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."  His rule was proclaimed, he told his father, by " the coming Age of the Ram," his sign. [Sitchin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, pages290, 298].  The Nibirans and their Earthlings examined the heavens and found 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

In the First Region to unify the lands under one leader the Anunnaki leaders wanted a warrior king.  "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 the to lead her Earthling armies and rule all Sumer for her.   He rose from gardener to king because he raped her and she enjoyed it. *

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.   Sargon, she declared, was her lover.  Inanna, as we shall see, repeatedly joins 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 ruled from Akkad (Agade) which they built near Babylon.  They left Lagash, the area northeasten of Sumer to Inanna's Uncle Ninurta and avoided Babylon, Marduk's city. 

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."  [Sitchin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, page 301] She and Sargon fought Marduk; both sides used laser weaponry on each other's Earthlings. 

"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." He died besieged by Marduk’s minions, but before Sargon died he cursed 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 Nergal an Enkiite, Nergal (an Enkiite) allied himself with her against his brother, Marduk (also of Enki's lineage).  Marduk ruled Egypt, above Nergal and Erkishkigal's reallm in the South of Africa, and Marduk's claim to rule all Earth alarmed Nergal.  And Nergal found Inanna alluring, maddenly desirable.  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 men near Babylon, where they could aid Inanna.  Inanna then publically, "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]

In 2291 B.C., "In the First Region, Enlil and Ninurta absent were, to the lands beyond the oceans Inanna and Nergal went; In the Second Region, 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 there 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.

NINURTA'S LAGASH ENINNU TOUTS ENLILITE RULE 200 MORE YEARS

Ninurta moved to consolidate the Enlil lineage's power hegemony in Mesopotamia.  He recruited an anti-Marduk ally from the rival Enki lineage--Ningishzidda/Thoth, whom Marduk had deposed from rule of Egypt in 3100 B.C.E.--to build a temple-observatory next to the hangar for his airplane in Lagash.  The observatory was designed to show that the constellation, The Bull, which denoted the ruling time of the lineage of Enlil and his son and champion, Ninurta. 

Ninurta and the Enlilites insisted that rule of Earth was based on zodiacal time--that is--as long as the sun rose in the constellation, The Bull, it was Ninurta's time to rule.  The temple, completed in 2160 B.C.E. and called the Eninnu, was a huge monument to counter to the assertions of Marduk and his son-prophet, Nabu--that, by mathematical celestial time, Marduk' must rule, for, if each constellation in the zodiac of twelve were given equal Earth time, it was now the time of The Ram, Marduk's constellation.  The ruling time for Enlil and Ninurta (The Age of the Bull) by Zodiacal time lingers two centuries beyond its mathematical length based on twelve equal zodiacal spaces rather than the spread of a particular constellations's stars. The Eninnu was designed to assert that the Bull and Enlilites were to prevail for another 200 years. [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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