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Lugalbanda in the mountain cave

Sumerian literature (ETCSL) · 1 - Narrative and mythological compositions · 512 sections

1. A.101

   niĝ2-gur11 {ĝiš}ma2 ki-buru14 ba-al-la-gin7

2. A.102

   saĝ-ĝa2-ni-še3 ḫur-ru-um kur-ra-ka mu-ni-in-ĝar-re-ne

3. A.103

   {kuš}ummud-⌈da⌉-ne-ne a NAM nu-um-ta-X [(X)]

4. A.104

   kaš gig2 kurun ziz2 babbar

5. A.105

   ĝeštin na8-na8 gu2-me-ze2 dug3-ga-am3

6. A.106

   saĝ-ĝa2-ni-še3 ḫur-ru-um kur-ra […] ĝiš {kuš}ummud-da-gin7 ur2-ba ḫu-mu-tal2-tal2

7. A.107

   i3 šim-gig-ga i3 ?-da i3 šim GA i3 ligidba i3 saĝ-bi gan-da

8. A.108

   si-dug4 sur-ra-ke4 mu-na-ak-eš

9. A.109

   saĝ-ĝa2-ni-še3 ḫur-ru-um kur-ra-ka mu-ni-ib-la2-e-ne

10. A.110

    {urud}ḫa-zi-in-na-ni kug-bi nagga

11. A.111

    ḫur-saĝ zubi-ta šu-a bal-a

12. A.112

    saĝ-ĝa2-ni-še3 im-ši-ib-ru-gu2-ne

13. A.113

    ĝiri2 ur2-ra-ka-ni an-bar-sug4-ga-am3

14. A.114

    ḫur-saĝ gig2-ta šu-a bal-a

15. A.115

    ti-ni-ta im-da-ab-sur-ru-ne

16. A.116

    igi-ni pa5 mu a-ta dirig-dirig-ga-e

17. A.117

    kug {d}lugal-ban3-da ba-an-di-ni-ib-bad-bad-de3

18. A.118

    nundum-a-na {ĝiš}ig bar kug {d}utu gu2-bi ba-an-gi4

19. A.119

    šeš-a-ne-ne nu-mu-un-ne-ba-e

20. A.120

    gu2-ni un-zig3-ge-eš zi nu-um-me

21. A.121

    šeš-a-ne-ne gu5-li-ne-ne

22. A.122

    ni2-bi-a ad mi-ni-ib-gi4-gi4-ne

23. A.123

    ud šeš-me {d}utu [ĝiš]-⌈nu2⌉-a-gin7 mu-zi-zi-ia

    If our brother rises like Utu from bed, then the god who has smitten him will step aside and, when he eats this food, when he drinks (?) this, will make his feet stable. May he bring him over the high places of the mountains to brick-built Kulaba.

24. A.124

    diĝir niĝ2 mu-ni-ra-a-ni bar-ta im-da-gub

25. A.125

    ne un-gu7 ne un-⌈KA×X⌉

26. A.126

    ĝiri3-ni ĝiri3 ki us2-sa ba-an-taḫ

27. A.127

    gar3-gar3 kur-ra-ke4 ⌈ḫe2⌉-en-tum2-mu-de3 šeg12 !-aba{ki}-!

28. A.128

    ⌈u3⌉ tukum-bi {d}utu šeš-me

    But if Utu calls our brother to , the health of his limbs will leave (?) him. Then it will be up to us, when we come back from Aratta, to bring our brother's body to brick-built Kulaba.

29. A.129

    ki kug ki kal-kal-la-aš gu3 im-ma-an-de2

30. A.130

    ĝiš-gen6-ge-en-na-ka-na ki-bi ḫe2-en-da-X

31. A.131

    ud me-en-de3 aratta{ki}-ta i3-re7-a-me-en-de3-en

32. A.132

    ad6 šeš-me šeg12 kul-aba4{ki}-še3 ga-ba-ni-ib-kur9-re-en-de3-en

33. A.133

    ab2 kug {d}nanna sag2 dug4-ga-gin7

    Like the dispersed holy cows of Nanna, as with a breeding bull when, in his old age, they have left him behind in the cattle pen, his brothers and friends abandoned holy Lugalbanda in the mountain cave; and with repeated tears and moaning, with tears, with lamentation, with grief and weeping, Lugalbanda's older brothers set off into the mountains.

34. A.134

    gud-ab2-ba nam-sumun-ba šurum-ma taka4-a-gin7

35. A.135

    šeš-a-ne-ne gu5-li-ne-ne

36. A.136

    kug {d}lugal-ban3-da ḫur-ru-um kur-ra-ka mu-ni-ib-taka4-a-aš

37. A.137

    er2 1(DIŠ)-e a-nir 1(DIŠ)-e

38. A.138

    er2-e niĝ2 šag4-ne-ša4-ka

39. A.139

    šag4 sag3-ge i-si-iš ĝa2-ĝa2-de3

40. A.140

    šeš-gal-šeš-gal {d}lugal-ban3-da kur-ra ba-an-sun5-ne-eš

41. A.141

    ud-ba lugal-ban3-da tur5-ra-am3 ud 2-am3 i-ni-in-!

    Then two days passed during which Lugalbanda was ill; to these two days, half a day was added. As Utu turned his glance towards his home, as the animals lifted their heads toward their lairs, at the day's end in the evening cool, his body was as if anointed with oil. But he was not yet free of his sickness.

42. A.142

    ud 2-am3 ud MAŠ-am3 ba-an-taḫ

43. A.143

    {d}utu e2-a-ni-še3 igi-ni ĝa2-ĝa2-gin7

44. A.144

    maš2-anše šurum-še3 saĝ il2-i-gin7

45. A.145

    ud šu niĝin2 a2 ud te-en-na-ra

46. A.146

    i3-gin7 su-na mu-na-ḫal-ḫa

47. A.147

    tur5-ra-na nu-um-ta-ab-ed3-de3

48. A.148

    {d}utu-ra an-še3 igi ḫe2-em-ši-ib-il2-ia-?

    When he lifted his eyes to heaven to Utu, he wept to him as if to his own father. In the mountain cave he raised to him his fair hands:

49. A.149

    a-a tud-da-na-gin7 er2 ba-ši-in-pad3

50. A.150

    šu sag9-sag9-ga-ni ḫur-ru-um kur-ra-kam mu-na-ab-zi-zi-zi-i

51. A.151

    {d}utu silim ga-ra-ab-dug4 nam-ba-tur5-tur5-de3-en

    Utu, I greet you! Let me be ill no longer! Hero, Ningal's son, I greet you! Let me be ill no longer! Utu, you have let me come up into the mountains in the company of my brothers. In the mountain cave, the most dreadful spot on earth, let me be ill no longer! Here where there is no mother, there is no father, there is no acquaintance, no one whom I value, my mother is not here to say Alas, my child! My brother is not here to say Alas, my brother! My mother's neighbour who enters our house is not here to weep over me. If the male and female protective deities were standing by, the deity of neighbourliness would say, A man should not perish. A lost dog is bad; a lost man is terrible. On the unknown way at the edge of the mountains, Utu, is a lost man, a man in an even more terrible situation. Don't make me flow away like water in a violent death! Don't make me eat saltpetre as if it were barley! Don't make me fall like a throw-stick somewhere in the desert unknown to me! Afflicted with a name which excites my brothers' scorn, let me be ill no longer! Afflicted with the derision of my comrades, let me be ill no longer! Let me not come to an end in the mountains like a weakling!

52. A.152

    ur-saĝ dumu {d}nin-gal silim ga-ra-ab-dug4 nam-ba-tur5-tur5-de3

53. A.153

    {d}utu šeš-ĝu10-ne-ka kur-ra mu-un-ed3-de3

54. A.154

    ḫur-ru-um kur-ra ki ! ki-ka nam-ba-an-tur5-tur5-de3

55. A.155

    ki ama nu-gub-ba a-a nu-gub-ba

56. A.156

    zu-a nu-gub-ba kal-la nu-gub-ba

57. A.157

    ama-ĝu10 a dumu-ĝu10 nu-um-me

58. A.158

    šeš-ĝu10 a šeš-ĝu10 nu-um-me

59. A.159

    ušur ama-ĝu10 e2-a kur9-ra-na er2-ĝu10 nu-še8-še8

60. A.160

    diĝir ama diĝir a-a ul-sug2-ge-eš-a-ta

61. A.161

    diĝir nam-ušur-ke4 lu2 ba-ra-an-ed3-de3 im-me-a

62. A.162

    ur nu-zu ḫul-a lu2 nu-zu ḫuš-am3

63. A.163

    kaskal nu-zu gaba kur-ra-ka

64. A.164

    {d}utu lu2 nu-zu lu2 ḫul rib-ba-am3

65. A.165

    a-gin7 ki-lul-la nam-ma-e

66. A.166

    še-gin7 saḫar sis-a nam-ba-da-gu7-e

67. A.167

    {ĝiš}ilar-gin7 edin ki nu-zu-ĝa2 nam-ba-e-de3-šub-bu-de3-en

68. A.168

    mu in-na šeš-ĝu10-ne-ka nam-ba-an-tur5-tur5-de3-en

69. A.169

    su-lum mar dub3-sa-ĝu10-ne-ka nam-ba-an-tur5-tur5-de3-en

70. A.170

    dim3-ma-gin7 kur-ra muš3 nam-ba-an-tum2-mu

71. A.171

    {d}utu er2-na šu ba-an-ši-in-ti

    Utu accepted his tears. He sent down his divine encouragement to him in the mountain cave.

72. A.172

    zi-šag4-ĝal2-la-ni ḫur-ru-um kur-ra-ka mu-na-ni-ib-ed3-de3

73. A.173

    ukur3-e NE-NE ĝa2-ĝa2-da ešemen dug3-ga-am3

    She who makes …… for the poor, is sweet, the prostitute who goes out to the inn, who makes the bedchamber delightful, who is food to the poor man -- , the daughter of Suen, arose before him like a bull in the Land. Her brilliance, like that of holy Šara, her stellar brightness illuminated for him the mountain cave. When he lifted his eyes upwards to Inana, he wept as if before his own father. In the mountain cave he raised to her his fair hands:

74. A.174

    kar-ke4 eš2-dam-še3 ed2-da ki-nu2 dug3-dug3-ge-da

75. A.175

    ukur3-e niĝ2 gu7-da-ni

76. A.176

    {d}inana dumu {d}suen-na-ke4

77. A.177

    gud-gin7 kalam-ma saĝ mu-na-il2

78. A.178

    me-lem4-ma-ni kug {d}šara2-gin7

79. A.179

    muš3-a-ni ḫur-ru-um kur-ra-kam ud mu-un-na-ĝa2-ĝa2

80. A.180

    {d}inana-ra an-še3 igi ḫe2-en-ši-ib-il2-ia-ka

81. A.181

    a-a tud-da-na-gin7 er2 ba-an-ši-in-pad3

82. A.182

    šu sag9-sag9-ga-ni ḫur-ru-um kur-ra-ka ⌈mu⌉-na-zi-zi-i-zi

83. A.183

    {d}inana e2-ĝu10 ḫe2-me-a iri{ki}-ĝu10 ḫe2-me-a

    Inana, if only this were my home, if only this were my city! If only this were Kulaba, the city in which my mother bore me ……! Even if it were to me as the waste land to a snake! If it were to me as a crack in the ground to a scorpion! My mighty people ……! My great ladies ……! …… to E-ana! (2 lines unclear) The little stones of it, the shining stones in their glory, saĝkal stones above, …… below, from its crying out in the mountain land Zabu, from its voice …… open -- may my limbs not perish in the mountains of the cypresses!

84. A.184

    iri ama-ĝu10 tud-da kul-aba⌈{ki}⌉ […]

85. A.185

    muš-gin7 KI.KAL-ĝu10 ḫe2-me-[a]

86. A.186

    ĝiri2-gin7 ki-in-dar-ĝu10 ⌈ḫe2⌉-[me-a]

87. A.187

    uĝ3 gal-gal-?-ĝu10-ne ma-ra-⌈an⌉-[…]

88. A.188

    nin gal-gal-?-ĝu10-ne ma-ra-⌈?⌉-[…] nin9 ⌈gal⌉ X […]

89. A.189

    a-⌈?⌉ […] ⌈e2⌉-an-na-še3 ma-[…]

90. gap

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91. A.191

    KA.NI-KA.NI KA SI im-me

92. A.192

    na4 tur-tur-bi na4 gi-rin ḫi-li-bi

93. A.193

    an-ta {na4}saĝ-kal-e ki-ta URU×X-URU×X-e

94. A.194

    !-bi-ta iši za-bu-e

95. A.195

    gu3-bi-ta sur ĝal2 taka4-e

96. A.196

    a2-ur2 kur ḫa-šu-ur2-ra-ke4 muš3 nam-ba-an-tum2-mu

97. A.197

    {d}inana er2-na šu ba-an-ši-in-ti

    Inana accepted his tears. With power of life she let him go to sleep just like the sleeping Utu. Inana enveloped him with heart's joy as if with a woollen garment. Then, just as if ……, she went to brick-built Kulaba.

98. A.198

    zi-šag4-ĝal2-la {d}utu u3-sa2-gin7 ba-an-ku

99. A.199

    šag4 ḫul2-la {d}inana-ke4 tug2-gin7 mu-un-dul-dul

100. A.200

     i-gi4-in-zu sila ? ? kul-aba{ki}-še3 na-ĝen

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