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)

SEGMENT A

 (alien King Anu the Sky Father & sons in his winged sky-disc)

^1-5 Lady, good seed of the Land, minister of An (Anu)!

Minister of An, mother Nincubur (Ninshubur)!

From the interior of heaven, An bestowed upon you (?),

  (Enlil, & father King Anu in his winged sky-disc)

and Enlil destined as your (?) fate, that you should take a lapis-lazuli scepter

in your hand and proceed in front of An.

^6-10 As if you were a fecund ewe caring for its lambs, a fecund goat caring for its kids,

or a fertile bearing mother caring for her children,

through your powers folds are erected and pens are fenced off.

In the folds erected through your powers and in the pens fenced off through your powers,

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SEGMENT B

^1-8 “I will soothe hearts, I will soothe spirits.

 (King Anu’s royal descendants upon the Earth)

I will appease the Anuna (Anunnaki) gods …….

I, who am to serve — I, the tutelary deity, who am to serve ……,

 (Inanna, Goddess of Love & War)

I will make the young lady, Inana (Inanna),

born in the shining mountains (on Earth Colony), rejoice.

I, the lady, ……, will make her rejoice.

I will soothe hearts, I will soothe spirits.

I will appease the Anuna gods …….”

This is how the lady celebrated in Akkil.

  (eagle-winged Apkulla / pilots, Inanna, & her assistant Ninshubur)

⁹ A cir-gida (?) of Nincubur.