Enki’s (House in Eridu) -Temple Hymn

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(gods in blue)

            E-Unir

               1-7. O E-unir (House which is a ziqqurat), grown together with heaven and earth,

               4e - Eridu, Enki's city (ziggurat image, home of giant alien gods)

               foundation of heaven and earth, great banqueting hall of Eridug (Eridu)!

               Abzu, shrine erected for its prince, E-du-kug (House which is the holy mound) where pure food is eaten,

               watered by the prince’s pure canal, mountain, pure place cleansed with the potash plant,

               Abzu, your tigi drums belong to the divine powers (alien technologies).

               8-15. Your great …… wall is in good repair.

               Light does not enter your meeting-place where the god dwells, the great ……, the beautiful place.

               Your tightly constructed house is sacred and has no equal.

               Your prince, the great prince, has fixed firmly a holy crown for you in your precinct —

               O Eridug with a crown placed on your head, bringing forth thriving thornbushes, pure thornbushes for the susbu priests (?),

               O shrine Abzu, your place, your great place!

               16-23. At your place of calling upon Utu, at your oven bringing bread to eat,

               2e - Eridu temple reconstruction

                    (Enki‘s mud-brick-built ziggurat, reconstructed image: Utu climbs Enki’s ziggurat)

               on your ziqqurat, a magnificent shrine stretching toward heaven, at your great oven rivaling the great banqueting hall,

               your prince, the prince of heaven and earth …… can never be changed, the ……, the creator, the ……, the wise one, the ……,

                2a - Enki keeper of the MUs-knowledge disks (this artifact of Enki has been shamefully destroyed by Radical Islam)

               lord Nudimmud (Enki), has erected a house in your precinct,

               O E-engura (House of the subterranean waters), and taken his seat upon your dais.

               2ba - Enki's Temple-Ziggourat in Eridu (Eridu ruins of Enki‘s house & patron city)

               23 lines: the house of Enki in Eridug (Eridu).