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O Enegir, great libation pipe, libation pipe to the underworld of Ereškigala (Ereshkigal),

 (entrance to Ereshkigal’s Nether World)

Gudua (Entrance to the nether world) of Sumer where mankind is gathered,

E-gida (Long house), in the land your shadow has stretched over the princes of the land.

Your prince, the seed of the great lord, the sacred one of the great underworld,

given birth by Ereškigala, playing loudly on the zanaru instrument, sweet as the voice of a calf,

Ninazu of the words of prayer, has erected a house in your precinct,

O house Enegir, and taken his seat upon your dais.

         7 lines: the house of Ninazu in Enegir.

2^nd Hymn

Ninazu’s (House) – Temple Hymn

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         O E-sikil (Pure house) whose pure divine powers are supreme in all lands,

whose name is high and mighty, magnificent dwelling of the warrior,

holy house of Ninazu, house of the holy divine powers (alien technologies)!

House, your divine powers are pure divine powers, your lustration is a cleansing lustration.

The warrior refreshes himself in your dwelling.

 (E-kur, Enlil’s mud brick-built mountain residence in Nippur)

Ninazu dines on your platform.

Your sovereign, the great lord, the son of Enlil, is a towering lion spitting venom over hostile lands,

rising like the south wind against enemy lands,

snarling like a dragon against the walls of rebel lands,

a storm enveloping the disobedient and trampling on the enemy.

When he strides forth, no evil-doer can escape.

When he establishes his triumph, the cities of the rebel lands are destroyed.

When he frowns, their people are cast into the dust.

House, your prince is a great lion from whose claws the enemy hangs.

Your sovereign is a terrifying, mighty storm, the vigor of the battle,

in combat …… like a …… with a shield on his lofty arm,

             (giant net captures disloyal earthlings)

a net over the widespread people from whose reach the foe cannot escape.

When the great lord is resplendent, his magnificence has no equal.

 (Enlil & spouse Ninlil carved into ancient city wall)

The true seed born of the Great Mountain (Enlil) and Ninlil,

your sovereign, the warrior Ninazu, has erected a house in your precinct,

O E-sikil, O Ešnunna, and taken his seat upon your dais.

         22 lines: the house of Ninazu in Ešnunna.

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SEGMENT A

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You who bundle together the divine powers (alien technologies), ……

the divine powers, articulate …… house of the king ……,

who give instruction throughout the breadth of heaven and earth,

adviser of the Land, Nuska (Enlil’s son & minister)!

The Great Mountain Enlil has summoned you to his divine powers (alien technologies).

He has made long life issue gloriously in heaven and earth for you

 (Enlil, Earth Colony Commander)

who were fathered by lord Nunamnir (Enlil); you are his beloved lord.

He has entrusted the princely divine powers of the E-kur (Enlil’s residence in Nippur),

(the E-kur, Enlil’s temple residence in Nippur)

the august shrine, the holy divine powers (alien technologies),

the august and most complex divine powers,

the divine powers of the father, of the Great Mountain to you.

Lord Nuska, summoned by the Prince!

He has truly installed you Nuska as leader of the assembly,

and has truly installed you to make most brilliant the holy precinct

and the pure lustrations, to position the holy vessels,

to perfect the divine powers of his status as Enlil, and to amplify the great divine powers.

^15-26 The Great Mountain has entrusted you with organizing the divine plans of heaven and earth,

throughout the breadth of heaven and earth, setting on their course the great decisionism

and perfecting the cultic ordinances, Nuska, good lord of Enlil!

Impressively strong minister (& son) of Enlil, wielding the holy scepter,

per-eminent leader of the gods, who broadens heaven and earth, good minister,

lord of the great words, honorable son (grandson) of An (Anu), with broad chest,

endowed with great strength by the Prince, perfecting the divine powers of all that is great!

Cup-bearer who makes the holy copper bowls shine,

lord of the divine powers of the offering-table, you of great terrifying splendor!

Temple cleaner, cita priest of the abzu, you sprinkle the temple courtyard!

Great ……, working industriously on the Holy Mound to prepare best butter and best milk,

reciting …… to cool the …… with incantation formula, to perfect the holy prayers,

making …… shine, hurrying about, organizing food offerings,

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SEGMENT B

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E-kur …….

The great divine powers ……

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The great divine powers …….

(Ninlil, Enlil, & Nuska)

Nuska ……. E-kur ……. Nuska …….

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SEGMENT C

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Your verdicts are great verdicts,…….

Important lord, wise …….

My god, …… like the rainbow ……,

in Ubcu-unkena, ……, the great gods of heaven and earth ……

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Hero, you have the …… scepter ……

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…… has declared a name for you.

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SEGMENT D

^1-10 to him with broad wisdom, understanding everything, concentrating on the whole world.

In the august sanctuary he has indeed given to Nuska the mattock,

the plow that opens up the cultivated fields, the furrows, speckled barley,

the grain pile and the granary heaped up to the maximum,

……, years of plenty, delight, ……, abundance and life until distant days.

Mighty man, with heroic arms, hurrying to battle,

covering the Land, throwing fire at the enemy, burning …… the wicked,

trampling underfoot opponents from the mountains, the insubmissive lands!

Bulls with fat forelegs, sheep with long fleece,

and great food offerings, are brought before you, Nuska, lord beloved by An.

  (Enlil, father King An / Anu, & brother Enki in alien sky-disc)

^11-24 You make truly perfect your divine powers which are bound to the foreign lands,

and you make very great your divine powers of enormous importance,

Nuska, great lord, son (grandson) of An.

May you be praised appropriately.

You who make the holy princely cita vessels look especially fine,

who search out decisions, august in heaven and earth,

protective deity of E-kur, glory of E-kur, who make great verdicts,

decision maker in heaven and earth, lord who identifies the great claims,

arms wielding a battle net over the enemy but which lead the just correctly!

Hero who bears all the great terrifying divine powers,

who covers the earth with awesome splendor like a mighty storm —

An be praised for your very great eminence!

Your own father has declared your fame:

immensely complex lord who has taken his seat, who perfects the divine powers,

lion of the far distance, lion standing by, leader of the assembly,

Nuska, it is sweet to praise you.

²⁵ A cir-gida to Nuska.

A Shir-gida to Nuska (Nuska B): translation

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^1-6 ……, Enlil decreed your birth in the E-kur!

Nuska, Enlil decreed your birth in the E-kur!

    (Enki)

Lord Nudimmud (Enki), the king of prosperity, honored you in the abzu.

Good minister, I shall praise you!

Nuska, majestic minister of Enlil, your praise is good and most sweet.

My king, I shall praise you in song!

^7-14 You are the light of the good shepherd Enlil, and you have been given a majestic name by Ninlil.

You have been given wisdom by Enki.

 (Enlil & Ninlil on city wall)

You were born to Enul (Enlil) and Ninul (Ninlil), and so you are united with the lordly seed.

You are the E-kur’s (Enlil’s temple residence in Nippur) song.

You are a minister fit for his king: Nuska, you are the man of Enlil’s heart.

(giant alien gods battle amonst themselves)

^15-25 You are the wise one among the Anuna (Anunnaki) gods!

You are pre-eminent in just speech!

You are the good minister of father Enlil!

You do not alter what you have spoken justly.

You are the light of the shining …….

You have been given authority …….

You have been looked on favorably by Enlil.

You are an adornment of the household of Enlil.

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You make pleasing the offering table of Nintud (Ninhursag).

You issue orders for Ennugi (Enlil’s son, sheriff of the Anunnaki).

You …… life for the king.

You …… over the single path of heaven and earth.

^64-71 At the command of the household of Enlil,

you …… the great divine powers (alien technologies), you …… the good divine powers,

you are the good provider of the majestic divine powers,

you make manifest the everlasting divine powers;

you are clothed in the divine powers of ma garments and linen garments;

you make the princely divine powers prosper, you perfect the multitude of the divine powers.

^72-76 The Anuna (Anunnaki), the great gods, all honor you with due praise:

“Minister, you are endowed with princely strength …… the lustration rites.

You gladden father Enlil’s heart!”

Praise be to Nuska, the leader of the assembly!

^77-78 Praise to Nisaba (Enlil’s mother-in-law), the righteous, glorious woman who consults with An (Anu)!

⁷⁹ A cir-gida of Nuska.

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O E-melem-uš (House of terrifying radiance) exuding great awesomeness,

Eš-ma (Magnificent shrine), to which princely divine powers (alien technologies) were sent from heaven,

storehouse of Enlil founded for the primeval divine powers, worthy of nobility,

 (E-kur, Enlil‘s temple residence in Nippur)

lifting your head in princeship, counselor of E-kur,

parapeted buttress, your house …… the platform with heaven.

The decisions at its place of reaching the great judgment — the river of the ordeal —

let the just live and consign to darkness the hearts that are evil.

In your great place fit for pure lustration and the rites of išib priests, you dine with lord Nunamnir (Enlil).

  (Ninlil on shore, Enlil, & son Nuska, his counselor)

Your prince, the prince who is the counselor of Enlil (son Nuska) and worthy of Eš-ma,

the udug demon of E-kur, the leader Nuska, has erected a house in your precinct,

(part of the E-kur, Enlil‘s Command Central)

O house of Enlil, and taken his seat upon your dais.

         12 lines: the house of Nuska (Enlil‘s son) in Nibru (Nippur, named after their planet Nibiru).

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1-13 …… is destroyed.

…… is destroyed.

It is destroyed.

(ziggurat house of gods in Uruk, city way below)

…… of Nisaba (Enlil’s mother-in-law) is destroyed.

The house of Nisaba, her of the tablets, is destroyed.

The house of …… is destroyed.

The house of Nunbarcegunu (Nisaba) is destroyed.

……, the E-hamun is destroyed.

The plants of lamentation have sprouted; the cumunda grass has sprouted.

By the walls the long grass has sprouted.

Amongst them, the willow trees are everywhere.

As for the word of An (Anu) and the word of Enlil,

the angry heart of great An is everywhere, and the malign heart of Enlil is everywhere.

  (Nisaba, Master Scribe, Goddess of Grains, Enlil’s mother-in-law)

^14-21 (Nisaba speaks:)

“In my house, may the moonlight in my house, the moonlight, the glorious sky in my house,

the moonlight, the glorious night in my house —

may the glorious sky, the glorious night in my house not leave me (?)!

The moonlight is obscured by the walls from my man, from my man.

The moonlight, the glorious sky, from my man, the moonlight, the glorious night, from my man,

the glorious sky, the glorious night is obscured by the walls from my man.

22-30 “In the moonlight, in the pure place of moonlight I lie down alone.

In the moonlight which fills the hills, the pure place, I lie down alone.

By the cedar mountains where Enlil lies, I lie down alone.

…… I weep a bitter lament.

…… lying in the moonlight, I weep a bitter lament.

…… which sets aglow …… shines forth. I am distraught.

The moonlight which sets aglow the glorious sky shines forth. I am distraught.

The moonlight which sets aglow the glorious night shines forth. I am distraught —

which sets aglow the glorious sky, the glorious night, shines forth. I am distraught.”

(high-priest, 2 unidentified gods, Haia, & spouse Nisaba, Nisaba & Haia brought down seeds & established grains upon the Earth)

31-33 Even now that the pure place knows daylight, amid her awe-inspiring splendor, still she weeps.

Amid her awe-inspiring splendor, still Mother Ezina-Kusu (Nisaba) weeps.

Fate and fortune!

Amid her awe-inspiring splendor, still she weeps.

34 A cir-namcub of Nisaba.

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        1-6. Lady colored like the stars of heaven, {holding}

        {(3 mss. have instead:) perfectly endowed with} a lapis-lazuli tablet!

        Nisaba (Enlil’s mother-in-law), great wild cow born by Uraš (Nammu),

        wild sheep nourished on good milk among holy alkaline plants, opening the mouth for seven …… reeds!

         (Nisaba, Master Scribe, Enlil’s mother-in-law, grain goddess, another mother to offspring of Enki)

        Perfectly endowed with fifty great divine powers (alien technologies),

        my lady, most powerful in E-kur (Enlil’s temple residence in Nippur)!

          7-13. Dragon emerging in glory at the festival, Aruru (Ninhursag) (mother goddess) of the Land,

          …… from the clay, calming {……} {(1 ms. has instead:) the region with cool water},

        lavishing {fine oil} {(3 mss. have instead:) plenty} on the foreign lands,

        engendered in wisdom by the Great Mountain (Enlil)!

        Good woman (Nisaba), chief scribe of An (Anu), record-keeper of Enlil, wise sage of the gods!

          (Nisaba, daughter Ninlil, & 2 unidentified gods, Nisaba-goddess of grain, & spouse Haia-god of barley, brought down & established grains upon the Earth)
         

        14-20. In order to make barley and flax grow in the furrows,

        so that excellent corn can be admired; to provide for the seven great throne-daises

        by making flax shoot forth and making barley shoot forth at the harvest,

        the {great} {(1 ms. has instead:) august} festival of Enlil —

        in her great princely role she has cleansed her body and has {put}

        {(1 ms. has instead:) draped} the holy priestly garment on her torso.

          21-26. In order to establish bread offerings where none existed,

        and to pour forth great libations of alcohol, so as to appease the god of grandeur, Enlil,

        and to appease merciful Kusu (Gibil’s spouse) and Ezina (Ninlil, Enlil’s spouse)

        she will appoint a great en priest, and will appoint a festival; she will appoint a great en priest of the Land.

      (unidentified, unidentified grain god,    Haia,             Enlil,                       & Nisaba)

          27-35. He (Enki) (?) approaches the maiden Nisaba in prayer.

        He has organized pure food-offerings; he has opened up Nisaba’s house of learning,

        and has placed the lapis-lazuli tablet on her knees, for her to consult the holy tablet of the heavenly stars.

        In Aratta he has placed E-zagin at her disposal.

        You have built up Ereš in abundance, founded from little …… bricks,

        you who are granted the most complex wisdom!

         36-50. In the Abzu, the great crown of Eridug, where sanctuaries are apportioned,

        where elevated …… are apportioned — when Enki,

        the great princely farmer of the awe-inspiring temple,

        the carpenter of Eridug (Eridu), the master of purification rites,

        the lord of the great en priest’s precinct, occupies E-engura, and when he builds up the Abzu of Eridug;

        when he takes counsel in Ḫal-an-kug, when he splits with an ax the house of boxwood;

        when the sage’s hair is allowed to hang loose, when he opens the house of learning,

        when he stands in the street of the door of learning; when he finishes (?) the great dining hall of cedar,

        when he grasps the date-palm mace, when he strikes (?) the priestly garment with that mace,

        then he utters seven …… to Nisaba, the supreme nursemaid:

          (Nisaba, Goddess of Grain & daughter Ninlil)    

          51-55. “O Nisaba, good woman, fair woman,

        woman born {in the mountains} {(1 ms. has instead:) by the mountains}!

        Nisaba, may you be the butter in the cattle-pen, may you be the cream in the sheepfold,

        may you be keeper of the seal in the treasury, may you be a good steward in the palace,

        may you be a heaper up of grain among the grain piles and in the grain stores!”

        56-57. Because the Prince (Enki) cherished Nisaba,

        O Father Enki, it is sweet to praise you!”

A version of the beginning, preserved on a stone tablet from Lagaš perhaps dating to the Ur III period

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        1-9 “Lady colored as the stars, holding a lapis-lazuli tablet!

        Nisaba, born by Uraš in the great sheepfold (?),

        …… nourished on good milk among holy alkaline plants, opening the mouth on seven …… reeds!

        Perfectly endowed with fifty great divine powers (alien technologies),

        my lady, the most powerful in E-kur (Enlil’s temple residence in Nippur)!

           (Ninhursag, King Anu’s daughter, mother to many gods & goddesses)

        Aruru (Ninhursag) (mother goddess) of the Land, …… from the clay!