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…)

 

        (Enlil‘s ziggurat residence in Nippur, the Anunnaki Earth Colony Command Central, top of structure on left was added by American archaeologists around 1900)

        En-me-barage-si, the king, built the Iri-nanam in Enlil‘s temple.

         (Ninlil on shore, Enlil, & son Nusku)

        Aga, son of En-me-barage-si, made the Tummal flourish and brought Ninlil (Enlil‘s spouse) into the Tummal.

 

         

        Then the Tummal fell into ruins for the first time.

        Mes-ane-pada built the Burcucua in Enlil‘s temple.

        Mes-ki-aj-nuna, son of Mes-ane-pada, made the Tummal flourish and brought Ninlil into the Tummal.

 

        Then the Tummal fell into ruins for a second time.

         (Ningishzidda, mixed-breed son-king of Ninsun’s, Ninsun, & another of her son-kings)

        Gilgamec (Gilgamesh, Ninsun‘s son-king) built the Numunbura in Enlil‘s temple.

        Ur-lugal, son of Gilgamec, made the Tummal flourish and brought Ninlil into the Tummal.

 

        Then the Tummal fell into ruins for a third time (each time a thousand + years).

        Nanni built the Lofty Garden in Enlil‘s temple.

        Mes-ki-aj- Nanna, son of Nanni, made the Tummal flourish and brought Ninlil into the Tummal.

         (mud-brick-built ruins of Enlil‘s ziggurat residence)

 

      Then the Tummal fell into ruins for a fourth time (standing for thousands of years).

       

           (Enlil leads Ur-Namma, Ninsun‘s 2/3rds divine son-king,to the E-kur, Enlil‘s house in Nippur)

        Ur-Namma, built the E-kur.

        Culgi (Shulgi), son of Ur-Namma, made the Tummal flourish and brought Ninlil into the Tummal.

 

        Then the Tummal fell into ruins for a fifth time.

        From the years of Amar- Suen (Ninsun‘s semi-divine great-grandson-kings) (1 ms. has instead: Cu-Suen) (Shu–Suen)

        until king Ibbi- Suen (Ninsun‘s semi-divine great-great-grandson-king) chose En-am-gal-ana

        (1. ms. has instead: En-me-gal-ana) by extispicy as the high priest of Inana (Inanna) of Unug (Uruk),

         (Nannar‘s daughter Inanna, espoused mixed-breed kings for thousands of years / The Goddess of Love)

      (Ninlil follows spouse Enlil to the Underworld)

        Ninlil came regularly to the Tummal.

 

        Written according to the words of Lu-Inanathe (unidentified?) chief leatherworker of Enlil.

        Icbi-Erra (Enlil‘s semi-divine descendant-king), who looks after the E-kur (Enlil‘s residence in Nippur), built the E-cutum of Enlil.