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Lament For Eridu

Source: Black, J. A., Cunningham, G., Robson, E. and Zólyomu, G. The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature ,

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(gods in blue)

SEGMENT A

(beginning of 1st kirugu)

1-10 4 lines missing

The roaring storm covered it like a cloak, was spread over it like a sheet.

(Eridu, Enki‘s discovered ziggurat E-enguru & city)

It covered Eridug (Eridu) like a cloak, was spread over it like a sheet.

In the city, the furious storm resounded …….

In Eridug, the furious storm resounded …….

Its voice was smothered with silence as by a sandstorm.

Its people …….

Eridug was smothered with silence as by a sandstorm.

Its people …….

11-18 Its king stayed outside his city as if it were an alien city.

He wept bitter tears.

(Enki, patron god of Eridu, early city established on Earth Colony)

Father Enki stayed outside his city (Eridu) as if it were an alien city.

He wept bitter tears.

For the sake of his harmed city, he wept bitter tears.

Its lady, like a flying bird, left her city.

The mother of E-mah, holy Damgalnuna (Damkina / Ninki, OR Ninhursag, Enki‘s spouse), left her city.

The divine powers (alien technologies) of the city of holiest divine powers were overturned.

The divine powers of the rites of the greatest divine powers (held by Enki) were altered.

In Eridug everything was reduced to ruin, was wrought with confusion.

19-26 The evil-bearing storm went out from the city.

It swept across the Land — a storm which possesses neither kindness nor malice,

does not distinguish between good and evil.

Subir (fire & brimstone) came down like rain. It struck hard.

In the city where bright daylight used to shine forth, the day darkened.

In Eridug where bright daylight used to shine forth, the day darkened.

As if the sun had set below the horizon, it turned into twilight.

(Enlil, Inanna, alien King Anu,-father in heaven to his royal descendants, those who came down to Earth, & Ninhursag)

As if An (Anu) had cursed the city, alone he destroyed it.

As if Enlil had frowned upon it, Eridug, Ec-abzu, bowed low.

27 1st kirugu.

28 It cried out bitterly: “O the destruction of the city! The destruction of the house!”

29 Its jicgijal.

30-37 A second time the storm destroyed the city — its song was plaintive.

…… was breached (?). …… intensified the lament.

It cut the lock from its main gate.

The storm dislodged its door. ……

It stacked the people up in heaps. …… on its own destroyed it.

It turned …… into tears. …… defiled ……

1 line missing

39-47 …… It distorted its appearance. …… It distorted its appearance.

It circled its …… wall. It overturned its foundations.

Throughout his city, the pure, radiant (?) place, the foundations were filled with dust.

It cast down its ziggurat, the shrine which reaches up to heaven, into a heap of debris.

The loftiness of its awe-inspiring door-ornament, befitting a house, collapsed.

It cut down the gate,

(one of many mud-brick-built ziggurat / houses of the gods)

its Great-Ziggurat-of-Heaven-and-Earth-Covered-with-Terrible-Awesomeness,

its shining door, and it broke through its bolt.

It ripped out its doorframe. The house was defaced.

48 2nd kirugu.

49 The destruction of Eridug! Its destruction was grievous.

50 Its jicgijal.

51-57 At its lion-faced gate, the place where fates are determined,

it mutilated the copse (?) forming the architrave of the house …….

Ka-hejala (unidentified?) and Igi-hejala (unidentified?), the doorkeepers of the house, …….

Prematurely they destroyed it utterly.

They completely altered …….

At the gate of the fattening-shed, the animal-fattener …… the great offerings.

Its birds and fish were neglected there.

Destruction …….

Throughout his house, radiant (?) in silver and lapis lazuli, tears …….

58-65 The hired man and the governor …….

The festivals …… grandly …….

Holy songs, songs of all kinds …….

The cem drum and ala drum …….

The great divine powers, all the divine powers (alien technologies) …….

The place of the gods of heaven and earth …….

The judgment by the king, the holy scepter at his right side, …….

The en priestess, lumah priest and nindijir priestess …….

(earthling worker, Isimud, Enki, earthling worker)

66-73 The minister Isimud (Enki‘s 2-faced vizier) …….

Strangers to the house …… its side.

Eridug, Ec-abzu, …… silently.

The enemy …… the cleansed tugmah robe.

…… a man …… the people …….

Along with the fluids spilled from his guts, his blood spilled forth.

The ……, which like the azure sky was embellished forever, …… grasped …….

74 3rd kirugu.

75-7 2 lines fragmentary

77 Its jicgijal. distressed and anxious …… like a pigeon …….

1 line fragmentary

78 The birds of the destroyed city …… a nest.

The ukuku bird, bird of heart’s sorrow, …… the place.

Pain …….

The area became entangled in wild thornbushes.

It …… wild thornbushes.

The Cimackians and Elamites, the destroyers, looked at the holy kettles which no one may look at.

(Nisaba, Enlil‘s mother-in-law’s residence E-jectug, Goddess of Scribes, record-keeping, & grains)

In the E-jectug–Nisaba, (Nisaba’s residence) the house of wisdom, …… covered over …….

The divine powers (alien technologies) which embellish the abzu …….

When the holy treasures stored in the treasury were put ……, when, like a mist lying heavily on the earth,

……, they went like small birds shooed from their hiding places.

7 lines fragmentary

unknown no. of lines missing

SEGMENT B

(continuation of 4th kirugu)

1 Father Enki uttered a lament for himself …….

2 4th kirugu.

(Utu & Ninurta enter Enki‘s ziggurat residence in Eridu)

3 Bitterly Father Enki uttered a lament for himself.

4 Its jicgijal.

5-9 Because of this, Enki, king of the Abzu, stayed outside his city as if it were an alien city.

It bowed its neck down to the ground.

Eridu‘s lady, holy Damgalnuna (Damkina, or Ninhursag, Enki‘s spouse), the faithful cow,

the compassionate one, clawed at her breast, clawed at her eyes.

She uttered a frenzied cry.

She held a dagger and a sword in her two hands — they clashed together.

10-15 She tore out her hair like rushes, uttering a bitter lament:

“You, my city whose woman does not dwell there, whose charms do not satisfy her —

where is a lament uttered bitterly for you?

Eridug! You, my city whose woman does not dwell there, whose charms do not satisfy her —

where are tears wept for you?

I fall like a bull in your lofty …… falls ……. I am …….

My heart …… queen …….”

unknown no. of lines missing

(incorporating end of 5th kirugu)

SEGMENT C

(continuation of 6th kirugu)

1-18 1 line fragmentary

…… far away …… the great gods.

The lord Enlil, king of the lands, looked maliciously at Sumer.

He demolished it.

(E-kur, Enlil‘s ziggurat residence in Nippur, his Earth Colony “Command Central”)

He destroyed the Ki-ur, the great place.

He razed with the pickaxe all of the shining E-kur (Enlil‘s temple residence in Nippur).

He destroyed it but did not abandon it — at the lunches, in his great dining-hall, they call his name.

(Ninhursag, sister to Enki, 1/2 sister to Enlil)

19-20 Aruru (Ninhursag), the sister of Enlil, destroyed her city Irisajrig.

In Kec (Kish), the creation place (of Adapa’s fashioning) of the Land,

the people saw inside its holy sanctuary where daylight had been unknown.

She destroyed it but did not abandon it — at the lunches, in her great dining-hall, they call her name.

2a - Nannar statue 2,000 B.C. (Nannar / Suen / Sin / Acimbabbar, son to Enlil & Ninlil, & patron god of Ur)

The lord Nanna (Nannar), the lord, destroyed his city Urim (Ur).

He decimated the Land with famine.

He committed a sacrilege against the E-kic-nu-jal (temple).

He struck at its heart.

He destroyed it but did not abandon it — at the lunches, in his great dining-hall, they call his name.

(Inanna, daughter to Nannar & Ningal, & Goddess of Love & War)

21-25 Inanna, the queen of heaven and earth, destroyed her city Unug (Uruk).

Fleeing from the E-ana (Anu‘s & Inanna‘s temple residence in Uruk),

the house of seven corners (7 is symbol of Enlil – Earth) and seven fires……,

she destroyed it but did not abandon it — at the lunches, in her great dining-hall, they call her name.

26 (Damgalnuna (Damkina, Enki‘s spouse) speaks:)

“My beloved, who has ever seen such a destruction as that of your city Eridug!”

27 6th kirugu.

28 “My beloved, for how long was it built? For how long is it destroyed? …… adornment of the Abzu.”

29 Its jicgijal.

30-36 “Lord Enki, who has ever seen such a destruction as that of your city Eridug?

Who has ever seen such a misfortune as that of Ec-abzu, your house?”

No one goes up to his offering terrace.

At the lunches, in his great dining-hall, they do not call his name.

Enki, king of the Abzu, felt distressed, felt anxious.

At the words of his spouse, he himself began to wail.

He lay down and fasted.

37-44 My king, you must not be distressed, you must not be anxious.

(Enki & descendants struggle to follow along with Enlil‘s descendants’ decisions)

Father Enki, you must not be distressed, you must not be anxious.

Son of An, return your heart to your Ki-ur and your attention to your city.

Living in an alien city is miserable — return your attention to your city.

Living in an alien house is miserable — return your attention to your house.

What can anyone compare with this city? —

Return your attention to your city.

What can anyone compare with this house? —

Return your attention to your house.

Eridug‘s day is long. Its night is over.

45-52 May your throne say to you “Sit down”.

May your bed say to you “Lie down”.

May your house say to you “Be rested”.

May your holy dais also say joyfully to you “Sit down”.

May your father An, the king of the gods, satisfy your heart.

A person, a humble man, brings you a lament over your wife’s faithful house.

When he sings it before you, may that person soothe your heart.

When he recites a prayer, look kindly upon him.

53 7th kirugu.

54 It destroyed your …… and struck against your house.

55 Its jicgijal.

56-59 …… and may he restore it for you.

2 lines fragmentary

Do not hide like a criminal …….

A VERSION FROM UR

(UET 6 142)

SEGMENT A

1-5 House of princely powers, standing in mighty water (marshes) — the waters have receded from it …….

One can walk on its wide swamp.

Within it grow wild thornbushes.

The delightful boat Antelope of the abzu — the waters have receded from it; …… its sheepfold …… the wharf.

They were Sirsir (unidentified?), the tutelary deity, and the man who rides the boat.

(boats dock at Enki’s ziggurat residence in Eridu)

At the prow …… was hurled down in front of them.

Evildoers destroyed the house, and its rites were disturbed.

6-7 At the giguna shrine, the sacred house, evildoers …….

The E-unir — the shrine raises its head as high as heaven.

Its shadow …….

8-14 At the great gate, the lion-faced gate, the place where fates are determined, evildoers …….

They set fire to its door.

Ka-hejala (unidentified?) and Igi-hejala (unidentified?), the doorkeepers of the house, …….

…… Enki, at the …… place, …… its people.

…… the destroyed place, the abzu …… the powers of the Anuna (Anunnaki) gods.

3 lines fragmentary

unknown no. of lines missing (continuation of 3rd kirugu)

SEGMENT B

1-6 Eridug ……. City in the reed-beds …….

In Eridug, bull and cow …….

Without being a marsh boar …….

Eridug, like a bull …….

The lady of the city cried, “My city ……!”

7 3rd kirugu.

(Enki, eldest son to King Anu, wisest of the giant aliens on Earth)

8 Father Enki! O your house, o your city, o your people …… the mountains.

9 Its jicgijal.

Enki Builds E-Engurra

Fonte: Kramer, Samuel Noah (1988) Sumerian Mythology, University of Pennsylvania Press, West Port, Connecticut

Myth that tells how Enki built a house (temple) for himself in Eridu, the oldest city in Sumer according to tradition, the first of five cities founded before the Great Flood.

The temple, decorated with silver, lapis lazuli, carnelian and gold, was established on the bank of a river, where its foundations reached deep into the underground sweet, fertilizing waters, called the Apsu.

The temple had magical qualities: the brickwork gave Enki advice, while the surrounding reed fences roared like a bull. The roof-beam was shaped like the bull of heaven, and a lion gripping a man formed the gateway. The overall effect was described as a lusty bull.

The bustle of activity there was compared to the drama of a river rising during a flood, Enki filled the building with lyres, drums and every other kind of musical instruments.

Surrounding the temple was a delightful garden full of fruit trees, with birds singing all around and frolicking carp playing among the reeds in the streams.

After finishing the construction of the E-engurra, the temple, Enki called up the beat of the ala and the uh drums and set out by barge to Nippur, in order to receive the other gods’ blessings.

The fish danced before him on the way to Nippur, and Enki slaughtered several oxen and sheep for the feast to come.

Once in Nippur, Enki started preparing the feast.

(King Anu lands on Earth, celebrations begin)

Paying attention to protocol, Anu was at the head of the group, with Enlil beside him and the goddess Nintu (Ninhursag) in a seat of honor nearby. In the happy celebration that followed, all the great gods pronounced blessings on Enki‘s new home, and Anu stated: My son Enki (Anu‘s first-born male) has made his temple (residence)…. grow from the ground like a mountain” (mud brick ziggurat).

(Enki‘s ziggurat home & city ruins)

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(gods in blue)

“After the water of creation had been decreed,

After the name hegal (abundance) born in heaven,

Like plant and herb had clothed the land,

(Enki in the Abzu, marshlands of Persian Gulf)

The lord of the abyss, the king Enki,

Enki the Lord who decrees the fates,

Built his house of silver and lapis lazuli (blue-hued gem stone);

Its silver and lapis lazuli, like sparkling light,

The father fashioned fittingly in the abyss.

The creatures of bright countenances and wise, coming forth from the abyss,

Stood all about the lord Nudimmud (Enki‘s pet name);

(excavations of mud-brick-built Eridu, Enki’s 1st home on Earth Colony)

The pure house he built

He ornamented it greatly with gold,

(Enki 1st splash-landed in Persian Gulf, & set up home in Eridu)

In Eridu he built the house of water-bank,

Its brickwork, word-uttering, advice-giving,

Its… like an ox roaring,

The house of Enki, the oracles uttering.

(Enki & vizier Isimud in the Abzu, Eridu)

Follows a long passage in which Isimud, Enki‘s counselor/prime minister, sings the praises of the sea-house. Then Enki raises the city of Eridu from the abyss and makes it float over the water like a lofty mountain. Its green fruit-bearing gardens he fills with birds; fishes too he makes abundant.

Then Enki raises the city of Eridu from the abyss and makes it float over the water like a lofty mountain.

Its green fruit-bearing gardens he fills with birds; fishes too he makes abundant.

Enki is now ready to proceed by boat to Nippur, where he will obtain Enlil‘s blessings or his newly built city and temple (residence). He therefore rises from the abyss:)

(Enki raises the fishes)

When Enki rises, the fish…. rise,

The abyss stands in wonder,

In the sea joy enters,

Fear comes over the deep,

Terror holds the exalted river,

The Euphrates, the South Wind lifts it in waves.

Enki seats himself in his boat and first arrives in Eridu itself. In Eridu, he slaughters many oxen and sheep before proceeding to Nippur. Upon his arrival, a feast is prepared for all gods and Enlil in special:

(Enki & Enlil drinking at the ziggurat dining hall in Nippur)

Enki in the shrine Nippur,

Gives his brother Enlil bread to eat,

In the first place he seated Anu (the Skyfather),

(Apkulla / pilot, Enki, father & King, Skyfather Anu in his winged sky-disc, Anu‘s son & heir Enlil, & winged eagle-headed Apkulla / pilot)

Next to Anu he seated Enlil,

Nintu (Ninhursag) he seated at the big side,

The Anunnaki seated themselves one after the other.

Enlil says to the Anunnaki:

(King Anu‘s descendants in a parade on Earth Colony)

“Ye great gods who are standing about,

My brother has built a house, the king Enki;

Eridu, like a mountain, he has raised up from the earth,

In a good place he has built it.

Eridu, the clean place, where none may enter,

The house built of silver, adorned with lapis lazuli,

The house directed by the seven lyre-songs given over to incantation,

With pure songs….

(Enki in Eridu, God of Waters)

The abyss, the shrine of the goodness of Enki, befitting the divine decrees,

Eridu, the pure house having been built,

O Enki, praise!

Enki’s (House in Eridu) -Temple Hymn

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(gods in blue)

E-Unir

1-7. O E-unir (House which is a ziqqurat), grown together with heaven and earth,

(ziggurat image, home of giant alien gods)

foundation of heaven and earth, great banqueting hall of Eridug (Eridu)!

Abzu, shrine erected for its prince, E-du-kug (House which is the holy mound) where pure food is eaten,

watered by the prince’s pure canal, mountain, pure place cleansed with the potash plant,

Abzu, your tigi drums belong to the divine powers (alien technologies).

8-15. Your great …… wall is in good repair.

Light does not enter your meeting-place where the god dwells, the great ……, the beautiful place.

Your tightly constructed house is sacred and has no equal.

Your prince, the great prince, has fixed firmly a holy crown for you in your precinct —

O Eridug with a crown placed on your head, bringing forth thriving thornbushes, pure thornbushes for the susbu priests (?),

O shrine Abzu, your place, your great place!

16-23. At your place of calling upon Utu, at your oven bringing bread to eat,

2e - Eridu temple reconstruction

(Enki‘s mud-brick-built ziggurat, reconstructed image: Utu climbs Enki’s ziggurat)

on your ziqqurat, a magnificent shrine stretching toward heaven, at your great oven rivaling the great banqueting hall,

your prince, the prince of heaven and earth …… can never be changed, the ……, the creator, the ……, the wise one, the ……,

(this artifact of Enki has been shamefully destroyed by Radical Islam)

lord Nudimmud (Enki), has erected a house in your precinct,

O E-engura (House of the subterranean waters), and taken his seat upon your dais.

(Eridu ruins of Enki‘s house & patron city)

23 lines: the house of Enki in Eridug (Eridu).

The Eridu Genesis

THE ERIDU GENESIS

From “The Harps That Once…: Sumerian Poetry in Translation” by Thorkild Jacobsen.

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

Nintur (Ninhursag) was paying attention:

Let me bethink myself of my humankind, all forgotten as they are;

(Ninhursag / Nintur with her early attempts to fashion workers for the gods)

and mindful of mine, Nintur‘s creatures let me bring them back

let me lead the people back from their trails.

May they come and build cities and cult places, that I may cool myself in their shade;

may they lay the bricks for the cult cities in pure spots

and may they found places for divination in pure spots!

She gave directions for purification and cries for elemency,

the things that cool divine wrath, perfected the divine service and the august offices,

said to the surrounding regions: “Let me institute peace there!”

When An, Enlil, Enki and Ninhursaga (Ninhursag) fashioned the dark-headed people (modern man)

(Apkulla / pilot, Enki, Anu above in sky-disc, Enlil, Apkulla / pilot, & “Tree of Life” DNA manipulations to fashion replacement workers; Ninhursag, Chief Medical Scientist on Earth Colony, taking 50,000 years to complete the fashioning of “Modern Man”)

they had made the small animals that come up from out of the earth,

come from the earth in abundance and had let there be, as it befits it,

gazelles, wild donkeys, and four-footed beasts in the desert.

…and let me have him advise; let me have him oversee their labour,

and let him teach the nation to follow along unerringly like cattle!

When the royal sceptre was coming down from heaven,

the august crown and the royal throne being already down from heaven,

he (the king) regularly performed to perfection the august divine services and offices,

laid the bricks of those cities in pure spots.

(Biblical “Eden”, the land of the gods “between the rivers” Euphrates & Tigris)

They were named by name and allotted half-bushel baskets.

The firstling of those cities, Eridu, she gave to the leader Nudimmud (Enki),

(Enki‘s patron city Eridu in ruins; Enki)

(Bad-tibira ruins; Dumuzi & Inanna)

the second, Bad-Tibira, she gave to the prince (Dumuzi) and the sacred one (Inanna),

(Ninurta, Enlil‘s warrior son, & heir to throne of planet Nibiru after Anu & Enlil)

the third, Larak, she gave to Pabilsag (Ninurta),

(Sippar ruins & Utu)

the fourth, Sippar, she gave to the gallant Utu.

(Ninlil‘s patron city ruins of Shuruppak, Enlil & his equal spouse Ninlil)

The fifth, Shuruppak, she gave to Ansud (Ninlil).

These cities, which had been named by names, and had been allotted half-bushel baskets,

dredged the canals, which were blocked with purplish wind-borne clay, and they carried water.

Their cleaning of the smaller canals established abundant growth.”

[lost account of the antediluvian rulers, and how human noise vexed the chief god Enlil so much that he persuaded the divine assembly to vote the destruction of man by the deluge] …

(Ninhursag‘s early failures to produce a worker-race)

(50,000 years of DNA manipulations to produce adequate replacement workers for the alien gods)

“That day Nintur (Ninhursag) wept over her creatures and holy Inanna was full of grief over their people;

but Enki took counsel with his own heart.

An, Enlil, Enki, and Ninhursaga had the gods of heaven and earth swear by the names of An and Enlil.

At that time, Ziusudra (Noah) was king and lustration priest.

He fashioned, being a seer, the god of giddiness and stood in awe beside it, wording his wishes humbly.

(Noah overhears Enki‘s warnings of a coming flood)

As he stood there regularly day after day something that was not a dream was appearing:

conversation a swearing of oaths by heaven and earth,

a touching of throats and the gods bringing their thwarts up to Kiur.

And as Ziusudra stood there beside it, he went on hearing:

“Step up to the wall (reed wall hiding Enki & Ningishzidda) to my left and listen!

(Noah overhears Enki‘s warnings of a coming flood through a reed wall)

Let me speak a word to you at the wall and may you grasp what I say, may you heed my advice!

By our hand a flood will sweep over the cities of the half-bushel baskets, and the country;

the decision, that mankind is to be destroyed has been made.

A verdict, a command of the assembly cannot be revoked,

an order of An and Enlil is not known ever to have been countermanded,

their kingship, their term, has been uprooted they must bethink themselves of that.

Now…What I have to say to you…”

[lost account of Enki‘s advice to build a boat and load it with pairs of living things, and Ziusudra‘s (Noah‘s) compliance]

“All the evil winds, all stormy winds gathered into one and with them, then,

the flood was sweeping over the cities of the half-bushel baskets for seven days and seven nights.

After the flood had swept over the country,

(Noah & family survive in the Ark)

after the evil wind had tossed the big boat about on the great waters,

the sun came out spreading light over heaven and earth.

Ziusudra then drilled an opening in the big (submergeable) boat.

And the gallant Utu (Sun god) sent his light into the interior of the big boat.

Ziusudra, being (mixed-breed offspring of Enki,) king,

stepped up before Utu kissing the ground before him.

The king was butchering oxen, was being lavish with the sheep

Barley cakes, crescents together with…

…he was crumbling for him juniper, the pure plant of the mountains,

he filled on the fire and with a …clasped to the breast he…”

(Enlil smells Noah‘s Bar-B-Que, & discovers Noah alive by help of Enki)

[lost account of Enlil‘s wrath at finding survivor’s and his mollification by Enki]

“You here have sworn by the life’s breath of heaven

the life’s breath of earth that he verily is allied with yourself;

you there, An and Enlil, have sworn by the life’s breath of heaven,

the life’s breath of earth. that he is allied with all of you.

He will disembark the small animals that come up from the earth!

Ziusudra, being king, stepped up before An and Enlil kissing the ground.

And An and Enlil after honoring him were granting him life like a god’s,

were making lasting breath of life, like a god’s, descend into him.

(Noah‘s spouse & Noah made immortal by Enlil‘s decree)

That day they made Ziusudra, preserver, as king,

of the name of the small animals and the seed of mankind,

(Dilmun, pristine lands given by Enki to his daughter Ninsikila; Noah‘s spouse, Noah, & Plant of Life)

live toward the east over the mountains in mount Dilmun.

Ninmarki’s (House in Guaba) – Temple Hymn

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(gods in blue)

O E-ab-šaga-la (House which stretches over the midst of the sea) built in a holy place,

Gu-aba, your interior produces everything and is a well-established storehouse.

Holy shrine, wild cow for which everything endures,

your princess is Ninĝagia (unidentified), the magnificent …… stewardess,

(Enlil, King Anu’s son & heir, Anu’s Earth Colony Commander)

the mighty …… of father Enlil, who takes counsel with lord Nunamnir (Enlil).

Born in ……, …… in the flood of the sea, like her …… father a controller of the pure sea,

holy Ninmarki (Enki’s daughter) has erected a house in your precinct,

O house Gu-aba, and taken her seat upon your dais.

10 lines: the house of Ninmarki in Gu-aba.

A Prayer to Marduk (Enki?) for Hammu-rabi (Hammu-rabi B): translation

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

(ALIEN GIANTS APPOINTED OFFSPRING MIXED-BREEDS TO KINGSHIPS OVER EARTHLINGS)

^1-13May Lugalcubur (unidentified) place on your head the sacrosanct (?) crown of kingship!

(Enki on his throne; his ziggurat residence located in patron city of Eridu)

May Enki, the lord of life, …… life, and in the E-unir,

the house of the plans of heaven and earth which rides upon all the divine powers (alien technologies),

(Babylonian King Hammurabi in “priestly headdress” receives the “Law Code of Hammurabi” from alien giant gods; Hammurabi attentively standing before Utu, giant god of laws)

may he cover your priestly headdress in awe and splendour!

May he make the divine powers of kingship resplendent for you,

and fit you up forever with the plans appropriate to the rank of en priest!

May he gently recite for you live-giving incantations, bestowing in addition a long-lived destiny;

may the uttering of your name delight Enki as much as the uttering of his own name!

May he reward you with wisdom and intelligence!

May your royal name be as something unchangeable!
(ENKI; ARTIFACT NOW SHAMEFULLY DESTROYED BY RADICAL ISLAM, FEARING THE ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE)

May father Enki prolong the years of your life, and may he grant you lordship over every one of the foreign lands.

(IN “PRIESTLY HEADDRESS”, FAMOUS BABYLONIAN KING HAMMURABI, SERVANT OF THE GODS)

O Hammu-rabi, my king!

The Worm And The Toothache

Translated by E. A. Speiser, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Related to the Old Testament, edited by J. B. Pritchard (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), 100-101.

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(gods in blue)

(KING ANU IN HIS WINGED SKY-DISC)

After Anu had created heaven,

Heaven had created the earth,

The earth had created the rivers,

The rivers had created the marsh,

And the marsh had created the worm—

(SHAMASH / UTU, SON TO NANNAR & NINGAL)

The worm went, weeping, before Shamash (Utu),

His tears flowing before Ea (Enki):

“What will you give me for food?

What will you give me to suck on?”

“I will give you the ripe fig and the apricot.”

“What good is the ripe fig and the apricot?

Lift me up, and assign me to the teeth and the gums!

I will suck the blood of the tooth, and I will gnaw its roots at the gum!”

Because you have said this, O worm,

2 - Enki, the wisest god (ENKI, KING ANU‘S ELDEST & WISEST SON, 1ST TO ARRIVE ON EARTH WITH CREW OF 50)

May Ea (Enki) strike you with the might of his hand!

The heron and the turtle: translation

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

SEGMENT A

^1-9What do they say in the reed-beds whose growth is good?

In the wide reed-beds of Tutub, whose growth is good?

In the marshes of Kiritaba, whose growth is good?

In the adara thickets of Akcak, whose growth is good?

(ENKI IN ERIDU, HIS PATRON CITY ALONG THE MARSHLANDS OF THE PERSIAN GULF)

In Enki‘s interconnecting (?) lagoons, whose growth is good?

In the smaller lagoon, Enki‘s lagoon, whose growth is good?

In Enki‘s barbar reeds, whose growth is good?

In the little zi reeds of Urim (Ur), whose growth is good?

(NANNAR PROTECTS HIS CATTLE PENS IN UR, HIS PATRON CITY)

In Urim, where cows and calves abound, whose growth is good?

^10-21At that time, the water was drained away from the reeds ……,

and they were visible at the sheepfold.

The actaltal plant, spreading its seeds from the reed-beds,

and the little kumul plants came out of the earth: they are good as little ones.

The small enbar reed grooms her hair: it is good as a young maiden.

The ubzal reed goes about the city: it is good as a young man.

The pela reed is covered from bottom to top: it is a good daughter-in-law.

The pela reed turns from bottom to top: it is a good young son.

The gacam reed digs in the ground: it is good as an old man.

The zi reed …… on its own: it is good as an old woman.

The reed-bed lifts its head beautifully: it is a good Gudea.

The ildag tree lifts its head in the irrigation ditch:

it is good as a king. …… with bright branches: it is a good prince.

^22-25On that day, beside the reed-beds, someone sitting on the bank prays:

“Let me snatch away the heron’s eggs, let me take them away ……,

so that the gift-bringing bird will not be able to make a gift,

so that the gift-bringing heron will not be able make a gift!

^26-31It catches fish; it collects eggs and crushes them.

It crushes the suhur carp in the honey plants.

It crushes the ectub carp in the little zi reeds.

It crushes toads in the ligiligi grass.

It crushes fish spawn, its offspring, its family.

It strikes heron’s eggs and smashes them in the sea.

^32-47The gift-giving bird made a plea;

(ENKI‘S ZIGGURAT RESIDENCE IN ERIDU, BURIED BY TIME)

the heron entered the house of king Enki and spoke to him:

“Give me …… a wide-open place to lay my eggs in.”

He gave her ……, and did …… for her. …… is indeed …..

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She laid eggs in the …….

She laid eggs in the wide reed-beds of Tutub.

She laid eggs in the marshes of Kiritaba.

She laid eggs in the adara thickets of Akcak.

She laid eggs in Enki‘s interconnecting (?) lagoons.

(ENKI & SONS IN THE ABZU, ERIDU MARSHLANDS)

She laid eggs in the smaller lagoon, the lagoon of Eridug (Eridu).

She laid eggs in Enki‘s barbar reeds.

She laid eggs in the little zi reeds of Urim.

She laid eggs in Urim, where cows and calves abound.

^48-59Then the quarrelsome turtle, he of the troublesome way, said:

“I am going to pick a quarrel with the heron, the heron!

I, the turtle, am going to pick a quarrel with the heron!

I, whose eyes are snake’s eyes, am going to pick a quarrel!

I, whose mouth is a snake’s mouth, am going to pick a quarrel!

I, whose tongue is a snake’s tongue, am going to pick a quarrel!

I, whose bite is a puppy’s bite, am going to pick a quarrel!

With my slender hands and slender feet, I am going to pick a quarrel!

I, the turtle — an oven brick — am going to pick a quarrel!

I, who live in the vegetable gardens, am going to pick a quarrel!

I, who like a digging tool spend my time in the mud, am going to pick a quarrel!

I, an unwashed refuse-basket, am going to pick a quarrel!”

^60-66The turtle, the trapper of birds, the setter of nets,

overthrew the heron’s construction of reeds for her,

turned her nest upside down, and tipped her children into the water.

The turtle scratched the dark-eyed bird’s forehead with its claws,

so that her breast was covered in blood from it. (1 ms. adds the line: …… in the dust.)

^67-71The heron cried out and grew pale:

“If I, a bird, …… my empty nest and ……

(1 ms. adds: I, a heron, ……; I shall take my case up to my king, ……).

Let my king judge my case, and give me a verdict!

(ENKI, KING ANU‘S ELDEST & WISEST SON, 1ST TO LAND ON EARTH WITH HIS CREW OF 50)

Let Enki judge my case, and give me a verdict!

(THE “EDEN”, LAND OF THE GODS IN MESOPOTAMIA)

May the lord of Eridug (Eridu) …… my claim.”

^72-78 A second time, may the gift-bringing bird not be able to make a gift,

may the gift-bringing heron not be able to make a gift!

It (the turtle) catches fish; it collects eggs and crushes them.

It crushes the suhur carp in the honey plants(1 ms. has instead: reed-beds).

It crushes the ectub carp in the little zi reeds.

It crushes toads in the ligiligi grass.

It crushes fish spawn, its offspring, its family.

^79-89It dug in the ground, …… its head upwards……. (1 ms. has instead: The heron ……, …….)

She (the heron) (1 ms. adds: entered the house and) cried out to king Enki:

“My king, you gave me the wide reed-beds, and I laid eggs there.

I laid eggs in the wide reed-beds of Tutub.

I laid eggs in the the marshes of Kiritaba.

I laid eggs in the adara thickets of Akcak.

I laid eggs in Enki‘s interconnecting (?) lagoons.

I laid eggs in the smaller lagoon, the lagoon of Eridug.

I laid eggs in Enki‘s barbar reeds.

I laid eggs in the little zi reeds of Urim.

I laid eggs in Urim, where cows and calves abound.

^90-101“Then the quarrelsome turtle, he of the troublesome way,

he whose eyes are snake’s eyes, he of the troublesome way,

(GIANT ALIEN GODS BOATING DOWN RIVERS EUPHRATES & TIGRIS)

he whose mouth is a snake’s mouth, he of the troublesome way,

he whose tongue is a snake’s tongue, he of the troublesome way,

he whose bite is a puppy’s bite, he of the troublesome way,

he with the slender hands and slender feet, the turtle — an oven brick —

he of the troublesome way, he who lives in the vegetable gardens,

he of the troublesome way, he who like a digging tool spends his time in the mud,

he of the troublesome way, an unwashed refuse-basket,

he of the troublesome way, the turtle, the trapper of birds,

the setter of nets, overthrew my heron’s construction of reeds.

^102-106He turned my nest upside down, and tipped my children into the water.

The turtle scratched my forehead — me, the dark-eyed bird — with its claws,

so that my breast was covered with my blood (1 ms. adds: …… in the water).”

(“MODERN MAN”, WORKER, ENKI, ISUMUD, & NINSUN, MOTHER TO MIXED-BREED KINGS)

^107-120The prince called to his minister, Isimud:

“My minister, Isimud (2-faced god), my Sweet Name of Heaven!”

“I stand at Enki‘s service! What is your wish?”

“First …… is filtered on the left (?) side, then a copper box is made, so that …… is covered.

Then you tie ……, and you tie the top with string ……; then you …… with a piece of dough,

and you irrigate the outer enclosure (?); and you put …… (?) Enki‘s interconnecting (?) lagoons.

Then let him sit …..

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(GIANT ALIEN GOD WITH 2-FACES, ISUMUD, ENKI‘S VIZIER, NAMED JANUARY, LOOKING FORWARD & BACKWARD)

^121-129Isimud …… paid attention.

First he filtered …… holy water, then he made a copper box and covered …….

Then he tied the top with string ……; then he …… with a piece of dough,

and he irrigated the outer enclosure (?); and he …… (?) Enki‘s interconnecting (?) lagoons.

(Enki speaks:) “Then I, the prince, will make …… stand …….”

^130-166The turtle called to the prince:

“You are a prince!

She ……. …… from fire.

I am not a god; ……

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King Enki …….

You are a prince! She ……. My heart …….

You are a prince! She …… your word.

My little one destroyed a wall ……; she …….

You are a prince! You are ……. …… brickwork.

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Your flax (?) is single

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Your …… is single; ……. …… the hero …….

Your seed is single ……. …… a tall tree.

My strong copper ……. …… good semen ……

(RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE OF ENKI‘S ZIGGURAT RESIDENCE IN ERIDU)

^167-208Then, on the ziggurat …….King Enki was …… on the ziggurat.

The great brickwork of the ziggurat …… the abzu; the brickwork of the abzu …….

He took dirt from his fingernail and created the dimgi vegetable.

He made the dimgi …… in the ground.

Your flax came out of the earth …….

He watered the little ones with his hand; he watered the big ones with his foot.

The flax grew large.

After the flax had grown tall, after he had bound (?) it ……

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The king …….

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They seized …… for him. They …… for him.

They confronted (?) …… in the desert.

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……, they laid out the hunting net. …… did not catch;

he caught in (?) the hunting net, …… did not catch; he spread out the hunting net.

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…… of Enki

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May you be ……; may you be ……; may you be ……; may you be …..

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SEGMENT B

^1-92 lines fragmentary

…… of Enki. …… did not catch; …… the hunting net.

The turtle ……. Enki …… something from his fingernail.

Its inside is five ……; its exterior is ten …….

A crevice ……

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Enki and the World Order (Version 1)

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(gods in blue)

(Royal Prince Enki, alien King Anu‘s eldest son, 1st to land on Earth with his crew of 50)

When father Enki comes out into the seeded Land, it brings forth fecund seed,

When Nudimmud (Enki) comes out to my fecund ewe, it gives birth to the lamb,

When he comes out to my “seeded” cow, it gives birth to the fecund calf,

When he comes out to my fecund goat, it gives birth to the fecund kid,

When you have gone out to the field, to the cultivated field,

You pile up heaps and mounds on the high plain,

[You] . . . the . . . of the parched (?) earth.

Enki, the king of the Abzu, overpowering (?) in his majesty, speaks up with authority:

“My father, the king of the universe,

Brought me into existence in the universe,

My ancestor, the king of all the lands,

Gathered together all the me’s (collection of knowledge by subject),

placed the me’s (discs of knowledge, collection of “How To Do”) in my hand.

(E-kur, Enlil‘s temple residence in Nippur)

From the Ekur, the house of Enlil, I brought craftsmanship to my Abzu of Eridu.

I am the fecund seed, engendered by the great wild ox, I am the first born son of An (Anu)

(ANU, ANUNNAKI KING OF HEAVEN / PLANET NIBIRU & EARTH COLONY)

I am the ‘great storm’ who goes forth out of the ‘great below’,

I am the lord of the Land, I am the GUGAL of the chieftains,

I am the father of all the lands, I am the ‘big brother’ of the gods,

I am he who brings full prosperity, I am the record keeper of heaven and earth,

I am the ear and the mind (?) of all the lands,

(gate of King Anu on Nibiru, “St. Peter’s Gate” 1st came from Mesopotamia)

I am he who directs justice with the king An (Anu) on An‘s dais,

I am he who decrees the fates with Enlil in the ‘mountain of wisdom,’

He placed in my hand the decreeing of the fates of the ‘place where the sun rises,’

(NINHURSAG, ENKI, & FATHER ANU HOVERING ABOVE IN HIS SKY-DISC)

I am he to whom Nintu (Ninhursag) pays due homage,

I am he who has been called a good name by Ninhursag,

(alien royal descendants of Anu on Earth, atop symbols of gods)

I am the leader of the Anunnaki, I am he who has been born as the first son of the holy An.”

After the lord had uttered (?) (his) exaltedness,

After the great prince had himself pronounced (his) praise,

(ANCIENT ENKI ARTIFACTS OF FAMILY & HELPERS, ETC.)

The Anunnaki came before him in prayer and supplication:

“Lord who directs craftsmanship,

Who makes decision, the glorified; Enki, praise!”

For a second time, because of (his) great joy,

Enki, the king of the Abzu, in his majesty, speaks up with authority:

“I am the lord, I am one whose command is unquestioned, I am the foremost in all things,

At my command the stalls have been built, the sheepfolds have been enclosed,

When I approached heaven a rain of prosperity poured down from heaven,

When I approached the earth, there was a high flood,

When I approached its green meadows,

The heaps and mounds were pi[led] up at my word.

(RECONSTRUCTION-ENKI‘S MUD-BRICK-BUILT ZIGGURAT / HOUSE IN ERIDU, BUILT BY GIANT ALIEN GODS)

I built my [house], a shrine, in a pure place, I called it with a good name,

I built my Abzu, a shrine, in a . . , I decreed a good fate for it.

My house – its shade stre[tches] over the ‘snake’-marsh,

My house, its . . wears a beard among (?) the ‘honey’-plants (?),

(“MODERN MAN” STANDS BEFORE ENKI, GOD WHO FASHIONED HIM INTO HIS IMAGE)

The ca[rps] wave the tail to him in (?)

The sm[all gizi-reeds],

The sparrows chirp in their . . . . ,

The weapon carrying . . . . ,

Came into my, Enki‘s,

The abgal’s, . . [into my] . . . . . . . ,

The enkum (and) [ninkum] . . . ,

Sacred songs and spells filled my Abzu.

My magur-boat, the crown, the ‘ibex of the Abzu’ –

In its midst there is a great rejoicing.

The lofty marshland, my favorite spot,

Stretches out its arms to me, bends (?) its neck to me.

The kara’s drew (?) on (?) the oars in unison,

Sing sweet songs, cause the river to rejoice,

(ENKI & THRONE ON SHIP IN HIS ABZU / MARSHLANDS OF PERSIAN GULF)

Nimgirsig (unidentified?), the ensi of my ma[gur-boat],

He[ld] the gold scepter [for me],

I, Enki, [. . . d] the boat ‘ibex of the Abzu,’ I, the lord . . . ., I, Enki, . . . . .

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. . . . I would watch over its green cedars (?).

(Dilmun & Magan, lands Enki gave to some of his children)

The l[ands] of Magan and Dilmun (pristine lands on Sinia Peninsula)

Looked up at me, En[ki],

Moored (?) The Dilmun-boat to the ground (?),

Loaded the Magan-boat sky high;

The magilum-boat of Meluhha

Transports gold and silver,

Brings them to Nippur for Enlil, the [king] of all the lands.”

To him, who has no city, to him who has no horse,

The Martu–Enki pre[sen]ted cattle as a gift,

To the [great] prince who came forth in his [land],

The Anunnaki pay due homage:

(Enlil, King Anu, & Enki in alien sky-disc, riding the great me’s / advanced alien technologies)

“Lord who rides the great me’s the pure me’s (alien technologies of flight),

Who has charge of the universe, the widespread,

(our solar system, Thank You Zecharia Sitchin!)

Who received the lofty ‘sun-disk’ (alien flying saucer) in Eridu (Enki‘s city),

the pure place, the mo[st prec]ious place, Enki, lord of the universe, praise!”

For the great prince who comes forth in his land,

All the lords, all the chieftains,

The incantation priests of Eridu,

The “linen-wearers” of Sumer,

Perform the incantation rites of the Abzu,

To (?) father Enki in (?) the holy place . . . they direct (their) step,

In the sleeping chamber, the princely house, they . . . . ,

In the stations they call [his] name,

In (?) the lofty shrine, the Abzu [they] . . . . ,

(About thirty-six lines destroyed in large part)

Nimgirsig (unidentified?), the ensi of the magur-boat,

He[ld] the holy scepter for the lord,

The lahama’s of the sea, the fifty, did ho[mage to him],

The kara’s . . d like a . . -bird of heaven.

For the king standing proudly, father Enki – in the Land –

The great prince who came forth in his Land,

Prosperity prevailed in the universe.

(Enki, wisest of the alien giants on Earth)

Enki decrees (the) fate: “Sumer, ‘great mountain,’ ‘country of the universe,’

Filled with enduring light, dispensing from sunrise to sunset the me’s to (?) the people,

(Apkulla / pilot, Enki, King Anu in his sky-disc, Enlil, winged eagle-headed Apkulla / pilot)

Your me’s are lofty me’s (alien advanced technologies), unreachable.

Your heart is profound, unfathomable.

The enduring . . , your place where gods give birth, is untouchable like heaven.

The born king, who dons the enduring diadem –

The born lord, who puts crown on head –

Your lord (is) an honored lord, he sits with the king An on An‘s dais,

Your king – the ‘great mountain,’ Father Enlil,

Has . . d him for you by (?) the . . . like a cedar – the father of all the lands.

The Anunnaki, the great gods,

Have taken up (their) dwelling place in your midst,

Eat (their) food in your tree-planted giguna.

(Mesopotamian cow pens feeding the alien giants in Mesopotamia)

House, Sumer, may your many stalls be built, may your cows multiply,

May your many sheepfolds be erected, may your sheep be myriad,

May your giguna reach skyward,

May your enduring . . lift hand to heaven.

May the Anunnaki decree the fates in your midst.”

He proceeded to the shrine Ur, Enki, the king of the Abzu decrees (its) fate:

(Nannar‘s temple ziggurat residence way above his patron city Ur, temple of Biblical high-priest Terah & son Abraham)

“City possessing all that is appropriate, water-washed, firm-standing ox,

Dais of abundance of the highland, knees open, green like a mountain,

Hashur-grove, wide of shade – he who is lordly because of his might (?)

Has directed your perfect me’s,

(Enlil & his “great mountain” E-kur, Command Central in Nippur)

Enlil, the ‘great mountain,’ has pronounced your lofty name in the universe.

City whose fate has been decreed by Enlil,

Shrine Ur, may you rise heaven high.”

He procee[ded] to the land Meluhha, Enki, the king of the Abzu, [decrees] (its) fate:

“Black land, may your trees be large trees, [may they be ‘highland’]-trees,

[May] their thrones [fill] the royal palace,

May your reeds be large reeds, [may they be ‘highland’]-reeds,

May the heroes in the place of battle [wield their] weapons,

(the gods studied all animals on Earth Colony)

May your bulls be large bulls, [may they be] ‘highland’ bulls,

[May] their cry [be] the cry [of ‘highland’] wild bulls,

May the great me’s of the gods be per[fected for you],

[May all dar-birds of the highland [wear carneli]an beards,

[May] your bird be the Haia-bird,

[M]ay its calls fill the royal palace,

May your silver be gold,

May your copper be tin (and) bronze,

Land, may everything you have, [increase],

May your people [multiply],

May your . . go forth like a bull to his . . . .”

. . . the city of . .

He treated (?) like . . . . ,

(pristine lands given by Enki to some of his descendants)

He cleansed, purified the [land Di]lmun,

(Dilmun artifact, Enki & daughter Ninsikila drinking through straw avoiding mash)

Placed Ninsikilla (Enki & Ninhursag‘s daughter) in charge of it,

He gave . . as . . , he eats its . . -fish,

He gave . . as a cultivated field (?), he eats [its da]tes.

. . . . Elam and Marhashi . . . .

Were (destined) to be devoured like . . -fish;

(Enlil, naked Inanna, & Enki, sky-disc above)

The king (presumably Enki) upon whom Enlil had bestowed might,

Destroyed their houses, destroyed their walls.

(lapis lazuli necklace uncovered in Ur, popularized by giant alien goddesses)

Their (precious) metal (and) lapis lazuli (and the contents of) their storehouses,

He brought to Nippur for Enlil – the king of all the lands.

To him who builds no city, builds no [house]

(Martu & his uncivilized earthling)

The Martu (uncivilized ape-like earthlings in the hills ruled by Martu, Anu‘s son) –

Enki presented cattle as a gift.

After he had cast his eye from that spot,

After father Enki had lifted it over the Euphrates,

He stood up proudly like a rampant bull.

He lifts the penis, ejaculates,

Filled the Tigris with sparkling water.

The wild cow mooing for its young in the pastures, the scorpion (infested) stall,

[The Tigr]is surre[ndered] to him, as (to) a rampant bull.

He lifted the penis, brought the bridal gift,

Brought joy to the Tigris, like a big wild bull [rejoiced (?)] in its giving birth.

The water he brought is sparkling water, its “wine” tastes sweet,

The grain he brought, its checkered grain, the people eat it,

(E-KUR, ENLIL‘S ZIGGURAT RESIDENCE IN NIPPUR)

He fi[lled] the Ekur, the house of Enlil (Earth Colony Command Central), with possessions,

With Enki, Enlil rejoices, Nipper [is delighted].

The lord don[ned] the diadem for lordship,

[Put on] the enduring tiara for kingship,

Trod the ground on his left side,

Prosperity came forth out of the earth for him.

After he had placed the scepter in his right hand,

In order to make the Tigris and Euphrates “eat together,”

He who utters the . . word in accordance with his . . ,

Who carries off like fat the “princely knee” from the palace,

The lord who decrees the fate, Enki the king of the Abzu,

Enbilulu (Enlil‘s son), the inspector of canals, [Enki] placed in charge of them.

He called the marshland], placed in it carp (and) . . -fish,

He cal[led the canebrake], placed in it . . -reeds (and) green reeds,

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[He issued] a challenge . . . . ].

He whose net] no fish escapes,

Whose trap no . . escapes,

Whose snare no bird escapes, . . . . the son of . . . .

(NANSHE, ENKI‘S DAUGHTER, GODDESS OF PERSIAN GULF BIRDS & FISHES)

. . (a god) who loves fish (Nanshe), Enki placed in charge of them.

The lord erected a shrine (?), a holy shrine – its heart is profound,

Erected a shrine (?) in the sea, a holy shrine – its heart is profound,

The shrine – its midst is a . . . , known to no one,

The [shrine] – its station is the . . iku constellation,

The lofty [shrine], above (?) – its station stands (?) by the “chariot”-constellation,

The . . . from the trembling . . . . its Elam’s . . ,

The Anunnaki came with [pray]er and supplication,

(Enki, god of the E-engurra ziggurat residence)

For Enki in the E-[engurra they set up] a lofty dais.

For the lord . . . . ,

The great prince . . , bor[n . . . .]

The u-bird . . . . ,

(Approximately three lines missing)

Her who is the great inundation of the deep,

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)

The Lady of Sirar[a, Mother Nansh]e (Enki & Ninhursag‘s daughter),

Of the sea, of its . . . . places,

Enki placed in charge.

He called the “two” rains, the water of the heaven,

Aligned them like floating clouds,

Drives (?) their (?) breath (of life) toward the horizon,

Turns (?) the hilly ground into fields.

(ENLIL‘S SON ADAD ATOP TAURUS THE BULL, GOD OF THUNDER; ADAD STATUE, SHAMEFULLY NOW DESTROYED BY RADICAL ISLAM)

Him who rides the great storm, who attacks with lightning (?),

Who closes the holy bolt in the “heart” of heaven,

The son of An, the GUGAL of the universe,

(ALIEN ANUNNAKI GIANT GOD ADAD / ISHKUR WITH WINGED DISC & COMMUNICATION TOWERS; ADAD WITH HIS HIGH-TECH ALIEN WEAPONRY)

Ishkur (Adad) . . , the son (grandson) of An, Enki placed in charge of them.

He directed the plow and the . . yoke,

The great prince Enki put the “horned oxen” in the . . . ,

Opened the holy furrows,

Made grow the grain in the cultivated field.

The lord who dons the diadem, the ornament of the high plain,

(ALIEN DIAGRAM OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM)

(ENLIL INSTRUCTED SON NINURTA, TEACH FARMING TO BIBLICAL CAIN / EARTHLINGS, BECOMING REPLACEMENT WORKERS FOR THE GODS)

The robust, the farmer of Enlil, Enkimdu (unidentified?), the man of the ditch and dike,

Enki placed in charge of them.

The lord called the cultivated field, put there the checkered grain,

(SUMERIAN GODS GRAIN STORAGE HOUSES)

Heaped up its . . grain, the checkered grain, the innuba-grain into piles,

Enki multiplied the heaps and mounds,

With Enlil he spread wide the abundance in the Land,

Her whose head and side are dappled, whose face is honey-covered,

The Lady, the procreatress, the vigor of the Land, the “life” of the black-heads,

(ENLIL, FATHER-IN-LAW HAIA, MOTHER-=IN-LAW NISABA, SPOUSE NINLIL, GODS OF GRAINS, & UNIDENTIFIED)

Ashnan (Nisaba, grain goddess), the nourishing bread, the bread of all,

Enki placed in charge of them.

The great prince put the “net” upon the pickax, then directed the mold,

Fertilized the agarin, like good butter,

Him whose crushing pickax-tooth is a snake devouring the corpses, . . . . ,

Whose . . mold directs . . . . ,

Archaeological site of Nippur in Iraq (ADVANCED MUD BRICKS FIRED EXTREMELY HOT, BUILT ALL OF SUMER’S ZIGGURATS, ETC.)

Kulla (Ningishzidda), the brick-maker (?) of the Land, Enki placed in charge of them.

He built stalls directed the purification rites,

Erected sheepfolds, put there the best fat and milk,

Brought joy to the dining halls of the gods,

In the vegetation-like plain he made prosperity prevail.

(E-anna, Anu‘s mud brick temple residence in Uruk)

The trustworthy provider of Eanna, the “friend of An,”

The beloved son-in-law of the valiant Sin (Nannar),

the husband of holy Inanna (Nannar‘s daughter),

The Lady, the queen of all the great me’s,

Who time and again, commands the procreation of the . . . of Kullab,

(Dumuzi the Shepherd, Niinsun & Enki‘s son, Inanna‘s spouse)

Dumuzi, the divine “ushumgal of heaven,” the “friend of An,”

Enki placed in [charge] of them.

(Ekur, the house of Enlil, top added in 1900)

He filled the Ekur, the house of Enlil, with possessions,

Enlil rejoiced with Enki, Nipper was joyous,

He fixed the borders, demarcated them with boundary stones,

Enki, for the Anunnaki,

Erected dwelling places in the cities,

Set up fields for them in the countryside,

The hero, the bull who comes forth out of the hashur (forest), who roars lion-(like),

The valiant Utu, the bull who stands secure, who proudly displays (his) power,

The father of the great city, the place where the sun rises, the gr[eat hera]ld of holy An,

The judge, the decision-maker of the gods,

Who wears a lapis lazuli beard, who comes forth from the holy heaven, the . . . . heaven,

(Utu, son to Nannar & Ningal, appointed by grandfather Enlil as Commander of the Space Ports)

Utu, the son born of [Ninga]l (Nannar‘s spouse),

Enki placed in charge of the entire universe.

He wove the mug-cloth, directed the temenos,

Enki perfected greatly that which is woman’s task,

For Enki, the people [. . d] the . . . -garment,

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

(Enki‘s & Ninkurra‘s daughter Uttu, Goddess-teacher of Weaving)

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

Then all by her[self], having abandoned the royal scepter,

The woman, . . . . , the maid Inanna having abandoned the royal scepter

(Inanna, Goddess of Love & War atop Leo zodiac symbol)

Inanna, to [her father] (her grand-uncle) Enki,

Ente[rs] the house, (and) [humb]ly weeping, utters a plaint (?):

“The Anunnaki, the great gods – their fate Enlil placed firmly in your [hand],

Me, the woman, [wh]y did you treat differently?

I, the holy Inanna, – where are [my prerogat]ives?

(Anunnaki King Anu‘s eldest daughter Ninhursag, top scientist)

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

H[as taken for herself] her holy . . . . of lordship,

Has carried off for herself her holy, pure ala-vessel,

She has become the midwife of the Land,

In her hand you have placed the born king, the born lord.

(Bau & her nephew / spouse Ninurta, the royal prince son & heir to Enlil)

That sister of mine, the holy Ninisinna (Bau / Gula),

Has taken for herself the bright unu, has become the heirodule of An.

Has stationed herself near (?) An, utters the word which fills (?) heaven,

(Ninhursag & brother Enki, with father King Anu & 2 others above in alien sky-disc)

That sister of mine, the holy Ninmug (also a sister to Ninhursag, daughter to Anu),

Has taken for herself the gold chisel (and) the silver hammer (?),

Has become the met[alwor]ker (?) of the Land,

The [born] king, who dons the enduring diadem,

The born lord who puts crown of head, you have placed [in her hand].

(giant gods farming, Nisaba, Goddess of Grains, Master Scribe, etc.)

That sister of mine, the holy Nidaba (Nisaba),

Has taken for herself the measuring rod,

Has fastened the lapis lazuli line (?) on her arm,

Proclaims all the great me’s,

(Nisaba, cuneiform scribe of the gods, & teacher to others)

Fixes the borders, marks off the boundaries – has become the scribe of the Land,

In her hands you have placed the food of the gods.

(Nanshe, Enki’s powerful daughter goddess)

Nanshe (Enki & Ninhursag‘s daughter), 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.

Me, the [woman], why did you treat differently?

(needy, demanding Inanna, Goddess of Love & War)

I, holy Inanna, where are my prerogatives?”

(Approximately three lines missing)

. . . . his . . . . , “[E]nlil (?) . . . . ,

Has adorned (?) for you . . . . ,

You wear there the garment (?) ‘might of the young lad,’

You have established the words spoken by the ‘young lad,’

You have taken charge of the crook, staff, and wand of shepherdship,

Maid Inanna, what, what more shall we add to you?

Battles (and) onslaughts – of their oracles (?) you give the answer,

In their midst, you who are not an arabu-bird, give (?) an unfavorable answer (?),

You twist the straight thread,

Maid Inanna, you straighten the twi[sted] thread,

You have fashioned garments, you wear garments,

You have woven mug-cloth, you have threaded the spindle,

In your . . . you have dyed (?) the many-colored . . thread.

Inanna, you have . . . . ,

(pilot Inanna was given her own sky-disc by great-grandfather King Anu)

Inanna, you have destroyed the indestructible, you have made perish the imperishable,

You have silenced (?)

The . . with the ‘timbrel (?) of lament,

‘Maid Inanna, you have returned the tigi- and adab-hymns to their house.

You whose admirers do not grow weary to look at,

Maid Inanna, you who know not the distant wells, the fastening ropes (?);

Lo, the inundation has come, the Land is restored,

James Charles Kaelin, Jr. Webmaster & Digitizer EarthStation1 http://earthstation1.simplenet.com wandarer@earthlink.net

(Enlil Inanna Utu Enki 2-faced Isumud)

The inundation of Enlil has come, the Land is restored.’

(Remaining nineteen lines destroyed)

Enki and the World Order: translation Version 2

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1-16 Grandiloquent lord of heaven and earth, self-reliant, father Enki, engendered by a bull, begotten by a wild bull,

(Enki, eldest & wisest son to alien planet Nibiru Anunnaki King Anu)

cherished by Enlil the Great Mountain, beloved by holy An (Anu), king, mes tree planted in the Abzu, rising over all lands;

great dragon who stands in Eridug, whose shadow covers heaven and earth, a grove of vines extending over the Land,

Enki, lord of plenty of the Anuna (Anunnaki) gods, Nudimmud (Enki), mighty one of the E-kur, strong one of heaven and earth!

(Ninurta visits Enki‘s ziggurat house in Eridu)

Your great house is founded in the Abzu, the great mooring-post of heaven and earth.

Enki, from whom a single glance is enough to unsettle the heart of the mountains;

wherever bison are born, where stags are born, where ibex are born, where wild goats are born, in meadows ……,

in hollows in the heart of the hills, in green …… unvisited by man,

you have fixed your gaze on the heart of the Land like a halhal reed.

17-31 Counting the days and putting the months in their houses, so as to complete the years

and to submit the completed years to the assembly for a decision, taking decisions to regularise the days:

(giant gods Enki & sons in his patron city Eridu)

father Enki, you are the king of the assembled people.

You have only to open your mouth for everything to multiply and for plenty to be established.

Your branches …… green with their fruit ……, …… do honor to the gods.

…… in its forests is like a fleecy garment.

Good sheep and good lambs do honour to …….

When …… the prepared fields, …… will accumulate stockpiles and stacks.

…… there is oil, there is milk, produced by the sheepfold and cow-pen.

(Sumerian cattle pens feeding giant aliens on Earth)

The shepherd sweetly sings his rustic song, the cowherd spends the day rocking his churns.

Their products would do honour to the late lunches in the gods’ great dining hall.

32-37 Your word fills the young man’s heart with vigour, so that like a thick-horned bull he butts about in the courtyard.

Your word bestows loveliness on the young woman’s head, so that the people in their settled cities gaze at her in wonder.

2 lines unclear

(Enlil & his “great mountain” ziggurat house in Nippur)

38-47 Enlil, the Great Mountain, has commissioned you to gladden the hearts of lords and rulers and wish them well.

(planet Nibiru King Anu in his sky-disc, father in heaven to sons of god who came down)

Enki, lord of prosperity, lord of wisdom, lord, the beloved of An, the ornament of Eridug (Eridu),

who establish commands and decisions, who well understands the decreeing of fates:

you close up the days ……, and make the months enter their houses.

You bring down ……, you have reached their number.

You make the people dwell in their dwelling places ……., you make them follow their herdsman …….

2 lines unclear

50-51 You turn weapons away from their houses ……, you make the people safe in their dwellings …….

52-60 When father Enki goes forth to the inseminated people, good seed will come forth.

(Enki, God of Wisdom, God of the Waters, 2nd main alien god on Earth, next to 1/2 brother Enlil)

When Nudimmud (Enki) goes forth to the good pregnant ewes, good lambs will be born;

when he goes forth to the fecund cows, good calves will be born;

when he goes forth to the good pregnant goats, good kids will be born.

If you go forth to the cultivated fields, to the good germinating fields, stockpiles and stacks can be accumulated on the high plain.

If you go forth to the parched areas of the Land,

2 lines missing or unclear

(Enki & family lived historically in the Abzu)

61-80 Enki, the king of the Abzu, justly praises himself in his majesty:

“My father, the king of heaven and earth, made me famous in heaven and earth.

My elder brother, the king of all the lands, gathered up all the divine powers and placed them in my hand.

(E-kur, Enlil‘s house in Nippur, Earth Colony Command Central)

I brought the arts and crafts from the E-kur, the house of Enlil, to my Abzu (marshlands of Persian Gulf) in Eridug.

(Anunnaki giants King Anu hovers above in his winged sky-disc)

I am the good semen, begotten by a wild bull, I am the first born of An.

I am a great storm rising over the great earth, I am the great lord of the Land.

I am the principal among all rulers, the father of all the foreign lands.

I am the big brother of the gods, I bring prosperity to perfection.

I am the seal-keeper of heaven and earth.

I am the wisdom and understanding of all the foreign lands.

(King Anu‘s “gates of heaven“, & his throne in heaven / planet Nibiru)

With An the king, on An‘s dais, I oversee justice.

With Enlil, looking out over the lands, I decree good destinies.

He has placed in my hands the decreeing of fates in the ‘Place where the sun rises’.

(young Ninhursag, Enki‘s sister-lover, DNA Chief Medical Scientist)

I am cherished by Nintud (Ninhursag). I am named with a good name by Ninhursaja (Ninhursag).

I am the leader of the Anuna (Anunnaki) gods.

I was born as the firstborn son of holy An.” (the Anunnaki birth-rite law of succession is the law of the “double seed”)

81-83 After the lord had proclaimed his greatness, after the great prince had eulogised himself,

the Anuna gods stood there in prayer and supplication:

84-85 “Praise be to Enki, the much-praised lord who controls all the arts and crafts, who takes decisions!”

(Enki, wisest of alien gods on Earth, lord over the waters)

86-88 In a state of high delight Enki, the king of the Abzu (marshlands of the Persian Gulf),

again justly praises himself in his majesty:

“I am the lord, I am one whose word is reliable, I am one who excels in everything.

89-99 “At my command, sheepfolds have been built, cow-pens have been fenced off.

When I approach heaven, a rain of abundance rains from heaven.

When I approach earth, there is a high carp-flood.

When I approach the green meadows, at my word stockpiles and stacks are accumulated.

I have built my house, a shrine, in a pure place, and named it with a good name.

I have built my Abzu, a shrine, in ……, and decreed a good fate for it.

The shade of my house extends over the …… pool.

By my house the suhur carp dart among the honey plants, and the ectub carp wave their tails among the small gizi reeds.

The small birds chirp in their nests.

(Enki, 1st giant to land on Earth with his crew of 50)

100-122 “The lords …… to me. I am Enki!

They stand before me, praising me.

The abgal priests and abrig officials who …… stand before me …… distant days.

The enkum and ninkum officiants organise …….

They purify the river for me, they …… the interior of the shrine for me.

In my Abzu, sacred songs and incantations resound for me.

My barge ‘Crown’, the ‘Stag of the Abzu’, transports me there most delightfully.

It glides swiftly for me through the great marshes to wherever I have decided, it is obedient to me.

The stroke-callers make the oars pull in perfect unison.

They sing for me pleasant songs, creating a cheerful mood on the river.

(giant alien gods along the Rivers Euphrates & Tigris)

Nijir-sig (unidentified), the captain of my barge, holds the golden scepter for me.

I am Enki! He is in command of my boat ‘Stag of the Abzu’.

I am the lord! I will travel! I am Enki! I will go forth into my Land!

I, the lord who determines the fates, ……,”

4 lines unclear

123-130 “I will admire its green cedars.

Let the lands of Meluha, Magan and Dilmun look upon me, upon Enki.

(Enki & earthling workers shipping goods)

Let the Dilmun boats be loaded (?) with timber.

Let the Maganboats be loaded sky-high.

Let the magilum boats of Meluha transport gold and silver

(giant alien god’s boat docks at Enki‘s temple residence in Eridu)

and bring them to Nibru (Nippur, Enlil‘s city) for Enlil, king of all the lands.”

131-133 He presented animals to those who have no city,

to those who have no houses, to the Martu (uncivilized ape-like earthlings under Martu) nomads.

134-139 The Anuna gods address affectionately the great prince who has traveled in his Land:

“Lord who rides upon the great powers, the pure powers, who controls the great powers,

the numberless powers, foremost in all the breadth of heaven and earth;

who received the supreme powers in Eridug, the holy place,

the most esteemed place, Enki, lord of heaven and earth — praise!”

140-161 All the lords and rulers, the incantation-priests of Eridug and the linen-clad priests of Sumer,

perform the purification rites of the Abzu for the great prince who has traveled in his land;

for father Enki they stand guard in the holy place, the most esteemed place.

They …… the chambers ……, they …… the emplacements, they purify the great shrine of the Abzu …….

They bring there the tall juniper, the pure plant.

They organize the holy …… in the great music room …… of Enki.

Skilfully they build the main staircase of Eridug on the Good Quay.

They prepare the sacred uzga shrine, where they utter endless prayers.

7 lines missing, damaged or unclear

162-165 For Enki, …… squabbling together, and the suhurmac carp dart among the honey plants,

again fighting amongst themselves for the great prince.

The ectub carp wave their tails among the small gizi reeds.

166-181 The lord, the great ruler of the Abzu issues instructions on board the ‘Stag of the Abzu’ –

the great emblem erected in the Abzu, providing protection,

its shade extending over the whole land and refreshing the people, the principal foundation (?),

the pole planted in the …… marsh, rising high over all the foreign lands.

(Ninurta, Enlil‘s warrior son & heir, symbolized by the “double-headed eagle”)

The noble captain of the lands, the son of Enlil (Ninurta), holds in his hand the sacred punt-pole,

a mes tree ornamented in the Abzu which received the supreme powers in Eridug, the holy place, the most esteemed place.

The hero proudly lifts his head towards the Abzu.

6 lines missing or unclear

182-187 Sirsir (unidentified) ……, the boatman of the barge, …… the boat for the lord.

Nijir-sig (unidentified), the captain of the barge, holds the holy sceptre for the lord.

(Ninurta, Ninhursag, Abgal & Enki in wet suits / “fishes suit”, King Anu in his sky-disc, alien giants land on Earth)

The fifty lahama deities of the subterranean waters speak affectionately to him.

The stroke-callers, like heavenly gamgam birds, …….

188-191 The intrepid king, father Enki…… in the Land.

Prosperity was made to burgeon in heaven and on earth for the great prince who travels in the Land.

Enki decreed its fate:

192-209 “Sumer, Great Mountain, land of heaven and earth, trailing glory,

bestowing powers on the people from sunrise to sunset:

your powers are superior powers, untouchable, and your heart is complex and inscrutable.

Like heaven itself, your good creative force (?), in which gods too can be born, is beyond reach.

Giving birth to kings who put on the good diadem, giving birth to lords who wear the crown on their heads —

(Apkulla / pilot, son Enki, father King Anu in his sky-disc, son Enlil, & winged eagle-headed Apkulla / pilot)

your lord, the honoured lord, sits with An the king on An‘s dais.

Your king, the Great Mountain, father Enlil, the father of all the lands, has blocked you impenetrably (?) like a cedar tree.

The Anuna, the great gods, have taken up dwellings in your midst,

and consume their food in your giguna shrines with their single trees.

Household Sumer, may your sheepfolds be built and your cattle multiply, may your giguna touch the skies.

May your good temples reach up to heaven.

May the Anuna determine the destinies in your midst.”

(Ur, ancient Biblical city of Abraham, temple residence of Nannar / El with “stairway to heaven” for earthling slow approach)

210-211 Then he proceeded to the sanctuary of Urim (Ur).

Enki, lord of the Abzu, decreed its fate:

212-218 “City which possesses all that is fitting, bathed by water!

sturdy bull, altar of abundance that strides across the mountains,

rising like the hills, forest of hacur cypresses with broad shade, self-confident!

May your perfect powers be well-directed.

The Great Mountain Enlil has pronounced your name great in heaven and on earth.

City whose fate Enki has decreed, sanctuary of Urim, you shall rise high to heaven!”

219-220 Then he proceeded to the land of Meluha.

Enki, lord of the Abzu, decreed its fate:

221-237 “Black land, may your trees be great trees, may your forests be forests of highland mes trees!

Chairs made from them will grace royal palaces!

May your reeds be great reeds, may they ……!

Heroes shall …… them on the battlefield as weapons!

May your bulls be great bulls, may they be bulls of the mountains!

May their bellowing be the bellowing of wild bulls of the mountains!

The great powers of the gods (alien technologies) shall be made perfect for you!

May the francolins of the mountains wear cornelian beards!

May your birds all be peacocks!

May their cries grace royal palaces!

May all your silver be gold!

May all your copper be tin-bronze!

Land, may all you possess be plentiful!

May your people ……!

May your men go forth like bulls against their fellow men!”

2 lines unclear

(Dilmun & Magan, pristine virgin lands given by Enki to a few children)

238-247 He cleansed and purified the land of Dilmun.

He placed Ninsikila (Enki & Ninhursag‘s daughter via Uttu) in charge of it.

He gave …… for the fish spawn, ate its …… fish, bestowed palms on the cultivated land, ate its dates.

…… Elam and Marhaci ……. …… to devour …….

The king endowed with strength by Enlil destroyed their houses, demolished (?) their walls.

(Enlil & his Earth Colony Command Central, mud brick-built E-kur, ziggurat home of Enlil & Ninlil in Nippur, top added in 1900)

He brought their silver and lapis-lazuli, their treasure, to Enlil, king of all the lands, in Nibru (Nippur).

248-249 Enki presented animals to those who have no city, who have no houses, to the Martu nomads.

250-266 After he had turned his gaze from there, after father Enki had lifted his eyes across the Euphrates,

he stood up full of lust like a rampant bull, lifted his penis, ejaculated and filled the Tigris with flowing water.

(Enki stabilized, steadied the flow of the river waters on Earth Colony)

He was like a wild cow mooing for its young in the wild grass, its scorpion-infested cow-pen.

The Tigris…… at his side like a rampant bull.

By lifting his penis, he brought a bridal gift.

The Tigris rejoiced in its heart like a great wild bull, when it was born …….

(the Biblical “Eden”, the “land of the gods” in ancient Sumer)

It brought water, flowing water indeed: its wine will be sweet.

It brought barley, mottled barley indeed: the people will eat it.

It filled the E-kur, the house of Enlil, with all sorts of things.

Enlil was delighted with Enki, and Nibru was glad.

The lord put on the diadem as a sign of lordship,

he put on the good crown as a sign of kingship, touching the ground on his left side.

Plenty came forth out of the earth for him.

267-273 Enki, the lord of the destinies, Enki, the king of the Abzu,

placed in charge of all this him who holds a scepter in his right hand,

him who with glorious mouth submits to verification the devouring force of Tigris and Euphrates,

while prosperity pours forth from the palace like oil – Enbilulu (Enlil‘s son), the inspector of waterways.

(Enki drains his marshland domains along the Persian Gulf)

274-277 He called the marshes and gave them the various species of carp,

he spoke to the reedbeds and bestowed on them the old and new growths of reeds.

2 lines missing

278-284 He issued a challenge …….

Enki placed in charge of all this him from whose net no fish escapes,

him from whose trap no living thing escapes, him from whose bird-net no bird escapes,

1 line unclear

— ……, who loves fish.

285-298 The lord established a shrine, a holy shrine, whose interior is elaborately constructed.

He established a shrine in the sea, a holy shrine, whose interior is elaborately constructed.

(Enki‘s lost, forgotten patron city of Eridu; E-engura, Enki‘s shrine / ziggurat home while on Earth for tens of thousands of years, tasked to develop their Colony by his father King Anu, & then routinely return to planet Nibiru with Earth’s gold & other much needed goods)

The shrine, whose interior is a tangled thread, is beyond understanding.

The shrine’s emplacement is situated by the constellation the Field,

the holy upper shrine’s emplacement faces towards the Chariot constellation.

Its terrifying awesomeness is a rising wave, its splendour is fearsome.

The Anuna gods dare not approach it.

…… to refresh their hearts, the palace rejoices.

(giant alien gods on Earth discuss achieving their goals at hand)

The Anuna stand by with prayers and supplications.

They set up a great altar for Enki in the E-engura (ziggurat of Enki‘s), for the lord …….

The great prince ……. …… the pelican of the sea.

1 line unclear

299-308 He filled the E-kur, the house of Enlil, with goods of all sorts.

Enlil was delighted with Enki, and Nibru was glad.

Enki placed in charge of all this, over the wide extent of the sea,

her who sets sail …… in the holy shrine, who induces sexual intercourse ……,

who …… over the enormous high flood of the subterranean waters,

the terrifying waves, the inundation of the sea ……, who comes forth from the ……,

the mistress of Sirara, …… –Nance (Enki & Ninhursag‘s daughter via Uttu).

309-317 He called to the rain of the heavens.

He …… as floating clouds.

He made …… rising at the horizon.

He turned the mounds into fields …….

Enki placed in charge of all this him who rides on the great storms, who attacks with lightning bolts,

the holy bar which blocks the entrance to the interior of heaven, the son of An, the canal inspector of heaven and earth —

(Adad / Ishkur, Enlil‘s son; alien giant god Adad & mixed-breed king)

Ickur (Adad), the bringer of plenty, the son of (Enlil, grandson of) An.

(farming, a time when the alien gods did their own work)

318-325 He organized plows, yokes and teams.

The great prince Enki bestowed the horned oxen that follow ……,

he opened up the holy furrows, and made the barley grow on the cultivated fields.

Enki placed in charge of them the lord who wears the diadem, the ornament of the high plain,

him of the implements, the farmer of Enlil–Enkimdu, responsible for ditches and dykes.

(Sumerian field harvest records of the gods, Nisaba was their record keeper)

326-334 The lord called the cultivated fields, and bestowed on them mottled barley.

Enki made chickpeas, lentils and …… grow.

He heaped up into piles the early, mottled and innuha varieties of barley.

(Enlil, father-in-law Haia-barley god, mother-in-law Nisaba-Goddess of Grains, spouse Ninlil-grain goddess, & unidentified)

Enki multiplied the stockpiles and stacks, and with Enlil‘s help he enhanced the people’s prosperity.

Enki placed in charge of all this her whose head and body are dappled,

whose face is covered in syrup, the mistress who causes sexual intercourse,

the power of the Land, the life of the black-headed – Acnan, the good bread of the whole world.

335-340 The great prince fixed a string to the hoe, and organized brick moulds.

He penetrated the …… like precious oil.

Enki placed in charge of them him whose sharp-bladed hoe is a corpse-devouring snake that ……,

whose brick mould in place is a tidy stack of hulled grain for the ewes –

Kulla (Ningishzidda), who …… bricks in the Land.

341-348 He tied down the strings and coordinated them with the foundations,

and with the power of the assembly he planned a house and performed the purification rituals.

(Ningishzidda lays foundation peg to built the next ziggurat home for the visiting giants)

The great prince put down the foundations, and laid the bricks.

Enki placed in charge of all this him whose foundations once laid do not sag, whose good houses once built do not collapse (?),

whose vaults reach up into the heart of the heavens like a rainbow – Mucdama (unidentified), Enlil‘s master builder.

349-357 He raised a holy crown over the upland plain.

He fastened a lapis-lazuli beard to the high plain, and made it wear a lapis-lazuli headdress.

He made this good place perfect with grasses and herbs in abundance.

He multiplied the animals of the high plain to an appropriate degree,

he multiplied the ibex and wild goats of the pastures, and made them copulate.

Enki placed in charge of them the hero who is the crown of the high plain, who is the king of the countryside,

the great lion of the high plain, the muscular, the hefty, the burly strength of Enlil–

Cakkan (unidentified animal god), the king of the hills.

358-367 built the sheepfolds, carried out their cleaning, made the cow-pens,

bestowed on them the best fat and cream, and brought luxury to the gods’ dining places.

He made the plain, created for grasses and herbs, achieve prosperity.

Enki placed in charge of all this the king, the good provider of E-ana (Anu‘s ziggurat in Uruk),

the friend of An (Anu), the beloved son-in-law of the youth Suen (Nannar), the holy spouse of Inana the mistress,

the lady of the great powers who allows sexual intercourse in the open squares of Kulaba–

(Dumuzi the Shepherd, Enki‘s & Ninsun‘s young son)

Dumuzid-ucumgal-ana (Dumuzi the Shepherd), the friend of An.

368-380 He filled the E-kur, the house of Enlil, with possessions.

Enlil was delighted with Enki and Nibru (Nippur) was glad.

He demarcated borders and fixed boundaries.

For the Anuna gods, Enki situated dwellings in cities and disposed agricultural land into fields.

Enki placed in charge of the whole of heaven and earth the hero,

the bull who comes out of the hacur forest bellowing truculently,

(Utu, son to Nannar & Ningal, twin brother to Inanna, Space Port Commander;, Sun god Utu & Hammurabi, smaller mixed-breed king)

the youth Utu, the bull standing triumphantly, audaciously, majestically,

the father of the Great City (an expression for the underworld) (?) (Sippar, Utu‘s patron city),

the great herald in the east of holy An, the judge who searches out verdicts for the gods,

with a lapis-lazuli beard, rising from the horizon into the holy heavens Utu, the son born by Ningal.

(Utu, Commander of the Space Ports; example of his carved mountaintop landing sites)

(Utu cut space ports with launch towers into the mountains, safely kept far away from forbidden earthling activity)

381-386 He picked out the tow from the fibres, and adapted it for rags (?).

Enki greatly perfected the task of women.

(Uttu spinning thread, Enki‘s daughter, alien Goddess of Weaving, spinning taught to earthlings)

For Enki, the people …… in suluhu garments.

Enki placed in charge of them the honor of the palace, the dignity of the king –

Uttu (Enki & Ninkurra‘s daughter), the conscientious woman, the silent one.

387-390 Then, alone lacking any functions, the great woman of heaven,

(giant Inanna, Nannar‘s aggressive daughter)

Inana, lacking any functions – Inana came in to see her father Enki in his house, weeping to him, and making her complaint to him:

391-394 “Enlil left it in your hands to confirm the functions of the Anuna, the great gods.

Why did you treat me, the woman, in an exceptional manner. I am holy Inana— where are my functions?”

395-402 “Aruru (Ninhursag), Enlil‘s (½) sister, Nintud (Ninhursag),

the lady of giving birth, is to get the holy birth-bricks as her prerogative.

(Ninhursag holding her umbilical chord cutter-her symbol, & brother Enki working tirelessly in their DNA lab)

She is to carry off the lancet for umbilical cords (her symbol), 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.”

(Nininsina / Bau wearing her cuba stone necklace, & her warrior spouse Ninurta)

403-405 “My illustrious sister, holy Nininsina (Bau / Gula, Anu‘s daughter), is to get the jewelery of cuba stones.

She is to be An‘s (Anu) mistress.

She is to stand beside An and speak to him whenever she desires.”

406-411 “My illustrious sister, holy Ninmug (Anu & Nammu‘s daughter), is to get the golden chisel and the silver burin.

She is to carry off her big flint antasura blade.

She is to be the metal-worker of the Land.

The fitting of the good diadem when a king is born and the crowning with the crown

when a lord is born are to be in her hands.”

(Nisaba, Enlil‘s mother-in-law, master scribe, goddess of grains)

412-417 “My illustrious sister, holy Nisaba, is to get the measuring-reed.

The lapis-lazuli measuring tape is to hang over her arm.

She is to proclaim all the great powers.

(boundary stones of the alien gods, their symbols carved as warnings)

She is to demarcate boundaries and mark borders.

She is to be the scribe of the Land.

The planning of the gods’ meals is to be in her hands.”

(Nanshe, Enki & Ninhursag‘s daughter via Uttu, Goddess of the Persian Gulf Fishes & Birds)

418-421 “Nance, the august lady, who rests her feet on the holy pelican (her symbol),

(Nanshe; & father Enki identify the edible birds & fishes)

is to be the fisheries inspector of the sea.

She is to be responsible for accepting delectable fish (also her symbol)

and delicious birds from there to go to Nibru (Nippur) for her father Enlil.”

422-423 “But why did you treat me, the woman, in an exceptional manner?

(Inanna; King Anu & great-granddaughter Inanna)

I am holy Inana— where are my functions?”

424-436 Enki answered his daughter (grand-niece), holy Inana:

“How have I disparaged you? Goddess, how have I disparaged you? How can I enhance you?

Maiden Inana, how have I disparaged you? How can I enhance you?

I made you speak as a woman with pleasant voice.

I made you go forth …….

I covered …… with a garment.

I made you exchange its right side and its left side.

I clothed you in garments of women’s power.

I put women’s speech in your mouth.

I placed in your hands the spindle and the hairpin.

I …… to you women’s adornment.

I settled on you the staff and the crook, with the shepherd’s stick beside them.”

437-444 “Maiden Inana, how have I disparaged you? How can I enhance you?

Amongst the ominous occurrences in the hurly-burly of battle, I shall make you speak vivifying words;

(Inanna, the Goddess of Love & War over gods & earthlings)

and in its midst, although you are not an arabu bird (a bird of ill omen), I shall make you speak ill-omened words also.

I made you tangle straight threads; maiden Inana, I made you straighten out tangled threads.

I made you put on garments, I made you dress in linen.

I made you pick out the tow from the fibres, I made you spin with the spindle.

I made you colour tufted (?) cloth with coloured threads.”

(twin alien giant gods Utu & Inanna, holding a disloyal tiny earthling by a nose ring)

445-450 “Inana, you heap up human heads like piles of dust, you sow heads like seed.

Inana, you destroy what should not be destroyed; you create what should not be created.

You remove the cover from the cem drum of lamentations,

Maiden Inana, while shutting up the tigi and adab instruments in their homes.

You never grow weary with admirers looking at you.

Maiden Inana, you know nothing of tying the ropes on deep wells.”

451-471 “But now, the heart has overflowed, the Land is restored; Enlil‘s heart has overflowed, the Land is restored.

In his overflowing heart of mankind,”

4 lines unclear

(Inanna & grandfather Enlil, the Earth Colony Commander of King & father Anu)

“…… lapis-lazuli headdress …… is your prerogative, …… is your prerogative,

……; is your prerogative, …… is your prerogative.”

10 lines unclear

472 Praise be to father Enki.

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The temple, decorated with silver, lapis lazuli, carnelian and gold, was established on the bank of a river, where its foundations reached deep into the underground sweet, fertilizing waters, called the Apsu.

The temple had magical qualities: the brickwork gave Enki advice, while the surrounding reed fences roared like a bull. The roof-beam was shaped like the bull of heaven, and a lion gripping a man formed the gateway. The overall effect was described as a lusty bull.

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THE ERIDU GENESIS

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The Worm And The Toothache

Translated by E. A. Speiser, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Related to the Old Testament, edited by J. B. Pritchard (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), 100-101.

The heron and the turtle: translation

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Enki and the World Order (Version 1)

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(Ekur, the house of Enlil, top added in 1900)

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