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'An Incantation Prayer: Ishtar 24'

Excerpt sung in Akkadian by Labros Kantzos
Text follows in Akkadian* and English
[*Notated with "Latin letters and various diacritical marks")
(Edition: Anna Elise Zernecke)**]

"[…]
11. IGI.MEŠ-ki a-ta-mar lip-pa-ṭir ka-si-ti
12. la tu-mar-re-e e-šá-ku u dal-ḫa-ku
13. ki-ma šá ina tar-kúl-li maḫ-ṣu e-mat ZI-tim
14. e-pi-iš taq-bi-i e-pu-uš
15. dINANA lu-ú kaš-šá-pi lu-ú kaš-šap-ti
16. šá at-ti ti-de-ma ana-ku la i-du-ú
17. ina ri-kis kiš-pi ḪUL.GIG u ZI.KU5.RU.DA […]"



"[…]
11. I have seen your face. May my constraint be loosened!
12. Do not be slow! I am confused and disturbed.
13. (My) life has become like that (of someone) beaten with wooden poles.
14. What you said to do, I did.
15. Ishtar! My sorcerer or my sorceress,
16. whom you know, but I do not know,
17. In an assemblage of sorcery of hate and cutting of life, […]"



**Source: 'Reading Akkadian Prayers and Hymns; An Introduction', 169-171, 174, 177. Edited by Alan Lenzi. Ancient Near East Monographs – Monografías sobre el Antiguo Cercano Oriente. Copyright © 2011 by the Society of Biblical Literature. Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente (UCA) /
About ISHTAR [(Sum. Inana) Goddess of the Mesopotamian]: https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/9781589835962.pdf

✧ Vocal improvisation, and composition in total is also inspired by and based on Aztec Goddess, TONANTZIN (Mother Earth) and various Aboriginal Cultures [Latin and North America, Scandinavia, Africa, Mongolia (Mongolian Throat Singing intro), Oceania]

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