SEE SITCHIN’S EARTH CHRONICLES, ETC.:

 

(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...)

 

The prologue, typical of Mesopotamian law codes, invokes the deities for Ur-Nammu’s kingship and decrees “equity in the land“.

         “After An (Anu) and Enlil had turned over the Kingship of Ur to Nannar,

at that time did Ur-Nammu (mixed-breed offspring made king),

son born of Ninsun, for his beloved mother who bore him,

in accordance with his principles of equity and truth…

Then did Ur-Nammu the mighty warrior, king of Ur,

king of Sumer and Akkad, by the might of Nannar, lord of the city,

and in accordance with the true word of Utu, establish equity in the land;

he banished malediction, violence and strife,

and set the monthly Temple expenses at 90 gur of barley,

30 sheep, and 30 sila of butter.

He fashioned the bronze sila-measure,

standardized the one-mina weight, and standardized the stone weight

of a shekel of silver in relation to one mina…

The orphan was not delivered up to the rich man;

the widow was not delivered up to the mighty man;

the man of one shekel was not delivered up to the man of one mina…

One mina ( 1/60 of a talent ) was made equal to 60 shekels ( 1 shekel = 11 grams )…”

Indeed, one of the first acts of Ur-Nammu was to subdue Lagash and slay its governor, then occupy seven other cities…We know from inscriptions that after Ur and Sumer

         “enjoyed days of prosperity (and) rejoiced greatly with Ur-Nammu,…”

after Ur-Nammu then rebuilt the Ekur in Nippur, Enlil found him worthy of holding the Divine Weapon; with it Ur-Nammu was to subdue “evil cities” in “foreign lands”:

         “The Divine Weapon,

         that which in the hostile lands heaps up the rebels in piles,

         to Ur-Nammu, the Shepherd,

         He, the Lord Enlil, has given it to him;

         Like a bull to crush the foreign land,

         Like a lion to hunt it down;

         To destroy the evil cities,

         Clear them of opposition to the Lofty…”

The sad fact is that Ur-Nammu himself, becoming a mighty warrior, “The Might of Nannar,” met a tragic death on the battlefield.

         “The enemy land revolted, the enemy land acted hostilely…”

in a battle in that unnamed but distant land, Ur-Nammu’s chariot got stuck in the mud; Ur-Nammu fell off it;

         “the chariot like a storm rushed along,..”

leaving Ur-Nammu behind,

         “abandoned on the battlefield like a crushed jug…”

The tragedy was compounded when the boat returning his body to Sumer

         “in an unknown place had sunk; the waves sank it down,

         with him (Ur-Nammu) aboard…”

They could not understand why

         “the Lord Nannar did not hold him by the hand,

         why Inanna, Lady of Heaven, did not put her noble arm around his head,

         why the valiant Utu did not assist him…”

Why had these gods “stepped aside” when Ur-Nammu’s bitter fate was determined? Surely it was betrayal by the great gods:

         “How the fate of the Hero has been changed!

         Anu altered his holy word…

         Enlil deceitfully changed his fate-decree…”

The manner in which Ur-Nammu had died (2096 B.C.) may have accounted for the behavior of his successor, of whom one can use the Biblical contempt for a king who “prostituted himself” and

         “did that which was evil in the view of the Lord….Shulgi….”