’s joyous days be prolonged, o Numucda (Utu)!