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Kingship Celebration Day
On The Day of The New Year, the King as High Priest the Ceremonies,
On that day only alone the innermost Star Room he entered, before the Ben-Ben offerings he put.
To benefit the Second Region, Ptah to Ra all manner of ME's gave.
What do I know that you do not know? the father his son asked.
Then all manner of knowledge, except that of the dead reviving, to Ra he gave.
As a Great One of the Twelve highCelestial, Ptah to Ra the constellation sign of the Ram allotted.
The waterflow of Hapi, the land's great river, Ptah for Ra and his people regulated,
Abundance in the fertile soils quickly came, mod and cattle proliferated.
By the success of the Second Region the leaders were encouraged; the Third Region to establish they proceeded.
To make it a domian of Inanna, as she was promised, they decreed.
As befits the mistress of a region, a celestial constellation to her was assigned:
Beforehand with her brother Uta the Station of the Twins she shared,
Henceforth, as a gift from Ninharsag, her constellation of the Maiden to Inanna was allotted;
In the eight hundred and sixtieth years, according to the Earth year
count, was Inanna so honored.