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…)

 

Amar-Sin…was replaced on the throne by his brother Shu-Sin. The nine years of his reign (2038-2030 B.C.), though recording two military forays against northern localities, were more conspicuous by their defensive measures. These included the strengthening of the Wall of the West against the Amorites and the construction of two ships: the “Great Ship” and the “Ship of the Abzu.”

It looks as though Shu-Sin was preparing an escape by sea…

         “The Holy Inanna…”

 

Shu-Sin boasted,

         “the one endowed with astounding qualities, the first daughter of Sin,…”

granted him weapons with which to

         “engage in battle the enemy country which is disobedient…”

 

She-Sin, in the second year of his reign, sought the favors of Enki by constructing for that god a special boat that could navigate the high seas all the way to the Lower World….but the effort evidently failed, for the fourth and fifth years witnessed the building of a massive wall on the western frontier of Mesopotamia, specifically aimed at warding off incursions by the “Westerners,” followers of Marduk.

 

Shu-Sin turned to the great gods of Nippur…raising of a stela honoring Enlil and Ninlil, “a stela as no king has built before”…But Enlil was not there to answer; only Ninlil, Enlil’s spouse, who remained in Nippur, heard Shu-Sin’s supplications. Responding with compassion,

         “so as to prolong the well-being of Shu-Sin, to extend the time of his crown,…”

she gave him a

         “weapon which with radiance strikes down…

         whose awesome flashes reaches the sky…”

 

On the apparent advise of Ninlil, Shu-Sin built for the divine couple

         “a great touring boat, fit for the largest rivers…

         He decorated it perfectly with precious stones…”

He then

         “placed the touring boat in the wide basin facing Ninlil’s House of Pleasure…”

         “When Enlil heard (all this)

         From horizon to horizon he hurried,

         From south to north he traveled;

         Through the skies, over earth he hurried,

         To greatly rejoice with his beloved queen, Ninlil…”

But the very last lines refer to

         “Ninurta, the great warrior of Enlil, who befuddled the Intruder,…”

 

apparently after “an inscription, an evil inscription” was discovered on an effigy in the boat, intended perhaps to place a curse on Enlil and Ninlil.

 

…a total solar eclipse…the oracle priests of Nippur could not allay She-Sin’s anxiety; it was, they said in their written message, an omen

         “to the king who rules the four regions;

         his wall will be destroyed, Ur will become desolate…”

 

Shara / Cara, son of Inanna (& Shu-Sin).

         “To divine Shara, heavenly hero, the beloved son of Inanna:

         his father Shu-Sin, the powerful king, king of Ur, king of the four regions,

         has built for him the temple Shagipada,

         his beloved shrine; may the king have life…”

It was the ninth year of Shu-Sin’s reign. It was also his last.