^{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…)

        1-8 For Enlil, whose statements are powerful, the profoundly far-sighted knowledgeable judge,

        who issues decisions, whose utterances are immutable, who places the …… in his hands —

        Icme-Dagan, the mighty man with muscles and body of a lion (semi-divine mixed-breed),

        the strong awe-inspiring youth who alone is august, the lord whose sweet name is invoked in all the lands,

        under whose rule the living creatures multiply, makes the black-headed people,

        its settled people who were entrusted to him for protection, proceed with the firstling-offerings of the land.

        He does not …… in his good palace.

        9-22 Then Icme-Dagan the youthful, the mightiest hero among swift athletes (bigger, stronger, faster, smarter, & could live much longer than earthlings / the black-headed),

        the fearsome runner, who serving night and day never ceases caring for Nibru —

        (Nippur) the city where the seed of the numerous people came forth and where life and birth came into existence —

        

           (city of Nippur excavated way below Enlil‘s mountain / ziggurat residence, alien Command Central)

        and who provides daily for everything, established justice (?) on a grand scale.

        The king whose rising is a hurricane, a flood, a wind blowing in its fury,

        who swinging his wide open arms flashes away into the distance,

        who is like a fierce lion of the desert which advances in full strength and vigor,

        who runs fast on the roadway …… battle and combat, a horse waving its tail on the highway,

        who like a young deer …… running, …… knees are swift and indefatigable,

         (semi-divine king, Ninurta, Nannar, & Enlil)

        the son who provides Enlil with everything, who causes joy to Ninlil‘s heart — he will never stop caring for the shining shrine.

        23-29 Then Icme-Dagan erected a statue on his precious dais in the E-ni-gur,

        depicting him as inspiring terror while running in a storm, and made it iridescent with splendor,

        so that the great prince of the entire heaven, the lord whose utterance is immutable,

        should constantly direct his shining forehead and favorable glance at the true shepherd whom he engendered.

        30-35 If a king issues evil orders concerning this statue, and erases its inscription and writes his own name on it;

        or, because of this curse, he makes another man raise his hand against it,

        then may Enlil my lord and Ninlil my lady curse that man!

        May Enki, Ickur (Ishkur), Ezina (Nisaba), Cakkan (animal deity), the lords of abundance, ……

        him cruelly by withholding abundance from heaven and earth under his rule!