The following line from Enki and Ninmah, sounds as if its missing a birth goddess. In all, there were at least 6 and most likely 7. My theory is
that these are the "7 sisters" . If you've been following my Eden gate theory, that we were brought here through a star gate from somewhere in the
Great Square of Pegasus, then allow me to add to this that there may have been 7 such gates, represented as the 7 sisters/birth goddesses. The gates
were personified. Hathor, in Egypt, represented one of these sisters (gates). So either her name is the missing one in the list, or she was
otherwise known by one of the other birthgoddess names. Here's the relevant quote from the story:
Let Ninmah act as your assistant; and let Ninimma, Cu-zi-ana, Ninmada, Ninbarag, Ninmug, ...... and Ninguna
Ninmah is the only one actually birthing but the birth goddesses are delivering the children. If they were personifications of the gates, this would
make sense. The problem is more in regards to the location of the 7 sisters. It's in Taurus, not in the Great Square itself, which is rather
confusing. Does this mean the 7 sisters just represented the gates but weren't actually part of the as above so below mapping of the stars onto the
surface of the earth? i dunno. More research necessary.
If they were a direct reference to actual locations in the heavens (the 7 sisters), this would be quite a distance from the Great Square, especially
if you consider constellations are just 2dimensional representations and many of the stars in any given constellation are in fact, separated in 3d
space by many many light years. In fact, there could even be stars in the Great Square that are closer to stars in the 7 sisters, than the stars in
the given constellations themselves. It's all a flat vault from our earthly perspective, but when you look at it from a star program, it's a whole
different animal.
Anyway, there's a possible biblical connection as well. The 7 heads of the Great Dragon/Beast/ etc. I haven't fully connected it yet, but there's
something there.
This line probably could've been translated in several ways:
You should knead clay from the top of the abzu;
the birth-goddesses (?) will nip off the clay and you shall bring the form into existence
in modern lingo it might've said:
you should make or open more abzus, more gates and then you can bring more slaves here through the gates.
[edit on 23-6-2007 by undo]