^{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)

           (Ninhursag, King Anu’s eldest daughter, Chief Medical Science Engineer) 

        ^1-4 Given birth by the flowing water ……, tenderly cared for by Ninhursaja (Ninhursag)!

            (Ninkasi, daughter of Enki & Ninhursag via Uttu)

Ninkasi, given birth by the flowing water ……, tenderly cared for by Ninhursaja!

^5-8 Having founded your town upon wax, she completed its great walls for you.

Ninkasi, having founded your town upon wax, she completed its great walls for you.

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

9-12 Your father is Enki, the lord Nudimmud, and your mother is Ninti, the queen of the abzu.

(Ninti, daughter of Enki & Ninhursag via Uttu)

Ninkasi, your father is Enki, the lord Nudimmud, and your mother is Ninti, the queen of the abzu.

^13-16 It is you who handle the …… and dough with a big shovel,

mixing, in a pit, the beerbread with sweet aromatics.

  (beer manufacturing lead by giant goddess Ninkasi)

Ninkasi, it is you who handle the …… and dough with a big shovel,

mixing, in a pit, the beerbread with sweet aromatics.

^17-20 It is you who bake the beerbread in the big oven, and put in order the piles of hulled grain.

                        (leisure of the alien gods, earthlings bear the burdensome workloads)

Ninkasi, it is you who bake the beerbread in the big oven, and put in order the piles of hulled grain.

^21-24 It is you who water the earth-covered malt; the noble dogs guard it even from the potentates (?).

 (NInkasi tastes the brew, using straws, avoiding thick mash)

Ninkasi, it is you who water the earth-covered malt; the noble dogs guard it even from the potentates (?).

^25-28 It is you who soak the malt in a jar; the waves rise, the waves fall.

Ninkasi, it is you who soak the malt in a jar; the waves rise, the waves fall.

^29-32 It is you who spread the cooked mash on large reed mats; coolness overcomes …….

Ninkasi, it is you who spread the cooked mash on large reed mats; coolness overcomes …….

^33-36 It is you who hold with both hands the great sweetwort, brewing it with honey and wine.

Ninkasi, it is you who hold with both hands the great sweetwort, brewing it with honey and wine.

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You …… the sweetwort to the vessel.

Ninkasi, …….

You …… the sweetwort to the vessel.

^41-44 You place the fermenting vat, which makes a pleasant sound,

appropriately on top of a large collector vat.

Ninkasi, you place the fermenting vat, which makes a pleasant sound,

appropriately on top of a large collector vat.

^45-48 It is you who pour out the filtered beer of the collector vat;

(Mesopotamia, “land of the gods”, the “Eden”, between Rivers Euphrates & Tigris)

it is like the onrush of the Tigris and the Euphrates.

Ninkasi, it is you who pour out the filtered beer of the collector vat;

it is like the onrush of the Tigris and the Euphrates.

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