Essay 36 INANNA RULES THE THIRD (INDUS) REGION & URUK IN SUMER

Narrative (Essay 36) Resumes

 Inanna, who had hithertofore been honored with her brother Utu as one of the two namesakes in the Constellation The Twins, was given, as recognition of her growing power, Ninmah's place as the Anunnaki named in the Constellation The Maiden [Virgo] .  

“In the eastern lands, beyond even seven mountain ranges, was the Third Region, Zamush, Land of Sixty Precious Stones, was its highland called.  Aratta [Harappa] the Wooded Realm, was in the valley of a meandering great river [Indus] located.  In the great plain did the people cultivate crops of grains and horned cattle herd.  There too two cities with mud bricks they built, with granaries they were filled.”[Sitchin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, page 286 - 287].  Inanna appointed an Adapite Hybrid Shepard-Chief (descended from her deceased fiancé Dumuzi) King of Aratta. 

Ordered by Enlil,  Enki created a new language and script for Aratta, Inanna's Indus Valley Civilization.  Enki refused, however, to give Aratta the computer programs (MEs) that would let Indus Civilization function as a world power.   Enki said Inanna could share with Aratta the MEs she'd already seduced out of him for Uruk, her kingdom in Sumer.

The Aratta King wrote in reply that he'd prefer trade--Aratta's precious stones for the MEs of Uruk, or if Enmerkar insisted on war, that the war be settled by a contest between only one Arattan and one Urukan champion. 

"On the way back, carrying the peace message, Banda  fell sick; his spirit left him.  His comrades raised his neck, without the breath of life it was.  On Mount Hurmu, on the way from Aratta, to his death was Banda abandoned."   So the peace message never reached Enmerkar, and "In the Third Region, Civilized Mankind did not fully blossom." [Sitchin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, pages 287-289].

"What to Inanna was entrusted she neglected, other domains, not to her granted, in her heart she coveted.... By Inanna was the bitter end started, Marduk as Ra with Destiny tangled."  [Sitchin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, page 291].