The 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 …mixed-breed demigods in teal…)

        SEGMENT A

          ^1-6 On a shining day may …… for you!

        On a bright day may your heart ……!

          (giant alien Utu; Utu pulls the strings to his “wheel of justice”)

         The bright day when Utu the judge ……. …… his pleasure, his fulfillment.

        …… the staff of An, in heaven and earth.

         (King Anu; his eldest grandson Marduk) 

        …… Marduk …….

        approx. 4 lines missing

        SEGMENT B

           ^1-14 There …….

        2 lines fragmentary

          (alien giant Utu & Babylonian king; Nanshe, goddess of birds & fishes) 

        Before Utu and Nance …….

        Before Abi-Ecuh …….

        1 line unclear

        …… your divinity ……. …… your lot.

        The door …… to the house ……. …… day and night ……. …… from the mouth, its tongue …….

        Your personal god …… like life.

        Your protective goddess …… life.

        …… life …… prayer.

          ^15-30 In those days, in those far-off years ……

        The holy hand …… his protective goddess …….

        

            (Nisaba, Enlil’s mother-in-law, Master Scribe & grain goddess; earthling, 2 unidentified gods, Haia-barley god, & his spouse Nisaba)

        Nisaba, the lady of Erec (Uruk), ……. …… a jar in which there was barley.

        Walking …… …… on roads and routes ……. …… words which he had uttered, ways …….

        

                  (Uttu, giant goddess weaver & her workers spinning;                                   ancient weaving loom)        

        …… a hired worker, like a midwife, a female weaver …….

        …… who spoke to Utu ……, …… who spoke to Nanna (Nannar / Sin) …….
         

        

           (Nannar / Suen & his ziggurat residence, moon crescent giant god of Ur, 2nd son to Earth Colony Commander Enlil)

        He who enters a house ……. …… small and great ……. …… sitting on his chair, lying on his bed,

        1 line unclear

        …… your ways, your personal god …… …… years of life, months of peace in a place of contentment.