^{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...)

       

        SEGMENT A

         (Enlil)

          ^1-23 Enlil, by far ……

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        He to whom the great gods pay attention; foundation deposit of the Anuna (Anunnaki), living …… of the Enki deities;

        he whose great divine powers (alien technologies) know no opponents, whose …… excel all others,

        whose …… is achieved by no one; whose …… return of their own accord, whose …… is very sweet in heaven and on earth,

        whose …… founds cities, whose …… establishes the Land; …… wisdom is perfect as time passes;

        (Ancient Map of Nippur)

        …… wise in command, re-establishing justice ……, adviser who never tires of discussion; ……,

        giving verdicts, ……, judge of heaven and earth

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        guiding the living ……, father Enlil, shepherd of the black-headed, by his …… making the foreign countries bow low.

        24-42 He whose …… strengthens the boundaries of heaven and earth, whose utterances unite them;

        lord whose ominous silence pervades the foreign lands, whose actions are spine-chilling,

        whose complex judgments cannot be revealed by anyone, whose knowledge is honored by the foreign lands,

        whose strength is a great battle-net …… the foreign lands,

         (Enlil‘s communication towers throughout Sumer)

        a fine-mesh battle-net …… covering the disobedient; indefatigable …… in heaven,

        in possession of every one of the divine powers in their totality,

        linking together the ancient plans; south wind which covers the four quarters;

        Enlil, whose …… cannot be grasped, whose fame is enough to make people quake;

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

        Enlil, great in heaven, surpassing on earth, exceptional and wide-reaching in Sumer, Nunamnir (Enlil), lord of princes, king of kings!

        He determined a good destiny in the holy city for me, (King) Icme-Dagan, son of Dagan (Enlil‘s descendant-king).

          ^43-52 He named me with a favorable name even when my seed was inserted into the womb.

        Nintud (Ninhursag) stood by at my birth, and she established the office of en (high-priest) for me ……,

         
               (Chief Medical Scientist Ninhursag with her symbols, the umbilical cord cutter / omega / ohm / etc.)

         even when my umbilical cord was cut.

        Enlil, my principal deity, bestowed on me the shepherdship of Sumer,

        and assigned to me a tireless protective goddess, adding also therewith a correct stature.

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          ^53-75 His splendor …… the mountains, and his roar reaches beyond heaven and earth.

        He selected me from my people, and announced me to the Land.

        Enlil, king of the gods, gave me lordship over the south and over the uplands.

          (Anu, king of planet Nibiru & Earth Colony, father in Heaven / Nibiru to “sons who came down”)

        At Nunamnir‘s (Enlil) instigation, An spoke encouragingly to me, and placed crook and staff in my hands.

        Urac (Ninhursag in this case, Nammu sometimes) nursed me on her holy knees.

        In the Ki-ur, the great place, Ninlil in her radiant heart determined as my destiny

         (Ninlil, the equal spouse to Commander Royal Prince Enlil)

        that I should sit on an exalted dais until distant days, to enjoy in favor the reign which is my lot;

        that I should delight Enlil, and that I should daily attend to the E-kur (Enlil’s temple residence in his city, Nippur).

        Enki, the great lord of Eridug (Eridu, Enki‘s patron city), confirmed for me the good and great crown,

        …… everything, and richly conferred on me seven wisdoms.

          (Nannar, son to Enlil, patron god of Ur, symbolized by the Moon, or Moon Crescent)

        Suen (Sin), the firstborn son of Enlil (and Ninlil), ……

        for me a royal throne that gathers together the divine powers (alien technologies),

        established an excellent lordly dais, and made my crown shine brilliantly until distant days.

          ^76-89 Nuska, Enlil‘s minister, placed the royal scepter in my hand, revealed the powers of E-kur to me,

        established there for me an awe-inspiring podium, and ensured that Enlil‘s heart was in a joyful mood.

        Ninurta (Enlil‘s oldest son), Enlil‘s mighty warrior, approached Nunamnir in speech on my behalf and secured (?)

         (Prince Ninurta, son & heir to planet Nibiru‘s throne behind father Enlil)

        the favorable words of Enlil and (spouse) Ninlil for me.

        He has made my reign of kingship excellent, has made me great in lordship, and is indeed my helper.

        In E-kur he prays continually on my behalf, and is indeed the constable of my kingship.

        He, who with mighty weapons makes all the foreign countries bow low,

        has put great power …… into my right hand (alien technologies).

        

          (Utu, Sun God, son to Nannar & Ningal, twin to Inanna;  semi-divine king kneels before giant alien god giving instructions)

          ^90-99 Utu put justice and reliable words in my mouth.

        To make judgments, to reach decisions, to lead the people aright,

        to excel in rectitude, to keep the righteous on the track and to destroy the wicked,

        so that each man should speak justice to his brother, should make obeisance to his father,

        should not speak contrary words to his elder sister, and should respect his mother;

        so that the weak should not be handed over to the strong, so that the feeble should ……;

        so that the strong should not do just what he pleases, and so that one man should not be assigned to another (through debt);

        to destroy wickedness and violence, and to make righteousness flourish —

        (Ninsun, her mixed-breed son-king, & Utu)
          (Ningal, Nannar‘s brown-eyed spouse, Utu‘s mother)

        all this Utu, the son born to Ningal (and Nannar), made my apportioned share.

          ^100-111 Inana, the lady of heaven and earth ……, chose me as her beloved spouse.

        She put attractiveness in my waist-belt (?), looking at me with her life-giving look,

        as she lifted her radiant forehead to me, to make me step onto the flowery bed.

         (Inanna in her holy bed, daughter to Nannar, Goddess of Love)

        She has uttered her unalterable holy word for me to spend long, long days in the jipar,

        (semi-divine spouse-king & Inanna)

        combining the priestly office of en with the kingship and caring unceasingly for E-ana (Inanna’s residence in Uruk),

        and for my neck to become thick like a wild bull’s in Unug (Uruk) as my splendor covers Kulaba.

          ^112-132 Enki and (spouse) Ninki, Enlil and (spouse) Ninlil, the Anuna (Anunnaki), the lords who determine destiny there,

        the spirits of Nibru (Nippur), and the protective goddesses of the E-kur,

        those who among the great gods determine destinies there, have uttered an unchangeable “So be it!”

        On his most favorable day, Enlil, king of the foreign lands, chose me, Icme-Dagan, son of Dagan (Enlil in this text), by extispicy.

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

        …… a favorable reign in Nibru.

        I, Icme-Dagan…… restored Urim (Ur) ……. …… in splendor.

        Enlil has commanded the favorable …… of my throne, the promotion of concord in Sumer and Akkad in their power,

        and restoration (?) of the …… brick buildings; and that I should daily tend the E-kur,

        that I should unceasingly provide for Nibru, and that I should care after the Ki-ur, the great place.

        133-159 I, Icme-Dagan, have bent my neck to the commands of father Enlil;

        I have paid attention to the utterances of my master.

        I have established justice in Sumer; I have secured (?) Nibru like heaven itself.

        I have gathered together the divine powers of the E-kur,

        I have paid attention to its old ordinances, and I have restored its neglected rites.

        I, Icme-Dagan, have ……. Enlil‘s very precious divine powers (alien technologies).

        …… Ninlil‘s ……. …… the interior of E-kur …… good, …… its exterior.

        ……, when I venerate ……. …… Enlil and ……, its favorable spirits in the courtyard,

         (some mud-brick-built ruins of E-kur, Enlil‘s Nippur)

        and I introduced its favorable protective goddesses into the E-kur.

        I have brought marvelous food offerings for Enlil.

        In the …… of Enlil, established with bread, …… great regular offerings,

        I made numerous the fat bulls and fat sheep, ……, fish and birds, in the house of my master.

        I made them smell tasty in the great ovens.

        I contested …….

        With …… I doubled (?) the regular offerings.

        Like water I poured out …… and liquor in unadulterated strength,

        from the offerings storeroom, like the rainwater that is released from heaven.

          (Ninkasi, daughter to Enki, Goddess of Beer, Master Brewer, & teacher to earthlings)

          ^160-182 An (Anu) brought Ninkasi along with him …… to its ……, and I libated delicious …… beer,

        mixed with aromatic cedar essence, over the brickwork of E-kur.

        Daily I made the E-kur like a harvest-place, and each month on its seventh and fifteenth days I made the temple festive.

        Both inside and outside the house, like ……, I spread the scent of …….

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        laying …… oil, …… cream, ……, first-fruits of the gardens, dates, ……, on the table of Enlil, my master, ……..

        The main part of my food, …… drink, his favorite things ……. Enlil…….

        I am the …… (semi-divine) son of Enlil, I am the …… of Ninlil, I am the strong young man of the E-kur.

        I am the foremost, with awe-inspiring strength, making excellent food offerings.

        I am untiring, indefatigable.

          (giants & their servicing earthling workers)

        Daily I shall issue instructions for what my master will have to eat, and what I will give to drink,

        fulfilling the great commands (butler / high-priest) of E-kur: thereby I carry out correctly the instructions of my master Enlil.

          ^183-195 I bring great gladness to the city whose interior and exterior are as blue-green as the sky,

         (Enlil‘s house on Earth Colony)

        Nibru, the mooring pole (alien Earth Colony Command Central) of heaven and earth.

        I have exempted its laborers from carrying earth in baskets, and I have freed its troops from fighting.

        I have released its gold, silver, cattle and sheep, the tribute of the citizens of Nibru.

        As for the temple of Enlil my master, for Ninlil, and for Ninurta, the mighty hero (warrior son) of Enlil,

        I have exempted their laborers from service.

        Filtered beer (?), barley, oil and sheep’s wool have been made a tithe.

        I …… Sumer and Akkad.

        (Akkadia, land between the Euphrates & Tigris)

        I …… wickedness and violence, and established justice in Sumer and Akkad.

        I am the shepherd who loves justice.

        I am born of Sumer, a son of Nibru.

        196-199 I am one who is always for ……. I am wise-eyed, of refined intelligence.

        I am full of advice, energetic in ……. I am all-knowing, singled out from the people.

        200-223 I am a judge who gives no explanations; I am a decision-maker who goes straight to the point.

        The strong does not behave extravagantly towards others, the mighty does not abuse the weak any more.

        People are not made subject to the lordly.

        If he does not wish to enter my presence (?) in holy ……, the feeble person may speak contrary words …….

        …… slave of my city.

        …… of Enlil.

         (Sumer, the “Land Between the Rivers”, the “Eden”)

        Sumer and Akkad ……

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        Until the distant future (?) ……. I have …… the destructive men.

        I have destroyed (?) …… the dispossessed (?) who speak with enmity.

        I have exerted myself ……. I have …… rebellion and destructive criminals …….

        I have supported the appeals of the bondsmen, waifs and widows who cry “Alas, Utu!” or “Alas, Nanna!”.

        I have destroyed ……. I have brought about the extermination of the cut-throats who roam (?) the desert.

        I have kept the just on the proper track, following the wife and the little child.

        I have sent (?) people nobly into the fields, and established holy shrines (?) in the desert.

        I have built the city itself for a long future in the whole world.

        224-235 The foreign lands gaze at me, Icme-Dagan, as if at their father who engendered them.

        (Utu, god who dispenses justice)

        When like Utu I decide a just verdict, the people bring their prayers to the holy shrines (?).

        As I establish and realize my powerful statements, advise the people and strengthen the palace,

        who is to challenge my powerful statements?

        …… the foreign lands, their people …….

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        death and abomination …….

        For all these reasons Enlil my master has prolonged my days.

          ^236-250 Icme-Dagan, born for heaven, chosen by the heart — I am kind like a father, attentive (?) like a mother.

        I am a lofty wall, the encouragement of the Land.

        I am a tall mes tree with thick roots, and broad shining branches.

        I am the canopy of Sumer, a pleasant shade; I am a place which even a tall person cannot reach.

        I am the helper of the troops, the focal point of the Land.

        I am a warrior on the way to battle, I am a powerful runner who goes like the north wind.

        I am wise …… superior in every respect.

        I am a belligerent wild bull, kicking up the dust everywhere; I am a one-horned bull, …….

        I stand in the forefront of the shields.

        I am the hero of heroes, with the strength of a battle-mace, as I smite the rebel lands right and left.

        251-256 I am gold dust, I am lapis lazuli in its lode, I light the Land like a lamp.

        I am the good semen of kingship, the seed of rulership.

        I am the scion of a cedar, a forest of cypresses.

        I am boxwood decorated with …… attractiveness.

        I delight (?) the gods …….

        257-273 In accordance with the great destiny decided by father Enlil, my battle-cry overspreads the remotest parts of the mountains.

        In the rebel cities no one approaches me or fixes their weapons against me.

         (Enlil, Earth Colony Commander, next in line for planet Nibiru kingship)

        They bring (?) their tribute spontaneously at Enlil‘s command.

        …… to the mountains. …… nir-igi stone, cornelian, …… stone, …… their stones (some mss. have instead the line:

        …… time-consuming labor, ……, labor for the king).

        For me the black-headed bring great timbers …… to the Land,

        while Dilmun (on Sinai Peninsula) bestows lavishly on me its linen, dates and date spadices.

        The Martu (Martu‘s primitive followers), who know no houses, who know no cities —

        primitives who live in the hills — bring me row upon row of woolly alum sheep.

        From the upland mountains, from the …… places, cedar, zabalum, cypress and boxwood were together brought to me.

        Enlil, my master, who batters the foreign lands into submission, kept the people on a single track,

        and made them unanimous for me, who am all for Enlil, who am the beloved of E-kur.

        274-296 Since the time when Sumer and Akkad had been dispersed,

         (statue artifact of Enlil on his throne in Nippur)

        no king had introduced a statue into the shining E-kur of Enlil or into the E-jajiccua beside Ninlil.

        Enlil opened the E-namtila to me from his loving heart.

        In the E-kur I arranged the great treasures, and allocated durable treasuries.

        For Enlil my master, I erected a throne whose form was beyond form itself.

        I stood the throne of Ninlil in the E-jajiccua in the Ki-ur, the great place.

        The throne of Enlil’s not to be removed from there.

        I, Icme-Dagan, son of Dagan (Enlil in this text), stood the throne for Enlil my master on a dais …… of seven storms,

        decorated in a masterly and highly skilled manner with nir-igi and cuba stones and translucent lapis lazuli,

         (Sumerian city wall artifact of the 12-16′ tall giant gods)

        and I seated Enlil there with my lady Ninlil.

        I put them into a favorable mood, with happy hearts; I delighted Enlil greatly with those thrones.

        I measured (?) my gift (?) for him, and my heartfelt act (?) delighted Enlil.

          ^297-315 I …… a sturdy copper statue, shaped in molds, prayerful as myself, respectful in the E-kur, as a gift offering (?).

        (10 planets, Moon, & Sun)

        Enlil, king of heaven and earth, …… the copper statue ……; muscles, sinews and body of a lion

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        I dedicated …… to my master, and brought in mighty timbers, objects of wonder.

        Then I brought in my great copper statues for Ninlil, lady of the gods,

        into her ……, her most holy place, the E-cencena, full of life, and embellished them (?) before her.

       I dedicated …… to her for my life.

        It is I who am favorable to ……; I, Icme-Dagan, embellished my inscription (?).

        316-329 I also brought into the temple of Enlil and my lady Ninlil a copper statue of my own father.

        …… copper statue of my grandfather (generations from blood descendants of Enlil).

        I brought out …… statue, and brought it into the temple of Enlil.

        I …… it in the E-kur, the …… shrine.

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        I am the king …… Enlil, the patient lord.

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        330-354 I made sure that my praises were spoken, by creating numerous songs to Jectin-ana, the honey-mouthed lady.

          (Geshtinanna & scribes, Enki‘s & Ninsun‘s daughter)

        I installed …… my scholars and chief singers.

        The skilful singers composed for me adab, tigi, sumunca, malgatum, cir-gida, royal praise poems perfect in content,

        arahi, balbale, zamzam and kunjar compositions.

        They magnify my name in the places where odes are performed.

        That I am omniscient and broad in wisdom, that I am knowledgeable (?) about the …… of the troops,

        that I direct the people as a wise shepherd who is brilliant (?) in the face of weapons, that I am skilful in everything,

        that An has looked favorably on me, that by the word of Enlil……, that Ninlil is my protection,

        that Enki has given me wisdom, that Ninurta is all for me (?), that Nanna (Nannar / Sin) loves me greatly,

        

                (semi-divine king, his spouse Inanna, & her mother Ningal, his mother-in-law)

        that I am the son-in-law of Ningal (espoused Inanna), that Inana (Inanna / Ishtar) has made me attractive,

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        355-358 My chaff (?) in its furrows …… my earth; my embankments are piled up, my irrigation ditches are …….

        …… at which the foreign lands bow down; it is wool from the highlands …….

        359-377 That the scribal art, in the place of skilled craftsmanship, …… power; that I have solved calculation problems,

        counting and reckoning in all their depth and breadth, checking, coefficients, establishing the surface of a field,

        and laying out the reed measuring-pole; that I have …… on the podium, my chosen place;

        that I have learnt with my talented hands, my pure hands, to write the tablets of Sumer and Akkad;

        that I have lent luster to the academy by completely mastering the reed stylus and the scribal art;

        that I have devoted myself to the art of singing, and know the occasions when praise songs are to be sung;

        that I am eminent in the performance style for …… songs; that I know how to intersperse appropriate words

        with the accompaniment of the fingers and instruments; that I have mastered the aljarsur, the sa-ec, the sabitum,

        the harhar and the zanaru instruments; that I have occupied myself with (1 ms. has instead:completely mastered)

        the developed aspects of the art of singing and the recondite points of …… songs — all these things the scholars

        and the composers of my …… songs have put in my great songs and have declared in my hymns.

        378-383 The powerful king ……, if he stands by Enlil with upraised hands, should swear in the name of the gods …….

        Everything that is in my odes, or which is written on my stela, is definitely not false, but genuine!

        Reverence for me should be in every mouth.

        384-393 In the temple my songs should be performed splendidly (?), and my odes should be handed down.

        Their attractiveness should be right in the heart of the Land, and mouths should carry the words as far as its borders.

        …… the requirements of the banquet; he should put their attractiveness into the heart ……;

        …… may Jectin-anabe (unidentified?, Geshtinanna?) their protective goddess.

        …… treasures, lasting property of the king’s heirs, jewels of lordship which cannot be ……,

        fixing them forever in the mouth of the singers.

        394-399 I have …… the regular offerings of Enlil.

        …… Nibru (Nippur, Enlil‘s city), the pleasant place; I have put in order the plans of Sumer and Akkad.

        Therefore Enlil my master has made my days ……, and as he has made my reign follow another reign,

        so may he make my descendants even greater.

        400-419 As he (one of the king’s descendants) performs the duties of shepherdship in Enlil‘s temple,

        may he perform my songs to Enlil, my master; and may the E-kur, my beloved place, resound with my name.

        My great praise songs shall be performed to Ninlil daily ……; to Nanna, the beneficent lord, the son of Enlil,

         (Nannar, patron god of Ur, Moon Crescent God, as with Islam today)

        and …… to him whom the singer loves.

        …… he shall perform my songs at the evening and morning meals.

        He shall perform my odes in the temples of the great gods.

        As I, Icme-Dagan, should stand ready and show respect,

        …… may my protective deity let me have no rivals, even as far as the borders of the mountains.

        He has made me great in Sumer and Akkad, and given me a seat on the royal dais; …… my songs are brilliantly …….

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        King Icme-Dagan is excellent ……,

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        SEGMENT B

        1-24 The temple ……; the heart of Enlil …….

        The protective gods of the E-kur ……, the protective goddesses of the E-kur.

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        For my …… of great valuables, for my …… of important treasures; that I have erected …… a throne for Enlil;

        that I have …… a great wagon, that I have had a couch made for Ninlil;

        that for Enlil I have had a massive pillar (?) …… brought in, for my master Enlil;

        that I have had the fifty-headed battle-mace, an exceptional weapon (alien technology), cast for Ninurta……,

         (Ninurta with his 50-headed mace, alien weaponry used against earthlings)

        that I have had a great copper throne place in an elevated location for him;

        that I have had brought into the temple of Enlil a copper statue

        molded to the shape of my limbs and a diorite statue worked to my form; that I have placed ……;

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        SEGMENT C

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        Utu……; the black-headed people ……. Enki, Ickur (Ishkur / Adad), Acnan,

        …… the god of abundance, ……; …… abundance in heaven and earth.

        Again, let there be a chief singer; let there be a scholar and a songsmith;

        let there be a composer of odes and a performer of songs; let there be a sweet-voiced singer of the king;

        let there be a joyful-hearted (?) alternating singer; let there be a calm-voiced singer ……;

        let there be a singer with answering voice ……

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        SEGMENT D

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        …… of Enlil…….

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        …… diorite in the shrine of Nibru ……

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        …… did not move …… from its place, did not write ……, did no wickedness or violence,

        then may he lift …… in the shining E-kur of Enlil and raise its head to heaven.

        …… that he bestowed on the Land, may he prolong …….

        But …… that he judged (?) in wickedness, or wrote his name ……,

        or who violently (?) cursed the enemy, then Enlil, king of the gods,

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A praise poem of Ishme-Dagan (Ishme-Dagan AA): translation

The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

(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…)

       

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        1-13 From …… he brought …… for you.

        …… the fates are decided …….

        He set up grandly (?) for you ……that befits the majestic dais and throne of gold.

        They lined up before it for you …… favorable words for Sumer and Akkad.

        …… in the E-kur ……. food offerings.

        …… in the E-kur ……. …… with your right arm …….

        (Adad / Ishkur, son to Enlil, & younger brother to Ninurta & Nannar)

        …… Ickur (Adad, Enlil‘s son) …… in the E-kur. …… on its august throne.

        He …… a huge copper …… inspiring great awe, on your holy dais.

        It is to be marveled at by the people.

        He …… the main meal (?) for you in your great dining hall as a regular offering forever after.

          ^14-21 In Isin, the royal city, Icme-Dagan, …… for you in masterly fashion a fifty-headed battle-mace to destroy the rebel lands,

        (high-priest & giant alien gods with mace high-tech weaponry)

        chosen for your great power (alien technologies).

        For you he gave it fifty names.

        From Isin he …… it for you into Nibru, the primeval, well-established city

        and …… to be marveled at in the E-cumeca, the majestic residence that

        ….. fearsomeness, at the gate facing Cugalam, the place where fates are decided.

          ^22-25 Icme-Dagan, provider of Nibru, constant attendant of Urim (Ur),

        he who is daily in the service of Eridug (Eridu); en priest of Unug (Uruk), king of Isin.

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A praise poem of Ishme-Dagan (Ishme-Dagan AC): translation

The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

(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...)

       

        SEGMENT A

        1-5 To befit heaven and earth grandly, they raised Enki, the lord, the firstborn son of holy An, to the status of junior Enlil.

          (Enki, Anu‘s eldest son, wisest of the alien gods) 

        So that he can reveal everything (?), they bestowed sevenfold wisdom upon him as a gift.

        They have established eternally that he should give counsel, that he should decide great fates, that he ……,

        and that he should provide wisdom.

        (modern representation of Enki’s house in abzu marshlands of Eridu)

        6-8 The pure abzu, the house whose brickwork ……, whose façade settles the mind, …… to place before him …….

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        SEGMENT B

        1-5 They (Enlil and Ninlil) are powerful princes, lords who decides the fates;

        in your midst they have bestowed the divine powers on lord Ninurta.

        Nibru, your pure songs are most precious, surpassing all praise!

        I, Icme-Dagan, have made every mouth utter them forever.

A praise poem of Ishme-Dagan: translation

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

       

        SEGMENT A

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        …… squatting in the dust ……. …… of Inana …….

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        …… of her garment of ladyship.

        …… with blood (?).

        …… her submission …….

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        …… insulted ……, cursed my temple.

        …… I despised him.

        …… cursed my city.

        …… devastated my ……. …… sullied my garments.

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        SEGMENT B

        1-6 …… rites …….

        Thus …… my lungs and heart.

        As if during the night watch …… like excrement.

        …… my countenance like smoke.

        …… my body like …….

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        7…… kirugu.

        8 lady …….

        9 Its jicgijal.

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        …… whose hands were fettered, …… who had been treated unjustly.

        The son (semi-divine descendant, great-great-grandson?) of Enlil, the son of …….

        …… Sumer ……. I, Enlil, …….

        From now on …….

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        SEGMENT C

        1-13 He made the people follow the proper path, and ousted (?) the enemy from Sumer.

        He removed the wicked tongues, and made justice shine forth like copper.

        That fathers should be feared and mothers respected, that sons should pay heed to the words of their fathers,

        and that mercy, compassion and pity should be shown, that one should provide even one’s paternal grandparents

        with food and drink — all this he established in Sumer and Akkad.

        Then she made Icme-Dagan, the (semi-divine mixed-breed descendant) son of Enlil, the en priest of Unug,

          (giant mixed-breed, naked Inanna, & her father Nannar)

        into their guardian — this is what Inana, the lady of heaven and earth, did; and the great An declared his consent.

        Enlil…….

        14…… kirugu.

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

        1-8 For Enlil, whose statements are powerful, the profoundly far-sighted knowledgeable judge,

        who issues decisions, whose utterances are immutable, who places the …… in his hands —

        Icme-Dagan, the mighty man with muscles and body of a lion (semi-divine mixed-breed),

        the strong awe-inspiring youth who alone is august, the lord whose sweet name is invoked in all the lands,

        under whose rule the living creatures multiply, makes the black-headed people,

        its settled people who were entrusted to him for protection, proceed with the firstling-offerings of the land.

        He does not …… in his good palace.

        9-22 Then Icme-Dagan the youthful, the mightiest hero among swift athletes (bigger, stronger, faster, smarter, & could live much longer than earthlings / the black-headed),

        the fearsome runner, who serving night and day never ceases caring for Nibru —

        (Nippur) the city where the seed of the numerous people came forth and where life and birth came into existence —

        

           (city of Nippur excavated way below Enlil‘s mountain / ziggurat residence, alien Command Central)

        and who provides daily for everything, established justice (?) on a grand scale.

        The king whose rising is a hurricane, a flood, a wind blowing in its fury,

        who swinging his wide open arms flashes away into the distance,

        who is like a fierce lion of the desert which advances in full strength and vigor,

        who runs fast on the roadway …… battle and combat, a horse waving its tail on the highway,

        who like a young deer …… running, …… knees are swift and indefatigable,

         (semi-divine king, Ninurta, Nannar, & Enlil)

        the son who provides Enlil with everything, who causes joy to Ninlil‘s heart — he will never stop caring for the shining shrine.

        23-29 Then Icme-Dagan erected a statue on his precious dais in the E-ni-gur,

        depicting him as inspiring terror while running in a storm, and made it iridescent with splendor,

        so that the great prince of the entire heaven, the lord whose utterance is immutable,

        should constantly direct his shining forehead and favorable glance at the true shepherd whom he engendered.

        30-35 If a king issues evil orders concerning this statue, and erases its inscription and writes his own name on it;

        or, because of this curse, he makes another man raise his hand against it,

        then may Enlil my lord and Ninlil my lady curse that man!

        May Enki, Ickur (Ishkur), Ezina (Nisaba), Cakkan (animal deity), the lords of abundance, ……

        him cruelly by withholding abundance from heaven and earth under his rule!