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)

Seeking a ride in the “Bird of Heaven”, Lugalbanda pleaded with its custodian; his words immortalized man’s desire to fly:

“Like Utu let me go, like Inanna,

         Like the Seven Stormers of Ishkur

         in a flame let me lift myself off, and thunder away!

Let me go wherever my eyes can see,

Wherever I desire, let me set my foot,

Wherever my heart wishes, let me arrive…”

When he arrived at Mount Hurum (“whose front Enlil as with a great door had closed off”), Lugalbanda was challenged by the guardian:

“If a god you are, a word in friendship will I utter which will let you enter;

If a man you are, your fate will I decree…”

To which:

“Lugalbanda, he of beloved seed, stretched his hand out (and said)

‘Like divine Shara am I, the beloved son of Inanna‘…”

But the guardian of the sacred place turned Lugalbanda down