Skybird Duels: Ninurta vs Anzu
Ninurta vs Anzu: Match 1
"Anzu must be siezed, the Tablets to the sanctuary must be returned! Thus did Anu decree.
Who shall the rebel face? Who shall the Tablets retrieve? the leaders asked each other.
With the Tablets of Destinies in his possession, invincible is Anzu! to each other they were saying.
Ninurta, by his mother encouraged, from the assembled stepped forward:
Enlil's warrior I shall be, Anzu I shall vanquish! Thus was Ninurta saying.
To the mountainside Ninurta set his course, to vanquish the fugutive Anzu he undertook.
Anzu from his hideout Ninurta was mocking: The Tablets are my protection, invincible I am!
Lightning darts Ninurta at Anzu directed; the arrows could not approach Anzu, backward they turned.
The battle was stilled, Ninurta's weapons Anzu did not vanquish!
...."(-Lost Book of Enki, p120)
Ninurta vs Anzu: Match 2
"Enki then to Ninurta counsel gave: with your Whirlwind stir up a storm,
Let the dust cover Anzu's face, let it the wings of his skybird ruffle!
For his son Enlil, a mighty weapon fashioned, a Tillu missle it was;
To your Stormer-weapon attach it, when wing to wing near, at Anzu shoot it!
Thus did Enlil his son Ninurta instruct.
When wing to wing near each other, let the missle fly as a lightning!
Again Ninurta in his Whirlwind soared; Anzu against him in his skybird rose to challenge.
Wing to wing! Anzu in anger shouted. This battle will be your destruction!
Ninurta the advice of Enki followed; with his Whirlwind a dust storm he created.
The dust Anzu's face covered, the pinions of his skybird were exposed;
Into their midst Ninurta the missile let loose, a fiery brilliance Anzu's pinions engulfed.
Like butterflies his wings began to flutter; the the ground Anzu came falling.
The Earth shook, the skies became darkened;
The fallen Anzu Ninurta made captive, from him the Tablets he retrieved.
From the mountaintop the Igigi were watching;
When to the Landing Place Ninurta came, they tremebled and kissed his feet.
Ninurta the captive Abgal and Anunnaki set free, to Anu and Enlil his victory announced.
To Nibru-ki he then returned, in its innermost chambers the Tablets were reinstalled.
Once again the brilliance therein returned, the hum of the ME's in the Tablets restored.
...."(-Lost Book of Enki, p120-121)
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