A Balbale to Shara (Shara A): translation

T he 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)

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…… great radiance ……. Cara (Shara, Inanna’s son), the song praising you befits you.

Cara, your divine powers (alien advanced technologies) are most precious;

father An (Anu), who has engendered you …….

3d-inanna-ishtar-upon-lion1 1c-war-dressed-ishtar-atop-lion-leo (Inanna, Goddess of War, in battle-dress atop lion-Leo)

34-45 Your own mother, holy Inana, has let you sit with her on the holy ……. …… she is the Mistress.

She has let you …….

She has called you by a good name.

…… joyfully in your ……. …… dwells ……; the lord shines forth in its midst.

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Cara, you ……, praying in the good and holy ……. ……, the princely son, grandiloquent ……

holy ……, coming forth like the sun from the shrine E-mah

(“Great House”, Ninhursag’s temple residence in Adab).

         46 A balbale to Cara.