Shara = Inanna & King Shu-Sin’s son

minor love & war god

(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…)

 

E-bur-sigsig (House with beautiful bowls) temple to Shara in Umma

E-mah (Great house) temple to Shara in Umma

 

          “Your own mother, holy Inana, …”

 

          “To divine Shara, heavenly hero, the beloved son of Inanna:

          his father Shu-Sin, the powerful king, king of Ur, king of the four regions,

          has built for him the temple Shagipada, his beloved shrine; may the king have life …”

 

          “Inanna (i.e. the evening star), the daughter of Suen (Sin / Nannar), arose before him like a bull in the Land.

          Her brilliance, like that of holy Cara (Shara, Inanna’s son), …”

 

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

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

 

          “Cara sat down on (1 ms. has instead: got onto) Enlil’s knees, and Enlil gave him what he had desired (al-dug):

          he had mentioned the mace, the club, arrows and quiver, and the hoe …”

 

          “Like Cara, Inanna’s beloved son, shoot forth with your barbed arrows like a sunbeam,

          shoot forth with reed-arrows like moonlight! …”

 

          “By the immutable word of Enlil, king of the lands, father of the gods,

          Ningirsu (Ninurta) and Shara set a boundary to their lands.

          Mesilim, King of Kish, at the command of his deity Kadi,

          set up a stele [a boundary marker] in the plantation of that field.

          It was the ninth year of Shu-Sin’s reign.

          It was also his last …”

 

          “They called Shara, Ishtar’s (Inanna) son,

          He (Anu) proposed a solution, spoke to him,

          ‘Powerful Shara, ferocious Shara, your attack cannot be deflected!

          Strike Anzu with [ ……..] your weapon!

          Your name shall be great in the great gods´assembly,

          You shall have no rival among the gods your brothers’, …”

 

          “Shara answered the speech, addressed his words to Anu his father,

          ‘Father, who could rush off to the inaccessible mountain?

          Which of the gods your sons will be Anzu´s conqueror?’…”

 

           “At the Sig-kur-caga in Umma, Cara (Shara, Inanna’s son), in his own city, threw himself at her feet.

           He had sat in the dust and dressed himself in a filthy garment.

          The demons said to holy Inanna: ‘Inana, proceed to your city, we will take him back.’

          Holy Inanna answered the demons: ‘Cara is my singer, my manicurist and my hairdresser.

          How could I turn him over to you?

          Let us go on’ …”