Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana

“Kulaba, city which reaches from heaven to earth; Unug, whose fame like the rainbow reaches up to the sky, a multicoloured sheen, as the new moon standing in the heavens. Built in magnificence with all the great powers, lustrous mount founded on a favourable day, like moonlight coming up over the land, like bright sunlight radiating over the land.”

“At that time the day was lord, the night was sovereign, and Utu was king.”

“He with the man born to be a god; he with a man manifest as a god.”

“The messenger runs like a wild ram and flies like a falcon. He leaves in the morning and returns already at dusk, like small birds at dawn.”

“No city was made to be so well-built as the city of Unug.”

“You have to hold back yourself. Calm down; your heart will prompt you to achieve nothing.”

“If my city becomes a ruin mound, then I will be a potsherd of it, but I will never submit to the lord of Unug, the lord of Kulaba.”

“Sorcerer, you do have magical powers, but where is your sense? How on earth could you think of going to do sorcery at Ereš, which is the city of Nisaba, a city whose destiny was decreed by An and Enlil, the primeval city, the beloved city of Ninlil?”