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and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_literature" class="extiw" title="w:Sumerian literature">literature</a>. Lugalbanda is listed in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_flood_myth" class="extiw" title="w:Sumerian flood myth">pre-diluvian</a> period of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_king_list" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Sumerian king list">Sumerian king list</a> as the second king of <a href="/wiki/Uruk" title="Uruk">Uruk</a>, saying he ruled for 1,200 years, and providing him with the epithet of <i><b>the Shepherd</b></i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lugalbanda&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82_._%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B4_21.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82_._%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B4_21.jpg/220px-%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82_._%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B4_21.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="311" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82_._%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B4_21.jpg/330px-%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82_._%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B4_21.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82_._%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B4_21.jpg/440px-%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82_._%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B4_21.jpg 2x" data-file-width="636" data-file-height="900" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Utu" title="Utu">Utu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shepherd" title="Shepherd">shepherd</a> of the land, <a href="/wiki/Father" class="mw-redirect" title="Father">father</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer" class="extiw" title="w:Sumer">black-headed</a>, when <a href="/wiki/Sunset" title="Sunset">you go to sleep</a>, the <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a> go to <a href="/wiki/Sleep" title="Sleep">sleep</a> with you; <a href="/wiki/Youth" title="Youth">youth</a> Utu, when <a href="/wiki/Sunrise" title="Sunrise">you rise</a>, the people rise with you.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:And_again_alone,_but_still_green.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/And_again_alone%2C_but_still_green.jpg/220px-And_again_alone%2C_but_still_green.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/And_again_alone%2C_but_still_green.jpg/330px-And_again_alone%2C_but_still_green.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/And_again_alone%2C_but_still_green.jpg/440px-And_again_alone%2C_but_still_green.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3504" data-file-height="2336" /></a><figcaption>Lugalbanda lies idle in the <a href="/wiki/Mountains" class="mw-redirect" title="Mountains">mountains</a>, in the faraway places; he has ventured into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagros_Mountains" class="extiw" title="w:Zagros Mountains">Zabu mountains</a>. No <a href="/wiki/Mother" class="mw-redirect" title="Mother">mother</a> is with him to offer <a href="/wiki/Advice" title="Advice">advice</a>, no <a href="/wiki/Father" class="mw-redirect" title="Father">father</a> is with him to <a href="/wiki/Talk" title="Talk">talk</a> to him. <a href="/wiki/Solitude" title="Solitude">No one is with him</a> whom he knows, whom he <a href="/wiki/Values" class="mw-redirect" title="Values">values</a>, no confidant is there to talk to him. In his <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a> he speaks to himself.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Utu" title="Utu">Utu</a>, I greet you! Let me be <a href="/wiki/Ill" class="mw-redirect" title="Ill">ill</a> no longer! <a href="/wiki/Hero" class="mw-redirect" title="Hero">Hero</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningal" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ningal">Ningal</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Son" class="mw-redirect" title="Son">son</a>, I greet you! Let me be ill no longer! Utu, you have let me come up into the <a href="/wiki/Mountains" class="mw-redirect" title="Mountains">mountains</a> in the company of my <a href="/wiki/Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Brothers">brothers</a>. In the mountain <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cave&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cave (page does not exist)">cave</a>, the most <a href="/wiki/Dreadful" class="mw-redirect" title="Dreadful">dreadful</a> spot on <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a>, let me be ill no longer! Here where there is no <a href="/wiki/Mother" class="mw-redirect" title="Mother">mother</a>, there is no <a href="/wiki/Father" class="mw-redirect" title="Father">father</a>, there is no acquaintance, no one whom I <a href="/wiki/Value" class="mw-redirect" title="Value">value</a>, my mother is not here to say "Alas, my child!" My brother is not here to say "Alas, my brother!" … Don't make me flow away like <a href="/wiki/Water" title="Water">water</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Violent" class="mw-redirect" title="Violent">violent</a> <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>! Don't make me <a href="/wiki/Eat" class="mw-redirect" title="Eat">eat</a> saltpetre as if it were barley! Don't make me fall like a throw-stick somewhere in the <a href="/wiki/Desert" title="Desert">desert</a> <a href="/wiki/Unknown" class="mw-redirect" title="Unknown">unknown</a> to me! <a href="/wiki/Afflicted" class="mw-redirect" title="Afflicted">Afflicted</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Name" class="mw-redirect" title="Name">name</a> which <a href="/wiki/Excites" class="mw-redirect" title="Excites">excites</a> my brothers' <a href="/wiki/Scorn" title="Scorn">scorn</a>, let me be ill no longer! Afflicted with the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Derision&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Derision (page does not exist)">derision</a> of my <a href="/w/index.php?title=Comrades&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Comrades (page does not exist)">comrades</a>, let me be ill no longer! Let me not come to an <a href="/wiki/End" title="End">end</a> in the mountains like a <a href="/wiki/Weakling" class="mw-redirect" title="Weakling">weakling</a>! <ul><li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Lugalbanda_in_the_Mountain_Cave" title="Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave">Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Dynasty_of_Ur" class="extiw" title="w:Third Dynasty of Ur">Ur III Period</a> (21st century BCE).<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.1#">[1]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A man should not <a href="/wiki/Perish" class="mw-redirect" title="Perish">perish</a>. <ul><li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Lugalbanda_in_the_Mountain_Cave" title="Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave">Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Dynasty_of_Ur" class="extiw" title="w:Third Dynasty of Ur">Ur III Period</a> (21st century BCE).<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.1#">[2]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/Lost" class="mw-redirect" title="Lost">lost</a> <a href="/wiki/Dog" class="mw-redirect" title="Dog">dog</a> is <a href="/wiki/Bad" class="mw-redirect" title="Bad">bad</a>; a lost man is <a href="/w/index.php?title=Terrible&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Terrible (page does not exist)">terrible</a>. <ul><li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Lugalbanda_in_the_Mountain_Cave" title="Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave">Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Dynasty_of_Ur" class="extiw" title="w:Third Dynasty of Ur">Ur III Period</a> (21st century BCE).<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.1#">[3]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/King" title="King">King</a> whom one cannot reach in the distant <a href="/wiki/Sky" title="Sky">sky</a>! <a href="/wiki/Sin_(mythology)" title="Sin (mythology)">Suen</a> whom one cannot reach in the distant sky! King who <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">loves</a> <a href="/wiki/Justice" title="Justice">justice</a>, who <a href="/wiki/Hates" class="mw-redirect" title="Hates">hates</a> <a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">evil</a>! Suen who loves justice, who hates evil! Justice brings <a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">joy</a> justly to your <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a>. <ul><li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Lugalbanda_in_the_Mountain_Cave" title="Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave">Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Dynasty_of_Ur" class="extiw" title="w:Third Dynasty of Ur">Ur III Period</a> (21st century BCE).<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.1#">[4]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Utu, <a href="/wiki/Shepherd" title="Shepherd">shepherd</a> of the land, father of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer" class="extiw" title="w:Sumer">black-headed</a>, when <a href="/wiki/Sunset" title="Sunset">you go to sleep</a>, the <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a> go to <a href="/wiki/Sleep" title="Sleep">sleep</a> with you; <a href="/wiki/Youth" title="Youth">youth</a> Utu, when <a href="/wiki/Sunrise" title="Sunrise">you rise</a>, the people rise with you.</b> <ul><li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Lugalbanda_in_the_Mountain_Cave" title="Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave">Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Dynasty_of_Ur" class="extiw" title="w:Third Dynasty of Ur">Ur III Period</a> (21st century BCE).<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.1#">[5]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Lugalbanda lies idle in the mountains, in the faraway places; he has ventured into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagros_Mountains" class="extiw" title="w:Zagros Mountains">Zabu mountains</a>. No mother is with him to offer <a href="/wiki/Advice" title="Advice">advice</a>, no father is with him to <a href="/wiki/Talk" title="Talk">talk</a> to him. No one is with him whom he knows, whom he values, no confidant is there to talk to him. In his heart he <a href="/wiki/Speaks" class="mw-redirect" title="Speaks">speaks</a> to himself:</b> "I shall treat the <a href="/wiki/Bird" class="mw-redirect" title="Bird">bird</a> as befits him, I shall treat <a href="/wiki/Anzud" class="mw-redirect" title="Anzud">Anzud</a> as befits him. I shall greet his <a href="/wiki/Wife" class="mw-redirect" title="Wife">wife</a> <a href="/wiki/Affectionately" class="mw-redirect" title="Affectionately">affectionately</a>. I shall seat Anzud's wife and Anzud's child at a <a href="/wiki/Banquet" title="Banquet">banquet</a>. <a href="/wiki/Anu" title="Anu">An</a> will fetch Ninguena for me from her mountain <a href="/wiki/Home" title="Home">home</a> -- the <a href="/wiki/Expert" title="Expert">expert</a> <a href="/wiki/Woman" class="mw-redirect" title="Woman">woman</a> who redounds to her mother's credit, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninkasi" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ninkasi">Ninkasi</a> the expert who redounds to her mother's credit. Her fermenting-vat is of <a href="/wiki/Green" title="Green">green</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lapis_lazuli&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lapis lazuli (page does not exist)">lapis lazuli</a>, her beer cask is of refined <a href="/wiki/Silver" title="Silver">silver</a> and of <a href="/wiki/Gold" title="Gold">gold</a>. If she stands by the <a href="/wiki/Beer" title="Beer">beer</a>, there is joy, if she sits by the beer, there is gladness; as cupbearer she mixes the beer, never wearying as she walks back and forth, Ninkasi, the keg at her side, on her hips; may she make my beer-serving <a href="/wiki/Perfect" class="mw-redirect" title="Perfect">perfect</a>. When the bird has <a href="/wiki/Drunk" class="mw-redirect" title="Drunk">drunk</a> the beer and is happy, when Anzud has drunk the beer and is happy, he can <a href="/wiki/Help" title="Help">help</a> me find the place to which the <a href="/wiki/Troops" class="mw-redirect" title="Troops">troops</a> of <a href="/wiki/Unug" class="mw-redirect" title="Unug">Unug</a> are going, Anzud can put me on the track of my <a href="/wiki/Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Brothers">brothers</a>." <ul><li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Lugalbanda_and_the_Anzud_Bird" title="Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird">Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Dynasty_of_Ur" class="extiw" title="w:Third Dynasty of Ur">Ur III Period</a> (21st century BCE).<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.2#">[6]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let the <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> of <a href="/wiki/Running" title="Running">running</a> be in my thighs, let me never grow <a href="/wiki/Tired" title="Tired">tired</a>! Let there be <a href="/wiki/Strength" title="Strength">strength</a> in my <a href="/wiki/Arms" class="mw-redirect" title="Arms">arms</a>, let me stretch my arms wide, let my arms never become <a href="/wiki/Weak" class="mw-redirect" title="Weak">weak</a>! Moving like the <a href="/wiki/Sunlight" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunlight">sunlight</a>, like <a href="/wiki/Inana" class="mw-redirect" title="Inana">Inana</a>, like the seven <a href="/wiki/Storms" class="mw-redirect" title="Storms">storms</a>, those of <a href="/wiki/I%C5%A1kur" class="mw-redirect" title="Iškur">Iškur</a>, let me leap like a <a href="/wiki/Flame" class="mw-redirect" title="Flame">flame</a>, blaze like <a href="/wiki/Lightning" title="Lightning">lightning</a>! Let me go wherever I look to, set foot wherever I cast my <a href="/wiki/Glance" class="mw-redirect" title="Glance">glance</a>, reach wherever my heart <a href="/wiki/Desires" class="mw-redirect" title="Desires">desires</a> and let me loosen my <a href="/wiki/Shoes" title="Shoes">shoes</a> in whatever place my heart has <a href="/wiki/Named" class="mw-redirect" title="Named">named</a> to me! When Utu lets me reach Kulaba my <a href="/wiki/City" class="mw-redirect" title="City">city</a>, let him who <a href="/wiki/Curses" title="Curses">curses</a> me have no joy thereof; let him who <a href="/wiki/Wishes" title="Wishes">wishes</a> to strive with me <a href="/wiki/Never" title="Never">never</a> say "Just let him come!" I shall have the woodcarvers fashion <a href="/wiki/Statues" class="mw-redirect" title="Statues">statues</a> of you, and you will be breathtaking to look upon. Your name will be made <a href="/wiki/Famous" class="mw-redirect" title="Famous">famous</a> thereby in Sumer and will redound to the credit of the <a href="/wiki/Temples" class="mw-redirect" title="Temples">temples</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Great">great</a> <a href="/wiki/Gods" class="mw-redirect" title="Gods">gods</a>. <ul><li>To <a href="/wiki/Anzud" class="mw-redirect" title="Anzud">Anzud</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Lugalbanda_and_the_Anzud_Bird" title="Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird">Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Dynasty_of_Ur" class="extiw" title="w:Third Dynasty of Ur">Ur III Period</a> (21st century BCE).<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.2#">[7]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes_about_Lugalbanda">Quotes about Lugalbanda</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lugalbanda&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Quotes about Lugalbanda"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sleeping_lion.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Sleeping_lion.jpg/220px-Sleeping_lion.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="127" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Sleeping_lion.jpg/330px-Sleeping_lion.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Sleeping_lion.jpg/440px-Sleeping_lion.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2214" data-file-height="1275" /></a><figcaption>The king lay down not to <a href="/wiki/Sleep" title="Sleep">sleep</a>, he lay down <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_interpretation#Early_civilizations" class="extiw" title="w:Dream interpretation">to dream</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The king lay down not to sleep, he lay down <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_interpretation#Early_civilizations" class="extiw" title="w:Dream interpretation">to dream</a>. <ul><li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Lugalbanda_in_the_Mountain_Cave" title="Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave">Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Dynasty_of_Ur" class="extiw" title="w:Third Dynasty of Ur">Ur III Period</a> (21st century BCE).<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.1#">[8]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Lugalbanda is <a href="/wiki/Wise" class="mw-redirect" title="Wise">wise</a> and he achieves mighty exploits. In preparation of the <a href="/wiki/Sweet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sweet">sweet</a> celestial cakes he added <a href="/wiki/Carefulness" title="Carefulness">carefulness</a> to carefulness. <ul><li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Lugalbanda_and_the_Anzud_Bird" title="Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird">Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Dynasty_of_Ur" class="extiw" title="w:Third Dynasty of Ur">Ur III Period</a> (21st century BCE).<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.2#">[9]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Anzud <a href="/wiki/Flew" class="mw-redirect" title="Flew">flew</a> on high, Lugalbanda <a href="/w/index.php?title=Walked&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Walked (page does not exist)">walked</a> on the ground. The bird, looking from above, <a href="/wiki/Spies" class="mw-redirect" title="Spies">spies</a> the troops. Lugalbanda, looking from below, spies the <a href="/wiki/Dust" title="Dust">dust</a> that the troops have stirred up. <ul><li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Lugalbanda_and_the_Anzud_Bird" title="Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird">Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Dynasty_of_Ur" class="extiw" title="w:Third Dynasty of Ur">Ur III Period</a> (21st century BCE).<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.2#">[10]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Come now, my Lugalbanda. I shall give you some advice: may my advice be heeded. I shall say <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a> to you: bear them in mind. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anzud" class="mw-redirect" title="Anzud">Anzud</a>, in '<a href="/wiki/Lugalbanda_and_the_Anzud_Bird" title="Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird">Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird</a><i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Dynasty_of_Ur" class="extiw" title="w:Third Dynasty of Ur">Ur III Period</a> (21st century BCE).<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.2#">[11]</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Why will you go <a href="/wiki/Alone" class="mw-redirect" title="Alone">alone</a> and keep company with no one on the <a href="/wiki/Journey" class="mw-redirect" title="Journey">journey</a>? If our beneficent <a href="/wiki/Spirit" title="Spirit">spirit</a> does not stand by you there, if our <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutelary_deity" class="extiw" title="w:Tutelary deity">protective deity</a> does not go with you there, you will never again stand with us where we stand, you will never again dwell with us where we dwell, you will never again set your feet on the ground where our feet are. You will not come back from the great mountains, where no one goes <a href="/wiki/Alone" class="mw-redirect" title="Alone">alone</a>, whence no one returns to mankind! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Uruk" title="Uruk">Uruk</a>'s soldiers to Lugalbanda, <i><a href="/wiki/Lugalbanda_and_the_Anzud_Bird" title="Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird">Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Dynasty_of_Ur" class="extiw" title="w:Third Dynasty of Ur">Ur III Period</a> (21st century BCE).<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.2#">[12]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lugalbanda&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hero" class="mw-redirect" title="Hero">Hero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paganism" title="Paganism">Paganism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mythology" title="Mythology">Mythology</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lugalbanda&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; 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