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)

          1-11. 5 lines missing
           …… new ……. …… august words.

             (Enki, eldest & wisest alien giant on Earth, 1st to arrive on Earth with crew of 50)

          Enki has named you with the name Id-lu-rugu

          (i.e. River of the ordeal, an epithet of Asarluḫi (Enki‘s son Marduk)), the sublime course .….

          You cleanse the just man like gold, and you hand over the wicked to extinction.

          12-19. Nourished on the good milk of intelligence, advice and reason, his voice resounds loudly.

          August sage, firstborn son of Enki (Marduk), he gives …… to all who are born.

          Profoundly intelligent, as wise as his father, possessed of understanding,

               (Asarluhi / Marduk, patron god of Babylon, then of Egypt)

          Asarluḫi penetrates everything.

          Nothing …… him.

          Lordly son of the abzu, endowed with holy wisdom, he is Marduk, the bringer of counsel.

          Tall in stature, he can survey all the divine powers (alien technologies) of heaven and earth.

          20-28. Son endowed with a broad understanding,

          whose movement is that of an animal with large horns in the split reeds;

 (mixed-breed high-priest & or king stands before giant god Marduk)

          Asarluḫi, mighty deluge determining great fates, unleashed and knowing no course whatsoever!

                (King Anu meets son Enki‘s newly fashioned advanced earthlings, replacement workers for gods) 

          When great An (Anu) shared out the divine powers for heaven and earth, incantations fell to your lot.

          Scanning all mankind with a glance, god of benign features, with an attractive physique;

          most skilled metalworker, creating masterpieces; counselor and judge,

          whose word in the august sanctuary is unalterable and whose character is sublime:

          I shall exalt him in song and glorify his name.

                 (Marduk, son Nabu, & mixed-breed king with dinner offering)

          29-36. Eloquent one of the abzu, great minister of Eridug (Eridu, Enki‘s city), lordly Asarluḫi!

          The enkum and ninkum priests, the abgal and abrig priests,

          the …… priestesses and the …… all pay attention when you open your holy mouth.

          Daily as they go forth, they circumambulate (?) you.

          Cleansing the purification rites with pure hands and pure tread,

          holy in every respect, you are the supervisor of the purification priests of E-abzu.

          37-41. Kuara, the beloved city which you have chosen in your heart, lives in joy because of you.

          The generous-hearted Prince (Enki) named you with the name Asarluḫi.

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