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)
1-6 Emerging …… below and gazing upwards, Utu (Shamash), great physician, father of the black-headed,
Utu; Utu‘s patron city of Sippar)
wearing a lapis-lazuli (blue-hued gemstone) beard in the E-babbar (Utu‘s temple / residence in Sippar)!
Utu, great hero, focus of the assembly, king, bison running over the mountains!
Utu, bison running over the mountains!
7-12 A young wild cow ……, a young gazelle (?) caught in a trap, Utu, the son born (on Earth) with the city
(giant mixed-breed king Ur-Nanshe, spouse Inanna, & her mother Ningal)
to Ningal (Nannar / Sin‘s spouse) in the E-nun-ana, a bull,
a cedar fed with water thriving among cypresses, holy (?),
patient-hearted, playful, radiating light, he is iridescent radiance!
13-21 Then, as my king comes forth, the heavens tremble before him and the earth shakes before him.
After he has left the palace he …….
The heavens …….
May the bolt of heaven …….
The stars …… are awe-struck.
His mother …… in the streets.
She spreads her protection towards Utu.
(Utu rising over the mountains)
He has raised his head over the mountains; he is indeed their king!
22-26 Utu who decrees judgments for all countries,
(Ningal, mother to Utu & Inanna, spouse to Nannar, patron gods of Ur)
the lord, the son of Ningal, who renders decisions for all countries,
the lord who is highly skilled at verdicts, the son (grandson) of Enlil,
(Utu, twin Inanna, & father Nannar)
highly knowledgeable and majestic Utu, the son of ……(Nannar / Sin)–
Utu has placed the …… on his head.
(Utu, son to Nannar & Ningal; Ningal, king Ur-Nammu, Ninsun damaged, Ur-Nammau, & Nannar)
27-32 The lord, the son of Ningal, holds the 50 …… in his hand
(Utu stands atop disloyal earthling holding alien technology, a 50-headed mace in his hand)
and thunders over the mountains like a storm.
He has lifted his head over the Land.
(Utu in the sky riding in his Sun sky-disc)
My king Utu (Sun God), you cross all the shining mountains like an eagle!
He has lifted his gaze over the mountains.