(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…)

 

Ab-Bau Quote From Text

Ab-Bau = Bau’s son

 

          “Bau (Gula) has abandoned Iri-kug and has let the breezes haunt her sheepfold.

          She has abandoned her flooded chamber and has let the breezes haunt her sheepfold.

          Her son Ab-Bau has abandoned it and has let the breezes haunt his sheepfold.

          Ab-Bau has abandoned Ma-gu-ena and has let the breezes haunt his sheepfold.

         The protective goddess of the holy house has abandoned it

         and has let the breezes haunt her sheepfold…”

 
     Damu Quotes From Texts

Damu = Bau’s son

doctor, worshiped in Isin

 

          “She tests the surgical lancet; Nininsina (Bau) sharpens the scalpel.

         She has made perfect the divine powers of medicine,

          and hands them over to her son, the king of Jirsi, the kindly Damu:

         “My son, pay attention to everything medical!

         Damu, pay attention to everything medical!”

         He takes the bandages and wipes them; he treats the bandages with embrocation,

         and softens the plaster that had been put on them.

         He mops up the blood and suppuration, and places a warm hand on the horrid wound.

         My lady, the midwife of the mothers of the Land,

         is the chief doctor of the black-headed; Nininsina, the daughter of An (Anu),

         hands this all over to her son, the king of Jirsi, the kindly Damu:

         “My son, pay attention to everything medical!

         Damu, pay attention to everything medical!

         You will be praised for your diagnoses.”

 

         “They have told Damu, the chief barber (physician) of Nunamnir (Enlil),

         healer of the living, to make the foreign countries bow at the feet of his father and mother!…”

 

         Ig-alim / Galalim Quotes From Texts

Ig-alim / Galalim = Ninurta’s son, superintendent

 

        “Bau, lady …… true cream,

         As is fitting, she lets Lord Ig-alim have the scepter…”

 

        (Ninurta speaking)

         “The guardians of my house and the fair-looking protective goddesses …….

         My chief superintendent, Ig-alim, is the neck-stock of my hands.

         He has been promoted to take care of my house; …….

         My messenger does not forget anything: he is the pride of the palace.

         In the city named after (?) Enlil, I recognize true and false…”

 

         “Bau, lady …… true cream,

         As is fitting, she lets Lord Ig-alim have the scepter…”

 

         “Lugal-kur-dub walked in front of him (Gudea),

         Ig-alim directed him and Nin-jiczida (Ningishzidda),

         his personal god, held him by the hand throughout the time…”

 

         “With his divine duties, namely to guide the hand of the righteous one;

         to force the evil-doer´s neck into a neck stock;

         to keep the house safe; to keep the house pleasant;

         to instruct his city and the sanctuaries of Jirsu;

         to set up an auspicious throne; to hold the scepter of never-ending days;

         to raise high the head of Nin-jirsu´s shepherd, Gudea, as if he wore a blue crown;

         and to appoint to their offices in the courtyard of E-ninnu the skin-clad ones,

         the linen-clad ones and those whose head is covered,

         Gudea introduced Ig-alim, the Great Door (ig gal), the Pole (dim) of Jirnun,

         the chief bailiff of Jirsu, his beloved son to lord Nin-jirsu…”

 

         “Young woman Nin-Nibru, lady …….

         Lord Ninurta, my king …….

         Ig-alim, my king …….

         Cul-cagana, my king …….”

 

         “For the god Gal-alim, the favorite son of the god Nin-girsu (Ninurta),

         for his king, Gudea, the patesi of Shirpurla his temple of E-me-ghush-gal-an-ki has constructed…”

 

          “Gudea,...the offspring of the goddess Gutumdug (Ninsun),

          dowered with sovereignty and the scepter supreme by the god Gal-alim,…”

            

Lugal-Marda Quotes From Texts

Lugal-Marda = son of Ninurta?, or Ninurta?

 

        “The high-priestess of Lugal-marda was elevated to office…”

 

        “Lugal-Marda stepped outside his city.

        Ninzuana (unidentified?, Bau’s daughter?) took an unfamiliar path away from her beloved dwelling.

         ‘Alas, the destroyed city, my destroyed house,’ she cried bitterly.

         Isin, the shrine that was not a quay, was split by onrushing waters.

        Ninisina, the mother of the Land, wept bitter tears.

         ‘Alas, the destroyed city, my destroyed house,’ she cried bitterly…”

 

         “The boundary of the god Lugal-Marda of Mirad, Ur-Nammu, the king, determined it….”

 

Ninkarnunna Quotes From Texts

Ninkarnunna = Ninurta’s son, attendant

 

        “Ninkarnuna, having heard the favorable pronouncement of Ninurta,

         stepped before lord Ninurta and prayed to him:…”

 

         “The content of that prayer of the offspring of a prince,

        Ninkarnuna, his sprinkling Ninurta’s heart with an offering of cool water,

         and the matter of prosperity about which he spoke were pleasing to Ninurta’s heart

         as he went in procession to E-cumecato manifest the eternal divine powers.

         Lord Ninurta gazed approvingly at Ninkarnuna…”

 

Ninzuana Quote From Text

Ninzuana = Bau?, daughter of Ninurta & Bau?

 

        “Lugal-Marda (Ninurta?, Ninurta’a son?) stepped outside his city.

        Ninzuana took an unfamiliar path away from her beloved dwelling.

         ‘Alas, the destroyed city, my destroyed house,’ she cried bitterly.

         Isin, the shrine that was not a quay, was split by onrushing waters.

        Ninisina (Bau), the mother of the Land, wept bitter tears.

         ‘Alas, the destroyed city, my destroyed house,’ she cried bitterly…”

 

Carur Quotes From Texts

Carur = Ninurta’s & Gudea’s general, son?,

(or Ninurta’s awesome nuclear weapons)

 

         “With his divine duties, namely to carry the seven-headed mace;

        to open the door of the an-kara house, the gate of battle;

         to hit exactly with the dagger blades, with the mitum mace,

         with the ´´floodstorm´ ´weapon and with the marratum club, its battle tools;

         to inundate Enlil´s enemy land, Gudea introduced Lugalkurdub,

         the warrior Carur, who in battle subdues all the foreign lands,

         the mighty general of the E-ninnu, a falcon against the rebel lands,

         his general, to lord Nin-jirsu.

         After the heavenly mitum mace had roared against the foreign lands like a fierce storm –

         the Carur, the flood storm in battle, the cudgel for the rebel lands –

         after the lord had frowned at the rebellious land, the foreign country,

         hurled at it his furious words, driven it insane the…”

 

         “The weapon, its heart ……, was reassured: it slapped its thighs, the Car-ur began to run,

        it entered the rebel lands, joyfully it reported the message to Lord Ninurta:…

         The Car-ur made the storm-wind rise to heaven, scattering the people; like …… it tore….

         The weapon covered the Mountains with dust,…”

 

        “Nin-jirsu has directed Gudea into the impenetrable mountain of cedars and he cut down its cedars with great axes

         and carved the Car-ur ,the right arm of Lagac, his master´s flood-storm weapon, out of it…”

 

         “He embedded its Car-ur weapon beside Lagac (Lagash) like a big standard,

         placed it in its dreadful place, the Cu-galam, and made it emanate fearsome radiance…”