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Enki & Ereshkigal

Enki goes further by going deeper

Enki and Ereshkigal as twins share close ties, and when she disappears from the Middleworld, it is said that he goes after her to bring her back. This is a myth about loyalty, the ties that bind brother and sister and the need to accept change to pursue one´s own individuality.

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(gods in blue)

In the first days after Ereshkigal, the daughter of Nammu the Sea

and the Skyfather An had disappeared from the Middlearth,

Enki, her twin brother, could hardly bear the pain of being apart from his twin and friend.

2 - Ereshkigal (Ereshkigal artifact, Queen of the Under World)

‘Let Ereshkigal be, Enki’, repeated Enlil, Lord Air, for the hundredth time that day.

Ereshkigal’s loss was heavy on him, but she had gone beyond any known boundaries to him.

‘Maybe one day she will return to us. Who knows?’

Enki looked up at Enlil this time, his face darkened by sorrow:

‘Can’t you do anything to bring Ereshkigal back?’

‘Do what, brother?’ ‘ Whatever you have to do!

You could separate Mother Ki form the Skyfather An.

Your Word, Enlil, has the power to bring things forth.

Please, brother, let’s create anything we need to rescue Ereshkigal!’

Enlil considered the question for a long moment, and then lifted troubled eyes

to the distant line beyond horizon where Ereshkigal had vanished.

‘I can’t. She is beyond reach. I am the Guardian of the Earth,

I watch over Mother Ki, so I cannot leave the Middleworld unattended.

This is my duty, the responsibility I took upon my shoulders

after I caused the separation of Mother Ki from the Skylord An.

  2 - Enki, the wisest god (giant god Enki, King Anu‘s eldest & wisest son)

But you can rescue Ereshkigal, Enki.

If anyone can bring her back to us, this is you.

The bond between you and her as Perfect Twins is too strong.

Only you can seek her out, wherever she is.’

‘But how can I bring her back?’

‘You´ll know,´ answered Enlil.

The world was so young.

At least he hoped Enki would find a way to do so.

‘Then I must learn whatever is needed to bring my sister back.

I just wish I had a clue where to start though!’

Enlil suppressed a sigh of heartfelt relief.

He had been so afraid of loosing Enki to the bottomless Depths of Despair and Hopelessness.

But his fears might be unfounded.

Enki’s curiosity had been aroused, he was getting in contact with Life again!

‘While you learn what you must,

I could very well do with some help from you, little brother’, continued Enlil wistfully.

‘It is true that by my Word I called the Anunnaki, the Great Gods,

out of the Mould of Creation, but this is not enough.

There is more to life and being than only mere Existence.

Who knows, perhaps Life should be organized into Meaningful Patterns. I sure need help.

Would you be by my side to get the Middleworld organized so that it can be safe for all?’

‘ What do you mean, Enlil?’ asked Enki, his old eagerness to Learn and Grow resurfacing.

Enlil smiled inwardly. ‘ It is for you to find out, Enki as well!’

Enki raised to his feet, considering Enlil’s request, the trust the young Lord Air was bestowing upon him.

A wave of conflicting emotions, awe and wonder, swept Enki.

If Enlil considered him capable, Enki would do his best to help.

‘Out of Mother Nammu the Sea, the Watery Deep, we all came from’, Enki said thoughtfully.

3j - unknown, Utu, Ninurta, & Enki

(Utu, Ninurta, & Enki on his throne in Eridu, & Abzu worker)

‘Water, my Nature, can also be molded in countless forms

depending on the vessel that receives it, and yet it never loses its Essence.

So perhaps Life should be a sort of Molding and Shaping,

always Evolving and Changing to allow for Countless Possibilities.

Not as a pre-conceived plan, but as a Process and a Goal as Existence unfolds.’

‘As I myself must learn, evolve and grow

if I want to be able to rescue Ereshkigal one day’, completed Enki.

‘Life and Being as a Process and a Goal!

Yes, Enki, you may be very, very right!’, exclaimed Enlil in true delight.

As usual, he never ceased to get amazed at Enki’s skill to Understand all Realities and Visualize all Possibilities.

Thus, what Enlil named with the power of his Word, Enki’s craft conferred shape and meaning.

3b - Enki image  (Enki; Skyfather King Anu in his winged sky-disc)

Enki, son of Nammu the Primeval Mother Sea and the Skyfather An, became Nudimmud (Enki),

the Image Fashioner, Lord of Archetypal Forms, the Patron of all Crafts and Skills.

And to him were assigned all sweet fertilizing waters and the underground Springs, called the Apsu.

When many of the arts of civilization had come into being,

             

                (alien gods boating down the rivers Euphrates & Tigris in Mesopotamia)

when the Anunnaki had developed the craft of making boats,

Enki withdrew to the south-western edge of the Land Between Rivers (Biblical Eden),

where he had found a lagoon of the deepest jade and calm blue fringed by palm trees.

              (early settlement with reed huts for the gods)

Nearby a settlement was being built.

But Enki did not spend much time overseeing the laborious setup of reed huts,

               

                          (Enki’s settlement Eridu on the Euphrates River;            Enki’s ziggurat temple residence in Eridu)

fences and the first temple, and he called the place Eridu (Enki‘s patron city).

At that time Enki searched the precious, silent companionship of the lagoon and the marshlands.

He took long walkabouts over the land and profound dives into the deep blue waters,

considering how he could fulfil the promise he had made to himself

to rescue Ereshkigal from wherever she had been taken to.

As far as the ends of the Earth he would go for her, wherever this was.

During his long walkabouts he would only stop by the Great Reeds to see the tireless diligent work of their Mistress,

              (Ningikuga / Nisaba, Haia, & 2 unidentified)

a young Anunnaki goddess called Ningikuga (Nannar‘s mother-in-law).

It was she who brought to humankind the art of binding and weaving reeds,

sumerianreedhut Weaving - reed huts of early modern man (reed huts of the gods)

it was by her craft that the huts to live and worship were first built..

And it was by looking at the way Ningikuga weave the long reeds in a patterned

way that he felt he had found what he needed to go after Ereshkigal.

2b - Enlil, parent in-laws Haia, Nisaba, & spouse Ninlil

   (Enlil,           Haia,     Ningikuga / Nisaba,      Ninlil,    & worker / shepherd)

‘Sister Ningikuga, Lady of the Reeds, Mistress of this Place,

I ask your permission to cut some of the stoutest reeds under your protection

to build a structure that will carry me through the toughest waters and seas

so that I can attempt to rescue Ereshkigal’, said Enki, a greeting and a request as one.

Ningikuga looked at the expanse of the Great Reeds, contemplated with pride her work and then turned to Enki.

As a Craftsperson, she understood Enki and his Request with her Mind, Body, Heart and Soul.

            (Enki, god over the waters)   

She smiled at the Water God: ‘So you have not given up to take our older sister back?

Everything I own, from the smallest to the greatest reeds of the land are yours for this mighty task.

Do cut the stoutest in my canebrakes to make the structure that will float on the surface of all that flows.

Use also sacred cedar wood to build it safe and strong, and you will have my blessings everywhere you go.’

‘Sister, I can see already the shape this new structure will take!’

Enki’s voice sounded full of wonder. ‘ Yes, I can see it in full.

I’ll call it boat, and endow it with the gift of floating on all that flows.

Moved by long spears called paddles it will travel the toughest seas and return where it belongs.

Indeed, I can see it all ready to sail everywhere and anywhere!.

5f - Sickle boat, cargos of gold etc (shipping gods cargo in Sumer)

Let my boat, the magur boat be long, let its prow rear up and curve like the head of a swam,

let the stem sweep over and coil like the neck of a crane.

Sister, I’ve found what I need to undertake my Quest after my sister and friend, the very best!’

(Ningikuga / Nisaba; Enki)

Ningikuga laughed at the contagious enthusiasm of the Water God:

‘And when you are ready, when you have built the boat you need,

I will call upon our brothers and sisters, the Anunnaki and the Igigi,

to bring you their gifts and send you off to journey the Lands Beyond, with our blessings.’

Using all his craft, Enki fashioned a boat, a magur boat out of reeds and cedar wood.

With its sides elegantly curved and planked, as well as imposing mast, it was the strongest ship ever built.

  (Anunnaki royal family of gods on Earth)

While he worked, diligently and determined, many of the Anunnaki brothers and sisters came to help.

Enki reserved though to himself the work to get the ship done.

In a way, it was not only the magur boat that was being done up:

Enki was also getting himself ready, gathering Strength to face Kur

and the Underworld for the love of his Twin Sister and Best Friend.

Then, one day finally the boat was ready to set sail. And so was Enki.

Faithful to her promise, Ningikuga had come with the Igigi and the Anunnaki, who brought Enki gifts for the journey.

Thus he was cloaked with chain mail to protect his body, helmet to guide his Reason and Decisions,

a Sacred Horn so that he would never run out of food and drink

and Spear to focus his Will and to pierce the heart of the fiercest enemy.

With a graceful leap, Enki got into the boat.

There he stood for a while, contemplating the seashore, losing himself in Ningikuga´s eyes.

This last salute was for her… for the time being.

Then he took his post and started rowing.

On, past the sterile shores of desert still waiting for the kiss of the sun.

On, past the palm trees of the beaches of the south seas.

Out into the deep blue of the open ocean, the magur boat plunged down the back of still-climbing waves.

On, beyond the frozen seas. On and on Enki rowed.

The cold tumble of salt waters, nevertheless, sounded strangely encouraging to Enki.

These were the waters of Mother Nammu, he felt safe, although there was no sun to mark the days,

no moon to light the night, no stars to steer by.

‘It doesn’t matter where I go’, thought Enki.

‘In all directions the world must end somewhere and wherever it is, I’ll find the way to the Underworld.’

As if he had summoned the Powers of the Unknown with his Resolve to find the Entrance to the Great Below,

suddenly the wind started blowing hard, followed by stones falling from the heavens.

Frantically, Enki held on to the prow of the magur boat, protecting his head from the violence of the storm.

He could feel the stones hitting the keel of the magur boat, but it withstood the attack.

Waves rose to devour the head of the boat, like a hungry wolf , waves hit the rear of the ship striking like a furious lion.

All this was not enough to turn the ship upside down.

"God with a golden hand", initially completely gilded. The god wears a long "kaunakes" which leaves one shoulder free,typical of all divinities since Akkadian periods. From Susa, early 2nd mill.BCE. Copper and gold, H: 17,5 cm AO 2823  (Enki, King Anu‘s eldest & wisest son, 1st to arrive on Earth with crew of 50)

All the time Enki commanded his mind and racing heart to stillness.

He had to take control over the physical discomfort

and the fear that threatened to paralyze his mind, body and questing soul.

Above all, he had to take control of his emotions and forget the numbness that threatened to paralyze his body.

Then, when he was almost giving up to the force of the elements without,

silence and darkness fell upon him, upon the waters.

As the magur boat slowed down, Enki rose his head, fought for balance and stood up, blinking once, then twice.

The waters were so dark and still.

The ship had stopped moving, and his breath caught as he found himself watching the pure blackness

become a columnar figure of blazing fire towering over him.

A mighty challenge had been issued.

Fire was the Power opposite to his own Watery Essence,

the Power that could prevent him from going further anywhere and everywhere.

In actual fact, Water could likewise extinguish Fire,

but he didn’t want to put out this Strange Fire or get himself killed along the process.

“What do water and fire have in common?

How can Opposition become Co-operation so that I can proceed?’, thought Enki frantically.

He dived then into the Essence of his own Being to find where Water could meet Fire and not be consumed by it.

He pressed then the magur boat forward, intoning a Verse that came

from the Bottom of His Questing Mind, Body and Soul like a mantra:

‘I am the Well of Truth that Brings Enlightenment I am the Disperser of the Spirit’s Darkness

I am Form that Transforms Brightness is my Gift to Beings of all Sorts!’

It worked! Out of its own volition, the magur boat started moving,

6fa - Enki in the Abzu (Anu‘s royal descendants working on Earth Colony)

and Enki saw himself going through the blazing column without being hurt.

He couldn’t rejoice much though as a voice boomed in the darkness.

‘Welcome to my realm, Nammu’s son!’

The resonant roaring voice could only belong to Kur.

Enki filled himself with all courage he could summoned and asked:

‘Where is my sister? Where did you take Ereshkigal?

I came to rescue her back to the Worlds Above.’

The answer seemed to come from before him.

Ereshkigal reigns sovereign here, and those who worship her may never leave.

Would you go back now, little Lord?’ ‘ I won’t go back without Ereshkigal.

I’ll fight up to my last breath, but alone I won’t return to the Middleworld.

Not as a loser, not without her.’

Deep inside though Enki’s heart was heavy with terror.

For the first time he contemplated the immensity of Ereshkigal’s loss to him and the Realms Above.

What if Kur was right and she had found a kingdom in the Worlds Below?

Then Ereshkigal would be lost to him and to the worlds above forever.

Never before the Lord of Sweet Waters, the Master of Magic and all Crafts

felt so powerless to Change what perhaps Couldn’t be Changed.

With profound sadness he confronted the Naked Truth:

his was the power to Create and Give Shape to Things, not to Unmake What Already Was.

“No, I can’t go back’, he admitted after some time to himself

with full acceptance of the Choice he had made to continue the Descent. “

Not now that I’ve gone this far. I’ll have to find out where Ereshkigal is.

(Mesopotamian goddess Ereshkigal;  also the Greek goddess Persephone)

It is of my free will that I descended into the Netherworld,

it is my Desire to Know why Ereshkigal has chosen to stay in the Land of Below.

Even if it is likely I may not rejoice at the Truth I’ll find out.”

Enki straightened then his back with a brave attempt at dignity.

             (possibly Kur, Mesopotamian artifacts)

Kur should know where Ereshkigal was.

Kur, who was also his half-brother, fathered as he had been by An the Sky.

‘Take me to Ereshkigal!’, he said to Kur, a command and a request as one.

A mocking laughter greeted him. ‘’Where else? All who enter here must come to her.’

Enki felt the boat steer towards the dark shore,

stopping with a loud bump when it reached the Land of the Netherworld.

Enki drew his mailed clothing tight about him, grasped his spear.

All the time he was being watched by Kur and some wraith-like creatures

his eyes started discerning as he got used to the enfolding darkness.

‘Not like that! Leave any weapon or shield behind!’

Enki looked down at himself and raised despairing eyes to Kur.

‘You must enter the Netherworld as you were born into the Great Above:

naked, carrying no weapons and with a purpose to fulfil’.

Enki tried to proceed, but paralysis took hold of his body, despite the effort he made to move on.

‘Is there any other way?’

‘No. Decide or return. Now!’

In the Worlds Above, his first Breath and Awareness he had shared with Ereshkigal, his Beloved Twin.

For Ereshkigal he had built his magur boat, for Ereshkigal he had come this far.

For Ereshkigal now Enki laid down his shield, mail and spear

in the hope to fulfil his promise to rescue Ereshkigal to the Worlds Above.

‘For you, sister, I came.

If it is the Rule of this Great Place that all come naked, carrying no weapons at all, I bow to its designs.

So be it the Highest Will in me as well.’

  (Enki rides a fish to the Netherworld)

So naked as a new-born Enki set foot upon the shore of the Netherworld.

As soon as his feet touched the coarse, dark sand, Enki was overcome by a powerful feeling of disorientation,

as if every aspect and fragment of his being was being reversed, reviewed and scrutinized.

He felt very vulnerable, with everything he had assumed to be valuable inverted,

challenged, turned upside down and inside out.

The feeling was totally overwhelming: thresholds for a much deeper awareness were being open to him.

2b - Enki2aa - Enki, found in Sin's temple at Khorsabad (Enki small carving; giant Enki as an ancient statue)

Enki braced himself, just hoping he would be able to withstand the mounting pressure from the inner.

‘ Don’t fight the feeling,’

Enki heard a deep voice sounding strangely soothing in the darkness.

‘You will adapt to the Underworld vision in time.

Remember, though, that if your soul is pure, then your contacts here will be harmonious and will make you whole.

But if you come with fear, anger and all that is negative or unbalanced, you will have then t

o confront the shadows left within your heart, mind and soul before you find regeneration and healing ’.

A few more minutes or an eternity later perhaps, Enki could raise his head without feeling it spin.

He let his eyes absorb the new environs.

Below his feet, the dark coarse sand glittered here and there.

Above, the sky had the mystery of twilight.

Enki could not see the source of such subdued brightness.

There were no stars, sun or moon in the Worlds Below.

Instead, the light seemed to come from within the land itself.

Ahead, he could see the outline of a huge lapis lazuli building, a palace or temple under construction.

As for beings, strange ghost-like forms could be seen everywhere in all sizes and shapes,

fleshless, but mobile and, if he could use the term, seemingly alive.

Enki finally turned in the direction of the Voice.

A silent figure cloaked and hooded in a shimmering black robe stood in front of him.

The figure’s visage was hidden.

Tall, slim and very imposing, the Form rendered Enki speechless.

Never before had he seen such aura of authority and seriousness.

The Lord of Sweet Waters swallowed hard before speaking:

‘Perhaps I should first introduce myself to… to the Presence who is greeting me in this Great Place‘, said Enki.

Presence was an ambiguous and more fitting term to address to that fleshless, frame-like Figure standing in front of him.

‘I already know who you are. And why you came too.

You made it very loud and clear that you want to bring your sister

Ereshkigal back to the Worlds Above’, continued the Voice.

‘But how can you be so sure that she wants to return with you?

Time has gone by, she might have found the Depths are her home now, not the Heights Above.’

The cool objectivity of the Presence both shook and impressed Enki.

‘I knew Ereshkigal as I did my own soul’, replied Enki, and stopped short before he spoke his True Mind.

And knowing your soul, you wouldn’t want to live in the Underworld, would you, Lord Enki?’

completed the Presence, saying the words Enki had thought, but stopped himself short from saying.

‘ But all who live come to this realm at the end of their life cycles in the Worlds Above.

All, with no exception.´

With a wide gesture, the Presence pointed at the strange ghostly,

frame-like creatures of all sorts Enki saw roaming about the Underworld.

‘All who live come to this realm at the end of their life cycles…‘, repeated Enki thoughtfully.

‘ So all these… presences, are they all dead?’

He knew this was a rhetoric question as soon as the words came out of his mouth.

The Presence remained silent, but somehow Enki did not find It threatening.

‘I didn’t think about death until now.

I knew that it was something that happened to the living, to humankind, plants and beasts alike.

Not to the Anunnaki though.`

‘What did you experience upon arrival in the Underworld, my lord?’, asked the Presence quietly.

‘Disorientation, challenge, intense scrutiny of everything that I was, believed or did.

But wait! Are you saying that I also died when I set foot upon this land?`

Enki sensed the Presence’s quiet smile.

‘You were also reborn here.

The Underworld is the Inner Reality that Gives Sustenance to Everything There Was, Is and Will Be.

It is the Realm of Essence, where Life and Death meet and merge out of one another.

Here Life and Death are both rhythm and transformation

between Energy and Form so that Healing and Regeneration can take place.

You, my lord, who by your Craft confer to all there is the Knowledge of what they can Become,

must know that this Knowledge is seldom realized in the Middlearth.

Thus, all the living at the end of their life cycles come to the Underworld for Justice and Balance.

Remember, my lord, that out of life comes death, out of death life,

out of the young the old and out of the old the young, out of waking sleep and out of sleep waking.

This way we in the Depths Below are linked to the Worlds Above

as part of the stream of creation and dissolution that never ends.‘

‘And how does this occur?’ ‘ What was Form becomes the Energy of What It Was

while the Essence rebuilds itself in Strength of What It Can and Will for Sure Be,’

the Presence’s tone became at once gentle and positive.

’ Existence is both a Process and a Goal that finds its justification in its Own Evolution and Self-Transcendence.

As such, it is not a pre-established plan, but a Seed of Becoming,

containing Within All Possibilities to be Realized Without.’

Silence followed, and Enki was taken by deep emotion.

A hot, lonely tear streamed down his face, at the same time that he consciously shifted his awareness,

transforming the Energy of What and Who he saw into the Forms of What They Were and Would Be.

The Land of No Return became then the Image of Paradise Restored, the Primal Land that also contains the stars.

He turned to the Presence with deep respect and acknowledged who She actually was.

‘Sister, Ereshkigal, Beloved Twin, I lend you graces.

And I beg you to forgive me for not having recognized you!’

Indeed, who was smiling at him was not the bone-like, skeletal figure and projection of one’s deepest fears,

but a tall, slim, young and serious woman, with long dark hair,

all dressed in black and silver, who Enki knew as well as his own soul.

‘Do you understand now, Enki?

Why my place is here, why I cannot return with you?’ asked softly Ereshkigal.‘

I’ve become one of the Great Guardians now., and my choice to be so.

Father An for the Sky, KiNinhursag of Many Names for the Earth,

Enlil for Air, you for the Sweet, Shape-Forming Waters and myself for the Underworld.

There was a great need for a Presence here.

So many come to this Realm in Pain and Sorrow,

missing so much what they never experienced or accomplished in the Worlds Above.

They need to learn about Balance and Healing.

I am here to ensure that all who look for the Essence beyond Appearances will seek and find it,

if only they are willing to bare and reshape their souls to accomplish this.

Because so many will never see the Underworld as the Land of Balance.

Like yourself upon arrival, who saw this land and Her beings as ghosts, and life here as labor and tears.’

‘O, sister, isn’t it too much for you to balance all pain for the Worlds Above

before Healing and Regeneration can take place?’ asked Enki,

taken aback by the sheer amount of responsibility Ereshkigal had willingly put on her delicate yet strong shoulders.

 (possibly entrance to Under World)

‘You have faced the Underworld initiation upon arrival, brother.

At the deepest level you’ve changed and grown with the experience, I can say.

Gone is your arrogant attitude, your desire to take me back for your sake without asking whether this was my desire too.

And because you know me as you know yourself, I believe you’ve come to realize that although

I may miss the Worlds Above, that I have not known the playing of other girls

or the company of my brothers and sisters of the Heights Above,

there are hidden treasures in the Land of No Return and I’ve become their foremost Guardian.

Many can’t see what and where these treasures are. I can. I am needed here.

As your magic, brother, is needed in the Worlds Above.’

Enki let the tears flow freely.

He was painfully coming to terms with the fact that Ereshkigal was lost to the Worlds Above.

To himself too. ‘Can I ask you about Kur?

I’ve always wanted to know why you left us’, asked Enki.

He finally had asked the question that ate his soul since Ereshkigal had disappeared from the Heights Above.

‘Kur is a Guardian of this realm now.

He was a friend who helped me to understand things I needed to know and learn about.

But this is not what you really want to know, Enki.

Say it, brother. To me, loud and clear.

Once and for all leave the past behind, all you found yourself guilty for and never were.’

Enki took a deep breath before baring finally his soul:

‘Did you leave me and the Worlds Above for Kur? Did we… did I fail you in any way?’

Ereshkigal’s voice became so gentle, yet there was a tenderness made of steel in it:

‘I did not leave the Worlds Above for Kur.

I came to the Underworld because this was the Highest Will in me,

the fulfillment and realization of my very self to be shared in all worlds.

Kur was a friend, a Companion along my path, and now he is bound to me in freedom because

he chose to stay as one of the Guardians of the Underworld.

Never again, I beg you, Brother of my Soul, Best Companion of my Early Days, think you failed me.

Perhaps I failed you and Enlil instead?

But I somehow I don’t think there was any failure on all sides.

We all made our choices, we all became Guardians in our own right.

This way I am bonded to you, Enlil and all the Anunnaki.’

A silence charged with emotion followed Ereshkigal’s words.

Enki felt a heavy load had been lifted off his shoulders, mind, heart and soul.

‘Don’t regret your choice of having descended for me, Enki,’ continued Ereshkigal.

‘Indeed, I knew you would come, and expected you all along.

Our bond was and will always be strong, so whenever you seek me out,

you will find me, if only you know how and where to look.

But before you understood my Life’s Quest I could not say a word.

Somehow you belong to the Heights Above and I to the Depths Below.

By coming to my Realm, I sincerely hope you have learnt to see Everything that Is as Form and Essence.

If the Above is the Realm of Form, where the Essence is within, the Underworld is the domain of Essence,

which encompasses Form only for those whose Insights are True to go beyond Appearances.

This way we are also forever linked to the Worlds Above,

for the Underworld is the Inner Structure that Gives Sustenance to the Realms Above it.

All that is Without is the same to All there Is Within to reveal the Secrets of the One and the Many.’

Enki drank her words, her deep quiet wisdom with his mind, body, heart and soul.

In as swift, graceful movement, Ereshkigal knelt on the ground,

her hands diving into the Solid Foundation of the Worlds Below.

‘ Before you leave, brother, take this.’

Her hand took out of the ground a small, pale oval form and laid it in his palm.

A seed! Enki raised puzzled eyes to her. ‘Plant it. And watch what comes out of it.

If this seed grows into fullness, it will be the gateway to this and many other worlds.

And by Nammu, the Mother who gave birth to me, and the Skyfather An,

I now declare a most auspicious fate: the one who finds my fully grown seed and cares for it

will be the one who will keep the Door to the Worlds Below and Above wide open.

And as I will, so be it!Enki knew the seed she was giving him was a parting gift.

‘Will I ever see you again, Ereshkigal?

Or are you forever lost to the Worlds Above?’ he asked.

Ereshkigal’s lovely laughter filled the air:

‘I don’t think you and the Worlds Above are lost to me, Enki.

Am I forever lost to you, brother? ‘ Enki’s heart wanted to shout “Never!”,

but the words that his soul formed could not be uttered by his mouth.

‘Seek me out and you will find me. Always!

Now, Brother, Companion and Best Friend, I bid you farewell.’’

Next Enki saw himself totally alone by the magur boat.

Hot tears streamed down his face.

He bowed graciously with deep respect to the Great Lady of the Underworld,

and for a brief moment he envied Kur for being free to stay with Her.

But he could not stay. He felt, nevertheless, stronger than ever,

very moved, with an expanded consciousness that could embrace the universe.

Something was growing within his very Self,

and although he could not yet give a Name to it, he new it was important.

At the same time Ereshkigal’s seed seemed to grow warmer in his hand.

As the magur boat left the Land of No Return,

Enki held it high in his hand in a silent and loving farewell to Ereshkigal.

‘May the Light of the Underworld of Regeneration and Growth

that one day shone upon me Crowns all who come to you with their Hearts,

Minds, Bodies and Souls open to All Mysteries, Sister and Best Friend!!

And may you be remembered by the beauties and trials you set upon

all who guided by Truth come to the Underworld!’

 (the great god turns away & climbs out of the Under World, & gets greeted by family)

Enki turned then his back to the Underworld,

with a firm resolve to enter again the Worlds Above, to return to Eridu.

He was truly coming back home! To Ningikuga perhaps?

Enki smiled to himself, his old confidence surfacing again:

‘For sure, and to be more than just a friend this time!’

With this thought, Enki started rowing with renewed energy.

Eridu was certainly harbor, haven and home.

EPILOGUE

Months later, Enki took the magur boat and off he went to the place by the riverbank

where he had planted Ereshkigal’s seed.

Would the Seed of the Great Below have taken root and be reborn in the Middleworld?

Enki had his doubts, but having experienced the power of Ereshkigal,

he knew that out of the Land of No Return life and healing, growth and regeneration could also be found by all.

Anxious, Enki craned his neck to peer ahead.

It took a couple of minutes, but when at last he saw what he had come to look for,

a delighted laughter burst out from the depths of his being.

Not far from the water’s edge, a shoot of leaves had broken through the ground.

5 - Enki lived in the abzu marshes of Eridu (Enki in the reed marshes of the Persian Gulf)

Enki rowed to the shore, stepped out the magur boat and reverently knelt to admire the growing little plant

by the marshland’s edge: ‘Life comes indeed from the Inner’, he said.

‘Seed of Growth, I welcome you into the Middleworld, you who carry within the Bounties of the Worlds Below.

May your roots stay firm in the ground in all Kingdoms, may your trunk grow strong and true,

may your branches, leaves and fruits empower with Knowledge to Share,

showing us the Ways of Becoming in all Worlds and Spheres.

May all those who find you climb to the Highest Heights and Descend to the Lowest Depths for Healing and Fruition.

3a - Inanna & Dumuzi in the Underworld (the Huluppu Tree & the alien gods from Nibiru)

I name you the Most Sacred, the Most Precious of All Trees, the Huluppu Tree.’

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(gods in blue mixed-breed demigods in teal)

          (larger mixed-breed King Ashurbanipal wrestles lion)

        I, Ashurbanipal, great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria,

        king of the four quarters (of the world), king of kings, prince who has no rival,

           (giants Ashur) (Utu) (Marduk)

        who by the command of the gods Aššur (Ashur), Šamaš (Utu), and Marduk

        rules from the Upper Sea (10) to the Lower Sea and has subjugated all rulers,

        who provides (butler to the gods) for Esagil, the palace of (Marduk & spouse) the gods

        whose doorbolt I made glisten like the stars (lit. “writing”) of the firmament —,

        who repaired the damaged parts of all their sanctuaries,

        (who) established (my) protection over all cult centers, whose deeds are pleasing to all the gods

        (and) whose shepherdship is sweet to the black-headed (non-mixed earthlings) people;

          (giant god Ashur & King Esarhaddon;    Esarhaddon)

        son of Esarhaddon, great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria,

        viceroy of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad,

        who (re)settled Babylon, (re)built Esagil, renovated the sanctuaries of all the cult centers,

        constantly established appropriate procedures in them, and (re)confirmed their interrupted offerings,

        (who) restored the rites and rituals according (30) to the old pattern;

        grandson of Senna[cherib], great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Ass[yria], I —

            (Marduk, patron god of Babylon)

          During my reign, the [great] lord, the god Marduk,

        who during the reign of a previous king had resided in Baltil (Aššur) (Ashur’s patron city-state)

        in the presence of the father who created [him], entered Babylon amidst rejoicing.

        I (re)confirmed the regular offerings for Esagil and the gods of Babylon.

        I (re–)established the privileged status of Babylon (and) in order that the strong might not harm the weak,

          (Samas-suma-ukin, King of Babylon under Marduk, carrying grain, mud bricks, etc.)

        I appointed Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, my favorite brother, to the kingship of Babylon.

        I completed the work on Esagil which my father had not finished.

        I roofed it with immense beams of cedar and cypress, the produce of Mount Amanus and Mount Lebanon.

        I had doors made of boxwood, musukkannu-wood, juniper, and cedar and I hung (them) [in] its gates.

        I had vessels made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and (precious) stones and I placed (them) inside it.

           (Esagil, Marduk’s residence with separate private hotels for the others)

        At that [time], I had Ekarzagina, the shrine (private hotel) of the god E[a] (Enki) which is inside Esagil, (re)built anew.

        May the god Ea, king of the Watery Abyss (apsû), look upon this work with [pleasure]

        and may a good word for me — [Ashurba]nipal, king of Ass[yria, prince] who reveres him — be set upon his lips!

        May he determine as my fate a long life, fullness of ol[d a]ge, good health, and happiness!

        May he [make] the foundation of my [royal th]ro[ne as secure] as a mountain!

        May he make my reign as firm as heaven and netherworld!

        Moreover, with regard to Šamaš-šuma-[uk]īn, king of Babylon, my favorite brother,

        may his days be long and may he be fully satisfied with (his) good fortune!

 

        If at any time in the future, [during the days] of the reign of some future prince,

        this work falls into disrepair, [may (that prince) re]pair its dilapidated state!

        May he look at my royal statue, [an]oint (it) [with oil], offer a sacrifice, (and) place (my statue) with his (own) statue!

          (Enki / Ea, wisest of the gods, 1st to arrive on Earth with crew of 50)

        The god Ea will (then) listen to his prayers.

         (But) as for the one who e[ras]es my inscribed name, (or) [destroys] my royal statue,

        or [ch]an[ges] its position [and] does not pla[ce] (it) with [his] (own) sta[tue],

        may the god Ea, august lord, glare at him angrily, overthrow his royal rule, and take away his sovereignty.

        May he (Ea) (Enki) make his name (and) his descendant(s) disappear from the lands and have no pity on him!

Ereshkigal’s Choice, Partial Text to “Before All Befores”

“How Ereshkigal Chose the Underworld”

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           (Lord Air Enlil son & heir to King Anu, Anu’s Earth Colony Commander)

       After Ki, Mother Earth and Queen, was separated by Enlil, Lord Air,

          (Skyfather King Anu in his winged sky-disc, father in heaven / planet Nibiru to ruling gods on Earth)

       Master of Winds, their firstborn, from An (Anu), Skyfather and King,

       and the primal Unity of Heaven and Earth was forever lost, in the Heights Above,

       An wept for Ki, longing for her embrace and kiss.

       His heartfelt tears met Nammu the Sea.

       She reached out for the Sky Lord, and Mother and grieving son made for the first time sweet Love.

       From the mingling of their bodies a Boy and a Girl, Divine Twins were born.

       Enki and Ereshkigal, they were called.

         2a - Ereshkigal, Nannar's Daughter3 - Enki, god of the waters (Ereshkigal & Enki, had son Ningishzidda, the builder of pyramids / ziggurats, etc.)

       As time went by, Ereshkigal and Enki grew with the blessings of Creation’s dawn.

       Curious and sometimes wise beyond their years,

       brother and sister played especially in the Watery Deep of Nammu the Sea.

       Enki would float here and there, whereas Ereshkigal swam and dived everywhere.

       ‘Ereshkigal, I can’t see you! Come back to the surface, will you?

       Why do you have to hide within the waters

       when there is so much to see and do without?’ asked Enki with a sigh.

       ‘A rhetoric question, young brother, without doubt’,

       countered Enlil amusedly from the shore, where he kept watch over the Duke,

       the Holy Mound of Creation, and Mother Ki, his eyes gleaming with fond laughter.

       ‘Just let Ereshkigal be for a while.

       At least I could do without her whys and wherefores for a minute or so!’

       ‘I heard you, Big Brother (in this text)!’ replied Ereshkigal.

       She came out to the surface riding a wave,

       and immediately put all her efforts together to raise a mighty wall of splashing water

       towards the rock where Enlil watched over the Earth and Enki’s floating body.

       Both Enlil and Enki ran for cover.

       They were going to succeed and escape Ereshkigal’s watery rage… perhaps this time?

       “Not as yet”, thought Ereshkigal with a satisfied grin,

       dripping with water and as fresh as the purest springs of Mother Urash.

       She sat by Enlil’s and Enki’s feet.

       ‘So I ask too many questions, brothers of mine? Of course I do!

       I want to Know and to Know I must ask first!

       At least this is what I feel it should be!’

       Ereshkigal ignored the resigned amusement of Enlil and Enki and proceeded with confidence:

       ‘ There is a whole world within the Sea and I suspect in everything there is.

       Moreover, there must be things beyond and below I feel I should know, and I will, one day.

       While you, Enlil, devise the Plans of Creation,

       and you, Enki, busy yourself with forms and shapes these plans may take without,

       I am concerned with the power within that binds these plans and images together in combinations of all sorts.

       I don’t know how to explain it, but I simply feel there is a refulgence within,

       there is a Pattern that binds words and shapes together, beings and things,

       and it is this pattern I want to know. I will know. I just need to find out how.‘

       A fleeting shadow crossed Enlil’s smiling face.

        ‘I wish I saw things your way, Ereshkigal, just to understand and explain the unexplained.

       Take Kur, for example, and our dark little brothers and sisters who followed him to the land’s end.

       It is true Kur and the others looked different from us.

       But why did they leave the safety of the Duku, the mound of creation,

       why did they go beyond the Waters of Mother Nammu.’

        ‘You are worrying about Kur and the Dark Guardians again, Enlil.

       Why don’t you take them and Kur for what they are?

       Whatever and wherever they are?’ asked Ereshkigal.

        ‘Had you laid your eyes on Kur, you’d understand my concern.

       He and the others are different from us, from our younger sisters and brothers. ‘

       But why should we all be the same, Older Brother?

       Indeed, I believe we are all very, very different.

       In Form and Essence, despite some Resemblance in Appearance.

       I may be very wrong, Enlil, but I feel that if you keep fixing your eyes on but one thing,

       you’ll miss out what could be the other side of the same thing.

       Or person and being,’ remarked thoughtfully Ereshkigal.

       ‘Wise words, little sister!

       The point is that I take my Guardianship over the Earth too serious’, agreed Enlil.

       ‘But there is something odd I cannot understand about Kur.

       And I for sure wouldn’t like to visit the place where he chose to dwell either,

         4 - door to Ereshkigal's Underworld 4cc - Ninlil follows Enlil to the Underworld (entrance of the Under World, domain of Ereshkigal)

       at the entrance of the Underworld’, countered Enlil.

         ‘I am sort of curious about these unknowable things.

       And I don’t fear what I don’t know.

       Even this Kur you don’t understand, Enlil.

       Indeed, I am curious about Kur,’ replied Ereshkigal.

        ‘And where is this Underworld, by the way?’

        ‘None have gone there yet’, answered Enki.

       ‘It is beyond the edge of this world.

       Mother Nammu says that it spreads itself as deep below as the heights of Father An stretch above.’

       ‘This sounds really interesting!

       A whole new realm nobody has been to or knows so much about!’ exclaimed Ereshkigal.

        ‘O, sister, sometimes I wish you showed more respect for what you don’t know.

       Just for safety’s sake’, supplied Enki.

         ‘I am careful. And Inquisitive and Curious.’

       In her mind, Ereshkigal added silently “even about this mysterious Kur and the Underworld.”

       And so it was that Ereshkigal, the daughter of Nammu the Sea,

       born of the bittersweet loss that the Skyfather felt for Ki, twin Sister of Enki,

       grew with the Desire to Know the Unknown and Reveal Patterns Unseen.

       Everyday she would play with Enki, her Companion and Best of Friends, and pester Enlil with countless questions.

       Everyday Ereshkigal would dive into the deep waters of the Mother and swim longer distances

       to resurface energized, with more and more questions in her mind and a deeper resolve forming inside.

       One day, Ereshkigal chose not to return to the Middleworld.

       This was the day she had found Kur (or he had found her perhaps?),

       and the little dark half brothers and sisters of theirs.

       They looked ugly and threatening, scattered over the edge of the world, at the entrance of the Underworld.

       They seemed to be lonely too, for all kept to their spaces, alone and isolated, but looking pretty menacing.

       “So much pain and loneliness, such rage and hunger for what they know not what.

       Such desire to belong, but they know not where or how”, she thought, but didn’t say a word.

          (Ereshkigal, Queen of the Under World, sometimes Anu’s daughter, sometimes Nannar’s)

       Faithful to herself, Ereshkigal didn’t flinch at Kur’s features or at the misshapen faces of the dark little ones.

       Yes, he did not look like any of the other Anunnaki Ereshkigal knew very well, but this didn’t make him threatening to her.

       Kur was… different.

       Indeed, with his huge scaly body and wings, Primeval Snake and Dragon,

       Ereshkigal felt he was like the raw power of Mother Ninhursag-Ki.

       A Beast, but she knew there was beauty within him… or it?

       Still, Ereshkigal l felt no fear for the Unknown and a longing embrace it and make her it own.

         ‘I am not afraid of you. Of any of you’ she said out loud, and she meant it. ‘

       You are my half brother, Kur, and so are the dark little ones.

       And somehow I feel there is beauty within you all, even if you and others don’t have eyes to see. But I have.

       Dive into your Essence, brother, search for the seed that brought you, me and all into being.

       I also came from that seed.

       There you will find what unite us, what make us One of a Kind with the One who is All Kinds.’

       Thus she dived into the immensity of Kur’s anguish and loss, for she accepted Kur for what he was,

       ugliness, pain, rage and loneliness to find out his all whys.

         ‘I vowed to challenge and fight to the very end all who dared to fare to the world’s end’, said Kur.

         ‘And I take up the Challenge’, answered Ereshkigal.

         ‘But I’ve traveled long and far to come to you.

       You are a Challenge to me. I need to understand you.

       And myself along the process.’

       “Why are you doing this?”

       Ereshkigal heard the question in her mind, as she held Kur closer and closer to her own self.

       ‘I myself don’t know very well why, but I simply need to.

       Perhaps to grow in Understanding of who I am, of who and what you and your own are.

       To learn and Share, out of a Desire for Love and Healing

       that comes from the bottom of my heart, mind, body and Soul.

       And may this way, when I am wise about these things,

       may I perhaps earn my crown in a brand new Realm‘, she replied loud and clear.

       Kur’s features must have shown the equivalent to a smile, for his voice sounded also lighthearted and interested.

        ‘You are strange, half sister. I won’t fight you… as yet.

       Tell me about this new realm where you want to conquer your crown’, said Kur, his curiosity stirred.

          ‘How... I still must find out. Where…’

       Ereshkigal turned round pointed at the distance, where the Unknown lied yet unexplored.

        ‘There,’ she said, ’the Unknown, the Underworld, the Depths Within, where Appearances don’t count, just Essence.

       Perhaps I’ll go further by going deeper. Who knows?’

       Kur came closer and closer still. Ereshkigal kept her ground, just waiting.

       So although he might think he was seizing her, indeed it was she who had captured him.

       To stretch his and her boundaries of being.

       Heart pounding, but keeping very still outwards,

       Ereshkigal felt her awareness grow as she experienced the wounds Kur had inside,

       his desire to belong anywhere, to fit in.

       Suddenly, she also realized how different she had always felt.

       Even from Enki and Enlil, whom she loved with all her heart, mind and soul,

       but who could never dive into the depths she longed to thread upon.

       Ereshkigal sighed deeply, and glanced into the distance for a brief moment,

         08-02-12/29 (Enlil & older 1/2 brother Enki carved into ancient city wall)

       in the direction where Enlil and Enki sure were.

       Maybe her Quest was another. She turned to Kur.

       ‘ What I will be from now on, I must discover’, was her cryptic reply to Kur’s unspoken question,

        but she knew he understood what she still was unable to say out loud.

          ‘It may be a long task,’ Kur replied.

         ‘Perhaps if I let each day bring what it has to offer, and see what I can do with what it brings,

       I will be able to accomplish something different.

       To learn something different and grow likewise. Will you do this with me?’

       Thoughtfully, but with an engaging smile, Ereshkigal stretched her hand to hold Kur’s scaly paw.

       Together, they crossed the threshold to the Underworld.

       Ereshkigal had always felt the pull to feel and experience the Unknown.

       Now she chose to go where no one had gone before,

       to stay in the uncharted realms of the Great Below, to fill up its Emptiness with her Being.

       Her voice then resonated loud and clear in all worlds of Creation,

       Heights Above, Middleworld, over the edge of the Earth and, for the first time, echoed in the Depths Below:

         ‘I claim the Realm of the Depths, the Underworld as my domain.’

       She had found her life’s Quest. Not looking back,

         (unidentified & Ninsun; Ereshkigal crossed the threshold & became “Queen of the Under World“)

       Ereshkigal crossed the threshold to the Below, never to come back.

“ Assembly of the Gods” – 12 Royal Anunnaki Family Members; King Anu & Selected Descendants

(ANU + ANTUKing & Queen, royal rulers of Nibiru)

The 12 main royal family of gods from Nibiru, & their ranking order numbers

         (Anunnaki King Anu)  (Anu in his sky-disc)  (son & heir Enlil, King Anu, & eldest son Enki in their sky-disc)

        1) King Anuranking #60

         2) ½ sister-spouse Antu#55

        . At least 21 divine couples preceded Anu as king of Planet Nibiru

          . chief of Heaven and Earth

          . father to the “sons of God” who came down to Earth

        . Anu‘s symbol is the 8-pointed star, ancient Hebrew symbol for God

        . Anu‘s patron city-state was Uruk / Biblical “Erech

        . Anu‘s temple – residence while on Earth was in Uruk, called “E.Anna”, “house of An

        . Anu‘s heavenly abode is an artificial garden sculptured in semi-precious stones

          . gateway to Anu once flanked by Tammuz / Dumuzi and Gizzida / Ningishzidda – his young descendants

        . Anu‘s throne room is the place of “The Assembly of the Gods

        . son Enlil sits on the right of Anu; son Enki sits on the left side of Anu at the “Assembly of the Gods

        . Anu had 6 concubines and 80 offspring, 14 by Antu as their

               1 – Prime Minister

               3 – Commanders in Charge of the Mu’s (rocket ships)

               2 – Commanders of the Weapons

               2 – Great Masters of the Written Knowledge

               1 – Master of the Purse

               2 – Chief Justices

               2 – “Who With Sound Impress”

                  2 – Chief Scribes, (with 5 asst. scribes)

        . Anu was visited in heaven by Inanna / Ishtar at least twice, also Dumuzi, Ningishzidda, Adapa, Kings Etana, Tyre, Enmeduranki, & others, such as Biblical Enoch

            (Enlil & father King Anu in their sky-disc)  (Enlil hands labor of farming over to the earthlings) (Enlil served by earthling worker)

     3) Enlil, son & heir to the king via mother Antu – ranking #50

       4) spouse Ninlil / Sud – ranking #45

       . Enlil was banished to the “Lower World” for raping Sud / Ninlil, who later married him, his crimes then forgiven

       . heir to father Anu, and son to Anu’s official sister-wife Antu, born on Nibiru of the “double seed”, placing him next to be king, even before older brother Enki

       . Lord Commander of Earth Colony – Chief Executive to the “Assembly of the Gods

       . founder of the “Garden of Eden” in Sumer / Mesopotamia / Southern Iraq (artifact above Enlil with plow)

       . Larsa was Enlil‘s 1st patron city-state, built 2nd, later he moved inland to Nippar

       . Nippar was built 3rd – “Mission Control Center”, the communication “Bond Between Heaven and Earth”

       . Enlil‘s temple – residence in Nippur was named “E.Kur”, “House Which is Like a Mountain”

         . overseer of purifying the gold taken from the “Abzu” & lower part of the world

       . Enlil had son Ninurta with his ½ sister Ninhursag / Ninmah / Ninti, who was born of the “double-seed” law of succession, & therefore to be Enlil‘s heir

       . Enlil and Ninlil had 2 main sons together, Nannar & Adad, plus others…

       . Enlil is accredited with giving mankind agriculture, sheep, etc., in Eden

       . Enlil gave the final approval for kingship to be “lowered from heaven”, & established high-priests & high-priestesses (positions of authority over earthlings for the giant mixed-breed offspring of the gods, therefore acting as go-betweens)

       . after Noah, Enlil decided gods would no longer mix with earthlings, their years will be only one hundred and twenty

             (Ninurta inside his sky-disc) (Ninurta riding his winged storm-beast)    (Royal Princess Bau & her spouse Ninurta)   (Ninurta)

     Ninurta, next heir to King Anu following father Enlil, assigned the number of Enlil as his heir

          . #50, when he steps into the “Enlilship” / rulership, spouse Bau will then be #45

        . Ninurta was born on Nibiru. he & Marduk were only ones from that generation born there, the younger were born on Earth

        . Ninurta married Bau / Gula, King Anu‘s daughter, father Enlil‘s ½ sister, & his own aunt

        . Ninurta‘s 1st patron city-state was Larak, the 5th city built, “Lord who completes the foundation       

        . Ninurta battled & shot down Zu / Anzu retrieving the “Tablets of Destines” stolen from father Enlil, technologies needed to command

        . Ninurta & cousin Nergal nuked Marduk‘s patron cities, brought down Marduk‘s Tower of Babel in Borsippa, & confused their tongue –

        . he & Inanna, with help of others, again defeated Marduk in the battle of the pyramids

        . usurper Marduk imprisoned by Enlilites within the Great Pyramid, & was left there to die

         . Lagash was later a patron city-state of Ninurta‘s, with a temple-residence

        . another patron city-state was Nimrud, with a temple – residence there

        . Ninurta‘s symbol is the double-headed eagle, very much still in use

        . Ninurta was in charge of Cain, banished to the east of E.din / Eden

         3b - Enki image  (Enki, oldest & wisest of gods on Earth)  (Enki in his winged sky-disc, landing on Earth)  (newly fashioned modern man & Enki)

       5) Enki / Ea, King Anu‘s eldest & wisest son via a concubine – ranking #40

       6) spouse Ninki / Damkina, ex-king Alalu‘s daughter – ranking #35

        . son of Anu & Urash, a concubine, born on Nibiru

        . wisest of the gods, wrote his own biography, tales of his contributions to Earth       

        . master engineer, keeper of the ME’s (discs of knowledge)

        . god over the “Waters”, ruler of the Abzu (marshlands of Persian Gulf)

        . builder of ships, mined the gold in South Africa, shipped it bulk to Enlil

        . at first the moon eclipse was Enki‘s symbol, later discarded as Nannar / Sin took on the moon crescent symbol

        . a watery god 1/2 fish-1/2 man named Dagan was once used as his symbol (Enki in a wet suit)

        . Enki‘s patron city was Eridu, the 1st city built, “Place of the Water”, his temple – residence was there

        . Enki / E.A. “he whom home is water”, is accredited with forming the rivers and draining the marshlands

        . Enki rivaled his younger ½ brother Enlil for Earth’s Command, etc., as King Anu‘s heir he was once promised through his arranged marriage to Alalu’s daughter Damkina / Ninki, for the agreed upon compromise to gain planet Nibiru unity

        . Enki had six main sons – Marduk, Nergal, Ninagal, Gibil, Ningishzidda, Dumuzi, & many others

        . Enki, sister Ninhursag, & son Ningishzidda genetically altered Homo erectus, giving him the “Tree of Knowledge”

        . he provided his DNA for the fashioning of modern man, spouse Ninki carried baby Adapa up to the 10th month

        . they made the mold to “Model Man” – “Adapa” – who would then reproduce

        . Enki used “Model Man’s” descendants as “Workers” in the gold mines of South Africa, Enlil used them in Eden

        . he genetically altered early man a second time to allow procreation of the new “Mighty Man” mixed-breed giant

        . Enki had sex with the “Daughters of Man”, at the disgust of Enlil, then many others did the same

        . he saved mankind from Enlil‘s complete extermination, helping his son, the mixed-breed Mighty Man Ziusudra (Sumerian), Utnapishtim (Akkadian), Altra-Hasis (Babylonian), Noah (Hebrew), survive the devastating floodwaters

        . he is accredited with giving mankind animal domestication, construction, metallurgy, ship building, & much more

          3aa - Nanna & his symbol  (Nannar above in sky-disc, man in the Moon) (Nannar, Moon Crescent god) (Nannar in sky-disc, Enlil, & Nabu praising Marduk)

       7) Nanna / Nannar / Sin / El, King Anu‘s grandson via Enlil – ranking #30

       8) spouse Ningal – ranking #25 “Great Lady

        . eldest son of the ruling couple Enlil & Ninlil, born on Earth

        . full older brother to Adad, younger ½ brother to Ninurta

        . Sin had twins with spouse Ningal, Utu / Shamash & Inanna / Ishtar, a boy and a girl

        . also produced son Papsukal & daughter Ereshkigal, goddess of the Under World

        . the moon’s crescent was Nannar / Sin / El‘s symbol, still very much in use

        . Nannar was god over his patron city-state Ur, home of Biblical Abraham

        . Nannar‘s temple-residence in Ur was called Egishnugal “House of the Seed of the Throne

        . Biblical Terah, Abraham‘s father, was once high-priest of Nannar‘s temple-residence (ziggurat) in Ur

          . Ur was abandoned when toxic fall-out came by way of the “terrible winds

        . Nannar became ill from the fall-out, retired, & his son Utu assumed the Moon Crescent Symbol

        . Ur‘s high-priest Terah, Abraham’s father, led the flight from Ur to Harran following his god Nannar / Sin El, the Biblical name for God

        . Harran was built as an exact replica of Ur, and Sin was made its deity, Biblical Jacob, standing outside Harran, saw a ladder with cargo carried up to Heaven & cargo carried down to Earth

        . a favored high priestess of Sin produced a mixed-breed son with god Nabu named Nabunaid, he built a temple to Sin, & was commander of the Babylonian armies, ruler of Sippar, Utu‘s patron city-state

         2a - Utu, Shamash, twin to Inanna    (Utu (Commander of the launch sites)  (Utu flying high in his sky-disc)  (Utu with alien weaponry atop small disloyal earthling)

      9) Utu / Shamash / Allah, King Anu‘s great-grandson via Enlil > Nannarranking #20

          . Utu is son to Nannar & Ningal, grandson to Enlil, nephew to Adad, twin to Inanna

          . married Aya / Aia, she was not given a ruling number

          . Utu is heir to Nannar / Sin

          . brother to Ereshkigal, queen of the “Lower World

          . Shamash:The Shining One”, “The Sun” god

          . Utu‘s patron city-state was Sippar, the 6th city built, “Land of the Missiles”, his temple – residence was there

          . Utu the Commander of “The Space Port

          . Utu the Commander of the “Eagles” / pilots carrying cargo to & from planet Nibiru

          . Utu’s temple – residence was Ebabbar, “Shining House” in Sippar

          . Utu’s Supreme Court was located in his patron city, Sippar

          . the great lawgiver, wise one, protector of travelers

          . Shamash‘s symbol was the Sun, but upon father Nannar‘s retirement, the Moon’s Crescent was given to Utu as his new symbol

          . Cancer is Utu‘s Zodiac sign

          . mixed-breed son Meskiaggasher, of a mixed-breed mother, was 1st semi-divine giant king of Uruk / Biblical Erech

         (Royal Princess Inanna)   (Inanna in her sky-disc)  (young Inanna, Goddess of Love   (Utu, Inanna, Goddess of War, & earthling captives) 

      10) Inanna / Ishtar, King Anu‘s great-granddaughter via Enlil > Nannar ranking #15

        . “Anunitum” “Beloved of Anu

        . daughter to Nannar & Ningal

        . twin to Utu, granddaughter to Enlil, mistress to King Anu (great-grandfather) when visiting Earth

        . sister Ereshkigal, Queen of the Lower World”, married Enki’s son Nergal

          . stole 100 divine formulas from a drunken grand-uncle Enki

        . Inanna married Dumuzi, youngest son to Enki, he had no ruling number

          . the title “Goddess of Love and War” given to Inanna due to her many giant mixed-breed king lovers, & due to her continued desire for war against her cousin Marduk & others

          . also known as Venus, Aphrodite, Ishtar, Astarte, Anat, & so on

          . naked Inanna image on many stelea, statues, & rock carving artifacts

        . ruled Aratta, then Uruk, the patron city-state of Anu, was given to Inanna

        . she was once refused sex by Gilgamesh, Uruk’s 5th king, causing him a problem

          . Leo is her Zodiac sign

        . well known pilot with many depictions of her flying around in her MU (sky-ship) given by Anu, wearing the 7 MEs given by Enlil

         3 - Adad with divine weapons    (Storm God Adad)   (Adad stele in Aleppo)  (Adad atop his ziggurat residence)  (ancient king & giant Adad)

      11) Adad / Ishkur, King Anu‘s grandson via Enlil ranking #10

       . son of Enlil & Ninlil, brother to Nannar / Sin, nephew to Enki

       . younger ½ brother to Ninurta, uncle to Utu & Inanna

       . deity of the mountain lands north & west of Mesopotamia

       . known as the thunder god, depicted standing upon Taurus the Bull holding lightning & thunder

       . married Shala / Hebat, Anu‘s daughter, she has no ruling number

       . father to god Sarruma

       . father to mixed-breed King Ur-Ninurta “…… may …… be his helper. …… the son of Ickur (Ishkur / Adad)…”

       . father to mixed-breed King Amar-Suen / Bur-Suen “the son of Ickur (Ishkur / Adad)…whom you have called by name, Bur-Suen…”

            (Ninhursag & symbol)   (attractive Ninhursag)   (Enlil & Ninhursag with their son Ninurta in his sky-disc)   (Ninhursag & Enki in their DNA lab)

       12) Ninhursag / Ninmah / Ninti, King Anu‘s eldest & wisest daughter via concubine Nammu – ranking #5

         . Ninhursag, “Lady of the Mountainhead”, born on planet Nibiru

         . daughter of Anu & Urash / Nammu, a concubine to King Anu

         . sister to Enki, Bau, Martu, & others, older ½ sister to Enlil

         . had children with both Enlil (boy Ninurta), & Enki (many girls & boys)

         . son Ninurta becomes Enlil‘s heir to the crown, born of the “double seed”

         . her patron city-state was Kish, Medical Center of Sumer

         . chief nurse, “Lady of the Rib”, Mammu / Mamma / Mami / Mom

         . worked with Enki & Ningishzidda to create Adapa, “Model Man”

         . her symbol became the umbilical chord cutter, the Greek letter omega, also ohm

         . Virgo is her Zodiac sign

Note: The highest ruling number in the Anunnaki system is #60, held by King Anu.

#60’s successor is the one holding the ruling rank of #50, (Enlil)

The female, sometimes a spouse, is usually given the next lesser number divisible by 5.

There are 6 male deities and 6 female deities among the ruling numbered twelve positions in the “Assembly of the Gods“.

All those in the “Assembly of Gods are descendants of King Anu‘s royal bloodline

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        1ae - Enlil, Babylonian (Enlil)

        After Ki, Mother Earth and Queen, was separated by Enlil, Lord Air,

           3 - Anu, father of the gods on Earth

                         (An / Anu)

        Master of Winds, their firstborn, from An (Anu), Sky father and King,

        and the primal Unity of Heaven and Earth was forever lost,

        in the Heights Above, An (Anu) wept for Ki,

        longing for her embrace and kiss.

        His heartfelt tears met Nammu the Sea.

        She reached out for the Sky Lord, and Mother

        and grieving son made for the first time sweet Love.

        From the mingling of their bodies a Boy and a Girl,

           2aa - Enki, found in Sin's temple at Khorsabad2 - Ereshkigal

        Divine Twins were born. Enki and Ereshkigal, they were called.

        As time went by, Ereshkigal and Enki grew with the blessings of Creation’s dawn.

        Curious and sometimes wise beyond their years,

        brother and sister played especially in the Watery Deep of Nammu the Sea.

        Enki would float here and there, whereas Ereshkigal swam and dived everywhere.

        ‘ Ereshkigal, I can’t see you! Come back to the surface, will you?

        Why do you have to hide within the waters

        when there is so much to see and do without?’ asked Enki with a sigh.

        ‘A rhetoric question, young brother, without doubt’,

        countered Enlil amusedly from the shore,

        where he kept watch over the Duku, the Holy Mound of Creation,

        and Mother Ki, (sometimes Antu, sometimes Ninhursag)

        his eyes gleaming with fond laughter.

        ‘Just let Ereshkigal be for a while.

        At least I could do without her whys and wherefores for a minute or so!’

 

        ‘ I heard you, Big Brother!’ replied Ereshkigal.

        She came out to the surface riding a wave,

        and immediately put all her efforts together

        to raise a mighty wall of splashing water towards the rock

        where Enlil watched over the Earth and Enki’s floating body.

        Both Enlil and Enki ran for cover.

        They were going to succeed and escape Ereshkigal’s watery rage… perhaps this time?

 

        “Not as yet”, thought Ereshkigal with a satisfied grin,

        dripping with water and as fresh as the purest springs

        of Mother Urash (sometimes Nammu, sometimes Ninhursag).

        She sat by Enlil’s and Enki’s feet.

 

        ‘ So I ask too many questions, brothers of mine? Of course I do!

        I want to Know and to Know I must ask first!

        At least this is what I feel it should be!’

        Ereshkigal ignored the resigned amusement of Enlil and Enki

        and proceeded with confidence:

        ‘ There is a whole world within the Sea and I suspect in everything there is.

        Moreover, there must be things beyond and below

        I feel I should know, and I will, one day.

        While you, Enlil, devise the Plans of Creation,

        and you, Enki, busy yourself with forms and shapes these plans may take without,

        I am concerned with the power within that binds these plans

        and images together in combinations of all sorts.

        I don’t know how to explain it, but I simply feel there is a refulgence within,

        there is a Pattern that binds words and shapes together, beings and things,

        and it is this pattern I want to know.

        I will know. I just need to find out how.‘

           2 - Enlil, chief god of All On Earth

        A fleeting shadow crossed Enlil’s smiling face.

          ‘I wish I saw things your way, Ereshkigal,

        just to understand and explain the unexplained.

        Take Kur, for example, and our dark little brothers and sisters

        who followed him to the land’s end.

        It is true Kur and the others looked different from us.

        But why did they leave the safety of the Duku, the mound of creation,

        why did they go beyond the Waters of Mother Nammu.’

 

         ‘ You are worrying about Kur and the Dark Guardians again, Enlil.

        Why don’t you take them and Kur for what they are?

        Whatever and wherever they are?’ asked Ereshkigal.

         ‘ Had you laid your eyes on Kur, you’d understand my concern.

        He and the others are different from us, from our younger sisters and brothers. ‘

         ‘ But why should we all be the same, Older Brother?

        Indeed, I believe we are all very, very different.

        In Form and Essence, despite some Resemblance in Appearance.

        I may be very wrong, Enlil, but I feel that if you keep fixing your eyes on but one thing,

        you’ll miss out what could be the other side of the same thing.

        Or person and being,’ remarked thoughtfully Ereshkigal.

 

        ‘ Wise words, little sister!

        The point is that I take my Guardianship over the Earth too serious,’ agreed Enlil.

        ‘But there is something odd I cannot understand about Kur.

        And I for sure wouldn’t like to visit the place where he chose to dwell either,

        at the entrance of the Underworld,’ countered Enlil.

 

         ‘ I am sort of curious about these unknowable things.

        And I don’t fear what I don’t know.

        Even this Kur you don’t understand, Enlil.

        Indeed, I am curious about Kur,’ replied Ereshkigal.

         ‘And where is this Underworld, by the way?’

 

         ‘ None have gone there yet’, answered Enki.

        ‘ It is beyond the edge of this world.

        Mother Nammu says that it spreads itself as deep below

        as the heights of Father An stretch above.’

 

        ‘ This sounds really interesting!

        A whole new realm nobody has been to

        or knows so much about!’ exclaimed Ereshkigal.

         ‘ O, sister, sometimes I wish you showed more respect for what you don’t know.

        Just for safety’s sake’, supplied Enki.

 

         ‘ I am careful. And Inquisitive and Curious.

         ’ In her mind, Ereshkigal added silently

       ” even about this mysterious Kur and the Underworld”.

 

        And so it was that Ereshkigal, the daughter of Nammu the Sea,

        born of the bittersweet loss that the Sky father felt for Ki (Ninhursag),

        twin Sister of Enki, (Ninhursag is Enki’s twin)

        grew with the Desire to Know the Unknown and Reveal Patterns Unseen.

        Everyday she would play with Enki, her Companion and Best of Friends,

        and pester Enlil with countless questions.

 

        Everyday Ereshkigal would dive into the deep waters of the Mother

        and swim longer distances to resurface energized,

        with more and more questions in her mind and a deeper resolve forming inside.

 

        One day, Ereshkigal chose not to return to the Middle world.

        This was the day she had found Kur (or he had found her perhaps?),

        and the little dark half brothers and sisters of theirs.

        They looked ugly and threatening, scattered over the edge of the world,

        at the entrance of the Underworld.

        They seemed to be lonely too, for all kept to their spaces,

        alone and isolated, but looking pretty menacing.

 

        Little dark half brothers and sisters ?,

        So this must be a “wrong” and other creation of her mother Nammu with another God,

        but maybe a experimental creation of the Gods.

 

        ” So much pain and loneliness, such rage and hunger for what they know not what.

        Such desire to belong, but they know not where or how” ,

        she thought, but didn’t say a word.

 

        Faithful to herself, Ereshkigal didn’t flinch at Kur’s features

        or at the misshapen faces of the dark little ones.

        Yes, he did not look like any of the other Anunnaki Ereshkigal knew very well,

        but this didn’t make him threatening to her.

        Kur was… different.

        Indeed, with his huge scaly body and wings, Primeval Snake and Dragon,

        Ereshkigal felt he was like the raw power of Mother Ninhursag-Ki (Ninhursag).

        A Beast, but she knew there was beauty within him…

        Still, Ereshkigal l felt no fear for the Unknown

        and a longing embrace it and make her it own.

 

         ‘ I am not afraid of you. Of any of you’ she said out loud, and she meant it.

        ‘ You are my half brother, Kur, and so are the dark little ones.

        And somehow I feel there is beauty within you all,

        even if you and others don’t have eyes to see. But I have.

        Dive into your Essence, brother,

        search for the seed that brought you, me and all into being.

        I also came from that seed.

        There you will find what unite us,

        what make us One of a Kind with the One who is All Kinds.’

 

        Thus she dived into the immensity of Kur’s anguish and loss,

        for she accepted Kur for what he was, ugliness, pain,

        rage and loneliness to find out his all whys.

 

         ‘ I vowed to challenge and fight to the very end

        all who dared to fare to the world’s end,’ said Kur.

 

          ‘ And I take up the Challenge,’ answered Ereshkigal.

          ‘But I’ve travelled long and far to come to you.

        You are a Challenge to me. I need to understand you.

        And myself along the process.’

 

        ” Why are you doing this?”

        Ereshkigal heard the question in her mind,

        as she held Kur closer and closer to her own self.

 

        ” I myself don’t know very well why, but I simply need to.

        Perhaps to grow in Understanding of who I am,

        of who and what you and your own are.

        To learn and Share, out of a Desire for Love and Healing

        that comes from the bottom of my heart, mind, body and Soul.

        And may this way, when I am wise about these things,

        may I perhaps earn my crown in a brand new Realm, ‘ she replied loud and clear.

 

        Kur’s features must have shown the equivalent to a smile,

        for his voice sounded also light-hearted and interested.

 

         ‘ You are strange, half sister. I won’t fight you… as yet.

        Tell me about this new realm

        where you want to conquer your crown,’ said Kur, his curiosity stirred.

 

         ‘ How… I still must find out. Where…’

        Ereshkigal turned round pointed at the distance,

        where the Unknown lied yet unexplored.

           4 - door to Ereshkigal's Underworld

         ‘ There,’ she said, ’the Unknown, the Underworld, the Depths Within,

        where Appearances don’t count, just Essence.

        Perhaps I’ll go further by going deeper. Who knows?’

 

        Kur came closer and closer still.

        Ereshkigal kept her ground, just waiting.

        So although he might think he was seizing her,

        indeed it was she who had captured him.

        To stretch his and her boundaries of being.

        Heart pounding, but keeping very still outwards,

        Ereshkigal felt her awareness grow as she experienced the wounds Kur had inside,

        his desire to belong anywhere, to fit in.

        Suddenly, she also realized how different she had always felt.

        Even from Enki and Enlil, whom she loved with all her heart, mind and soul,

        but who could never dive into the depths she longed to thread upon.

 

        Ereshkigal sighed deeply, and glanced into the distance for a brief moment,

        in the direction where Enlil and Enki sure were.

        Maybe her Quest was another. She turned to Kur.

 

         ‘ What I will be from now on, I must discover’,

        was her cryptic reply to Kur’s unspoken question,

        but she knew he understood what she still was unable to say out loud.

 

         ‘ It may be a long task,’ Kur replied.

 

         ‘ Perhaps if I let each day bring what it has to offer,

        and see what I can do with what it brings,

        I will be able to accomplish something different.

        To learn something different and grow likewise.

        Will you do this with me?’

 

        Thoughtfully, but with an engaging smile,

        Ereshkigal stretched her hand to hold Kur’s scaly paw.

        Together, they crossed the threshold to the Underworld.

 

        Ereshkigal had always felt the pull to feel and experience the Unknown.

        Now she chose to go where no one had gone before,

        to stay in the uncharted realms of the Great Below,

        to fill up its Emptiness with her Being.

        Her voice then resonated loud and clear in all worlds of Creation,

        Heights Above, Middle world, over the edge of the Earth and,

        for the first time, echoed in the Depths Below:

         ‘ I claim the Realm of the Depths, the Underworld as my domain.’

          4d - Ninlil followed Enlil to Ereshkigal's Underworld (Ereskigal in the Underworld)

        She had found her life’s Quest.

        Not looking back, Ereshkigal crossed the threshold to the Below, never to come back.

Ishme-Dagan Quotes From Texts

Ishme-Dagan = Enlil’s descendant-king of Isin

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Ishme-Dagan As Enlil‘s Descendant:

       “The throne of Enlil is not to be removed from there.

       I, Icme-Dagan, son of Dagan, stood the throne for Enlil my master …”

 

        “Enlil, king of the foreign lands, chose me,

      Icme-Dagan, son of Dagan, by extispicy.

      He looked upon me joyfully in E-kur, and spoke well of me to Sumer …”

 

      “Icme-Dagan, son of Enlil! …”

 

      “Let Icme-Dagan, son of Enlil on the king’s pedestal, …”

Isimud Quotes From Sitchin’s Books, etc.

 

See Sitchin’s Earth Chronicles

 

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Isimud = Enki‘s vizier & minister

Isimud / Usma – arriving with Enki and the fifty Anunnaki on Earth for the first time, Isimud / Usma served as Enki’s vizier; Enki asked Isimud,

       He said to his minister Isimud:

        ‘Is this nice youngster not to be kissed?

        Is this nice Ninsar not to be kissed?’

        His minister Isimud answered him:

        ‘Is this nice youngster not to be kissed?

        Is this nice Ninsar not to be kissed?

        My master will sail, let me navigate.

        He will sail, let me navigate.’

        First he put his feet in the boat, next he put them on dry land.

        He clasped her to the bosom, kissed her, Enki poured semen into the womb …”

        “He said to his minister Isimud:

        ‘Is this nice youngster not to be kissed?

        Is this nice Ninkura not to kissed?’

        His minister Isimud answered him:

        ‘Kiss this nice youngster.

        Kiss this nice Ninkura.

        My master will sail, let me navigate.

        He will sail, let me navigate.’

        First he put his feet in the boat, next he put them on dry land.

        He clasped her to the bosom, kissed her,

       Enki poured semen into the womb …”

       “He laid eyes on Ninimma (Enki & Ninkura’s daughter) on the riverbank

       and said to his minister Isimud:

       ‘Have I ever kissed one like this nice youngster?

       Have I ever made love to one like nice Ninimma?’

       His minister Isimud answered him:

       ‘My master will sail, let me navigate.

       He will sail, let me navigate.’

       First he put his feet in the boat, next he put them on dry land.

       He clasped her to the bosom, lying in her crotch,

       made love to the youngster and kissed her.

       Enki poured semen into Ninimma’s womb …”

       “He said to his minister Isimud:

       ‘I have not determined the destiny of these plants.

       What is this one? What is that one?’

       His minister Isimud had the answer for him.

       ‘My master, the ‘tree’ plant,’ he said to him, cut it off for him and Enki ate it.

       ‘My master, the ‘honey’ plant,’ he said to him, pulled it up for  him and Enki ate it.

       ‘My master, the ‘vegetable’ plant,’ he said to him, cut it off for him and Enki ate it.

       ‘My master, the alfalfa grass (?),’ he said to him, pulled it up for him and Enki ate it.

       ‘My master, the atutu plant,’ he said to him, cut it off for him and Enki ate it.

       ‘My master, the actaltal plant,’ he said to him, pulled it up for him and Enki ate it.

       ‘My master, the …… plant,’ he said to him, cut it off for him and Enki ate it.

       ‘My master, the amharu plant,’ he said to him, pulled it up for him and Enki ate it.

       Enki determined the destiny of the plants, had them know it in their hearts …”

      Isimud the minister followed his master’s instructions closely.

       He let the maiden into the abzu and Eridug.

       He let Inanna into the abzu and Eridug …”

       “Enki spoke to the minister Isimud:

       ‘Isimud, my minister, my Sweet Name of Heaven!’

       Enki, my master, I am at your service! What is your wish?’

       ‘Since she said that she would not yet depart from here for Unug Kulaba,

       that she would not yet depart from here to the place where Utu ……, can I still reach her?’

       But holy Inanna had gathered up the divine powers and embarked onto the Boat of Heaven.

       The Boat of Heaven had already left the quay …”

       “The minister Isimud spoke to holy Inanna:

       ‘My lady! Your father has sent me to you.

       Inanna, your father has sent me to you.

       What your father said was very serious.

       What Enki spoke was very serious.

       His important words cannot be countermanded.’

       Holy Inanna replied to him:

       ‘What has my father said to you, what has he spoken?

       Why should his important words not be countermanded?’

       ‘My master has spoken to me, Enki has said to me:

       ‘Inanna may travel to Unug,

       but you are to get the Boat of Heaven back to Eridug for me’.

       Holy Inanna spoke to the minister Isimud:

       ‘How could my father have changed what he said to me?’ …”

       “and then for the second time the prince spoke to his minister Isimud,

       Enki addressed the Sweet Name of Heaven:

       ‘Isimud, my minister, my Sweet Name of Heaven!’

       Enki, my master, I am at your service! What is your wish?’

       ‘Where has the Boat of Heaven reached now?’

       ‘It has just now reached the holy …….’

       ‘Go now! The fifty giants of Eridug

       are to take the Boat of Heaven away from her!’ …”

Lament For Eridu

Source: Black, J. A., Cunningham, G., Robson, E. and Zólyomu, G. The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature ,

Oxford University, 1998 – © All rights reserved to authors. Text reproduced here for aid in research and study purposes

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SEGMENT A

(beginning of 1st kirugu)

1-10 4 lines missing

The roaring storm covered it like a cloak, was spread over it like a sheet.

4a - Eridu, buried by Noah's Flood (Eridu, Enki‘s discovered ziggurat E-enguru & city)

It covered Eridug (Eridu) like a cloak, was spread over it like a sheet.

In the city, the furious storm resounded …….

In Eridug, the furious storm resounded …….

Its voice was smothered with silence as by a sandstorm.

Its people …….

Eridug was smothered with silence as by a sandstorm.

Its people …….

11-18 Its king stayed outside his city as if it were an alien city.

He wept bitter tears.

 (Enki, patron god of Eridu, early city established on Earth Colony)

Father Enki stayed outside his city (Eridu) as if it were an alien city.

He wept bitter tears.

For the sake of his harmed city, he wept bitter tears.

Its lady, like a flying bird, left her city.

The mother of E-mah, holy Damgalnuna (Damkina / Ninki, OR Ninhursag, Enki‘s spouse), left her city.

The divine powers (alien technologies) of the city of holiest divine powers were overturned.

The divine powers of the rites of the greatest divine powers (held by Enki) were altered.

In Eridug everything was reduced to ruin, was wrought with confusion.

19-26 The evil-bearing storm went out from the city.

It swept across the Land — a storm which possesses neither kindness nor malice,

does not distinguish between good and evil.

Subir (fire & brimstone) came down like rain. It struck hard.

In the city where bright daylight used to shine forth, the day darkened.

In Eridug where bright daylight used to shine forth, the day darkened.

As if the sun had set below the horizon, it turned into twilight.

     (Enlil, Inanna, alien King Anu,-father in heaven to his royal descendants, those who came down to Earth, & Ninhursag)

As if An (Anu) had cursed the city, alone he destroyed it.

As if Enlil had frowned upon it, Eridug, Ec-abzu, bowed low.

27 1st kirugu.

28 It cried out bitterly: “O the destruction of the city! The destruction of the house!”

29 Its jicgijal.

30-37 A second time the storm destroyed the city — its song was plaintive.

…… was breached (?). …… intensified the lament.

It cut the lock from its main gate.

The storm dislodged its door. ……

It stacked the people up in heaps. …… on its own destroyed it.

It turned …… into tears. …… defiled ……

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39-47 …… It distorted its appearance. …… It distorted its appearance.

It circled its …… wall. It overturned its foundations.

Throughout his city, the pure, radiant (?) place, the foundations were filled with dust.

It cast down its ziggurat, the shrine which reaches up to heaven, into a heap of debris.

The loftiness of its awe-inspiring door-ornament, befitting a house, collapsed.

It cut down the gate,

4e - Eridu, Enki's city (one of many mud-brick-built ziggurat / houses of the gods)

its Great-Ziggurat-of-Heaven-and-Earth-Covered-with-Terrible-Awesomeness,

its shining door, and it broke through its bolt.

It ripped out its doorframe. The house was defaced.

48 2nd kirugu.

49 The destruction of Eridug! Its destruction was grievous.

50 Its jicgijal.

51-57 At its lion-faced gate, the place where fates are determined,

it mutilated the copse (?) forming the architrave of the house …….

Ka-hejala (unidentified?) and Igi-hejala (unidentified?), the doorkeepers of the house, …….

Prematurely they destroyed it utterly.

They completely altered …….

At the gate of the fattening-shed, the animal-fattener …… the great offerings.

Its birds and fish were neglected there.

Destruction …….

Throughout his house, radiant (?) in silver and lapis lazuli, tears …….

58-65 The hired man and the governor …….

The festivals …… grandly …….

Holy songs, songs of all kinds …….

The cem drum and ala drum …….

The great divine powers, all the divine powers (alien technologies) …….

The place of the gods of heaven and earth …….

The judgment by the king, the holy scepter at his right side, …….

The en priestess, lumah priest and nindijir priestess …….

7g - Enki & Isumud in Eridu

  (earthling worker, Isimud,               Enki,                          earthling worker)

66-73 The minister Isimud (Enki‘s 2-faced vizier) …….

Strangers to the house …… its side.

Eridug, Ec-abzu, …… silently.

The enemy …… the cleansed tugmah robe.

…… a man …… the people …….

Along with the fluids spilled from his guts, his blood spilled forth.

The ……, which like the azure sky was embellished forever, …… grasped …….

74 3rd kirugu.

75-7 2 lines fragmentary

77 Its jicgijal. distressed and anxious …… like a pigeon …….

            1 line fragmentary

            78 The birds of the destroyed city …… a nest.

            The ukuku bird, bird of heart’s sorrow, …… the place.

            Pain …….

            The area became entangled in wild thornbushes.

            It …… wild thornbushes.

            The Cimackians and Elamites, the destroyers, looked at the holy kettles which no one may look at.

                 (NisabaEnlil‘s mother-in-law’s residence E-jectug, Goddess of Scribes, record-keeping, & grains)

            In the E-jectugNisaba, (Nisaba’s residence) the house of wisdom, …… covered over …….

            The divine powers (alien technologies) which embellish the abzu …….

            When the holy treasures stored in the treasury were put ……, when, like a mist lying heavily on the earth,

            ……, they went like small birds shooed from their hiding places.

            7 lines fragmentary

            unknown no. of lines missing

   SEGMENT B

   (continuation of 4th kirugu)

   1 Father Enki uttered a lament for himself …….

   2 4th kirugu.

    (Utu & Ninurta enter Enki‘s ziggurat residence in Eridu)

3 Bitterly Father Enki uttered a lament for himself.

4 Its jicgijal.

5-9 Because of this, Enki, king of the Abzu, stayed outside his city as if it were an alien city.

It bowed its neck down to the ground.

Eridu‘s lady, holy Damgalnuna (Damkina, or Ninhursag, Enki‘s spouse), the faithful cow,

the compassionate one, clawed at her breast, clawed at her eyes.

She uttered a frenzied cry.

She held a dagger and a sword in her two hands — they clashed together.

10-15 She tore out her hair like rushes, uttering a bitter lament:

“You, my city whose woman does not dwell there, whose charms do not satisfy her —

where is a lament uttered bitterly for you?

Eridug! You, my city whose woman does not dwell there, whose charms do not satisfy her —

where are tears wept for you?

I fall like a bull in your lofty …… falls ……. I am …….

My heart …… queen …….”

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(incorporating end of 5th kirugu)

SEGMENT C

(continuation of 6th kirugu)

1-18 1 line fragmentary

          …… far away …… the great gods.

The lord Enlil, king of the lands, looked maliciously at Sumer.

He demolished it.

3a - nippur ziggurat, Enlil's home on Earth (E-kur, Enlil‘s ziggurat residence in Nippur, his Earth Colony “Command Central”)

He destroyed the Ki-ur, the great place.

He razed with the pickaxe all of the shining E-kur (Enlil‘s temple residence in Nippur).

He destroyed it but did not abandon it — at the lunches, in his great dining-hall, they call his name.

2e - Ninhursag & DNA experiments (Ninhursag, sister to Enki, 1/2 sister to Enlil)

19-20 Aruru (Ninhursag), the sister of Enlil, destroyed her city Irisajrig.

In Kec (Kish), the creation place (of Adapa’s fashioning) of the Land,

the people saw inside its holy sanctuary where daylight had been unknown.

She destroyed it but did not abandon it — at the lunches, in her great dining-hall, they call her name.

2a - Nannar statue 2,000 B.C.  (Nannar / Suen / Sin / Acimbabbar, son to Enlil & Ninlil, & patron god of Ur)

The lord Nanna (Nannar), the lord, destroyed his city Urim (Ur).

He decimated the Land with famine.

He committed a sacrilege against the E-kic-nu-jal (temple).

He struck at its heart.

He destroyed it but did not abandon it — at the lunches, in his great dining-hall, they call his name.

1aa - Inanna, equipted to fly (Inanna, daughter to Nannar & Ningal, & Goddess of Love & War)

21-25 Inanna, the queen of heaven and earth, destroyed her city Unug (Uruk).

Fleeing from the E-ana (Anu‘s & Inanna‘s temple residence in Uruk),

the house of seven corners (7 is symbol of Enlil Earth) and seven fires……,

she destroyed it but did not abandon it — at the lunches, in her great dining-hall, they call her name.

26 (Damgalnuna (Damkina, Enki‘s spouse) speaks:)

“My beloved, who has ever seen such a destruction as that of your city Eridug!”

27 6th kirugu.

28 “My beloved, for how long was it built? For how long is it destroyed? …… adornment of the Abzu.”

29 Its jicgijal.

30-36 “Lord Enki, who has ever seen such a destruction as that of your city Eridug?

Who has ever seen such a misfortune as that of Ec-abzu, your house?”

No one goes up to his offering terrace.

At the lunches, in his great dining-hall, they do not call his name.

Enki, king of the Abzu, felt distressed, felt anxious.

At the words of his spouse, he himself began to wail.

He lay down and fasted.

37-44 My king, you must not be distressed, you must not be anxious.

3b - Enki image (Enki & descendants struggle to follow along with Enlil‘s descendants’ decisions)

Father Enki, you must not be distressed, you must not be anxious.

Son of An, return your heart to your Ki-ur and your attention to your city.

Living in an alien city is miserable — return your attention to your city.

Living in an alien house is miserable — return your attention to your house.

What can anyone compare with this city? —

Return your attention to your city.

What can anyone compare with this house? —

Return your attention to your house.

Eridug‘s day is long. Its night is over.

45-52 May your throne say to you “Sit down”.

May your bed say to you “Lie down”.

May your house say to you “Be rested”.

May your holy dais also say joyfully to you “Sit down”.

May your father An, the king of the gods, satisfy your heart.

A person, a humble man, brings you a lament over your wife’s faithful house.

When he sings it before you, may that person soothe your heart.

When he recites a prayer, look kindly upon him.

53 7th kirugu.

54 It destroyed your …… and struck against your house.

55 Its jicgijal.

56-59 …… and may he restore it for you.

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Do not hide like a criminal …….

A VERSION FROM UR

(UET 6 142)

SEGMENT A

1-5 House of princely powers, standing in mighty water (marshes)the waters have receded from it …….

One can walk on its wide swamp.

Within it grow wild thornbushes.

The delightful boat Antelope of the abzu — the waters have receded from it; …… its sheepfold …… the wharf.

They were Sirsir (unidentified?), the tutelary deity, and the man who rides the boat.

             

                                       (boats dock at Enki’s ziggurat residence in Eridu)

At the prow …… was hurled down in front of them.

Evildoers destroyed the house, and its rites were disturbed.

6-7 At the giguna shrine, the sacred house, evildoers …….

The E-unir — the shrine raises its head as high as heaven.

Its shadow …….

8-14 At the great gate, the lion-faced gate, the place where fates are determined, evildoers …….

They set fire to its door.

Ka-hejala (unidentified?) and Igi-hejala (unidentified?), the doorkeepers of the house, …….

…… Enki, at the …… place, …… its people.

…… the destroyed place, the abzu …… the powers of the Anuna (Anunnaki) gods.

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unknown no. of lines missing (continuation of 3rd kirugu)

SEGMENT B

1-6 Eridug ……. City in the reed-beds …….

In Eridug, bull and cow …….

Without being a marsh boar …….

Eridug, like a bull …….

The lady of the city cried, “My city ……!”

7 3rd kirugu.

2a - Enki keeper of the MUs-knowledge disks (Enki, eldest son to King Anu, wisest of the giant aliens on Earth)

8 Father Enki! O your house, o your city, o your people …… the mountains.

9 Its jicgijal.

Enki Builds E-Engurra

Fonte: Kramer, Samuel Noah (1988) Sumerian Mythology, University of Pennsylvania Press, West Port, Connecticut

Myth that tells how Enki built a house (temple) for himself in Eridu, the oldest city in Sumer according to tradition, the first of five cities founded before the Great Flood.

The temple, decorated with silver, lapis lazuli, carnelian and gold, was established on the bank of a river, where its foundations reached deep into the underground sweet, fertilizing waters, called the Apsu.

The temple had magical qualities: the brickwork gave Enki advice, while the surrounding reed fences roared like a bull. The roof-beam was shaped like the bull of heaven, and a lion gripping a man formed the gateway. The overall effect was described as a lusty bull.

The bustle of activity there was compared to the drama of a river rising during a flood, Enki filled the building with lyres, drums and every other kind of musical instruments.

Surrounding the temple was a delightful garden full of fruit trees, with birds singing all around and frolicking carp playing among the reeds in the streams.

After finishing the construction of the E-engurra, the temple, Enki called up the beat of the ala and the uh drums and set out by barge to Nippur, in order to receive the other gods’ blessings.

The fish danced before him on the way to Nippur, and Enki slaughtered several oxen and sheep for the feast to come.

Once in Nippur, Enki started preparing the feast.
5 - Anu is well received on Earth5 - Anu is well received on Earth

          5 - Anu is well received on Earth5 - Anu is well received on Earth (King Anu lands on Earth, celebrations begin)

Paying attention to protocol, Anu was at the head of the group, with Enlil beside him and the goddess Nintu (Ninhursag) in a seat of honor nearby. In the happy celebration that followed, all the great gods pronounced blessings on Enki‘s new home, and Anu stated: My son Enki (Anu‘s first-born male) has made his temple (residence)…. grow from the ground like a mountain” (mud brick ziggurat).

2ba - Enki's Temple-Ziggourat in Eridu 2e - Eridu temple reconstruction  (Enki‘s ziggurat home & city ruins)

 

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(gods in blue)

After the water of creation had been decreed,

After the name hegal (abundance) born in heaven,

Like plant and herb had clothed the land,

5 - Enki lived in the abzu marshes of Eridu (Enki in the Abzu, marshlands of Persian Gulf)

The lord of the abyss, the king Enki,

Enki the Lord who decrees the fates,

Built his house of silver and lapis lazuli (blue-hued gem stone);

Its silver and lapis lazuli, like sparkling light,

The father fashioned fittingly in the abyss.

The creatures of bright countenances and wise, coming forth from the abyss,

Stood all about the lord Nudimmud (Enki‘s pet name);

4b - Eridu excavation (excavations of mud-brick-built Eridu, Enki’s 1st home on Earth Colony)

The pure house he built

He ornamented it greatly with gold,

  (Enki 1st splash-landed in Persian Gulf, & set up home in Eridu)

In Eridu he built the house of water-bank,

Its brickwork, word-uttering, advice-giving,

Its… like an ox roaring,

The house of Enki, the oracles uttering.

7a - Enki & Isimud, his vizier, Roman Janus = January2d-enki-dna-experimentations (Enki & vizier Isimud in the Abzu, Eridu)

Follows a long passage in which Isimud, Enki‘s counselor/prime minister, sings the praises of the sea-house. Then Enki raises the city of Eridu from the abyss and makes it float over the water like a lofty mountain. Its green fruit-bearing gardens he fills with birds; fishes too he makes abundant.

Then Enki raises the city of Eridu from the abyss and makes it float over the water like a lofty mountain.

Its green fruit-bearing gardens he fills with birds; fishes too he makes abundant.

Enki is now ready to proceed by boat to Nippur, where he will obtain Enlil‘s blessings or his newly built city and temple (residence). He therefore rises from the abyss:)

           3l - Enki & modern man 3c - Enki in the Abzu (Enki raises the fishes)

When Enki rises, the fish…. rise,

The abyss stands in wonder,

In the sea joy enters,

Fear comes over the deep,

Terror holds the exalted river,

The Euphrates, the South Wind lifts it in waves.

Enki seats himself in his boat and first arrives in Eridu itself. In Eridu, he slaughters many oxen and sheep before proceeding to Nippur. Upon his arrival, a feast is prepared for all gods and Enlil in special:

             (Enki & Enlil drinking at the ziggurat dining hall in Nippur)

Enki in the shrine Nippur,

Gives his brother Enlil bread to eat,

In the first place he seated Anu (the Skyfather),

6-anu-above-enlil-enki

   (Apkulla / pilot, Enki, father & King, Skyfather Anu in his winged sky-disc, Anu‘s son & heir Enlil, & winged eagle-headed Apkulla / pilot)

Next to Anu he seated Enlil,

Nintu (Ninhursag) he seated at the big side,

The Anunnaki seated themselves one after the other.

          Enlil says to the Anunnaki:

            1h-procession-lg  (King Anu‘s descendants in a parade on Earth Colony)

“Ye great gods who are standing about,

My brother has built a house, the king Enki;

Eridu, like a mountain, he has raised up from the earth,

         In a good place he has built it.

Eridu, the clean place, where none may enter,

The house built of silver, adorned with lapis lazuli,

The house directed by the seven lyre-songs given over to incantation,

With pure songs….

"God with a golden hand", initially completely gilded. The god wears a long "kaunakes" which leaves one shoulder free,typical of all divinities since Akkadian periods. From Susa, early 2nd mill.BCE. Copper and gold, H: 17,5 cm AO 28232aa - Enki, found in Sin's temple at Khorsabad (Enki in Eridu, God of Waters)

The abyss, the shrine of the goodness of Enki, befitting the divine decrees,

Eridu, the pure house having been built,

O Enki, praise!

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).