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)
1-8 In those remote days, when the fates were determined; in a year when An (Anu) brought about abundance,
and people broke through the earth like herbs and plants — then the lord of the Abzu, king Enki,
(Enki, King Anu‘s eldest & wisest son)
Enki, the lord who determines the fates, built up his temple entirely from silver and lapis lazuli (gem stone).
Its silver and lapis lazuli were the shining daylight.
Into the shrine of the Abzu he brought joy.
(Enki‘s patron city of Eridu buried through thousands of years of time)
9-17 An artfully made bright crenellation rising out from the abzu was erected for lord Nudimmud (Enki).
He built the temple from precious metal, decorated it with lapis lazuli, and covered it abundantly with gold.
(Enki‘s Eridu on bank of Euphrates River, Sumer)
In Eridug (Eridu), he built the house on the bank.
Its brickwork (advanced hot fired mud-brick ziggurat) makes utterances and gives advice.
Its eaves roar like a bull; the temple of Enki bellows (alien technologies).
During the night the temple praises its lord and offers its best for him.
(Enki & his vizier Isimud = Roman god Janus = January, looking backward & forward simultaneously)
18-25 Before lord Enki, Isimud the (double-faced) minister praises the temple; he goes to the temple and speaks to it.
He goes to the brick building and addresses it: Temple, built from precious metal and lapis lazuli;
(Enki‘s amazing son Ningishzidda lays the foundation pegs to the gods ziggurat residences, Ninsun stands in praise of Ningishzidda)
whose foundation pegs are driven into the Abzu; which has been cared for by the prince in the Abzu!
Like the Tigris and the Euphrates, it is mighty and awe-inspiring (?).
Joy has been brought into Enki‘s Abzu.
26-32 Your lock has no rival.
Your bolt is a fearsome lion.
Your roof beams are the bull of heaven, an artfully made bright headgear.
Your reed-mats are like lapis lazuli, decorating the roof-beams.
Your vault is a bull (some mss. have instead: wild bull) raising its horns.
(beasts of protection fashioned for mortal alien gods, putting “the fear of god” upon disloyal earthlings)
Your door is a lion who seizes a man (1 ms. has instead: is awe-inspiring).
Your staircase is a lion coming down on a man.
33-43 Abzu (Persian Gulf marshes), pure place which fulfills its purpose!
E-engura! Your lord has directed his steps towards you.
Enki, lord of the abzu, has embellished your foundation pegs with cornelian.
(the joyful docking at Enki‘s house E-engura)
He has adorned you with …… and (?) lapis lazuli.
The temple of Enki is provisioned with holy wax (?);
it is a bull obedient to its master, roaring by itself and giving advice at the same time.
E-engura (Enki’s house), which Enki has surrounded with a holy reed fence!
In your midst a lofty throne is erected, your door-jamb is the holy locking bar of heaven. “
44-48 Abzu, pure place, place where the fates are determined — the lord of wisdom, lord Enki,
(1 ms. adds the line: the lord who determines the fates,)
Nudimmud (Enki), the lord of Eridug (Eridu), lets nobody look into its midst.
Your abgal priests let their hair down their backs.
49-61 Enki‘s beloved Eridug, E-engura whose inside is full of abundance!
Abzu, life of the Land, beloved of Enki!
Temple built on the edge, befitting the artful divine powers (alien technologies)!
Eridug, your shadow extends over the midst of the sea!
Rising sea without a rival; mighty awe-inspiring river which terrifies the Land!
E-engura, high citadel (?) standing firm on the earth!
(Enki‘s house with communication towers on edge of the marshlands)
Temple at the edge of the engur, a lion in the midst of the Abzu; lofty temple of Enki,
which bestows wisdom on the Land; your cry, like that of a mighty rising river, reaches (?) king Enki.
62-67 He made the lyre, the aljar instrument, the balaj drum with the drumsticks (some mss. have instead:
the lyre, the aljar instrument, the balaj drum of your sur priests (1 ms. has instead: your lyre and aljar instrument,
the balaj drum with the drumsticks) (1 ms. has instead: the lyre, the aljar instrument, the balaj drum
and even the plectrum (?)), the harhar, the sabitum, and the …… miritum instruments offer their best for his holy temple.
The …… resounded by themselves with a sweet sound.
The holy aljar instrument of Enki played for him on his own and seven singers sang (some mss. have instead: tigi drums resounded).
68-70 “What Enki says is irrefutable; …… is well established (?).
“This is what Isimud spoke to the brick building; he praised the E-engura with sweet songs (1 ms. has instead: duly).
(Utu & Ninurta visit Enki in Eridu) (Enki‘s far advanced home in Eridu on Earth Colony)
71-82 As it has been built, as it has been built; as Enki has raised Eridug up,
it is an artfully built mountain which floats on the water.
His shrine (?) spreads (?) out into the reed-beds; birds brood (1 ms. adds: at night) in its green orchards laden with fruit.
The suhur carp play among the honey-herbs, and the ectub carp dart among the small gizi reeds.
When Enki rises, the fishes rise before him like waves.
(Eridu was on the Euphrates River, along the banks of the Persian Gulf, in the Abzu / marshlands; Enki raises up the fishes)
He has the abzu stand as a marvel, as he brings joy into the engur.
83-92 Like the sea, he is awe-inspiring; like a mighty river, he instils fear.
The Euphrates rises before him as it does before the fierce south wind.
His punting pole is Nirah (some mss. have instead: Imdudu); his oars are the small reeds.
(alien gods, builders of ships, transporting goods, etc. down river)
When Enki embarks, the year will be full of abundance.
The ship departs of its own accord, with tow rope held (?) by itself.
As he leaves the temple of Eridug, the river gurgles (?) to its lord: its sound is a calf’s mooing, the mooing of a good cow.
(Ninsun, her mixed-breed son-king, Isumud, & Enki in the Abzu, father to some of Ninsun‘s children)
93-95 Enki had oxen slaughtered, and had sheep offered there lavishly (food for alien gods).
Where there were no ala drums, he installed some in their places;
where there were no bronze ub drums, he dispatched some to their places.
(Enlil‘s E-kur, mud-brick-built mountain residence in Nippur, alien Anunnaki gods Communications Center / Command Central for Earth Colony, top of structure was added by American archaeologists in 1900)
96-103 He directed his steps on his own to Nibru and entered the Giguna, the shrine of Nibru (Nippur, named after Nibiru).
Enki reached for (?) the beer, he reached for (?) the liquor.
(Enki & daughter Ninsikila; Enki & others in Dilmun)
He had liquor poured into big bronze containers, and had emmer-wheat beer pressed out (?).
In kukuru containers which make the beer good he mixed beer-mash.
By adding date-syrup to its taste (?), he made it strong.
He …… its bran-mash.
(Apkulla / pilot, Enki, King Anu in his winged sky-disc, Enlil, & winged eagle-headed Apkulla / pilot)
104-116 In the shrine of Nibru, Enki provided a meal for Enlil, his father (younger 1/2 brother).
He seated An (his father) at the head of the table and seated Enlil next to An.
He seated Nintud (Ninhursag, his sister) in the place of honour and seated the Anuna (Aninnaki) gods at the adjacent places (?).
All of them were drinking and enjoying beer and liquor.
They filled the bronze aga vessels to the brim and started a competition, drinking from the bronze vessels of Urac (Ninhursag).
(Ninhursag, King Anu‘s eldest daughter, Enki‘s lifelong love)
They made the tilimda vessels shine like holy barges.
After beer and liquor had been libated and enjoyed, and after …… from the house, Enlil was made happy in Nibru.
(Enlil, Earth Colony Commander, King Anu‘s son & heir, stationed on Earth for colonization purposes)
117-129 Enlil addressed the Anuna gods: “Great gods who are standing here!
Anuna, who have lined up in the place of assembly!
My son (older ½ brother), king Enki, has built up the temple!
(Eridu ruins)
He has made Eridug rise up (?) (1 ms. has instead: come out) from the ground like a mountain!
He has built it in a pleasant place, in Eridug, the pure place, where no one is to enter —
a temple built with silver and decorated with lapis lazuli,
a house which tunes the seven tigi drums properly, and provides incantations;
where holy songs make all of the house a lovely place — the shrine of the Abzu, the good destiny of Enki,
befitting the elaborate divine powers (alien technologies); the temple of Eridug, built with silver:
(Enki, god of the waters, Aquarius, his zodiac symbol)
for all this, father Enki be praised!