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The Epic of Atra-Hasis Version 2

translated by Tikva Frymer-Kensky

This translation of fragments from the Atrahasis is taken from O’Brien, J., and Major, W., In the Beginning, copyright Scholars Press, 1982.

(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)

(gods in blue …mixed-breed demigods in teal…)

(Anunnaki alien giants settle on Earth Colony)

Worker Gods Rebel

(I:1-73) When the gods, like man, bore the work, carried the labor-basket-

the labor-basket of the great gods- the work was heavy, much was the distress.

The seven great Anunnaki (Anu, Enlil & royal descendants) caused the Igigi to bear the work.

Anu their father was king (King of Heaven / Nibiru & Earth Colony).

Their counselor was hero–Enlil.

Their “throne-bearer” was Ninurta (Enlil‘s son & heir, born of the “double seed” law of succession).

And their sheriff was Ennugi (minor son to Enlil).

These are the ones who seized power.

The gods cast lots and divided (the Cosmos):

(Anu, father in heaven / planet Nibiru to royal descendants he put in charge of Earth Colony)

[Anu] went up to [heaven]

(Enlil, Anu‘s son & heir, Anu‘s Earth Colony Commander)

[Enlil had] the earth as his subject;

[the lock,] the snare of the sea [was given] to Enki the wise.

(Enki, King Anu‘s eldest wisest son)

[After Anu] went up to heaven [and Enki w]ent down [to the ap[su, . . .

(alien gods farming the earth, forced into burdensome work)

(they caused] the Igigi (lesser gods under Enlil & Enki) [to bear the work].

21-36. These lines are fragmentary. Enough is left, however, to reveal that the gods’ work includes digging the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

. . .

Forty more years . . . they bore the labor night and day.

They [weariedl, complained, [grum]bled in the workpits.

“Let us confront the throne-bearer that he may remove from us our [hea]vy labor.

. . . come on, let us confuse him in his dwelling,

(Enki‘s group mining in SO Africa demanded to trade places, leading to battle with Enlil‘s group farming in the “Eden”)

Enlil, the counselor of the gods, the ‘hero,’ come on, let us confuse (?) him in his dwelling.”

47-60. Most of these lines are lost, fragmentary, or repetitious. But it is clear that one of the worker gods is speaking to the others and exhorting them to rebel. His speech ends with the following:

“Now, engage battle, stir up war and hostilities.”

The gods listened to his words.

They set fire to their implements, to their spades (they set) fire, their labor-baskets into the flames they threw.

They held them (as torches); they went to the gate of the shrine of hero Enlil.

It was night; at mid-watch the house was surrounded; the god did not know.

(E-kur, Enlil‘s ziggurat residence in Nippur, Earth Colony Command Central)

It was night; at mid-watch the Ekur was surrounded; Enlil did not know.

Enlil is Awakened

(I:74-98) Kalkal (Enlil‘s butler) observed and was disturbed.

He slid the bolt and looked [outward].

Kalkal awakened [Nusku (Enlil‘s chancellor & minor son)].

They listened to the noise of [the Igigi].

Nusku awakened [his] lord, made [him] get out of bed. ”

My lord, [your hou]se is surrounded; battle has come up to your gate.

Enlil, your [house is surroun]ded; battle has come up to your gate.”

Enlil had [his servant] come down into his dwelling.

Enlil opened his mouth and said to his vizier Nusku, ”

Nusku, lock your gate, take your weapon, stand before me.”

Nusku locked his gate, took his weapon and stood before Enlil.

Nusku opened his mouth and said to hero Enlil:

“My lord, these children are your own; they are your sons; why are you afraid?

Enlil, these children are your own; they are your sons; why are you afraid?

Send (the order) let them bring Anu down (to earth); let them bring Enki into your presence.”

(gods who came down, put on wet suits, & swam to shore; King Anu‘s royal descendants in procession on Earth Colony)

Chief Gods Hold Council

(I:99-177) He sent and they brought Anu down; they brought Enki into his presence.

Anu, king of heaven, was seated.

The King of the Apsu, Enki, was in [attendance]; the great Anunnaki were seated.

Enlil arose . . .

Enlil opened his mouth and said to the great [gods]: “Against me have they come?

They have waged war …

Battle has come to my gate.”

Anu opened his mouth and said to hero Enlil,

“The matter of the Igigi– has its reason been brought to you?

Let Nusku go out.

16-37. These lines ate too fragmentary for translation.

Enlil opened his mouth and said to (his vizier Nusku],

“Nusku, open [your gate], take your weapon.

(hierarchy amongst the giant royal alien descendants of Anunnaki King Anu)

In the assembly [of all the gods] bow down, stand up, [say to them]:

[Your father] Anu has sent me, your counselor [hero Enlil],

your throne-bearer [Ninurta], and your sheriff [Ennugi].

Who is the one [who instigated] battle?

Who is the one who [provoked] hostilities?

Who is the one [who started the war?”

131-58. Most of these lines are either fragmentary or repetitious. It seems that Nusku goes to the rebel gods and repeats Enlil‘s words as he was instructed. Then, he returns to Enlil with their reply which he repeats as follows:

“Every [single one of us g]ods has started the war.

We . . . in the workpits.

(Anunnaki aliens working the fields, working the mines, etc., establishing bases for their long stay on Earth Colony)

Excessive [labor] has killed us; our wo[rk was heavy], much was the distress;

[and every] single one of us gods has spoken . . . with Enlil.”

Enlil heard these words and his tears flowed.

Enlil [heard] these words; he said [to] hero Anu,

“Noble one, with you in heaven carry your authority, take your power.

With the Anunnaki seated before you, call one god, let him be thrown to the netherworld.”

Anu opened his mouth and said to the gods, his brothers,

“Why are we accusing them? Their work is heavy, much is their distress.”

Nintu and Enki Plan Creation

(I:178-220) 178-88. There is a small gap in the text here. In later versions of the story, Enki, rather than Anu, is speaking at this time. In those versions Enki reveals his plan for creating the human race. In this version he is probably speaking when the story resumes:

(Ninhursag, Anu‘s daughter, Enlil‘s 1/2 sister, DNA Medical Scientist Specialist)

“While [Nintu (Ninhursag) the birth-goddess] is present,

let the birth-goddess create the offspring, let man bear the labor-basket of the gods.”

They called the goddess and asked [her], the midwife of the gods, wise Mami (Ninhursag): ”

You are the birth-goddess, creatress of man.

(Enki & Ninhursag took earthlings from wild man to “modern man” in a blink of the eye, 50,000 years, creating a “missing link”)

Create lullu-man (Primitive Man), let him bear the yoke.

Let him bear the yoke, the work of Enlil; let man carry the labor-basket of the gods.”

Nintu opened her mouth and said to the great gods, ‘It is not properly mine to do these things.

He is the one who purifies all; let him give me the clay, and I will do (it).”

(Ninhursag & brother Enki in the Kish DNA lab)

Enki opened his mouth and said to the great gods:

“At the new moon, the seventh day, and the full moon, I will set up a purifying bath.

Let them slaughter (extract DNA from) one god.

Let the gods be purified by immersion.

With his flesh and blood let Nintu mix the clay.

God and man- (DNA) let them be inseparably mixed in the clay; till the end of time let us hear the ‘drum.’

Let there be spirit from the god’s flesh; let her proclaim ‘alive’ as its sign;

for the sake of never-forgetting, let there be spirit.”

In the assembly, “Aye (Utu’s spouse),” answered the great gods, the administrators of destiny.

Human Race is Created

(I:221-304) At the new moon, the seventh day, and the full moon, he set up a purifying bath.

We-ila (unidentified), who had rationality, they slaughtered in their assembly.

With his flesh and blood (DNA, alien technology) Nintu (Ninhursag) mixed the clay.

(Ninhursag in her DNA lab)

Till the end [of days they heard the drum].

From the flesh of the god there was spirit.

She proclaimed “alive” as its sign.

For the sake of not-forgetting there was a spirit.

After she had mixed the clay, she called the Anunnaki, the great gods.

The Igigi, the great gods, cast their spittle (DNA) on the clay.

Mami (Ninhursag) opened her mouth and said to the great gods,

“You commanded me a task-I have completed it.

You slaughtered a god together with his rationality.

I have removed your heavy labor, have placed your labor-basket on man.

(alien Anunnaaki Chief Medical Scientist Ninhursag & Enki with the 1st “modern man” fashioned from her DNA lab)

You raised a cry for mankind; I have loosened your yoke, have [established] freedom.

They heard this speech of hers; they ran around and kissed her feet.

(Ninhursag & helpers)

“Formerly we called you ‘Mami.’

Now, may ‘Mistress of all the gods’ be your [na]me.

They entered the house of destiny,

Prince La (unidentified) and wise Mami.

With the birth goddesses assembled, he trod the clay in her presence.

She recited the incantation again and again.

Ea (Enki), seated before her, prompted her.

When she finished her incantation, she nipped off fourteen pieces of clay.

Seven pieces to the right, seven to the left, she placed.

Between them she placed the brick.

260-76. There is a gap in the text here. From an Assyrian version we learn that fourteen birth goddesses shape the clay. They make seven males and seven females and align them in pairs.

(NInhursag‘s nurses step forward as “birth goddesses“)

[The birth g]oddesses were assembled; Nintu was seated.

She counted the months.

At the destined [moment], they called the tenth month.

The tenth month came.

The end of the period opened the womb.

Her face was beaming, joyful.

Her head covered, she performed the midwifery.

(Nintu‘s / Ninhursag & Enki in the lab)

She girded her loins; she made the blessing.

She patterned the flour and laid down the brick.

“I have created, my hands have done it.

Let the midwife rejoice in the prostitute’s (?) house;

(Enki with the new species of earthlings, “modern man”, the worker)

where the pregnant woman gives birth, the mother of the baby severs herself.

Let the brick be laid down for nine days that Nintu the midwife be honored.

Let them continually call Mami their . . . praise the birth goddess, praise Kesh (her city of Kish).

When the bed is laid let husband and wife lie together.

When for wifehood and husbandhood they heed Ishtar (Inanna) in the house of the father-in-law,

(Inanna, Nannar‘s daughter, Enlil‘s granddaughter, Goddess of Love & War)

let there be rejoicing for nine days; let them call Ishtar Ishara.

305 -end. After a gap of approximately fifty lines, the story continues. Twelve hundred years later Enlil is trying to destroy the human race because it is making too much noise. (Noah‘s Flood)

The Epic of Atra-Hasis Version 1

The translation offered here is adapted from the one by B.R. Foster.

The Epic of Atrahasis is the fullest Mesopotamian account of the Great Flood. The conditions immediately after the Creation, when the Lower Gods have to work very hard,

The text is known from several versions: two were written by Assyrian scribes (one in the Assyrian, one in the Babylonian dialect), a third one (on three tablets) was written during the reign of king Ammi-saduqa of Babylonia (1647-1626 BCE). Parts are quoted in Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgameš; other influences are in the Babylonian History by Berossus (quote).

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(gods in blue …mixed-breed demigods in teal…)

Complaints of the Lower Gods

[1] When the gods were man they did forced labor, they bore drudgery.

(Enlil with a plow, Haia – barley god / God of the Stores, Nisaba – Goddess of Grains & Master Scribe, Ninlil – grain goddess, & unidentified)

Great indeed was the drudgery of the gods, the forced labor was heavy, the misery too much:

(Enlil‘s family did the work in “the Eden”; Enki‘s family worked in the mines of South Africa)

[5] the seven great Anunna-gods were burdening the [lesser] Igigi-gods with forced labor.

[Lacuna]

(“Eden”, prior to “modern man”, the gods did the work)

[21] The gods were digging watercourses, canals they opened, the life of the land.

The Igigi-gods were digging watercourses canals they opened, the life of the land.

(the “Eden”, Ancient Sumer, “land of the gods”)

[25] The Igigi-gods dug the Tigris river and the Euphrates thereafter.

Springs they opened from the depths, wells … they established.…

(Utu carves out launch & landing pads)

They heaped up all the mountains.

[Several lines missing]

… years of drudgery.

[35] … the vast marsh (Enki drained).

They counted years of drudgery, … and forty years, too much! (Anunnaki age 1 year = 3,6oo Earth-years)

(when the gods did the work, there was much complaining)

… forced labor they bore night and day.

They were complaining, denouncing, muttering down in the ditch:

“Let us face up to our foreman the prefect, he must take off our heavy burden upon us!

Enlil, counselor of the gods, the warrior, come, let us remove him from his dwelling;

(Enlil, Earth Colony Commander, his group had it much easier in Eden than the others mining)

[45] Enlil, counselor of the gods, the warrior, come, let us remove him from his dwelling!”

[Several lines missing]

(alien vs. alien, god vs. god)

[61] “Now them, call for battle, battle let us join, warfare!”

The gods heard his words: they set fire to their tools,

(clay sickle, like everything else, another 1st discovered in Mesopotamia)

[65] they put fire to their spaces, and flame to their workbaskets.

Off they went, one and all, to the gate of the warrior Enlil‘s abode….

(Enlil‘s mud-brick-built ziggurat residence in Nippur)

Insurrection of the Lower Gods

[70] It was night, half-way through the watch, the house was surrounded, but the god did not know.

It was night, half-way through the watch,

Ekur (Enlil‘s temple / residence in Nippur) was surrounded, but Enlil did not know!

[Several lines missing; the great gods send a messenger]

The Great Gods Send a Messenger

[132] Nusku (Enlil‘s son & chancellor) opened his gate, took his weapons and went … Enlil.

In the assembly of all the gods,

(King Anu‘s descendants, directing Earth’s events)

[135] he knelt, stood up, expounded the command, “Anu, your father, your counselor,

(alien planet Nibiru King Anu;, Anu‘s son & heir Enlil)

the warrior Enlil, your prefect, Ninurta, and your bailiff Ennugi have sent me to say:

[140] ‘Who is the instigator of this battle?

Who is the instigator of these hostilities?

Who declared war, that battle has run up to the gate of Enlil?

In …

[145] he transgressed the command of Enlil.'”

Reply by the Lower Gods

“Everyone of us gods has declared war; …

We have set … un the excavation, excessive drudgery has killed us,

[150] our forced labor was heavy, the misery too much!

Now, everyone of us gods has resolved on a reckoning with Enlil.”

[The great gods decide to create modern man, to relieve the lower gods from their misery.]

(Ninhursag & brother Enki with “Tree of Life“, alien Medical Science Engineers)

Proposals by Ea (Enki) & Belet-ili (Ninhursag)

[a1]Ea (Enki) made ready to speak, and said to the gods, his brothers:

“What calumny do we lay to their charge?

Their forced labor was heavy, their misery too much!

[a5] Every day … the outcry was loud, we could hear the clamor.

There is … Belet-ili (Ninhursag), the midwife, is present.

Let her create, then, a human, a man (workers),

(Enlil makes decision to have earthlings bear the yoke of the gods work)

[a10] Let him bear the yoke! Let him bear the yoke!

Let man assume the drudgery of the god.”

Belet-ili (Ninhursag), the midwife, is present.

(Ninhursag & nurses)

[190] Let the midwife create a human being!

Let man assume the drudgery of the god.”

They summoned and asked the goddess the midwife of the gods, wise Mami (Ninhursag):

“Will you be the birth goddess, creatress of mankind?

(Ninhursag in lab mixing DNA)

[195]Create a human being, that he bear the yoke,

(alien Anunnaki giants tire of the burdensome labor needed to get the work accomplished for colonizing Earth)

let him bear the yoke, the task of Enlil, let man assume the drudgery of the god.”

Nintu (Ninhursag) made ready to speak, and said to the great gods:

(Enki‘s DNA experiments attempting to create workers for mining, farming, etc., replacement labor for the gods)

[200] “It is not for me to do it, the task is Enki‘s.

He it is that cleanses all, let him provide me the clay so I can do the making.”

Enki made ready to speak,

[205] and said to the great gods:

“On the first, seventh, and fifteenth days of the month, let me establish a purification, a bath.

Let one god be slaughtered, then let the gods be cleansed by immerson.

(lab work of Ninhursag & Enki, together holding Ninhursag‘s symbol, the umbilical-chord-cutter / omega / ohm, etc.)

[210] Let Nintu mix clay with his (DNA) flesh and blood.

Let that same god and man be thoroughly mixed in the clay.

Let us hear the drum for the rest of the time.

[215] From the flesh of the god let a spirit remain, let it make the living know its sign,

lest he be allowed to be forgotten, let the spirit remain.“

The great Anunna-gods, who administer destinies,

[220] answered “yes!” in the assembly.

The Creation of Man

(wild man to modern man, the “missing link”)

On the first, seventh, and fifteenth days of the month, he established a purification, a bath.

They slaughtered Aw-ilu (unidentified?), who had the inspiration, in their assembly.

(Mesopotamian DNA symbols, giant alien gods combining the DNA of two different worlds; as the Biblical verse in Genesis, God said “Let us make man into our image & into our likeness”…)

[225] Nintu mixed clay with his flesh and blood (DNA).

That same god and man were thoroughly mixed in the clay (alien high-tech).

For the rest of the time they would hear the drum.

From the flesh of the god the spirit remained.

It would make the living know its sign.

[230] Lest he be allowed to be forgotten, the spirit remained.

After she had mixed the clay, she summoned the Anunna (Anunnaki), the great gods.

(alien giants from planet Nibiru who colonized Earth tens of thousands of years ago)

The Igigi, the great gods, spat (DNA) upon the clay.

[235] Mami (Ninhursag) made ready to speak, and said to the great gods:

“You ordered me the task and I have completed it!

You have slaughtered the god, along with his inspiration.

(Adapa / Biblical Adam is born, Ninhursag is successful!)

[240] I have done away with your heavy forced labor, I have imposed your drudgery on man.

(Ninhursag & Enki worked 50,000 years to develop adequate replacement workers for the gods)

You have bestowed clamor upon mankind.

I have released the yoke, I have made restoration.”

They heard this speech of hers,

(Enki & baby Adapa / Biblical Adam in Eridu)

[245] they ran, free of care, and kissed her feet, saying:

“Formerly we used to call you Mami, now let your name be Belet-kala-ili (Mistress of all the gods)!”

(earthling workers become available to serve the gods)

[The population increases and their noise disturbs the gods, who decide to wipe out mankind. The god Enki, however, sends a dream to Atrahasis.]

Atrahasis‘ Dream Explained

[i.b35] Enlil committed an evil deed against the people.

[i.c.11]Atrahasis (Noah) made ready to speak, and said to his lord:

“Make me know the meaning of the dream, let me know, that I may look out for its consequence.”

(Enki informs Noah of the impending doom through a reed wall)

[i.c15] Enki made ready to speak, and said to his servant:

“You might say, ‘Am I to be looking out while in the bedroom?’

Do you pay attention to message that I speak for your:

[i.c20] ‘Wall, listen to me! Reed wall, pay attention to all my words!

(Mesopotamian artifacts of the original stories of “Noah‘s Flood”, written 1,000+ years prior to Books of Moses)

Flee the house, build a boat, forsake possessions, and save life.

(boatman assists Gilgamesh in his travels to Noah)

[i.c25] The boat which you build … be equal …

…

Roof her over like the depth,

[i.c30] so that the sun shall not see inside her (submergeable boat).

Let her be roofed over fore and aft.

The gear should be very strong, the pitch should be firm, and so give the boat strength.

I will shower down upon you later

[i.c35] a windfall of birds, a spate of fishes.'”

He opened the water clock and filled it, he told it of the coming of the seven-day deluge.

(Ningishzidda, water clock, Noah, reed wall, & Enki behind it, Enki‘s warning of the upcoming flood, arranged by Enlil)

Atrahasis and the Elders

Atrahasis received the command.

He assembled the Elders at his gate.

[i.c.40 ]Atrahasis made ready to speak, and said to the Elders:

“My god does not agree with your god, Enki and Enlil are constantly angry with each other.

They have expelled me from the land.

(Enki scolded by Enlil for protecting Noah)

[i.c45] Since I have always reverenced Enki (Noah‘s father), he told me this.

I can not live in …

Nor can I set my feet on the earth of Enlil.

I will dwell with my god in the depths (Enki‘s zone, the abzu).

[i.c50] This he told me: …”

Construction of the Ark

[ii.10] The Elders …

The carpenter carried his ax, the reedworker carried his stone,

the rich man carried the pitch, the poor man brought the materials needed.

[Lacuna of about fifteen lines; the word Atrahasis can be discerned.]

Boarding of the Ark

Bringing …

[ii.30] whatever he had …

Whatever he had …

Pure animals (reproducing, non mixed creatures) he slaughtered, cattle …

Fat animals he killed.

Sheep …he choose and brought on board.

[ii.35] The birds flying in the heavens, the cattle and the … of the cattle god,

the creatures of the steppe, … he brought on board …

(Sumerian feast & celebration)

[ii.40] he invited his people … to a feast … his family was brought on board.

While one was eating an another was drinking,

[ii.45] he went in and out; he could not sit, could not kneel,

for his heart was broken, he wait retching gall.

Departure

The outlook of the weather changed.

(Adad, thunder god with his high-tech alien weaponry, winged flying disc above, Taurus the Bull below)

[The storm god] Adad began to roar in the clouds.

[ii.50] The god they heard, his clamor.

He brought pitch to seal his door.

By the time he had bolted his door,

(Adad, Enlil‘s son, with his advanced alien weaponry)

Adad was roaring in the clouds.

The winds were furious as he set forth,

[ii.55] He cut the mooring rope and released the boat.

[Lacuna]

The Great Flood

[iii.5] … the storm … were yoked Anzu rent the sky with his talons,

(Anzu as a bird)

He … the land

[iii.10] and broke its clamor like a pot.

… the flood came forth.

Its power came upon the peoples like a battle, one person did not see another,

they could not recognize each other in the catastrophe.

[iii.15] The deluge bellowed like a bull,

The wind resounded like a screaming eagle.

The darkness was dense, the sun was gone, … like flies.

[iii.20] the clamor of the deluge.

[Lacuna. The gods find themselves hungry because there are no farmers left and sacrifices are no longer brought. When they discover that Atrahasis has survived, they make a plan to make sure that the noise will remain within limits: they invent childbirth, infant mortality, and celibacy.]

Mankind Punished

[iii.45] Enki made ready to speak, and said to Nintu the birth goddess:

“You, birth goddess, creatress of destinies, establish death for all peoples!

…

[iii.d1] “Now then, let there be a third woman among the people,

among the people are the woman who has born and the woman who has not born.

Let there be also among the people the pasittu (she-demon):

[iii.d5] let her snatch the baby from the lap who bore it.

And establish high priestesses and priestesses,

let them be taboo [celibate], and so cut down childbirth.

Note:
Belet-ili (‘mistress of the gods’), Nin-tu (‘birth-giver’), and Mami are different names for the same goddess, Ninhursag

Enki and Ninmah (Ninhursag)

Source: Black, J.A., Cunningham, G., Robson, E., and Zólyomi, G.,

The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Oxford 1998-.

(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)

(gods in blue)

(mixed-breed creation Umul)

1-11 In those days, in the days when heaven and earth were created;

in those nights, in the nights when heaven and earth were created;

in those years, in the years when the fates were determined;

when the Anuna (Anunnaki) gods were born; when the goddesses were taken in marriage;

when the goddesses were distributed in heaven and earth;

when the goddesses …… became pregnant and gave birth;

when the gods were obliged (?) (to work for) …… their food …… for their meals;

(a period prior mankind, when the alien gods did the work of survival, & total colonization of the Earth)

the senior (royal descendant) gods oversaw the work, while the minor gods were bearing the toil.

The gods were digging the canals and piling up the silt in Harali.

The gods, dredging the clay, began complaining about this life.

12-23 At that time, the one of great wisdom, the creator of all the senior gods,

Enki lay on his bed, not waking up from his sleep, in the deep engur,

(Enki‘s residence in Eridu; Enki in the Abzu marshes)

in the flowing water, the place the inside of which no other god knows.

The gods said, weeping: “He is the cause of the lamenting!”

Namma (Nammu, Ninhursag‘s & Enki‘s mother), the primeval mother who gave birth to the senior gods,

took the tears of the gods to the one who lay sleeping, to the one who did not wake up from his bed, to her son:

“Are you really lying there asleep, and …… not awake?

The gods, your creatures, are smashing their …….

My son, wake up from your bed!

Please apply the skill deriving from your wisdom and

(Enki & family decide to fashion workers for the gods)

create a substitute (?) for the gods so that they can be freed from their toil!”

24-37 At the word of his mother Namma, Enki rose up from his bed.

In Hal-an-kug, his room for pondering, he slapped his thigh in annoyance.

The wise and intelligent one, the prudent, …… of skills,

the fashioner of the design of everything brought to life birth-goddesses (?).

Enki reached out his arm over them and turned his attention to them.

(Enki, alien King Anu‘s eldest & wisest son, 1st to arrive on Earth Colony with his crew of 50)

And after Enki, the fashioner of designs by himself, had pondered the matter, he said to his mother Namma:

(Enki discovers Homo erectus for the fashioning of replacement workers)

“My mother, the creature you planned will really come into existence.

(Enlil‘s mother-in-law Nisaba working the grains of the fields; giant gods farming on Earth)

Impose on him the work of carrying baskets.

You should knead clay from the top of the abzu;

(Ninhusrag & brother Enki in their DNA lab, Ninhursag‘s unbilical chord cutter symbol in their hands, winged sky-disc symbol of planet Nibiru above, King Anu, their father, keeping in contact with events on Earth Colony)

the birth-goddesses (?) will nip off the clay and you shall bring the form into existence.

Let Ninmah (Ninhursag) act as your assistant;

(Ninhursag & her nurse helpers)

and let Ninimma, Cu-zi-ana, Ninmada, Ninbarag, Ninmug, …… and Ninguna stand by as you give birth.

My mother, after you have decreed his fate, let Ninmah impose on him the work of carrying baskets.”

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44-51 Enki …... brought joy to their heart.

He set a feast for his mother Namma and for Ninmah (Ninhursag).

All the princely birth-goddesses (?) …… ate delicate reed (?) and bread.

(Apkulla / pilot, Enki, King Anu in his winged sky-disc, Enlil, & Apkulla / winged eagle-headed pilot)

An, Enlil, and the lord Nudimmud (Enki) roasted holy kids.

All the senior gods praised him: “O lord of wide understanding, who is as wise as you?

(Enki, eldest son to King Anu, sent to Earth to mine for gold, etc.)

Enki, the great lord, who can equal your actions?

Like a corporeal father, you are the one who has the me of deciding destinies,

in fact you are the me (alien technologies on discs, a How To Do…).”

52-55 Enki and Ninmah (Enki‘s ½ sister, Ninhursag) drank beer,

their hearts became elated, and then Ninmah said to Enki:

“Man’s body can be either good or bad and whether I make a fate good or bad depends on my will.”

(lab work of Ninhursag & Enki)

56-61 Enki answered Ninmah:

“I will counterbalance whatever fate — good or bad — you happen to decide.”

Ninmah took clay from the top of the abzu in her hand

(Ninhursag with her early failed attempts to fashion replacement workers for the aliens)

and she fashioned from it first a man who could not bend his outstretched weak hands.

Enki looked at the man who could not bend his outstretched weak hands,

and decreed his fate: he appointed him as a servant of the king.

(50,000 years of failed experiments fashioning workers)

62-65 Second, she fashioned one who turned back (?) the light, a man with constantly opened eyes (?).

Enki looked at the one who turned back (?) the light, the man with constantly opened eyes (?),

and decreed his fate allotting to it the musical arts, making him as the chief …… in the king’s presence.

(early DNA mixing failed to produce adequate workers)

66-68 Third, she fashioned one with both feet broken, one with paralyzed feet.

Enki looked at the one with both feet broken, the one with paralyzed feet and ……

him for the work of …… and the silversmith and …….

( 1 ms. has instead: She fashioned one, a third one, born as an idiot.

Enki looked at this one, the one born as an idiot,

and decreed his fate: he appointed him as a servant of the king.)

(Homo erectus decided the best creature to mix DNA & fashion into their image & likeness)

69-71 Fourth, she fashioned one who could not hold back his urine.

Enki looked at the one who could not hold back his urine

and bathed him in enchanted water and drove out the namtar demon from his body.

72-74 Fifth, she fashioned a woman who could not give birth.

Enki looked at the woman who could not give birth, and decreed her fate:

he made (?) her belong to the queen’s household.

( 1 ms. has instead: …… as a weaver, fashioned her to belong to the queen’s household.)

(taking 50,000 years to figure out the right DNA ad-mix)

75-78 Sixth, she fashioned one with neither penis nor vagina on its body.

Enki looked at the one with neither penis nor vagina on its body

and give it the name “Nibru eunuch (?)”, and decreed as its fate to stand before the king.

79-82 Ninmah threw the pinched-off clay from her hand on the ground and a great silence fell.

(Ninhursag, father King Anu & 2 others in his winged sky-disc above Tree of Life, & Enki)

The great lord Enki said to Ninmah:

“I have decreed the fates of your creatures and given them their daily bread.

Come, now I will fashion somebody for you, and you must decree the fate of the newborn one!”

83-91 Enki devised a shape with head, …… and mouth in its middle, and said to Ninmah:

“Pour ejaculated semen into a woman’s womb, and the woman will give birth to the semen of her womb.”

(Ninhursag & brother Enki working in their DNA lab, & a clay vessel)

Ninmah stood by for the newborn ……. and the woman brought forth …… in the midst …….

In return (?), this was Umul:

its head was afflicted, its place of …… was afflicted, its eyes were afflicted, its neck was afflicted.

(Ninhursag with her umbilical chord cutter symbols, omega, mathematics, & ohm symbols today)

It could hardly breathe, its ribs were shaky,

its lungs were afflicted, its heart was afflicted, its bowels were afflicted.

With its hand and its lolling head it could not put bread into its mouth; its spine and head were dislocated.

The weak hips and the shaky feet could not carry (?) it on the field — Enki fashioned it in this way.

92-101 Enki said to Ninmah:

“For your creatures I have decreed a fate, I have given them their daily bread.

Now, you should decree a fate for my creature, give him his daily bread too.”

(Ninhursag with newborn experiment)

Ninmah looked at Umul and turned to him.

She went nearer to Umul asked him questions but he could not speak.

She offered him bread to eat but he could not reach out for it.

He could not lie on ……., he could not …….

Standing up he could not sit down, could not lie down, he could not …… a house, he could not eat bread.

Ninmah answered Enki:

“The man you have fashioned is neither alive nor dead. He cannot support himself (?).”

102-111 Enki answered Ninmah:

“I decreed a fate for the first man with the weak hands, I gave him bread.

I decreed a fate for the man who turned back (?) the light, I gave him bread.

I decreed a fate for the man with broken, paralyzed feet, I gave him bread.

I decreed a fate for the man who could not hold back his urine, I gave him bread.

I decreed a fate for the woman who could not give birth, I gave her bread.

I decreed the fate for the one with neither penis nor vagina on its body,

I gave it bread.

My sister, …….”

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(Ninhursag & Enki discuss what to do next)

112-121 Ninmah answered Enki:

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122-128 (Ninmah‘s answer continues)

“You (?) entered …….

Look, you do not dwell in heaven, you do not dwell on earth, you do not come out to look at the Land.

Where you do not dwell but where my house is built, your words cannot be heard.

Where you do not live but where my city is built, I myself am silenced (?).

My city is ruined, my house is destroyed, my child has been taken captive.

(E-kur, Enlil‘s house / Command Central in Nippur)

I am a fugitive who has had to leave the E-kur (Enlil‘s temple residence in Nippur),

even I myself could not escape from your hand.”

129-139 Enki replied to Ninmah:

“Who could change the words that left your mouth?

(alien giant gods attempt fashioning “modern man”)

Remove Umul from your lap ……. Ninmah, may your work be ……,

you …… for me what is imperfect; who can oppose (?) this?

The man whom I shaped …… after you ……, let him pray!

Today let my penis be praised, may your wisdom be confirmed (?)!

May the enkum and ninkum …… proclaim your glory …….

My sister, the heroic strength …….

The song …… the writing (?) …….

The gods who heard …… let Umul build (?) my house …….”

140-141 Ninmah could not rival the great lord Enki.

Father Enki, your praise is sweet

(“I’ve done it!”, Ninhursag successfully produces baby Adapa / Adam)

The Song of the Hoe: translation

The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)

(gods in blue …mixed-breed demigods in teal…)

(Ninhursag‘s creature creation = Enkidu)

In this composition, the word al ‘hoe’ is used as often as possible, as well as many nouns or verb forms beginning with — or merely containing — the syllable al (occasionally also ar).

^1-7Not only did the lord make the world appear in its correct form —

the lord who never changes the destinies which he determines:

(Enlil, son & heir to Anunnaki King Anu, his father’s Earth Colony Commander, his decisions are final)

Enlil, who will make the human seed of the Land come forth

(3 mss. have instead: up) from the earth (2 other mss. have instead: chamber) —

and not only did he hasten to separate heaven from earth, and hasten to separate earth from heaven,

but, in order to make it possible for humans to grow in ‘Where Flesh Came Forth’

(2 mss. have instead: ‘Where Flesh Grew’) [the name of a cosmic location],

(Enlil‘s residence & Earth Colony Command Center in his city of Nippur)

he first suspended (2 mss. have instead: raised) the axis of the world at Dur-an-ki (“Bond Heaven and Earth”).

^8-17He did this with the help of the hoe (al) — and so daylight broke forth (aled).

By distributing (altare) the shares of duty he established daily tasks,

and for the hoe (al) and the carrying-basket wages were even established.

Then Enlil praised his hoe (al), his hoe (al) wrought in gold,

its top inlaid with lapis lazuli (blue-hued gem stone), his hoe (al) whose blade was tied on with a cord,

which was adorned with silver and gold, his hoe (al), the edge of whose point (?) was a plow of lapis lazuli,

whose blade was like a battering ram standing up to a great (gal) wall

(1 ms. has instead: born for a great (gal) person (?)).

The lord evaluated the hoe (al), determined its future destiny and placed a holy crown on its head …….

^18-27Here, in ‘Where Flesh Came Forth’ (1 ms. has instead: ‘Where Flesh Grew’)

[the name of a cosmic location], he set this very hoe (al) to work;

(1 other ms. has instead: in ‘Where Flesh Grew’ the unassailable (?),)

he had it place the first model of mankind in the brick mold (aliens cloning workers, DNA technologies).

His Land started to break through the soil towards Enlil.

(Enlil & Enki served by earthling primitives, “modern man”)

He looked with favor at his black-headed people.

Now the Anuna gods stepped forward to him, and did (jal) obeisance to him.

They calmed Enlil with a prayer, for they wanted to demand (al-dug) the black-headed people (workers) from him.

(Ninhursag, Enki, & Ningishzidda worked the DNA mixing of alien giants with upright walking primitives, SEE ADAPA TEXTS)

Ninmena (Ninhursag), the lady who had given birth to the ruler,

(“modern man” fashioned by alien giants, to replace Anunnaki workers from their heavy burdens, Anunnaki leader Enlil demanded workers for Eden from Enki‘s group in the mines of SO Africa, creating problems between the Anunnaki)

who had given birth to the king, now set (aljaja) human reproduction going.

^28-34The leader of heaven and earth, lord Nunamnir (Enlil),

named the important persons and valued (kal) persons.

He …… these persons, and recruited them to provide for the gods (in Eden).

Now Enki praised Enlil‘s hoe (al), and the maiden Nisaba (Enlil‘s mother-in-law) was made responsible

(Nisaba, alien Anunnaki Master Scribe, Goddess of Grains, many of her records discovered)

for keeping records of the decisions.

And so people took (jal) the shining hoes (al), the holy hoes (al), into their hands.

(mud brick-built mountain / temple / residence of Enlil & Ninlil, city of Nippur below)

^35-42The E-kur, the temple of Enlil, was founded by the hoe (al).

By day it was building (aldue) it, by night it caused the temple to grow (almumu).

(earthling mixed-breed shepherd, Ninurta, & Enlil handing earthlings the burden of the plow, our solar system in background)

In well-founded Nibru, the hero Ninurta entered into the presence of Enlil

in the inner chamber of the Tummal –the Tummal, the bread basket (?)

(1 ms. has instead: …… masterpiece (?)) of mother Ninlil —

the innermost chamber of the Tummal, with regular food deliveries.

(Bau & her nephew-spouse Ninurta, Enlil‘s son & heir)

Holy Ninisina (Bau / Gula) entered into the presence of Enlil with black kids and fruit offerings for the lord.

^43-45Next comes the Abzu, with the lions before it,

where the divine powers (alien technologies) may not be requested (al-dug): the hoe wielder (?) (altar), the good man,

5e - Enki & Adapa 2e - Eridu temple reconstruction

(1st “modern man” the “mold” to start the new species of advanced earthlings, Enki, the DNA Master; Enki‘s house in Eridu)

lord Nudimmud (Enki) was building (aldue) the Abzu, Eridug having been chosen as the construction site (altar).

(Ninhursag‘s early failed attempts to fashion workers for the alien Anunnaki gods; her city walls of Kish)

^46-48The mother of the gods, Ninhursaja (Ninhursag),

had the mighty (?) (altar) light of the lord live with her in Kec (Kish);

(Enlil seated, below Ninurta leads mixed-breed king & workers to alien ziggurat construction site)

she had Cul-pa-eda (Ninurta), no less, help her with the construction work (altar).

(Anu‘s, Inanna‘s, Ninsun‘s, etc. residence in Uruk)

^49-51The shrine E-ana (Anu‘s temple – residence in Uruk)

was cleaned up by means of the hoe (al) for the lady of E-ana, the good cow (immal) (2 mss. have instead: woman).

The hoe (al) deals with ruin mounds, the hoe (al) deals with weeds.

^52-55In the city of Zabalam (city loyal to Inanna), the hoe (al) is Inanna‘s workman (?).

She determined the destiny of the hoe (al), with its projecting lapis-lazuli beard (1 ms. has instead: tooth).

(Utu, grandson to Enlil, the Space Port Commander in Sippur; launch & landing zones cut into the mountains by Utu)

Utu was ready to help her with her building project (altar);

it is the renowned (?) building project (altar) of youthful Utu.

(Nisaba, spouse to Haia, Ninlil‘s mother, Master Anunnaki Scribe, Goddess of Grains, hoe & plow)

^56-58The lady with broad (dajal) intelligence, Nisaba,

ordered the measuring of the E-ana for a construction project (altar),

and then designed her own E-hamun (in Uruk) for construction (altar).

^59-70The king who measured up the hoe (al) and who passes (zal) his time in its tracks,

(planet Nibiru‘s cross symbol in the sky)

the hero Ninurta, has introduced working with the hoe (altar) into the rebel (bal) lands.

He subdues (aljaja) any city that does not obey its lord.

Towards heaven he roars (algigi) like a storm, earthwards he strikes (aljaja) like a dragon (ucumgal).

Cara (Shara, Inanna‘s son, Roman god Cupid) sat down on (1 ms. has instead: got onto) Enlil‘s knees,

and Enlil gave him what he had desired (al-dug):

he had mentioned the mace, the club, arrows and quiver, and the hoe (al)

(3 mss. have instead: he desired (al-dug) the mace, the club, arrows and quiver).

(Dumuzi The Shepherd, Enki‘s & Ninsun‘s son, young Inanna‘s spouse)

Dumuzid (Dumuzi) is the one who makes the upper land fertile (allumlum).

Gibil (god of the fiery kilns, metal fashioner) made his hoe (al) raise its head towards the heavens —

he (Enki‘s son of metallurgy) caused the hoe (al), sacred indeed, to be refined with fire.

The Anuna (Anunnaki) were rejoicing (alhulhuledec).

^71-82The temple of Jectin-ana (Geshtinanna, Enki‘s daughter) resembled an aljarsur instrument,

the aljarsur of mother Jectin-ana (goddess of songs) that makes a pleasant sound.

(Enlil Haia Nisaba Ninlil unidentified)

The lord [Enlil] bellowed at his hoe (al) like a bull.

As for the grave (irigal): the hoe (al) buries people,

but dead people are also brought up from the ground by the hoe (al)

[This may allude to Enkidu‘s ghost being put in contact with Gilgamec.].

With the hoe (al), the hero honored by An (Anu), the younger brother (the grandfather) of Nergal,

(giant Gilgamesh, son to Ninsun & Lugalbanda, 2/3rds divine, 5th king of Uruk)

the warrior Gilgamec is as powerful as a hunting net.

(Ninsun, daughter to Ninurta & Bau, mother to gods & many earthling mixed-breeds made kings)

The (1 ms. adds: sage) son of Ninsumun (Ninsun) is pre-eminent with oars (jisal)

[This may allude to Gilgamec rowing across the waters of death.].

With the hoe (al) he is the great barber (kindajal) of the watercourses.

In the chamber (1 ms. has instead: place) of the shrine, with the hoe (al) he is the minister (sukkal).

The wicked (huljal) …… are sons of the hoe (al); they are born in sleep from heaven.

^83-93In the sky there is the altirigu bird, the bird of the god.

On the earth there is the hoe (al): a dog in the reed-beds, a dragon (ucumgal) in the forest.

(Ninurta‘s 50-headed mace, alien Anunnaki advanced technologies of weaponry)

On the battlefield, there is the dur-allub battle-axe.

By the city wall there is the battle-net (alluhab).

On the dining-table there is the bowl (maltum).

In the wagon shed, there is the sledge (mayaltum).

In the donkey stable there is the cupboard (argibil).

The hoe (al)! — the sound of the word is sweet: it also occurs (munjal)

on the hillsides: the tree of the hillsides is the allanum oak.

The fragrance of the hillsides is the arganum balm.

The precious stone of the hillsides is the algamec steatite.

^94-106The hoe (al) makes everything prosper, the hoe makes everything flourish.

The hoe (al) is good barley, the hoe (al) is a hunting net (1 ms. has instead: an overseer).

The hoe (al) is brick molds, the hoe (al) has made people exist (jal).

It is the hoe (al) that is the strength of young manhood.

The hoe (al) and the basket are the tools for building cities.

It builds (aldue) the right kind of house, it cultivates (aljaja) the right kind of fields.

It is you, hoe, that extend (dajal) the good agricultural land!

The hoe (al) subdues for its owner (lugal) any agricultural lands

that have been recalcitrant (bal) against their owner (lugal),

any agricultural lands that have not submitted to their owner (lugal).

It chops the heads off the vile esparto grasses, yanks them out at their roots, and tears at their stalks.

The hoe (al) also subdues (aljaja) the hirin weeds.

^107-109The hoe (al), the implement whose destiny was fixed by father Enlil—the renowned hoe (al)!

(Nisaba 2 gods unidentified spouse Haia daughter Ninlil)

Nisaba (Ninlil‘s mother, Haia‘s spouse, Enlil‘s mother-in-law) be praised!

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The Epic of Atra-Hasis Version 2

translated by Tikva Frymer-Kensky

The Epic of Atra-Hasis Version 1

The Epic of Atrahasis is the fullest Mesopotamian account of the Great Flood. The conditions immediately after the Creation, when the Lower Gods have to work very hard,

The Great Gods Send a Messenger

Reply by the Lower Gods

[The great gods decide to create modern man, to relieve the lower gods from their misery.]

The Creation of Man

Atrahasis‘ Dream Explained

Construction of the Ark

[Lacuna of about fifteen lines; the word Atrahasis can be discerned.]

Boarding of the Ark

The Great Flood

[Lacuna. The gods find themselves hungry because there are no farmers left and sacrifices are no longer brought. When they discover that Atrahasis has survived, they make a plan to make sure that the noise will remain within limits: they invent childbirth, infant mortality, and celibacy.]

Mankind Punished

Enki and Ninmah (Ninhursag)

The Song of the Hoe: translation

(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)

(gods in blue …mixed-breed demigods in teal…)