CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
LOWHA SHIL ETANA
TABLET OF
Begin All Acts And Thinking By Using El Kuluum, The All
Tablet One
Tablet Of Etana
(19x9=171)
Lo the great Aluhum the Igigi designed the blueprints of a city,
2 The Igigi laid the plans for its foundation.
3 The Anunnagi designed this actual city of kish!,
4 The Anunnagi made and laid its brickwork firm.
5 In counsel, they decided to 'let Etana be their shepherd and rule first in the great city.
6 Let Etana be their builder and ruler and holder of the staff of leadership.
7 The great Anunnagi who decree destinies,
8 Sat and conferred their counsel on the land.
9 They were creating the four quarters of the world and establishing the form of it.
10 The Igigi were greatly satisfied and decreed names of its provinces for them all.
11 They had not established a ruler over all the people of each province.
12 At that time the headband and crown had not been put together,
13 And the lapis lazuli scepter had not been decreed over him.
14 At the same time near them, the throne-dais had not been made.
15 The Sebitti barred the gates against armies attacks.
16 The Sebitti barred the against other settled peoples.
17 The Igigi would patrol the city from the skies.
18 Ishtar was looking for a shepherd.
19 And searching high and low for a ruler.
20 Inninna was looking for a shepherd.
21 And searching high and low for a shepherd.
22 Enlil was looking for a throne-dais for Etana.
23 'The young man for whom Ishtar is looking so diligently,
24 And searches endlessly day and shadow hour sleepless.
25 A ruler is hereby affirmed for the land, and in Kish it is established that Etana is that ruler.
26 He brought rulership down to Eridu.
27 The Anunnagi of the lands were satisfied in him.
28 He named him Fish-Man, serpent of the sea. He built a fort in his behalf.
29 The throne-dais of Adad his Anunnagi name Baal.
30 In the shade of that throne-dais a poplar sprouted fresh water.
31 On its crown, an eagle-man crouched, and a serpent-man lay at its base.
32 Everyday they would keep watch for their prey to come.
33 The eagle-man made its voice heard and said to the serpent-man,
34 'Come, let us be friends,
35 Let us be comrades, you and I,'
36 The serpent-man made its voice heard and spoke to the eagle-man,
37 'You are not fit for friendship in the sight of Shamash, whose consort is Aya!
38 You are wicked and you have
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