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)
O house with the great divine powers of Kulaba, ……, its platform has made the great shrine flourish.
Green fresh fruit, marvelous, filled with ripeness,
descending from the center of heaven, shrine built for the bull,
(Anu’s ziggurat temple residence in Uruk, used when he visited Earth Colony, otherwise, belonging to & used by Inanna)
E-ana (House of heaven), house with seven corners, (Enlil’s symbol) with seven fires lifted at night-time,
surveying seven pleasures (?), your princess is on the pure horizon.
(Ishtar / Inanna, similar to modern day goddess Columbia / Liberty)
Your lady Inana (Inanna) who ……, who adorns the woman and covers the man’s head with a cloth,
the one with a lustrous …… su crown, the dragon of Niĝin-ĝar, the queen of heaven and earth,
Inana, has erected a house in your precinct, O E-ana, and taken her seat upon your dais.
(city of Uruk with Inanna‘s ziggurat residence way above, controlling all below)
11 lines: the house of Inana in Unug (Uruk).
Inanna’s (House in Zabalam) – Temple Hymn
O E-šerzi-guru (House clad in splendor) dressed with ornaments of šuba stone,
(young Inanna, princess daughter to Nannar & Ningal, granddaughter to Earth Colony Commander Enlil)
great awesomeness, Niĝin-ĝar of holy Inana, adorned throughout with the divine powers which are true,
Zabalam, shrine of the shining mountain, shrine of …… dawn, which has resounded with pleasure (?),
(Inanna & her 1st spouse Dumuzi The Shepherd, Enki’s son who died young on Earth)
the Mistress has founded your good banqueting hall for you in pleasure (?).
Your lady Inana, the ……, the singular woman, the dragon who speaks hostile words to ……,
(Inanna with her royal crown of animal horns, princess descendant to giant alien Anunnaki King Anu)
who shines in brightness, who goes against the rebel land,
through whom the firmament is made beautiful in the evening,
(Nannar / Suen, Inanna‘s father, patron god of Ur, symbolized by the Moon Crescent, wearing a divine long beard)
the great daughter of Suen, holy Inana, has erected a house in your precinct,
O house Zabalam, and taken her seat upon your dais.
(mound remnants of Inanna’s ziggurat in Zabalam)
12 lines: the house of Inana in Zabalam.
2nd Hymn
O Ulmaš, upper land, …… of the Land, terrifying lion battering a wild bull,
net spreading over an enemy, making silence fall upon a rebel land on which,
as long as it remains in submissive, spittle is poured!
(Inanna stele artifact, alien high-tech weaponry atop her Leo – zodiac symbol)
House of Inana of silver and lapis lazuli, a storehouse built of gold,
your princess is an arabu bird, the Mistress of the Niĝin-ĝar.
Arrayed in battle, jubilantly (?) beautiful, ready with the seven maces, washing her tools for battle,
opening the door of battle and ……, the extremely wise one of heaven,
(Inanna, Goddess of Love & War, standing as victorious warrior atop ziggurat temples in many cities; also depicted naked on hundreds of artifacts)
Inana, has erected a house in your precinct,
O house Ulmaš, and taken her seat upon your dais.