Source: Black, J.A., Cunningham, G., Robson, E., and Zólyomi, G., The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature,
Oxford 1998-.
Sumerian text from the myth about the theft of the Tablet of Destinies by the Anzu bird. Here, Enki, the god of Sweet Waters, Magic and Wisdom, pokes fun at Ninurta, who is taught a lesson in humility by Enki enlisting the help of a turtle.
The storyline is as follows: after Anzu had stolen the Tablet of Destinies and flown off with it, Ninurta attacked the bird and made him drop the Tablet into the apsu, the sweet underground waters, Enki´s domain. Enki was delighted and praised Ninurta as the great conqueror of the Anzu, saying that his name would be honoured forever. But Ninurta was not satisfied with this blessing. He wanted the Tablet for himself, and so started plotting against Enki. Enki immediately guessed what was in Ninurta´s heart. As a warning, he stirred up the waves of the apsu and sent his minister Isimud to see Ninurta. Ninurta´s arrogance was so great that he dared to raise his hand against Isimud (Enki’s vizier, confidant, & friend).
(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)
(gods in blue)
(symbols of Enki: a goat fish & the turtle)
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SEGMENT A
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SEGMENT B
B1-4 ‘“At his command your weapon struck me (“Tablets of Destinies”) evilly.
As I let the me (discs of knowledge & rule) go out of my hand, these me returned to the abzu.
As I let the divine plan go out of my hand, this divine plan returned to the Abzu (Enki‘s watery domain).
This tablet of destinies returned to the Abzu.
I was stripped of the me.’
(Ninurta riding his flying beast shoots down Anzu, sky-discs areal battle)
B5-8 Ninurta was stunned at these words of the Anzu (alien Anunnaki Igigi leader / space-trucker, who attempted a coup against Ninurta‘s father Enlil‘s rule on Earth Colony, SEE “MYTH OF ANZU“ TEXT:) chick.
Ninmena (Ninhursag, mother of Ninurta with father Enlil) gave out a wail:
‘And what about me?
These me have not fallen into my hand.
I shall not exercise their lordship.
I shall not live (?) like him in the shrine, in the Abzu.’
B9 Father Enki in the Abzu knew what had been said.
B10-14 The chick Anzu took the hero Ninurta by his hand and drew near with him to Enki‘s place, the Abzu.
The chick Anzu returned Uta-ulu (Ninurta) to the Abzu.
The lord was delighted with the hero, father Enki was delighted with the hero Ninurta.
(Utu & Ninurta climb the ziggurat stairs to visit Enki at home in Eridu / in the Abzu / Apsu)
B15-24 The lord Nudimmud (Enki) honored him duly:
‘Hero, no god among your brother gods could have acted so (defeating Anzu, stopping the coup).
As for the bird (Anzu shot down with Enki‘s help) which your mighty weapon (which Enki gave him)
captured, from now to eternity you will keep your foot placed on its neck.
May the great gods give your heroic strength its due.
(Enlil, son Ninurta, & Apkulla / pilot, Ninurta the warrior son of Enlil)
May your father Enlil do whatever you command.
(Ninhursag, Ninurta‘s mother, Enlil‘s 1/2 sister, with early attempts to fashion earthling workers)
May Ninmena (Ninhursag) not fashion your equal (?).
May no one be as awesome as you and no god extend an upraised hand before you.
Monthly may your house (?) regularly receive tributes in the shrine, in the abzu.
(planet Nibiru King Anu / An, Enlil‘s father in Heaven)
May An (Anu) (?) proclaim your name in the seat of honor.’
B25-30 The hero secretly was not happy with these promises.
Where he stood, he darkened and yellowed like (?) a flood-storm (?).
He contemplated great deeds and inwardly he was rebellious.
He uttered a word which has no …….
(warrior Ninurta with his lion-headed beast)
The hero Ninurta set his sights on the whole world.
He told no one and inwardly did not …….
(Enki, King Anu‘s eldest son, but not his “double seed” royal heir)
B31-32 The great lord Enki (wisest of the Anunnaki) intuitively grasped the substance of the plan.
(re-creation of Enki‘s Eridu ziggurat / residence in the Persian Gulf marshlands / the Abzu, Eridu, 1st city on Earth)
In the shrine, in the Abzu he stirred up a dark flood-storm.
B33-35 By the house the minister Isimud (Enki‘s vizier) opposed Ninurta.
(Enki & his trusted vizier Isumud)
The hero Ninurta refused to come out and raised his hand against the minister Isimud (two faced, front & back).
B36-46 Against Ninurta, Enki fashioned a turtle from the clay of the Abzu.
(Ninurta, next in line for alien kingship over planet Nibiru & its colonies, behind father Enlil, Ninurta at the gate to Enki‘s house, to see the eldest & wisest alien on Earth)
Against him he stationed the turtle at an opening, at the gate of the Abzu.
Enki talked to him near the place of the ambush and brought him to the place where the turtle was.
The turtle was able to grab Ninurta‘s tendon from behind.
The hero Ninurta managed to turn back its feet.
Enki, as if perplexed, said, ‘What is this!’
He had the turtle scrape the ground with its claws, had it dig an evil pit.
The hero Ninurta fell into it with the turtle.
The hero did not know how to get out from …….
The turtle kept on gnawing his feet with its claws (?).
B47-54 The great lord Enki (King Anu‘s 1st son, but born of a concubine, so not the heir to alien kingship due to younger 1/2 brother Enlil‘s birth of the “double seed” law of succession, just like Biblical Abraham’s sons Ishmael & Isaac, & the Hebrew “double-seed” law of succession!!!)
said to him: ‘From ……, you who set your mind to kill me,
…… who makes big claims – I cut down, I raise up.
You who set your sights on me like this – what has your position seized for you, how ……?
Where has your strength fled?
Where is your heroism?
(Ninurta with his high-tech alien weaponry, & his mother Ninhursag)
In the great mountains you caused destruction, but how will you get out now?’
B55-60 Ninmena (Ninhursag) learned of this situation.
She ripped the clothes on her body and she …….
‘You my plant-eater (full brother / lover / father to most of Ninhursag‘s children, SEE ENKI & NINHURSAG TEXT to understand why she called him “plant-eater”:) Enki, who shall I send to you?
Men will shake their heads in fear …….
Who shall I send to you?
That name is not Enki.
That name is Ugugu-that-does-not-pour (?).
You who are death which has no mercy, who shall I send to you?’”
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