Nuska’s (Nusku’s) House – Temple Hymn

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(gods in blue)

O E-melem-uš (House of terrifying radiance) exuding great awesomeness,

Eš-ma (Magnificent shrine), to which princely divine powers (alien technologies) were sent from heaven,

storehouse of Enlil founded for the primeval divine powers, worthy of nobility,

2e - Enlil's home in Nippur3a - nippur ziggurat, Enlil's home on Earth (E-kur, Enlil‘s temple residence in Nippur)

lifting your head in princeship, counselor of E-kur,

parapeted buttress, your house …… the platform with heaven.

The decisions at its place of reaching the great judgment — the river of the ordeal —

let the just live and consign to darkness the hearts that are evil.

In your great place fit for pure lustration and the rites of išib priests, you dine with lord Nunamnir (Enlil).

  (Ninlil on shore, Enlil, & son Nuska, his counselor)

Your prince, the prince who is the counselor of Enlil (son Nuska) and worthy of Eš-ma,

the udug demon of E-kur, the leader Nuska, has erected a house in your precinct,

2c - Nippur (part of the E-kur, Enlil‘s Command Central)

O house of Enlil, and taken his seat upon your dais.

         12 lines: the house of Nuska (Enlil‘s son) in Nibru (Nippur, named after their planet Nibiru).