The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

ETCSL translation : t.1.1.2

Enki and Ninmaḫ

According To The Records, We Were Given The Archetypal Energy And Genetics From Enki Himself, That All Men As They Evolve In Their Consciousness And Their Physical Body Through Their Chakras And Reach This Heightened State Of Consciousness, They Should Expect That They’re Going To Reach The Energy Archetype Of Their Creator Who Was Enki. And For Females That’s Ninmah Who Was Ninharsag His Half Sister The Medical Officer.

In The Past Ancient Humans Used To Offer Fish To Enki In Ceremonies, And He Is Often Depicted As Part Fish Or Reptilian Though Still Human In Form.

1-11. In those days, in the days when heaven and earth were created; in those nights, in the nights when heaven and earth were created; in those years, in the years when the fates were determined; when the Anuna gods were born; when the goddesses were taken in marriage; when the goddesses were distributed in heaven and earth; when the goddesses …… became pregnant and gave birth; when the gods were obliged (?) …… their food …… dining halls; the senior gods oversaw the work, while the minor gods were bearing the toil. The gods were digging the canals and piling up the silt in Ḫarali. The gods, crushing the clay, began complaining about this life.

12-23. At that time, the one of great wisdom, the creator of all the senior gods, Enki lay on his bed, not waking up from his sleep, in the deep engur, in the subterranean water, the place the inside of which no other god knows. The gods said, weeping: “He is the cause of the lamenting!” Namma, the primeval mother who gave birth to the senior gods, took the tears of the gods to the one who lay sleeping, to the one who did not wake up from his bed, to her son: “Are you really lying there asleep, and …… not awake? The gods, your creatures, are smashing their ……. My son, wake up from your bed! Please apply the skill deriving from your wisdom and create a substitute (?) for the gods so that they can be freed from their toil!”