Around June 12 of 2006, the 260th Quartermaster Battalion providing Petroleum Support Surveillance around Talil Air Force Base southeast of Baghdad uncovered a copper box containing a set of
lapis lazuli tablets with Sumerian cuneiform embedded from within its layers.
Tablet 1
In accord with their wishes
The throne of Kingship had been lowered from the heavens.
Rights were perfected, Divine ordinances were exalted.
In pure places five cities were founded: The first being
Eridu, the second Bad-tibira. Larak was the third and Sippar the fourth. The fifth city was Shuruppak, of which I, Ziusudra, was King.
These were the cult centers. These five cities were designated cult centers.
A clamor came from within the cult centers. A clamor that disturbed the gods.
After the cities were destroyed, the cult centers were destroyed.
After the deluge, the flood sent to cover all the land, the destroyer of life,
And I, Ziusudra, on the high peak of Nimush, arranged seven and seven cult vessels, heaped with reeds, cedar and myrtle and brought the offering to the summit to scatter the incense in every direction, And the Gods smelled the sweet fragrance.
They smelled the sweet fragrance and clustered around the offering like flies.
Belet-ili arrived. She held up in the air the great fly ornament Anu had made in his ardor.
“I swear by this precious necklace of lapis,
I shall be mindful of these days and never forget, not ever!”
When Enlil arrived, my wife and I joined the assembly of gods.
He touched my brow and her brow saying, “Hitherto, Ziusudra has been a human being.
Now he shall be known as
Utnapishtim, and he and his wife shall become like us gods.”
Then we were taken faraway.
To the source of the great rivers we were taken.
To the
Gihon, Pishon, the
Tigris and Euphrates.
In that faraway place we dwell.
There, at the source of the four mighty rivers we dwell.
Upon our arrival there, at the place beyond all lands,
Enlil said to me, to Utnapishtim, he did say,
“You, ‘The Distant One,’ shall now do your lord Ea’s work.
Once wisdom came from a thin reed wall, you will do the like.
Take directions for another, a whole new ship.
Inscribe them in tablets of lapis lazuli.
Inscribe them on the appointed tablets.
Then lay them inside a copper box upon reeds and branches of cedar and myrtle.
Transfer knowledge. Share wealth. Store them safe, faraway
in the city of the mightiest hero of all, who saw what was secret and revealed what was hidden.
Inspect the foundations, set forth by seven masters with masonry of fired-kiln brick. See how it’s facing gleams like copper in the sun?
Climb the stone staircase. Look out at the land it encloses.
Admire the gardens, shops and temples, all of the magnificent places!
Identify the cornerstone.
Look underneath.”
Now at that time, in those days, the world was still anew.
When Enlil brought forth the tablets, the lands had only just dried.
“Reed hut, reed hut. Wall, wall.
Reed hut hearken, wall reflect.
Tear down house. Build ship.
Give up possessions. Seek life.
Forswear worldly goods. Keep the soul alive.
A new storm looms, yet rains do not squall. Another deluge falls. Again rushing over the lands.
Heed warning and prepare your family’s cross.
Transplant joy of human hearts.
Take refuge in Nibiru’s embrace, the return of light in the firmament of the heavens. It has been…(unreadable)
-BAD-TIBIRA -Land (bright land) where The ores are made final.
-SHURUPPAK -Land of utmost wellbeing.
-ZIUSUDRA -His Life-Days prolonged (Noah)
-ANU -The heavenly one.
-ENLIL -Lord of airspace.
-EA -He Whose House is Water
Tablet 2
From the first drink
when he first dipped beneath the mantle
for the firmament’s black nectar he was destined to come.
Centuries later, they did come
in the most violent fashion they came
and disrupted the ways of old.
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and the people of the land were confined to their homes.
The invaders fought one another
The invaders fought each other for the spoils of the land.
For the black nectar.
The gods looked sadly at what the people were doing
and took counsel among themselves
for the remedy
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All the while the invaders raged on
to the people’s horrified witness the invaders raged on
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When the ugly omen appeared in the desert
the usurpers took no heed.
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There in the place of Dilmun
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The great gods assembled
The great great gods assembled in
Dilmun
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Ninhursag delivered the charge before Enki
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and the fate of the people was sealed.
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NINHURSAG -Lady of the Mountainhead
Tablet 3
It had been established the nations would return.
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Nations of men would return to the womb
To Nibiru, the eternal creator mother goddess
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The Annunaki sent forth
from the heavens the Annunaki sent for their creation.
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An, Enlil, Enki and Ninhursag creators of the black-headed people.
Founders of Eridu, Bad-tibira, Larsa, Sippar, and Shuruppak.
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The first cities they founded.
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These were the bearers of nations
the mighty men of renown who expelled the Nephilim
and established divine temple ordinances, rituals and rites,
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These were the generations, the nations of multitudes.
These multitudes of nations pored forth through the heavens
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The Annunaki, An, Enlil, Enki and Ninhursag sent forth the divine messengers
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awaiting the return, the return of their offspring, the makers of man awaited
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with heavy hearts, laden with joy they awaited.
ENKI - Lord of Earth
Tablet 4
A new deluge pored forth
From the heavens, a new deluge did come.
With Dilmun on their right and sacred Eridu on their left
The Annunaki were assembled.
Between the two pure places, the source of pure waters
From where the Gihon, Pishon, Tigris and Euphrates did flow
Anointing the land and the people in a purification bath.
These clean waters, the sustaining force of life did dry.
The mighty rivers dried
Now dust does blow in those places.
Where mighty rivers once did flow,
dust prevails in those places.
Marduk opened the gate and the sons of Dilmun poured forth
The sons of Dilmun,
The brave young men of that pure city
The brightest city of all
Came forth while the sons of Eridu readied the table
Recited the incantations, the forgotten rites of old.
Radiant with clean hands stands Ninhursag
before the Anunnaki.
With her clean hands she prepares, oversees preparations for the proper incantations, offerings and rites.
In her clean hands gifts of cucumbers, apples and grapes.
The offspring, the creation of the Gods, the assembly, the assembled Annunaki, for them
she prepared (unreadable).
The nations, tribes of the earth embarked while the four mighty men held back both fires and winds
So that nothing stirred upon the earth.
Nor day or night, dark or light, stillness prevailed.
Until the nations, the tribes took flight.
From the earth the designated nations and tribes took flight
As a mountain of fire emerged from the sea
Cleansing the unclean, swallowing the firmament.
Tablet 5
* The holy migration across the heavens,
the assembled Anunnaki,
the gods of the apsu were assembled in the sacred places of old and new.
Ea, Ninki, Inanna and Utu,
Enlil beside Ninlil, Adad beside Ninhursag.
Mother Goddess, (unreadable) the wise Mammi
administered divine rights in the light of consecrated fires
while the womb goddess, Belet-ili was present.
The ordained fires, made pure with reeds, cedar and myrtle were burning in the appointed places.
Under the watchfulness, the stewardship of the men of renown, the ancient progenitors,
Umal’s ancient progenitors administered the ordained fires.
At three and two points (unreadable) did the (unreadable) wise men make an offering of flour.
After the circle ritual, Umal, his nations and tribes took refuge.
At three and two points, places of (unreadable) on the way through the heavens,
Umal, his nations and tribes washed their hands,
learned the rites and rituals in these places (unreadable) throughout the holy migration.
There in those places, Umal, the nations of the earth and the tribes
were made clean again.
In those places, Umal was made clean in a purification bath,
fully immersed, he did emerge clean.
As the young men of Dilmun (unreadable)
readied the new ship, the new ships, the planned vessels,
Inscribed by Ut napishtim at the direction of Enlil on behalf of Ea,
were made ready in those designated places.
At two and three points (unreadable)
the brave young men of Dilmun readied the vessels
for the (unreadable) journey through the heavens, the holy migration.
The brave young men of Dilmun administered the (unreadable)
The second (unreadable) next (unreadable), the place of Umal’s toil was prepared.
Abundance was bestowed on the land and in the seas
seed, cereals and fruit bearing trees were bestowed upon the land and fishes of all kind in the seas.
Under the firmament Umal shall (unreadable…unreadable…unreadable) not go.
The gods of the apsu, the assembled anunnaki did decree:
To the heavens shall Umal look for his bread
and to the divine ordinances shall Umal find his justice.
No more shall Umal (unreadable) in the designated, the sacred places.
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