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…)
1-10. The great-hearted mistress, the impetuous lady,
proud among the Anuna (Anunnaki) gods and pre-eminent in all lands,
(Inanna with alien weaponry; father Suen, the Moon Crescent god)
the great daughter of Suen (Enlil‘s son Nannar / Sin), exalted among the Great Princes
(a name of the Igigi gods), (Anunnaki / Anuna alien gods from planet Nibiru)
the magnificent lady who gathers up the divine powers (alien technologies)
of heaven and earth and rivals great An (Anunnaki King Anu),
is mightiest (spoiled daughter to Nannar) among the great gods — she makes their verdicts final.
The Anuna (Anunnaki) gods crawl before her august word whose course she does not let An know;
(Anu, King of all Anunnaki: Anu & great-granddaughter Inanna upon her zodiac symbol of Leo)
he dare not proceed against her command.
She changes her own action, and no one knows how it will occur.
She makes perfect the great divine powers (alien technologies),
she holds a shepherd’s crook, and she is their magnificent pre-eminent one.
She is a huge shackle clamping down upon the gods of the Land.
Her great awesomeness covers the great mountain and levels the roads.
(Inanna given much by King Anu, & grandfather Enlil, the Earth Colony Commander)
11-17. At her loud cries, the gods of the Land become scared.
Her roaring makes the Anuna gods tremble like a solitary reed.
At her rumbling, they hide all together.
(Royal Prince Enlil, granddaughter Goddess of Love Inanna, & Enki)
Without Inana great An makes no decisions, and Enlil determines no destinies.
Who opposes the mistress who raises her head and is supreme over the mountains?
Wherever she ……, cities become ruin mounds and haunted places, and shrines become waste land.
When her wrath makes people tremble,
the burning sensation and the distress she causes are like an ulu demon ensnaring a man.
18-28. She stirs confusion and chaos against those who are disobedient to her,
speeding carnage and inciting the devastating flood, clothed in terrifying radiance.
(Inanna the pilot, skilled in combat)
It is her game to speed conflict and battle (Goddess of War), untiring, strapping on her sandals.
Clothed (?) in a furious storm, a whirlwind, she …… the garment of ladyship.
When she touches …… there is despair, a south wind which has covered …….
(Inanna; Utu & Inanna, giant Goddess of War, twin, with disloyal earthlings, one by a nose ring)
Inana sits on harnessed (?) lions, she cuts to pieces him who shows no respect.
A leopard of the hills, entering (?) the roads, raging (?), ……,
the mistress is a great bull trusting in its strength; no one dare turn against her.
……, the foremost among the Great Princes, a pitfall for the disobedient,
a trap for the evil, a …… for the hostile, wherever she casts her venom …….
(Inanna given high-tech alien weaponry & more; mixed-breed & Inanna, Goddess of Love, & also Inanna, Goddess of War)
29-38. Her wrath is ……, a devastating flood which no one can withstand.
A great watercourse, ……, she abases those whom she despises.
(Inanna in her sky-disc above, protecting her mixed-breed king from all dangers to come)
The mistress, an eagle that lets no one escape, ……, Inana, a falcon preying on the gods,
Inana rips to pieces the spacious cattle-pens.
The fields of the city which Inana has looked at in anger …….
The furrows of the field which the mistress …… grass.
(Anu gave his house, city of Uruk, sky-disc, & much more to Inanna, Anu departed to heaven / Nibiru)
An opposes her, …….
Setting on fire, in the high plain the mistress ……. Inana …….
The mistress …… speeding …… fighting, …… conflict.
39-48. …… she performs a song.
This song …… its established plan, weeping, the food and milk of death.
Whoever eats …… Inana‘s food and milk of death will not last.
Gall will give a burning pain to those she gives it to eat, …… in their mouth …….
In her joyful heart she performs the song of death on the plain.
(Inanna & her 8-pointed star symbols of Venus)
She performs the song of her heart.
She washes their weapons with blood and gore, …….
Axes smash heads, spears penetrate and maces are covered in blood.
Their evil mouths …… the warriors …….
On their first offerings she pours blood, filling them with death.
49-59. On the wide and silent plain, darkening the bright daylight, she turns midday into darkness.
People look upon each other in anger, they look for combat.
Their shouting disturbs the plain, it weighs on the pasture and the waste land.
(Ishkur / Adad, Inanna‘s uncle, the son to Enlil the Commander of Earth Colony, & heir to King Anu)
Her howling is like Iškur‘s (Adad) and makes the flesh of all the lands tremble.
No one can oppose her murderous battle — who rivals her?
No one can look at her fierce fighting, the speeding carnage.
Engulfing (?) water, raging, sweeping over the earth, she leaves nothing behind.
The mistress, a breaking plow opening hard ground, …….
The braggarts do not lift their necks, …….
Her great heart performs her bidding, the mistress who alone fashions (?) …….
Exalted in the assembly, she occupies the seat of honor, …… to the right and left.
60-72. Humbling huge mountains as if they were piles of litter, she immobilizes …….
She brings about the destruction of the mountain lands from east to west.
(giant alien sky-pilot Inanna, Goddess of Love & War to earthling kings)
Inana …… wall …… gulgul stones, she obtains victory.
She …… the kalaga stone …… as if it were an earthenware bowl, she makes it like sheep’s fat.
The proud mistress holds a dagger in her hand, a radiance which covers the Land;
her suspended net catches fish in the deep, not even leaving the ahan in the subterranean waters.
As if she were a clever fowler no bird escapes the mesh of her suspended net.
The place ……, …… the divine plans of heaven and earth.
The intention of her word does not …… to An.
The context of her confusing advice in the great gods’ assembly is not known.
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(Enlil, winged Inanna, Utu, Enki , Isimud, 2-faced vizier to Enki)
73-79. The mistress, a leopard among the Anuna gods, full of pride, has been given authority.
Not having …… struggle ……, Inana …….
She …… the adolescent girl in her chamber, receiving her, …… heart …… charms.
She evilly …… the woman she rejects.
(land of the gods, 1st cities established by gods on Earth Colony)
In the entire (?) country she …….
She lets her run around in the town square ……. …… of a house the wife sees her child.
80-90. When she had removed the great punishment from her body,
she invoked blessings upon it; she caused it to be named the pilipili.
She broke the spear and as if she were a man …… gave her a weapon.
When she had …… punishment, it is not …….
She …… the door of the house of wisdom, she makes known its interior.
Those who do not respect her suspended net do not escape …… when she suspends the meshes of her net.
The man she has called by name she does not hold in esteem.
Having approached the woman, she breaks the weapon and gives her a spear.
The male ĝišgisaĝkeš, the nisub and the female ĝišgi ritual officiants,
after having …… punishment, moaning …….
The ecstatic, the transformed pilipili, the kurĝara and the saĝursaĝ …….
Lament and song …….
They exhaust themselves with weeping and grief, they …… laments.
91-98. Weeping daily your heart does not …….
‘Alas’ …… heart …… knows no relaxation.
(Anu, king of the gods in his sky-disc, father to prince sons running Earth Colony)
Beloved lady of holy An, your …… in weeping …….
In heaven …….
On your breast …….
You alone are majestic, you have renown, heaven and earth …… not …….
You rival An and Enlil, you occupy their seat of honor.
You are pre-eminent in the cult places, you are magnificent in your course.
(granddaughter Inanna, giant king, Ninlil, Ninlil‘s father Haia, & Ninlil‘s mother Nisaba, the grain gods; Adad, son to Ninlil)
99-108. Ezina (Ninlil, Adad‘s mother) …… august dais ……. Iškur (Adad) who roars from the sky …….
His thick clouds …….
When …… the great divine powers of heaven and earth,
Inana, your victory is terrifying …….
The Anuna gods bow down in prostration, they abase themselves.
You ride on seven great beasts (7 nuclear missiles) as you come forth from heaven.
Great An feared your precinct and was frightened of your dwelling-place.
He let you take a seat in the dwelling-place of great An and then feared you no more, saying:
“I will hand over to you the august royal rites and the great divine rites (spoiled gifts).”
109-114. The great gods kissed the earth and prostrated themselves.
The high mountain land, the land of cornelian and lapis lazuli, bowed down before you,
but Ebiḫ did not bow down before you and did not greet you.
Shattering it in your anger, as desired, you smashed it like a storm.
Lady, pre-eminent through the power of An and Enlil, …….
Without you no destiny at all is determined, no clever counsel is granted favor.
115-131. To run, to escape, to quiet and to pacify are yours, Inana.
To rove around, to rush, to rise up, to fall down and to …… a companion are yours, Inana.
To open up roads and paths, a place of peace for the journey, a companion for the weak, are yours, Inana.
To keep paths and ways in good order, to shatter earth and to make it firm are yours, Inana.
(Inanna’s 8-pointed star & lion symbols, father Nannar’s Moon Crescent symbol)
To destroy, to build up, to tear out and to settle are yours, Inana.
To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inana.
Desirability and arousal, bringing goods into existence
and establishing properties and equipment are yours, Inana.
Profit, gain, great wealth and greater wealth are yours, Inana.
Profit and having success in wealth, financial loss and reduced wealth are yours, Inana.
{Observation} {(1 ms. has instead:)
Everything}, choice, offering, inspection and embellishment are yours, Inana.
Assigning virility, dignity, guardian angels, protective deities and cult centers are yours, Inana.
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132-154. …… mercy and pity are yours, Inana. …… are yours, Inana.
To cause the …… heart to tremble, …… illnesses are yours, Inana.
To have a favorite wife, ……, to love …… are yours, Inana.
Rejoicing, being haughty, …… are yours, Inana.
Neglect and care, raising and bowing down are yours, Inana.
To build a house, to create a woman’s chamber, to possess implements,
to kiss a child’s lips are yours, Inana.
To run, to race, to plot and to succeed are yours, Inana.
To interchange the brute and the strong and the weak and the powerless is yours, Inana.
To interchange the heights and valleys, and raising up and reducing, is yours, Inana.
(Ashur, Assyrian mixed-breed King Ashurbanipal, & Inanna crowning him)
To give the crown, the throne and the royal scepter is yours, Inana.
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155-157. To diminish, to make great, to make low, to make broad, to ……
and to give a lavish supply are yours, Inana.
To bestow the divine and royal rites, to carry out the appropriate instructions,
slander, untruthful words, abuse, to speak inimically and to overstate are yours, Inana.
158-168. The false or true response, the sneer, to commit violence,
to extend derision, to speak with hostility, to cause smiling and to be humbled
or important, misfortune, hardship, grief, to make happy,
to clarify and to darken, agitation, terror, panic, awesome brilliance and radiance,
triumph, pursuit, imbasur illness, sleeplessness and restlessness, submission, gift, ……
and howling, strife, chaos, opposition, fighting and speeding carnage, ……, to know everything,
to strengthen for the distant future a nest built ……,
to instill fear in the …… desert like a …… poisonous snake,
to subdue the hostile enemy, …… and to hate …… are yours, Inana.
169-173. To …… the lots ……, to gather the dispersed people
and restore them to their homes, to receive ……, to …… are yours, Inana.
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174-181. …… the runners, when you open your mouth, …… turns into …….
At your glance a deaf man does not …… to one who can hear.
At your anger what is bright darkens; you turn midday into darkness.
When the time had come you destroyed the place you had in your thoughts, you made the place tremble.
Nothing can be compared to your purposes (?); who can oppose your great deeds?
You are the lady of heaven and earth!
Inana, in (?) the palace the unbribable judge, among the numerous people …… decisions.
The invocation of your name fills the mountains, An (?) cannot compete with your …….
182-196. Your understanding …… all the gods …….
You alone are magnificent.
You are the great cow among the gods of heaven and earth, as many as there are.
When you raise your eyes they pay heed to you, they wait for your word.
The Anuna gods stand praying in the place where you dwell.
Great awesomeness, glory …….
May your praise not cease!
Where is your name not magnificent?
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197-202. Your song is grief, lament …….
Your …… cannot be changed, your anger is crushing.
Your creation cannot be ……, An has not diminished your …… orders.
(Apkulla / pilot given eagle head & wings, Enlil, Anu in his sky-disc above, earthling Tree of Life, Enki, & Apkulla / pilot)
Woman, with the help of An and Enlil you (?) have granted …… as a gift in the assembly.
Unison …… An and Enlil ……, giving the Land into your hand.
An does not answer the word you have uttered to him.
203-208. Once you have said ‘So be it’, great An does not …… for him.
Your ‘So be it’ is a ‘So be it’ of destruction, to destroy …….
Once you have said your …… in the assembly, An and Enlil will not disperse it.
Once you have made a decision ……, it cannot be changed in heaven and earth.
Once you have specified approval of a place, it experiences no destruction.
Once you have specified destruction for a place, it experiences no approval.
(Nannar‘s family, alien Anunaki twins Utu & Inanna, father Nannar, & broken Papsukal; Nannar, Moon Crescent god of Ur)
209-218. Your divinity shines in the pure heavens
like Nanna (Nannar, Moon Crescent god) or Utu (Nannar‘s son & Sun god).
Your torch lights up the corners of heaven, turning darkness into light.
The men and women form a row for you and each one’s daily status hangs down before you.
(Utu; damaged mixed-breed before Utu, the Sun god)
Your numerous people pass before you, as before Utu, for their inspection.
No one can lay a hand on your precious divine powers (alien technologies); all your divine powers …….
(symbols of Adad‘s fork, Inanna’s 8-pointed star, Nannar‘s Moon Crescent, Enlil‘s 7-planets, planet Nibiru‘s winged sky-disc)
You exercise full ladyship over heaven and earth; you hold everything in your hand.
Mistress, you are magnificent, no one can walk before you.
(residences / temples of giant alien gods / Anunnaki in Uruk)
You dwell with great An (his mistress when on Earth) in the holy resting-place (Uruk).
Which god is like you in gathering together …… in heaven and earth?
You are magnificent, your name is praised, you alone are magnificent!
(Enheduana, daughter to Sargon & possibly Inanna, author / praiser of Inanna)
219-242. I am En-ḫedu-ana, the high priestess of the moon god (Nannar).
……; I am the (descendant mixed-breed high-priestess)…… of Nanna.
(Terah, the father of Biblical Abraham, was also the High-Priest of Nannar / El in Ur)
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243-253. Advice ……, grief, bitterness ……, ‘alas’ …….
My lady, …… mercy …… compassion …… I am yours!
This will always be so!
May your heart be soothed towards me!
May your understanding …… compassion.
May …… in front of you, may it be my offering.
Your divinity is resplendent in the Land!
My body has experienced your great punishment.
Bitter lament keeps me awake with …… anxiety.
Mercy, compassion, care, lenience and homage are yours,
and to cause flood storms, to open hard ground and to turn darkness into light.
254-263. My lady, let me proclaim your magnificence in all lands, and your glory!
Let me praise your ways and greatness!
Who rivals you in divinity?
Who can compare with your divine rites?
May great An, whom you love, say for you “It is enough!”.
May the great gods calm your mood.
May the lapis lazuli dais, fit for ladyship, …….
May your magnificent dwelling place say to you:
(goddess held high, taken to her “pure bed”)
“Be seated”. May your pure bed say to you:
“Relax”. Your ……, where Utu (Inanna‘s twin brother, the Sun god) rises, …….
264-271. They proclaim your magnificence; you are the lady …….
(the great Zecharia Sitchin holds 5,000 + year old tablet of our solar system; Enlil instructs son Ninurta to teach earthlings farming)
An and Enlil have determined a great destiny for you throughout the entire universe.
They have bestowed upon you ladyship in the assembly chamber.
Being fitted for ladyship, you determine the destiny of noble ladies.
Mistress, you are magnificent, you are great!
Inana, you are magnificent, you are great!
My lady, your magnificence is resplendent.
May your heart be restored for my sake!
272-274. Your great deeds are unparalleled, your magnificence is praised!
Young woman, Inana, your praise is sweet!
A hymn to Inana (Inana F): translation
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
(Any writing in Bold Type, in Parenthesis, in Italics, & pictures are added by me, R. Brown, not the author!)
(gods in blue)
1-3 My father gave me the heavens and he gave me the earth.
I am Inana (Inanna)! Which god compares with me?
(Enlil; Apkulla, Ninhursag, Inanna, & Apkulla)
4-13 Enlil gave me the heavens and he gave me the earth.
I am Inana! He gave me lordship, and he gave me queenship.
(Enlil had Inanna instructed on many alien battle-skills, later witnessed by earthlings)
He gave me battles and he gave me fighting.
He gave me the stormwind and he gave me the dust cloud (alien flying machines).
He placed the heavens on my head as a crown.
He put the earth at my feet as sandals.
(Inanna given sky-disc & more by King Anu, & granted much by grandfather Enlil, the Earth Colony Commander)
He wrapped the holy ma garment around my body.
He put the holy scepter in my hand.
14-17 The gods are small birds, but I am the falcon.
The Anuna (Anunnaki) mill about, but I am the good wild cow,
I am the good wild cow of father Enlil, his good wild cow which walks in front.
(E-kur, Enlil‘s temple / residence, Anunnaki Command Post in Nippur)
18-20 When I enter the E-kur, the house of Enlil,
the gate-keeper does not lift his hand against my breast; the minister does not tell me, “Rise!”.
21-33 The heavens are mine and the earth is mine: I am heroic!
In Unug (Uruk) the E-ana (temple – residence) is mine,
in Zabalam the Giguna (more temples – residences, personal hotel) is mine,
in Nibru (Nippur, Inanna provided a residence in each city of gods) the Dur-an-ki is mine,
in Urim (Ur) the E-Dilmun is mine,
in Jirsu the Ecdam-kug is mine,
in Adab the E-cara is mine,
in Kic (Kish) the Hursaj-kalama is mine,
in Kisiga the Amac-kuga is mine,
in Akcak the Anzagar is mine,
in Umma the Ibgal is mine,
in Agade the Ulmac is mine.
Which god compares with me?
34 A …… of Inana.
A Hymn to Inana
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(Any writing in Bold Type, in Parenthesis, in Italics, & pictures are added by me, R. Brown, not the author!) (gods in blue) 1-9. Lady ……! Returning heroic youth, Inana …….
At the shrine, in Nibru (Nippur), in the E-du-kug …… by An (Anu), with the holy crown of An placed on her head, the most holy ba garment of An draped around her torso, and the holy scepter of An placed in her hand — seated on a seat in the assembly, rendering great judgments in the mountains, and reaching majestic decisions in all the lands!
10-16. Holy Inana gazes as she shines (?) down from heaven like a light.
(Nannar‘s house with city of Ur way below it, featuring the original “stairway to heaven“) Together with her father Suen (Sin / Nannar / El), the mistress issues commands to the E-kiš-nu-ĝal of Urim (Ur). In her hands she holds prosperity for all the lands. The lady ……. Holy Inana ……. 17-22. ……, you are endowed with beauty, 5 lines fragmentary 23-29. You are she who raises …… in their prayers. You are she who displays shining cornelian from the mountains to be admired. Bringing shining lapis lazuli from the bright mountain on special rafts, you are she who, like fire, melts (?) gold from Ḫarali. You are she who creates apples in their clusters (?). You are she who demands ……. You are she who creates the date spadices in their beauty.
30-44. (Inana speaks:) “When I was living in my dwelling place, when I was living in An’s dwelling,
my lover Ušumgal-ana (Dumuzi) called upon me to be his wife. In Bad-tibira (Dumuzi’s patron city), from the E-muš-kalama, …… for his crown.” 6 lines fragmentary or unclear …… his assembly, and brought …… into her holy shrine for her brother Ušumgal-ana. 45-54. (Inana speaks:) “…… stands ……. Dumuzid (Dumuzi) stands in beauty like an ildag tree.
I will fill my heart with joy. The one who makes food plentiful …… in Du-šuba (?). My heart is filled with joy, …… in heaven and earth. The house of Arali …….” 3 lines fragmentary or unclear …… the houses in the broad streets. One blank line on the tablet 55-121. approx. 67 lines missing or fragmentary
122-123. Holy Inana, your august ……! …… Inana be praised! |
