Ninlil’s City
(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…)
Shuruppak – 5th city built on Earth, Ninlil’s patron city
“The fifth, Shuruppak, she gave to Ansud (Ninlil).
The fifth, Curupppag (Shuruppak), was given to Sud…”
“In Shuruppak, Ubartutu ruled 18,600 years and then The Flood came…”
Utnapishtim / Noah was ruler in Shuruppak at the time of the flood:
“Shuruppak, a city that you surely know, situated on the banks of the Euphrates,
that city was very old, and there were gods inside it.
The hearts of the Great Gods moved them to inflict the Flood…”
“In those days, in those far remote days, in those nights, in those faraway nights,
in those years, in those far remote years,
at that time the wise one who knew how to speak in elaborate words lived in the Land;
Curuppag, the wise one, who knew how to speak with elaborate words lived in the Land.
Curuppag gave instructions to his son;
Curuppag, the son of Ubara-Tutu gave instructions to his son Zi-ud-sura (Noah):
‘My son, let me give you instructions: you should pay attention!
Zi-ud-sura, let me speak a word to you: you should pay attention!
Do not neglect my instructions’…”
“At that time, Ziusudra (Noah) was king and lustration priest.
He fashioned, being a seer, the god of giddiness and stood in awe beside it, wording his wishes humbly.
As he stood there regularly day after day something that was not a dream was appearing:
conversation a swearing of oaths by heaven and earth,
a touching of throats and the gods bringing their thwarts up to Kiur.
And as Ziusudra (Noah) stood there beside it, he went on hearing: ‘Step up to the wall to my left and listen!
Let me speak a word to you at the wall and may you grasp what I say, may you heed my advice!
By our hand a flood will sweep over the cities of the half-bushel baskets, and the country;
the decision, that mankind is to be destroyed has been made.
A verdict, a command of the assembly cannot be revoked,
an order of An and Enlil is not known ever to have been countermanded,
their kingship, their term, has been uprooted they must bethink themselves of that.
Now…What I have to say to you’…”
According to one text:
“All the evil winds, all stormy winds gathered into one and with them, then,
the flood was sweeping over the cities of the half-bushel baskets for seven days and seven nights.
After the flood had swept over the country, after the evil wind had tossed the big boat about on the great waters,
the sun came out spreading light over heaven and earth.
Ziusudra then drilled an opening in the big boat.
And the gallant Utu sent his light into the interior of the big boat.
Ziusudra, being king, stepped up before Utu kissing the ground before him.
The king was butchering oxen, was being lavish with the sheep
Barley cakes, crescents together with… …he was crumbling for him
juniper, the pure plant of the mountains, he filled on the fire and with a …clasped to the breast he…”
According to another text:
“Utanapishtim spoke to Gilgamesh, saying: ‘Gilgamesh, you came here exhausted and worn out.
What can I give you so you can return to your land?
I will disclose to you a thing that is hidden, Gilgamesh, a… I will tell you.
There is a plant… like a boxthorn, whose thorns will prick your hand like a rose.
If your hands reach that plant you will become a young man again.’ …”