Essay 37  UTU REVIVES BANDA
INANNA BEDS BANDA AS DUMUZI RESURRECTED
 BANDA, INITIATES ONGOING IMMORTALITY QUEST
BANDA & NINSUN BEGAT GILGAMISH
GILGAMISH SEEKS IMMORTALITY

Narrative (Essay 37) Resumes 

Inanna now ruled two kingdoms, Aratta on the Indus and Uruk in Sumer.  She ruled, but she was crazy.  She hallucinated Dumuzi.  

"Journeying between Unug-ki and Aratta, Inanna restless and ungratified was, for her Dumuzi she still mourned, her love's desire unquenched remained.  When she flew about, in the sunrays Dumuzi's image she saw shimmering and beckoning."  In her dreams and visions, Dumuzi told her he'd return and share with her the "Land of the Two Narrows."  [Sitchin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, page 291].

 In Uruk, "A House for Nighttime Pleasure she established. To this young heroes, on the night of their weddings, with sweet words she lured: Long life, a blissful future to them she promised; that her lover Dumuzi was she imagined. "  But "each one in the morning in her bed was found dead." 

Then Utu, Inanna's father, revived Banda and Banda got back to Uruk, Inanna hallucinated that Banda was Dumuzi.  "A miracle! excited Inanna shouted. My beloved Dumuzi to me came back!

"In her abode Banda was bathed....

"Dumuzi, my beloved! she called him.

"To her bed, with flowers bedecked, she lured him.

"When in the morning Banda was alive, Inanna shouted: the power of dying in my hands was placed, immortality by me is granted. Then to call herself a goddess Inanna decided, the Power of Immortality it implied." [Sitchin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, page 292]

Banda succeeded his father, Enmerkar, as King of Uruk.  Banda married Ninurta's daughter, Ninsun, who bore Gilgamesh.  Banda,and later, his son Gilgamesh, went to the rocketpad at Baalbek, Lebanon to plead with the astronauts for immortality. 

Gilgamesh and his guard-android, Enkidu, sought the launchpad at Baalbek, Lebanon, hoping to get transported to Nibiru to gain the immortality his mother and the Anunnaki all apparently enjoyed.  In Lebanon, near Inanna's home, they found the tracks of the security robot and followed them to the launchpad. 

As Gilgamesh and Enkidu watched a rocket launch, Inanna watched them from her skychamber. She saw them break Enlil's security robot.  "At the entrance to the Cedar Forest its fire-belching monster their way blocked....To pieces it they broke." 

"Watching Gilgamesh take off his clothes, bathe and groom himself ... glorious Ishtar [Inanna] raised an eye at the beauty of Gilgamesh. "Come, Gilgamesh, be thou my lover.  Grant me the fruit of thy love!"  

But when he declined her offer, Inanna, enraged, demanded Anu release the gurard-bull at the launchpad.   Anu complied.  The bull charged Gilgamesh and Enkidu but Gilgamesh stabbed it while Enkidu held it. 

Gilgamesh then pursued longevity by plant means.  He journeyed all the way to the Spaceport in Sinai. 

In a tunnel in Sinai he met Enki's son, Ziusudra/Noah, still alive all these centuries after the Deluge.  "Ziusudra to Gilgamesh the secret of longliving he revealed. a plant in the garden's well was growing, Ziusudra and his spouse from getting old it prevented."   Enki, with Enlil's permission, said Ziusudra, granted Gilgamesh this plant too.  But when Gilgamesh had the plant, a snake [snake may symbol an Enki agent] snatched it from him and so Gilgamesh, like most of the hybrids, eventually died. [Sitchin, Z., 1995, Divine Encounters, pages 132 -172].
 

Marduk pondered Inanna's proclamation of immortality of Anunnaki "gods."  He contemplated the human longing for immortality that motivated Gilgamesh's failed attempts to live forever.  Marduk could use this yearning for immortality to thwart Inanna's ambitions of world domination as well as her specific claim to the Land of the Narrows--now under Marduk's control-- land Inanna would have ruled with Dumuzi had not Marduk engineered Dumuzi's death.

MARDUK, from The Lost Book of Enki, Sitchin, 2002:275].

Marduk devised for Egypt "a clever way wherewith the loyalty of kings and people to retain."    His Egyptian kings would journey after death to Nibiru to enjoy immortality among the gods." [Sitchin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, pages 295] The immortality cult he devised for the Egyptian pharaohs would, Marduk believed, unify the People of the Nile behind him in his struggle with Inanna.