Essay 38  INANNA &  MARDUK FIGHT TO RULE EARTH

Narrative (Essay 38) Resumes 

SUMER: INANNA/ISHTAR CONSOLIDATES HER HEGEMONY

 Inanna and her line, the Enlilites, ran Mesopotamia.  The Council of Twelve put Inanna's Father's Brother, Uncle Adad, in control of the landing place at Baalbek (Lebonon).  The Council put her father, Nannar, in control of the Sinai spaceport.  To Inanna, The  Council transferred the energy source known as "The Heavenly Bright Object." 

EGYPT: MARDUK/RA, GOD GENERATING ALL OTHERS, OFFERS PHARAOHS IMMORTALITY

But in Egypt (Second Region), where Marduk had retreated and deposed Thoth, Marduk allowed worship of one supreme deity: the god Ra aka Marduk,  "So did Marduk, as Ra, above all other gods himself emplace, their powers and attributes he to himself assigned.  ''What has you overpowered?' Enki to his son Marduk said. 'Unheard of are your pretensions!'

''The heavens my supremacy bespeak,' Marduk answered. The coming Age of the Ram," his sign, Marduk asserted, proclaims my rule. [Sitchin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, pages 290, 298]. The Nibirans and their Earthlings examined the heavens and found the sun still rose in the constellation the Bull, marking Enlil's rule; not the Ram, Marduk's constellation. Marduk and his son Nabu nevertheless, mobilized their humans to challenge the Enlilites.

INANNA & SARGON EXTEND HER POWER OVER MOST OF MESOPOTAMIA

The Enlilite leaders wanted a warrior king to unify the lands In the First Region. "To Inanna, of Marduk the adversary, the task of the right man to find they entrusted" [Sitchin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, page 300]. 

In 2400 B.C., Inanna chose her gardener, Sargon, the Akkadian warrior king to lead her slave armies and Sumer. He rose from gardener to king when he raped her and she enjoyed it.  Ferguson deduces that Enlil’s son Nannar fathered both Sargon and Inanna, so Enlil easily ratified Sargon to rule Sumer.  [Ferguson, V., "Inanna Returns," in Of Heaven and Earth, Z. Sitchin, Ed., page 95]

Sargon began his rise when he saw Inanna snooze in his garden.  He bent over her perfect face and lightly, then, as she--half awake--responded, kissed her savagely.  He entered her as she opened her eyes and her eyes shone with pleasure.   She declared Sargon her lover.  Inanna repeatedly joined powerful aggressive Adapite men to lead her armies.

Inanna convinced Enlil to ratify her choice of a warrior king.  So the strongman she choose was Sargon of course.   Sargon would unify the cities Sumer and protect the Enlilite lords for whom the cities existed.  

Sargon and Inanna built their capital, Agade in Akkad (near Babylon). They subdued all Mesopotamia except Lagash, her Uncle Ninurta’s fief. She shone a light from her plane to lead Sargon’s slave army through Luristan in the Zagros Mountains. With the army and her weapons of terror, Inanna and Sargon united Sumer. Sargon spread the Akkadian language and its cuneiform throughout the area, where it evolved into the Semitic languages, including Hebrew and Arabic." [Sitchin, Z., 1985, The Wars of Gods and Men, page 10 -11].

But in 2316 B.C., while Marduk and his son Nabu were in Egypt, Sargon invaded Marduk's stronghold, Babylon, took soil from the city, then withdrew to plant the soil in Agade.  "to understand the severity of this deed, recall the meaning of Babylon/Bab-Ili--Gateway to the Gods--a title and function claimed for Babylon by a defiant Marduk, it was symbolized by its hallowed soil.  Encouraged by Inanna, Sargon took away the sacred soil to spread it as a new foundation for the new Bab-ili, audaciously aiming to transfer the title and the function to Agade."  [Sitchin, Z.,1985, The Wars of Gods and Men, page 250]

Marduk and Nabu returned from Egypt to Babylon.  They fortified the city and diverted  rivers from the other Sumerian cities.  Marduk said he'd build his spaceport in Babylon. "In the heart of Edin, in the midst of the First Region, Marduk himself established!

"Inanna's fury no boundaries knew; with her weapons on Marduk's followers death she inflicted. The blood of people, as never before on Earth, like rivers flowed."  She and Sargon fought Marduk.  Inanna and Marduk both loosed lazers on each other’s slave armies [Sitchin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, page 301. 

"While Inanna remained gorgeous and enticing, Sargon began to age and drink too much.  Inanna watched helplessly as the man she once loved passionately crumbled into a pathetic drunk afflicted by insomnia, haunted by demons." In the end, Marduk’s minions besieged Sargon and he died cursing Inanna.  [Ferguson, V., "Inanna Returns," in Of Heaven and Earth, Z. Sitchin, Ed., page 97]

INANNA & NERGAL PLAN TO RULE THE EARTH

The Anunnaki Council asked Marduk’s brother, Nergal of Kuth, to disarm Marduk and Babylon.   Nergal and his retinue of Black Earthlings left south Africa for Babylon.

En route to Babylon, Nergal visited Inanna in Uruk. Though she was Enlilite and he an Enkiite, Nergal (an Enkiite) allied himself with her against his brother, Marduk (also of Enki's lineage).  Marduk ruled Egypt, above Nergal and Erkeshkigal's realm in the South of Africa, and Marduk's claim to rule all Earth alarmed Nergal.  And Nergal found Inanna alluring.  It was not surprising then, that Nergal and Inanna became lovers.  The lovers, one of the house of Enlil, one of the house of Enki, together planned Marduk’s defeat.  They also planned to conquer all Earth for themselves.

NERGAL BETRAYS MARDUK

When Nergal left Inanna, he and his men continued to Babylon, where Marduk greeted them.

Nergal promised Marduk, if he'd leave Babylon immediately for South Africa, he could get weapons and computers hidden there since the Deluge .  Marduk took the bait and left for South Africa.

At Babylon, Marduk, on platform, holds both a weapon and a symbol of welcome as he greets Brother Nergal (who's also armed) up from Kuth to manipulate Marduk to leave his bastion for the weapons and computers hidden in South Africa since the Deluge (drawing is by ancient artist, copied from Sitchin, Z.,1985, The Wars of Gods and Men, page:252).

As soon as Marduk left Babylon for South Africa, Nergal broke into Marduk's control room and snatched his "brilliance" (energy radiation source), which controlled the irrigation system for all Mesopotamia.

Enki, Nergal's father, banished Nergal back to Africa, but Nergal left a garrison of his African men near Babylon, where they could aid Inanna.  Inanna then publicly, "to defy the authority of Anu and Enlil, abrogated their rules and regulations and declared herself Supreme Queen." [Ancient text, Queen of all the MEs; Sitchin, Z., 1985, The Wars of Gods and Men, page 254]

In 2291 B.C., "In the First Region [Mesopotamia], Enlil and Ninurta absent were, to the lands beyond the oceans Inanna and Nergal went; In the Second Region [the Nile], Ra was away, as Marduk in other lands he traveled; Her chance in her hands to seize all powers Inanna envisioned." [Sitchin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, page 303]  

Inanna, Naram-Sin ( Sargon's grandson) and the Akkadian armies captured Baalbek, the spaceport in Lebanon.  Then they stuck out along the Mediterranean coast for the Sinai Spaceport and Mission Control in Jerusalem. They marched across the Forth Region, the region taboo to Earthlings (across the Jordan from Tell Ghassul, the astronauts' private city).  Ninurta's city, Lagash  [Tello], was able to hold out against Inanna and Naram-Sin.
 

Then Inanna and the Akkadians conquered Jerico.

 Jerico switched alliance from  Inanna's father, Nannar, to her.  

Inanna's armies, under Naram-Sin, joined Nergal's Kuthians, and conquered Egypt.  

In 2255 B.C., Inanna recaptured Uruk, destroyed Anu's temple and sent Naram-Sin to attack Enlil's minions at Nippur.  She thus declared herself supreme to even Anu, King of Nibiru and father of Enlil, her father's father.

Enlil commanded his son Ninurta and Ninurta's calvalry and army of Gutiums (from the Zagros Mountains of northeast Mesopotamia) to reconquer Sumer and kill all Earthlings in Akkad/Agade.   Ninurta's forces laid waste to most of Sumer; they spared only Ninurta's city, Lagash. 

Enlil ordered death for Inanna's strongman, King Naram-Sin, for his attack on Nippur.  Enlil's agents got a scorpion to sting and kill the King.

Enlil also ordered Inanna arrested.  But Granddaughter Inanna claimed sanctuary with her parents--her father Nannar (a son of Enlil) and Ningal, her mother.  Inanna next  fled to Nergal's Lower Africa, where she and Nergal spent seven years plotting new ways to overthrow the Council.

The Gutians who subdued Inanna's rebellion of 2255 B.C. and Gutian calvary supported Ninurta's rebuilding of Mesopotamia returned to the Zagros Mountains in 2160B.C.  Inanna's father Nannar, supported by Ninurta, the Enlilite Champion,  then ruled Sumer for ninety-one years, which Sitchin calls "The Era of Ninurta"--an era of agricultural development.  Nannar appointed Ur-Nammu, son of the the "goddess" Ninsun, as Supreme King. [Sitchin, Z., 1985, The Wars of Gods and Men, pages 262-264],  

NINURTA'S LAGASH ENINNU TOUTS ENLILITE RULE 200 MORE YEARS

Ninurta consolidated the Enlil lineage's hegemony in Mesopotamia. He recruited an anti-Marduk ally from the rival Enki lineage--Ningishzidda/Thoth. Marduk had deposed Thoth from rule of Egypt in 3100 B.C.E..

Ninurta had Thoth design build a temple-observatory (as a paean to zodiacal time) in Lagash (next to the hangar for Ninurta’s airplane). The observatory sight-lines showed the sun would, for the next 200 years, continue to rise against the backdrop of the constellation, The Bull, Enlil's logo. As long as the sun rose in The Bull, Enlil and Ninurta ruled Earth. The temple, called the Eninnu, propagandized zodiacal time and asserted Enlilite rule another 200 years.

In 2160 B.C.Thoth's craftsmen finished the Eninnu. In bold stone, it challeged Marduk's demand: abide by mathematical celestial time and each constellation in the zodiac of twelve constellations and the namesake twelve senior Nibiran gods on Earth each of the gods succeeded to equal tenure as Earth's sovereign.

Honor celestial time, Nabu preached, and the Age of The Ram--Nabu's father's Marduk's constellation--approached. Celestial time mandates reign for Enlil and Ninurta (The Age of the Bull) ends two centuries shorter than does zodiacal time. Though The Bull remains the dawn constellation longer than the Ram in zodiacal time, rule of Earth in celestial time progress through twelve equal zodiacal spaces. Marduk must rule, regardless of The Bull’s lengthier perseverance as the constellation visible at dawn.[Sitchin, Z., 2007, The End of Days, pages 40 - 49].

                        
* Ferguson deduces that Sargon was Inanna's half brother.  Sargon's father was also Inanna's: Nannar Sin.  Inanna's grandfather, Enlil, was Nannar's father.  Thus Enlil found it easier to ratify his hybrid descendant Sargon as ruler of most of Mesopotamia.  [Ferguson, V., "Inanna Returns," in Of Heaven and Earth, Z. Sitchin, Ed., page 95

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