SEE SITCHIN’S EARTH CHRONICLES, ETC.

(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…)

The tragic tale is recorded on a tablet CT.15.28-29. By prearrangement his sister (Geshtinanna), “the song-knowing sister was sitting there.” She thought she was invited for a picnic. As they were

         “eating the pure food, dripping with honey and butter,

        as they were drinking the fragrant divine beer, …”

and

         “were spending the time in a happy mood …”

         “Dumuzi took the solemn decision to do it …”

To prepare his sister for what he had in mind, Dumuzi took a lamb and copulated it with its mother, then had a kid copulate with its sister lamb. Dumuzi was touching his sister in emulation,

         “but his sister still did not understand …”

As Dumuzi’s actions became more and more obvious, Geshtinanna

         “screamed and screamed in protest ..”

but

         “he mounted her…his seed was flowing into her vulva …”

“Halt!” she shouted, “it is a disgrace!” But he did not stop, having done his deed,

         “the Shepherd, being fearless, being shameless, spoke to his sister …”

Inanna was in on the plan:

Dumuzi, prior to leaving,

         “spoke to her of planning and advice …”

and Inanna

         “to her spouse answered about the plan\to him she gave her advice …”

Dumuzi was soon there-after seized with a premonition that he was to pay for his deed with his life…Waking up, he asked his sister Geshtinanna to tell him the meaning of the dream.

         “My brother, your dream is not favorable, it is very clear to me …”

It foretold

         “bandits rising against you from ambush…

         your hands will be bound in handcuffs,

         your arms will be bound in fetters …”

No sooner had Geshtinanna finished talking than the evil ones appeared…and caught Dumuzi. Bound…Dumuzi cried out an appeal to Utu / Shamash:

         “O Utu, you are my brother-in-law, I am your sister’s husband…

         Change my hands into a gazelle’s hands, change my feet into a gazelle’s feat,

         let me escape the evil ones! …”

Hearing his appeal, Utu enabled Dumuzi to escape…Dumuzi was captured again, and again escaped. ..A strong wind was blowing, the drinking cups were overturned; the evil ones closed in on him—all as he had seen in his dream: And in the end:

         “The drinking cups lay on their side; Dumuzi was dead.

         The sheepfold was thrown into the wind ….”

In another version of the events, a text titled “The Most Bitter Cry”…makes it clear that they had come on higher authority:

         “My master has sent us for you, …”

the chief deputy announced to the awakened god. They proceed to strip Dumuzi of his divine attributes:

         “Take the divine headdress off your head, get up bareheaded;

         Take the royal robe off your body, get up naked;

         Lay aside the divine staff which is in your hand, get up empty-handed;

         Take the holy sandals off your feet, get up barefooted! …”

The seized Dumuzi manages to escape and reaches the river

         “at the great dike in the desert of E.MUSH …”

(Home of the Snakes)…the place where nowadays the great dam of Aswan is located. But the swirling waters did not let Dumuzi reach the other riverbank where his mother and Inanna were standing…

         “there did the boat-wrecking waters carry the espoused of Inanna …”

In the Epic of Gilgamesh:

         “Kneeling before Ereshkigal was her scribe Geshtinanna (Dumuzi’s little sister)

         Holding the Tablets of Destinies …”