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...)
SEGMENT A
1-4 The lord, a furious angry storm against the enemy, ……, strong …….,
my lord who brings life to the people, whose own father ……, a great storm, a mighty ……,
has …… a battle-cry — the lord whose manliness is impressively strong, ……!
5 Barsud.
(Utu with earthling underfoot, Inanna with captive held by nose ring; Inanna & twin Utu with foot upon small earthling)
6-9 Hero, with a battle-cry you have angrily piled up skulls in the rebel lands.
You have terrified their brick buildings and scattered their chaff heavenward.
Rampant wild bull, with a battle-cry you have angrily piled up skulls in the rebel lands.
You have terrified their brick buildings and scattered their chaff heavenward.
10-13 Divine offspring of a prince, by your casting down their city dwellings,
their protective gods have been alienated because of you.
You have made them abandon their beautiful shrines (?) and follow another path.
Rampant wild bull, by your casting down their city dwellings, their protective gods have been alienated because of you.
You have made them abandon their beautiful shrines (?) and follow another path.
(Utu Utu cuts launch & landing pads into mountains)
14-17 You flatten those mountains and turn them over to ghostly winds.
You make their young warriors submit, no longer able to enter into battle.
Rampant wild bull, you flatten those mountains and turn them over to ghostly winds.
You make their young warriors submit, no longer able to enter into battle.
18 Cagbatuku.
19-224 lines fragmentary
23 2nd barsud.
24-27 ……, a furious angry …… against the enemy, …… evil men.
The …… arranges the cattle for Suen‘s (Nannar / Sin‘s) house.
……, a furious angry …… against the enemy, …… evil men.
The …… arranges the cattle for Suen‘s house (ziggurat residence in Ur).
(Biblical Abraham’s city of Ur way below Suen’s / Nannar‘s house) (Nannar & his cattle pens in Ur)
28-31 He has spoken to Nanna (Nannar) on behalf of ……
whose ways are beloved of Acimbabbar (Nannar / Sin), on behalf of the just …… (King) Iddin-Dagan.
He has spoken to Nanna on behalf of …… whose ways are beloved of Acimbabbar, on behalf of the just …… Iddin-Dagan.
32 1 line fragmentary
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SEGMENT B
1-4 4 lines fragmentary
5-8 …… given over to kingship by the word of Suen, …… whom Acimbabbar (Nannar / Sin) has clothed in the royal robe of office!
(Ninsun, semi-divine king brought by Inanna before father Nannar)
Rampant wild bull given over to kingship by the word of the hero Suen, ……
whom Acimbabbar has clothed in the royal robe of office!
(3 earthling females, giant mixed-breed high-priest or king serving alien giant god Nannar, patron god of Ur)
9-12 ……, a lion, his father’s respectful son, …… who …… for Iddin-Dagan!
Rampant wild bull, a lion, his father’s respectful son, …… who …… for Iddin-Dagan!
13-16 …… justly like sunlight, …… who like Acimbabbar gives correct verdicts!
Rampant wild bull …… justly like sunlight, …… who like Acimbabbar gives correct verdicts!
17-20 Rampant wild bull soothing Nanna‘s heart for Iddin-Dagan each day, whose just word is pleasing to Suen, who ……!
Rampant wild bull soothing Nanna‘s heart for Iddin-Dagan each day, whose just word is pleasing to Suen, who ……!
21-24…… hero given great and majestic strength by Acimbabbar,
supporter of Iddin-Dagan, may you destroy the insubordinate lands!
Rampant wild bull given great and majestic strength by Acimbabbar,
supporter of Iddin-Dagan, may you destroy the insubordinate land!
25 Sa-jara.
26 Rampant wild bull, may you respond to Iddin-Dagan for …… days.
27 Jicgijal of the sa-jara.
28-30 Hero, formidable flood that no man comes forward to oppose!
Lord Ningublaga (Utu), formidable flood that no man comes forward to oppose!
Sumun-zig (Rampant wild bull), may you be the crusher of Iddin-Dagan’s enemies!
(Inanna & twin brother Utu holding high-tech weaponry, earthling underfoot, much smaller than alien gods)
31 Its uru.
(Utu, son to Nannar & Ningal, twin brother to Inanna, the Goddess of Love & War)
32 An adab of Ningublaga.