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(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)
**(**gods in blue …mixed-breed demigods in teal…)
According to Gudea’s inscriptions, “the Lord of Girsu ”appeared unto him in a vision, standing beside his “Divine Black Bird”__. The god expressed to him the wish that a new E.NINNU (“House of Fifty”)—also Ninurta’s numerical rank, be built by Gudea.
Gudea was given two sets of divine instructions: one from a goddess who in one hand
“held the tablet of the favorable star of heavens…”
and with the other
**“**held a holy stylus…”
with which she indicated to Gudea “the favorable planet” in whose direction the temple should be oriented.
The other set of instructions came from a god that Gudea did not recognize…Ningishzidda. He handed to Gudea a tablet made of precious stone
**“**the plan of a temple it contained…”
Ningishzidda…knew how to secure the foundations of the temples; he was
**“**the great god who held the plans…”
“a god called forth from obscurity in Gudea’s time,…”
only to become a “phantom god” and a mere memory in later (Babylonian and Assyrian) times.
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