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Ninti Quotes From Texts

Ninti = Enki’s & Ninhursag’s Daughter via Uttu

“Lady Life”

(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…)

“‘What hurts you most, dearest (Enki)?’

My rib hurts me.’

‘To the goddess Nin-ti, the Lady of the Rib and the One who makes Live,

I (Ninhursag) have given birth for you to set your rib free.’…”

‘”My brother (Enki), what part of you hurts you?’

My ribs (ti) hurt me.’

She (Ninhursag) gave birth to Ninti out of it…

Ninti shall become the lady of the month,…”

^“Your father is Enki, the lord Nudimmud, and your mother is Ninti, the queen of the abzu.

Ninkasi, your father is Enki, the lord Nudimmud, and your mother is Ninti, the queen of the abzu…”

Ninti, “Lady of the Rib”, shared her emotions with the other Anunnaki on board her ship. They watched as all living things left upon the Earth were drowned.

“The Anunnaki, great gods, were sitting in thirst, in hunger…

Ninti wept and spent her emotion; she wept and eased her feelings.

The gods wept with her for the land.

She was overcome with grief; she thirsted for beer.

Where she sat, the gods sat weeping; crouching like sheep at a trough.

Their lips were feverish of thirst, they were suffering cramp from hunger…”

“The Goddess saw and she wept…her lips were covered with feverishness….”

”My creatures have become like flies – they filled the rivers like dragonflies,

their fatherhood was taken by the rolling sea…”

Ninkasi Quotes From Texts

Ninkasi / Ninkashi = Enki’s & Ninhursag’s Daughter via Uttu

= sometimes Enki’s & Ninti’s Daughter

Goddess of Beer, Brew Master of the Gods

(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)

As Enki’s & Ninhursag’s daughter via Uttu:

“’Where do you still feel much pain, dearest? What hurts you?’

‘My mouth hurts me.’ Ninhursag kissed Enki in the mouth.

‘To the goddess Ninkasi I have given birth for you to set your mouth free’…”

‘”My brother (Enki), what part of you hurts you?’

‘My mouth (ka) hurts me.’

She (Ninhursag) gave birth to Ninkasi out of it…”

As Enki’s & Ninti’s Daughter:

“Your father is Enki, the lord Nudimmud, and your mother is Ninti, the queen of the abzu.

Ninkasi, your father is Enki, the lord Nudimmud,

and your mother is Ninti (Enki’s & Ninhursag’s daughter via Uttu), the queen of the abzu…”

“Ninkasi shall be what satisfies the heart,…”

“Let Ninkasi be she who sates the thirsts;…”

“”When the beer dough has been carefully prepared in the oven, and the mash tended in the oven,

Ninkasi (the goddess of beer) mixes them for me…”

“Ninkasi, it is you who pour out the filtered beer of the collector vat;

it is like the onrush of the Tigris and the Euphrates…”

“I am Ninkasi’s help, for her I sweeten the beer, with as much cold water,

the tribute of the hills, as you brought…”

“An (Anu) will fetch Ninguenaka (Ninkasi) for me from her mountain home —

the expert woman, who redounds to her mother’s credit,

Ninkasi the expert, who redounds to her mother’s credit:

her fermenting-vat is of green lapis lazuli, her beer cask is of refined silver and of gold;

if she stands by the beer, there is joy, if she sits by the beer, there is gladness;

as cupbearer she mixes the beer, never wearying as she walks back and forth,

Ninkasi, the keg at her side, on her hips; may she make my beer-serving perfect…”

Ninimma Quotes From Texts

Ninimma = Enki’s & Ninkurra’s daughter

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(gods in blue)

“Ninkura in turn gave birth to Ninimma.

She brought the child up and made her flourish…”

“Ninimma in turn went out to the riverbank.

Enki was towing his boat along and was able to see up there, …….

He laid eyes on Ninimma on the riverbank and said to his minister Isimud:

‘Have I ever kissed one like this nice youngster?

Have I ever made love to one like nice Ninimma?’

His minister Isimud answered him:

‘My master will sail, let me navigate.

He will sail, let me navigate.’

First he put his feet in the boat, next he put them on dry land.

He clasped her to the bosom, lying in her crotch, made love to the youngster and kissed her.

Enki poured semen into Ninimma’s womb and she conceived the semen in the womb, the semen of Enki.

To the woman its one month was but its one day,

its two months were but its two days, its three months were but its three days,

its four months were but its four days, its five months were but its five days,

its six months were but its six days, its seven months were but its seven days,

its eight months were but its eight days, and at its nine days,

in the month of womanhood, like juniper oil, like juniper oil, like oil of abundance,

Ninimma, like juniper oil, like oil of abundance, gave birth to Uttu, the exalted (?) woman…”

“Let Ninmah (Ninhursag) act as your assistant; and let Ninimma, Cu-zi-ana, Ninmada, Ninbarag, Ninmug,

…… and Ninguna stand by as you give birth…”

Nanshe Quotes From Texts

Nanshe / Nanse / Nazi = Enki’s & Ninhursag‘s Daughter, via Uttu

Spouse to Nindara, Goddess of Fish & Fowl of the Persian Gulf

(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…)

Nanshe has two major symbols, both of which are also seen in Christian folklore. The fish represents her original role as a water and fishing goddess. The pelican, said in folklore to rip open its own chest to feed its young, represents her role as a protector and caregiver.

The Guarantor of Boundaries – the lady of the storerooms

In the Nanše Hymn she is described as having a role seeing that weights and measures are correct.

As Nanshe:

“as she escaped from Isin. Nanshe cried, ‘O my devastated city…’

her beloved dwelling place was given over to misfortune….”

“Who . . s the izi-bird and the lil-fish, who . . . . ,

Who comes out from the zipag, who . . . . ,

The Lady of Sirar[a, Mother Nansh]e,

Of the sea, of its . . . . places, Enki placed in charge…”

“Nanshe, the lady, the lord – the holy . . . fell at her feet,

She has become the fishery inspector of the se[a] (?),

Fish, tasty, (and) . . . . ,

She presents to her [father] (uncle) Enlil…”

“the child of Enki, acting as a good woman for a good household,…”

As Nance:

“Nance, the noble daughter, was settled outside the city…”

“Father Enki determined a fate for you.

Nance, child born in Eridug (Eridu, Enki’s city), sweet is your praise…”

“He who confirms or contradicts what is uttered,

who enters Nance’s house from outside (?), and does not leave it,

the caretaker of Nance’s house, the child born to Utu, lord Hendursaja …….”

“He who extends his staff of office, the one respected within the Abzu,

the lord who has no opposition in the terraced tower (?) of Nance’s house,

the king, lord Hendursaja, promulgates the decrees of Nance’s house…”

“The lady of precious rites, Nance, versed in singing holy songs, sang songs for the house…”

“Nance, the queen of the fishermen, will be delighted with you…”

“The city of Nance, Nijin, was delivered to the foreigners.

Sirara, her beloved dwelling, was handed over to the evil ones.

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

“Nance, what you say is trustworthy and takes precedence.

You are the interpreter of dreams among the gods,…”

“You have taken your place upon the throne-dais of Lagac (Lagash).

Speak to holy mother Nance,…”

“Nance answered the ruler: ‘My shepherd, I will explain your dream for you in every detail.

The person who, as you said, was as enormous as the skies, who was as enormous as the earth,

whose head was like that of gods, whose wings, as you said, were like those of the Anzud bird,

and whose lower body was, as you said, like a flood storm,

at whose right and left lions were lying, was in fact my brother Nin-jirsu (Ninurta)…

´The young woman …… sheaves, who held a stylus of refined silver in her hand,

who had placed it on a tablet with propitious stars and was consulting it, she was in fact my sister Nisaba‘….”

“’Nin-jirsu, I want to build up your house for you,

I want to make it perfect for you, so I will ask your sister, the child born of Eridu,

an authority on her own, the lady, the dream-interpreter among the gods,

my divine sister from Sirara, Nance, to show me the way.’

His call was heard; his master, Lord Nin-jirsu accepted from (2/3rds divine King) Gudea…“

“Now the ruler imposed a levy on his land.

He imposed a levy on his realm of abundant ……, on Nin-jirsu´s Gu-edina.

He imposed levy on his built-up cities and settlements, on Nance´s Gu-jicbara…”

“There was a levy for him on the clan of Nance

Both river banks and shores rising out of the waters,

the huger river, full of water, which spreads its abundance everywhere,

and he placed the holy pelican (?), the standard of Nance, in front of them…”

As Nanse:

“When the mistress, Mother Nanše, floats her holy barge to visit you,

sweet and noble singers perform for her on board…”

“Nanše (Nanshe) has placed a mighty symbol in your hand, Ḫendursaĝa (Utu’s son).

The mistress, Mother Nanše, speaks confidentially with you…”

“Nindara, the king of Lagaš (Lagash).

Also with her help, monthly and at the New Year on the days of regular offerings,

in your house Nindara makes the wedding-gifts on your behalf

for the mistress, Mother Nanše…”

“The one who sets sail…in the holy shrine, the innin who induces copulation…

great flood-wave of the sea, turbulent flood-wave, the inundation of the sea…

who springs forth out of the sea-foam…the innin of Sirara,

mother Nanse, the sea in all its breadth, Enki placed in charge of it…”

(Nanshe, powerful daughter to Enki)

“Nanse, the noble nin/en, at whose feet the holy u-bird stands,

is now the customs inspector of the sea.

Good fish, tasty birds, she grants her father (uncle) Enlil in Nippur…”

As Nazi:

“Let Nazi marry Nindara;…”

“Nazi shall marry Nindara,…”

“’My brother (Enki), what part of you hurts you?’

‘My throat (zi) hurts me.’

She (Ninhursag) gave birth to Nazi out of it…”

“My husband is the tax collector of the sea,

Nindara is the tax collector of the sea.”

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A balbale of Nanše….”

Minor Gods Related to Ninhursag Quotes From Texts

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(gods in blue …mixed-breed demigods in teal…)

Martu Quotes From Texts

Martu = son of Anu & Ninhursag / Urash

married Utu’s daughter, patron god to the city Ninab…

MARIAGE OF MARTU:

“engendered by great An (Anu) and brought up on his holy knees, ……,

born by Uraš (Ninhursag),

cherished and granted a favorable destiny by the Great Mountain Enlil,…”

“Martu, august youth,

who completely controls the distant mountains as far as their borders,…

who occupies a holy dais in the mountains, the pureplace!…

whom holy An (Anu) engendered,

who appears gloriously with numerous divine powers (alien technologies)!

His own mother Ninḫursaĝa (Ninhursag) made his form excel Medim-ša’s

so that no one should threaten him.

The Anuna (Anunnaki), the great gods,

enhanced his strength with warrior qualities, and spoke favorably to him.

They invested (?) him with authority that accompanies him in battle

like a coat of armor, …… to him mace, divine weapon, a great bow,

arrows and quiver in his august hands,

made his divinity magnificently perfect,…

He grasps the seven winds, makes fire ……,

subduing all in battle and fight, …… like lightning…”

“For the king, he annihilates all enemy lands that are not compliant to him.

Martu, the son of An, extends a hand to the good shepherd…

his own father, the lord of the gods,…

he presented to him the Martu lands, the lapis-lazuli mountains…

he is the king’s helper in battle… Martu, son of An…”

Enki & Ninhursag have daughters

(in search of an heir for Enki by his sister Ninhursag)

Ninsar Quotes From Texts

Ninsar = Ninhursag & Enki’s daughter, Ninkurra’s mother

goddess of Green Fields and Luscious Meadows

“Enki distributed his semen destined for Damgalnuna (Ninhursag).

He poured semen into Ninhursaja’s (Ninhursag) womb

and she conceived the semen in the womb, the semen of Enki.

But her one month was one day,

but her two months were two days,

but her three months were three days,

but her four months were four days,

but her five months were five days,

but her six months were six days,

but her seven months were seven days,

but her eight months were eight days,

but her nine months were nine days.

In the month of womanhood, like juniper oil, like juniper oil,

like oil of abundance, Nintud, mother of the country,

like juniper oil, gave birth to Ninsar. …”

“Nine days later, without the slightest labor or pain,

the Great Mother Goddess gave birth to a lovely girl

without the slightest travail or pain.

The girl was called Ninsar, Lady Verdure,

the Mistress of Vegetation, the green carpet of grass, leaves

and flower beds that cover the surface of the earth…”

“Enki was overjoyed with the birth of his and Ninhursag’s child:…”

“’How perfect, how lovely is our Ninsar!

I love already the woman in the girl-child,

the young Anunnaki goddess and Mistress of Velvet Meadows and Green Fields.

The ties that bind me to Ninsar are strong” and tempered by an even greater love,

for in her face I see also Ninhursag’s, the one and only to my wandering heart.’

The Great Lady, holding Ninsar in her arms, kissed Enki in the mouth, and said:

‘Soon my time to leave Dilmun will come,

I endow Ninsar with the power to grow in record time,

and in holy Dilmun I’ll leave my youngster daughter

safe and sound from any illness, hatred or harm.’ …

nine days later Ninsar was fully grown, charming and graceful, a sight to behold.

…Enki saw Ninsar walking on her own along the marshlands.

Indeed, a lovely goddess she had become, and Enki’s eyes fell on the Maiden’s,…”

“Enki did not lose time and immediately started wooing the young lady,

encouraging her to love him wildly by the riverside.

Curious and eager as Ninsar was to experience the power of love in her body,

mind, soul, and heart,

she, the young goddess of Green Fields and Luscious Meadows,

yielded to the Sweet Waters Lord, and together they made wild love.

But when morning came, Enki looked into Ninsar’s eyes and found her a loving,

but pale portrait of Ninhursag…”

“Enki stayed with Ninsar for a while, because he knew his seed could be her womb.

So he stayed with her until the ninth day, when Ninsar gave birth to Ninkurra,

another girl-child, the future goddess of Mountain Pastures…”

“Sadly, Ninsar realized that although she had been

passionately loved by Enki for a time,

there was a longing in his eyes, his body, soul and mind she could not satisfy.

‘Bonded to him I for a time was,’ thought Ninsar,

‘but he does not want me for myself, this I can tell.

Mine is not the mind, body, soul and heart

that holds his for a minute that means eternity,

so I’ll let him go, now and forever’…”

“In turn Ninsar went out to the riverbank.

Enki was able to see up there from in the marsh, he was able to see up there, he was.

He said to his minister Isimud:

‘Is this nice youngster not to be kissed? Is this nice Ninsar not to be kissed?’

His minister Isimud answered him:

‘Is this nice youngster not to be kissed? Is this nice Ninsar not to be kissed?’…”

“First he put his feet in the boat, next he put them on dry land.

He clasped her to the bosom, kissed her,

Enki poured semen into the womb and she conceived the semen in the womb,

the semen of Enki.

But her one month was one day, but her two months were two days,

but her nine months were nine days.

In the month of womanhood, like juniper oil, like juniper oil, like oil of abundance,

Ninsar, like juniper oil, like juniper oil,

like oil of abundance, gave birth to Ninkura...”

Ninkurra Quotes From Texts

Ninkurra = daughter by Enki & Ninsar

(grand-daughter to Ninhursag)

Uttu & Ninimma’s mother

“Ninsar gave birth to Ninkurra, another girl-child,

the future goddess of Mountain Pastures.

As before, Enki rejoiced at Ninkurra’s loveliness,

at her cheerful smile and sweet face.

Again, Enki saw in Ninkurra twice the mark of his beloved Ninhursag…”

“ Ninkurra, who, like herself, grew in record time.

Lovely, resourceful Ninkurra demonstrated enormous energy

by climbing the highest heights, up to the mountain tops,

but also keeping her essence tied to the ground.

This way Ninkurra, the Goddess of Mountain Pastures

grew safe from all hatred or harm.

Another nine days passed by, and as Ninkurra played at a mountain top,

curiosity led her to explore a well that surfaced out of the blue to water the greens

and wild flower beds she had just made grow.

To her sheer surprise and delight, the well took the shape of a handsome god,

who introduced himself to her as Enki the Sweet Waters Lord.

Again, Enki looked at Ninkurra’s young and cheerful face,

and desired to dive into the maiden’s embrace,

for she reminded him twice of Ninhursag,…”

“Ninkurra, who had lived a life so sheltered at the mountain heights,

was fully bewitched by the easy charm of the older, more experienced god.

Thus she joyously yielded to him and love they made for nine days and nine nights.

But Enki soon realized that as lovely as Ninkurra was,

she could not be compared to Ninhursag.

As before, the Sweet Waters Lord left Ninsar after nine days,

when Ninkurra gave birth to another lovely girl-child called Uttu,

the Spider, the Weaver of Patterns and Life Desires…”

“Ninhursag…frowned at the sadness reflected in Ninsar’s and Ninkurra’s eyes,

and frowned at Enki’s unbridled lust…”

“In turn Ninkura went out to the riverbank.

Enki was able to see up there from in the marsh, he was able to see up there, he was.

He said to his minister Isimud:

‘Is this nice youngster not to be kissed? Is this nice Ninkura not to kissed?’

His minister Isimud answered him:

‘Kiss this nice youngster. Kiss this nice Ninkura.

My master will sail, let me navigate.

He will sail, let me navigate.’

First he put his feet in the boat, next he put them on dry land.

He clasped her to the bosom, kissed her,

Enki poured semen into the womb and she conceived the semen in the womb,

the semen of Enki.

But her one month was one day, but her nine months were nine days.

In the month of womanhood, like juniper oil, like juniper oil, like oil of abundance,

Ninkura, like juniper oil, like juniper oil, like oil of abundance,

gave birth to Uttu, the exalted (?) woman…”

“Ninkura in turn gave birth to Ninimma (instead of Uttu).

She brought the child up and made her flourish.

Ninimma in turn went out to the riverbank.

Enki was towing his boat along and was able to see up there, …….

He laid eyes on Ninimma (Enki & Ninkura’s daughter) on the riverbank …”

Ninimma Quotes From Texts

Ninimma = Enki & Ninkurra’s daughter

(great-grand-daughter of Ninhursag’s)

“Ninkura in turn gave birth to Ninimma.

She brought the child up and made her flourish…”

“Ninimma in turn went out to the riverbank.

Enki was towing his boat along and was able to see up there, …….

He laid eyes on Ninimma on the riverbank and said to his minister Isimud:

“‘Have I ever kissed one like this nice youngster?

Have I ever made love to one like nice Ninimma?’

His minister Isimud answered him:

‘My master will sail, let me navigate.

He will sail, let me navigate.’

First he put his feet in the boat, next he put them on dry land.

He clasped her to the bosom, lying in her crotch,

made love to the youngster and kissed her.

Enki poured semen into Ninimma’s womb

and she conceived the semen in the womb, the semen of Enki.

To the woman its one month was but its one day,

its two months were but its two days, its three months were but its three days,

its four months were but its four days, its five months were but its five days,

its six months were but its six days, its seven months were but its seven days,

its eight months were but its eight days, and at its nine days,

in the month of womanhood, like juniper oil, like juniper oil, like oil of abundance,

Ninimma, like juniper oil, like oil of abundance,

gave birth to Uttu, the exalted (?) woman…”

“Let Ninmah (Ninhursag) act as your assistant;

and let Ninimma, Cu-zi-ana, Ninmada, Ninbarag, Ninmug, ……

and Ninguna stand by as you give birth…”

Nina Quotes From Texts

Nina = Enki & Ninhursag’s daughter via Uttu

goddess of Oracles

“O Nina, Hea’s (Enki’s) daughter! …”

“may the goddess Ninâ the mistress of interpretations,…”

“For the goddess Ninâ, the lady of destinies (?), the lady of oracles (?),

for his lady, Gudea the patesi of Shirpurla has made the dedicatory inscriptions (?).

In Ninâ-ki, her favorite city, her temple of E-ud-mâ-Ninâ-ki-tag

which rises from the Kur-ê he has constructed…”

“For the goddess Ninâ, the lady of destinies (?), the lady of oracles (?),

for his mistress, Dungi (King Shulgi) the puissant prince, the king of Ur,

the king of Shumer and Accad, the temple of E-shish-shish-e-ma-ra,

her favorite temple, has constructed…”

“he (Ur-Nanshe) has erected.

The temple of the goddess Ninâ…”

“may the goddess Nin-marki the eldest daughter of the goddess Ninâ...”

“For the goddess Nin-mar-ki (Enki’s daughter), the good lady,

the eldest daughter of the goddess Niná…”

“En-anna-tumma, the patesi Of Shirpurla-ki,

the chosen of the heart of the goddess Ninâ,

the great patesi of the god Nin-girsu (Ninurta),

the son of Entena the patesi of Shirpurla-ki…”

“By harvesting, the men of Umma had eaten one storehouse-full

of the grain of Nina [goddess of Oracles], the grain of Ningirsu;…”

“Urlumma, ruler of Umma drained the boundary canal of Ningirsu,

the boundary canal of Nina;…”

“Ili, ruler of Umma, wickedly flooded the dyked and irrigated field;

he commanded that the boundary canal of Ningirsu;

the boundary canal of Nina be ruined….

Enlil and Ninkhursag did not permit [this to happen].

Entemena, ruler of Lagash, whose name was spoken by Ningirsu,

restored their canal to its place according to the righteous word of Enlil,

according to the righteous word of Nina,…”

“Ur-Bau (mixed-breed), the patesi of Shirpurla-ki,

the offspring begotten by the god Nin-âgal (Enki’s son),…

chosen by the immutable will of the goddess Niná,…”

Ninmarki Quotes From Texts

Ninmarki = Enki & Nina’s daughter

“may the goddess Nin-marki the eldest daughter of the goddess Ninâ…”

“Ur-Bau;…For the goddess Nin-mar-ki the good lady,

the eldest daughter of the goddess Niná (Enki’s daughter),

the Esh-gu-tur, the temple of her constant choice, he has constructed…”

“Nance, the noble daughter, was settled outside the city.

Fire approached Ninmarki in the shrine Gu-aba.

Large boats were carrying off its silver and lapis lazuli.

The lady, sacred Ninmarki, was despondent because of her perished goods.

Then the day ……, burning like …….

The province of Lagac (Lagash) was handed over to Elam…”

“For the goddess Nin-mar-ki the good lady,

the eldest daughter of the goddess Niná, the Esh-gu-tur (?),

the temple of her constant choice, he (Ur-Nanshe) has constructed…”

“She of Gu-aba has abandoned it and has let the breezes haunt her sheepfold.

Ninmarki has abandoned the shrine Gu-aba

and has let the breezes haunt her sheepfold…”

Uttu Quotes From Texts

Uttu = Enki & Ninimma’s daughter,

sometimes Enki & Ninkurru’s daughter

goddess of clothing, weaving

Uttu As Ninimma’s Daughter:

“Ninimma, like juniper oil, like oil of abundance,

gave birth to Uttu, the exalted (?) woman.

Nintud (Ninhursag) said to Uttu:

‘Let me advise you, and may you take heed of my advice.

Let me speak words to you and may you heed my words.

From in the marsh one man is able to see up here, is able to see up here, he is;

from in the marsh Enki is able to see up here, is able to see up here, he is.

He will set eyes on you.’

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…… Uttu, the exalted (?) woman ……

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( Uttu said:)

‘Bring cucumbers in ……, bring apples with their stems sticking out (?),

bring grapes in their clusters, and in the house

you will indeed have hold of my halter,

O Enki, you will indeed have hold of my halter.’

When he was filling with water a second time,

he filled the dykes with water, he filled the canals with water,

he filled the fallows with water.

The gardener in his joy rose (?) from the dust and embraced him:

‘Who are you who …… the garden?’

Enki (said to) …… the gardener:

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He brought him cucumbers in ……,

brought him apples with their stems sticking out (?),

brought him grapes in their clusters, filled his lap.

Enki made his face attractive and took a staff in his hand.

Enki came to a halt at Uttu’s, knocked at her house (demanding): ‘Open up, open up.’

(She asked): ‘Who are you?’

(He answered:) ‘I am a gardener.

Let me give you cucumbers, apples, and grapes for your …Yes’.

Joyfully Uttu opened the house. Enki gave Uttu, the exalted (?) woman,

cucumbers in ……, gave her apples with their stems sticking out (?),

gave her grapes in their clusters. (1 line not in the ms. from Nippur:

He poured beer for her in the large ban measure.)

Uttu, the exalted (?) woman, …… to the left for him, waved the hands for him.

Enki aroused Uttu.

He clasped her to the bosom, lying in her crotch,

fondled her thighs, fondled her with the hand.

He clasped her to the bosom, lying in her crotch,

made love to the youngster and kissed her.

Enki poured semen into Uttu’s womb

and she conceived the semen in the womb, the semen of Enki.

Uttu, the beautiful woman, cried out :

‘Woe, my thighs’. She cried out: ‘Woe, my liver. Woe, my heart.’

Ninhursaja (Ninhursag) removed the semen from the thighs…

Ninhursaja cursed the name Enki:

‘Until his dying day, I will never look upon him with life-giving eye.’…”

“and since in the Land he neither fashioned the yarn of Uttu

(the goddess of weaving) nor pegged out the loom for Uttu…”

“There was no cloth to wear; Uttu had not been born —

no royal turban was worn;…”

“All the yarns of Uttu, the splendor of kingship, belong to me…”

“For Enki the people…the…garment.

The one who is the dignity of the palace, the decorum of the king,

Uttu, the unfailing woman of silence, Enki placed in charge of them…”

“The tiara (?) of the palace, the jewel of the king,

Uttu, the trustworthy woman, the joyous (?), Enki placed in charge of them…”

Uttu As Ninkurra’s Daughter:

“Enki poured semen into the womb

and she conceived the semen in the womb, the semen of Enki.

But her one month was one day, but her nine months were nine days.

In the month of womanhood, like juniper oil,

like juniper oil, like oil of abundance,

Ninkura, like juniper oil, like juniper oil,

like oil of abundance, gave birth to Uttu, the exalted (?) woman. …”

“Ninkurra, who had lived a life so sheltered at the mountain heights,

was fully bewitched by the easy charm of the older, more experienced god.

Thus she joyously yielded to him and love they made for nine days and nine nights.

But Enki soon realized that as lovely as Ninkurra was,

she could not be compared to Ninhursag.

As before, the Sweet Waters Lord left Ninsar after nine days,

when Ninkurra gave birth to another lovely girl-child called Uttu,

the Spider, the Weaver of Patterns and Life Desires…”

“Nintud (Ninhursag) said to Uttu:

‘Let me advise you, and may you take heed of my advice.

Let me speak words to you and may you heed my words.

From in the marsh one man is able to see up here, is able to see up here, he is;

from in the marsh Enki is able to see up here, is able to see up here, he is.

He will set eyes on you.’…”

“Ninhursag…frowned at the sadness reflected in Ninsar’s and Ninkurra’s eyes,

and frowned at Enki’s unbridled lust.

Ninhursag knew how charming Enki could be,

but no matter what, young Uttu the Weaver

should be advised to avoid the riverbanks,

or the places where Enki and herself could be found alone or unchaperoned:

‘Daughter Uttu, beware of the marshes and the riverbanks,

where Enki, the Sweet Waters god, reigns as Sovereign.

There he will see you, there he will desire you and want to make of you his own,

only to leave you all alone later on!’ was Ninhursag’s stern advice to Uttu.

For a time young Uttu did follow the Great Lady’s advice

and kept her distance from Enki’s lusty sight.

But one day Enki’s desire won the young goddess’ heart,

when he brought to her delicacies from the garden of delights:

apples, cucumbers and grapes, all this and more Enki offered to the young goddess.

Then Uttu, full of joy, opened herself to welcome Enki, the crafty god,

and he embraced her with heartfelt glee, lying in her lap content and happy.

Loving strokes, kisses and hugs they shared,

until Enki’s seed found its way to Uttu’s young and yet untried womb.

Later, still lying on Enki’s powerful arms,

doubt entered Uttu’s mind, body and heart:

‘Tonight you loved me so dearly, tonight I was your spouse,

the one and only, your dearest,’ she thought .

‘But will you love me in the morning, o lustiest of all gods?

Will you stay in my arms and never let me go

And will you love for more than a holy night,

and share with me happy and hard times?’

But when morning came and Uttu looked into Enki’s eyes,

she knew she still was not the one to hold captive the Sweet Waters Lord.

With a tender kiss Enki took his leave,

but did not say when he was going to come back, or ever returned to stay.

Uttu swallowed stubborn tears,

but decided not to surrender to loss and sorrow, and more.

‘I vow not to be bonded to Enki from this moment on,’

she promised herself with a deep-rooted resolve.

‘If he does not want me for myself, for what we can together be,

I will not carry any of his seeds within or without my very being!’

Uttu immediately turned then to Ninhursag for help.

The Great Mother goddess, beloved by all, would know what to do,

would ensure the best course of action.

‘Wipe out Enki’s seed of your body,

and bury within the depths of the Earth the promise of life you shared with him,’

said the Great Lady and Womb of Creation.

‘Let the Earth receive and transform yours and Enki’s seed.

And after you do this all, take your time so that your body,

heart, mind and soul may heal.

And I, who have known love, pain, sorrow and immense joy, give you,

daughter, a very special blessing:

may the wisdom of experience brought by such pain enter your being again

and may you learn to ask as much as you give from your future lovers

for as long as you live.

Reciprocation is the key for everlasting relationships!’…”

8 Children of Enki & Ninhursag via Uttu

Ninhursaja made Enki sit by her vagina.

(1 line not in the ms. from Nippur:

She placed (?) her hands on …….

and ……. on its outside.)

(Ninhursaja asked:)

“My brother, what part of you hurts you?”

“The top of my head (ugu-dili) hurts me.”

She gave birth to Ab-u out of it.

“My brother, what part of you hurts you?”

“The locks of my hair (siki) hurt me.”

She gave birth to Ninsikila out of it.

“My brother, what part of you hurts you?”

“My nose (giri) hurts me.”

She gave birth to Ningiriudu out of it.

“My brother, what part of you hurts you?”

“My mouth (ka) hurts me.”

She gave birth to Ninkasi out of it.

“My brother, what part of you hurts you?”

“My throat (zi) hurts me.”

She gave birth to Nazi out of it.

“My brother, what part of you hurts you?”

“My arm (a) hurts me.”

She gave birth to Azimua out of it.

“My brother, what part of you hurts you?”

“My ribs (ti) hurt me.”

She gave birth to Ninti out of it.

“My brother, what part of you hurts you?”

“My sides (zag) hurt me.”

She gave birth to Ensag out of it.

(She said:) “For the little ones to whom I have given birth

may rewards not be lacking.

Ab-u shall become king of the grasses, (#1)

Ninsikila shall become lord of Magan (Egypt, #2),

Ningiriudu shall marry Ninazu,(#3)

Ninkasi shall be what satisfies the heart, (#4)

Nazi shall marry Nindara, (#5)

Azimua shall marry Ninjiczida, (#6)

Ninti shall become the lady of the month, (#7)

and Ensag shall become lord of Dilmun (Sinai).” (#8)

(#1)Abu Quotes From Texts

Abu = Enki & Ninhursag’s son via Uttu

god of the grasses, vegetation, sprung from head of Enki

“Enki heard Ninhursag’s voice resonate all over his being:

‘The first seed you ate and made you ill,

I take its power into my myself and transform it into a newly born god,

a younger brother and son to you, dearest.

I therefore have given birth to the god Abu to set your body free.’…”

“( Ninhursaja asked:)

‘My brother, what part of you hurts you?’

‘The top of my head (ugu-dili) hurts me.’

She gave birth to Ab-u out of it…”

“Let Abu be the master of plants;…”

“(She (Ninhursag) said:)

‘For the little ones to whom I have given birth may rewards not be lacking.

Ab-u shall become king of the grasses,’…”

(#2)Ninsikila Quotes From Texts Ninsikila = Enki & Ninhursag’s daughter via Uttu

Patron goddess of the paradise land of Dilmun

“‘My brother (Enki), what part of you hurts you?

‘The locks of my hair (siki) hurt me.’

She gave birth to Ninsikila out of it…”

“He laid her (Ninhursag) down all alone in Dilmun,

and the place where Enki had lain down with his spouse,

that place was still virginal, that place was still pristine.

He laid her down all alone in Dilmun,

and the place where Enki had lain down with Ninsikila

(Enki & Ninhursag’s daughter via Uttu),

that place was virginal, that place was pristine. …”

“Ninsikila said to her father Enki:

‘You have given a city. You have given a city.

What does your giving avail me? You have given a city, Dilmun’…”

“(Enki answered Ninsikila:)

‘When Utu steps up into heaven,

fresh waters shall run out of the ground for you

from the standing vessels (?) on Ezen’s (?) shore,

from Nanna’s (Nannar’s) radiant high temple,

from the mouth of the waters running underground’…”

“from Nanna’s (Nannar’s) radiant high temple,

from the mouth of the waters running underground,

fresh waters ran out of the ground for her.

The waters rose up from it into her great basins.

Her city drank water aplenty from them.

Dilmun drank water aplenty from them…”

“Ninsikila shall become lord of Magan,…”

“He cleansed, purified the [land Di]lmun,

Placed Ninsikilla in charge of it,…”

“He cleanses and purified the kur-Dilmun, set Ninsikilla in charge of it…”

“Nin-sikil was also instructed and she made large halub logs, ebony,

and aba wood reach the ruler building the E-ninnu…”

(#3)Ningirida / Ningiriudu /Ninsutu Quotes From Texts

Ningirida / Ningiriudu / Ninsutu = Enki’s & Ninhursag’s daughter via Uttu

Ninazu’s spouse, Ningishzidda’s mother, Ereshkigal’s daughter-in-law

As Ningirida:

“Ninjiczida, who brings together giant snakes and dragons!

Great wild bull who, in the murderous battle, is a flood that ……!

Beloved by his mother, he to whom Ningirida gave birth

from her luxurious body, who drank the good milk at her holy breast,

who sucked in lion’s spittle, who grew up in the abzu!…”

“She brought out of the house what should not come out of the house,

what should not come out of the house —

Ningirida (Ninazu’s spouse) brought out of the house

what should not come out of the house:

‘Welcome, welcome, welcome o boat!

O boat of Suen, welcome, welcome o boat!’…”

“Lady Ningirida, say to you:

‘Your house, your city!’ as she steps before you in prayer,

god of the Land, my lord Ninazu!…”

“Praise be to Enki.

Ninjiczida, son of Ninazu!…”

As Ningiriudu:

“’My brother (Enki), what part of you hurts you?’

‘My nose (giri) hurts me.’

She gave birth to Ningiriudu out of it…”

“Ningiriudu shall marry Ninazu,…”

As Ninsutu:

“Let Ninsutu marry Ninazu;…”

“Where else do you hurt, dearest?’ ‘ My tooth hurts me.’ ‘

To the goddess Ninsutu I have given birth for you to set your tooth free…”

(#4)Ninkasi Quotes From Texts

Ninkasi / Ninkashi = Enki & Ninhursag’s daughter via Uttu

beer maker for the gods

As Enki & Ninhursag’s daughter via Uttu:

“’Where do you still feel much pain, dearest? What hurts you?’

‘My mouth hurts me.’ Ninhursag kissed Enki in the mouth.

‘To the goddess Ninkasi I have given birth for you to set your mouth free’…”

‘”My brother (Enki), what part of you hurts you?’

‘My mouth (ka) hurts me.’

She (Ninhursag) gave birth to Ninkasi out of it…”

As Enki & Ninti’s Daughter:

“Your father is Enki, the lord Nudimmud,

and your mother is Ninti, the queen of the abzu.

Ninkasi, your father is Enki, the lord Nudimmud,

and your mother is Ninti (Enki & Ninhursag’s daughter via Uttu),

the queen of the abzu…”

“Ninkasi shall be what satisfies the heart,…”

“Let Ninkasi be she who sates the thirsts;…”

“”When the beer dough has been carefully prepared in the oven,

and the mash tended in the oven,

Ninkasi (the goddess of beer) mixes them for me…”

“Ninkasi, it is you who pour out the filtered beer of the collector vat;

it is like the onrush of the Tigris and the Euphrates…”

“I am Ninkasi’s help, for her I sweeten the beer, with as much cold water,

the tribute of the hills, as you brought…”

“An (Anu) will fetch Ninguenaka (Ninkasi) for me from her mountain home —

the expert woman, who redounds to her mother’s credit,

Ninkasi the expert, who redounds to her mother’s credit:

her fermenting-vat is of green lapis lazuli,

her beer cask is of refined silver and of gold;

if she stands by the beer, there is joy, if she sits by the beer, there is gladness;

as cupbearer she mixes the beer, never wearying as she walks back and forth,

Ninkasi, the keg at her side, on her hips;

may she make my beer-serving perfect…”

(#5)Nanshe Quotes From Texts

Nanshe / Nanse / Nazi = Enki & Ninhursag’s daughter via Uttu

spouse to Nindara, goddess of fish & fowl of the sea, goddess of justice

As Nanshe:

“as she escaped from Isin. Nanshe cried, ‘O my devastated city…’

her beloved dwelling place was given over to misfortune….”

“Who . . s the izi-bird and the lil-fish, who . . . . ,

Who comes out from the zipag, who . . . . ,

The Lady of Sirar[a, Mother Nansh]e,

Of the sea, of its . . . . places, Enki placed in charge…”

“Nanshe, the lady, the lord – the holy . . . fell at her feet,

She has become the fishery inspector of the se[a] (?),

Fish, tasty, (and) . . . . ,

She presents to her [father] Enlil…”

“the child of Enki, acting as a good woman for a good household,…”

As Nance:

“Nance, the noble daughter, was settled outside the city…”

“Father Enki determined a fate for you.

Nance, child born in Eridug (Eridu, Enki’s city), sweet is your praise…”

“He who confirms or contradicts what is uttered,

who enters Nance’s house from outside (?), and does not leave it,

the caretaker of Nance’s house, the child born to Utu, lord Hendursaja …….”

“He who extends his staff of office, the one respected within the Abzu,

the lord who has no opposition in the terraced tower (?) of Nance’s house,

the king, lord Hendursaja, promulgates the decrees of Nance’s house…”

“The lady of precious rites, Nance, versed in singing holy songs,

sang songs for the house…”

“Nance, the queen of the fishermen, will be delighted with you…”

“The city of Nance, Nijin (Isin), was delivered to the foreigners.

Sirara, her beloved dwelling, was handed over to the evil ones.

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

“Nance, what you say is trustworthy and takes precedence.

You are the interpreter of dreams among the gods,…”

“You have taken your place upon the throne-dais of Lagac (Lagash).

Speak to holy mother Nance,…”

“Nance answered the ruler:

‘My shepherd, I will explain your dream for you in every detail.

The person who, as you said, was as enormous as the skies,

who was as enormous as the earth, whose head was like that of gods,

whose wings, as you said, were like those of the Anzud bird,

and whose lower body was, as you said, like a flood storm,

at whose right and left lions were lying,

was in fact my brother Nin-jirsu (Ninurta)‘…”

“The young woman …… sheaves,

who held a stylus of refined silver in her hand,

who had placed it on a tablet with propitious stars and was consulting it,

she was in fact my sister Nisaba….”

“’Nin-jirsu, I want to build up your house for you,

I want to make it perfect for you, so I will ask your sister, the child born of Eridu,

an authority on her own, the lady, the dream-interpreter among the gods,

my divine sister from Sirara, Nance,to show me the way.’

His call was heard; his master, Lord Nin-jirsu accepted from (King) Gudea…”

“Now the ruler imposed a levy on his land.

He imposed a levy on his realm of abundant ……, on Nin-jirsu´s Gu-edina.

He imposed levy on his built-up cities and settlements, on Nance´s Gu-jicbara…”

“There was a levy for him on the clan of Nance

Both river banks and shores rising out of the waters,

the huger river, full of water, which spreads its abundance everywhere,

and he placed the holy pelican (?), the standard of Nance, in front of them…”

As Nanse:

“When the mistress, Mother Nanše, floats her holy barge to visit you,

sweet and noble singers perform for her on board…”

“Nanše (Nanshe) has placed a mighty symbol in your hand,

Ḫendursaĝa (Utu’s son).

The mistress, Mother Nanše, speaks confidentially with you…”

“Nindara, the king of Lagaš (Lagash).

Also with her help, monthly and at the New Year on the days of regular offerings,

in your house Nindara makes the wedding-gifts on your behalf

for the mistress, Mother Nanše…”

“The one who sets sail…in the holy shrine, the innin who induces copulation…

great flood-wave of the sea, turbulent flood-wave, the inundation of the sea…

who springs forth out of the sea-foam…the innin of Sirara,

mother Nanse, the sea in all its breadth, Enki placed in charge of it…”

“Nanse, the noble nin/en, at whose feet the holy u-bird stands,

is now the customs inspector of the sea.

Good fish, tasty birds, she grants her father Enlil in Nippur…”

As Nazi:

“Let Nazi marry Nindara;…”

“Nazi shall marry Nindara,…”

“’My brother (Enki), what part of you hurts you?’

‘My throat (zi) hurts me.’

She (Ninhursag) gave birth to Nazi out of it…”

Nindara Quotes From Texts

Nindara = Nanshe’s husband

Enki & Ninhursag’s son-in-law

“Nindara, the king of Lagaš (Lagash).

Also with her help, monthly and at the New Year on the days of regular offerings,

in your house Nindara makes the wedding-gifts on your behalf for the mistress,

Mother Nanše…”

“may the god Nin-dara (Nanshe’s husband) the royal warrior,…”

“Let Nazi marry Nindara;…”

“Nazi shall marry Nindara,…”

“You are the accountant of Nindara (Nanshe’s spouse),

king of Niĝin in its spacious location…”

“My husband is the tax collector of the sea,

Nindara is the tax collector of the sea.”

2 lines unclear

A balbale of Nanše….”

“For the god Nin-dara, the lord of destinies (?), his temple he has constructed….

Gudae…dowered with power by the god Nin-dara…”

(#6)Azimua Quotes From Texts

Azimua = Enki & Ninhursag’s daughter via Uttu

spouse to Ningishzidda

As Azimua:

“’What hurts you still, dear (Enki)?’

‘My throat hurts me. (Ninhursag)’

‘To the goddess Azimua I have given birth for you to set your throat free.’…”

“’My brother (Enki), what part of you hurts you?’

‘My arm (a) hurts me.’

She (Ninhursag) gave birth to Azimua out of it…”

“Azimua shall marry Ninjiczida (Ningishzidda),…”

“To Dimpimekug (1 ms. has instead: Dimpikug, who stands by his side,

he gave a lapis-lazuli seal hanging from a pin,

and a gold and silver toggle-pin with a bison’s head.

To his spouse, Ninazimua (Azimua), the august scribe, denizen of Arali,

in her palace, the shepherd Ur-Namma offered a headdress

with the august ear-pieces (?) of a sage, made of alabaster, a …… stylus,

the hallmark of the scribe, a surveyor’s gleaming line, and the measuring rod …….”

As Ninazimua:

“To …… Ninjiczida, in his palace,

the shepherd Ur-Namma offered a …… sparkling with ……,

……. donkeys that bray loudly (?), followed by …….”

“To …… Ninazimua, …… denizen of Arali, and to Jectin-ana, the king’s sister,

in her palace, the shepherd Ur-Namma offered a ……,

the hallmark of the scribe, ……, a peg and the measuring rod …….”

(#7)Ninti Quotes From Texts

Ninti = Enk & Ninhursag’s daughtervia Uttu “Lady Life”

^“Your father is Enki, the lord Nudimmud,

and your mother is Ninti, the queen of the abzu.

Ninkasi, your father is Enki, the lord Nudimmud,

and your mother is Ninti, the queen of the abzu…”

“‘What hurts you most, dearest (Enki)?’

‘My rib hurts me.’

‘To the goddess Nin-ti, the Lady of the Rib and the One who makes Live,

I (Ninhursag) have given birth for you to set your rib free.’…”

‘”My brother (Enki), what part of you hurts you?’

‘My ribs (ti) hurt me.’

She (Ninhursag) gave birth to Ninti out of it…

Ninti shall become the lady of the month,…”

Ninti, “Lady of the Rib”, shared her emotions with the other Anunnaki on board her ship. They watched as all living things left upon the Earth were drowned.

“The Anunnaki, great gods, were sitting in thirst, in hunger…

Ninti wept and spent her emotion; she wept and eased her feelings.

The gods wept with her for the land.

She was overcome with grief; she thirsted for beer.

Where she sat, the gods sat weeping; crouching like sheep at a trough.

Their lips were feverish of thirst, they were suffering cramp from hunger…”

(And:)

“The Goddess saw and she wept…her lips were covered with feverishness….”

(She went on to say:)

”My creatures have become like flies – they filled the rivers like dragonflies,

their fatherhood was taken by the rolling sea…”

(#8)Enshag Quotes From Texts

Enshag = Enki & Ninhursag’s son via Uttu

lord over Tilmun

“‘What hurts you still, dear (Enki)?’ ‘My limbs hurt me.’

To the god Enshag I (Ninhursag) have given birth for you to set your limbs free…”

“‘My brother (Enki), what part of you hurts you?’ ‘My sides (zag) hurt me.’

She (Ninhursag) gave birth to Ensag out of it…”

“and Ensag shall become lord of Dilmun…”

“Let Enshag be the lord of Tilmun!…”

Nintulla Quote From Text

Nintulla = Enki & Ninhursag’s son via Uttu

“The Great Lady (Ninhursag) continued her mighty healing ritual,

asking Enki for the names of the organs that had been affected.:

‘Dearest, what hurts you?’

‘My jaw hurts me.’

‘To the god Nintulla I have given birth for you to set your jaw free’…”

Sal-pae Quote From Text

Sul-pae = lord of Ninhursag’s house in Kish, Ninhursag’s spouse?, concubine?

“House Keš, given birth by a lion…

Ninursaĝa (Ninhursag) sits within like a great dragon.

Nintur the great mother assists at births there.

Šul-pa-e the ruler acts as lord…”

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Umul Quote From Text

Umul = one of Enki & Ninhursag’s creatures

failure in producing the mixed-breed “workers”

“Enki said to Ninmah:

‘For your creatures I have decreed a fate,

I have given them their daily bread.

Now, you should decree a fate for my creature, give him his daily bread too.’

Ninmah looked at Umul and turned to him.

She went nearer to Umul asked him questions but he could not speak.

She offered him bread to eat but he could not reach out for it.

He could not lie on ……., he could not …….

Standing up he could not sit down, could not lie down,

he could not …… a house,

he could not eat bread…”

Ninhursag Quotes From Zecharia Sitchin’s Books

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...)

Ninhursag, the 1/2 sister to Enlil, had sex with him and gave birth to Ninurta while on Nibiru, providing Enlil with a royal heir to the Nibiru throne by the royal bloodline of Anu.

She claimed, “With shrieks of pain I gave birth”, and she had “made certain for my brother and for Anu” that this bloodline to continue ruling the “Kingship of Heaven”.

She provided this service to Enlil while on Nibiru, by consenting to her ½ brother, for the procreation of a son. Ninurta, who was to become Enlil’s heir to rule both “Heaven and Earth”.

Zu stole the Tablets of Destinies, and therefore the Enlilship, from Enlil while he was taking a daily swim.

“At the entrance of the sanctuary, which he had been viewing,

Zu awaits the start of the day.

As Enlil was washing with pure water–

his crown having been removed and deposited on the throne–

Zu seized the Tablets of Destinies in his hands, took away the Enlilship.

Suspended were the Divine Formulas;

Stillness spread all over; silence prevailed….

The Sanctuary’s brilliance was taken off.

Enlil was speechless…”

Ninurta’s mother Ninhursag, went ballistic. She would not stand for her son’s rights as Enlil’s heir to be stolen by Anzu:

“Launch thy offensive…capture the fugitive Zu….

Let thy terrifying offensive rage against him….

Slit his throat! Vanquish Zu!

Let thy seven ill Winds go against him….

Cause the entire Whirlwind to attack him….

Let thy Radiance go against him….

Let thy Winds carry his Wings to a secret place….

Let sovereignty return to Ekur;

Let the Divine Formulas return to the father who begot thee…”

With Ea / Enki’s help, Ninurta was able to shoot Anzu’s wings and bring him down, returning the “Enlilship“ back to Enlil and Nippur.

On one side was Ninurta, Adad, and soon joined by Sin, and then later on by Inanna / Ishtar.

On the opposing side are listed Nabu, a god referred as “Mighty, lofty One”–.Ra / Marduk—and the “God of two Great Houses” (the two Great Pyramids of Giza), who had tried to escape camouflaged in a ram’s skin (Horus).

Ninhursag took the surrender offer of Enki’s to Enlil. She met him in the presence of Adad (while Ninurta remained on the battlefield). “O hear my prayers!” she begged the two gods…

“Presenting himself there, to the Mother, Adad thus said:

‘We are expecting victory.

The enemy forces are beaten.

The trembling of the land he could not withstand’…”

Adad said, let her call discussions on the basis that the Enlilites are about to win:

“Get up and go—talk to the enemy.

Let him attend the discussions so that the attack be withdrawn.”…

Enlil, in less forceful language, supported the suggestion:

“Enlil opened his mouth;

In the assembly of the gods he said:

‘Whereas Anu at the mountain the gods assembled,

warfare to discourage, peace to bring,

and has dispatched the Mother of the Gods to entreat with me–

Let the Mother of the Gods be an emissary.’…”

Turning to his sister, he said in a conciliatory vein:

“Go, appease my brother!

Raise unto him a hand for Life;

From his barred doorway, let him come out!”…

Doing as suggested, Ninhursag

“his brother went to fetch, put her prayers before the god…”

She assured him that his safety, and that of his sons, was assured:

“by the stars she gave a sign…”

As Enki hesitated she said to him tenderly:

“Come, let me lead you out.”…

“And as he did, he gave her his hand…”

She conducted him and other defenders of the Great Pyramid to the Harsag, her abode. Ninurta and his warriors watched…

We learn from the continuing ancient chronicle that Ninhursag first went with her idea of stopping the fighting and convening a peace conference to Enlil’s camp.

The Enlilite’s first reaction…was to accuse her of giving aid and comfort to the “demons”.” Ninhursag denied the accusation:

“My House is pure,”…

she answered. But a god whose identity is unclear challenged her sarcastically:

“’Is the House which is loftier and brightest of all–

the Great Pyramid—also “pure’?…”

“Of that I cannot speak”…

Ninhursag answered;

“its brilliance Gibil is soldiering…”

...a ceremony of symbolic baptism making Ninhursag welcome again in Mesopotamia. Enlil touched her with his “bright scepter,” and the

“power of her was not overthrown…”

But then Enlil agreed saying to her:

“Go, appease my brother.”…

Ninhursag performed a symbolic ceremony of her own. She lighted seven fires, one each for the gathered gods: Enki and his two sons: Enlil and his three sons (Ninurta, Adad, and Sin). She uttered an incantation as she lit each fire:

“A firery offering to Enlil of Nippur…

to Ninurta…

to Adad…

to Enki, coming from the Abzu…

to Nergal, coming from Meslam…”

By nightfall the place was ablaze:

“as sunlight was the great light set off by the goddess…”

Ninhursag then appealed to the wisdom of the gods and extolled the virtues of peace:

“Mighty are the fruits of the wise god;

the great divine river to his vegetation shall come…

its overflowing will make (the land) like a garden of god…”

Ninhursag threw in her weight behind her son Ninurta:

“She cried out and lamented to her brother;

Like a pregnant woman she was agitated, (saying)

‘Inside the Ekur I call to my brother,

my brother who an infant made me carry; upon my brother I call!’…

Of equal lineage with them (Enki & Enlil), was their sister Sud. As a daughter of Anu, she bore the title NIN.MAH (“Great Lady”). She was one of the original group of Great Anunnaki who were pioneers on Earth…She bore a son to Enlil, daughters to Enki, and was lovingly called “Mammi” (“Mother of the Gods”). She helped to create Mankind.

So now that she was given her own domain, she decided to go there. Proudly she stated:

“A Mistress I am now!

Alone will I stay there, reigning forever!”…

Ninurta applied his experience in damning and channeling waters to make his mother’s new mountain region livable. Tablet IX of the “Feats and Exploits of Ninurta,” as he addresses his mother:

“Since you, noble lady, alone to the Land of Landing had gone,

Since to the Land of Casting Down unafraid you went–

A dam I shall heap up for you, so that the Land may have a mistress.”…

Ninurta assured his mother that she would have an abundance of vegetation, wood products, and minerals in her mountain abode:

“Its valleys shall be verdant with vegetation,

Its slopes shall produce honey and wine for you,

Shall produce…zabalum-trees and boxwood;

its terraces shall be adorned with fruit as a garden;

The Harsag shall provide you with the fragrance of the gods,

shall provide you with the shiny lodes;

Its mines will as tribute copper and tin give you;

Its mountains shall multiply you cattle large and small;

The Harsag shall bring forth the four-legged creatures…”

Making a home for his mother in the Sinai’s southern region of high granite peaks, Ninurta bestowed on her a new title: NIN.HAR.SAG (“Lady of the Head Mountain”); it was the title by which Sud was to be called ever since.

“the garden of the Great Gods and Earthly paradise, located eastward in Eden,

was the place where Ninhursag, the Earth Mother,

Most Exalted Lady and Supreme Queen, could be found…”

A poem exhalting Ninhursag as mistress of the “House With a Pointed Peak”–a pyramid:

“House bright and dark of Heaven and Earth, or the rocketships put together;

E.KUR, House of the Gods with pointed peak;

For Heaven-to-Earth it is greatly equipped.

House whose interior glows with a reddish Light of Heaven,

pulsating a beam which reaches far and wide;

Its awesomeness touches the flesh.

Awesome ziggurat, lofty mountain of mountains–

Thy creation is great and lofty, men cannot understand it…”

The function of this “House of the Gods With Pointed Peak” is then made clear: it was a “House of Equipment” serving to “bring down to rest” the astronauts “who see the orbit” a “great landmark for the lofty Shems” (the “sky chambers”):

“House of Equipment, lofty House of Eternity;

Its foundation are stones (which reach) the water;

Its great circumference is set in the clay.

House whose parts are skillfully woven together;

House, the rightness of whose howling

the Great-Ones-Who-See-and-Orbit brings down to rest…

House which is great landmark for the lofty Shem;

Mountain by which Utu ascends.

(House) whose deep insides men cannot penetrate…

Anu has magnified it…”

The text then goes on to describe various parts of the structure: its foundation, “which is clad in awe”, its entrance, which opens and closes as a mouth, “glowing in a dim green light”; the threshold (“like a great dragon’s mouth open and wait”); the doorjambs (“like two edges of a dagger that keeps enemies away”). Its inner chamber is “like a vulva,” guarded by “daggers which dash from dawn to dusk”; its “outpouring”–that which it emits–”is like a lion which no one dares attack.”

An ascending gallery is then described:

“Its vault is like a rainbow, the darkness ends there; in awesomeness it is draped;

its joints are like a vulture whose claws are ready to clasp…”

There, at the top of the gallery, is

“the entryway to the Mountain’s top;…”

“to foe it is not opened; only to Them Who Live for them it is opened…”

Three locking devices–

“the bolt, the bar and the lock…

slithering in an awe inspiring place…”

protect the way into the uppermost chamber, from which the Ekur

“surveys Heaven and Earth, a net it spreads out…”

After so describing the Ekur inside and out, the laudatory text provides information regarding the functions and location of the structure:

“On this day the Mistress herself speaks truly;

The Goddess of the Rocketships,the Pure Great Lady, praises herself:

‘I am the Mistress; Anu has determined my destiny; the daughter of Anu am I.

Enlil has added to me a great destiny; his sister-prince am I.

The gods have given unto my hand the pilot-guiding instrument of Heaven-Earth;

Mother of the sky-chambers am I.

Ereshkigal allotted to me the place-of-opening of the pilot-guiding instruments;

The great landmark, the Mountain by which Utu rises,

I have established as my dais.”…

If, …Ninhursag was the neutral Mistress of the Pyramid of Giza, it follows that she would have been know and revered as a goddess also in Egypt…Hathor “Goddess Whose Home Is Where the Falcons Are,” where the astronauts make their home: the spaceport.

The evidence comes in the form of an inscription by the Pharaoh Khufu (2600 B.C.) on a commemorative stela he erected at Giza in a temple dedicated to Isis. Known as the Inventory Stela…established that the Great Pyramid had already existed when Khufu began to reign:

“Live Horus Mezdau.

To king of Upper and Lower Egypt, Khufu,

Life is given!

He founded the House of Isis,

Mistress of the Pyramid, beside the House of the Sphinx…”

At his time Isis was considered to have been the “Mistress of the Pyramid”, but as the continuing inscription makes clear, she was not the Pyramid’s first mistress:

“Live Horus Mezdau.

To king of Upper and Lower Egypt, Khufu,

Life is given!

For his divine mother Isis,

Mistress of ‘The Western Mountain of Hathor,’

he made (this) writing on a stela.

‘Have them call for me Belet-ili (Ninhursag), sister of the gods,

Wise counselor of the gods her brothers,

Have them announce her supremacy in the assembly,

Have the gods honor her in their assembly;

I shall then tell her the idea which is my heart.’

They called for Belet-ili, sister of the gods, to him,

Wise counselor of the gods her brothers,

They announced her supremacy in the assembly,

The gods honored her in their assembly.

Then Ea (Enki) told the idea in the depths of his inmost being.

‘Previously we used to call you Mami

But now your name shall be Mistress of all Gods.’…”

Enki too attempted to bear an heir via her, to produce a son from his ½ sister Ninhursag. When Enki came near, her appearance would

“ cause his penis to water the dikes… “

Enki made conjugal visits to Ninhursag for the purpose of procreating his heir.

Enki

“poured the semen into the womb of Ninhursag.

She took the semen into the womb, the semen of Enki… “

“After the nine months of Womanhood…”

“she gave birth at the bank of the waters…. “

Enki and Ninhursag,…the Sumerian tale relates that Enki crossed the marshy lakes that separated Egypt and the Sinai peninsula and came unto the lonely Ninhursag…:

“To the one who is alone,

To the Lady of Life, mistress of the land,

Enki came unto the wise Lady of Life.

He causes his phallus to water the dikes;

He causes his phallus to submerge the reeds…

He poured his semen into the great lady of the Anunnaki,

poured the semen into the womb of Ninhursag;

She took the semen into her womb, the semen of Enki…”

Enki’s real intention was to obtain a son by his half-sister, but the offspring was a daughter. Enki then made love to the daughter as she became “young and fair”, and then the grand-daughter, and so on.

Telling of Enki having sex with the daughters he had with ½ sister Ninhursag, a tablet states:

“He embraced her, he kissed her;

Enki poured the semen into the womb… “

Enki had another daughter. He then went after his granddaughter to bear him an heir. She too had a daughter. In order to stop Enki’s behavior, Ninhursag put a spell on him where he became deathly ill after eating some plants.

“Until he is dead, I shall not look upon him with the ‘Eye of Life…”

She later removed the curse.

“Ninhursag seated Enki by her vulva and asked:

‘My brother, what hurts thee?’…”

After she cured his body part by part, Enki proposed that the two of them as masters of Egypt and the Sinia assign tasks, spouses, and territories to the eight young gods:

“Let Abu be the master of plants;

Let Nintulla be the lord of Magan (Egypt);

Let Ninsutu marry Ninazu;

Let Ninkashi be she who sates the thirsts;

Let Nazi marry Nindara;

Let Azimua marry Ningishzidda;

Let Nintu be the queen of the months;

Let Enshag be the lord of Tilmun! (Sinai)…”

Ptah / Enki followed up the bringing forth of these gods by assigning abodes and territories to them:

“After he had formed the gods, he made cities,

established districts, put the gods in their sacred abodes;

he built their shrines and established their offerings…”

All that he did

“to make rejoice the heart of the Mistress of Life…”

After mining gold for 100,000 Earth years, 30 Nibiru years, Enki and his men went on strike. They were tired of eating the dust in the mines for so many years; and there were no relief crews scheduled to replace them. They thought it was time for their group to switch job descriptions with Enlil’s group.

“Let us confront our…the Chief Officer,

That he may relieve us of our heavy work.

The king of the gods, the hero Enlil, let us unnerve him in his dwelling!”…

Enlil would have nothing of it and ordered Enki and crew back to work.

“Now, proclaim war; let us combine hostilities and battle.”…

It was this near war between them that led to their need and later development of the Lulu, “Primitive Worker”. This newly constructed worker was originally charged to “bear the yoke” of the gods in the mines. It was Enki’s idea to create a worker that would relieve his men from the “yoke of the gods”. They were totally unsuccessful in convincing Enlil or Anu to replace them with Enlil’s men. They had to do something and a violent revolution was a bad idea.

“While the Birth Goddess is present,

let her create a Primitive Worker; let him bear the yoke…”

“Let him carry the toil of the gods!”…

And they summoned Ninhursag, the half sister to both Enlil and Enki, but of separate mothers, who was charged to perform the experiment.

“You are the Birth Goddess, create workers!

Create a Primitive Worker, that he may bear the yoke!

Let him bare the yoke assigned by Enlil,

let The Worker carry the toil of the gods!”…

This was no easy task. Enki enlisted the help of his half sister, Ninhursag, and the help of his wife, Ninki. Ninhursag was to take the female Homo-erect-is egg, fertilizing it with the seed of Enki. She was to genetically engineer the egg in such a way that would put the stamp of Enki’s genes upon mankind. The genes of Enki gave the newly developed Modern Man the divine element, and the genes of the female Earthling gave Homo sapiens the Earth element. She then transplanted the fertile egg into the womb of the surrogate mother, Ninki. Ninki carried the fetus into the 10^th month when Ninhursag performed the delivery. The newly created Workers were called in The Old Testament, “the Adam”, and he was created from the “adama” meaning “the Earth’s Soil”, “the Earthling”.

Ninhursag proudly announced,

“You commanded me a task –

I have completed it…

I have removed your heavy work,

I have imposed your toil on The Worker, “Man.”

You raised a cry for a Worker-kind:

I have loosed the yoke, I have provided your freedom.”…

Once Ninhursag developed “The Worker” for Enki, in his image and likeness, and for his own use in the mines, Enki now had workers with hands adept enough to handle their machinery. They now had vocal chords, which helped them to communicate. The frontal lobe of their brains became developed and they could understand commands. Their hair and skin was no longer like that of a wild, hairy animal, but now similar to“a skin as the skin of a god”.

The Great Flood

Not all the Anunnaki were eager to see mankind wiped off the face of the Earth. Ninti, “Lady of the Rib”, shared her emotions with the other Anunnaki on board her ship. They watched as all living things left upon the Earth were drowned.

“The Anunnaki, great gods, were sitting in thirst, in hunger…

Ninti wept and spent her emotion; she wept and eased her feelings.

The gods wept with her for the land.

She was overcome with grief; she thirsted for beer.

Where she sat, the gods sat weeping; crouching like sheep at a trough.

Their lips were feverish of thirst, they were suffering cramp from hunger…”

And,

“The Goddess saw and she wept…

her lips were covered with feverishness…. “

She went on to say,

”My creatures have become like flies –

they filled the rivers like dragonflies,

their fatherhood was taken by the rolling sea.”…

Inanna / Ishtar cried out,

“The olden days, alas, are turned into clay…”

Enki broke the promise he made to the Anunnaki clan. He arranged to save the genetically pure, Utnapishtim / Noah, his family and some friends. Enki, beforehand speaking through a reed wall to Utnapishtim / Noah said,

“Reed hut, reed hut! Wall, Wall!

Reed hut, hearken! Wall, reflect!

Man of Shuruppak, a son of Ubar-Tutu (Lamech in the Bible):

Abandon your house, build a ship!

Give up possessions, seek thou life!

Forswear goods, the life keep!

Aboard the ship take thou the seed of all living things.”…

Utnapishtim / Noah, the ruler of Shuruppak, and offspring to Enki, was instructed to watch for the moment,

“When Shamash, (Utu, the grandson of Enlil, sun god)

who orders a trembling at dusk, will shower down a reign of eruptions –

board thou the ship, batten up the entrance!…”

Enki also had his son, Puzur-Amurri (Ninagal) take the seeds and eggs of every “clean”, non-hybrid, non-mixed animal, and place them in the lab for safe keeping aboard the ship. Enki had earlier instructed Puzur-Amurri, with Noah’s help, to build the vessel in a special way. They built a ship capable of withstanding a huge tidal wave caused by the ice shelf sliding into the drink; and it was also capable of submerging like a submarine. Submerging the vessel would protect them from the onslaught of the coming tidal wave.

Puzur-Amurri was ordered to steer straight for Mount Ararat, the prearranged meeting place of the Anunnaki’s return to Earth, and their original landing site of many thousands of years earlier. Being the highest peak, it was the spot that would dry off first. It would have solid ground to stand upon, and was a good place to start to make a new beginning.

The nuclear attack by Nergal & Ninurta against Marduk & his son Nabu:

“Ninhursag wept in bitter tears…”

as she escaped from Isin. Nanshe cried,

“’O my devastated city’…”

her beloved dwelling place was given over to misfortune…”

Ninhursag Quotes From Texts, Etc.

Ninhursag / Ninhursaga = sister to Enki & ½ sister to Enlil

lover to both brothers, bearing their children

(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...)

Ninhursag Speaking in the 1st Person:

“then Ninmah said to Enki:

‘Man’s body can be either good or bad and whether I make a fate good or bad depends on my will’ ...”

(Ninhursag) learned of this situation.

She ripped the clothes on her body and she …….

“You my plant-eater Enki, who shall I send to you?

Men will shake their heads in fear ……. Who shall I send to you?

That name is not Enki. That name is Ugugu-that-does-not-pour (?).

You who are death which has no mercy, who shall I send to you?”

“’I would never bind you to me against your True Will, beloved,’

said simply Ninhursag. ‘And because you understood this great mystery,

because you and I are indeed two of a kind, let all worlds know what I now declare:

from this very moment on let it be known that I, Ninhursag, the Earth Mother,

Wisest beyond all Beings in the Ways of Nature,

built a house for my beloved and myself on a Rock, steadfast and solid….”

(Ninhursaja asked:)

‘My brother, what part of you hurts you?’

‘The top of my head (ugu-dili) hurts me.’

She gave birth to Ab-u out of it.

‘My brother, what part of you hurts you?’

‘The locks of my hair (siki) hurt me.’

She gave birth to Ninsikila out of it.

‘My brother, what part of you hurts you?’

‘My nose (giri) hurts me.’

She gave birth to Ningiriudu out of it.

‘My brother, what part of you hurts you?’

‘My mouth (ka) hurts me.’

She gave birth to Ninkasi out of it.

‘My brother, what part of you hurts you?’

‘My throat (zi) hurts me.’

She gave birth to Nazi out of it.

‘My brother, what part of you hurts you?’

‘My arm (a) hurts me.’

She gave birth to Azimua out of it.

‘My brother, what part of you hurts you?’

‘My ribs (ti) hurt me.’

She gave birth to Ninti out of it.

‘My brother, what part of you hurts you?’

‘My sides (zag) hurt me.

She gave birth to Ensag out of it.

(She said:) ‘For the little ones to whom I have given birth

may rewards not be lacking.

Ab-u shall become king of the grasses,

Ninsikila shall become lord of Magan,

Ningiriudu shall marry Ninazu,

Ninkasi shall be what satisfies the heart,

Nazi shall marry Nindara,

Azimua shall marry Ninjiczida,

Ninti shall become the lady of the month,

and Ensag shall become lord of Dilmun (Sinai).’ …”

As Ninhursag:

“After Time had come into being and the holy seasons for growth and rest were finally known, holy Dilmun,

(“Tilmun”, Sinai Peninsula, “Land of the Missiles” )

the pure clean and bright land of the living, the garden of the Great Gods and Earthly paradise,

located eastward in Eden, was the place where Ninhursag, the Earth Mother,

Most Exalted Lady and Supreme Queen, could be found. …”

“Enki replied:

‘Ninhursag, dearest Nintur, beloved, how can anyone quite compare to you?

I cannot resist your wild, sweet ways, so lie with me one more time

and fill my body, heart, soul and mind with endless delights!

For me you will forever be my fierce Damgalnunna, my Great Spouse, passionate and very much loved!’ …”

“Ereshkigal, saw Enlil‘s wrongdoing and heard the lament of the Maiden:

the Lady of the Great Below heeded the Maiden’s words.

She knew a door had been opened for Justice,

Growth and Regeneration in the Underworld

if only Enlil submitted to the Laws of the Land of No Return.

In Nippur, Ki, Mother Earth, also known as Urash, Ninmah, and Ninhursag

felt strongly that Enlil should suffer the hardest of all punishments for his conduct.

Never before had the Anunnaki taken to trial one of their own.

Shocked and circumspect, they gathered, and were forty-nine,

not the usual fifty in number, because Enlil was counted out for the first time.

In the lower platform sat 46 judges, in the higher was An, who presided all judgments,

sided by Ki (Ninhursag, Antu is Enlil‘s mother) on his right and Enki on his left.

Father, Mother and Brother to Enlil they were,

but also the Guardians of the Attributes of Civilization, Law and Order.

The fourth high seat was empty.

It belonged to Enlil, the defendant.

Red-eyed Ninlil, sided by the healer goddess Gula

(Bau, Enlil‘s ½sister and his daughter-in-law), sat quiet and dignified on the right.

On the left and opposite to her was Enlil,

whose discomfort was evident for all to see…”

“Is there anywhere a greater king who can say, as Gilgamesh may?

“I am the greatest king in this world!?”

Most of him was forged above, the rest was forged below.

She-who-must-be-obeyed (Ninhursag) fashioned his body.

She endowed him with wit and wisdom…”

As Ninursaga / Ninhursaja:

“Ninursaĝa sits within like a great dragon.

Nintur the great mother assists at births there.

Šul-pa-e the ruler acts as lord.”

“the house of Ninursaĝa in Keš (Kish).”

“The mother of the gods, Ninhursaja (Ninhursag),

had the mighty (?) (altar) light of the lord live with her in Kec (Kish);

she had Cul-pa-eda (Ninurta, her son),no less, help her with the construction work (altar)…”

“Ninmah (‘Great Lady’), since you entered the rebel lands for my sake,

since you did not keep far from me when I was surrounded by the horrors of battle–

let the name of the pile which I, the Hero, have piled up be Mountain (hursaj)

and may you be its lady (nin): now that is the destiny decreed by Ninurta.

Henceforth people shall speak of Ninhursaja.

So be it…”

“Lie down for me in the marsh, lie down for me in the marsh, that would be joyous.”

Enki distributed his semen destined for Damgalnuna (Ninhursag).

He poured semen into Ninhursaja’s (Ninhursag) womb

and she conceived the semen in the womb, the semen of Enki...”

Aruru Quotes From Texts

Aruru = Ninhursag, Anu‘s daughter

Chief Medical Officer

“the Great Goddess Ninhursag, also called Aruru,

the Earth Mother and Mistress of All Creation…”

“Lady-creatrix-of-the-womb, Aruru (Ninhursag), Enlil‘s elder(1/2) sister,…”

“Aruru,the sister of Enlil, has erected a house in your precinct,

O house Keš (Kish)…, and taken her seat upon your dais.

the house of Ninursaĝa (NInhursag) in Keš (Kish).”

“Aruru, the sister of Enlil, extended her right breast to me,…”

“Aruru, the sister of Enlil, destroyed her city Irisajrig…”

“Aruru (Ninhursag), the older sister of Enlil,

provides them with offspring for that purpose (?).

Their statues are made for future days and they are mentioned in the Land.

Ereckigala (Ereshkigal), mother of Ninazu, it is sweet to praise you!”

“Aruru shall become Sud‘s (Ninlil‘s) sister-in-law: let her be shown the household…”

“Then Aruru grasped her by the hand and led her away into the Ec-mah.

She brought her into the E-kur, the house of Enlil…”

“Enlil…determined a fate for the Lady (Aruru) , the woman of his favor;

he gave her the name Nintud, the ‘Lady who gives birth’, the ‘Lady who spreads her knees’…”

“Aruru (Ninhursag), Enlil‘s (½) sister, Nintud (Ninhursag), the lady of giving birth,

is to get the holy birth-bricks as her prerogative.

She is to carry off the lancet for umbilical cords, the special sand and leeks.

She is to get the sila-jara bowl of translucent lapis lazuli (in which to place the afterbirth).

She is to carry off the holy consecrated ala vessel.

She is to be the midwife of the land!

The birthing of kings and lords is to be in her hands.”

“the good lady whose powers excel all powers,

Lady-creatrix-of-the-womb, Aruru, Enlil‘s elder sister, stood before him:…”

“He (Enki) formed mankind. the goddess Aruru with him created mankind,…”

“This lament did go on high to pass into Aruru’s (Ninhursag) ear, great goddess of creation that she is:

“I created humans. I shall create again the image of Gilgamesh

This creation now shall be as quick in heart and as strong in arm

This creation will speak word to word, blow to blow, so Uruk‘s children will live in peace.”

“With this thought She did bend and scoop and spit and fling, with flick of wrist, mud

Mud that fell deep into the woods below.

Thus did Enkidu come about.

Thus did Enkidu, wild man, hairy man, forest man, come about.

Thus did Enkidu with golden sun dazzled locks of hair growing like the goddess-of-grain, come about.

Thus did Enkidu, with body clothed like Sumuqu (cattle god) with only his own hide, come about.

Thus Enkidu, man in no family, man in no village, ,,,”

“When Aruru heard this she created within herself the zikrtt of Anu.

Aruru washed her hands, she pinched off some clay, and threw it into the wilderness.

In the wildness(?) she created valiant Enkidu, born of Silence, endowed with strength by Ninurta. …”

“The Great Goddess Aruru (Ninhursag) designed him, planned his body, prepared his form

A perfect body the gods gave

For the creation of Gilgamesh Shamash (Utu) the Sun gave beauty

Adad (Ishkur) the Storm gave courage

And so he surpassed all others.

He was two-thirds god, one third man, …

The form of his body no one can match

Eleven cubits high he is, nine spans his chest …”

“So the Goddess of Creation took and formed in her mind

This image, and there it was conceived – in her mind, and it was made of material

That composes the Great God,

He of the Firmament.

She then plunged her hands down into water and pinched off a little clay.

She let it drop in the wilderness

Thus the noble Enkidu was made. …”

“Strong as a wild bull is this Gilgamesh

So he was made by Aruru (Ninhursag), the goddess

None there is who can – not one

None who can survive him in fighting.

No son left to his father.

Gilgamesh, he takes them all,…”

“To the Goddess of Creation, Aruru (Ninhursag) –

Cried all the gods:

‘You created this Gilgamesh! Well, create him his equal!…

So the Goddess of Creation took and formed in her mind

This image, and there it was conceived – in her mind, and it was made of material

That composes the Great God,

He of the Firmament.

She then plunged her hands down into water and pinched off a little clay.

She let it drop in the wilderness

Thus the noble Enkidu was made…”

“Aruru washed her hands;

Clay she pinched off and spat upon it;

Eabani, a hero she created,

An exalted offspring, with the might of Ninib…”

Belet-ili Quotes From Texts

Belet-ili = Ninhursag

“Have them call for me Belet-ili, sister of the gods,

Wise counselor of the gods her brothers,

Have them announce her supremacy in the assembly,

Have the gods honor her in their assembly;

I shall then tell her the idea which is my heart.’

They called for Belet-ili, sister of the gods, to him,

Wise counselor of the gods her brothers,

They announced her supremacy in the assembly,

The gods honored her in their assembly.

Then Ea (Enki) told the idea in the depths of his inmost being.

‘Previously we used to call you Mami

But now your name shall be Mistress of all Gods.

Offer the powerful one, your superb beloved,

Broad of chest, who forms the battle array!

Give Ninurta, your superb beloved,…”

“Just then Beletili (Ninhursag) arrived.

She lifted up the large flies (beads) which Anu had made for his enjoyment(!):

‘You gods, as surely as I shall not forget this lapis lazuli around my neck,

may I be mindful of these days, and never forget them!

The gods may come to the incense offering, but Enlil may not come to the incense offering,

because without considering he brought about the Flood and consigned my people to annihilation.’ …”

Damgalnuna Quotes From Texts

Damgalnunna = sometimes Ninhursag (Sumerian), sometimes Damkina / Ninki (Akkadian) Enki‘s spouse, mother goddess

Ninhursag As Damgalnuna:

“Enki distributed his semen destined for Damgalnuna.

He poured semen into Ninhursaja’s womb and she conceived the semen in the womb, the semen of Enki…”

“Enki replied:

‘Ninhursag, dearest Nintur, beloved, how can anyone quite compare to you?

I cannot resist your wild, sweet ways, so lie with me one more time and fill my body,

heart, soul and mind with endless delights!

For me you will forever be my fierce Damgalnunna, my Great Spouse, passionate and very much loved!’…”

“She is the birth-giver of the great gods, she is their goddess.

A šir-šagḫula of Damgalnuna…”

Ki Quotes From Texts

Ki = sometimes Antu, = sometimes Ninhursag consorts of Anu

Ninhursag As Ki :

“Ki, Beloved Body of my Soul, Sister without peer,

Heart’s Desire and Spouse so dear, many Names will be given to you.

But for me you will forever be Ninhursag,

Queen of the Holy Hill, dearest Ninmah, Most Exalted Lady,

Queen and Best Companion along the Heights I trail

You will be remembered, Beloved, as Nintur, Lady Birth Hut, and nothing or no one will quite compare to you!

Urash, Birth Giver, most sacred Aruru everlasting praises will be sung from now on to you!

Lady of Mound, where Life sprouts happy and free.

Body of my Soul, sister without peer, Heart’s Desire and Spouse so dear,

mine is the Voice but for all I sing, Mother of all Life,

Lady of my heart, Beloved and Queen!…”

“In Nippur, Ki, Mother Earth, also known as Urash, Ninmah, and Ninhursag

felt strongly that Enlil should suffer the hardest of all punishments for his conduct…”

“Mother Nammu (Anu‘s concubine, Enki & Ninhursag’s mother) the Sea

who in an act of selfless Self-Love engendered the Skyfather (An)

who the Assembly presides and myself as the Cosmic Mountain Ki…”

“Ninhursag-Ki’s anger was so evident that she dismissed Enlil with a wave or her mighty hand….”

“Ninhursag-Aruru-Ki declared then his fate:…”

Ninmah Quotes From Texts

Ninmah = Ninhursag, Anu & Nammu‘s daughter

mother of the gods

“Enki and Ninmah drank beer, their hearts became elated, and then Ninmah said to Enki:

‘Man’s body can be either good or bad and whether I make a fate good or bad depends on my will’…”

“Ninmah took clay from the top of the abzu in her hand

and she fashioned from it first a man who could not bend his outstretched weak hands…”

“Ninmah (‘Great Lady’), since you entered the rebel lands for my sake,

since you did not keep far from me when I was surrounded by the horrors of battle–

let the name of the pile which I, the Hero, have piled up be Mountain (hursaj)

and may you be its lady (nin): now that is the destiny decreed by Ninurta.

Henceforth people shall speak of Ninhursaja.

So be it…”

Ninmena Quotes From Texts

Ninmena = Ninhursag, Anu‘s daughter

mother goddess of gods & modern earthlings

“Ninmena, the lady who had given birth to the ruler,

who had given birth to the king, now set (aljaja) human reproduction going…”

(Refering to Ninurta)

“May your father Enlil do whatever you command.

May Ninmena not fashion your equal (?)… “

“Ninmena learned of this situation.

She ripped the clothes on her body and she …….

‘You my plant-eater Enki, who shall I send to you?’…”

Nintu / Nintud / Nintur Quotes From Texts

Nintu / Nintud / Nintur = Ninhursag, Anu‘s daughter

As Nintu:

“I am the one Nintu really cares for: I am the one Ninhursag gave a good name…”

“While [Nintu (Ninhursag) the birth-goddess] is present,

let the birth-goddess create the offspring, let man bear the labor-basket of the gods.“

“They called the goddess and asked [her], the midwife of the gods, wise Mami (Ninhursag): “

“You are the birthgoddess, creatress of man.

Create lullu-man (Primitive Man), let him bear the yoke.

Let him bear the yoke, the work of Enlil; let man carry the labor-basket of the gods.”

“Nintu opened her mouth and said to the great gods, ‘It is not properly mine to do these things.

He is the one who purifies all; let him give me the clay, and I will do (it).”

“Enki opened his mouth and said to the great gods:

“At the new moon, the seventh day, and the full moon,

I will set up a purifying bath.

Let them slaughter one god.

Let the gods be purified by immersion.

With his flesh and blood let Nintu mix the clay. …”

“For the goddess Nin-gharsag (Ninhursag), the goddess who protects the city, the mother of its inhabitants,

for his lady, Gudea the patesi of Shirpurla her temple of the city Girsu-ki has constructed.

Her sacred altar (?) he has made.

The holy throne of her divinity he has made.

In her sanctuary he has placed them.

From the mountains of the land of Mâgan (Egypt)

a rare stone he has caused to be brought; for her statue he has caused it to be cut.

‘O goddess who fixes the destinies of heaven and earth,

Nin-tu mother of the gods, of Gudea the builder of the temple’…”

“Nintu made ready to speak, and said to the great gods:

‘It is not for me to do it, the task is Enki‘s.

He it is that cleanses all, let him provide me the clay so I can do the making’…”

“Next to Anu he seated Enlil, Nintu he seated at the big side,

The Anunnaki seated themselves…”

“Let Nintu be the queen of the months…”

“Aruru (Ninhursag), [Enlil‘s sist]er, (½ sister) Nintu, the queen [of the] moun[tain],…”

As Nintud:

“Enki provided a meal for Enlil, his father.

He seated Anat the head of the table and seated Enlil next to An.

He seated Nintud in the place of honor…”

“Nintud, mother of the country, like juniper oil, gave birth to Ninsar…”

“(creator deity)…,Ninhursag”

“Enlil, Ninlil and Nintud, …… Nanna (Nannar / Sin) and Ninurta, in the …… of holy Inanna…”

“Enlil determined a fate for the Lady (Aruru) , the woman of his favor;

he gave her the name Nintud, the “Lady who gives birth”, the ‘Lady who spreads her knees’…”

“she who has contended with the Great Mountain Enlil.

The cow cries aloud to her about her calf and, because of her distress,

Nintud — mother Nintud— looks for him, mother Nintud, the august lady of Kec,

she who has contended with the Great Mountain Enlil.

When mother Nintud sat upon the throne-dais on the holy seat of joy,

the seat from which she has made everything numerous,

it was then that the highest divine powers (alien technology), which are golden,

the glory of the numerous people — the en priesthood and the kingship — were created for (& by) Enlil.

When Nintud, mother Nintud, sat upon the throne-dais on the seat of joy,

the seat from which she has made everything numerous,

it was then that the highest divine powers (alien technology),

which are golden, the glory of the numerous people —

the en priesthood and the kingship — were created for (& by) Enlil. …”

“I will …… the perishing of my mankind; for Nintud, I will stop the annihilation of my creatures,…”

“Nintud had scattered the creatures that she had created…”

“Shulgi… ‘At the command of my (½) sister Jectin-ana, my scholars and composers of ……

have composed adab, tigi and malgatum hymns about my being the Nintud of all that is,’…”

“Nintud, who causes human seed to propagate and brings living beings into existence, ……

cities and crowded places, all the numerous people together…”

“Let them give praise in a great song to An (Anu), to Enlil,

to the eldest brother Nudimmud (Enki) and to the mother Nintud of the Land….”

As Nintur:

“O mighty Keš (Kish)…house of Ninursaĝa (Ninhursag)…

Nintur has made you beautiful …”

“’Thus I call myself Nintur, the lady who gives birth,

the Womb of the Damp Lands by the riverbanks.’

Enki replied: ‘Ninhursag, dearest Nintur, beloved,’…”

“Nintur, Enlil and Enki have determined your destiny…”

“That day Nintur wept over her creatures...”

“Nintur’s creatures let me bring them back let me lead the people back from their trails…”

“House founded by An (Anu), praised by Enlil, given an oracle by mother Nintur!

House Keš (Kish), green in its fruit!…”

“House Keš, given birth by a lion…Ninursaĝa sits within like a great dragon.

Nintur the great mother assists at births there.

Šul-pa-e (Ninurta) the ruler acts as lord...”

“O Ašgi! Praise be to cherished Keš and Nintur!…”

“The house Keš is built; its nobility is good!

Its lady has taken a seat in its ……. Ninursaĝa, its lady, has taken her seat in its …….

Will anyone else bring forth something as great as Keš?

Will any other mother ever give birth to someone as great as its hero Ašgi?

Who has ever seen anyone as great as its lady Nintur?…”

“Nintur, the lady of creation, performs her task within your dark place,

binding the true su crown on the new-born king,

setting the crown on the new-born lord who is secure in her hand.

The midwife of heaven and earth, Ninursaĝa (Ninhursag), has erected a house in your precinct,

O house ……, and taken her seat upon your dais.

the house of Ninursaĝa in …….”

Nukimmut Quote From Text

Nukimmut = Ninhursag goddess mother of Ninip / Ninurta

“Ninip (Ninurta) most powerful hero, great, chief of the gods,

warrior, powerful Lord, whose onset in battle has not been opposed,

eldest son, crusher of opponents, first-born son of Nukimmut,…”

Urac / Uras / Urash Quotes From Texts

Urac / Uras / Urash = sometimes Marduk, eldest son of Enki‘s

sometimes Nammu, Anu‘s consort

sometimes Ninhursag, Anu‘s daughter

Ninhursag As Urash:

“In Nippur, Ki, Mother Earth, also known as Urash, Ninmah, and Ninhursag

felt strongly that Enlil should suffer the hardest of all punishments for his conduct…”

“the son of Uraš who knows thoroughly the true divine powers of princeship, Ištaran (Ninurta),…”

“(Martu) engendered by great An (Anu & Ninhursag) and brought up on his holy knees, ……,

born by Uraš, cherished and granted a favorable destiny by the Great Mountain Enlil, …”

“Ki, Beloved Body of my Soul,

Sister without peer, Heart’s Desire and Spouse so dear, many Names will be given to you.

But for me you will forever be Ninhursag, Queen of the Holy Hill, dearest Ninmah,

Most Exalted Lady, Queen and Best Companion along the Heights I trail

You will be remembered, Beloved, as Nintur, Lady Birth Hut, and nothing or no one will quite compare to you!

Urash, Birth Giver, most sacred Aruru everlasting praises will be sung from now on to you!

Lady of Mound, where Life sprouts happy and free.

Body of my Soul, sister without peer, Heart’s Desire and Spouse so dear,

mine is the Voice but for all I sing, Mother of all Life,

Lady of my heart, Beloved and Queen!’ …”

“At that time there were seven, there were seven — the young ones, born in Kulaba, were seven.

The goddess Urac (Ninhursag) had born these seven, the Wild Cow had nourished them with milk.

They were heroes, living in Sumer, they were princely in their prime.

They had been brought up eating at the god An‘s (Anu) table…. (King) Lugalbanda, the eighth of them, …”

Nippur Quotes From Texts & Sitchin Books

Enlil’s Patron City:

(Mission Control Center)

(Moved To Jerusalem After Nuclear Fall-Out Ended Sumer)

(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)

“To Nippur which is midway between the River Euphrates and the River Tigris…”

“Kiur, the temple Enlil, Nippur´s city god and lord Air (Enlil),

had provided for Ninlil and family in his fast-growing-city.

They had come invited by Lord Enlil, who was building the city for his people…”

“Enlil, When you marked off divine settlements on Earth,

Nippur you set up as your very own city.

The city of Earth, the lofty,

Your pure place whose water is sweet.

You founded the Dur-An-Ki (“bond heaven-earth”)

In the center of the four corners of the world…”

“On that day,, on that single day; on that night, on that single night…

the storm, in a flash of lightning created, the people of Nippur left prostrate…”

Nippur Quotes From Zecharia Sitchin’s Books

SEE EARTH CHRONICLES, ETC.

The one time Religious Center of Sumer and Akkad.

Nippur was the place where the “bond between Heaven and Earth” exists, and where in his “awesome city Nippur” he could

“raise the beams that search the heart of all the lands—

eyes that could scan all the lands…”

8 - Sumer's Communication Towers 8a - Nippar's Communication Towers

(Nippur control towers) Nippur: 3rd city built on Earth, Enlil’s new city, and “Mission Control Center”

Has “a lifted eye which scans the land…”

Has “a lifted beam which searches the heart of the land…”

Has “a fast stepping bird whose hand the wicked cannot escape…”

“No mighty god could approach its parameter…”

Has “a heavenward tall pillar reaching the sky…”

King Ibbi-Suen Quotes From Zecharia Sitchin Books

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…)

When the next (and last) king of Ur, Ibbi-Sin, (son to Shu-Sin) ascended the throne, raiders from the west were clashing with the Elamite mercenaries in Mesopotamia proper. Soon Sumer’s heartland was under siege; the people of Ur and Nippur were huddled behind protective walls, and the influence of Nannar had shrunk to a small enclave.

Waiting in the wings, as once before, was Marduk. Believing his time for supremacy had finally come, he left his land of exile and led his followers back to Babylon.

Ibbi-Sin put his trust again in Nannar and Inanna, installing himself in his second year as High Priest of Inanna’s temple (residence) in Uruk…In the fourth year of his reign he was told that

“The Son in the west will arise…it is an omen for Ibbi-Sin: Ur shall be judged…”

In his fifth year, Ibbi-Sin sought further strength by becoming High Priest of Inanna at her shrine in Ur.. But that too was no help…As the sixth year began, the omens “concerning destruction” became more urgent and more specific.

“When the sixth year comes, the inhabitants in Ur will be trapped,…”

Another omen said,

“When for the second time, he who calls himself Supreme,

like one whose chest has been anointed, shall come from the west…”

That very year, as messages from the borders reveal,

“hostile Westerners had entered the plain!…”

of Mesopotamia; without resistance, they quickly

“entered the interior of the country, taking one by one all the great fortresses…”

Marduk, as the omens had predicted, returned to Babylon for the second time.

“In Hattiland I asked an oracle (about) my throne and my Lordship;

In its midst (I asked); ‘Until when?…”

Then, in that twenty-fourth year, he received a favorable omen:

“My days (1st person) (of exile) were completed;

To my city (I set my course);

My temple Esagila (residence in Babylon) as a mount (to raise / rebuild),

My everlasting abode to (reestablish).

I raised my heels (toward Babylon)

Through…lands (I went) to my city her (future / well-being) to establish,

A king in Babylon to (install)

In the house of my covenant…

In the mountlike Esagil…

By Anu created…

Into the Esagil…

A platform (landing pad) to raise…

In my city…

Joy…”

“chase away evil and bad luck…bring motherly love to Mankind…”

It was then that the holy city was despoiled and its shrine, the Ekur (Enlil’s temple – residence in Nippur), desecrated. Ninurta accused the followers of Marduk of this evil deed; but it was not so; it was his ally Nergal / Era who had done it!

“Erra, the pitiless one, entered the sacred precinct.

He stationed himself in the sacred precinct, he beheld the Ekur.

His mouth he opened, he said to his young men:

‘Carry off the spoil of Ekur, take away its valuables,

destroy its foundation, break down the enclosure of the shrine!’…”

When Enlil, “loftily enthroned,” heard that his temple had been destroyed, its shrine defiled, that “in the holy of holies the veil was torn away”, he rushed back to Nippur.

“Riding in front of him were gods clothed with radiance;…”

he himself,

“set off brilliance like lightning…”

as he came down from the skies;

“made the holy place shake…”

as he ascended to the sacred precinct. Enlil then addressed himself to his son, “the prince Ninurta.” to find out who defiled the sacred place. But instead of telling the truth, that it was Erra, his ally, Ninurta pointing the accusing finger at Marduk and his followers…

The Babylonian text asserts that Ninurta was acting without the required respect of meeting with his father:

“not fearing for his life, he removed not his tiara…”

To Enlil

“evil he spoke…there was no justice, destruction was conceived…

Enlil against Babylon caused evil to be planned…”

In addition to “evil deeds” against Marduk and Babylon, an attack against Nabu and his temple Ezida in Borsippa was also planned. But Nabu managed to escape westward

“Fron Ezida…Nabu, to marshal all his cities set his step;

Toward the great sea he set his course…”

…verses in the Babylonian text…have a direct parallel in the biblical tale of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah:

“But when the son of Marduk in the land of the coast was,

He-of-the-Evil-Wind (Erra) with heat the plain-land burnt…”

“He (Nabu) the great sea entered,

Sat upon a throne which was not his

(Because) Ezida, the legitimate abode, was overrun…”

Enki stood by his firstborn son:

“Now that Prince Marduk has arisen,

now that the people for the second time have raised his image,

why does Erra continue his opposition?…”

Finally, loosing his patience, Enki shouted at Nergal to get out of his presence. Leaving in a huff, Nergal returned to his domain. “Consulting with himself,” he decided to unleash the awesome weapons:

“The lands I will destroy, to a deep dust-heap make them;

the cities I will upheaval, to desolation turn them;

the mountains I will flatten, their animals make disappear;

the seas I will agitate, that which teems in them I will decimate;

the people I will make vanish, their souls shall turn to vapor;

none shall be spared….”

We learn from a text…that it was Gibil, whose domain in Africa adjoined that of Nergal, who alerted Marduk to the destructive scheme hatched by Nergal…It was then that Gibil “these words to Marduk did speak” in regard to the

“Those seven, in the mountain they abide, in a cavity inside the earth they dwell.

From this place with a brilliance they will rush forth,

From Earth to Heaven, clad with terror…”

The Year of Doom (nuclear holocaust)–2024 B.C.–was the sixth year of reign of Ibbi-Sin, the last king of Ur...

Ninazu Quotes From Texts

Ninazu = Ereshkigal‘s son

son of Ereshkigal sometimes, & son of Enlil & Ninlil sometimes, married to Ningirida / Ningiriudu / Ninsutu

(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-sikil (Maiden house) temple to Ninazu in Eshnunna

E-gida (Long house) temple to Ninazu in Enegir

Ninazu As Ereshkigal‘s Son:

“To Ereckigala (Ereshkigal), the mother of Ninazu,…”

“Your prince, the seed of the great lord, the sacred one of the great underworld,

given birth by Ereškigala, playing loudly on the zanaru instrument, sweet as the voice of a calf,

Ninazu of the words of prayer, has erected a house in your precinct,…”

“Ninjiczida (Ningishzidda), son of Ninazu!…”

Ninazu As Enlil’s son:

“made love with her, kissed her; and at his lovemaking, at his first kiss,

he poured into the womb for her the sperm, germ of Ninazu, owner of the temple manor Egida!…”

“Son of Enlil king of the lands, may your splendor shine forth!

My lord Ninazu, may your splendor shine forth, may your splendor shine forth!

May your wife, the maiden, the good woman, Lady Ningirida…”

“The father who engendered you, the Great Mountain Enlil, has made your name glorious.

Your own mother, the august lady, has decided your destiny in the Ki-ur…”

“Ninazu dines on your platform.

Your sovereign, the great lord, the son of Enlil,…

The true seed born of the Great Mountain and Ninlil,

your sovereign, the warrior Ninazu, has erected a house in your precinct,

O E-sikil, O Ešnunna, and taken his seat upon your dais. the house of Ninazu in Ešnunna…”

“Ninazu of the words of prayer, has erected a house in your precinct,

O house Enegir, and taken his seat upon your dais. the house of Ninazu in Enegir…”

(Culgi speaks:)

“‘Seed placed by the prince in the holy womb, born on the bright mountain,

Ninazu, who like a wild bull which lows in its drinking,’

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(Ninazu speaks:)

‘…… like syrup …… ghee …….

You, the hero, coming from the rebel land …….

O king, the lord of prayers and supplications has chosen you in his heart;

shepherd Culgi, the lord of prayers and supplications has chosen you in his heart.

Who can rival (?) a king to whom Enlil has given strength?’ ..”

“Then Ninazu ……, and said to his brother Ninmada:

‘Let us go to the mountain, to the mountain where barley and flax grow;

…… the rolling river, where the water wells up from the earth.

Let us fetch the barley down from its mountain, let us introduce the innuha barley into Sumer.

Let us make barley known in Sumer, which knows no barley.’

Ninmada, the worshiper of An (Anu), replied to him: ‘Since our father has not given the command,

since Enlil has not given the command, how can we go there to the mountain?’…”

Cultivated cereals by Ninmada in Sumer, they genetically altered grains from Nibiru (hemp, wheat, barley), mountain strains to valley strains, etc.

“Ninazu deposited his weapon in a corner in the E-gida…”

“’Lay with me, lady Air (Ninlil), and share a night of passion by the cataract.

I need your care to guide me through this lonely night’.

‘Will you carry me afterwords, as you did… to Enlil?’

‘Yes’. ‘This seed of yours, I’ll call him Ninazu, the Water-Knower, Lord of the Depths that Heal.

His will be the knowledge to wound too,

because healing and wounding are two sides of the same coin’ …”

“Let Ninsutu marry Ninazu;…”

“Ningiriudu shall marry Ninazu,…”

Lugal-era / Ninazu Quotes From Texts

Lugal-era / Ninazu = Enlil’s son sometimes, Ereshkigal’s son sometimes

E-a-nun, temple of Lugal-girra

“Lord Lugal-era, you are superlative, your power reaches to the outer limits of heaven.

Your divine powers are artfully fashioned divine powers, incomparable divine powers!

Sea with high waves, you are imbued with terrible fearsomeness!

Mighty god who dwells in the Land, your great awesomeness covers heaven and earth!…”

“Lugal-era: when you set foot in the place where all mankind is gathered,

the princes of the underworld bow down before you; in the abyss you emit a bright light to them…”

“The warrior qualities of Meclamta-ea (Nergal) and Lord Lugal-era …… in the foreign lands;…

Their power is a storm which could eradicate the Land.

Meclamta-ea and Lord Lugal-era, it is sweet to praise you!

Its kicu.

A cir-namgala of Meclamta-ea and Lugal-era.”

Ningirida / Ningiriudu / Ninsutu

Quotes From Texts

Ningirida / Ningiriudu / Ninsutu = Enki’s daughter, Ningishzidda’s mother, Ninazu‘s spouse

As Ningirida:

“Ninjiczida, who brings together giant snakes and dragons!

Great wild bull who, in the murderous battle, is a flood that ……!

Beloved by his mother, he to whom Ningirida gave birth from her luxurious body,

who drank the good milk at her holy breast,

who sucked in lion’s spittle, who grew up in the abzu!…”

“She brought out of the house what should not come out of the house, what should not come out of the house —

Ningirida (Ninazu’s spouse) brought out of the house what should not come out of the house:

‘Welcome, welcome, welcome o boat! O boat of Suen, welcome, welcome o boat!’ …”

“Lady Ningirida, say to you:

‘Your house, your city!’ as she steps before you in prayer, god of the Land, my lord Ninazu!…”

“Praise be to Enki.

Ninjiczida, son of Ninazu!…”

Ningirida As Ningiriudu:

“’My brother (Enki), what part of you hurts you?’

‘My nose (giri) hurts me.’

She gave birth to Ningiriudu out of it…”

“Ningiriudu shall marry Ninazu,…”

Ningirida As Ninsutu:

“Let Ninsutu marry Ninazu;…”