We noted that while conventional historians view Shulgi’s claims to have made love to Inanna as ‘mere, fanciful figures of speech’, Shulgi’s own words showed that he was not making love to a mere figment of his imagination, but to a real-live ‘goddess’; a member of an elite set of real, flesh-and-blood entities of advanced technology who dominated the lives of ordinary people for millennia, lording even over kings.
Because Shulgi’s reign was during the sensitive time of the biblical Abraham (who was born 2123 BC), when great tension existed between certain rival gods, the gods were displeased with Shulgi as he became more and more preoccupied with Inanna and less with matters of State, so they eventually executed him in the same chaotic year, 2048 BC, that Abraham, at 75 years old, was commanded to leave for the Negev, in Canaan. In A praise poem to Shulgi, one of the greatest pieces of double-speak I have ever seen, Shulgi appears to plead with the gods to bear with him on the one hand…but with the very same diction (words) displays utter derision and defiance.
